Voice of Reason
Banned
While people like you support this, encourage companies to perpetuate this mentality, and potentially worsen the situation by implementing even shittier anti-consumer practices.
Pretty much this generation in a nutshell.
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Gears of War: Judgment Review Thread
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While people like you support this, encourage companies to perpetuate this mentality, and potentially worsen the situation by implementing even shittier anti-consumer practices.
Pretty much this generation in a nutshell.
Square Triangle
Member
Good point, however the series isn't MP centric like Gears.
There's a difference between defense and clarification. There are 8 maps, but 4 in the standard gears modes. The other 4 are for survival/overrun and wouldn't be able to work outside of those modes due to catered design for those modes.
RedAssedApe
Banned
4 maps...isn't that how many Halo 4 had?
Net_Wrecker
Member
So ugly. Color customization should've never been a thing in Gears. Just add more characters but keep that dark look so it's consistent. Man, Gears 1 looked so aggressively grim. Now it's like Skittles: Stop and Pop.
Uno Venova
Banned
The way GOW3 wrapped up with such a bang is mostly why I feel this way, from what I've seen ti looks like a great GoW game, personally I can't deal with quicktime anymore.
BadAss2961
Member
mickcenary
Member
Question: which franchise do you think has more of a right to/is more synonymous with the acronym, "GoW"?
Vire
Member
Maybe 4 good maps, but it had a respectable 10...
Voice of Reason
Banned
How do you even answer something like that? I guess God of War because it came first?
RedAssedApe
Banned
4 TDM and the others were for the other modes no? So pretty similar to GOWJ
Lysander91
Banned
Oh, hey. Nice job refuting my argument. If people don't think that the game is worth $60 they won't buy it. I know I'm not. There is no correct amount of content to release in a game.
Many things share the same synonym. I fucking hate when people try to say one is GOW and the other is GoW, of is never capitalized.
Sure. But they really did push that component this time around. I'm not willing to mitigate that portion of the game just because the series has historically been single-player. In fact, I think the SP suffered from the resources that went into MP.
God of War probably, but Gears became very big this gen, so for this gen I give it to Gears.
God of War...been in the game for almost two years before Gears
Another thing is all future DLC maps will be free for GOW:A!
Syphon Filter
Member
agree looks so corny.
mickcenary
Member
Dunno, Voice of Reason. You tell me!
Read Voice of Reason's post.
Surface of Me
I'm not an NPC. And neither are we.
Google "GoW" and you will have your answer.
Neuromancer
Member
Can you play MP against bots in this one?
equippedwithtowel
Member
Just because there's no single correct amount doesn't mean the content isn't pitiful considering the asking price and DLC plans.
Hmm, that is quite sad IMO.
I couldn't care less about the lack of multiplayer maps since I have played a grand total of 30 minutes of competitive multiplayer across all three games. I will wait on this until I get time with one of my co-op buddies. I bought the LEs of the other three games on day one so this feels weird but I am just not in the mood.
Lysander91
Banned
What does "anti-consumer" even mean? Are they supposed to release these games for charity? Then are they "pro-consumer?" I'm not encouraging them to do anything, I'm just stating the simple fact that they can release the game for how much money they would like with however much content they want in it. If people don't want the game for $60 the price is going to drop quickly.
Probably God of War since it came out first, but I just call Gears of War, "gears".
lol, why people still buy God of War.
Square Triangle
Member
I absolutely agree with the last statement. Number of technical issues have hit me in the SP and if the labor spent on the MP went to the SP, the polish would be there. However both parts of the game are fantastic (even the MP, when with friends). I give Sony and SmS credit, unlike Crystal Dynamics for outsourcing the MP on Tomb Raider.
I feel like the GoW chatter is derailing the thread, I'll stop. ;-)
mickcenary
Member
equippedwithtowel
Member
At any point does that result in a good product?
Surface of Me
I'm not an NPC. And neither are we.
A few years ago Gears was the first thing that showed up for me, it still comes above God of War stuff though.
ViewtifulJC
Banned
I got my 48 hour XBL card and my $2.17 x 2 ready for Redbox
"Let's do this" /marcus
"Let's do this" /marcus
mullet2000
Member
This "four maps" complaint is getting silly.
Sure, there's four maps. If you ignore an entire half of the competitive multiplayer in the game. Now, if you don't want to play Overrun mode that's fine, I could see a lot of people not wanting to if you just want traditional Gears multiplayer. That's totally fine if overrun's not your thing. But not wanting to play overrun doesn't make that half of the competitive multiplayer not exist.
Sure, there's four maps. If you ignore an entire half of the competitive multiplayer in the game. Now, if you don't want to play Overrun mode that's fine, I could see a lot of people not wanting to if you just want traditional Gears multiplayer. That's totally fine if overrun's not your thing. But not wanting to play overrun doesn't make that half of the competitive multiplayer not exist.
Square Triangle
Member
I got "Grapes of Wrath"
What system is this game on? I hope it breaks the mold of Hollywood games.
I think google caters search options. I get Gears first, and in image search two gears pictures before Kratos sitting on his throne.
nhlducks35
Member
I don't want to defend the 4 maps (because every GoW game came with a minimum of 10 competitive maps, not to mention free dlc) but I've played the Overrun demo for about 20 hours, and that's just one map. It's a pretty engaging and fun mode.
Also if I may say something else, the Season Pass for this game is some Grade A bullshit, because all it gives you is 6 maps, some skins, and 2 game modes for $20, while Gears of War 3 gave you a 3-hour campaign, 13 maps plus a couple game modes for only $30 (not to mention some of the free dlc that was released for it).
Also if I may say something else, the Season Pass for this game is some Grade A bullshit, because all it gives you is 6 maps, some skins, and 2 game modes for $20, while Gears of War 3 gave you a 3-hour campaign, 13 maps plus a couple game modes for only $30 (not to mention some of the free dlc that was released for it).
Voice of Reason
Banned
You're saying 4 MP maps isn't slimy, while they're simultaneously advertising new maps on the dashboard that were ready to be included in the full game, but decided not to.
That's what you're encouraging. Maybe not explicitly, but implicitly. They see high sales while they implement this tactic, then they will keep it up with even worse strategies in the future.
Lysander91
Banned
I agree. That's why I'm not buying it at launch. People act like game companies have some moral obligation to release a game with what they deem the correct amount of content and at what they deem the correct price. Publishers just try to guess where supply will meet demand while also taking into consideration the demand for DLC. Of course, they can be wrong sometimes since it's incredibly difficult to guess what demand will be.
Alebrije
Member
the present , for worse.
Voice of Reason
Banned
Demand definitely shouldn't favor 4 MP maps, so it looks like they're making this difficult on themselves.
None of that exempts them from criticism.
but what about pay to play double XP forever?
Lysander91
Banned
Good for them if they see high sales. Do you know how selfish it sounds to expect them to bring in less revenue just because you want more maps for the same price. Do the shareholders not deserve the highest returns that they can get? Do developers not deserve more pay?
Four_Chamber
Member
The 4 maps refrain is getting tiring (especially since its not accurate).
As for me, I'm strange in that I suck at GoW MP and I really play these games for the campaign mode. The campaign is what really drew me in for the original and will probably be the reason I (eventually) get this.
As for me, I'm strange in that I suck at GoW MP and I really play these games for the campaign mode. The campaign is what really drew me in for the original and will probably be the reason I (eventually) get this.
Thankfully gears is one of the only MP games with its head not shoved up its ass and XP is essentially useless.