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By: Paul Emil

Paul Emil — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 21:32:49 +0000

GOW had two colours: Shit brown and gunmetal grey. The two most boring colours in existence. Compare that to Serious Sam 2.

By: roryok

roryok — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 12:03:19 +0000

and while we’re on a bout of epic bashing, did anyone else think the last unreal tournament game was nothing but a more polished version of the same old (admittedly fun) game?

How about sinking some of that dosh into something a little more intelligent? Replace those CHAINsaws with BRAINsaws man…

By: Dexton

Dexton — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 11:51:54 +0000

Didn’t Gears on the PC come out at about the same time as Call of Duty 4, Half Life EP2 and Crysis?

Who knows, maybe it didn’t do that well on the PC because PC gamers had other, much better, games to play with. Anbd yes I thought Gears was rubbish.

By: cassus

cassus — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 21:32:08 +0000

Cliffy, as someone stated before, just blames shit sales on piracy. I got Gears on 360 second hand from Gamestop. It’s a piece of shit. Seriously. I’ve been playing games for way more than 20 years, and there’s nothing new or special about Gears of War. Take a super linear game without any inovation and polish it forever and you get Gears. Reason PC gamers don’t buy it is either because they already have it on 360, or because they are above the age of 18. It’s a game made for people who were too young to play FPS’es from the beginning.

Seen all this crap before. Nothing new in this series.

Go back to making Pinball games, epic. Those were actually pretty good for their time. In the FPS market, you are oooold neeeews.

By: The Shed

The Shed — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 17:54:38 +0000

As iainl said, it’s not “Gears was less sophisticated” it’s “Gears was a totally different kind of game”. I.e. Not your typical PC FPS.

By: Funky Badger

Funky Badger — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 17:40:34 +0000

For all this “Well, Gears was less sophisticated than a normal PC game” line of thought, aren’t the 10 most popular PC titles The Sims and World of Warcraft?

The thread reeks somewhat of “she didn’t dump me, I dumped her. And I never liked her anyway!”

By: Frye

Frye — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 17:39:31 +0000

There’s yet another side to it. I was introduced to the downloading of cracks thing because:

1) i wanted to play BF 2 without having to insert a CD all the time, so i was told to mount an image. (2 clicks as opposed to opening my cupboard, opening a cd case, opening my cd drive, and then waiting 90(!!!!) seconds for the cd check to finish and vice versa when im done playing)
2) I wanted to play Clear Sky AT ALL but it insisted i did not have the proper cd in the drive.

I bought both of them. I do not condone piracy and i don’t really need to financially, but had my life not been made this hard, i would never have discovered how easy it actually is to pirate stuff.

By: Dreamhacker

Dreamhacker — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 17:34:38 +0000

Good riddance, Cliffski-B!

By: Psychopomp

Psychopomp — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 17:20:17 +0000

@Whoever it was.

Helmet-Guy isn’t coming back. That’s the uniform for generic footsoldiers.

Also, I shall forever have a soft spot in my heart for the hilariously macho (even for Gears) Cole.

“AW, YEAH BABY! THIS IS MY KINDA !”

By: The Shed

The Shed — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 16:53:19 +0000

…Where Ubisoft very effectively used a seperate development path to ensure the PC release was a ‘proper’ PC game that demanded both skills.

True, and generally your post got it spot on. It’s halfway between mindless shooter and tactical action, where GRAW and RSV tuned the shooter part down a bit. Whilst also making sure their game appealed to PC gamers, where Epic just left it the same as what the consolefolk wanted/expected.

By: iainl

iainl — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 16:43:40 +0000

I hated Gears. Really, really hated it. With so many people raving about the thing I gruellingly slogged my way through the whole first two levels (and dear LORD do they go on once you’re past the intial one) over the course of a couple of hours.

But I don’t think it’s a question of LOWERING expectations, but looking for a different type of game than the one you got. Your standard PC FPS asks primarily for accuracy skills. Gears, between being aimed at dual-sticks and going for an over-the-shoulder third-person view, decided it was going to concentrate on the more tactical aspects of being in the right place and using cover, and as long as you’re pointing roughly in the right direction that’s fine.

Except that by doing so, they walked right into the firing line of Rainbow 6 and GRAW, where Ubisoft very effectively used a seperate development path to ensure the PC release was a ‘proper’ PC game that demanded both skills.

By: The Shed

The Shed — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 16:43:10 +0000

The fact is that it’s not an FPS, and not one geared around accurate aiming. Almost every PC gamer I can see here seemed to expect something grand like Crysis or HL2, simply because it was renowned on 360. Like trying to fit a square in a round hole.