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Gears of War Ultimate Edition |OT| Welcome back to the army, soldier

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jambo

Member
jbug617 said:
Cliffy B talking about Gears 1 development on twitter.
https://twitter.com/therealcliffyb/with_replies
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  • Marcus had bright blue eyes because my father did, so I pushed for that
  • I never asked for buff characters. Kevin Lanning just made it that way with the AD Jerry.
  • Anya originally had huge boobs but I pushed back on Pete to make her less cartoony. Ironic, considering the guys.
  • I wanted a chainsaw gun in a game I pitched in 97, called "OverFiend."
  • We had a laser gun planned but we decided for Vietnam like tech so it was cut you can see it in an early image of Marcus.
  • Rod snuck in the SP fatigue meter when I was on a biz trip to fix streaming issues. I was furious.
  • Rod was assigned to us at MS at E3 years ago and wore the Marcus dorag and at that point I could tell he adored the franchise.
  • The style of Gears' architecture came from my exhaustion of concrete bunkers and Jerry's hatred of hazard striping.
  • A lot of Gears 1's inspiration game out of my sadness from the failure of my first marriage and a visit to London.
  • The idea to do cover came from @MrLeePerry showing me Killswitch one day I was like WANT.
  • In hindsight, the Berserker being female and being chained down for breeding is really fucked up. I was in a dark place.
  • No writer has ever written two Gears games...yet. The RodMower nearly kills em all with his persistence. ;)
  • Before I pitched it to Microsoft I did a bunch of pushups in the hotel and listened to Eminem's Lose Yourself because dudebro.
  • Pitching Gears 1 was hard. New IP, new camera, new campaign, new MP, new console, etc...On paper it was set to fail.
  • Maria was my personal statement on Terri Schaivo and my belief in right to death...through a dudebro shooter with lizard men.
  • Maria was voiced by Courtney Ford who was a dear friend in high school who later married Brandon Routh and we're still pals.
  • We cast Carlos Ferro as Dom because I was tired of hearing Speedy Gonzales voices in Splinter Cell games, no offense, Ubi.
  • Tanya (jessen) Watson wrote the note on the back of the photo of Maria and Dom that shipped with Gears 2.
  • Picture of Dom and Maria from the SE of Gears 2 was drawn based on my ex girlfriend and I at the time.
  • Dave, our lead LD at the time, wanted Tai to just jump off a cliff or something, but I pushed for the shotgun suicide.
  • The torture the Locust did in Gears was my thinly veiled statement about Gitmo...through a dudebro shooter with lizardmen.
  • Marcus was named Fenix because I lost everything from the failed marriage and was rising from my own ashes.
  • Dom's original last name was "Glynn" until Rod saw a box of cigars on my desk that said "Santiago" and suggested that.
  • Post Epic, Gears 1's art director Jerry was slated to direct the reboot of Thundercats until the CG TMNT failed.
  • Mad World was my anthem when I was going through the failure of my first marriage. Somehow marketing felt this and suggested it.
  • The other song was "My Immortal" by Evanescence but that's way less cool.
  • Baird was named after a childhood friend who was a bit of a dick, Mark Baird. #GearsFacts Baird just sounds like a dick.
  • We cast Lester as Cole because of his charisma in the Terry Tate ads. We were like "I'd go to war with that guy."
  • Before the game came out, Randy Pitchford came to town to play it and saw how tough the Locust were and said "it's a grinder."
  • Years later I'd go to Dallas to test Borderlands early and then meet and fall for my wife. We met in a W hotel designed in UE.
  • In SP the last bullet in each magazine is 25% stronger so the chances of "oh shit" fighting a bad guy are high in the game.
  • Boomers were named after the robots from Bubblegum Crisis, which was inspired by Blade Runner.
  • I said to the art department on Gears (post quake era) NO FUCKING SKULLS IN THIS WORLD. that clearly worked lol
  • I wanted players to not drop weapons upon death unless you execute them as incentive. Ray Davis shot it down. ;)
  • I always wanted a "long range revive pistol" in Gears but Rod always thought it was a dumb idea. ;)
  • To this day, Epic, Rod, Microsoft and I always kept a good relationship. Biz is biz but friends are forever. I'm signing off.
 
Shpeshal Nick

Shpeshal Nick

aka Collingwood
So I've tried to play my first MP match and I'm endlessly stuck on a loading screen while hearing the respawn noise every 30 seconds or so.

Awesome.
 
