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Gears of War 3 |OT| BROTHERS TO THE END
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Reluctant-Hero
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It's all about cutting costs while posturing it as "environmentally friendly". Lame, I know.Aspiring said:
This is the manual now: http://gearsofwar.xbox.com/en-US/gameguide/article/gameguide-tableofcontents
Risk Breaker
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Genesis Knight said:
Because if you don't, you ain't winning shit against the other rifles. Also, it's more fun.
The Antitype
Banned
Robot Pants said:
No. I like games that reward aiming. Not running through gunfire, rolling around randomly by mashing the A button, and shooting weapons with reticules that take up half the screen.
I also love how you can hit the trigger, and a second later, you see the blood splash on the other guy. On a connection that is flawless for every other game in existence.
Horde mode, Beast mode, and co-op campaign are AMAZING experiences.
Competitive modes are B-tier quality, on a good day.
Reluctant-Hero
Member
Uh... no? My wife & I have been breezing through Hardcore.Dug said:
Ok GAF, got 3 months of Live, been playing only multiplayer because I was going out of Live, decided to get some more.
I just sent a FR for Gears Gaf 4, now I wait for PXG to accept mine and the others.
How hard is the SP? Really hard? I'm not that good, should I go with Casual/Normal?
If you read all of this so far and you want to add another GAFfer go ahead, GT on profile, thank you.
I just sent a FR for Gears Gaf 4, now I wait for PXG to accept mine and the others.
How hard is the SP? Really hard? I'm not that good, should I go with Casual/Normal?
If you read all of this so far and you want to add another GAFfer go ahead, GT on profile, thank you.
Adam Blade
WWKC
Man, playing with randoms sucks.
The Antitype
Banned
Awesome.
Three people shooting a guy with a lancer, he runs up and kills two of us with a sawed-off in one shot. We were 5, maybe 7 feet apart. Runs away while being fired at, still lives.
Three lancers.
Terrible. Just fucking terrible.
Three people shooting a guy with a lancer, he runs up and kills two of us with a sawed-off in one shot. We were 5, maybe 7 feet apart. Runs away while being fired at, still lives.
Three lancers.
Terrible. Just fucking terrible.
_dementia said:
Eh, if you set up a decent defensive area the most strategy you need is 'make sure the turrets are fixed and full and there's some lasers or razor wire to slow them down whil I turn them into mulch' - at least, on normal. I'm sure Insane will require some spreadsheets or something.
Wave 50 of Corpsers can fucking ruin your day, though. I guess Diggers would be the way to go for that, but we just ended up restarting the wave until the game took pity on us and gave us a Brumak instead.
Gears is about cover. I know the SOS can be annoying, but if there's a dude with one waiting for you to come around? Don't go there. He can't do shit to you if you aren't right in his grill, and if he's relying on you doing that you'll be able to gun him down with every other weapon really easily.dmg04 said:
mickcenary
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Using the SOS and having no self-respect go hand in hand. I spawned with it accidentally, peeked around a corner, gibbbed someone and nearly spewed at how easy it was. Never again.
Man up, SOS users!
Man up, SOS users!
This is absolutely ridiculous. You're trying to sandwich Gears into a completely unrelated type of gameplay style that fits your own personal tastes, and then when failing to do so are falling back on the game being in the wrong rather than your own backwards assumptions of what Gears of War should be.The Antitype said:
I love precision based gameplay(CS, Halo) as much as the next person but I can also appreciate and enjoy a different type of skill based gameplay style that doesn't fall back on that.
You genuinely don't seem to understand what makes a person good at Gears, and this naivety is colouring your opinion on the game as a result. Saying that the better players just "roll around randomly mashing A" is an incredibly dumb and misguided argument. That's like saying the best Reach players just mash the trigger and hope to "luck" bloom. Being successful at Gears is as much about utilising the game environment through the cover and roll mechanics as it is aiming and firing. Your misunderstanding of the Gears fundamentals is honestly quite surprising. What did you expect?
Manouevering through close quarters situations and aiming you shotgun in tandem is at the core of the Gears multiplayer experience and always has been. It's also an extremely skillful and thus rewarding gameplay loop that's propelled the game to massive success, again, comments such as B Tier multiplayer are just laughable and quite objectively false considering the level of online popularity Gears has.
