Carmack has already said he will create DOOM 4 with RAGE engine (id tech 5) and it will be 30fps and will be smaller in scale!!! I think DOOM 4 will be best looking console game.

I used to have a great deal of respect for Carmack, but after playing Rage I have totally lost faith in him and Id software. Let me explain: For me Doom3 was one of the most, if not the most anticipated games ever. I followed every scrap of news. Studied every screenshot, but when I finally played it it was one of the worst games I have ever played. Sure the graphics were great, but that was about the only thing that stood out in Doom3. After the first two hours I started to get very frustrated of all the dark corridors and all monsters that jumped at you from closets. It seemed that Id had never heard the word variety. There was nothing in the game that changed the pace, that felt as a breath of fresh air. And the story was even worse than the gameplay. The bad guy Dr Betrueger?? WTF was that all about? Worst villain in video game history. I can´t believe they hired a professional writer for doom3.

With Rage I wanted to give ID one last chance. The game had killer graphics, like all id games but the game itself didn´t make me want to come back. Like doom3 it had quite a promising start but then repeat, repeat, repeat… I still haven´t completed it and will probably trade it in for another game. Rage was the last time I bought an id game.

Id and Carmack should shut the fuck up and start making great games instead of talking so much bull and never delivering. Tim Willits is even worse with his constant talk of “we invented the first peson shooter genre” Jesus man, stop talking and start making some decent games instead.

I won´t apologise for the rant against id. I thought it was a great opportunity to say this, because I was just leaving for gamestop to trade in Rage and buy another game. Probably battlefield 3.

Carmack is the man behind the code. I’ve always believed that Carmack is hard to match in terms of his coding, but the games his team makes have been lacking since the 90s. Doom and Quake kicked some butt… but since then it’s always been about their engines, not their games, that made people excited. Even Rage came in on a hype train bigger than we’ve seen in a long time and got mixed 7-9s because people were impressed by the tech and underwhelmed by the actual game.