Gears of War 2 Comments by Christian Donlan

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It is not that i realsie my mistake half way through - there is no mistake. I reaslied it before I started typing. It is in relation to the exact phrasing they use, whether good or bad. Halo 3 was of course a prime example of this. The comment they use just sparked the thought in my head. I doubt I want it to be sub standard to confrim wasting my money on it - I will judge it when its played on the cheap. But like you say, GOW has a heavy reliance on MP and this as of late has always made the SP suffer in games. EG's comment didnt exactly suggest this outright, but I am sure i am not the first person to draw the same thoughts from their comment

"The design of LBP pwns everything Gears 2 offers in it's package and yet it is considered equal"

Yes Rash, but what about gameplay, what about a campaign, what about something more than a marketable plushie?

The LittleBigAdvertisingCampaign forum is that way -----> I suggest you sod off to it. Go on, get now, you trolling fuckwit.

"design LBP is the most revelatory experience of all the games "

We had game construction kits in the 80s...

Seriously... stop crying about it. How much emo tears do you have stored in that body?????

Gears 1 was a great game and Gears 2 builds on that to be even a bit better (1 point extra). Is that so hard to accept???? Also some people like to shoot stuff in the face and can't stand platforming (and probably vice versa).

PC date anyone?

sounds good, should check it out

chrisjm, I'm not sure whether I would mark Gears as a mass market product, but please humour me a little: what in Gears 2 design do believe justifies the score LBP got for an experience not offered anywhere before?

Absolutely the gayest game ever. Anyone who likes it gobbles cock and enjoys licking the man butter off their faces whilst being shafted up the arse by Bill Gates wearing a gimp mask. Whilst listening to Mad World.

Dizzy, Don't you work in tech? You should know better than to make design comparisons from two very different technological eras.

Jaybus Rash' what the hell are you on about they are two entirely different games they are not even remotely close to the same genre. You may as well be comparing a freaking F22 Raptor jet fighter to a Mercedes F1LM. They are both judged on their individual merits comparing them is utterly pointless and quite moronic.

"an experience not offered anywhere before?"

We've been pounded with marketing for boring platformers many times before, so it's not a new experience.

"Absolutely the gayest game ever. Anyone who likes it gobbles cock and enjoys licking the man butter off their faces whilst being shafted up the arse by Bill Gates wearing a gimp mask. Whilst listening to Mad World. "

You're just jealous you aren't Bill's plaything :P

What's that Bill, you want me to do what...okay, okay, just remember I've got first dibs on playing the next Microsoft console before anyone else :D

@ mossychops001

No PC version this time according to Cliffy B, they have decided not to waste their time and want to focus on 360 going forward.

Little Big Planet is so much better than Gears and it's a worthy comparasion. Both games are trying to do exactly the same thing - innovate. The only thing is Gears innovates purely within its genre (barely) whilst LBP innovates gaming as a whole. It's basically the only game ever to do what it does, nothing else touches it. It deals with creation and offers creation to the talentless mass of nobody hacks who wouldn't know level design if it came up to them and rubbed its hairy, well-featured and contoured balls in its face.

Parody posts (c) 2008 Squarejawhero FunTimes.

'chrisjm, I'm not sure whether I would mark Gears as a mass market product, but please humour me a little: what in Gears 2 design do believe justifies the score LBP got for an experience not offered anywhere before? '

the first sold 5 million i believe, so yes its mass market in game terms.

Eurogamers scores are not based soley on design, so why are you telling us LBP is so much better based on one thing when the bigger picture of the EG review takes into account so much more so is a better comparison.

BartonFink, Ok. What is so much better in Gears 2 to justify a higher score than the original Gears? Please explain? I'm baffled. By most accounts the original hasn't aged well so the tweaks and the additional features must surely improve upon a distinguished if flawed prequel.

Ahh Squarejawhero.

You said that your disappointment in this game/review may lead you to buying a PS3.

Yet you claim Uncharted to be such a fantasmigal game, can I ask what you played that on, your game and watch?

