The Official GEARS OF WAR Thread

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Talk me out of buying this tonight. Or talk about the game. Or talk about "Mad World." Whatever.

― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 9 November 2006 20:54 (eighteen years ago)

I would like to play this but not enough to buy a 360. It looks really, really neat.

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Thursday, 9 November 2006 21:24 (eighteen years ago)

AWESOME. As good to me in 2006 as Doom was back in the day. Very polished, very well-executed third-person pseudo-survival-horror vaguely team-based sort-of-tactical shooter with a chainsaw strapped to the end of an assault rifle.

― adam (adam), Saturday, 11 November 2006 14:00 (eighteen years ago)

I am going to buy it later. for now, just Call of Duty 3. buy it!

― like murderinging (modestmickey), Saturday, 11 November 2006 15:29 (eighteen years ago)

As good to me in 2006 as Doom was back in the day.

Fuck, I can't wait until Friday.

― melton mowbray's APOCALYPTO! (adr), Sunday, 12 November 2006 16:09 (eighteen years ago)

My mate's getting this soon so I may have to live at his house for a week or 2.

― Darramouss :D (Darramouss ftw), Sunday, 12 November 2006 16:10 (eighteen years ago)

i want to buy an xbox just for this, argh

― cutty (mcutt), Sunday, 12 November 2006 22:03 (eighteen years ago)

Is it EVER coming out on pc?

― Darramouss :D (Darramouss ftw), Sunday, 12 November 2006 22:33 (eighteen years ago)

I was this close to buying a 360 today so I could play the game. Luckily for me the game was sold out. Got HL Episode 2 to tide me over. $20 < $450.

― Stuh-du-du-du-du-du-du-denka (jingleberries), Monday, 13 November 2006 02:08 (eighteen years ago)

Yep.

Play it co-op.

― David R. (popshots75`), Monday, 13 November 2006 04:33 (eighteen years ago)

I am seriously considering sorting out high definition for this, now. I'm worrying it might interfere with my Wii plans though, so maybe not until the new year.

― melton mowbray's APOCALYPTO! (adr), Monday, 13 November 2006 12:17 (eighteen years ago)

My only real problem with this game is: when two people have the chainsaw revved up and are coming at one another, what arcane mechanic determines who gets chainsawed? Also people on Xbox Live continue to be the dumbest people in the universe.

― adam (adam), Monday, 13 November 2006 14:16 (eighteen years ago)

Melton says that everyone on Xbox Live are fat girls that smoke weed.

― teh_kit (g-kit), Monday, 13 November 2006 14:24 (eighteen years ago)

Is this true? Because it makes me want an Xbox.

― teh_kit (g-kit), Monday, 13 November 2006 14:24 (eighteen years ago)

Never heard a girl on Xbox Live. Not once. All rednecks.

― adam (adam), Monday, 13 November 2006 14:37 (eighteen years ago)

You might have your stoned fat girl voice confused with prepubescent 12 year old voice.

― Stuh-du-du-du-du-du-du-denka (jingleberries), Monday, 13 November 2006 16:13 (eighteen years ago)

I wonder if the live network does regional load balancing, so melton gets all the fat female stoners and you get all the bbq kitchen managers.

― LISTEN U TURBO CROUTON (TOMBOT), Monday, 13 November 2006 17:54 (eighteen years ago)

I tried this for 10 minutes at a friend's house yesterday, I totally suck. Why do you have to push the stick right to look left?!?!

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 13 November 2006 20:07 (eighteen years ago)

Your friend sucks! Reverse the axes! Unless I'm totally used to that plane-driving sort of logic, and the reverse axes are the default settings - I haven't noticed anything counter-intuitive about the controls, and I haven't changed any controller settings.

― David R. (popshots75`), Monday, 13 November 2006 20:22 (eighteen years ago)

I tried, but it only had an option to reverse the y axis, not the x axis!

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 13 November 2006 21:30 (eighteen years ago)

just bought a NEW xbox premium w wireless controller for $350

thank you craigslist

gears of war, here i come

― cutty (mcutt), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 17:38 (eighteen years ago)

Premy = w/ hard drive, I hope!

― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 18:48 (eighteen years ago)

si david, premium as opposed to core

― cutty (mcutt), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 20:01 (eighteen years ago)

and i meant extra wireless controller

― cutty (mcutt), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 20:01 (eighteen years ago)

This thread lead me to take a look at craiglists and it seems theres a bunch of shady dudes on there selling xboxes in LA.

NEED TO SELL XBOX TODAY. HAVE BILLS TO PAY THIS AFTERNOON.

― Stuh-du-du-du-du-du-du-denka (jingleberries), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 21:26 (eighteen years ago)

Just co-op'd all through act 4 with a complete stranger. This game is really something else.

― adam (adam), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 23:58 (eighteen years ago)

OMFG, this game :) :) :) :)

― melton mowbray's APOCALYPTO! (adr), Thursday, 16 November 2006 08:48 (eighteen years ago)

Melton says that everyone on Xbox Live are fat girls that smoke weed.

That's only on Uno, but now they're all but extinct. It's mostly northerners who talk endlessly about games I don't have, now. Still with the weed at least.

― melton mowbray's APOCALYPTO! (adr), Thursday, 16 November 2006 08:49 (eighteen years ago)

who is up for co-op sometime?

― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 16 November 2006 13:50 (eighteen years ago)

I'm hexenduction on Xbox Live. Co-op is going to be a must, I think, for beating the game on "Insane" difficulty.

― adam (adam), Thursday, 16 November 2006 14:13 (eighteen years ago)

Melton says that everyone on Xbox Live are fat girls that smoke weed.

Well, I'm not fat, but...

― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 17 November 2006 01:12 (eighteen years ago)

Trayce, plz to xbox me at something. I thought you weren't online!

Also, I am all about co-op, having played only single player. That first Berzerker was incredible, like Shadow of the Colossus with more threat and less falling.

― melton mowbray's APOCALYPTO! (adr), Friday, 17 November 2006 03:57 (eighteen years ago)

I've been using me b'fs login, I dont have a Live membership! I suppose I should buy one. In all honesty I dont play actually online, but I have been playing a bit of Hexic (when I'm not shooting fireballs at things in Obliv)

― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 17 November 2006 04:00 (eighteen years ago)

Have you got UNO Melton? That'd be amusing online. Playing it against the console AI seems wrong, because whats to stop it meting out whatever cards it wants?

― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 17 November 2006 04:01 (eighteen years ago)

I have! Best game on the 360 I reckon :) I've had laughing fits with random guys on there that sort of make me reconsider having real friends.

The console AI is mental. Why do they sometimes forget to call Uno? It's almost as if they KNOW us.

― melton mowbray's APOCALYPTO! (adr), Friday, 17 November 2006 04:09 (eighteen years ago)

Anyway um.. gears of war. Carry on, lads. hem.

― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 17 November 2006 04:17 (eighteen years ago)

Just beat it on Hardcore. Kinda short but I think most games are way too long. Last boss is kind of a bitch.

― adam (adam), Saturday, 18 November 2006 04:40 (eighteen years ago)

Crikey, I played the whole of Act 1 on co op with a friend last night, it was great! Everything's much more simple with two people.

― melton mowbray's APOCALYPTO! (adr), Saturday, 18 November 2006 11:38 (eighteen years ago)

i've ordered this and got myself xbox lived, pretty excited.

― Dxy (Danny), Sunday, 19 November 2006 00:24 (eighteen years ago)

ok, I just bought this game. played a couple online matches with random people and I suck right now. who wants to play with me? my gamertag is "Barthelme 1984"

― like murderinging (modestmickey), Sunday, 19 November 2006 21:38 (eighteen years ago)

maybe you should try the single player game first doosh

― cutty (mcutt), Sunday, 19 November 2006 21:58 (eighteen years ago)

ya, played that some. after playing nothing but call of duty 2/3 since getting my xbox like 4 months ago, a new game is hard. ugh i suck.

― like murderinging (modestmickey), Sunday, 19 November 2006 22:24 (eighteen years ago)

I bought Call of Duty 3 yesterday on a Nazi-shooting whim. I am selling it back today. That game is fucking garbage.

