Gears Tree.

[ThrashO]

Boy. If you ain't playin' this... U trippin.

It'd be fun to get in some multiplayer/hoard/beast with some I-mockers. My Gamertag is ThrashOmen. Lets set up something sexy for this week.

Also, thoughts on the game so far? My only gripe is in Hoard whenever Boomers and Kantuses are running around their foot steps sound like they're either all around me or RIGHT behind me, then it turns out they're behind a pillar 30 feet ahead of me.

Aside from that though the game is great. Getting into the campaign now.

And Marcus's dad looks like the guy from Breaking Bad.

[OxBlood]

I can only give you my thoughts on the SP, like in the other thread.

It was...good? I gotta say, I´m really not a Gears Fan at all, I think the universe is rather bland and unfinished but what can I expect from a shooter.

Still, I like what they do with those few ressources. The gameplay is solid, the enviroments are great...all the stuff that happens in the first 3 hours of play is commendable. I also liked the arsenal better than in the other 2 Gears, I had a hard time deciding which Assault Rifle to use most of the time, they all have their advantages :)

All in all, the SP is a really pleasant ride with very few boring or really frustrating moments. A step up from Gears 2 imo.

But there are also some things I really didn´t like, namely the whole ending which I of course won´t spoil, but I was really really pissed at Epic for that.

Concerning the other modes...I won´t play competitive MP but Horde and Beast seem like fun so far :)

[darkvare]

lol as soon as i saw marcus father i said the same thing about his looks, anyways gamertag darkbros

[k0k0]

Waiting for the UPS man right now so that I may partake in Gears 3ness. I feel like a spy. I didn't want a bunch of sun in my room, so I taped a single blind up and I'm looking out of it every 3 minutes while begrudgingly playing deus ex to pass the time. Fucking Gears get here already!

[Fathom Zero]

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awww, darkvare, it's nice of you to help your friend unbox his copy

[Pentegarn]

The comment on that vid "Now this, I can fap to" made me chuckle

[k0k0]

Been sitting on my lawn for most of the afternoon waiting for UPS and finally at 7:30 pm I get it. And sadly I'm too tired to play it since I got up early at 4 am to do work so that I could play all day. Gonna take a couple hour nap and then get to gearsin.

My xbox live name: No Objection

[ThrashO]

Beast mode is fucking hard by yourself, and I'm not to keen on random XBL faggotry. I get off work around midnightish (EST). Lets trow a room up.

[k0k0]

Honestly, most people don't talk into the mics, so you don't have anything to worry about online-wise for beast mode. And it's awesome as shit. I love being both the centipede and the baby corpser. Fun fun stuff. Horde is bad ass also. I'm having a lot of fun doing those two modes while I wait for my buds to find a good time we can all play. One is getting chewed out for playing games all the time, another is working. Versus works a lot better than previous versions, although sometimes I think it's rolling shotgun fest. But they always get kinda pissed when I just keep backing up while they try to get close so they can roll around me and shotgun. Homie don't play that.

[darkvare]

being a boomer in beast mode rules but since it's set to execution people can easily steal your kills

[Zhukov]

Man, I miss playing gears online. I met this great bloke from Perth online and we became pretty good friends, but I ran out of xbox live credit and haven't played it or talked to him since.

Is the game really quite superior to Gears 2, or can I save my money?

[ThrashO]

Dude me and my friends played the SHIT out of Gears 1 and 2. With G2 I played alot of online but whenever me and my buddies played we played with bots. It was actually really fun and the bots were pretty fun. Mainly because there were alot of flaws with online multiplayer and everything just felt smoother (but still challenging) with bots on insane.

Right now, it's like Gears 2 but with so many more options, plus Hoard is pretty fucking killer. I was playing and then BOOM fucking Brumak out of no where.

