Ignatz Mouse
Banned
I stand by what I said, in my experince, Dr C is a wet blanket for anything Sony. maybe he feels it's necessary to counter Sonybots or somesuch, I dunno.
-
Hey, guest user. Hope you're enjoying NeoGAF! Have you considered registering for an account? Come join us and add your take to the daily discourse.
AIAS am biased: Gears of War dominates
- Thread starter hyp
- Start date
inpHilltr8r
Member
GoW wins for the second year in a row.HocusPocus said:
Karma Kramer
Banned
I think people in this thread have forgotten how unique Gears of War is as an online competitive game and as an online cooperative game. Sure there are a ton of problems with the game's lobby system and whatnot, but from an actual design standpoint Gears of War is an online multiplayer game of its own.
Now from what I have seen of Resistence it is a very solid traditional online FPS game. It defiantly has a better infastructure and has more features then any other online multiplayer games for the consoles. But I don't think AIAS is judging technical achievements when they say "Best Online Multiplayer Game." I think they are looking at it as I said from a gameplay experience.
My guess is that it would have won had its style of gameplay not seem so similar to soo many other FPSs before it. Though there is absolutely no explanation for why Resistence wasn't at least nominated... thats just stupid.
Now from what I have seen of Resistence it is a very solid traditional online FPS game. It defiantly has a better infastructure and has more features then any other online multiplayer games for the consoles. But I don't think AIAS is judging technical achievements when they say "Best Online Multiplayer Game." I think they are looking at it as I said from a gameplay experience.
My guess is that it would have won had its style of gameplay not seem so similar to soo many other FPSs before it. Though there is absolutely no explanation for why Resistence wasn't at least nominated... thats just stupid.
hyp said:
Well whatever they do, they are still losers
Seriously, Gears Of War deserved every award it got. I just cant believe the amount of hate it gets from the very vocal certain fan crowd here. Its not like the AIAS were trashing other games, they said what they liked the best. Just deal with it.
goldenpp72
Member
Gears is a much more intimate online game then most.. 8 players allows you to get to know the room fast, form enemies or allies, and the way the combat and universal headset works out its just a lot more personal, it doesn't hurt that close range combat and various different avatars that you 'get to know' throughout the game are used. Its far better then most games.
Congrats to Gears and Epic, very well deserved!
I only read the first and last page since I just got home and I'm tired as hell, but boo-hoo for Resistance not winning the online award - anyone who's played the drop-in drop-out co-op knows that that alone gives Gears the win as not only is it innovative, no other game had it till Crackdown, so it was unique at the time...
But once again, congrats to the people at Epic!
I only read the first and last page since I just got home and I'm tired as hell, but boo-hoo for Resistance not winning the online award - anyone who's played the drop-in drop-out co-op knows that that alone gives Gears the win as not only is it innovative, no other game had it till Crackdown, so it was unique at the time...
But once again, congrats to the people at Epic!
plagiarize
Banned
for the record, i think resistance should have been nominated too... i'm just saying that you can't argue outright that gears shouldn't have won.
both do different impressive things, and the judges obviously felt as i do that drop in drop out co op makes for a better multiplayer experience than resistance and it's many game types.
that's a totally subjective thing. i brought up the drop in drop out lag free (in my experiences) co op as the technically impressive thing that Gears did with it's multiplayer, as when people compare Gears and Resistance technically they almost always over look it and just talk about 8 players with lag versus 40 players without lag.
obviously beyond that, everything is subjective.
i'd not be waiting to clear my plate of shooters to grab my own copy of resistance if it had online co-op. it's just such a big feature for me, and i'd argue that co-op is just in vogue right now.
i've always been a sucker for co op and it really feels like we're coming out of the wilderness now as people swing back to co op from your kind of Quake style multiplayer and that furthermore it's no longer an after thought in games like Gears and Crackdown.
give me online drop in drop out co op in resistance 2 and i'll be singing it's praises too
both do different impressive things, and the judges obviously felt as i do that drop in drop out co op makes for a better multiplayer experience than resistance and it's many game types.
that's a totally subjective thing. i brought up the drop in drop out lag free (in my experiences) co op as the technically impressive thing that Gears did with it's multiplayer, as when people compare Gears and Resistance technically they almost always over look it and just talk about 8 players with lag versus 40 players without lag.
obviously beyond that, everything is subjective.
i'd not be waiting to clear my plate of shooters to grab my own copy of resistance if it had online co-op. it's just such a big feature for me, and i'd argue that co-op is just in vogue right now.
i've always been a sucker for co op and it really feels like we're coming out of the wilderness now as people swing back to co op from your kind of Quake style multiplayer and that furthermore it's no longer an after thought in games like Gears and Crackdown.
give me online drop in drop out co op in resistance 2 and i'll be singing it's praises too
gollumsluvslave
Member
Man this thread was kind of predictable.
Like most other awards stuff, is it really that big a deal? *shrugs*
The funniest thing I found is that seemingly Phil Harrison had to present one of the gongs to Gears, which must have been a bit galling :lol
Like most other awards stuff, is it really that big a deal? *shrugs*
The funniest thing I found is that seemingly Phil Harrison had to present one of the gongs to Gears, which must have been a bit galling :lol
BenjaminBirdie
Banned
plagiarize said:
Yeah, I think people are caught up in the multiplayer thing and are forgetting that Gears delivers every second of its ridiculous single player experience in a multiplayer setting. And that's why it did so well in that area (EGM also gave it runner up for best Multiplayer).
Wollan said:
Word?
You dont own a Ps3? So its just makes you happy that others are playing Resistence together on the Ps3 because of you?
Thats really noble.
And sad.
Regarding the online award and shit...i mean seriouslly cmon...Resistence Is call of Duty sci fi online, the only thing it does that others dont is 40 player. Gears is a new type of game, that is a breath of fresh air into the online competitive gaming, and guess what...you actually play as a team in the damm game, because it actually makes a big difference. Not to mention the Co-op.
Should resistence be nominated? Well maybe, but it wasn't.
Wildstar75
Member
I thought this was spot on.
Gears is my game of the year, for online coop and adversarial.
Wii sports was my second fave of the year, it reduced the amount of family fighting this holiday!
Gears is my game of the year, for online coop and adversarial.
Wii sports was my second fave of the year, it reduced the amount of family fighting this holiday!