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Nitty_Grimes
Made a crappy phPBB forum once ... once.
Gabe Newell innit?
Barakov
Gold Member
You know what? Get him in there. The last great Gears game was Gears 3 so let's see if those unused ideas are worth anything.
D3SCHA1N
Member
Gears 1 had more slow walk and talk sequences than God of War 2018...
S0ULZB0URNE
Member
PLEASE! Get him MS!
Bernkastel
Ask me about my fanboy energy!
LOL I follow all of them and post them here in NeoGaf. Initiative game has something to do with that Mark Lawrence short story.'
Drew Murray liked this tweet.
Now we are getting somewhere
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Bernkastel
Ask me about my fanboy energy!
Where now for Gears of War?
Rod Fergusson is a name synonymous with Gears of War.He's been with the franchise since its inception in 2006 at Epic G…
www.gamesindustry.biz
Bernkastel
Ask me about my fanboy energy!
I want CliffyB to stay away. Dude is just seeking attention at this point. This is the same guy who said "I hate Xbox, Xbox fanboys are always salty" to sell Lawbreakers to PS4 users.
GooseMan69
Member
Used to be a huge Gears fan in high school. The first game was the ultimate “holy fuck I can’t believe this is a real game” next gen experience, as they call it. It was truly unlike anything that came before it. That game had a really cool campy horror action vibe to it, not unlike the Resident Evil series. I think the gradual departure away from that tone is what stagnated the series. They tried so fucking hard to be taken seriously, starting with the Maria BS in 2, and culminating in dozens of “please be sad” scenes in Gears 3. I haven’t played 4 or 5, but from what I’ve seen, it seems they’ve doubled down on the ultra serious tone.
That stuff works well for some games, if they have great writers who can actually sell it (Naughty Dog, Rockstar). Gears was never able to sell it, which is fine! Not every game needs to have these multidimensional characters. The problem is they tried to force it. To bring up the RE comparison again, look at how iconic their protagonists are. None of them are “deep” or “complex”. At all. But they’re still relatable and likable.
The Tomb Raider series has the same problem. Lara Croft used to be a super confident and cool wise cracking adventurer. Now she just feels so bad about shit man
so sad am I right
That stuff works well for some games, if they have great writers who can actually sell it (Naughty Dog, Rockstar). Gears was never able to sell it, which is fine! Not every game needs to have these multidimensional characters. The problem is they tried to force it. To bring up the RE comparison again, look at how iconic their protagonists are. None of them are “deep” or “complex”. At all. But they’re still relatable and likable.
The Tomb Raider series has the same problem. Lara Croft used to be a super confident and cool wise cracking adventurer. Now she just feels so bad about shit man
so sad am I right
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Wolfgang Jr
Banned
0.8
Exactly, and if you look at that those developers today you can see that they needed those companies wayyyyy more than those companies needed them.
The Shepard
Member
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SleepDoctor
Banned
I honestly didn't expect this. Microsoft would be stupid not to take him up on his offer.
Gears could hopefully return to a darker gritty theme again. Im actually surprised nobody's shitted on rod for microtransactions or anything on twitter, or maybe he's blocking people lol.
SleepDoctor
Banned
Why are we mentioning God of War and why are we even comparing a 2006 game to a 2018 game?
Warriors enter the thunderdome.
JohnnyFootball
GerAlt-Right. Ciriously.
This is a huge loss. The guy is legendary when it comes to getting games made.
Im not going to claim he is a legend and that his games are masterpieces, but he knows how to get good/fun games made.
He was the one who saved Bioshock Infinite.
Im not going to claim he is a legend and that his games are masterpieces, but he knows how to get good/fun games made.
He was the one who saved Bioshock Infinite.
Captain Star
Member
Lol, Blizzard is hiring some random dude to "oversee" the Diablo franchise? They don't have any current employees capable of doing that job? Guess no one gives a shit over there.
jakinov
Member
I explicitly used the word "probably" because I don't know a lot lot about Irvine California or have a crystal ball on to what will happen. I don't know a lot about Irvine but I made the assumption that SF and LA have worst cases so thats why I picked a side. Vancouver in Canada where the Coalition is located is notorious there for having really a really bad housing market also being negatively affected by Chinese investors.
Different researches have different ways of measuring affordability and if a market is overpriced/overvalued or bad/like-to-fail or whatever. But the commonality is that Vancouver is often topping the charts.
nikolino840
Member
Blizzard Is a black hole
nikolino840
Member
TeamGhobad
Banned
studio is in trouble. heard it here first.
Arachnid
Member
Wild
Both 4 and 5 were better than any of the prior gears games. Especially the MP which Coalition knocked out of the park. Keep Cliff far tf away from Gears.