Awesome weapons, stuff to unlock, more achievments, the new "tower defense" style to hoard takes some adjusting too if you're used to old Hoard, but it's really fucking awesome once you get the hang of it. Having to "buy" weapon pickups instead of just grabbing what you want is a little frustrating at first, but then you start to love it. Adds so much more depth to the gameplay.

Beast mode seems hard as hell, and I haven't gotten too far. Only thing I don't like is the time limit. I wish it was more open like Hoard, haven't played much yet though.

[k0k0]

So I'm really sad about a particular part of this game.
Why the fuck did Dom have to die? That part, although touching, just kind of sucked. I guess this is how it's supposed to feel when someone you really like dies, and I know he's a video game character, but I played as him a ton and it just kind of feels fucked up.

[ThrashO]

So I'm really sad about a particular part of this game.
Why the fuck did Dom have to die? That part, although touching, just kind of sucked. I guess this is how it's supposed to feel when someone you really like dies, and I know he's a video game character, but I played as him a ton and it just kind of feels fucked up.

Yeah I just got past that part. Kind of a bummer plus all of the past games make it even sadder (the bond between Marcus and Dom, "Brothers to the end" etc,etc) but then again it's not like he's finding happiness without Maria and when I thought of that it wasn't as sad. Also, I can't tell but did they change the voice actor for Dizzy?

[Zhukov]

So my friend's xbox just red lighted, and he's going to buy a new one that comes in a box-set with Gears 3... and he's going to sell me his old copy of it for $50. Excellent.

[k0k0]

I'd highly recommend it. It's got so much content. There's a lotta jelly in these doughnuts.

[ThrashO]

Just beat the game and...

it wuz cool

[k0k0]

Yeah man, but it's really kind of bittersweet.

It means we won't get another gears. And Dom is gone. And I really want the gears franchise to keep going. I love the hell out of this series and care too much about the characters to never see them again. Sure, they could do a prequel, but it wouldn't be the same.

[OxBlood]

You guys don´t really believe for one second that they aren´t gonna make a 4th, 5th, 6th game, right? If THIS is all they can do storywise WHILE having a so-calles "author" on the team...fuck, I can write them the story for the next 4 gears and it would be better than what they do...

[k0k0]

I enjoyed the story. Sure, it's nothing ground breaking, but what do you really expect? If we had a more focused story, they wouldn't have been able to bring us to so many awesome locations and give us so many awesome set pieces. There's only so much you can do while also pushing the boundaries of what the previous games showed us. Plus, I certainly wouldn't want to end up in metal gear solid territory with hour long cutscenes trying to show story and explain shit. This game actually moves you forward rather than stopping you in the middle to watch a movie. I really enjoyed it for what it was. It made me feel more things than most movies are able to and that's what counts to me. And I honestly don't think there are going to be any more gears games unless it's with different characters or a prequel. But it will never be the same.

[OxBlood]

While I do agree on that, I was just kind of pissed that they sort of bragged with that oh-so-great author they had. What we got didn´t need any kind of author, anyone could´ve written that story, that´s all I´m saying.

All in all I would´ve been satisfied if they provided any serious answers to the question 1&2 AND 3 throw at the player over the course of the series. In the end, nothing was resolved at all and I don´t like that.

[ThrashO]

Semi-spoilers (there's no semi spoiler tags, plus I don't care)

I feel that they brought up alot of things dealing with Adam Fenix and Marcus that weren't explained IN ORDER to make more games based on the Fenix mysteries.

For example, Adam asks Marcus "Where'd you get that scar?" which we still don't know (I think one of the Gears novels tells it but I'm not sure) and then there's the relationship between Myrrah and Adam and Adam's sympathy for the Locust's in general and Adam having a part in the the events before E-Day. There were alot of things not answered in general that I think only prequels can explain.

I've heard that Epic wanted to span Gears out into different games and spin offs over the next 10 years and this was back during the release of Gears 2 (2008) so don't worry, with as big of a seller as this game is, they'd be stupid not to make new installments. This was the only game I've been interested in A LONG time that was sold out when I went to go pick up a copy.

