Diablohead
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Didn't cliffyB say something about drop in drop out co op was the dogs 1-2 days ago on here? I took that as a confirm 
[NEW] Gears of War - Video Interview
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Hopefully it's unique.SnakeXs said:
Music, for me, has a tremendous impact on my experience with certain genres. For example, the recent trailer for Coded Arms PS3. The game looks interesting, but the music used during the trailer is what really made the impact.
I'm hoping that Gears presents something powerful and somewhat unique. They need a theme that is strong, rather than a collection of generic sounding movie tunes. I really would like to know who they have contracted to work on the soundtrack.
Here's hoping they nail it!
Tieno
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I posted this in the Gears of War thread but here you go:dark10x said:
CliffyB :" We're Epic Games and we're delivering an epic soundtrack for this product. Kevin Riepl is scoring the music for the game. We recently had a session with a live orchestra in Seattle in which they recorded the score in a cavernous church. The results are goose bump inducing and extremely memorable. It is a focus on classical elements, no rock guitars, no techno, just clean, sweet horns, drums, and strings."
http://www.xboxgazette.com/interview_gears_of_war_cliffyb_en.php
Did you know that the guy from the Terry Tate Office Linebacker commercials is voicing one of your squadmates? Just heard it in an interview with Cliffy.
That was known forever.Diablohead said:Didn't cliffyB say something about drop in drop out co op was the dogs 1-2 days ago on here? I took that as a confirm
As was the online co-op. As is the co-op being limited to two people since there are points where the rest of your squad is mia and it's just you and a single teammate. This way it's more seemless. As is the orchestrated music.
Where have you people been?!
raYne said:That was known forever.
As was the online co-op. As is the co-op being limited to two people since there are points where the rest of your squad is mia and it's just you and a single teammate. This way it's more seemless. As is the orchestrated music.
Where have you people been?!
Exactly. For the past few days I've been wondering if I've got some secret Gears source of info I don't even know about. Maybe I'm chanelling Cliffy's thoughts directly. =O
Not sure I can comment on Kevin's track record completely. It looks neither astounding, or outright bad. People more familiar with his work commenting would be great. 72 piece orchestra never, ever hurts, though.
Looks like some people's hopes for larger than 4v4 are gone, though. I don't mind. I rarely play larger games anywho. I prefer tight teams, and getting gigantic games is near impossible since I rarely playw ith randoms anywho. Kinda curious that he's so tight lipped about modes, though. I expect a wee bit more than just TDM.
Can't wait for some, real, saucy, new info, though. All these fluff pieces of shit we've heard for the past year are sadly getting old.
vspectra06
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Glad they're taking the theme and music seriously. I HATE heavy metal themes in videogames. The Doom 3 theme sucked and took away any eerie moments the game was intended to have.
Mark Gonzales
Banned
10 Hour game = Need For Next Gen Format 
:lol Same here. The whole time people are revealing "new" info, I'm reading things I already know about and thinking.... "O.. k..."SnakeXs said:
Considering the gameplay, I really didn't expect more than 4v4 to be honest. Tight corners, using the environment for cover etc don't really translate that well to large scaled battles. I'd say 4v4 is the sweet spot.. maybe 6v6 depending on the level layout.
As a personal preference, I'd rather keep the teams small myself. Encourages tactical team play instead of everyone just spamming kills.
X06 better have some HUGE reveals. Especially on the multiplayer front.
DaCocoBrova
Finally bought a new PSP, but then pushed the demon onto someone else. Jesus.
Anyone else think the duck n' cover gameplay might getting a bit old after a while? Seems repetitive.
forgeforsaken
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DaCocoBrova said:
About as repetetive as run and gun.
DaCocoBrova said:
Not at all. Then again I find blastathons boring after 10 minutes, so who am I to say. Stop and pop, along with good tactical use and environemnts that encourage it, would last me a long time, pretty much only limited by my ability to find cool people to play with.
It's far from slow paced. If it's not your thing in general, well then, that's understandable.
DaCocoBrova
Finally bought a new PSP, but then pushed the demon onto someone else. Jesus.
I don't know if it's my thing or not, but if that's all there is to the gameplay (focusing on MP here), I dunno... Maybe gameplay variety will be in abundance in SP.
dark10x and Speevy have it. Gears has just as much a chance of lasting a long ass time as any other online shooter. The core gameplay has never been doubted. I don't see how one can hold that against it's longevity. It all comes down to variety, and how tight the maps and balance are.
Mark Gonzales
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GhaleonEB said:
How does it have more? Going by what they've showed us.
DaCocoBrova
Finally bought a new PSP, but then pushed the demon onto someone else. Jesus.
GhaleonEB said:
Oh, so you've played it?
Fallout-NL
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DaCocoBrova said:
No I think its a great change, Ive always longed for a game where cover and supressive fire were necessities. Apart from that it looks like they've gone to great lenghts to implement it in a dynamic and fun way.
DaCocoBrova
Finally bought a new PSP, but then pushed the demon onto someone else. Jesus.
^^
Maybe your naive, but the amount money riding on this game pretty much prevents negative press about it. NDAs, embargos etc.
I actually play games before forming a firm opinion of them.
Maybe your naive, but the amount money riding on this game pretty much prevents negative press about it. NDAs, embargos etc.
I actually play games before forming a firm opinion of them.
Holy shit man. Read these words: the footage from the E3 demo. Do you know what that is? Stuff you can see with your own eyes?DaCocoBrova said:
And you're basically saying everyone in the industry is moneyhatted, including blimblim, which is absurd and insulting. Take your paranoid conspiracy theories back to gamefaqs.
I dunno... I saw tearing in Ninja Gaiden running on Xbox... but I only saw it twice during the whole game, and I'm really sensitive to it (plus, I think it's more noticeable on big-screens).Brashnir said:
I wonder if Ninja Gaiden used something like this, where Vsync was on but if frames were really lagging, it would temporarily disable it. I mean, if Gears has tearing like Ninja Gaiden had tearing, then I'm sure it'll be fine...
Fallout-NL
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DaCocoBrova said:
I can usually tell wether a game's gonna be any good or not going by gameplay footage of it. Its not that hard.
manxor said:
"over 33ms" isn't "really lagging." 29FPS is going to take >33ms to render a frame. What they've said is that there is functionally no v-sync on framerate drops. Coincidentally, every 360 game that has tearing issues has them due to - you guessed it - framerate drops. If there are no framerate drops, you're not going to see tearing, if the framerate does drop, the frame will tear. period. That's no v-sync, no matter how much jargon Epic tries to use to confuse you.
So if you hate tearing, you'd better hope this game manages to keep its framerate consistently above 30.
WHOAguitarninja
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Brashnir said:
Actually you're wrong. Tearing can occur when framerates go ABOVE 30 as well. So if it suddenly renders a frame in significantly less than 33ms, you will see tearing.
WHOAguitarninja
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Or maybe you'll get a single torn frame once every 3.3 seconds?shpankey said: