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Gears of War is a masterpiece
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eXistor
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Not really. If you don't like a genre, you can hardly miss it. For example, I don't miss not having played Fifa, I hate sports games and soccer in particular. Just play what you like. GoW might be well designed and I'll muster some respect for it in that regard (I played through it once and I do recognize its qualities). But even so, it's a snoozefest of a game for me and I didn't like it one bit.
Robot Pants
Member
Yes. YES!
In my opinion, and I'm probably very alone, but there have only been a few changes made from the sequels that have benefited this game. Everything else has been worse or pointless.
- new curb stomp introduced in Gears 2
- the digger
Everything else made the game so convoluted and such a mess.
- need to return to 4v4
- no heavy weapons
- no gun skins, character skins, etc ( the game looks so atrocious now )
- .... Just so many other things. What happened to footsteps sounds? Grenade bounce sounds, weapon sounds. I could literally write a dissertation.
Gears 1 set the standard for 3rd person cover shooter controls for me, and made me oddly picky about cover systems. It drives me crazy whenever I play a similar game that doesn't have the same set of movement options.
For instance, if you can't:
For instance, if you can't:
- exit cover by holding back
- move along cover or exit cover while reloading
- move along cover while shooting
- peak out around corners of cover
- hop over cover
- slide into cover while spriting
- do the "turn the corner move"
DAREALGUMMY
Member
Best Mulitplayer ever. Shame they went away from the gritty fight for your life feeling of it and went fight for rankings and useless titles for the sequels.
smokeandmirrors
Banned
My first encounter with the Gears franchise was with a friend when we played a level on co-op in the second game. I thought it was cool but didn't think much of it. It wasn't until I actually bought a 360 and someone lent me the first game did I appreciate how great the first one really was. I had already played some 'next-gen' games, uncharted and the likes, but I think Gears 1, from 2006 still stands up as one of the games that wow'd me the most, a full 3 years after it was released (Uncharted and Motorstorm did that to me as well), seeing as I finally got a 360 in 2009 and played it then.
I'll never forget it. Was playing it super loud because I was home by myself, and I was right at the level right after the gas station, when you first get the sniper rifle (I think). It was during the summer and it was thunderstorming something bad, but I hadn't noticed it, because I was using the sniper rifle. Jesus Christ does that gun sound amazing. I somehow timed my shots to the bits of thunder, and I felt like a god, popping heads with the sound of thunder coming from my sniper rifle. It was only until lightening struck close to my house and the subsequent shaking from the instantenous thunder did I realise that it wasn't just the game making the loud thunder clap sound.
Something felt different in 2 and the part of 3 I played in regards to the sniper rifle. It didn't feel the same...
And to this day I can't think of another game that gets the feeling of sniping done right, except for Gears 1 and Killzone 2, IMO.
I'll never forget it. Was playing it super loud because I was home by myself, and I was right at the level right after the gas station, when you first get the sniper rifle (I think). It was during the summer and it was thunderstorming something bad, but I hadn't noticed it, because I was using the sniper rifle. Jesus Christ does that gun sound amazing. I somehow timed my shots to the bits of thunder, and I felt like a god, popping heads with the sound of thunder coming from my sniper rifle. It was only until lightening struck close to my house and the subsequent shaking from the instantenous thunder did I realise that it wasn't just the game making the loud thunder clap sound.
Something felt different in 2 and the part of 3 I played in regards to the sniper rifle. It didn't feel the same...
And to this day I can't think of another game that gets the feeling of sniping done right, except for Gears 1 and Killzone 2, IMO.
HocusPocus
Member
This is the game that put the 360 over the PS3 in North America. Without it I don't think people would have given the 360 much of a chance due to the Media spin and hype for PS3 supposedly being so dominate over the 360 graphically.
shinobi602
Member
Lolwat?
Secks4Food
Member
Hell yeah, completely agree, everything about it was sooo damn good (except for the COG tags, but hey that was some optional achievement bullshit, so whatever). This, along with Rainbow Six Vegas, were my favorite multiplayer games of the console generation. It was all in the simplicity...a time before party chat, superfluous objective modes, the ability to plant grenades on the wall, rankings, XP, the Sawn-Off, etc...just you, your squad, and a tense, team driven push towards the enemy and all those lovely special weapons in the center of the map. Simply lovely.
lunchtoast
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I've tried multiple times to play it on PC but I always had problems installing the game or getting it to run with games for windows. Maybe I'll try it again now that I have a desktop.
