GEARS of WAR

[Opaque]

SUCH FRONTING...IT'S RAMPANT!!!

I just can't help it.

When you can shoot fuckers in the head and cut them in half with chainsaws by sneaking up behind them, well, you just have to front.

[Cowdisease]

As Cap mentioned, we beat the game on Hardcore two nights ago, and were both dismayed. Cap thought he was still in Act 4, while I wasn't aware that Act 5 was the final stage. When we were fighting RAAM, we didn't realize he was the final boss. I thought at some point we would fight the Locust Queen (you hear her voice in some cutscenes and if you're playing as the Locust in multiplayer), but that never happened. There's also a huge enemy that appears at the end of Act 4, but you never get to fight it. It was a mistake for Cliffy B to introduce that monster if he never intended to have us fight it (and I really wanted to fight it).

Nonetheless, complaints aside, Gears of War is awesome. Online co-op is the best thing ever. Cap and I are trying to get through the game on Insane now and while some parts are easier since we know what's going to happen (ex. where the Emergence Holes appear), other parts are extremely difficult (stupid exploding wretches).

The Boomers are my favorite enemies. "BOOM!" There was one moment in Insane where Cap and I both threw grenades at the Boomers. After a couple of shots, they were down. So satisfying.

And I played multiplayer for about five hours straight last night.

[Daitokuji]

Maybe it's that the only action games I've played for more then a few minutes in the last month has been repeated sessions with the demos of duck-and-cover games GRAW and RS:V, but I had no issues getting right into the controls and gameplay.

Regardless, I was pretty just chiming in with how awesome it is so far. Just single-player at the moment, I'll be down with some multi in the next few days. So far it seems to be exactly the game for 360 that MS wanted it be. The voice work and writing is spot-on but the lip-synching could use some more animation.

Yeah, that's right. The only complaint for me to mention so far is the fucking lip-synch animation.

Jesus, right from FFXII into this. I'm going to get spoiled.

The controls of which I speak were mainly aiming. I'm used to reversed looking, you know up is down and down is up. flight controls

[BRAD73]

The controls of which I speak were mainly aiming. I'm used to reversed looking, you know up is down and down is up. flight controls

You are aware you can change this in control options right? I don't see how you guys play with the controls set inverted, I've tried and it drives me crazy.

[Bacon McShig]

I don't know how you can't, I've tried etcetera etcetera.

I think I has to do with how many flight sims you played before FPSes came around.

[Glass Joe]

You know that is an option that you can change in the Xbox 360 dash so you don't have to change it for every game right? Once you set it up, every game starts with the controls automatically inverted.

[Glass Joe]

You are aware you can change this in control options right? I don't see how you guys play with the controls set inverted, I've tried and it drives me crazy.

Inverted seems like common sense to me. It's kind of like tilting your head. You pull back and down to look up, and you push up and forward to look down.

[SamuraiMoogle]

I dont know what game got me started on the inverted aim. Turok? Goldeneye? Thats the first thing I check to see when I turn a new game on, is the invert aim on?

[Daitokuji]

You are aware you can change this in control options right? I don't see how you guys play with the controls set inverted, I've tried and it drives me crazy.

Sorry to say, no i didn't know. I don't own the game or a 360.

[FuryFox]

Yes, we've all been over this many times before. Flight stick rules, other style's for girls. At least it's easily fixable in GoW.

What's the worse tragedy is all my FFXII playing has made the x-axis in GoW seem reversed, and there's no way to fix that, takes me about a half hour of GoW before it clicks.