1280x1024No widescreen monitor? SMH.
better than halo 3.
better than halo 3.
better than halo 3.
better than halo 3.
not really
Holy Crap is Gears of War awesome.
Anywayz I play on hardcore and the enemies seems to take infinity to kill. Any tips for easy gameplay? Should I be turtling behind a cover and sniping those fools for 20 minutes or bull rush between them and chainsaw 'em?
Holy Crap is Gears of War awesome.
Anywayz I play on hardcore and the enemies seems to take infinity to kill. Any tips for easy gameplay? Should I be turtling behind a cover and sniping those fools for 20 minutes or bull rush between them and chainsaw 'em?
Trick to Insane is shooting the Locusts in the knee. They go down, then shoot them in the head while they are immobilized. Ignore any thoughts of ever trying to melee anything that's not a Wretch.
Man, Cole is hilarious. I liked when he and Braid were walking through real shit in the sewers :lol I hope he stays alive through the whole game. My favourite character in Gears so far. I hate Marcus and his thugish bad-ass attitude.Marcus' thuggishness reminds me of the domestic-drivin' e-thug.
This is a game where I was totally apprehensive of the "omg space marines" characters, but the gameplay was so fucking good I could ignore that aspect. Some of the lines were quite funny too. I think the Epic guys have way more humour than Bungie.
Hey I jumped from a 15" CRT to a 19" LCD. Pretty "next-gen" for me.Not really. LCDs suck for gaming. I have my PC connected to both a 19" CRT and (using 75ft cables) my 50" plasma in another room. I thought you called me a "console poor"? :P
Halo is a totally different game than Gears. I took Halo 100x more seriously than Gears while in fact Gears is 100x more serious than Halo.
Gears dialogues just sound cliche and forced while the Halo ones felt genuine.
I may have at GoW at some point but right now even used it looks to be a bit much for my non shooter enthusiast stuff.
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If there's one shooting game a non-shooting enthusiast would enjoy, it's probably Gears. I'm not much of a shooter enthusiast (don't own a single "WWII shooter" for example), but Gears is in another league because everything comes together perfectly.
I'm stunned at all the GoW love in the thread. I expected more naysayers to jump in, but I'm willing to be the first one.
I'll get this out of the way: the game's pretty good if you play co-op. It's fun, and inspires a feeling of epicness (sorry) in the player, perhaps better than Halo did. In co-op I felt like, "I'M MARCUS MOTHERFUCKIN' FENIX, AND THIS IS MY FRIEND DOM. WE ARE HERE TO KICK ASS AND CHEW BUBBLEGUM."
OTOH in single-player, it feels more like, "I'm Marcus Fenix, and this is my distinguished mentally-challenged half-brother, Dom. Say 'hi,' Dom. No! DOM! No, I said stay here! Don't run over there, clear the area from HERE, you STUPID FUCKING SHITHEAD."
Singleplayer was not fun. Attempt, fail, attempt, succeed, go a little further," lather, rinse, repeat. It's not just that playing with real humans cooperatively is better, but that Dom's scripted moments of charging the machine gun nests consistently result in his death, me attempting a "rescue," and me reviving him just as I get capped, and AI won't do you the same favor it's just been granted. So... reload from previous save point, wherever that was.
Suck. Suck. Suck.
Seriously what "wrong" part of Gears did I like?
The Corpser fight was fucking amazing.
better than halo 3.
not really
Now [Fenix Mansion] it's back to boring old "move-through-one-street-to-another-in-an-urban-setting".
I want more scary shit like DOWNPOUR.
better than halo 3.Agreed. I enjoyed it far more, that's for sure.
Well that's because the whole factory + mine level was so far the best level in whole game.I actually like Fenix mansion a lot, everything in it and leading up to it. The dynamic of combat changes a lot there, fighting from a lower position and gaining ground to everything in the house it self. One of my favorite things about gears, pushing through the enemy lines.
Downpour was genuinely SCARY. I was afraid of moving forward. Same with the mines. The Corpser fight was just icing on the cake.
Now [Fenix Mansion] it's back to boring old "move-through-one-street-to-another-in-an-urban-setting".
I want more scary shit like DOWNPOUR.
Kept crashing on my PC (ATI).
Fuck unreal 3.
lol ATI
I had an ATI card once in my life and while it didn't crash the number of bugs various games had with it was enormous and I said fuck it.
nVidia 4 lyfe
I dunno man. Is it just me or are weapons other than standard Machine Gun worthless in Gears?Well, the enemies take a lot of machine gun bullets. I usually made sure I had a shotgun with me cause I love it so much. Then I used the power weapons for the tougher enemies and picked up the locust rifle or the machine gun again to clear the rest of the far away enemies.
Let's see I can swap my gun with 780 bullets (!!!) for a Rocket Launcher with 10 missiles or a Sniper Rifle with 25 shots. Thanks but no thanks.
Never used anything other than my Machine Gun in Gears. I ran out of ammo some times and had to fall back on the Pistol but I'd never swap it for some shitty low-ammo RL or Torque Bow.
First time on hard would probably be more enjoyable.wat? The sniper and torque bow are incredible weapons. Pretty much a must for the Locust commanders you encounter later on. These take way too long to get rid of with the lancer. Are you playing on casual by chance? I use the lancer for normal locusts, shotgun for the crawlies and the torque for the commanders. From chapter 2-3 onwards I always carry a sniper for encounters where the enemy is located at a great distance.
I play at Insane. My first playthrough BTW.
Is the Corpser that giant shit you fight on the cracked glowing shit underground? Why wasn't that battle awesome?because it dies the moment you see it?
are you playing co-opAlas, that feature is missing from the PC version. :(
Is the Corpser that giant shit you fight on the cracked glowing shit underground? Why wasn't that battle awesome?because it dies the moment you see it?
The Mine Cart ride was intense with those screaming, exploding bitches coming out from everywhere. I HATE THEM. Had to reload so many times because they got me, ugh.
"The Cole Train is a smooth ride" :lol
Is the Corpser that giant shit you fight on the cracked glowing shit underground? Why wasn't that battle awesome?
It's no HAZE you know.
are you playing co-opAlas, that feature is missing from the PC version. :(
You guys are crazy - playing solo is mad-awesome. This isn't like Halo where you need other people to create a decent game.