Net_Wrecker
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The sequels should've done their best to make the games more intense, darker (though with the improved lighting of 2 and 3), faster, etc. They could've took the Gears 1 base and and built on that cat & mouse, palm sweating intensity. And yeah they need to get rid of customizable skins. The game looks like a colorful mess now, I can't stand it.
scytherage
Member
The gameplay is perfect. The story goes nowhere though.
EightBitNate
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I mean graphically
MightyHedgehog
Member
I love GeOW1, but I also really have enjoyed the many good times I've had with the rest of the trilogy and look forward to having fun with GeOW: Judgment. As a package, the first is the purest, most focused...and I wanted and got more in later installments. Still, as uneven as the others are with their campaign, especially when it comes to some questionable directions of storytelling, and suffering a bit too much from the excesses of trying things because they haven't upped the ante quite so high before, gameplay-wise, I really enjoy them all for so much fun variance with co-op play. Still the gold standard in cover shooters, IMO.
yep. somehow every game this generation tried to copy/paste the gears 1 formula but somehow never realized the MP is where the game truly shined. Hell Epic can't even get it right.
Everything good about the first game was gradually ruined in the sequels. Too many weapons, shitty maps, less heavy controls (I think this worked in its favor), single player became less horror, less well paced, too many big enemies, too many big sets, too much color, too cartoony/actiony/over the top. The first game is a 10/10 game and each one that followed was like a 4/10 knock off. Vanquish is the second best TPS and it's completely different. If Gears 2/3/J wants to be Vanquish, they failed.
Canis lupus
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And amazing it was. The first game that truly made me say "this is next gen".
shinobi602
Member
They definitely did not want to be Vanquish, thankfully. While Vanquish was good, I'm happy it's its own thing, it was an average TPS as far as I'm concerned.
MightyHedgehog
Member
Let me know when Vanquish offers the best co-op play of any console game series ever. Until that game or its successors (which we will probably never see) offer multiplayer or actually is the same type of game, it's never going to be a good or fair comparison. So why bring it up? Just because a TPS has cover, that isn't enough to directly compare them, IMO.
EightBitNate
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Now that I think about it, wasn't it a major criticism that Gears 1 was all brown and black? They added color and that's probably why horror was taken out.
MightyHedgehog
Member
The horror and darkness was given less emphasis to appeal to more people as well as showcase new features of UE3 while impressing with beautiful settings, I'm pretty sure. Color doesn't have anything to do with horror. Nearly all of the best horror movies and games feature a lot of color.
Do you guys remember when Epic made a late decision to build a Versus build in time for E3 '06, and when people got their hands on it the praise was through the roof. The stories coming out of those play sessions, it sent my hype into another dimension. Gridlock was such a perfect map, Warzone, 4v4. It just worked. No added shit.
Absolutely agree. One of the best single and multiplayer games of this generation. Everything about it was so revolutionary at the time. A lot of peopel forget that this was the first killer APP for the 360. The weapons (like the chainsaw and torque bow) really hadn't been done, the sniper headshots, the active reloading, the DNBO, the cover system that actually was easy and fun.
I remember doing 4 v 4 with friends for HOURS on end. I remember creating minigames with my friends like sneaking out of the boundaries of certain maps. I remember the comebacks. The feeling of coming back from 1 v 4. Unparalleled in any game since.
The game was fantastic on every level.
Since then, Gears of War has lost my interest. I love the story and its a great universe but they've kinda lost my interest since then.
I remember doing 4 v 4 with friends for HOURS on end. I remember creating minigames with my friends like sneaking out of the boundaries of certain maps. I remember the comebacks. The feeling of coming back from 1 v 4. Unparalleled in any game since.
The game was fantastic on every level.
Since then, Gears of War has lost my interest. I love the story and its a great universe but they've kinda lost my interest since then.
Pachterballs
Banned
I'm tempted to agree. GEARS 1>>>>>>>>>>>>2+3
after the 1st game, the sequels were too easy and lacking in ... flavour. Didn't think too favourably of the sequels.
the queen shouldn't have been this human looking scrag with the boobies
after the 1st game, the sequels were too easy and lacking in ... flavour. Didn't think too favourably of the sequels.
the queen shouldn't have been this human looking scrag with the boobies
Jawmuncher
Member
Agreed. One of my favorite things about the original was that feeling. If a MP game is good you don't need extra useless shit to keep people playing.
