I know, but it would have been nice.
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Gears of War Ultimate Edition |OT| Welcome back to the army, soldier
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I know, but it would have been nice.
- Marcus had bright blue eyes because my father did, so I pushed for that
- I never asked for buff characters. Kevin Lanning just made it that way with the AD Jerry.
- Anya originally had huge boobs but I pushed back on Pete to make her less cartoony. Ironic, considering the guys.
- I wanted a chainsaw gun in a game I pitched in 97, called "OverFiend."
- We had a laser gun planned but we decided for Vietnam like tech so it was cut you can see it in an early image of Marcus.
- Rod snuck in the SP fatigue meter when I was on a biz trip to fix streaming issues. I was furious.
- Rod was assigned to us at MS at E3 years ago and wore the Marcus dorag and at that point I could tell he adored the franchise.
- The style of Gears' architecture came from my exhaustion of concrete bunkers and Jerry's hatred of hazard striping.
- A lot of Gears 1's inspiration game out of my sadness from the failure of my first marriage and a visit to London.
- The idea to do cover came from @MrLeePerry showing me Killswitch one day I was like WANT.
- In hindsight, the Berserker being female and being chained down for breeding is really fucked up. I was in a dark place.
- No writer has ever written two Gears games...yet. The RodMower nearly kills em all with his persistence.
- Before I pitched it to Microsoft I did a bunch of pushups in the hotel and listened to Eminem's Lose Yourself because dudebro.
- Pitching Gears 1 was hard. New IP, new camera, new campaign, new MP, new console, etc...On paper it was set to fail.
- Maria was my personal statement on Terri Schaivo and my belief in right to death...through a dudebro shooter with lizard men.
- Maria was voiced by Courtney Ford who was a dear friend in high school who later married Brandon Routh and we're still pals.
- We cast Carlos Ferro as Dom because I was tired of hearing Speedy Gonzales voices in Splinter Cell games, no offense, Ubi.
- Tanya (jessen) Watson wrote the note on the back of the photo of Maria and Dom that shipped with Gears 2.
- Picture of Dom and Maria from the SE of Gears 2 was drawn based on my ex girlfriend and I at the time.
- Dave, our lead LD at the time, wanted Tai to just jump off a cliff or something, but I pushed for the shotgun suicide.
- The torture the Locust did in Gears was my thinly veiled statement about Gitmo...through a dudebro shooter with lizardmen.
- Marcus was named Fenix because I lost everything from the failed marriage and was rising from my own ashes.
- Dom's original last name was "Glynn" until Rod saw a box of cigars on my desk that said "Santiago" and suggested that.
- Post Epic, Gears 1's art director Jerry was slated to direct the reboot of Thundercats until the CG TMNT failed.
- Mad World was my anthem when I was going through the failure of my first marriage. Somehow marketing felt this and suggested it.
- The other song was "My Immortal" by Evanescence but that's way less cool.
- Baird was named after a childhood friend who was a bit of a dick, Mark Baird. #GearsFacts Baird just sounds like a dick.
- We cast Lester as Cole because of his charisma in the Terry Tate ads. We were like "I'd go to war with that guy."
- Before the game came out, Randy Pitchford came to town to play it and saw how tough the Locust were and said "it's a grinder."
- Years later I'd go to Dallas to test Borderlands early and then meet and fall for my wife. We met in a W hotel designed in UE.
- In SP the last bullet in each magazine is 25% stronger so the chances of "oh shit" fighting a bad guy are high in the game.
- Boomers were named after the robots from Bubblegum Crisis, which was inspired by Blade Runner.
- I said to the art department on Gears (post quake era) NO FUCKING SKULLS IN THIS WORLD. that clearly worked lol
- I wanted players to not drop weapons upon death unless you execute them as incentive. Ray Davis shot it down.
- I always wanted a "long range revive pistol" in Gears but Rod always thought it was a dumb idea.
- To this day, Epic, Rod, Microsoft and I always kept a good relationship. Biz is biz but friends are forever. I'm signing off.
