HL2 EP2: Grey Mod.

[the dark side]

Rage was a call of duty clone Modern Shooter, NOT a "Proper" shooter. Hl2 IS a "proper" shooter, and by dint of uisng its mechanics, so are its mods, so you cant compare the 2 anyway in my opinion just on pure gameplay terms, the most important thing for me, id rather play a low budget mod with the gameplay i like than some multi Million pound AAA modern shooter that has gameplay i cannot stand.

Rage was completely unacceptable IMO in all mechanics, it was just another lazy "design by comitee" consolised, americanised, pasturised, dumbed down modern shooter, with ALL the mechanics that make a game downright UNPLAYABLE (i have to emphasise that) for me. such as health regen with bloody screen (i can tolerate it with a lifebar, but i just cannot understand the bloody screen hint) dumb AI compared to more than one classic game (they ignore grenades, yet Ps1 had more than one game that had Ai that interacted with them!) Forced Dynamic Scaling effect corsshairs (wich make me physically sick due to focal distraction), Aim Down Sites, patronizing hints every 5 seconds that cannot be turned off, etc. It was just call of duty in terms of its core gameplay, and to me, someone who beleives "gameplay is everything", then the whole game is just COD.

In fact i felt the shooting in Rage was WORSE than the racing, because it just copied call of duty, at least the racing Tried to be a little different, even if it did end up as a lazy hybrid of burnout and a cheap carmageddon knock off, racing in FPS is pretty unusual, i have to give credit for trying there.

i am glad you liked the game, "each to there own, said the girl as she kissed her cow" after all, but personally i thaught it was unaccpetably lazy, poorly made, and just another boring, consolised, "design by numbers" modern shooter/"call of duty clone". as i said, if that is what we can expect from ID in future, then Bethesda might as well Axe them right now. i would. they are clearly no longer competant to make a proper FPS game.

i rank a mod, even if less than well made, far higher than ANY design by commitee Modern "AAA" Shooter like RAGE, because at least the modders actually BOTHERED to try to make something unique and different and used there imagination to try and take the elderly engine used in a new art direction instead of just making the usual "brown and grey and blown up buildings" war/apocalypse environment and tried to do something NEW with the old, tradtitional, and IMO, Superior gameplay mechanics of those classic games instead of just lazily copying the unplayable mess that is COD and the Consolised, Americanised and Pasturised Dumbed Down Modern Shooters the clone its inferior and unplayable "gameplay" mechanics.

sorry, i really do think Cry of Fear is better than Rage, and as Grey is probably better than Cry Of Fear, i rank that as probably better than Rage, because they actually TRIED to do something new and original instead of just making another lazy "design by comitee" call of duty clone Like ID did. i expect BETTER from them. id rather someone tried and failed to make something original thank you.

i agree though, Bad AI is unnaccpetable, even for modders, i mean, it cant be that hard to programme a simple logic system that makes them run the hell away from bullets! ps ONE could do it! so it should be no issue for a modern 128 bit plus Modern PC if a 32 bit console could do it!

(PS, big rigs was Ukrainian, Not Russian)

sorry, i Have to stick up for mods, because one day the people who programmed them will become the "Classic Id-soft", "Croteam", and "GSC gamework" 's of the future, and when the gaming industry does another 1983, it will be small companies and development groups formed by bands of modders that will keep gaming ticking over.