Quakecon , what do you mean Quake con? Carmack who?

In today's xbox live themed game market many a young gamesfan will be scratching their heads as to who this Carmack bloke is , for today it is not iDs awesome ,for their time ,fps engines that drive the games we play , buy mostly , mostly the Unreal Engine that you will find powering your major games releases , from Gears Of War to Batman Arkham Asylum to practically every bad and good cross platform release over the last decade, the dominant force has been an Unreal Engine , and the boys and girls at Epic ,not our heroes at iD


Epic focused on consoles and crossed platforms with each new version of their engine . They have the power , whereas the legends at iD Carmack and co , are not going to spring to the mind of the average xboxlett slave boi/girl. 


 This is a shame , as without iD , there would be no modern Western games scene , and we would all be happily lost in the latest cute Nihon platform dating rpg survival horror arcade racing beatemup. Imagine your life without Doom , Quake II,   Duke Nukem , Half Life , Counter Strike [errh and there it stops] , there's a great big hole you would have to go back in time and prod Romero to give up on Daikatna and Carmack into creating the genre  , or the horror of bright coloured platform dating rpgs would end our civilization. 


So people bow your head to one of the greatest games creators and developers of our time , and forgive iD for Doom 3 already , it would help if iD stopped optimizing code for gimped phone os mini games , and got back to pushing back the boundaries of the latest technology .. As iD moves ever closer to developing the 60 fps electron microscopic first person shooter iDespair. At least they are making games for the little people! iD used to be about pushing boundaries , it needs to get back there or pretty soon Epic will be running the Unreal Engine all over them on the slates , and phones they have made their pet project. I mean what sounds more impressive ...1. oooh lookie the sprites moving at 60 fps on a 4 inch screen or 2. 3d photo realistic gameplay across 3 30 inch lcds running 7800 by 1600 res ,at over 100 fps . And you know if iD aren't going there then the next iteration and the present iteration of the Epic Unreal Engine already is . 


If as I fear  you are indifferent to Quakeconn , iD and their legacy ,checkout Steam and grab some of gaming history/evolution . They have EVERY id game [well not every] + some Bethesda tidbits[ Oblivion , Fallout] going for a song , 27 games for £49.99 , not much to pay for a playable lesson in gaming history.


You know just like you spend 1000s running the latest phone to play a $1 game , we used to spend 1000s building pcs just to play the next iD classic , so £49.99 is a bargain for their entire [almost] back catalogue. Plus the Behesda titles  which are some of the best games ever created don`t hurt the package much ....


 check the Quake Con Steam  Sale  here   you have till the 15th to  swot up on Carmack and iD

Download Brink now,play free all weekend and check out the Quakecon Steam deals!

Yes thegameveda is downloading whilst typing and crying into my spill proof(ish) keyboard whilst perusing the awesome Steam Quakecon deals (  games I bought already at a higher price!). Deals that include  every Bethesda and iD game and expansion yet released , this people is how the PC scene survived .. awesomely high value  legitimate download purchases .. it is just soooo cool to OWN every Bethesda and iD game for at total of around £50 .. who the hell would want to pirate them ? 

This is the logic of service and delivery that Valve keyed into with Steam , and it is the reason why whilst your ageing dust gathering console weeps in the corner of your room , you will be looking to upgrade your rig , snag a shiny new ultraportable or a tablet or 5 .. nothing absolutely nothing delivers gaming deals  like Steam   .. well ok Onlive can be pretty cool , and instant for that matter , and Gaikai shows continuing promise ....

I cannot wait to see what Carmack et al and the Bethesda crew have in store for us , to think a few years ago we would just be sitting around waiting to see what  platform game, action rpg , or beatemup the great Japanese softcos were bringing out on the mainly Japanese owned console scene. That SLI gpu`d rig you built for way too much money would sit gathering dust and you may even  have in your pc gaming frustration  resorted to buying a Microsoft console to play the once Mac bound Halo..with major retail stores no longer stocking your PC games ..outside a bargain bin..Online piracy ruled the PC gaming scene , allegedly dooming the PC market ,original PC legends like iD were resorting to console led development.. . Then Steam happened : no really happened .. and a few years later   the gaming season for 2011 is about to kick off , and it looks like to be the richest and widest selection of games with the best deals going leading on PC or Mac , and I have not even touched on the streaming and browser based revolutions that are also leading on the PC  and Mac.

All in all whilst consoles , iOS and Android devices may have PSN and Xbox Live Stores , iTunes and Android Apps that drive their revenue streams .. that`s old hat now .. the Cloud is coming and the PC and Mac for that matter are where the widest variety of bleeding edge technology and game delivery systems exist and evolve on a daily basis  . We core gamers have never had it so good.... and never had so little time (you are getting old too dude!) to play so many games !

