No Gears of War 2 on PC, Says Epic

HAhah still no gow 2for pc .but no problem i realized it on cristmis evening that you guy suck ballzz .Epic ? You feel special now because you think you created a game thats uniek because its only on fucking dumb box with a shoebox as controler? Xbox is a stupid owrthles pieco of shit Games like shooters are best played on pc Only sport is better with controller all the other games pc!!! fuck the dumb microsoft xbox!!!

Oh pleeease.

Come on guys, surely you see that this announcement has a 90% chance of being BS? Sure, maybe they won't port it to PC. Pff, we have Gears 1.

However, they said "No way is GoW 1 coming to PC" about 500 times before, with "confirmation" coming from Microsoft, Epic itself, and Cliffy B.

Then what happened? It CAME to PC.

It's called PR and hype. They say it won't come to keep their Xbox audience sweet. They get kicks out of it being "exclusive", so they can say "LOL xbox is teh betters than PC nubLOLO!ONEONE!"

Then, when the Xbox has been milked a bit and people are hooked on the game, and the PC users have just about forgotten about the game, suddenly it's announced that the PC version is released.

Now that the Xbox players are hooked they'll only be pissed off for a little while, and you immediately get the interest of all the PC players who thought it wasn't coming.

Cliffy B is probably reading this right now, smoking a fat cigar, and just grinning smugly to himself. He's got all the angry commenters on his line like fish.

This is absolute bullshit!!! This is by no means fair to the legions of PC gaming customers who would prefer to play a game of this magnitude on their computers. I personally find that first person shooters are far better with a keyboard and mouse. Ironic is that a product made exclusively for Microsoft is only released for the XBOX 360 console, secondly... Epic had no issues with releasing the first GOW on PC. So now if a person wants to play GOW 2, they have to go and shell out $200.00 or more for an XBOX 360 just to play the game. I must say that is a pretty expensive marketing flaw for Epic to claim such nonsense. But at the end of the day it will be Epic's fault for losing millions of potential customers for denying the release of a game that many eagerly awaited to play and enjoy. Way to go Epic.... you suck!!!!

It looks like i am the only one who wants this sequel to come to the PC so bad.
I am praying to see it in the future.

Translation:

PC gamers see through our shallow approach to gameplay and would never buy crap like the the GoW franchise. So we will just sell it to the idiots who will buy anything and save ourselves the time and effort in having to make up more nonsense about piracy.

I Enjoyed the first one on the PC.Although it was buggy like hell.
When i first saw the trailers and the E3 Footage for GeOW 2 i was so excited about it and was hoping it makes it to PC.The Campaign,the new weapons,the graphics,the multiplayer...everything.Now i am so disappointed i wont get the chance to play it or continue the story.

This is a speculation. There will be a PC version of the game, but it's going to be released maybe the fall of 2009 and Epic knows it. It will be a very stupitd thing not to do that, because many of the 360 players bougth the game for PC simply because you cannot match tha coop experience no a split TV screen to a 24" LCD monitor on your pc. Sorry for my bad english.

Bill Gates says: you bitches will make the sequel x-box exlusive.

Lowly Epic Servant: yes master. as you command master.

Good riddance Epic. That's coming from a long time devoted fan of the Unreal franchise on pc. All I can say is that Epic is the newest example of a company lowering their standards, taking the easier road, and pandering to the lowest common denominator. Their platform shift reminds me of the Bungie sellout fiasco ala Halo 1. These companies can whine and moan all they want about how rampant piracy and lack of consumer spending has "forced" them to shift to consoles, but all I need to do is remind them that plenty of other massively successful companies continue to be totally devoted to the pc platform. Anyone heard of a little known company called Blizzard entertainment? Could they have shifted any of their games to consoles or tried to design it to span multiple platforms to rake in a larger profit margin? Absolutely, but they chose to make an exceptional game for single platform, rather than an above average game for multiple platforms. I loved their response when someone asked if Diablo 3 was in production for any console platform. "We have no current plans for any console game at this time. Diablo 3 will be PC and MAC exclusive at release."

Honestly, I'm not even upset about the lack of GOW2 pc port. I didn't even think it was a great game in the first place. The cover element of the gameplay seemed very gimmicky and I found the biggest part of my enjoyment came from the relatively high polish and cutscenes. UT3 was a monumental disaster and I resented the fact that Epic refused to take responsibility for the lack of quality and poor design choices and instead blame it on the pc platform as a whole.

CliffyB's a douche.

Whatever, Epic is dead to me anyway.

