Gears of War Comments by Kristan Reed

"I'm probably more hyped for Resistance (Aliens in England, can't beat it!) but I'm really looking forward to this too..."

Now Scimarad, you know you're probably just going to upset some bitter fanboy by mentioning a PS3 game in a thread about a hypetastic 360 game don't you? ;)

Just think, what would Jesus do? ;)

Jesus was the godfather of fanboy's. All 300 million-ish of them. ;)

The soulless design I could live with - it's a lot more worrying that I am not convinced Epic know how to do a good single-player/coop game.

Apart from the fact the they made on of the first & best singleplayer/coop games in the modern FPS history.

Hey, atleast they diden't call the main character John Gun, Jack Armageddon or something like that, that's gotta count for something :D

That would have been a brilliant B-movie name and imo deserves an award. ;p

Jesus doesn't exist? ROFL. Sure, but Alexander the great did.

Of course he did, he invented the joint after all! I can just picture it already, him sitting there with his 'homies', smoking a joint and talking about this and that...eventually writing it down in his memoires book. Oh, btw, you can still buy it at the book store! \0/

I'm probably more hyped for Resistance (Aliens in England, can't beat it!) but I'm really looking forward to this too...

Ask yourself this question: Wtf would aliens invade northern Europe with it's cold and shitty weather when they could invade southern France or something? It more or less spoiled it for the other invaders as well.

Spawning out the ground?! over and over and over again

53000 kills achievement, here I come! \0/

"Looks balls. Not visually of course, just to play. Not very exciting looking at all."

You need a good slap.

@bates: I will upset him... :D

Resistance will be futile!

Gears Of War will have gamers in shock and awe... at its greatness!

Now *that* was good stuff there, you have to admit ;) Seriously though I think the only people interested in Resistance are the people who are already fans of Insomniac Im not seeing alot there worth getting excited about. Gears on the otherhand has had me interested from day one, it sounds like it could be a satisfying and fun experience(I hope theres some horror in it and it doesnt have to take itself too seriously to add that to the mix, I was let down by how unscary doom3 was is all) .

Well not long untill release now, I bet the people who pretend they arent interested are just as eager to read reviews(if it gets a mediocre score anywhere"phew I was worried there... take that 360 fanboys, I knew it and I told yas" :D)

tiddles summed up my feelings pretty well after reading that preview.

Hopefully there are going to be some awesome X360 deals out there when this comes out.

I think the biggest problem today is not the quality of games, rather the sheer apathy of EG posters..Do you guys play anymore or do you only log in to say how Meh! everything is?

Anyone hear how many people you can get in a game at a time online?

"The soulless design I could live with - it's a lot more worrying that I am not convinced Epic know how to do a good single-player/coop game."

Apart from the fact the they made on of the first & best singleplayer/coop games in the modern FPS history.

What, Unreal? Yeah, the first couple of hours were ok, before they ran out of ideas. Not a coinicidence that they concentrated exclusively on multiplayer games after that. Which noone doubts they excel at.

I see the Annual General Meeting of the Guild of Village Idiots finished early today...

Space Marines? was that their name? they looked the coolest - gamesworkshop ftw

Why do you think the online will be poor?

Please give examples.

"I think the biggest problem today is not the quality of games, rather the sheer apathy of EG posters..Do you guys play anymore or do you only log in to say how Meh! everything is?"

Gaming's fun.
Trolling's funner.
And that slight feeling of self-loathing after a particularly spastic post soon goes away.

8 players kinda stinks, but I'll wait and see how it goes. This game will be fun and probably forgettable.

I liked Halo2 when there was only 8 players, 16 just turned into a brawl.

I can't think of a single multiplayer FPS I enjoy as much once the number of players goes above 8. that's the sweet spot for me, and Gears's versus is meant to be pretty tactical and awesome (suppressing fire, flanking, weapon possession yadda yadda), so I'm looking forward to it

^^ It depends on if you get on a good team or not. If you're on a good team and play against a good team, those can be the best times of your life.

Well, that would be sad if it were the time of your life, but you get my meaning. 4 on 4 is NOT next-gen, however! Unless that somehow works into the scheme of the game.

