Gear of War 2

[Llyranor]

Yeah, Kyle, you jerk. He's friends with people who worked on LittleBigPlanet.

[Krookie]

Yeah, if you don't have friends to play with

 

yeah yeah, that's it imply I have no friends...

 

GoW is average, it's not a bad game, it's just not something worth even starting a thread over in my opinion, it's average... Well except for the GFX, and engine side of things that's all cool.

 

I wasn't trying to imply you had no friends, actually. I was implying that playing WITH friends is way more fun, and makes the game 5 times better.

[Musopticon?]

I continue to hear arguments for Gears that sound remarkably similar to what haters say every time there's a new Halo game and co-opers eat it up: "average", "no style and unoriginal", "childish design that misses only titillation". And you can't do much else than shrug when finding out that next to none of the critics have tried co-op campaign or multiplayer.

 

It's a bit of a drag, guys. Try GoW or Halo 3 with a couple beverages of your choice and play with someone who you used to spend countless hours with e.g killing time(or Battletoads) on SNES or at the arcade hall and enjoyment is guaranteed. Sure, none of these games are particularly brainy, but far more visceral and tactical than their supposed real-life equivalents such as bowling or watching hockey(snort).

 

GoW 2 to, in particular, also sports some interesting design that harkens back to the same over the top Jurassic and primordial vision that games like Turok and even Shadow of the Colossus had in their time. A fascination with the grand and ancient, but not in the Bruckheimerish cheap sense of epic military wankfest, but in the sense that there's plenty of these things that go bump in the night and fascination with what Lovecraft might have found had he worked as a mining engineer. Epic Games reveals an unsated longing for civilizations in the deep, and for pleistoscenic horrors that we have either forgotten or are too afraid of ourselves to hush the children with.

Edited November 14, 2008 by Musopticon?

[Joseph Bulock]

For my part, Gears 2 was a really fun afternoon. My roommate and I popped in our copies, started around two in the afternoon and had wrapped up the campaign by 11:30 or so, and that was with a break for a quick dinner. I was consistently having fun for the whole time, save one of the vehicle sequences. It wasn't ground breaking, but it was very polished, very solid, and they found a few decent ways to change up the action. The story was very predictable and goofy at times, but no more so than any Hollywood action film.

 

It seems like Gears 2 really has the biggest improvements in multi-player components. I only checked out hordes briefly, but it had a very classic gaming feel, and I could see burning a lot of time in that mode, not to mention a few of the other new competitive modes.

 

I'm not sure if the game deserves some of the comments about being gaming's highest achievement ever, but it is a solid game, and the co-op campaign is a pretty good way to burn through an afternoon.

[Llyranor]

You should Horde with us!!!11!1!11

[Krookie]

He's busy being a developer. Leave him to his Cinematic Design.

[WILL THE ALMIGHTY]

 

Gears 2 is pretty hilarious when it wants to.

[I want teh kotor 3]

Fenix, Baird, and COLE are my personal heroes. Not Dom, though, 'cause he's not a badass. Seriously, who decided to put emotions in Gears? Leave the mushy crap for Halo, leave Gears a badass-fest.

[Nick_i_am]

Man, i'm glad I made all those friends I didn't care about now, they really help filling out Horde games.

 

I mean, i'm not even saying that Gears gameplay is the best ever made, but the brutality and desperation of horde mode makes it all worthwhile.

 

It's a game that needs the kind of friends who, having failed wave 39 on hardcore 8 times straight will still be right there going '**** YEAH, LETS DO THIS' then get murdered again while screaming at each other. It's not for everyone, but there's no need to go bitter all over it.

[Gorth]

Thread pruned. Lets see if it isn't possible without insulting fellow forumites and the taste of fellow forumites in ways that are "unconstructive". Apologies to those who may have meant well and still lost a post as collateral damage.