GDC 08: Gears of War 2 Hitting in November

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  How about tight controls and gameplay, a 3rd person camera view that actually works, an innovative cover ... : Phunk
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    tight controls and gameplay? In GoW? Gears of War???? Unlike the OP, i can forgive the crappy plot ... : Turin Turambar
    • You and I must have played a different game. I thought it was awesome. I felt like every battle played ou... : Phunk
  • exactly, it was great for the time. I'm only worried about level design in the sequel... first one had so... : Shai-Tan
  • I love how people say "I can go on" after an exhaustive list. : walker270
• To be fair, Digital Extremes made most of UT2K3... then Epic had to step in and try to salvage it. They s... : GreatGooglyMoogly
• Gears of War 1 gave me exactly what I wanted at the time. I really needed a dumb shooter that looked go... : Gwyndion
• Wait wait wait... I just re-read your post and realized you completely dismissed UT2K4 which is one of my... : Gwyndion
• That sums up my feelings, altough I kinda liked the cover system and visuals. : Lagiv
• there ain't enought trolls to stop this game! : X-GOUKI
• Ahhh, the Front Page Crew strikes again. I like chocolate, do you like vanilla? : Fred Garvin
• Oh.... dear..... : bozer
• "excuse me, but i just *cant* see what anyone finds in that game." Okay Mr. Sensationalist. : OmegaRed59

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  My chainsaw got stuck in Doom1.. in a doorway. All games claiming to have one - i hear no sound, but se... : humbleone
  • nah i don't know either.. fun 0/10 - effort 1/10 move along : humbleone
  • lols, i agree. doom chainsaw ftw. : senor135
• FUCK YOU AND YOUR CHAINSAW!! I think MagicPenny is still refusing to play gears with you. : dedgecko

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  Maybe you should find more info before commenting about an unreleased game. Just watch the tech demo to g... : Lycronis
  • the tech demo doesnt give any information about the game other than improved lighting and texturing. and... : senor135
• Damn this would be awesome if it really was Space Marines and all that Warhammer stuff. : aznboysix

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• second that. : pillzer
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  it was a shit teaser anyway looked like sin city : doomed
  • second that. : senor135

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• cliffyb is pretty annoying. dont like him at all : senor135

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• It is hard for me to buy a game without playing the beta or demo. : OmegaRed59
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  I do not know what the console controls are like but I found the PC ones to be nothing short of abysmal. ... : abrasion
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    It really needs to be played with a gamepad since that is what it was made for. I think it feels and cont... : Serpico74
    • Ya pick up a 360 gamepad and plug it into your pc, done. Funny that pc gamers find gamepads alien to comp... : samduhman

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  I dunno, they probably learned their lesson the last time and are keeping Fratboys vs. Aliens 2 on the 36... : FreonTrip
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    plus they (at least Cliffy) believed that making UT3 for the PC was a burden. : the archvile
    • probably because of the shitty ui : JohnnyDanger
• Well Im just assuming its not really exclusive cuz Cliffy said that when they were claiming the first one... : aznboysix
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  No, Epic's plan is to divest from the PC gaming market. This plan was laid bare when they dumped the late... : jrock
  • What jrock said. So basically I won't be buying anymore Epic games since I prefer pc games over console a... : samduhman

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  I hope the MP is completely reworked as far as the interface goes. Gameplay can remain the same and I'd b... : SockMonkeh
  • granted as long as they got rid of all the exploit shit - though given their track record cleaning of gea... : dedgecko
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  And at least limited respwaning, I hope. Too easy to get killed by the powerful weapons and then sit out ... : nudel
  • NO MORE Grenade tagging please! : Edges
  • well round based gameplay with two horribly overpowered weapons makes the game a little lopsided. each ro... : gokart.
• MP needs to be like COD4 or like Halo or Im not buying the game. The lobby system in GoW sucked so bad. I... : bozer
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  I have heard that it will be 5v5. : FushigiDenki
  • that's what they said on 1UP Yours : derelict515
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    hopefully it will be 20 vs 20 with vehicles and everything.. otherwise, i could give a crap. : jeffmace3917
    • it's not battlefield ffs. the first gears was designed for close quarters / urban combat and tactics. hen... : pyide
    • Massive maps and vehicles doesn't necessarily make a decent game. See: TF2. : crummynz
    • Yeah, let's make all our games exactly the same. : Begawkiness
    • COULDN'T give a crap. As in, you wouldn't even give crap to play it. And if you want 20 v 20, go find a d... : nodebug
• I hope they update the netcode from 1995 : Nighteyes