Let me guess....it was your mates PS3, ok then.

Troll on.

yay

farticusmaximus, And yet it seems we've not been pounded enough by marketing for the "boring" shooters.

squarejawhero, this 'ironic trolling' is really fucking old, not funny at all and pretty damned unhelpful to be honest.

It's bad enough dodging the real trolls but you're adding nothing to this apart from acting like a cunt.

@Rash

Please go read the review.

I haven't played the flipping thing yet so the only thing I have to go on are the reviews.
What I am saying is your comparison is pointless.

"By most accounts the original hasn't aged well"

Rash' I'm not getting involved too much but seriously dude that's quite a moronic thing to say, apart from the fact GOW is amazing it isn't even that old!

Also why the hell are trying to compare LBP to Gears anyway? Last I checked LBP wasn't a 3rd person shooter gore fest (might make a good game tho, Sony call me!)

When they fix the first GoW for Windows, I'll consider paying them for this one.

Oh, and only if Cliffy doesn't say anything stupid about the PC for a couple of years. Yeah, impossible, I know, but he'll have to try when next year they try to sell us again a buggy port with GfWL and no support at all.

Its only a game. Why don't you all calm down. There really is no need for all this aggression. Who cares which console is better? It doesn't matter. If you like one game more than another thats OK. There is no need to rant, swear or question each others sexuality. Live and let live. The point of reviews is to help you sort the good from the dross. Seriously life is too short all this anger.

"By most accounts the original hasn't aged wel"

Have you played it? I was playing this last night co-op and it's still brilliant fun.

Meh, theres too many good games out, 9 just isn't good enough these days. No buy for me.

I can't believe some of the inane ramblings found on these comment threads of late. In the last week I've seen Fable 2 criticised for being 'too videogamey' and now someone is trying to draw a comparison between two markedly different games (LBP and GoW2) to justify an argument that one is better than the other.

Can I posit an alternate theoy to the rash of high scoring reviews of late? It's simply this.... There's been rather a lot of exceptionally good games of late, all offering something a bit different and all of which are great fun to play. As a fan of video games, I welcome that. However, as a fan of video games, I sometimes wonder if I've stumbled into an anti-gaming, Daily Mail rantbox when I read some of the comments here.

For shame. That's right. FOR SHAME!

@GrumpyLlama

You don't sound very grumpy to me. In fact you sound much too reasonable for this thread ;)

@Rash'
fine that you feel that way kiddo ;)
the point loads of people are making is why get upset? what do you care....
it's a review score, it's a game. it's not something that affects you personally. i agree that lbp has more charm, but that's my oppinion and taste, for a lot of people that won't be the same. but i'm not bitching about it.
you go out aand by lbp, njoy it and tell people how great it is! just don't come in here and start slacking off some game beceause of a score lbp has gotten on this site. it's just irritating.

i have just bought gears1 so i'll play that first and get this later, sounds pretty cool. but i like more collurfull games a bit more, can't wait for banjoo :)

@mazzl - well said.

After playing the LBP beta I cannot wait for it but I am looking forward to this one just as much for completely different reasons.
I am certainly not going to call a waaambulance because the two got the same flippin review score. I would be looking out for the men in white coats if I started thingking about them comparatively.

Christ this is gonna be a very expensive week.

LBP VS GEARS - LMAO and tickle me pink, seriously the winter must be freezing those tiny little minds.

fuck it lets go all out then seeing some people cant understnand what the word *genre* means.

The only thing you could ever compare is the score but i remember The Incredible Machine being as good as LBP based on score alone and i think that Shoot Em Up Construction Kit only marked one lower with an 8, so pretty much on par with LBP and that was probably before these people making comparisons were born.....sigh!

Cant wait for this, i can wait for LBP tho seeing i dont have a PS3, sorry fanboys -awwww :(

I much prefer donovan's reviews to kristians.
No offence, but it's good to read a gears review (or preview, or anything else similar) without constant reference to homoeroticism.