Oh well didn't buy the first Gears of War now i won't buy the 2nd gears of War. The only game i ever bought from epic was the first Unreal and Unreal Tournament before they were cool now they suck after releasing many many edtions of the boring Unreal Tournaments now they've started the same thing with releasing one gears of war after another who cares, epic is gonna die off real soon releasing re-hash after re-hash after re-hash.Sell those console kids they suck!!!

Gears of War play better on the 360.

Gears of War was a great game. I think its just sad how epic has given up on the platfrom that they built themselves on, the PC.

It's funny how many "who care's?" posts that show up every time a new developer says that future games in that series will no longer be coming to PC. Keep saying "who care's?" as that'll be what most people will think when only indie developers are the ones releasing games for PCs. As in, who cares, nobody plays games other than MMOs on PCs anyway.

they will eventually make it for the PC ...anyway i wouldnt care much especially after seeing those videos, its rediculously the same as the first one and after playing the first one for a couple of hours it gets boring and repititive

I for one bought the pc version, and quite frankly found the whole expeince saddening. I hated dealing with Windows live, watched as the forums kinda fell apart, and waited for a patch that pretty much never came. Putting all that aside the game was fun, when it worked, but then again why bother.

No loss. the original was a shitty port anyway. Controls sucked, graphics sucked, the whole game sucked. Kinda like Epic itself. Coincidence?

its GeoW, GoW is for God of War on playstation. :P

From a PC gamer perspective, this is no great loss. Gears of War was not a good game to begin with.
My opinion of course.

-driller

Epic who?

Oh thank God, the port was awful the first time and then Cliffy is like "OMG IT DIDN'T SELL 4 MILLION COPIES AGAIN!"

Keep an Xbox game on Xbox. No PC version or verry shitt PC version? I'll take the latter.

Good thing, the PC port of GoW was terrible. If you can't do it right, DON'T.

Controller based FPS that are ported to PC are always trivial once you convert controller to mouse. Hello Halo!

Are we really missing that much? I can see how 360 users are watering at the mouth but while the first part looked great for pc, the gameplay was nothing new and quite repetitive. I guess FPS are still "hot" for 360.

My Xbox 360 is ready for this game, bring it on

I CANNOT EXRESS MY CRUSHING DISAPPOINTMENT THAT I WILL NOT BE ABLE TO PLAY THIS TITLE. Oh noes.

Who cares?! Epic hasn't made a good game in donkeys years.
Last one i purchased off them Was Unreal, which i thought was amazing and a million times better than Quake 2. After that.... well... Epic's like EA and the Fifa series...

UT3 was a total let down, I liked Epic but this is up to the arse. I would have bought it. Pah, I won't get an Xbox for this

These guys are digging their own graves. They couldn't keep PC gamers interested in their crap. What makes them so sure they wont eventually have the same problem with console gamers?

I hope cliffy b chokes on bill gate's dick

Oh no, a brown game with W40K space marine copies killing insects isn't coming to PC! ;_;

That's why I love Id Software so much. They always make games for Pc, Mac, consoles...
Fuck Epic, you are a pet of Microsoft

As a PC gamer myself, I dont understand why we have to always hold a grudge against consoles. Just because a game is only for consoles or started out on consoles doesn't automatically make it bad.

As for people complaining about the "machoness" of GoW? What did you expect? The human race is on the verge of extinction, its a pretty grim premise. DId you expect to see something all jolly?

Wouldn't it be cool if they said, "Unreal Tournament is a great franchise first and foremost for PC, and therefore we're focusing on that platform for UT3".

I thought this time around they will have the chance to developed for multiple platforms simultaneously as opposed to doing a port after the release.

Wouldn't that make it easier and cheaper and they could release the game on more platforms?

I guess the decision to not make a PC version was made early on, at the time they ported the first title to the PC.

Hmm is boycottepicgames.com taken ? How about destroyepicgames.com ?

As much as I think Epic is just shooting themselves in the foot with their anti-PC approach, I really don't care all that much.

I think I've finally figured it out why the Xbox praises decent games more so than great games. It has nothing to do with the quality, it's all about how epic it is. If you have a game with fantastic mechanics that balance out both in theory and practice, that won't matter all that much on the consoles if you don't have chainsaw bayonets. I'm not saying I don't like epic shit, but in my opinion it should be game mechanics, originality, and then the WOW factor. Not the other way around.

GoW was a fun game, but that said I wouldn't care if it was released as console only, it's not that special.

I wonder how much the PC version of Gears sold.