DubloSeven
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Gears of War 2 |OT| ...Maria...MARIA!!!
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FrenchMovieTheme
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just finished the game (got it at xmas) and it was pretty awesome. not to start a bitch fest but this is the game that resistance 2 should have been. great follow up to a great original game.
i think the graphics are the best i have ever seen on a console all things considered. the shadows look kinda shitty in spots, but overall i was pretty impressed with the graphics.
one thing i missed about the game was the fight with those gigantic running monsters from part 1 (the one who could only be defeated with the hammer of dawn), that was an intense boss fight and scared the shit out of me when you heard him running at you.
the boss fights were easy but i chose to play on normal so that is what i expect. i'm sure if i played on hard or expert they would have been more challenging.
i liked the variety of environments as well. i think if you combined gears 1 and 2 into 1 game you would have a game that stacks up to my favorite 3rd person shooter ever, resident evil 4.
p.s. i wonder what will happen in gears 3. watched the credits to the end and
makes it sound like shits gon get real in gears 3!
i think the graphics are the best i have ever seen on a console all things considered. the shadows look kinda shitty in spots, but overall i was pretty impressed with the graphics.
one thing i missed about the game was the fight with those gigantic running monsters from part 1 (the one who could only be defeated with the hammer of dawn), that was an intense boss fight and scared the shit out of me when you heard him running at you.
the boss fights were easy but i chose to play on normal so that is what i expect. i'm sure if i played on hard or expert they would have been more challenging.
i liked the variety of environments as well. i think if you combined gears 1 and 2 into 1 game you would have a game that stacks up to my favorite 3rd person shooter ever, resident evil 4.
p.s. i wonder what will happen in gears 3. watched the credits to the end and
adam fenix's "broadcast"
If the boys at Epic are reading this, I hope that when bitch-ass hosts, especially clans who are hosts that get their asses handed to them and quit, doesn't affect me and my friend's rank when we're on the other team - because that's been happening a lot lately against some sorry-playing clans...
btw, what the fuck is up with near the end with dom
?!
this is the first time, upon playing a legitimately published video game (so excluding indie crap flash games etc), where i've been appalled by the messages the game sends to their audience.
killing maria
she seemed weak and out of it, but was there something i missed? was she infected or something? was she a danger to other humans? i thought what happened was twisted. like 'what the fuck was epic thinking' twisted. it's like as if the americans, upon finding the nazi concentration camps, simply killed off the surviving jews.
CrunchinJelly
formerly cjelly
Umm, did you see her? She was fucked both mentally and physically. A cabbage, if you will.dfyb said:
J. M. Romeo said:
i'm sure Dom's medical credentials helped him come to that conclusion...cjelly said:
there's still a significant difference between someone just rescued from extremely harsh conditions and someone who took a grenade and is guaranteed to bleed to death or whatever. she wasn't screaming in pain or anything. that was fucked up. is my concentration camp survivor comparison not valid (as in, she's a danger to other humans etc)?
Kill Your Masters
Member
I thinkdfyb said:
Tai's reaction after probably less locust jail-time than Maria
Hellraizer said:
thai was most likely heavily tortured -- i didn't see evidence of that being the case with maria. i don't remember seeing whip marks etc on maria.
and on a different note -- i never finished gears 1. was the lambent a part of that game?
it wasn't really explained in gears 2 (to my knowledge)... do we know the source?
Kill Your Masters
Member
Yeah can't remember any either but she also had more clothes on...
No and no.dfyb said:
Kill Your Masters
Member
Damn totally forgot about them. You're right. Lambent were part of the first in a way, but I dont believe they already had in mind what they did in the second game.Kibbles said:
Making the lambent a third party that the locust fight against.
bumpkin
Member
heh, man... I was playing the game online last night and I finally started to understand the disgust people are having with the vacuum effect of the chainsaw. This one team I played against had this basic tactic of coming out of cover when you got close with the chainsaw brandished; if I had a dollar for every time I got sliced to pieces, I'd be a very rich man... It was bad enough that at the end, one of the guys on the other team had the nerve to say "good game, guys" and I couldn't bite me tongue. I'm like, "yeah, way to abuse a broken mechanic." He didn't respond.
After that I decided I'd just try to piss people off and work on the "A parting gift" achievement. I'd grab frags or inks, equip them and then rush my opponents. Nine times out of ten they'd play right into my tactic and down me; that's when I'd trigger the 'nade. I got the achievement in about 20 mins, and I probably pissed a lot of people off.