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• If they use a fraction of these new feature (please use the destructible enviros, I am sure they will use... : valcan_s
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  I wish this was on gametrailers in HD >_< : derelict515
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    No kidding hey, all well I will take what I can. : valcan_s
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      well I can't get IGN to even serve more than 7-8 seconds of the initial advertisement >_< meanwhile gamet... : derelict515
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        I hate adds on ign sooo much but still they have good stuff every now and then. Oh ya here is a HD mir... : valcan_s
        • Thanks for the link, some of that does look very impressive. Gears was a terrific looking game, which wa... : cplturboturd
• wow... can't wait : MikkleThePickle
• Holy shit. :O : DOOManiac
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  *warrning some may take offence to the following comment* After seeing the updates on the UT3 engine a... : valcan_s
  • *Game A should be like Game B comment* : nodebug
• daaaaymn! George! Delay DNF and add this tech! shame on me : Madwacker
• Wow some of that stuff is really impressive. Looks like they have their own basic version of Geo-mod run... : Begawkiness
• I love his very casual presentation style "yeah we added that, and yeah we totaly redid the lighting engi... : pillzer
• Holy crap. Damn, can't wait for this. : funnynamehere
• That's looking rather impressive. : Zips
• Boom Goes the Dynamite. : kevp
• The water effects remind me of Baldur's Gate:Dark Alliance on the PS2. : jtthe2nd
• That is the shit. : kainen1
• Meat cube! I wonder what other body parts will use the flappy flesh physics. : Wilhuf
• omg the CUBE OF MEAT! : Angry Max

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  Does that mean we'll see a headline saying "Duke Nukem Postponed Because GeorgeB3DR Is Playing Gears 2"? ... : prime8
  • If you need to ask, you haven't been here long enough. :P : FreonTrip
• Agreed. : Begawkiness
• Heh, I'm with you George! : Lycronis
• Weren't you one of the folks that said that Gears was the pinnacle of the 360 there George? ;) : Fred Garvin
• i oughta brake a broomstick off in your ass : Angry Max

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  That boss did suck. Just way too hard on the hardest difficulty. I mean I like a challenge, but I don't s... : Phunk
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    *cough* : the city
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      SILENCE! : Phunk
      • Who, me? Oh... I wasn't going to say anything... *cough*... : the city
  • I beat the last boss because DOM died and he got stuck trying to walk through his corpse. : lost
  • I barely beat him on casual. :( Literally I was hiding behind the first block where you start and he was ... : K1Bond007
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    Well, I couldn't manage to beat him solo on Insane difficulty, so my second playthrough stopped there. ... : Johnny Law
    • This got me to thinking... my only gripe with Gears was just this: I had a "that's it" feeling after taki... : nagenift
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  A lot of posts saying he was too easy. Shotgun = easy : bozer
  • Shotgun? wtf.... : K1Bond007
  • Absolutely, shotgun in Gears = ownage. : funnynamehere
  • Yeah, I unloaded my shotgun into him from behind the first bit of cover a couple of times and then a bit ... : nodebug
• Hard? All you have to do is wait for him to get up by the first obstacle you duck behind, then run all th... : hoov1185
• Disagreed. make it harder Epic... granted i played this game to death, i found it to be too easy (even on... : Angry Max

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• I finished GoW and I didn't really like it. So I guess that blows your theory out of the water! WHA... : Arceihn

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  Same time frame as Resistance 2 : armybob
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    Yeah but Insomniac said Resistance 2 and then gave a long list of new stuff. I think the first Gears had... : Boxelder
    • ya they were different teams. Gears did have a ton of potential and it also capitalized on a lot of t... : armybob
• 2 years after the original. It ain't that fast. : razlebol

