Gears Of War Story

[NikkiD]

Yeah, pretty similar reaction here - I was expecting the Berserker to bust through the wall... when he busted through the columns it was an "oh fuck!" moment.

Good game, good graphics, but waaaaaay to short.

Fuck. I hate when a great is too short. I would have played on Insane but you have to beat it on another difficulty first.

So I'm playing on Casual.

I do the same with Tekken. I set it for 1 round just beat everybody and get all the extra characters first then bump up the difficulty.

I think I'm going to beat GOW this weekend and start playing folk on XBL maybe next weekend.
Deathmatches have got to be great.

Anyone know if M$ is trying to buy Epic.

Yeah, took Jonno and I about 10 hours on Casual mode the first time through. Trying insane mode now... that should be more interesting.

[Busyman™]

Fuck. I hate when a great is too short. I would have played on Insane but you have to beat it on another difficulty first.

So I'm playing on Casual.

I do the same with Tekken. I set it for 1 round just beat everybody and get all the extra characters first then bump up the difficulty.

I think I'm going to beat GOW this weekend and start playing folk on XBL maybe next weekend.
Deathmatches have got to be great.

Anyone know if M$ is trying to buy Epic.

Yeah, took Jonno and I about 10 hours on Casual mode the first time through. Trying insane mode now... that should be more interesting.

Hmmm....10 hours on Co-op and Casual. That's not too bad.

Are you on XBL?

If so, what's your Gamertag?

[NikkiD]

Yeah, took Jonno and I about 10 hours on Casual mode the first time through. Trying insane mode now... that should be more interesting.

Hmmm....10 hours on Co-op and Casual. That's not too bad.

Are you on XBL?

If so, what's your Gamertag?

Not on co-op - it was mostly Jon playing - I can't play games for long stretches, I get bored of playing.

Not on XBL at the moment, although I think the package I bought gives me 3 months free or something.

[Busyman™]

Hmmm....10 hours on Co-op and Casual. That's not too bad.

Are you on XBL?

If so, what's your Gamertag?

Not on co-op - it was mostly Jon playing - I can't play games for long stretches 'cause I'm no good at them

Fixed

Not on XBL at the moment, although I think the package I bought gives me 3 months free or something.

Post your Gamertag when you get on. XBL is quite fun with the right games.

You might wanna check out M$s wireless nic also.

[Jon L. Obscene]

I'm now playing it through on Insane and it is much harder although I found that by the time I finished it on casual I still hadn't really got to grips 100% with the controls (showing how short the game is lol) but have now, so not finding it quite as hard as I first thought it would be. Much more interesting on insane though, with normal or failed reload with the chainsaw gun you can expect to pretty much empty a clip into a locust at close range before he drops and wretches are quicker and take a bit more to kill.
Gotta say though, I love the Boomers...........BOOM!

Advice: Learn the perfect reload well, you ARE going to need it in insane mode as a perfect reload with the sniper rifle will take down a locust in 1 shot to anywhere on the body as opposed to 4.
Also learn how to effectivly close Emergence Holes.

Advice for final boss: Ignore online walkthroughs about the Torque bow and sniper rifle method, go with Grenades and Chainsaw gun, I'll say no more

Overall a good game, best looking game to date, a few glitches and as Nik said......waaaaaaaayyyyy way way too short.

And she is a competant player, she's just not really into tatic warfare games such as this. She likes to run round blowing shit up ala Ratchet Deadlocked.

Jonno

[Busyman™]

I'm now playing it through on Insane and it is much harder although I found that by the time I finished it on casual I still hadn't really got to grips 100% with the controls (showing how short the game is lol) but have now, so not finding it quite as hard as I first thought it would be. Much more interesting on insane though, with normal or failed reload with the chainsaw gun you can expect to pretty much empty a clip into a locust at close range before he drops and wretches are quicker and take a bit more to kill.
Gotta say though, I love the Boomers...........BOOM!

Advice: Learn the perfect reload well, you ARE going to need it in insane mode as a perfect reload with the sniper rifle will take down a locust in 1 shot to anywhere on the body as opposed to 4.
Also learn how to effectivly close Emergence Holes.

I haven't even tried the perfect reload (I know about it). I do know how to plug Emergence Holes..........a grenade.

Advice for final boss: Ignore online walkthroughs about the Torque bow and sniper rifle method, go with Grenades and Chainsaw gun, I'll say no more

I hate using cheat or Gamefaqs unless I'm completely stuck.

Overall a good game, best looking game to date, a few glitches and as Nik said......waaaaaaaayyyyy way way too short.

Speaking of stuck, I got stuck in a wall, and had to quit once but that was the only time.

And she is a competant player, she's just not really into tatic warfare games such as this. She likes to run round blowing shit up ala Ratchet Deadlocked.

Jonno

Suuuuure, defend your woman.

[Jon L. Obscene]

I haven't even tried the perfect reload (I know about it). I do know how to plug Emergence Holes..........a grenade.

Yes I figured you knew how to plug a hole I guess what I meant was learn tactically how to do it and learn that you need to asap.

I hate using cheat or Gamefaqs unless I'm completely stuck.

Yep me too and usually when I do give in and check how to do something I find out I was right in the first place and it's just hard and takes a while. The advice I gave you isn't a "How to" as such, it's more of a pointer of the most effective weaponry to use, you still have to figure out the tactic which is the hard and skillful part.

Speaking of stuck, I got stuck in a wall, and had to quit once but that was the only time.

Yeah like I said, it's not without it's glitches, there's a part where a boomer and a couple of wretches come down in an caged elevator, I cut them to shit before the door opened and part of the boomers head was stuck in the wall going spacky ala F.E.A.R.

Suuuuure, defend your woman.

Of course
But I do state fact so

Jonno

[Busyman™]

Interesting news:

The only knock I had on GOW was it's length.

Well now the PC version is getting 5 new single player levels.

Remember the Brumak? Well you get to fight the motherfucker.

I always thought it odd that the only time you see the Brumak is in a cutscene.

GOW for the PC....I'm getting it. Helluva game that will be worth playing yet again.

Imagine the mods for it.

[Cheese]

From the content that is being added it looks like they are doing a decent PC conversion rather than a half-assed attempt that some companies do. Could be good.

[Busyman™]

From the content that is being added it looks like they are doing a decent PC conversion rather than a half-assed attempt that some companies do. Could be good.

Yeah the Unreal Engine had PC origins anyway. I can't see this being a bad conversion.

5 more levels is a lot plus add in the level editor plus add in that game will look better (with a very good gfx card) than the 360 version. The Xbox version was already amazing looking.

This is making me really pressed to get an entertainment PC up and working.
If I could play Crysis, GOW PC, and more on my basement TV, I'd be very happy.