iD`s RAGE has PC fans enraged ..and asking is iD old skool or just old hat?

Whilst it is was great seeing Carmack and the iD boys wax lyrical re the oncoming smart phone and tablet gaming revolution , and squeezing free versions of our old favourites into iOS , there was always the worry they took their iD off the prize , the prize being what once drove them to produce the fastest most gib friendly and revolutionary FPS gaming engines . 

the first PC gamer to try to play RAGE on their 10k gaming rig twitpic

Looking at the current cross PC GPU problems with the new iD engine , it is clear that like Crytek`s Crysis 2 before it development of this new IP was focused on consoles first .  Where the major Casual wedge lives . 


Hey I am not complaining I am used to reinstalling , updating drivers , heck even rebuilding my PC just to get to the loading screen of a new PC game , it is part of the fun , but you know when a game is developed 8 years , including one year of alleged testing , it is also a damn insult to PC fans who the likes of Mr Carmack used to champion . 


It is almost as if PC fans are being told  , yes you have a rig to play a game at 5120 by 1600 , but we cannot be bothered to optimise the game for you , or even test it at 2500 by 1600 , oh and forget that we have the game ready for the 720 p res of the Xbox 360 and PS3 so wtf are you complaining about ?


Like Crysis 2 before it Rage should have just launched on Onlive or Gaikai ,  no driver issues , running butterly smooth maxed out whatever your flavour of your OS , CPU and GPU . 


I had Crysis 2 for a month before I could play it without tearing on my gaming rig , compare that with clicking on the GAIKAI version and playing it totally maxed out and instantly without problems.


By concentrating on the phone market iD seem to have lost their edge , I was worried by this last year and now the otherwise excellent RAGE is throwing up teething problems that could have been totally avoided if  iD had been up or down with the Cloud .. come on Mr Carmack throw a demo of RAGE onto GAIKAI and the game up on onlive  and we could be playing your game instead of hacking cfg files .. hey now isn`t that the same thing your PC fans had to do 20 years ago ? the more things change the more things ....


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