Anyone can find people complaining about any single game online...whether it be the game's gameplay, storyline or graphics. So basing your opinion on a game on it's launch day on "the general mill online" seems irrelevant. If id Software patch the game soon to fix some of these problems then that shows, somewhat, that they care about the continued support of their game and then the game is fixed...so yay!
The above comment seems to show that you don't really understand game development for PC and the fact that there is no way a developer can can foresee every combination of cpu, gpu, ram and so on that PC's can be comprised of.
And, what if I could find 1000 people online that all said the game was amazing and they had no issues on PC or showed you 1000 screenshots of the console in RAGE showing more than 0mb video ram...then all your raging seems to become irrelevant. It makes no sense to judge a game on what "the general mill is online."
Here is some food for thought;
1. I work for a software development company.
2. I make games in my spare time.
Now the problem with this particular game is that it is missing the fundamentals of creating a game. Have you ever seen a textbook without an index? So why would you release a game with no option to change visual settings? I do believe that a company can foresee that people who are going to play the game will actually have different hardware and would thus then like to change the visual settings to best suit their personal preferences.
Two scenarios come to mind with the exact same PC launch problems: Crysis 2 and Grand Theft Auto IV
Crytek alienated their core consumer base. The people that made their company what it is today. It's a dipshit move in any industry by any company.
Rockstar released a buggy game that wouldn't even suffice as a test build in most software environments.
Somehow ID managed to learn from those mistakes and incorporate both of them into a single release.
I'm by no means raging. Or we clearly have a different definition of the term. I've never stated anything about I won't buy this game cause of X, Y and Z.
This is just observed so far, and I have stated that... I really do not know where you draw your conclusions from.
Thanks. Will wait and see if they manages to fix it. Else get console version later on.
Look the gameplay and all is fine. It's just that the texture loading issues can be a problem in high action scenes. Ever played GTA IV when it came out on PC? Well other than having to resort to reducing the graphics settings till I could afford an upgrade that could run the damn thing at decent settings it pretty much sucked ass to play the game. Even after my upgrade and the performance boosting patches the textures loaded erratically. Then it didn't matter but in shooters like Rage it could cause issues and frustrations.