@ Penguinzoot

Good point. I'm off

Squarejawhero has trolled so many of you his boat is in danger of sinking.

Why do people seem to think you can't compare games of different genres? All games aim to do one thing (or at least it's why I play games) - to give enjoyment to the player. I rate games on how much enjoyment I get from them, regardless of genre. If you can't see past the limitations of genre, then you're an idiot.

bad09, Gears had by many standards too short a campaign, the multiplayer infrastructure was flawed and there was an imbalance to the weapons. These flaws came to light after the game had the gone through those 9 and 10 reviews. Today it wouldn't get the same score as the hype permitted it then. Everything I've seen and read doesn't suggest there have been any revelatory additions to the formula to justify the continued enthusiasm it receives. To me considering the flaws in the last game and the improvements to the new, I don't understand why this game should be anything higher then an 8. Maybe I'm missing something. We'll let Edge decide that one for me. Why do I make the conparison with LBP? Because this sequel to a game that as an experience offers little new is regarded (widely) equally as good as LBP. That I find amazing. LBP's experience is like no other and having played the game believe me it is like no other. I've played Gears. I've seens Gears 2. How can a sequal that hasn't dramatically improved on it's design be considered equally as good as a genuielly new expereince? I know they are of completely different genres and customarily the comparison wouldn't be fair, but customarily, Gears wouldn't be getting a 9 for offering "bigger, better and more badass". That's not design. That's marketing.

Edit: apologies for the grama, but I couldn't be bothered.

Omg, a 1 point improvement!!!

Squelch!

sorry squarejaw, but your "ironic yet unfunny" trolling it trolling in itself.
For that, ignore list.

BartonFink, Not aging well doesn't suddenly make it an average game. It's still well above average. But whether the game's still the 9s and 10s it got a year from today is debatable.

And yes, I've played it. Great game. The fast food of gaming.

@ Rash - thats ok m8 i couldn't be arsed to read it

there is making a point and making everyone agree with your point, give up go play LBP and accept that GOW2 is not for you.

Cool, now I am definitely going to buy an Xbox 360.

Now if only I could find a Jasper model.

Because wonderfully named ChadSexington genre merely exists as a way of differentiating things, be they games, film, literature or pies. This differentiation is needed as a grasping point for many feeble human minds to gather context about something, genre defines what something must conform to and thus comparative reviews spanning genres are not particularly revealing.

Enjoyment though, is something that transcends genre, though a genre may perhaps give you a different type of enjoyment. Much like pies, a good meat pie gives you a good hearty satisfaction, though it would be unfair to compare the rich meaty gravy composition of said artery clogging pie with the sweet light loveliness of, say, a lemon meringue. Or perhaps it is, who am I to entrap you within semantics.

I, for one, welcome our big gay bear overlords.

I'm trying to figure out where I said I was being funny... :D

It's not my fault the comments section is full of retardation that's easily parodied ad infinutum. Or that posters will furiously latch onto a post that has an admission of evil intent right after it, and post anyway without reading the thread.

It makes the comments section so worthwhile!

Watch the gametrailers.com video review and be hyped!!!

mazzl, Apologies for being irritating then. I don't mean to be. It isn't a criticism of any game, rather how the reviews in this industry are governed. In other words; poorly.

Comment sections are always full of people trying to be funny with all the "ZOMG, t3e bi4s3d" bullshit or others keep repeating the same jokes, "better than..." remaining lot just making shit up just to be a troll.

Whats the point?

squarejawhero wrote

Absolutely the gayest game ever. Anyone who likes it gobbles cock and enjoys licking the man butter off their faces whilst being shafted up the arse by Bill Gates wearing a gimp mask. Whilst listening to Mad World.

Parody posts (c) 2008 Squarejawhero FunTimes.

Git, have now got a beer covered monitor. Keep up the good work :)

Gears of Woo!

Aaaaand apparently my posts aren't funny.

/sighs

/walks into the mist