Game

[Borys]

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[Vizzys]

too bad gears 2 is only on 360, yeah?

[Tucah]

Gears

Can't wait for Gears 2

[Draft]

Borys its too bad you bought the PC version, I just bought the X360 version. We could have played COOP.

Anyway, I agree, this game is ridiculous. I now understand why people were so fucking nutso on Gears, it really delivers.

1280x1024

No widescreen monitor? SMH.

[Madrun Badrun]

better than halo 3. 

[E-DuB]

better than halo 3. 

YES

[Solo]

Didnt Borys just say Gears 2 looked like shit like 2 days ago? 

Anyways, yeah, Gears fucking rocks. After having set it down for some months after beating Hardcore, Ive picked it up over the past few days and am working my way through Insane. Right now Im at the final level of Act 3, and its fucking rough on Insane (its probably the hardest part of the game, across any difficultly level - the part with all the Theron guards at the pumping station).

[Tucah]

better than halo 3. 

Most games are.

[CajoleJuice]

Yeah, I should apparently borrow this from my friend, even though I thought it was underwhelming when I played it.

Someone was also supposed to send it to me, but never did. Oh well.

[The Sceneman]

Insane co-op is the way to play Gears. Me and my buddy are getting Gears 2 day one and doing insane co-op straight off the bat. Hopefully that will be an option as weve both finished Gears 1 on Insane

[duckman2000]

Yeah, it's a great little action game. Sucks that the sequel is console only; I've grown accustomed to the buttery smooth 60fps, damn it.

[Herr Mafflard]

better than halo 3. 

not really

[Bloodwake]

better than halo 3. 

not really

Truth.

Gears of War: Hey, let's make a game that's really repetitive that has halfway decent but not truly excellent controls and make it last six hours, the last hour being a boss battle that is ten times more difficult than ANYTHING ELSE IN THE GAME.

Repetitive environments
Repetitive controls
Repetitive situations

Nothing changed in Gears of War 1, and Gears 2 will basically be the exact same thing except it might look a little better.

[Mrbob]

Borys buy a damn 360 already!

Draft I will play co op online.  It is great fun.  Two player co op on insane mode is a great challenge.

[Tabasco]

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.

[Cormacaroni]

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.

awesome tip. did not know the knees took damage.

The other big tip is nailing the active reloads, I suppose.

[Tabasco]

Melee is awesome and fun on lower difficulty levels and in MP, but on Insane the Locusts down you with one melee attack.

Also, the Hammerburst (that's the automatic gun that doesn't have the chainsaw) deals more damage per second than the Lancer (the one with the chainsaw).  Since you won't be using melee, stick to Hammerburst, shoot 'em in the knees, then spray their heads.

[Bildi]

I played through this on Hardcore a few weeks ago having only done Easy when it came out - I can't believe I forgot how amazing and polished the whole experience is. 

I realised the formula is like RE4 with intense combat, then quiet exploring time, then combat again - I really like that style and I think that contributes to the successful formula.

[Bildi]

Yeah, lots of hilarious chiches.  I loved them, especially the Cole train.

[pilonv1]

borys is dodging the widescreen monitor question

also more like gears of wawsome

[demi]

PC gaming on standard monitor... Borys is like the ultimate loser

[demi]

At least I'm consistent in what I hate. Dork.

[The Innocent X]

Looking forward to some gears 2 goodness.

[Bildi]

The only thing I don't like about Gears 2 is the blood.  The addition of that pastel red is lame and takes away from the grittiness.

I'm not a big blood fan but Gears 1 had awesome blood - I think it consisted of basically black with a dark red outline.

[pilonv1]

4:3 lol, go buy a wii borys

[WrikaWrek]

Kept crashing on my PC (ATI).

Fuck unreal 3.

[Himu]

emergenzzz day

[ch1nchilla]

Man, Cole is hilarious. I liked when he and Braid were walking through real shit in the sewers 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.

[patrickula]

Gears

This game is so fun (in coop particularly).  And it's beautiful too.  The multi was pretty damn fun also, until you realize how bad the host advantage is  :'(

[duckman2000]

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.