SleepDoctor
Banned
Tragic Denial
Member
Truth is that "pure" 3rd person cover based shooters got old years ago
Arachnid
Member
Just a proper dose of reality.
No bullshit deaths as a result of split second framerate/chance (mostly; 60 frames is a god send), no stupid free kill sawed offs, tons of symmetrical/well designed/fair maps, great new weapon pickups (along with tried and true older pickups), fuck tons of unlockables characters/cosmetics/customization, and Gears 5 had arguably the best campaign in the series (my favorite is still Gears 2, but 5 isn't far behind). People need to take off the rose tinted glasses. ESPECIALLY in regards to Gears 3 (fucking awful campaign, and the sawed off ran rampant in multiplayer since you spawned with it; retro as a spawn in was bs too).
God no. I'll take third person shooters over first person any day of the week.
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jakinov
Member
I dunno about that. For me, the best parts of Uncharted and Tomb Raider for me are the fighting parts. Jumping at ledges marked in white with very very low chance of failure and doing puzzles that are basically look for the pattern somewhere else in the room or push some middle button to see some sketch/map to figure out how to solve the "puzzle".
Dee Dah Dave
Member
Gears is a tired franchise, put it to bed for 10 years and do something else.
My suggestion - buy the Turrican IP from whoever owns it and make a AAA 3rd person Metroidvania style game with it
My suggestion - buy the Turrican IP from whoever owns it and make a AAA 3rd person Metroidvania style game with it
TUROK
Member
Xbox fanboys is some salty boys tho.
Bernkastel
Ask me about my fanboy energy!
Less than the other side. I mean with that comment you are worse than what you are trying to project.
DeepEnigma
Gold Member
Mustache in the pic knows what's up..X Mark's the spot
Rod, good luck with your new endeavors
That's cornball Greenberg.
Slings and Arrows
Banned
Used to be a huge Gears fan in high school. The first game was the ultimate “holy fuck I can’t believe this is a real game” next gen experience, as they call it. It was truly unlike anything that came before it. That game had a really cool campy horror action vibe to it, not unlike the Resident Evil series. I think the gradual departure away from that tone is what stagnated the series. They tried so fucking hard to be taken seriously, starting with the Maria BS in 2, and culminating in dozens of “please be sad” scenes in Gears 3. I haven’t played 4 or 5, but from what I’ve seen, it seems they’ve doubled down on the ultra serious tone.
That stuff works well for some games, if they have great writers who can actually sell it (Naughty Dog, Rockstar). Gears was never able to sell it, which is fine! Not every game needs to have these multidimensional characters. The problem is they tried to force it. To bring up the RE comparison again, look at how iconic their protagonists are. None of them are “deep” or “complex”. At all. But they’re still relatable and likable.
The Tomb Raider series has the same problem. Lara Croft used to be a super confident and cool wise cracking adventurer. Now she just feels so bad about shit man
This guy gets it. I laughed when Dom drove a wagon into locust. My friends were mad because they were sad!
TUROK
Member
Protect? I'm just here to laugh at the cringy gamers who take their hobby of choice wayyyyyyyy too fucking seriously.
D3SCHA1N
Member
Yeah, if 3rd person shooters got old years ago, most FPS games have been old for a decade or more... It's all just personal preference, I personally prefer 3rd person in general, though I'm not opposed to FP games. I'd choose to play Gears over something like Battlefield every time...
CitizenX3639
Banned
He even got bored of doing another Gears.
devilNprada
Member
Why the hate on blizzard? Noone does mathematical gear formulas like blizzard. Doing the math, tinkering with gearsets... Constantly changing up the game... That Just sounds like cooler job to me..
njean777
Member
GearsOFWar reddit attacks The Coalition daily, most of the time rightfully so. They have fucked up Gears 5 MP and its still broken to this day if you like ranked.
Night.Ninja
Banned
Hopefully they can go back to making that spy looking game
SweetShark
Member
So can I guess we will a MORE muscular Barbarian?
Gears of War > Gears of War 2 > Gears of War 3 > Gears of War Judgment > who gives a fuck
I actually liked some of the mp modes in Judgment. Wake me up when there is remasters (not that GoW remastered that the Coalition did) on my platform of choice of 1-3, heck I would even do Judgment again.
Not sure how anyone works with Cliff (its like a strange self aware thing) though, imagine going into the office every day and he acts like that - that would get old quick. (punch to the face)
I actually liked some of the mp modes in Judgment. Wake me up when there is remasters (not that GoW remastered that the Coalition did) on my platform of choice of 1-3, heck I would even do Judgment again.
Not sure how anyone works with Cliff (its like a strange self aware thing) though, imagine going into the office every day and he acts like that - that would get old quick. (punch to the face)
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