8 players kinda stinks, but I'll wait and see how it goes.

4 vs 4 can be quite good in tactical combat. It all depends on the game mechanics. From the vids of the E3, you could say that the ppl are quite amused by it. But like you said, wait and see.

This game will be fun and probably forgettable.

But does that make it any less fun? Why does every game have to be a classic? If you buy into all the media hyping and want to believe that this (or any other game) will be the best thing since the realdoll your going to come out feeling really sorry that you didn't lubricate your batty.

A good team is far more likely with 4 Vs 4.
I do not relish the future of MMFPSs, Huxley looks like one great big BUNDLE!.

Although on second thoughts that could be a giggle.

Someone complained about 10-12 hours for single player. I've always wondered why you just don't crank the difficulty and make it a challenge. It's probably 6 hours on easy, 10-12 on normal and 30 hours or never on hard or hardened or whatever they call the 3rd or 4th difficulty level.

Anyway, be a man (or woman...) and crank up the difficulty if you want a longer game.

Halo on Legendary is a great work out for mind and body.
Difficulty can be a sticky one though, as many games on harder setting just fling more crap at you with no shields and weaker weapons = UNFUN.

My little cousin doodles deeper and more imaginative stuff than this.

This is not what we need.

"My little cousin doodles deeper and more imaginative stuff than this."

Yeah? Well my little son can doodle deeper and more imaginative stuff than you're little cousin!

Don't worry, Chim doesn't play games. :)

As long as it's built solid and genuienly fun to play, I don't really care about how innovative it is.

Maybe that's just me though.

another shooter, yawn, atleast lost planet looks more innovative than this

Sounds promising. Co-op on live is great news, looking forward to trying this.

"Like a more focussed Call of Duty????" O_o more?!

Who the hell wants ''charm'' when you're splattering guts against the wall? not me. Just make sure you give me plenty of petrol for my chainsaw...'kay( It has a functional throttle...so you can shred or puree to your hearts content...I choose the latter.)

"Now *that* was good stuff there, you have to admit ;) Seriously though I think the only people interested in Resistance are the people who are already fans of Insomniac Im not seeing alot there worth getting excited about."

Oh dear I shouldn't have mentioned that! Gears of War looks great but I really don't see why that should cause people to put Resistance down just because it's a PS3 game. Anybody who has read the previews for that game (without wearing their 'PS3=bad' glasses on) must surely see it sounds damned impressive and, more importantly, fun. You are allowed to be interested in both, you know! I certainly am...

"The soulless design I could live with - it's a lot more worrying that I am not convinced Epic know how to do a good single-player/coop game."

"Looks beautiful, fun and utterly charmless..."

Fucksake - why should EVERYTHING be cute and charming?

Not ALL of us need estrogen rushes in every game we play.

Who's talking about "cute"? Way to miss the point.

I am well looking forward to this. The 360 is looking like it was a good purchase - much to the disgust of the missus.

"another shooter, yawn, atleast lost planet looks more innovative than this"

how are people missing the point with this game again and again and again? it is not another shooter.

Jesus doesn't exist? ROFL. Sure, but Alexander the great did.

Yes, but he doesn't anymore though, does he? He died.

Aaanyway, GoW looks pretty stunning. The use of cover seems fairly innovative to me. At least as innovative as making your character run through knee deep snow all the time.

And what the hell is all this 'charm' crap? Was Doom 'charming'? Quake?

With a game like this, if the action is right, I don't really care if the plot is invasion-blah-marine-blah-lastsurviving-blah-earthsfinalhope
-blah. If anything, it's an advantage. The less the plot gets in the way the better.

>Seems I am not the only one who discovered some homoerotic nuances in this game.

Only if you want them to be there rdexter... only if you want them to be there. ;)

Markus: "I'm the only ghey in t3h village!" ;p

Yet another 360 game I need to scrape up the money for. :)

Ugliest characters ever. The Unreal engine seems to be incapable of rendering realistic/good looking (human) character models - bodies and faces alike. Check Turok it's the same.

Target group: 17 year old guys, probably even younger.