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thegameveda PC RAGE review :playing the game at 5120 by 1600 and taking a few snapshots

Having actually played RAGE , patched and running on AMD GPU hardware at 5120 by 1600 , thegameveda has to consider was all this iD rage just some weird Carmack reverse psychology ? Perhaps a cathartic release of years of frustration  ,  watching from the sidelines as the (once) young Unreal usurper Cliffy B and the Digital Extremes crew carved up the console generation with a Gears of War chainsawgun thingie... and even reached out to the iOS generation with their ubiquitous Unreal Engines?

Did iD feel ignored by fans , and thus hide the gem that is iD Tech 5 , that is ,I can say having played RAGE verily a PC focused  engine.... claiming not to lead on PC when the PC version simply rocks . 

Having fallen for all the negative hype thegameveda  with trepidation (and fear) and much patching and driver upgrading waited for the 1 hour plus 20gb game to install off 3 dvds ... the score so far for RAGE was 0/10 ... but that was part one of my review . PC fans are used to waiting months before a PC game is ready to play , every great Battlefield game launched broken .. but once they get them fixed ...like iD have over the weekend with RAGE ..well then you can feel happy that you are PC gamer  .

For RAGE does not simply run at 5120 by 1600 , it flies , the engine is designed to scale , and contrary to what you may have heard someone sat down and optimised the game for higher resolutions and I mean 2560 by 1600 and above . And these stills just show the game with a low texture cache ! 

Crytek only recently managed to optimise Crysis 2 for 2560 by 1600 , above that and the engine creeks and loses power faster than your nano suit... but that will come in time ... 

So PC fan , if you are at all serious about games and have hardware that seems underused , rest assured that RAGE does indeed take advantage of some of your over expensive e-penis.. And grin as you consider RAGE looks so much more impressive on PC that maybe iD did not want to make console fans feel inadequate ....

I have found no feasible way of recording gameplay at 5120 by 1600 , so here are some stills  , was I expecting to play RAGE at this resolution , not at all , was I expecting to play at speed at this resolution absolutely not . But some cool iD/Carmack reverse psych and a gpu update and game patch just made my day . 

And as for the game , I can feel Quake 2 , I can feel Borderlands , Fallout  , I can feel the MYST series ( check out the stills) ,Mad Max ,  and even a little Molly Ringwald in Spacehunter:Adventures in the Forbidden Zone ... and if any of that matters to you then you should get into RAGE rather nicely...

So welcome back iD , and PC fans really , are you really complaining about having to patch a game or download a driver ? Play the game and you will see the hassle is worth it , just like it was 20 years ago when you were sneaking in floppy disks loaded with a 3 level doom demo into your school/college computer room...

 iD is back baby , and the Tech 5 engine is 2 for 2 , Brink is awesome , and RAGE is too! 

Now if we could a have a sequel to Anachronax and maybe Mr Spector could give us a proper Deus Ex sequel.... and without the yellow !

Right now my work is done time to play ....

 Get Rage and Brink ( ridiculously cheap) from Game and Zavvi now .. 

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Steam holds an asteroid 2005 YU55 fly by sale with of course 33% off RAGE

My fellow Humanians , time to celebrate for our planet has survived a close shave with a planet killing asteroid namely 2005 YU55 .. as can be seen from NASA and the Jet Propulsion Labs ( a nice 60s prog rock band made up of now mostly laid off rocket scientists )  video below:

In honour of the Humanian race`s survival Valve , Gabe and Steam have decided to celebrate Earth`s close shave with asteroid 2005 YU55 by shaving 33% off iD softwares Rage , which the more astronomically inclined gamers out there will know starts off with an asteroid wiping out civilization as we know it . See ... I was feeling happy ..see.. we survived the asteroid without any Michael Bay or Roland Emerich sized tragedies ... and then I boot up the game and find the Humanian race has been wiped out...see...


Und so Valve seemed to have found the answer to our economic woes , hold celebratory near Earth Extinction event sales .... 


And in other news  , our fellow gamers in Russia have launched a mission to Phobos , the potato shaped moon of Mars ... the gaming world waits with bated breath to see how  Gabe,Valve and Steam wrangle a game sale out of that one ...  Capitalism rules! Long live the Humanian race....

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Brink £5.99 on PC £9.99 on PS3 and Xbox 360

Of the iD Tech 5 engine games released so far Brink is the finest ,  get it now for £5.99 and  on PC £9.99 on PS3 and Xbox 360  the PC version registers on Steam 

 

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