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Isuck on 21 April 2011

I lol at the guy who said COD started online gaming on consoles!

How ignorant can someone be? Almost every console game out there uses matchmaking which was created by Halo.

Halo popularized online console gaming not cod.

The part about uncharted was stupidity at its best.



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Darth Tigris on 21 April 2011

Co-op with GeoW was one of the defining gaming experiences of my life.  Sooooo much fun with several different friends.

While I love GeoW2 so much better as a game in just about every way, the things I was going through in my life limited my ability to enjoy it as much as the first (52" HDTV vs 17" monitor, full dolby digital in a big room vs 2 monitor speakers, multiple quick co-op playthroughs vs only one co-op playthrough split over a week and a half, etc).

Looking forward much to this one.  Would even be better if I could muster up 3 other friends ...



SuperAnthony64 on 21 April 2011

Gears of war did have great gameplay but it wasnt as revolutionary as you may think. The over the shoulder was copied right from resident evil 4. Sure you can walk and shoot but that how gears was made. The cover system was copied from kill switch. So really gears brought HD and Co Op and thats it. Gears 1 MP is probably the best MP of this generation. Gears 2 ruined that with matchmaking and grenade wall tags. So to everyone saying "if it wasnt for gears, uncharted wouldnt have a cover system" it should be "if it wasnt for killswitch, gears wouldnt have a cover system."



_mevildan on 21 April 2011
SuperAnthony64 said:

Gears of war did have great gameplay but it wasnt as revolutionary as you may think. The over the shoulder was copied right from resident evil 4. Sure you can walk and shoot but that how gears was made. The cover system was copied from kill switch. So really gears brought HD and Co Op and thats it. Gears 1 MP is probably the best MP of this generation. Gears 2 ruined that with matchmaking and grenade wall tags. So to everyone saying "if it wasnt for gears, uncharted wouldnt have a cover system" it should be "if it wasnt for killswitch, gears wouldnt have a cover system."


Yeah I remember Cliffy himself describing Gears as "Resident Killswitch" or something like that.

That aside, there is no doubt Gears will be remembered this generation and one of the defining games. I remember when the X360 was still pretty new and people were getting it, you couldn't talk to someone very long without Gears of War coming up.



huaxiong90 on 21 April 2011
selnor said:

But you miss the point. 

Gears 1 directly influenced Uncharted's devs. The cover system from Gears was basically copied of which they admitted. Also coop campaign for consoles were abundant after Gears 1. Gears 1 started a trend for lots of games. And if youve had a chance to play Gears 3 beta is still the absolute king where 3rd person controls are concerned. Gears 3 is about as tight a control system as you will ever get for 3rd person. All this polish time is paying off amazing.

The cover system has been around before Gears. kill.switch, people.

OT: Not sure what the importance of the interview was, but I cannot wait to get my hands on Gears of War 3.



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osamanobama on 21 April 2011
selnor said:
Timesplitters said:

gears of war didn't define anything

uncharted defined graphical cinematic gaming

call of duty defined and basically created the massive online community there is today

all gears was is just a great game no doubt i love it but it never amazed me like uncharted did and the online was never as enjoying as cod


Are you just that ignorant and sad?

Gears Of War defined HD graphics. In xmas 2006 Gears Of War blew everyone away with the first true HD graphics to make people stand up and pay attention. 

2ndly it defined Co-op gameing. You know Campaign coop. It was a HUGE selling point of it's time. 

If it wasnt for Gears of War Uncharted would have used their original control system. Which Uncharted devs admitted were nowhere near as good. 

Gears Of War defined alot for this gen. Or you have seriously bad memory.

i agree mostly, but as for the bolded, source?

uncharted came out about a year after gears, devs dont change gameplay much in that time, that part of the dev cycle is refinement and optimization of the game. the core gameplay, set pieces, and story are all already set. so i doubt uncharted changed much if at all in the gameplay department becasue of gears

edit: and are you now trying to say gears invented its type of cover system, really? and that uncharted copied it?



SuperAnthony64 on 21 April 2011
_mevildan said:
SuperAnthony64 said:

Gears of war did have great gameplay but it wasnt as revolutionary as you may think. The over the shoulder was copied right from resident evil 4. Sure you can walk and shoot but that how gears was made. The cover system was copied from kill switch. So really gears brought HD and Co Op and thats it. Gears 1 MP is probably the best MP of this generation. Gears 2 ruined that with matchmaking and grenade wall tags. So to everyone saying "if it wasnt for gears, uncharted wouldnt have a cover system" it should be "if it wasnt for killswitch, gears wouldnt have a cover system."


Yeah I remember Cliffy himself describing Gears as "Resident Killswitch" or something like that.

That aside, there is no doubt Gears will be remembered this generation and one of the defining games. I remember when the X360 was still pretty new and people were getting it, you couldn't talk to someone very long without Gears of War coming up.

I bought the 360 just for gears. Best game on the console along side mass effect.