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d21lewis on 01 October 2011
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o_O.Q said:
d21lewis said:
o_O.Q said:
 

your opinion, imo games had them before gears and would have continued to incorporate them regardless of if gears existed or not


Well do me a favor.  Humor me.  Gears 2 brought the Horde in November 2008.  Which game had an online team of five (give or take) working together to survive an ever increasing group of enemies that grow stronger and stronger as the level increases.  Teamwork is the key--comuincating with your friends, distributing weapons, and leveling up are also important. 

Maybe some games got the mode because it was popular in Gears 2.  Maybe some games (ie: Call of Duty World at War) were going to have them, anyway.  It's a simple theme, actually.  Any one of us could have come up with it.  But which game had it before Gears?

the outfit http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XC4BzL3ccF0

aliens vs predators classic 1000 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6k8dNJgXNg

doom http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zy-lwRFI7hU

l4d http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gcr0lu96onA

wow i really don't believe that people think that coop gameplay against waves of enemies is something new these types of gameplay have been around since the first consoles were out 


L4D got survival mode after Gears.  That Doom video was from the multi-player campaign.  That AVP video--I could be wrong but it just looked like some kind of death match using bots.  Never heard of it, though so I could be wrong.  Still, you have to use a loooooot of imagination to say that is like Horde mode.  And The Outfit was just four player campaign, too (and it's a strategy game).

But you are sorta right.  I remember having Spawn on the Dreamcast and it was basically team up to kill a group of enemies in an arena.  It sucked hard, though.  I'll look at it like this:  Mario wasn't the first platformer but it was the first platformet to do the genre justice.  As a result, it spawned a billion 2D knockoffs.  Gears is the finest implementation of a "Horde Mode" compared to anything before it.  In a way, it's just an online team death match vs. some incredibly varied AI controlled opponents.  So there.