We really do need to get some GoW multiplayer going because playing with random people sucks. Motherfuckers don't talk, don't plan, just run up chainsaw whirring and get cut down by the other team, who clearly have some semblance of communication going on, while I weep quietly in frustration. Still, when it works (good team-wise), GoW deathmatch is as good as any I've played.

― adam (adam), Monday, 20 November 2006 17:11 (eighteen years ago)

ok then

― cutty (mcutt), Monday, 20 November 2006 17:13 (eighteen years ago)

You internet people scare me, but fuggit:

DEFGWAANK

― David R. (popshots75`), Monday, 20 November 2006 17:19 (eighteen years ago)

I'm so pissed CoD3 lacks Wii multiplayer

― roc u like a § (ex machina), Monday, 20 November 2006 21:39 (eighteen years ago)

wii can't handle this

― cutty (mcutt), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 01:18 (eighteen years ago)

jon, you faggot, buy xbox 360

― like murderinging (modestmickey), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 06:03 (eighteen years ago)

oh my

― cousin larry bundgee (bundgee), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 07:01 (eighteen years ago)

you never fucking learn, do you

― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 08:54 (eighteen years ago)

one year passes...

anyone anticipating GoW2??

― czn, Friday, 27 June 2008 12:50 (seventeen years ago)

one month passes...

wow, this game is beautiful and DIFFICULT to get the hang of.

― forksclovetofu, Thursday, 14 August 2008 20:09 (seventeen years ago)

one year passes...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VHbkJHiUsE

― Jeff LeVine, Saturday, 5 June 2010 15:01 (fifteen years ago)

cruel

― cozen, Saturday, 5 June 2010 20:08 (fifteen years ago)

one year passes...

i just started playing this for the first time! i really really hate it!

― let me save you some time - yes, you are probably anti-semantic (jjjusten), Wednesday, 7 September 2011 18:22 (fourteen years ago)

ha. i only played the second one and i enjoyed the escalating thrill-ride aspect to it, but feel no need to play the next one.

― hardcore oatmeal (Jordan), Wednesday, 7 September 2011 18:23 (fourteen years ago)

If you can get past the horrible steroid jock aesthetic it's a pretty fun game. All guns in real life should have chainsaws on them.

― polyphonic, Wednesday, 7 September 2011 18:37 (fourteen years ago)

tbf i think it is the aesthetic that kills it for me - but i am also a dude who sings bulletstorms praises so idk

― let me save you some time - yes, you are probably anti-semantic (jjjusten), Wednesday, 7 September 2011 18:39 (fourteen years ago)

riding dinosaurs outfitted with machine guns was what finally made me look past the terrible, terrible facial hair

― hardcore oatmeal (Jordan), Wednesday, 7 September 2011 18:54 (fourteen years ago)

in bulletstorm you get a pet mechagodzilla and terrible terrible hair

― let me save you some time - yes, you are probably anti-semantic (jjjusten), Wednesday, 7 September 2011 19:27 (fourteen years ago)

i think of the characters less as jocks and more as giant boxes w/ muscles

― Mordy, Wednesday, 7 September 2011 19:35 (fourteen years ago)

(and chainsaw guns)

― Mordy, Wednesday, 7 September 2011 19:36 (fourteen years ago)

i think ive talked about this before but gow really started off this character design trend (bulletstorm, darksiders, etc) and i just really dislike it. it is also so everything is grey or blood in its color palette which is irritating too.

― let me save you some time - yes, you are probably anti-semantic (jjjusten), Wednesday, 7 September 2011 19:38 (fourteen years ago)

the new one came in the post today. bro is playing it with his bird the now. i'm not going to be able to get a shot until monday :/

― you've got male (jim in glasgow), Saturday, 17 September 2011 13:05 (fourteen years ago)

one year passes...

http://epicgames.com/community/2012/10/cliff-bleszinski-departs-epic/

― pun lovin criminal (polyphonic), Wednesday, 3 October 2012 21:32 (thirteen years ago)

whoa. unbelievable.

― Nhex, Wednesday, 3 October 2012 21:39 (thirteen years ago)

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