...of course I've also recently became the thing I hate; a two-piecer. Now whenever someone gets in close quarters, I'm using it. I feel guilty about it, sure, but I can't put a price on racking up something like 7 or 8 kills by myself as the other team continually rushes me while I two-piece and dodge like a mad-man. :lol
After that I decided I'd just try to piss people off and work on the "A parting gift" achievement. I'd grab frags or inks, equip them and then rush my opponents. Nine times out of ten they'd play right into my tactic and down me; that's when I'd trigger the 'nade. I got the achievement in about 20 mins, and I probably pissed a lot of people off.
...of course I've also recently became the thing I hate; a two-piecer. Now whenever someone gets in close quarters, I'm using it. I feel guilty about it, sure, but I can't put a price on racking up something like 7 or 8 kills by myself as the other team continually rushes me while I two-piece and dodge like a mad-man. :lol
Crab Milk Mickey
Member
dfyb said:
She did have a lobotomy from the looks of it. I remember there being stitches around her head.
bumpkin said:
Hey, anytime I see someone with a chainsaw take off running around a corner, and I go after them and I see their foot or their shadow sticking out, you better believe that I'm coming around that corner for you swinging my Hammerburst or shottie, then finishing you off with lead - there's no shame in that whatsoever since they think that they'll get away with trying to get you with a tactic like that... :lol
MicVlaD said:
Yup,
definitely a lobotomy as the scar went around her head, you could clearly see that since most if not all of her hair was gone... there was no recognition or sense of anything in her eyes so I thought it was pretty clear that she was just a vegetable, beyond any saving...
bumpkin
Member
Almost *all* of his kills were chainsaw kills, and it wasn't just him hiding and gutting someone when they tried to flank him. It was running straight at the person and it basically ignoring any shots and sucking the person into his saw blades. It's retarded. If you don't think that an attack that literally negates any attack if the other player is less than 10 feet away is dumb and broken, then that's your prerogative. It pisses me off anyway.Skilotonn said:
DubloSeven
Member
dfyb said:
She was probably lobotomised.
Booted up Gears 2 for the first time in a month... No update!
I laughed and asked my friend, "Do you think this is Cliff Blezinski's way of giving us the finger?"
The we played. Felt great to Gear up again. Until...
TWICE in a multiplayer game on the avalanche map, an AI combatant got hung up next to some railing overlooking the center of the map. He simply couldn't move, and instead just jiggered about, rotating a bit in place to fire at whomever he could see.
I was like, "Should this be happening in 2009 on such a high-profile game as Gears 2?"
But it gets better. I was playing online with one other person at the time. Finally at the end of the match my friend says, "Look at him jitter. Oh, well, at least he finally bent down." And I had time to not only hear this, but think in my head, "Wait, what? I didn't see him bend--" before he actually did kneel on my screen.
Can you say, laaaagy? NICE NETCODE, EPIC!
We later turned the game off, maybe for good, when we tried to resume a co-op campaign and I died three times, instantaneously, after the game glitched and jiggered and I sunk a clip and a half into a regular old Locust while that rat-bastard took me down with four bullets.
The friend I was playing with only lives about 40 miles away from me, by the way, and we both have pretty decent Internet connections.
This game... GAH.
I laughed and asked my friend, "Do you think this is Cliff Blezinski's way of giving us the finger?"
The we played. Felt great to Gear up again. Until...
TWICE in a multiplayer game on the avalanche map, an AI combatant got hung up next to some railing overlooking the center of the map. He simply couldn't move, and instead just jiggered about, rotating a bit in place to fire at whomever he could see.
I was like, "Should this be happening in 2009 on such a high-profile game as Gears 2?"
But it gets better. I was playing online with one other person at the time. Finally at the end of the match my friend says, "Look at him jitter. Oh, well, at least he finally bent down." And I had time to not only hear this, but think in my head, "Wait, what? I didn't see him bend--" before he actually did kneel on my screen.
Can you say, laaaagy? NICE NETCODE, EPIC!
We later turned the game off, maybe for good, when we tried to resume a co-op campaign and I died three times, instantaneously, after the game glitched and jiggered and I sunk a clip and a half into a regular old Locust while that rat-bastard took me down with four bullets.
The friend I was playing with only lives about 40 miles away from me, by the way, and we both have pretty decent Internet connections.
This game... GAH.
baka kitsune
Member
I was playing a guardian match last night and the leader on the enemy side was stunned by my stun grenade but when I went over to shoot and kill him he suddenly flew high up into the air. At that point none of us could get to him and eventually our leader died and we lost the match.
This patch can't come soon enough.
This patch can't come soon enough.
Kill Your Masters
Member
I played as host today, for the first time in my life in Gears 2. And, um, yeah...I really felt ashamed when I splattered every single person who came close with the shotty...out of the hip...with one shot...every single time.
I immediately closed the lobby and someone else opened a new one.