[Nick]

Marcus received his scars during his stay at the prison he was in, according to the wiki, but you never learn that in any of the games. There is a lot of information out there about the characters in the novels and comics that is canon and never hinted at at all in the actual game. Most of the new characters from Gears 2 and 3 were in the novels and comics before they were introduced into the games.

Gears not giving me a decent solution to everything really bummed me out.




RIP Dom, your death was pointless. :(

[ThrashO]

I have 7 Gears comics, one of which features Jace. I got that issue back before I even bought Gears 1. The comic was just great.

[Nick]

Yeah, Jace is the protagonist of the comic books. Which is funny, because in Gears 3 he comes off as giant fucking waste of space to me. They should have kept Nolan North as his voice actor because Gears 3 Jace sounded like a little bitch to me.


This is so much better. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwmEzBT1wYA)

[ThrashO]

I felt like he was just a more sympathetic/reasonable cole, where as cole see's a childs mother raped and eaten by a theron guard and goes "WHOOOO!!!!"

Not to mention.... why the fuck is Ice T in this game... And me and my friends have talked about starting a Gears of War thrash metal band for some time now, and he song was a complete disgrace.

No gears of war lore or story telling, just a quick cash in on the brutality and violence of the game itself. It was a real bummer.

[Nick]

What are you talking about? Cole is uber sympathetic. Didn't you read any of his backstory? Poor guy lost his entire family during E-Day so he joined up as a Gear. He has his funny moments, but he really cares about his pals. Cole even writes letters to his dead momma during the novels as a way of coping with his loss. :(



As for Griffin, goddamn did I hate him. I wish Marcus would have ripped him a new asshole. Gears also has a long streak of terrible songs based off of it. Ask Megadeth.

[Zhukov]

I have a Gears of War novel, and it's probably the most poorly written piece of trash that I've ever gotten to page three with.

[Nick]

Which one is it? I hope its not the one I just paid $10 for. :(

[Zhukov]

I gave it to my brother, so I can't remember the title. It started off with them going to find a sniper causing havoc in the city and also wondering where a certain missing person is... hmmm.

[darkvare]

in spanish he talks the same way he does in gears 2

[Zhukov]

He talks English in Gears 2.

[darkvare]

i meant jaces voice

[Nick]

I only have enough room in my heart for Cole. Please get out, Jace.

[darkvare]

dizzy is still my favorite i just wanted to learn about his outstanding and probably heroic escape from skorge

[ThrashO]

I only have enough room in my heart for Cole. Please get out, Jace.

I did not know any of that about Cole. Here's the thing. I'm a white guy, and I'm big into Videogames and Metal, and for some reason, ever since Gears 2, I have ALWAYS been cole. I still don't know why, I just feel weird as any other character.

dizzy is still my favorite i just wanted to learn about his outstanding and probably heroic escape from skorge

I really hated Dizzy at first in Gears 2, mainly because he was just a little too country bumpkin for my tastes, but as time went on I started to think he was a real bad ass. I even wrote lyrics and some riffs (none of the songs are by any means near complete) to a song based around a squad led by Dizzy called "Cowboys from Hail"

[OxBlood]

Heh, am I the only one whose favorite Character is Baird? I just like the guy, the only person with a brain on the team, aside from Anya.

[k0k0]

My favorite is Dom. I think it's because through gears 1 and 2 I played as Marcus and my roommate played as Dom, so I just connect him with my roommate. I kind of wish Tai had made it though. I really thought he was a cool dude.

[Nick]

Baird is an awesome guy as well. He can be an asshole sometimes, but he means well. I think I enjoy all the characters. They're all pretty great.



Except for Jace in Gears 3. He just bugged the crap out of me. It was like having a kid brother tagging along making stupid jokes and pretending to be a big, big man.

[darkvare]

have you guys seen the
fire breathing chicken?
i like baird mostly cause of the googles but he is too whiny and he pisses his pants, i mean come on.