As for your connection, you've got a serious issue. Gears 3 is one of the smoothest online experiences there is, and such an opinion has been pretty unanimous over what must've been a huge opening weekend server wise. I've just installed crappy wireless internet in my University house and have had little to no issues as you're describing them. That sounds like a pretty big problem on your end.
sixteen-bit
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What's the last day the season pass is on sale.
Gary Whitta
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Sent a friend request to the GAF gamertag, hoping to play some Horde!
Adam Blade
WWKC
Gary, wanna play some Horde now?
shichishito
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Are you not on servers for that match?Arnie said:
That could be possible. Last night I got the feeling that some of my matches weren't on servers and though the level of BS was noticeably less than gears2, there was still some stupid shit going on. Some matches were smooth and perfect like the night before, some were a bit janky and some stuff just didn't register.
EteRnal PAL
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I beat SP on Hardcore last night and this was hands down the easiest Gears in the trilogy. You should be ok playing it on Hardcore, which felt like Normal to me. If it's still too difficult, I believe you can simply change the difficulty in the pause menu.The_Monk said:
Beat the campaign
Ending actually made me misty-eyed.
Ending actually made me misty-eyed.
I didn't read any of the books or anything, but I feel there's so much left unanswered. Remember that lab in Gears 2 with those weird hybrid things? That was never explained. The queen came off as a failed "deep" character. Big words, but still stereotypical bad guy. I was expecting some big twist right before Marcus stabbed her. I was expecting some sort of revelation about the locust (why she looks human also). I thought there was something more to the locust than underground inhabitants who were forced out.
Prescott and the hotel were never really explained...
Oh and one silly thing. After the device went off... how were the Ravens still flying? Don't they run off of Imulsion also?
Prescott and the hotel were never really explained...
Oh and one silly thing. After the device went off... how were the Ravens still flying? Don't they run off of Imulsion also?
Well, I can say I'm getting a bit tired of the maps. It's not Epic's fault, tho. They released an amazing beta that I played nonstop because it was such a huge improvement over Gears 2. So I've played 4 of the maps a lot already before the game even released. I've been playing Gridlock nonstop since Gears 1 and Hotel is basically a Mansion remake. That means Overpass, Drydock, Mercy, and Sandbar are the only fresh maps for me.
Need a new map pack, stat.
Need a new map pack, stat.
Game finally clicked for me, was a huge Gears 1 and 2 player but I was finding Gears 3 to be a noticeable difference until I switched from execution to TDM. MP really feels like it was built around this mode and is a lot more enjoyable especially since the unnecessary switch in execution from 5 to 3 wins needed for a match. Still a little irked that the game only shipped with 10 maps with the rest locked on the disc, a greedy move by Epic that could tarnish this game from being the "definitive" experience for the 360 into one that the average gamer will forget about in a couple months.
I was sarcastically mocking the person who, along with his two buddies attempted to use the Lancer as an effective close quarters tool, and subsequently moaned when they were all dealt a fresh dose of common sense.shichishito said:
At close quarters the shotgun is the weapon to use. At very close quarters the SOS is. At anywhere outside of that the rifles are. There's also stopping power.
I'm in the same boat, and I'm not as forgiving on Epic in that regard. We know they've got maps ready to leave the oven, but they're holding back on that for future profiteering. Not to mention a couple of the "fresh" maps are a wee bit guff. Sandbar's a bit too big and fragmented, Overpass is an upstairs camp fest (which I'm sure would've been altered had it been included in the beta) and Hotel's extremely congested.RSTEIN said:
Need a new map pack too, don't really need the extravagant costs that come with it though.
my god the Cole Train
, and I've played Assassin's Creed 2/Brotherhood and lived to tell the tale.
I didn't think the storytelling of the Gears universe could get any more laughable, but it's clear they're playing to the comedy club now. That was just LOL.
football spike part was the cheesiest, shittiest bit of game storytelling I have seen ALL GEN
I didn't think the storytelling of the Gears universe could get any more laughable, but it's clear they're playing to the comedy club now. That was just LOL.