I immediately closed the lobby and someone else opened a new one.
Black_Ice said:
I was thinking about going back to Gears 1 for a while too. I tried it once before after Gears 2 came out, and didn't enjoy it much. Same old problems.
Why haven't Epic included the ability to search for non-ranked matches? Its so fucked. I don't give a shit about ranking, really. I just wanna play the game. Playing ranked, its like Epic doesn't want me to play the game. I finish a match, and I get kicked out of the room. WTF? I have to sit through match making all over again. What a load of shit. Epic: "Oh, you probably don't still wanna be playing this game" *kicked from room*
Just copy COD4's matchmaking rules. How hard can it be?
DevelopmentArrested
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DiddyBop said:
i didnt know cliffy b had a gaf account.
unless you're a two piecing glitcher yourself or youve played less than an hour, not sure how anyone can defend this game's multiplayer right now considering how broken it is.
Xbox.com showing new multiplayer achievements. Could it be?!
Edit:
Skeletons in your Closet
Complete waves 1 through 10 on all Flashback Map Pack maps in Horde (any difficulty)
20
More Mystery, Less History
Win a multiplayer match on each of the 5 Flashback Map Pack maps (any mode except Wingman)
15
Bound by a Shared Past
Win a Wingman match on each of the 5 Flashback Map Pack maps
15
Trial by, and on, Fire
Survive first 10 Horde waves on Combustible Map Pack maps as a team
20
The Roof! The Roof! The Roof
Win a multiplayer match on each of the 3 Combustible Map Pack maps (any mode except Wingman)
15
Forged in the Fire
Win a Wingman match on each of the 3 Combustible Map Pack maps
15
Annex: Now With Execution Rules
Win an Annex match on each Flashback and Combustible Map Pack map (public matches only)
75
Edit:
Skeletons in your Closet
Complete waves 1 through 10 on all Flashback Map Pack maps in Horde (any difficulty)
20
More Mystery, Less History
Win a multiplayer match on each of the 5 Flashback Map Pack maps (any mode except Wingman)
15
Bound by a Shared Past
Win a Wingman match on each of the 5 Flashback Map Pack maps
15
Trial by, and on, Fire
Survive first 10 Horde waves on Combustible Map Pack maps as a team
20
The Roof! The Roof! The Roof
Win a multiplayer match on each of the 3 Combustible Map Pack maps (any mode except Wingman)
15
Forged in the Fire
Win a Wingman match on each of the 3 Combustible Map Pack maps
15
Annex: Now With Execution Rules
Win an Annex match on each Flashback and Combustible Map Pack map (public matches only)
75
CitizenCope
Member
*very* good
http://www.metacritic.com/games/platforms/xbox360/gearsofwar2?q=gears of war 2DevelopmentArrested said:
sigh
goldenpp72
Member
I sure hope they fix this game soon, ive resorted back to playing pdz.
CrunchinJelly
formerly cjelly
What's that got to do with it?dfyb said:
"Oh, no, some people I will never meet in my life think this game is good *sadface*"
cjellycjelly said:
will gladly bend over and grab ankles for Microsoft
you'd think reviews would, i don't know, be a review of the product that people buy. not "well this is what it might be... if it worked... over 2 months after release... hopefully"
but the "why do you even care?" posts are always :lol because they are inherently hypocritical.
DiddyBop said:
Damn straight.
To the point where I share your exact same complaint as you - the bitch-ass quitters...
Even if it isn't in this patch Cliff, please make sure that migrating host is added soon (when the host quits, someone else becomes host) because nothing is more irritating than destroying a team when you're not even the host and then they quit because they suck...
Other than that, Gears 2 is still a nightly ritual, hell, we're playing right now!
CliffyB said:
Awesome...
Ok sorry, I misunderstood.Skilotonn said:
It's like glitches, it has nothing to do with the game, but with dicks who uses it. Or lag, nothing with the game either, it's me that is stupid for not living in US or having a fiber connection.
But I still don't get why you are asking something to CliffyB that has nothing to do with the game.
Domino Theory
Crystal Dynamics
So will the bolded part ever get cleared up? Is Mark talking about another title update for Gears 2 or something else?
goldenpp72
Member
Zezboob said:
It has to do with the game because every other game has host migration and gears does not.
DevelopmentArrested
Banned
dfyb said:
Oh I'm sorry. I didn't realise that people were sliding weapons, hiding outside of maps, using standby, two-piecing and boom shield glitching when the review event was going on..
The day Gears 2 came out I gave it a 9.5/10 too. Now? More like a 4.5. Nice PR spin though.
Zezboob said:
Dreamcast games ran better online than Gears 2. It's CliffyB's fault that the game is easily exploitable and that the netcode is garbage.