[Zhukov]

I like Dom and Jayce and Sam.

[Sam]

Everyone likes Sam. :picklehat

[Fathom Zero]

except ladies

[darkvare]

am i the only one that want's to play as bernie?

[Nick]

You can play as her in multiplayer as DLC.

[ThrashO]

am i the only one that want's to play as bernie?

Burnie? You mean Dom? (nyuk nyuk)

[Zhukov]

I feel the Australian accent is over represented in this game, that's probably my biggest gripe so far.

[ThrashO]

So I was level 25 and I had a few mutators unlocked, alot of characters and weapon skins and alot of progress towards other achievements and I turn on my 360 today to see that I have lost all of my progress somehow.

I'm back to level 1 and I don't know why. I googled it and apparently other people are having the same problem and no one is helping them. I called tech support, bitch asked me a bunch of stupid questions, then transferred me to a hardware specialist where I was on hold for 20 minutes until I hung up.

PRETTY LAME.

[k0k0]

That sucks man. I make regular backups of saves that I don't want to lose. Like my Red Dead Redemption 5th legend online character and my gears character. I know you shouldn't have to, but I do.

Sorry I left yesterday before we had a chance to play online together. I had to get work done and had been playing too long. Still catching up from being sick when I'm not still being sick.

[ThrashO]

you broke my heart :tear

Also, I was MVP in a TDM game just now with 29 kills and 8 deaths.

I WAS A LEVEL 1 >:

[darkvare]

they are doing maintenace for the servers at 2 am i'm level 45 so i hope i don't suffer from your issues fingers crossed

[k0k0]

I think I was a bit annoying yesterday when I played anyways. Someone told me I don't have to be an asshole. It's cuz when I killed him I did my big bopper impression. I said "OOOooooooohhhh baby that'sa what I like" as I beat him with his own arm to win the match after sudden death.

[darkvare]

i always do the lengthy execution if i win a sudden death is free exp and you deserve the braging rights

[ThrashO]

I usually never do executions because my sawed-off never has much to say after "BLAM".

Also, me and my room mates used to play Gears 2 RELIGIOUSLY, and we always thought of things to add to the game and one idea I had for a weapon, that I think would have fit the gears-badassery motif, is a weapon that was so bad ass, that somehow if you missed and didn't kill someone, it kills you.

And we thought of so many different ways for this to work, even something similar to the digger launcher but we couldn't come up with a good enough idea.

The Sawed-off is that weapon. As a shotgun-rolling master, the Sawed-off is all I could ask for. You have to get up close and personal, and after being that close, if you miss, you're fucking dead dude. It's a good 5 second reload for ONE shot.

I <3 it.

[Nick]

I still think the multiplayer for Gears of War 1 was the best in the series.

[k0k0]

Sawed-off is nothing to me. Those dudes are everywhere and I can kill them two at a time with my retro lancer when they charge me. If they would just hold me back with the regular weapons until they get close, then use it, maybe they would succeed more.

And yeah, I always go for the long execution.

[Zhukov]

Man, I love the retro lancer. It seems to be not as good as the normal lancer, but killing with a bayonet charge is so much more satisfying.

[k0k0]

If you play a lot of online, you'll get to love the retro lancer's firing too. It doesn't really make as much sense to use in campaign though. It's easy to use the retro to take down sawed off users.

[ThrashO]

If you play a lot of online, you'll get to love the retro lancer's firing too. It doesn't really make as much sense to use in campaign though. It's easy to use the retro to take down sawed off users.

If they're n00bs. Taking down distant opponents is all in the deception ;)

I think it's stupid to run through open grounds towards someone behind cover with an assault rife anyways though to be honest.

[ThrashO]

IT HAPPENED AGAIN.

I AM LEVEL 1.

>:

[ThrashO]

There's an event going on called Boom Snipes. Everyone starts with a boomshot and sniper rifle. And those are the only weapons on the map.

ITS AWESOME.