Epic was ready to scrap Gears multiplayer

Icewake - 784 days 16 hours ago

Your ass is still sore over that? Oh and idiot, multiplayer doesn't make a game anyway. :)

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BloodySinner - 784 days 16 hours ago

Yeah, because it's awesome. Bioshock didn't have online play, yet still got high scores. Why? Because it's awesome as well.

W A I T B 3 Y O N D

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Witty Comment - 784 days 16 hours ago

but if you're complaining about something being biased, and your avatar is like yours, and you sign every post "P L A Y B 3 Y O N D", then it would seem you're only contributing toward the problem of something being biased.

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Sam Fisher - 784 days 15 hours ago

the multiplayer was fun except 4 the hosting, crab walk, gernade hitting all the time, dive and shoot (automatic kill i might add), chainsaw detonation explosion kill glitch....(-_-) but other than than that its 1 hell of a game... o and its NOT the best game...*cough* Mass Effect is....

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wageslave - 784 days 15 hours ago

The METACRITIC score of Gears of War is 9.4 / 10

http://www.metacritic.com/g...

That is higher than any other PS3 exclusive, not R&C (9.0), Resistence (8.6), Warhawk (8.4) or Motorstorm (8.2).

The *AVERAGE* score for Gears of War exceeds any PS3 exclusive. Who caers if your sore over one review? Wants some cheese with your whine?

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andy001 - 784 days 14 hours ago

I am so happy that you rely on Metacritic so much to determine your preferences. It would be really hard work for you if you had to make your own mind up.

Its a good job they had all those mountain dew Halo commercials, otherwise you might have died of thirst by now.

I like Gears BTW. Really cool game, and it surpasses any other similar game on the 360, especially co-op. In fact, it was the first game I have ever played within which I preferred co-op to the usual deathmatch stuff.

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wageslave - 784 days 12 hours ago

I dont know what game you're talking about. But the topic of this game is Gears of War for Xbox 360.

If you'd like to contribute, I suggest you go and play it for the first time.

Clearly you have not.

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sgaap - 784 days 15 hours ago

Do you only have one hand or something?

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BloodySinner - 784 days 15 hours ago

The host can't lose? Where did you pull that from? Your disgusting ass?

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TheSadTruth - 784 days 12 hours ago

"You cannot strafe and shoot at the same time"

Right, you can't because your shots start to land outside of your reticule and your accuracy is reduced to the point where you might as well just strafe and stop to shoot

Of course if you are going to argue with me on this it's probably because you have no clue what I'm talking about and probably stand still when you shoot or are so bad you don't notice the reduced accuracy in your shots because you normally miss most of your shots

"The host can't lose? Where did you pull that from? Your disgusting ass?"

In hundreds of games vs competent players I have not once lost an entire match with host, even when faced 1 on 4 or when my team is horrible.. the game's network code is terrible and the server side hit detection is why the game is such a joke... you cannot use server side hit detection in a console game without using some sort of aim assist or auto aim or magnetism because of the massive delay.. even if you try to lead shots they will still miss, while the host's shots will register 100% of the time

If you try to argue with me it's because you are not good at video games or are ignorant, because that's the reality of why Gears of War online multiplayer fails (LAN is a different story)

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Mwaan - 784 days 12 hours ago

I agree. But you're overreacting again.

"You cannot strafe and shoot at the same time"

This is a design decision and not a true flaw. It makes the game unique. You may not like it, but millions of other people love it.

"host cannot lose games"

The host does have a significant advantage, but it doesn't stop the game from being fun. If you want to play competitively, play LAN.

Melee is still a little suspect and the only real problem I have with the game. Who gives a flying F**k about Leaderboards?

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Kleptic - 784 days 10 hours ago

from a technical standpoint...he is dead on...the p2p only connection method of XBL...paired with a relatively clumsy multiplayer code...resulted in a very frustrating and laggy experience at times...the Co-op stuff worked great...but vs. battles were nearly always laggy for me...laggy to the point where it wasn't fun...ducking behind the wall and knowing you are safe, only to have your head popped by an explosive arrow despite that was enough to throw your controller at a bus...

Gears has never been touted a hugely awesome multiplayer game though...8 players?...no dedicated servers?...horrid lobbying?...it was pretty much expected...however, when there is no lag, it is still very fun to play online...I agree with TheSadTruth in that it was extremely bizarre to see Epic create such a cruddy online code...the truth came out soon after release with all the reports of how unhappy Epic is/was with XBL...Gears 2 should have all that perfected...but with Halo 3 not even having dedicated servers (can't believe you XBL subscribers put up with that), the laggy p2p nature will most likely still exist...

Everyone knows Epic does not prefer XBL...they are a PC company at heart...charging for maps and UGC is unheard of by them...UT3 has some pretty big hurdles for the 360 because of this...but hopefully that will be a game with Gears level of visual greatness with a much superior online setup for the 360...it most likely will, but the UGC stuff is still all up in the air...

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jcgamer - 784 days 14 hours ago

Isn't it funny that the best selling game on the 360 AND PS3 are both shooters? Both FPS? And what did both MS AND SONY end their E3 conferences with? And what exactly is Haze and UT3? This is the year of the shooter so get over it...

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ry-guy - 784 days 13 hours ago

If Warhawk was the best shooter of this generation, why isn't it moving consoles like Gears and Halo did?

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ry-guy - 784 days 13 hours ago

I had the same thought too while I read this article.

"Okay... Mike doesn't like X, Y, and Z. Let's implement them!"

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wageslave - 784 days 12 hours ago

Maybe mike is just an honest person, who is willing to discuss his self-doubt and decision making.

I find it refreshing. Some firms are so arrogant with their confidence, that they dont have the character to say "I was worried about this, or I considerd X intstead of Y".

Its good to see how they think during the process.

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poeo - 784 days 12 hours ago

yeah mad world was great.. in the movie donnie darko

EDIT: lol so you people actually liked the song more in a f*cking COMMERCIAL? it was very cheap of MS or whoever to rip that great song off.. use it in a damn generic shooter commercial. Complete eww.

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