ReZourceman Posted November 11, 2008 Posted November 11, 2008 Matchmaking is the worst invention ever. I've always thought this, servers are SO much better! The option to choose between the two would be even better Didn't they say it had both? Which was just a lie.
Shorty Posted November 12, 2008 Posted November 12, 2008 Well, finally finished this (on hardcore co-op, woo, got about 6 achievements at once!) it was a very awesome game, a lot of fun to play although annoyingly difficult in random places. The ending wasn't a scratch on its predecessor but still, I enjoyed it a lot. Insane difficulty and Horde mode, here I come...
Dan_Dare Posted November 12, 2008 Posted November 12, 2008 Campaign is awesome. Dying alot though as I'm on Hardcore. Satisfying once I get it right though.
spirited away Posted November 12, 2008 Posted November 12, 2008 Hopefully Phee will never talk of the first multiplayer game I had on Avalance yesterday.
Shorty Posted November 12, 2008 Posted November 12, 2008 I've been ignoring a lot of invites to multiplayer games recently because I was getting them while I was in the middle of co-op splitscreen. Finished that now so if anyone sees me online tonight feel free to invite
Haden Posted November 12, 2008 Posted November 12, 2008 Had an amazing game of horde today got to level 37 or something on Day One furtherst id gotten before on horde was about 16. Met some awesome guys a 12 year old brit who was really nice and some yanks in there 30s who were so so nice. I dont know if it was because none of them were teens but everyone was so pleasant funny commutative it was amazing! I adore cod 4 but this may be my fave MP experience ive ever had.
Din Posted November 12, 2008 Posted November 12, 2008 This game is awesome! Me and my mate played campaign on co-op for 8hrs straight on Sat! We've only got a couple more chapters to do as we didn't have enough time to finish the game. I've just played it for 3hrs in single player and it's still frickin awesome!
Hero-of-Time Posted November 12, 2008 Posted November 12, 2008 Had a great game of Submission tonight, one round lasted 20 mins! It was very tight but we got the victory at the end. Sorry to Matt and Rob for not accepting invites but I was away in various matches.
Bren Posted November 12, 2008 Posted November 12, 2008 Did all the collecting tonight, wot fun that was, got my ass beat down for a bit on multiplayer n all. Im shit at gears online, just like with the first. I think ill finish insane mode then this'll probly be laid to rest for a few months.
LegoMan1031 Posted November 13, 2008 Posted November 13, 2008 Tried starting it on insane last night... good lord. Think i will leave that till i can get someone to play co-op with me. Think i will start hardcore tonight, build up my single player skill and go on a collactables hunt. I had a few good games online last night where i actually did good! lol (normally i'm shit)
Dog-amoto Posted November 13, 2008 Posted November 13, 2008 Had to quit a game of Submission tonight as the meatflag glitched. We couldn't take him down, no matter what we tried. And he wouldn't shoot us either, it was as though he wasn't there. There was no way to end the match either so I ended up having to restart my console Horde and campaign (with the exception of the awful act 4) aside, I honestly prefer the first game. Multiplayer is awful. The smoke grenades are a cheap way to make someone drop the flag in Submission, the shotgun is pretty useless, matches are now a chainsaw-fest. The public matchmaking is terrible. As mentioned before, if you want to play Guardian, then why should you have to end up playing Warzone? I have the same thought on the map voting too. The grenade wall tags seems pretty random too, sometimes you get killed, other times not and usually, there is no way of getting away from them as they explode too quickly. The only thing I like better about the multiplayer is the ability to crawl when down. They should have left the active sniper down in, as you couldn't get those cheap 3 shot kills anymore as your target can just crawl away. That's not to say that this game is bad, but it's pretty disappointing and I have very little desire to play multiplayer even though I loved the first one.
The Bard Posted November 16, 2008 Posted November 16, 2008 Ill be on tuesday night, finally got a new headset. We need to organise a forum match so I can familiarise myself with the maps and shit
Caris Posted November 16, 2008 Posted November 16, 2008 Anyone on tonight? Hell yeah, 8 till late Gears anyone? C'man, like the old days.
Dan_Dare Posted November 16, 2008 Posted November 16, 2008 OK send me an FR anyone who's up for it. think I cleared a bit of room this week.
Dyson Posted November 16, 2008 Posted November 16, 2008 Hmm, can anyone send me a copy of Gears 2 by tonight for this Gears event?
Bren Posted November 16, 2008 Posted November 16, 2008 just remember top gears on at 8, ill be on from 9
McPhee Posted November 16, 2008 Posted November 16, 2008 sounds good heading on now! Got a game going if anyone wants in?
CoolFunkMan Posted November 17, 2008 Posted November 17, 2008 Well, I finally completed the campaign (only on normal though), and I thought it was bloody brilliant! The last boss and ending was a bit meh, but I thought it was better than the first game! I might join in mulitplayer sometime soon! Though I did suck at GoW multiplayer, and I have no headset, so I don't think I'll be playing for long.
Dog-amoto Posted November 20, 2008 Posted November 20, 2008 This is a very very bad game for multiplayer. You don't know who is host, so I've had loads of games where I've nearly won, only for the game to end because somebody quit. I hosted a few matches in the first one, or joined games hosted by my friends, mainly because I knew that I wasn't going to quit, even if I lost 19-0, now I have no way of doing this. Am gonna go back to the first one.
Dan_Dare Posted November 20, 2008 Posted November 20, 2008 I don't agree with you in the slightest. This game shits on the first in every single way I can think of.
Dog-amoto Posted November 20, 2008 Posted November 20, 2008 While I will admit that the game modes, maps, weapons (apart from the shotgun) and tweaks they've made to the gameplay are better, the setup of the game is just downright shit. Let me explain I hate the fact that you have to vote for the gametype/map. I hate the fact that you can't specify the number of rounds/bleedout time/round duration on ranked/public matches. I was playing Wingman, got knocked down and bleedout time must have been about 20 seconds. What's the point of having execution matches if your opponents can down you, then have time to have a smoke before walking all the way across the map to kill you? I hate wondering if the game is going to end because someone leaves (in the first game, you could host or get a friend to do it. And even if no friends were online, you could ask the host of the last game you played if they were going to do another one) I hate the fact that I always seem to get paired with laggy, wanker Americans (at least in the first one, you could avoid them by looking at the connection speeds) I hate the fact that if you want to have a private match (to avoid all the above issues), you can't just create one and have random people join like you could on the original's player matches. You have to have either bots or friends, which is just totally shit. I've had loads of fun in this game when I've had loads of friends in my room, but during the day, when most of them aren't about, the game is very very hit and miss. By the way, sorry I didn't accept your invite yesterday, me and a friend were finishing it on insane.
Dan_Dare Posted November 21, 2008 Posted November 21, 2008 well I barely play matchmaking. I've regularly had 10-15 friends on per night playing this so it's not bothering me much. Even so, I think you're exaggerating the problems. I've had some pretty awesome games on matchmaking. Wouldn't mind a custom game browser though.
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