I'm an expert
Formerly worldrevolution. The only reason I am nice to anyone else is to avoid being banned.
Objectively, RE6's combat mechanics are quite far ahead of Gears.
Meccanical
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Doesn't mean shit when your game design is crap.
By far and large one of the best experiences this gen. Getting a new HDTV and then playing clock tower and just getting blown away by the visuals. The berserker part was so scary and well done. I was yawning when it was time for the lambent berserker in gears 3.
I must've played gears of War everyday from emergence day to the launch of Halo 3. Truly some of the best gaming I've done.
I must've played gears of War everyday from emergence day to the launch of Halo 3. Truly some of the best gaming I've done.
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Formerly worldrevolution. The only reason I am nice to anyone else is to avoid being banned.
That's fine, and arguable depending on the person, but in terms of action gunplay RE6 is pretty up there. That's a bit harder to argue when you see someone who knows how to play that game.
ConradCervantes
Banned
I had bought an Xbox and was just finishing up BioShock when my girlfriend and I split up. I was down in the dumps and feeling anti-social, and everyone at work was trying to cheer me up. One of them suggested he lend me his copy of a game called Gears of War. He knew that I had bought my first HDTV a month prior and assured me it would melt my eyeballs.
Sure enough, that first skirmish with Delta Squad...oh man. I remember the chills. I blitzed through the single-player and instantly restarted it on Hardcore. I couldn't get enough of the amazing gunplay, the awesome graphics. I picked up my own copy and brought it over to another friend's house, and we co-oped the game in one sitting. One of the best gaming experiences ever for me.
Never touched the multiplayer, sadly. Wish I was more into it during that time. Gears 2 soured me on the whole aspect, and Gears 3 I didn't own long enough due to financial constraints.
Gears of War, in summation, is this generation's RE4.
Sure enough, that first skirmish with Delta Squad...oh man. I remember the chills. I blitzed through the single-player and instantly restarted it on Hardcore. I couldn't get enough of the amazing gunplay, the awesome graphics. I picked up my own copy and brought it over to another friend's house, and we co-oped the game in one sitting. One of the best gaming experiences ever for me.
Never touched the multiplayer, sadly. Wish I was more into it during that time. Gears 2 soured me on the whole aspect, and Gears 3 I didn't own long enough due to financial constraints.
Gears of War, in summation, is this generation's RE4.
MightyHedgehog
Member
Any game can have expert players showing off, but it doesn't mean much if the AI/behaviors and level design stink. I find it crazy to see RE6 being favorably compared to any Gears game. It doesn't match up on any level, but that's just me.
Pop-O-Matic
Banned
I know this is a GoW1-centric thread, but seriously, 295 posts, yet no one has posted this yet?
What the fuck, GAF? I thought you were better than this?
What the fuck, GAF? I thought you were better than this?
I love the Gears series. It's weird because I got Gears 2 right around the time I got my 360 in 2008 and never really got into it. I'd never played a game with a lot of gore in it so that bit where you go inside the giant worm... jesus. And those digestive teeth that crush you to hell. By the time Gears 3 rolled around I was totally desensitised to all that, loved it. Horde mode in Gears 3 is arguably the most fun I've ever had with online gaming. Every now and then I go back and play it.
Never finished Gears 2 and only recently got Gears 1 on the cheap. Does anyone fancy a co-op run of the first game? The new one's not as good as the first three but it's really got me back into the series, thinking back to the good old days.
Never finished Gears 2 and only recently got Gears 1 on the cheap. Does anyone fancy a co-op run of the first game? The new one's not as good as the first three but it's really got me back into the series, thinking back to the good old days.
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Formerly worldrevolution. The only reason I am nice to anyone else is to avoid being banned.
I thought y2kev was discussing mechanics in that post but he was addressing the dudebro feel now that I reread.
MightyHedgehog
Member
Actually, I think I can kinda-sorta agree if I'm playing it just as a single player game. In co-op on hardcore, however, it really came into its own for me, just as the rest did.
I think he was discussing how the whole works so well, not just the mechanics, pace, and tone.
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Formerly worldrevolution. The only reason I am nice to anyone else is to avoid being banned.
Either way I'd disagree. =P