BananasWithGuns
Member
Since I won't be getting this until tomorrow afternoon I'm counting on one of you to post the unlockable character list.
Please.
NullPointer
Member
Beautiful.
Shpeshal Nick
aka Collingwood
So I've tried to play my first MP match and I'm endlessly stuck on a loading screen while hearing the respawn noise every 30 seconds or so.
Awesome.
Awesome.
That shit cliff is saying is great.
Some people itt don't know what gears 1 is lmao. Get power weapons, use pistol.
Lancers were always there to cross with teammates or finish a down, not take opponents out by yourself lmao
lol @ the guy who said retro isn't overpowered, what universe is that nuke thrower not overpowered lol
Some people itt don't know what gears 1 is lmao. Get power weapons, use pistol.
Lancers were always there to cross with teammates or finish a down, not take opponents out by yourself lmao
lol @ the guy who said retro isn't overpowered, what universe is that nuke thrower not overpowered lol
SirMossyBloke
Member
Thanks for that.
No, no, no. Breakfast should not have even been an option. You should have ditched the family and headed straight for the store.
I'll see what I can do
Maybe because the people playing are actually professionals who got it early. I wouldn't call it trash detection especially when you're getting beating out by the "MLG" squad lol
It has some Gears 3 features like enemy tagging and new modes that weren't in Gears 1 originally, but it's very much Gears 1 MP.
BananasWithGuns
Member
Thanks. I appreciate it.
HA!
When I first saw Gears I was like, damn that looks like Killswitch. Killswitch was one of the first TPS I have seen, and I thought it looked amazing.
PeskyToaster
Member
retro is too easy. git gud.
Good thing cover system exists along with a good hard aim
Theognosis
Member
Looks like I'm getting an XB1 for this game.
Thanks for the heads up I had to delete it to install (preload) it didn't auto do it. Showed size as 0mb now shows 44gb.
Shpeshal Nick
aka Collingwood
Ah gotcha. You're right.
I'll keep editing this list but
Unlockable (as of this moment)
Sam
Dizzy
Prescott
Miner
Beast Rider
Kantus
Jace (just saw a level 25 with him)
Preorder
Adam Fenix
Civvie anya
Aaron Griffin
Unarmoured Marcus
Savage drone
Savage grenadier elite
Savage kantus
Savage theron
Golden Hunter
Golden Miner
Speculation
Regular anya
Regular Hunter
MightyHedgehog
Member
From IGN's The History of Gears of War:
They liked KS so much, they hired the lead designer to help make Gears.
SmartWaffles
Member
WAT.
Waiting man waiting
Death Metalist
Member
Thank god it wasn't. Mad World is 100 times more fitting, great tidbits.
BananasWithGuns
Member
Nice, glad Jace is in. At least I'll have one of my characters in there if Tai and Bernie don't make it.
Thanks for making/updating the list pizzacat.
Thanks for making/updating the list pizzacat.
I agree. I need to know what happens when the one shot hits you
LegalEagleMike
Member
No. It will come when backwards compatibility launches later this year.
blue_phazon
Member
Nope, they downloadable games come out when backwards compatibility is released in the fall
J
Jotamide
Unconfirmed Member
Looking forward to
play this when it comes out on PC.
Idk about that ps4 on wireless.
My iPhone at times
This game downloaded in like 4 hours for me
Mihael Mello Keehl
Banned
Idk why I wait till 2 hours ago to start preloading only 20%
only 20%
-tetsuo-
Unlimited Capacity
Everything at my house downloads incredibly fast except for xb1 games. It is kinda nuts.
tokeedasmokee
Banned
Can you tell me your down speed if you don't mind? Mine's taking forever and I just want something to gage it with.
mullet2000
Member
For real. I started my Gears Preload at 5:00 and it's only at 88%.
Xbox One is worse than my PS4 download speeds, easily.
...PS4 ain't great either though.
29.07 down
12.20 up
Mihael Mello Keehl
Banned
Why did we all start preloading the same day!?