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I dunno. "Let me light up Betty's titties" was pretty terrible.
But I know people like that. And I work in rural Oxfordshire, where etiquette comes from.
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Yeah, this is a piece of criticism I don't get about Gears of War 2. Do people not realize that different regions have different accents and grammar styles? We don't get stereotypes because people are making crap up, we get them because large numbers of people actually exhibit common and easily identifiable tendencies. Would people rather that everybody in a game act and sounds exactly alike instead of making it sound half-real by having a bunch of different people talk a bunch of different ways?
I've heard people that talk like anybody in GoW2 (except for the Locust, I guess). Really. They aren't made-up accents or behaviors. How does portraying actual behavioral types and speech styles merit criticism merely for existing?
Often games will have characters that do and say things I have no connection with and outright disagree with. Never happened in Gears 2. They were dumb meatheads but I believed they were in the situation they were in and I didnt find anything they did or said out of character. Whenever Cole went on a tirade Marcus would tell him to be quiet, there was no uniform bravado and crazyness amongst the characters, they behaved as a team would, but each reacted in their own way to situations. For every crazy boast of bravado, there was a level-headed response, or retort. There were as many solemn moments of genuine concern amongst the characters as there were 'fuck yes eat shit and die' moments, and more importantly they were paced well and moved in and out of each mood slowly and with a considered arch.
Anyway ive spoken too much about this, but it just bugs me that people think its full of crappy writing when it really isnt, it seems just to attract a 'me-too' reaction from people.
Also yes the ending was a vehicle section, but really most games would've ended like 4 levels before that, I kept expecting it to end at any moment, so everything was a bonus. And holy shit what a vehicle level, destructible environments and a hugely satisfying ending cutscene that provides ample resolution, reconnects you with all the characters, as well as setting up the next game. Pretty much every game in recent memory could learn a thing or two about how to provide an effective and rewarding ending cinematic from Gears 2.
That little heart tap that 'you know who' does on the helicopter at the end for Marcus is writing, and damn good writing at that.
I'm on hardcore and it's a BITCH when dom decides to be useless.
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Try doing it on Insane when Dom decides he doesn't want to help anymore.
Though I'd perfer that to the time when he runs fucking into the worst spot in the area, gets downed, and I have to run over there and save his ass and hope to hell the Mauler doesn't kill him, me or both.
The AI is comically bad at times.
Just because you know people like that doesn't make it good dialog
Me too. I've been trying to get a multiplayer game for 15 mins. Ran over here to see if anyone didn't want to do horde.
Wait. Wait. WAIT.
There are times when Dom isn't useless?!?
Day eleventybillionone waiting for my xbox repair to be returned.
Dom helped in hardcore? I never noticed. Well, he does draw fire. That's about all one can ask for.
Although I'm stuck in the intestines, keep running into this dead end and I don't see any other paths.
Edit: Nevermind, forgot to chainsaw.
is it because you're playing at 5:30 am
Because we all love having to do a boss fight over and over because Marcus gets stuck in the fucking scenery.
No. I try playing at like 5p.m. pst on Saturdays.
Yeah, that part sucks arse. I'm dreading that on Insane, actually.
I gets worse soon afterwards, I'm getting bugged levers where you need to lift up bits of cover. It's really awesome trying to survive in the open.
I eventually did it by running to the opposite side of the map and getting the reaver stuck inside the roof.
That section is so dumb, about 4 seconds of fire from one of those turrets will destroy you and it takes almost 2 clips of rockets to get the tower down. It would be a lot easier in co-op since then you can have someone shooting while you drive around to avoid the fire, but in single player you can only move where you're shooting.
Chainsawing people is still cool and all the little tricks an tweaks make it certainly a better game. Playing through campaign co-op and laughing at the ridiculous dialogue is also fun. There's Bruce Campbell, Stuart Gordon B-movie fun and there's DTV "I'm a better goddamn director than any of those fucks and I'm gonna prove it!" B-movie. This is the later. But, still, fun to make fun of.
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There's a super easy trick for killing reavers, no matter the difficulty.
I said wants to help. and I wasn't stating that his methods change in insane.
What I meant is, see how bad it is when Dom stays in one spot without moving, and do so when your on insane.
Edit: FFS, the turret bit went through because of dumb luck all the Reavers landed, and now I have to fight
Yes and no. I've had a few matches where everything went perfectly and it was great fun. However I've had equally as many matches where I waited 15 minutes to join a team, only to have half the people leave before the match even starts. People will also quit if their team starts doing badly because your insignia beside your name is affected by your world rank, or win/losses or some bullshit like that.
I haven't really seen many people exploiting glitches yet. One time on river one of our team mates fell behind a fence and got stuck, but personally that's all I have seen so far. The thing that kills it for me is really the terrible lag. I never feel like I've been killed fairly. So many times I'll see a guy looking the other way and run up to shotgun him, only to have him instantly be in the middle of chainsawing me before I can even get close. It kills the fun completely, and I haven't played gears at all lately because of it.
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This neo-feudalism would be more tolerable if our betters had fancy titles.
I don't know, I seem to have a jinxed version of GoW2. I've also had a Blood Mount freeze midair and Cole getting stuck on open ground so that his model flickers between two animations, sloooowly floating along the ground after a few minutes he finally gets loose, at which point he proceeds to go where he was supposed to go in the first place. Stuff like that and the not-as-good-as Gears 1 gameplay in the second half has soured me on the game a bit.
It's just getting into a game.
A lot of times you just have to outsmart the the AI. They have range limits, and line of sight issues, dumb clipping. PLAY DIRTY. The AI cheats, anyway.
The thing I dread doing is the aforementioned dish section on insane. the brumaks were dumb. are dumb. I doubt that will change unless the size of their explosions increases on insane as apposed to hardcore.
I'm going through the "Insane" difficulty on Force Unleashed first though, lol.
We negative feedbacked and reported them and of course their host sent a message to our guy saying WHY DO PEOPLE WHO LOSE ALWAYS BLAME CONNECTION (in Spanish)
maybe it's because YOU'RE HOSTING FROM FUCKING MEXICO YOU DIPSHIT
edit: getting games was almost instant though.
The new characters for the book are all pretty cool (Major Stroud (Anya's mother), Carlos Santiago (Dom's brother), and Bernadette Mataki (a sniper and survivalist expert from Marcus's old regiment), but the bulk of the story is Marcus and the Stantiago's growing up and early military careers, where we find out a lot about why Marcus is so 1-dimensional, how Dom came about being a husband and father of two, and why Marcus is so well known for the battle of Aspho Fields. (No spoilers, but lets just say that some of the stranger, uh, tactics that Marcus had in GoW2 show their first signs in this book.) Also, Dom is apparently the universes emotional dumping ground. :S
If you liked the GoW story (well, what story was there) and don't have an aversion to licensed novels, I'd recommend it.
they were obviously standbying or glitching somehow, the game was unplayably laggy.
They had Mexican flags, spanish gamertags, spanish in their profiles, and one of them had a profile that said "Mexico". I just assumed that was where they were from.
It was fairly obvious they were using the exploit to get host.
Maybe this will help some of my problems.
not gonna link it here, but there are whole forums dedicated to it on the internet