The Antitype
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Arnie said:
You're right. It's entirely backwards to suggest that a cover-based shooter should play like a cover-based shooter. Insane. OBVIOUSLY, a cover-based shooter should play like Quake-lite, with people bounding and sprinting around like jack-rabbits on crack, running through gunfire and shotgunning people.
Arnie said:
The fundamentals of Gears of War are present in the cooperative modes, where using cover is actually important, and battling back and forth, knowing when to press for a better position and when to retreat to live another day. There is NEVER a moment in the single-player or horde, where it is a fantastic fucking idea to try and run through gunfire just to shotgun 4 dudes. This is the single best strategy in GoW multiplayer.
Arnie said:
And that is a problem. The use of a SINGLE fucking weapon and strategy should never, EVER be the core of a gameplay experience. Gears of War laughably piles on new weapons with every game, and yet none of them are used as much as the starting shotgun, simply because the gameplay is so stupidly lop-sided towards it. And now, we even have a shotgun that needs LESS aiming.
The connection was my issue, I forgot that I had some torrents running over night and didn't turn them off.
Net_Wrecker
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You can judge a person's character by which shotty he uses in Gears 3. He's either a man who works for his, or a lil bitch who creeps around corners and gets easy kills while barely aiming.
You guess which shotgun applies to which category.
You guess which shotgun applies to which category.
shichishito
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hahaha, I totally misinterpreted what you were saying and envisioned something else. My bad.Arnie said:
There's definitely some bad people playing this game. I'm so used to seeing SOS or even retro guys charging at me, but last night, on more than one occasion, I actually had a kid charging me with a hammerburst in hand. I'd say the average player generally has some tactical lapses, which is probably why so many just camp corners with the SOS. There isn't any easier tactic than that. Too bad it does nothing for your team with regards to map control. It's why I have no problems with the people using the SOS.
The Antitype
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ShaneB said:
This is a simplistic view of game balance, and one that Epic seemingly abides by.
Yes, you have to get in close to use the gnasher. But guess what? A player has more than enough health to cross that distance, despite having clips of Lancer ammo emptied into him, and the hammerburst doesn't fire fast enough.
If you happen to have JUST reloaded and hit the AR, then you can take a guy down with those weapons. So obviously, the key is just to run around with a single bullet in your clip, reload and hope for the best.
Or just run around using the shotgun.
Shocking that 99% of the population just goes for the latter, huh? Turning the game into a one-note, B-tier experience.
Cole is great for comedic relief. My friends and I lol'd at that too, but we didn't think it was shitty story telling. Just something funny.Amir0x said:
What game are you playing?The Antitype said:
I use the lancer just fine and kill people with it. The game would get SO boring if it was just cover turtling and firing into bullet sponges.
The rifles and power weapons work very well. Gnasher is still the clutch gun though, make no mistake about that. But it isn't the ONLY strategy. I will say Gnasher fights >>>>>>> any rifle fight. To me, the Gnasher is like the BR/DMR of Gears. The go to weapon that everything else in the sandbox is built around on.
I'm surprised you got Gears 3 if you don't like the shotgun heavy gameplay.
A27 Tawpgun said:
I got the distinct feeling that Epic felt they were telling something that was supposed to be poignant, i.e.
Cole's flashback to the memory of right when times turned and stopped being about his fame and whatnot, the life he left behind... and he has this comic sort of Vietnam flashback style thing which is so hilarious it had me on the floor. I guess it depends on if you think Epic was intentionally going for those laughs or if they thought they were setting a different tone.
The Antitype
Banned
A27 Tawpgun said:
Previews and quotes had made it seem as though Epic had finally balanced the game appropriately. I was misinformed.
Still happy I have the game, cause the co-op modes are some of the most fun I've had in years. But the multiplayer is just too loose and simplistic for my tastes.
And for the record, I have a 1.9 K/D and 1.8 W/L. So it's not as though 'oh this kid just sucks at the game'. I can play to a game's obvious exploits as well as the next person. I just have no sense of satisfaction from kills or any sense of consistency to my deaths. So it's not fun.
Adam Blade
WWKC
Anyone wanna join LosDaddie, kiryani, and me for Horde?
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