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• hell yea! We'll have a nice day one, cross-continent partay!! : dedgecko
• Co-op was super fun, the other multi modes were so-so, definitely nothing compared to what is in Halo 3, ... : Serpico74

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  yeah, cliffyb with a chainsaw, lolwtf? that was something better suited to the now extinct E3. terrible. : pyide
  • I sort of feel bad for him (and his millions). It's like MS is tooling with Epic like they did with Bung... : johngloid
• I agree wholly. This is a fucking game developer conference and, while the XNA stuff was huge, the fact t... : mittense

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  So you think that marines jumping around like bunnies is more realistic/fun? The cool thing about gears w... : Phunk
  • Hmmm.... I did play and beat mass effect like 3 times through and you cant jump in it... but thats not... : podung
• Be quiet, Gears wasn't a setback, and the second won't be either. Just... stuff a sock in your mouth. : the city
• The fact that you couldn't jump was one of my favorite parts about Gears, but to each their own I suppose... : Begawkiness
• I assume due to the "no jump" comment, you haven't seen the video of CliffyB explaining why it's missing.... : TheNiXXeD
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  But the main reason i decided not to play it was because you cant jump. The main reason I decided not... : derelict515
  • Agreed! : Lycronis
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    yea, it was.. cause now that i think about it.. i played a lot of games where you couldn't jump. BUT... : podung
    • It could only be better? really? Something about bunnyhopping everywhere really saps a lot of realism and... : derelict515

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  Just a question... but why is disarray in quotes? : the city
  • Why not "quotes?" : rustified
  • Just referencing Cliffy's recent comments. My post came off a little harsher than I intended... Gea... : jet-poop
• Does Epic even have writers? : freshyk
• They were on strike too. : adsriordan

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• and more bugs :( : eeeealmo
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  If they even decide to do the PC port this time around. : freshyk
  • Yeah with pc gaming being in disarray and all. : jtthe2nd

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• That's what I was hoping to see... : Madwacker

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  and achievements that are not ranked based in multi plz : bagelcc
  • ^^^^^^^ That too. Hell, a more fully featured multiplayer mode in general is needed. : sevogajre
• I agree with your thoughts, and wish to subscribe to your livejournal. : rustified
• dedicated servers please : Boxelder

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  A lot of what takes time nowadays is the initial creation of assets (textures, models, etc.) The Epic ... : RomSteady
  • ...that plus not needing as much engine development time this go around I would imagine. : sharkII
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  No shit that was fast, I guess it is just essentialy a mod aka add on... well sort of. Need more details,... : valcan_s
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    Crap I take that back, it will be two years exactly when number 2 is released that is allot of time to ma... : valcan_s
    • Well with a finished engine, I guess things can only get better. They probably have a few new tricks on ... : fmp sousuke
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  Remember there is a 3rd one that is supposed to come out before the 360 hits end of life so they gotta cr... : astonish
  • yah that it what I was thinking, 360 is only supposed to have a 5 year lifespan. : kodt
• It could also be because Epic is the king of the half-sequel. I hope the difference are bigger than they... : Boxelder
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  A two year development time now counts as fast? (And that assumes they didn't overlap the projects, but i... : GilesH
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    Um, yes, 2 years is pretty speedy unless it's more of an expansion pack than a sequel. Making AAA titles ... : aggressor
    • god of war 2 was finished in the same time frame, and it was pretty awesome. : dedgecko
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  Paging 40licks (I think that was his name) : skinlab133
  • Good fucking god that douchebag was annoying. : the city

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• this is all correct. : Silent Wolf

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  being that Epic, the studio making it designed UT3 as well, and Gears 1 was the first case to showcase wh... : AroundTheFur1380
  • HEAD ASPLODE : pixelat3d

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• Halo sells better because it was an established franchise. It will be interesting to see how well Gears 2... : cookblaze

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• same here... 4 player coop... wouldn't that actually be too easy?!! : sjpeters79
• all depends if they found a way to increase the enemy count up from the 6-7 that was the max the first ga... : dedgecko