P

pizzacat

Banned
That shit cliff is saying is great.


Some people itt don't know what gears 1 is lmao. Get power weapons, use pistol.

Lancers were always there to cross with teammates or finish a down, not take opponents out by yourself lmao

lol @ the guy who said retro isn't overpowered, what universe is that nuke thrower not overpowered lol
 
R

RSTEIN

Comics, serious business!
Collingwood said:
Huh? I've got the day off basically FOR Gears. So instead of having breakfast at home, I suggested we have it out. Then off to the shopping centre to grab the game and the little one can look in some toy stores.
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No, no, no. Breakfast should not have even been an option. You should have ditched the family and headed straight for the store.
 
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Blueblur1

Member
So is the multiplayer in this game is the Gears 1 multiplayer? The last game I played in the series was Gears 3 which I felt had its multiplayer mode refined a lot over the older games. Does this game feature exclusively Gears 1 style MP?
 
P

pizzacat

Banned
JumPeRJumPzZ said:
Nope... EU servers. 17ms... its just trash detection... And some people are playing this like its MLG time... really annoying...
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Maybe because the people playing are actually professionals who got it early. I wouldn't call it trash detection especially when you're getting beating out by the "MLG" squad lol
 
Xbudz

Xbudz

Member
I decided to get the cheaper version. I might spend $5 down the road for the animated weapon skins... or maybe they'll offer an upgrade to the Deluxe edition.

Either way, I'm ready! Less than two hours to go!
 
D

Draconian

Member
Blueblur1 said:
So is the multiplayer in this game is the Gears 1 multiplayer? The last game I played in the series was Gears 3 which I felt had its multiplayer mode refined a lot over the older games. Does this game feature exclusively Gears 1 style MP?
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It has some Gears 3 features like enemy tagging and new modes that weren't in Gears 1 originally, but it's very much Gears 1 MP.
 
N

Naminator

Banned
jambo said:
  • The idea to do cover came from @MrLeePerry showing me Killswitch one day I was like WANT.
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HA!

When I first saw Gears I was like, damn that looks like Killswitch. Killswitch was one of the first TPS I have seen, and I thought it looked amazing.
 
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PeskyToaster

Member
pizzacat said:
That shit cliff is saying is great.


Some people itt don't know what gears 1 is lmao. Get power weapons, use pistol.

Lancers were always there to cross with teammates or finish a down, not take opponents out by yourself lmao

lol @ the guy who said retro isn't overpowered, what universe is that nuke thrower not overpowered lol
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retro is too easy. git gud.
 
E

Edwardo

Member
I was gonna go for a different preorder bonus, but I have $10 on my account so $30 for this is prob more worth it to just go straight thru Xbox digital.
 
P

pizzacat

Banned
BananasWithGuns said:
Thanks. I appreciate it.
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I'll keep editing this list but
Unlockable (as of this moment)
Sam
Dizzy
Prescott
Miner
Beast Rider
Kantus
Jace (just saw a level 25 with him)

Preorder
Adam Fenix
Civvie anya
Aaron Griffin
Unarmoured Marcus
Savage drone
Savage grenadier elite
Savage kantus
Savage theron
Golden Hunter
Golden Miner

Speculation
Regular anya
Regular Hunter
 
M

MightyHedgehog

Member
Naminator said:
HA!

When I first saw Gears I was like, damn that looks like Killswitch. Killswitch was one of the first TPS I have seen, and I thought it looked amazing.
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From IGN's The History of Gears of War:
The missing piece showed up when Senior Designer Lee Perry brought in a small, flawed PlayStation 2 game called Kill.Switch and demoed its cover-focused combat system. Bleszinski immediately paired it with Bionic Commando's fluid point-to-point movement. "Stop and pop" was born. Epic soon brought in Chris Esaki, Kill.Switch's lead designer, to join the team.
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They liked KS so much, they hired the lead designer to help make Gears.
 
B

BananasWithGuns

Member
Nice, glad Jace is in. At least I'll have one of my characters in there if Tai and Bernie don't make it.

Thanks for making/updating the list pizzacat.
 
A

Afro

Member
sorry if i missed this, but does gears 1+2+3 unlock at the same time as the Ultimate Edition since it comes w/ all three?
 
J

Jotamide

Unconfirmed Member
Looking forward to
play this when it comes out on PC.
 
D

Deception

Member
My download is going at glacial speeds right now. Been downloading since 6:30pm with 75 mbps speeds and its still only at 52%.
 
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