[Ulala]

GoW was pretty short..

[Mefustae]

How so?

When you have no idea of the reason behind your objectives, you've got a problem. When you find yourself repeatedly asking 'what the hell is that?' regarding major plot devices, you've got a problem. When you don't actually realise you're fighting the final boss of the game, you've got a big mother****ing problem.

I had heard talk of the GoW singleplayer plot being less-than-stellar, but that was just ****ing abysmal. It was as if they just sort of gave up on the singleplayer halfway through to go back to rendering the lovely-but-irrelevant scenery! Although, maybe i'm just misguided to expect, y'know, a finished product these days. Maybe the ending will be downloadable from XBL in the future, for a modest fee of course.

Gods help us that GoW is the current flagship game of the 360.

[Deepblue]

It's really fun though, and I could care less about the story. The characters and atmosphere more than make up for it IMHO.

EDIT: Please tell me you played through on Hardcore co-op. Casual is a joke, and the game is WAY better in co-op. Personally, I found the ending to be quite satisfying, not story-wise of course, but because the escalation in the fighting was brilliant.

[Ulala]

I have a hard time tolerating split screen these days, unfortunately.

[Turnsky]

but because the escalation in the fighting was brilliant.

really?.. it screamed "buy the sequel when it comes out at an inflated fee!"

if you want my opinion, the current trend of games "better if you play it with a friend" is disturbing to say the least, Game developers can't write outside of source code in my opinion.
Hell, if you want the shock of the century, Unreal Tournament 3 (they've dropped the year names, thankfully) WILL have a sort of single player story.  if it's anything beyond something bordering on trite, i'll be surprised.

i don't rightly care what your delusions are about Gears of War, Deepblue, but if you ask me, you can't see the forest for the trees. Because it WASN'T THAT GREAT..
after i finished it i went back to nuking bloody great snow worms in Lost planet..

[Mefustae]

after i finished it i went back to nuking bloody great snow worms in Lost planet..

I've heard good things about Lost Planet. Worth a buy? Or at the very least a rent?

[Turnsky]

after i finished it i went back to nuking bloody great snow worms in Lost planet..

I've heard good things about Lost Planet. Worth a buy? Or at the very least a rent?

definitely worth a rent, it actually does the whole story thing with better execution than Gears of war could ever pull off, and in my opinion, better use of graphics..

oh, and the main characters don't look like shaved gorillas 

it's an action game, make no mistake, but a very nicely done one at that.

[NGTM-1R]

i don't rightly care what your delusions are about Gears of War, Deepblue, but if you ask me, you can't see the forest for the trees. Because it WASN'T THAT GREAT..

I have to disagree. Gears makes it on its gameplay alone. The characters help a great deal when they're allowed to. The last few sections misfired remarkably badly storywise, but the gameplay was enough to carry it through.

When you don't actually realise you're fighting the final boss of the game, you've got a big mother****ing problem.

And how the hell did you not realize that was the final boss Mefustae? You sleep through the section at the start where they said the Light Mass Bomb would end it all with one shot? There be the Bomb, that'd damn well better be the last boss.

[Mefustae]

And how the hell did you not realize that was the final boss Mefustae? You sleep through the section at the start where they said the Light Mass Bomb would end it all with one shot? There be the Bomb, that'd damn well better be the last boss.

You'll have to forgive me for missing the single, obscure line that mentioned it. Honestly, the voice-work was such a mess i'm surprised I even knew who to shoot at, let alone the intricacies of the half-baked plot.

Anyway, it's a nice game regardless. Great gameplay and visuals to be sure, and had the story been present it would have almost deserved the hype it got. It's not as overhyped as, say, Half Life 2 or Halo 2 for instance, but there can be no denying that Gears was still pretty darn overrated.

Such promise, too. If only they'd hired a proper writer rather than getting Mike from payroll to do the job.

[Turnsky]

And how the hell did you not realize that was the final boss Mefustae? You sleep through the section at the start where they said the Light Mass Bomb would end it all with one shot? There be the Bomb, that'd damn well better be the last boss.

You'll have to forgive me for missing the single, obscure line that mentioned it. Honestly, the voice-work was such a mess i'm surprised I even knew who to shoot at, let alone the intricacies of the half-baked plot.

he's got a point, the "boss" wasn't much, all one hadta do was run like heck to the troika up front, and let him have it..

the corpser was harder by comparison..

really, all that's said and done, GoW wasn't really that revolutionary, it raised no bar, its popularity is purely based on its XBL appeal, i assure you, if it tried to carry its weight based on the SP component alone, it woulda failed.
Let's face it, Epic's great at Multiplayer based shooters, Unreal went as far as it did for its SP component 'cuz there was a lot of it to be played, and it begun a Renaissance for the FPS community, along with Half life.

the Look of the levels was rather arbitary, looking at it from one perspective, all it was, was yet another corridor shooter with pretty scenery to separate it from the crowd. Highly linear, too.

Tim Schafer said it best, Game developers need to learn how to write.
Doom 3, which had a pretty weak multi component and was prolly tacked on to sate the crowd, relied entirely on its single-player story to carry it through, only problem is, as pretty as Id can make a game, they can't write to save their lives.. and definitely no scary moments, 'cuz you pretty much knew when and where they were gonna jump out at ya.

[jr2]

...I think I remember hearing somewheres that the big thing with GoW was the multiplayer action; not sure, though.

[Sarafan]

About Gears of War, sure, it was definitely overrated now just wait when the movie comes about.

[jr2]

I hope it's not like Doom   Doom couldn't been alright (main storyline held potential), but they made it a watch stuff blow up like in the game movie.  Oh, wait,... throw in partial frontal nudity, that'll make it a best seller for sure!!

[Sarafan]

I hope it's not like Doom   Doom couldn't been alright (main storyline held potential), but they made it a watch stuff blow up like in the game movie.  Oh, wait,... throw in partial frontal nudity, that'll make it a best seller for sure!!

Oh, it wont be like Doom, it'll be worse. Of course it wont be nowhere near as worse as the Postal movie wich is being directed by the one whose name shall not be spoken.

[Turnsky]

I hope it's not like Doom   Doom couldn't been alright (main storyline held potential), but they made it a watch stuff blow up like in the game movie.  Oh, wait,... throw in partial frontal nudity, that'll make it a best seller for sure!!

if the shave some gorillas and put body armor on them, that's half the cast over and done with  :

[jr2]

Of course it wont be nowhere near as worse as the Postal movie wich is being directed by the one whose name shall not be spoken.

What, D3r3k Sm4rt?

[brozozo]

No, Uwe Boll.

[Turnsky]

About Gears of War, sure, it was definitely overrated now just wait when the movie comes about.

on the plus side, it'll actually be true to the game for once. 
(yes, the game DID suck, had no plot, no point, and was mindless)

[Sarafan]

on the plus side, it'll actually be true to the game for once. 

 

[Mobius]

Metal Gear Solid was overrated. It was short and the gameplay wasn't perfect, and Italian Gaming magazines gave it a nice 10/10.

Final Fantasy VII isn't that overrated. It's one of the best games ever, and there were 3 Bahamut. It's sufficient!