The cheese feels deliberate, which helps a lot. Granted that this is true for some of the dialog in the Halo games, but those have made me cringe a lot more. I guess there is also the quality of the voice acting and how natural the dialog feels.

[dark1x]

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"? 

Glad you're enjoying the game, though.  It is pretty good.

[duckman2000]

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.

What? Surely we're talking about some Polish translation here, because the dialog in Halo 2 and 3 has all the natural quality of a quick dub and translation job. Gears was roidy as hell, but it was a genuine, well thought out and well produced roidy. Forced? Failure.

[Trent Dole]

What day?

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.

[Bildi]

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.

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.

[TVC15]

1280x1024

  I can run this at 1920x1200.  Did you know that here, in America, land of FREEDOM, we have widescreen monitors.  And widescreen TVs, too.

[duckman2000]

I was satisfied with playing it at 1280x720, at 60fps. That was just plain hot.

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.

That's a fair point. I don't think it's as pick up and kill friendly as Halo, but it's very satisfying. Nice, dirty gun smatter and click, satisfying splish splash blood and gore from enemies, very nice all around.

I just really hope that Epic knows better than to pull a Halo 2 with the sequel. Keep it metal, damn it.

[ch1nchilla]

They best fix the shotgun to GoW launch status. Just sayin.

[chronovore]

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.

[duckman2000]

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.

Right, but you don't actually have to save him. I'd probably be less forgiving had I actually played a game that had good squad A.I. Which I haven't, and I'm not convinced there are such games out there, but at least this one is relatively forgiving of it. Compare to a game like R6V, which puts you in charge of dimwits who will stand right in your way and follow orders to the point where they will actually stand in the line of enemy fire, which will result in either a doomed attempt at saving them and getting killed in the process, or a mission failed if the character dies.

[Solo]

Im on Act 5 now of my Insane playthrough... Im fearing RAAM something fierce. I didnt need to in order to beat him in either Casual or Hardcore, but something tells me I might need to glitch him to beat him in Insane 

[demi]

You can thank the Xbox for bringing forth such classics

[Tieno]

Borys likes good games: Halo, Fable, Mass Effect, Gears! I'm proud of you!

Gears is one of my favourite games, it just plays so fucking well. The actual gun gameplay (sound, art, gore, satisfaction, etc) is the best I've experienced so far. Feels so good going with your shotgun in MP, ducking behind cover, someone approaches you and you blindfire and his legs just disintegrate.

[Darunia]

Gears is incredible, but only while playing in co-op. I played through one act solo and it's like playing a different game. I'll replay the sp in a couple of days to get the last Dom and cog tag achievement

[duckman2000]

Unsurprisingly, Borys is all nuts & bananas over the least brilliant parts of the game.

Borys, budget taste in game scenarios 

[duckman2000]

Seriously what "wrong" part of Gears did I like?

The Corpser fight was fucking amazing.

[Madrun Badrun]

better than halo 3. 

not really

How dare you question me.  Reported! 

[Bildi]

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.

Downpour is fantastic.  But once you reach the actual mansion itself, it also gets really cool.  Also prepare to be bent over and raped repeatedly before you finish the level.  In the bad yet satisfying way.

[ch1nchilla]

better than halo 3. 

Agreed. I enjoyed it far more, that's for sure.

[AdmiralViscen]

Is the Corpser that giant shit you fight on the cracked glowing shit underground? Why wasn't that battle awesome?

[Tieno]

Well that's because the whole factory + mine level was so far the best level in whole game.

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.

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.

[Oblivion]

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

Ati doesn't make budget GPUs tho.

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[Bildi]

When I paid through on hard, I made sure I had the sniper rifle for that bit on the stairs - it helped a lot.  Good luck in the Fenix mansion - it's intense.

[Darunia]

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.

[Tieno]

I dunno man. Is it just me or are weapons other than standard Machine Gun worthless in Gears?

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.

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.

[Tieno]

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.

First time on hard would probably be more enjoyable.

[Darunia]

are you playing co-op

[MCD]

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?

[dark1x]

are you playing co-op

Alas, that feature is missing from the PC version. 

[AdmiralViscen]

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?

Don't you have to push it back into the lava like Crocomire?

[MCD]

yeah.

still easy as fuck.