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New screenies showing off the "megatexture" doodad. They look very nice.

http://www.destructoid.com/new-rage-scr ... 3184.phtml

Is that fan the shape of the Half Life logo, or am I just seeing things?

With rings on his fingers and bells on his toes, Dimmers sees lamdas wherever he goes.

The linked PDF makes an interesting read* as well.

*If you are a bit geeky, like

Wow that looks good. Kinda Fallout 3 but more not in the 50's.

Big write up in EDGE this month, not read it though. Just thumbed it.

I wants this.

Looks nice, but will it be shit? id's recent form is poor, fun game wise.

Looks like a tech demo to flog their new engine to people.

Cripes, this shot is simply breathtaking.

Edit. Actually this looks like Nevada. So I'm thinking Fallout : Vegas (if it's even set there).

Mind you, I'm always thinking Fallout. It's going to be a long damn time before anything convinces me other wise.

More clouds than Final Fantasy VII.

If someone said to me "This is one of the new levels in Fallout 4" I would believe them. (referring to the pic I posted like). That pic would not be at all out of place in a Fallout game based in Nevada. /dreams.

Didn't Bethesda recently buy I.D? or Zenimax?

Urgh, and I thought Fallout looked really depressing. In fact, I found it so bleak and BLURGH, I couldn't bring myself to play it for longer than a few hours. It made me want to kill myself.

"HE'S HOLDING A THERMAL DETONATOR!"

SInce Q3, I can't remember anything worthwhile. They lack in decent designers.

Also: Not helped by Carmacks obsession with the phone market.

Zardoz, yesterday.

How would you prefer a post apocalypic game to look then? Unicorns cumming rainbows?

Actually, Doom RPG was ace.

I thought it was pretty rubbish and lacking in fun.

I think that was the look they were going for.

Isn't that a Final Fantasy Summon?

No, it's an evolved Pokemon.

Pikachu I bukkake YOU!

Yeah!

My pokemon cards brings all the nerds to the yard,
and they're like,
you wanna trade cards
damn right i wanna trade cards
ill trade my pikachu ,
but not my charizard

Is it bad that I got both of those?

It took me ages to get Charmander because I kept thinking of Charizard and forgot the name of the baby version.

Wake me up when id revive Commander Keen.

Carmack writes the best 3d engines and ID produce the best net code.

So it will look better than anything else and it's multiplayer won't be laggy but the actual game might suck.

Still ID's new owners will make lots and lots of money from selling the rights to use the engine for at least 3 years after its release.

BUT, the Unreal engine works flawlessly on all systems, and is still actually pretty damn good.

The Raichu (sp?) one of those is da best.

Ooh, this game looks lovely. I love post-apocalyptics.

I'd dispute that - the Doom3 engine wasn't that good. It certainly wasn't that popular with devs, and for several good reasons.

It was doomed to fail?

Well, Doom3 showed its strengths and weaknesses quite well.

i.e. it was good a dark scenes, but couldn't really do very much. Even compared to Quake it could cope with remarkably few actors.

So terribly inflexible, and it's main selling point - the lighting - wasn't that useful for most games. Compared to the Unreal engine, Renderware... it was never going to get much interest from developers.

Due in part to it's flexibility, the Unreal engine being by far the most popular, and given familiarity (and constant work on) that engine, changing to a new one (i.e. the Rage engine) is going to cost a fair bit. I don't see the uptake being that high, frankly. ID threw their position as the prime engine write away at pretty much exactly the wrong time, and I don't see it recovering it unless they offer it for a fraction of the price.

But its not cutting edge. Carmack likes to push the envelope and make an engine that is technically superior to anyone elses.

I read his plan updates for a long time and even whilst developing an engine he forms ideas of what he wants to do in the next.

The doom 3 engine was supposed to be a lot more than it ended up as but the technology of the time was not capable of doing what he wanted it to.

Genius of epic proportions in my opinion.

Were the programmers IDiots?

Ha! Good one.

Carmack will always produce the most technically advanced engines. They may not be the populist choice this does not alter their brilliance.

I think the Quake 3 engine made ID pots of money from licensing though.

Yeah, but let's not forget Unreal Engine 4 has been in development for ages already, and should be introduced for the next generation of consoles. I'm not particularly interested in absolute cutting edge anymore, because the consoles are unlikely to see the benefit any way.

Well the next generation of consoles should be able to cope with any 3d engine that is thrown at them.

Lets hope so because otherwise the PC games will look awesome in comparison and Mr Coffey will rub your noses in it.

Zardoz take note.

Toda

The thing is that most (all) of us aren't obsessed with graphics in the way he is. Or hardware specs.

Indeed. I'm perfectly happy with the graphics of the current generation. I just want fun games, and I don't care for development times and costs spiralling upwards just to make things more graphically complex.

I would happily keep the graphics of today and instead increase the quantity of stuff happening - more crowds, traffic, stuff like that.

Looking at Rage, it looks 'too good' if you know what I mean.

I won't be happy until graphics look more realistic than reality.

This is something I was thinking about recently. Say in 20 years time we have ultra photo realistic graphics fed directly into our optic nerve, what's it gonna be like to shoot someone in the face in GTA? Or storm the beaches of Normandy? I'm thinking post traumatic stress.

I'm thinking awesome Girls Aloud torture porn.

Can I have my 2D scorlling platformers back please?