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exdeath on 31 January 2016
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KiigelHeart said:
exdeath said:

I enjoyed the first Gears and the whole twist that YOU are the invading monster and not the other guys.  

But it's not in the same ballpark as some of the other games I mentioned, hell it ain't even the same damn sport. Yes... stealing lines from Pulp Fiction lol.

My beef with gears is the first was pretty ground breaking and set some standards at a time when it seemed we would never see a co-op game ever again, and the first one was great.   But then 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 etc etc etc and they just wore it out and drug it through the mud and it became the poser child for "dudebro".

As far as story goes, all that can be said is it ... has "a" story I guess.  It's definately not saucer eyed jaw open full body numb shaking hands hairs standing on end revelations like some JRPGs (Xenogears cough) :D

What does "dudebro" mean? I see it used alot. I don't really see how a trilogy and spinoff that didn't please many wore it out, not to mention that original Gears is the least story driven of them. What was that twist you mentioned, I just played Ultimate Edition but don't recall that?

I agree it's not a story you describe, but I just wouldn't want every story to be like that. Sometimes you just want that Woody Allen movie, simple down-to-earth kind a stuff with some nice themes around it :)

edit. this is going offtopic :P

It's a generic term that describes the modern mainstream insecure 20 and 30-teen something male "gamer" who only associates himself with "cool" and "mature" games like football and military shooters.  The kind of person who, prior to video games becoming mainstream and socially acceptable, would have not been caught dead with say a NES due to being affraid of the stigma of being caught with a child's toy.  They are the reason so many games today have cover art depicting steroid injected men with goatees or assault rifles.  Activision and EA's bread and butter basically.

They are typically afraid of anything percieved as childish or colorful and only play and buy "serious" and "realistic" games like Call of Duty, Madden, Halo, Gears, Killzone, God of War, etc.

You can typically spot them in public in Gamestops preordering the latest Call of Duty, in their Raiders jackets and sports jerseys and smelling like AXE body spray, and pretending to talk like a thug about how dope the latest guns in COD look or how they once killed 3 people with 1 grenade.

Just before they waddle their Doritos and Mountain Dew diabetic asses back to their slammed and hellaflushed Infinitis with tacky rims.  They are completely oblivious to the fact that their 733t ride is actually more embarrasing than being seen in the Nintendo isle.