kafka rock opera
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Yeah something not right indeed i was just in a horde game less than 20 mins ago. and speaking of horde mode, Anyone up for some? GT = KafkarockGary Whitta said:
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Gears of War 2 |OT| ...Maria...MARIA!!!
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The environment variety blows away the first game. Being inside the you-know-what is sweet.
Are those chain guns the only things that perform "organ grinder" kills or is it anything that rips the enemy to shreds before they hit the ground?
Are those chain guns the only things that perform "organ grinder" kills or is it anything that rips the enemy to shreds before they hit the ground?
Beat Horde mode on casual Cant imagine beating the final 15 or so levels on insane. Casual was hard enough playing with 5 people. Took 3 or 4 hours to beat. We played the first 20 levels on hardcore.
On a side note I figured out why the shotgun sucks so much. firing from the hip is highly inaccurate. You need to aim with L in order to hit someone consistently. Takes some getting used to. Chainsaw kills way too easy to get. Hopefully the upcoming patch will address some of these issues.
On a side note I figured out why the shotgun sucks so much. firing from the hip is highly inaccurate. You need to aim with L in order to hit someone consistently. Takes some getting used to. Chainsaw kills way too easy to get. Hopefully the upcoming patch will address some of these issues.
GotchaForce
Member
I doubt this will get answered but can I get the achievements for beating the higher diffuculties if someone is playing on an easier setting with me? For instance, I beat the game on normal, but want to now beat it on insane and play it with a friend who wants to play on casual.
AndersTheSwede
Member
Picked it up and played like 5 hours of campaign today. :lol It is simultaneously frustrating (some cheap sequences) and jaw-dropingly awesome (everything else).
The water and (yuck)
parts are pretty stunning technically and design wise, everything is so intense and massive in scale. Gears set pieces squared. Where Gears 1 was small-squad tactics, Gears 2 is (or feels like) larger force clashes.
The AI is massively improved, you can actually use them as line holders and keep back with the sniper rifle and pick people off. In the first game they were practically not there.
And the story is much more fleshed out and involving, I actually hate the locust, which makes killing them in ridiculously gory moves even more satisfying. Though I bet many are going to go through thinking "wtf is this story in my gears bloodbath?"
The water and (yuck)
fleshy
The AI is massively improved, you can actually use them as line holders and keep back with the sniper rifle and pick people off. In the first game they were practically not there.
And the story is much more fleshed out and involving, I actually hate the locust, which makes killing them in ridiculously gory moves even more satisfying. Though I bet many are going to go through thinking "wtf is this story in my gears bloodbath?"
AndersTheSwede
Member
Brashnir said:
Seriously. The whole scene made Halo 3 Cortana look like a stroll through a fucking meadow.
Warm Machine
Member
GhostRidah said:
Adding them in would have felt like a throwaway repetitive boss. There were 2 of them (or more?) in Gears 1 so I doubt it was necessary to have them return.
AndersTheSwede
Member
adam_grif said:
Main rifle dropped by Locust?
AndersTheSwede
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adam_grif said:
Don't really know for sure (can't remember its name), but it feels completely different. Like your shooting high caliber each time.
Rlan said:
:lol Loved that.
There are so many good lines in this game. That writer they brought in is earning his pay (by being juvenile :lol).
I just beat the game, man what a ride, the Hive level felt a little too long as well as the Centaur sequene, like many have said the very First act is nothing special but the rest of the game is INSANE, what a game. I beat the game alone which is something i didn't do with Gears 1, just wasn't as exciting for me but this game is incredible, the graphics are for sure the best on a console game right now.
My GOTY by far.
My GOTY by far.
Oh my gosh. I tried out the Hammerburst for the first time online yesterday, since I haven't shown it any love since I bought the game and am I impressed.
I thought this gun sucked because it was seriously underused, but it rocks! Seriously...I got about 2 kills with only 5 shots from it :0 The rest took a bit more, but it's still amazing. Will use it more often from now on
I thought this gun sucked because it was seriously underused, but it rocks! Seriously...I got about 2 kills with only 5 shots from it :0 The rest took a bit more, but it's still amazing. Will use it more often from now on
I got 32 downs today in a KOTH match with the Hammerburst, people are sleeping on it, but it's insane. I also downed someone from one base to the other on Pavilion with it, Lancer ain't got shit on that.
I will say though, it depends on how good your connection is since you have to lead the shots, it can suck with lag...
I will say though, it depends on how good your connection is since you have to lead the shots, it can suck with lag...
Lion Heart
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Im not sure how Acts are broken down, where am I at?
I am a little bit past the deactivation of the turrets with the choosing path part.
Ramirez said:I got 32 downs today in a KOTH match with the Hammerburst, people are sleeping on it, but it's insane. I also downed someone from one base to the other on Pavilion with it, Lancer ain't got shit on that.
I will say though, it depends on how good your connection is since you have to lead the shots, it can suck with lag...
Man, lol. Do you quick fire with it or take it nice and slow? I also like the option of zooming in with it, that's a plus for me ^__^
But one thing I can't do at all with it is get a headshot. I don't understand how people do it...I shoot the head, but it just doesn't come off.
dralla said:
I agree with everything you said except the Lancer bullets being too weak. Personally, I think the Lancer is just right. I totally agree with you about the Shotgun, it seem like Epic went out of there way to ruin it. Also, stopping power doesn't seem to work to well against the Chainsaw like you said but of course it works great against Shotgun.
The AI even manages to take out most of the enemies if the situation is ideal. During the section where you have to
I took the roof paths. Decided to put the controller down to get something to eat, but didnt pause. When I came back, apparently Carmine had already taken care of the other locusts with his rifle :lol
And I still say other weapons should be able to participate in duels. Say, have the other person's chainsaw cutting into your gun while you try to force them back. Like a timed melee button press against their ready chainsaw. If you end up winning the duel with the non-saw weapon, you should do a really hard rifle butt.
escort Dizzy through the town
And I still say other weapons should be able to participate in duels. Say, have the other person's chainsaw cutting into your gun while you try to force them back. Like a timed melee button press against their ready chainsaw. If you end up winning the duel with the non-saw weapon, you should do a really hard rifle butt.
purnoman3000
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My god, this one section is driving me insane.
Any help would be much appreciated.
The part where skourge is chasing you on his giant flying reaver. I cannot shoot the missiles down that he fires at me so on the 3rd time he shoots at me with his turret, i'm already so weak that I die in half a second. I've died at that exact same part 8 times in a row, can you even shoot down his missiles?
Any help would be much appreciated.
â Narayan
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I beat it, last night. That was one Hell of a campaign. Not once did it ever let up. The section where you
reminded me of
. Man, imagine a
game with graphics like that! That would be something. It's never going to happen, though. :'(
The part where you
reminded me of the very last part of
.
I haven't touched multiplayer yet. Hopefully, when I get around to it, it doesn't end up bringing my impressions down.
ride the Reavers
Panzer Dragoon
Panzer Dragoon
The part where you
ride the Brumak
Shadow of The Colossus
I haven't touched multiplayer yet. Hopefully, when I get around to it, it doesn't end up bringing my impressions down.
purnoman3000
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hitoshi said:
Haha, I had no idea the left stick moved you in that sequence as the one before moved for you automatically. Thanks, I feel dumb as hell. I was about to look up poor Clifford's address and murder him in his sleep.
Domino Theory
Crystal Dynamics
Act 4's visuals.
Holy. fucking. shit.
And
My God.
Holy. fucking. shit.
And
Dom finding Maria, having Maria become grotesque from the abuse and Dom ending her life just made my heart sink so much.
AndersTheSwede said:
The whole time I was playing it I had thought "this is what that crazy level in Halo 3 should have been like."
I just played the original in August and this is a big leap. That whole sequence surprised me, it was a Half-Life-esque navigation sequence that I didn't expect to encounter in a game like this.
I got invited to a Horde session. I don't know what the difficulty was set at but it was getting rough at around wave 19.
The ally AI in the campain seems a lot better this time too. A locust threw a grenade over the cover that me and two of the AI partners were using, and we all simultaneously climbed over the cover and ran for it. :lol
Some of the ways the lighting is used is cool too. The part where the tickers are first introduced and the part in the cave where Jack light's the way were well done.
Do they explain later in the game
why Tai shot himself? Was is just general torture or are they doing something that becomes a plot point?
Very cool so far. I'll hold off on multiplayer until after I'm done with the campaign and play some more horde mode.
spermatic cord
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Shotgun too weak. Chainsaw too strong. Smoke grenades are stupid. Pretty fun game though.
Domino Theory said:
that part left a bad taste in my mouth. for the wrong reasons.
in the first place, it's sad and shocking not because you give a shit about dom and maria, but because she looks so much like a survivor of a real-world concentration camp. and what's worse, dom had no way of knowing that she couldn't recover -- essentially he shoots her because he still has an action game to star in and can't be dragging a horribly tortured woman around. and then he resumes spouting awful one-liners about five minutes later. so that scene
a. borrows its pathos from real world atrocities
b. rather mechanically and offensively kills the object of this pathos
c. and then pretty much blows the incident off
a. borrows its pathos from real world atrocities
b. rather mechanically and offensively kills the object of this pathos
c. and then pretty much blows the incident off
awesome, awesome game. aspirations to serious storytelling...maybe not such a good idea
edit:
and now that i think about it, there's no way that from dom's perspective maria would initially seem to be fine -- the scene is a shock devised for the player rather than an event in the life of a character