Microsoft talks Gears Of War trilogy

[Zeus]

Speaking to GameDaily, Microsoft's Jeff Bell let slip a big plan to make Marcus Fenix the hero of a Gears of War TRILOGY.

[iratasan]

if they can keep up the quality that would be a smart move.

[DanASBO]

:D Like the Churchill dog would say "Oh yes".

[xllzerollx]

if they fix the anoying chainsaw and mics bugs, then ok:D

[DanASBO]

if they fix the anoying chainsaw and mics bugs, then ok:D

Chainsaw mics bugs what now?

:confused:

I've been playing the game for practically 4 days solid and haven't noticed any bugs... apart from the Berserkers being able to smell /my/ fear through the monitor. Whenever Dom or Fenix go "Shh" my heart rate doubles, lol.

[Trashcat]

This just in: sony announced that Resistance: fall of man will also be made into trilogy, ken kutaragi had this to say: "our developers tried really hard to make a cheap Gears of War rip off, and we won't stop until we finish the fight".

[Scorpion3]

Chainsaw mics bugs what now?

:confused:

I've been playing the game for practically 4 days solid and haven't noticed any bugs... apart from the Berserkers being able to smell /my/ fear through the monitor. Whenever Dom or Fenix go "Shh" my heart rate doubles, lol.

I guess he means the slight glitch where sometimes, and this is a big sometimes, when you're sawing a guy they can move away less then a foot. Mic bugs I have no idea what he's talking about. But I agree, the game doesn't really innovate when it comes to action gaming, it has elements that Kill.Switch had, but with more features. But the best part of the game is the Survival Horror elements were introduced into an action game. Sure you can say Resident Evil was a big action game as well, but that's not true, they just gave heavy arms. But by fusing the two together, that's pretty innovative.

This just in: sony announced that Resistance: fall of man will also be made into trilogy, ken kutaragi had this to say: "our developers tried really hard to make a cheap Gears of War rip off, and we won't stop until we finish the fight".

Is this supposed to be a shot at Sony or was it really true? :confused:

if they can keep up the quality that would be a smart move.

We agree again, way too many games anymore let go of the things that make the original game great. Just look at the Halo series, Halo 2 was alright story wise, but the gameplay lacked of what Halo 1 did.

Aside from everything else, this makes me wonder if Gears of War was a prequal to the Trilogy, like how Pitch Black was the prequal to the Chronicles of Riddick movies.

[xllzerollx]

it was to hard to read so is out,
:) sry for any aye bleeding i may had coused to any reader
haha

[BloodShed]

This is some SWEET news. Not exactly surprising... but good to hear the confirmation.

xllzerollx, that was the longest, most convoluted, and confusing run-on sentence I've ever seen.

Mic bugs I have no idea what he's talking about.
I can only assume it has to do with voice chat over Xbox Live.

Am I the only one that has experienced (several times) the "weapon thrown through the floor" bug? When changing weapons, Fenix insists on kicking a field goal with the gun you are exchanging... and it ends up disappearing into the floor never to be seen again.

But I agree, the game doesn't really innovate when it comes to action gaming, it has elements that Kill.Switch had, but with more features. But the best part of the game is the Survival Horror elements were introduced into an action game.
That's crazy. The whole cover system has never been done like this before. In fact, it is so important to this game, it's actually a requirement to use. Plus, the active reload is a pretty neat new feature.

Though, I can't agree the "survival horror" feel of it is new. What about F.E.A.R. or hell... even Doom?

Aside from everything else, this makes me wonder if Gears of War was a prequal to the Trilogy, like how Pitch Black was the prequal to the Chronicles of Riddick movies.
...uh, or like how every movie/game in the history of time is a prequel to a sequel? Heh.

[xllzerollx]

xllzerollx, that was the longest, most convoluted, and confusing run-on sentence I've ever seen.


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[rccool111]

Let Slip my a$$. Is it really that hard to predict that the most successful 360 game to date is going to have a successor?
In other related news EA announced that there will be an NBA Live 08& Madden 08? OMFG Who would have thought?

[Scorpion3]

This is some SWEET news. Not exactly surprising... but good to hear the confirmation.

xllzerollx, that was the longest, most convoluted, and confusing run-on sentence I've ever seen.


I can only assume it has to do with voice chat over Xbox Live.

Am I the only one that has experienced (several times) the "weapon thrown through the floor" bug? When changing weapons, Fenix insists on kicking a field goal with the gun you are exchanging... and it ends up disappearing into the floor never to be seen again.


That's crazy. The whole cover system has never been done like this before. In fact, it is so important to this game, it's actually a requirement to use. Plus, the active reload is a pretty neat new feature.

Though, I can't agree the "survival horror" feel of it is new. What about F.E.A.R. or hell... even Doom?


...uh, or like how every movie/game in the history of time is a prequel to a sequel? Heh.

First of all, I haven't ever noticed the clipping problems besides with the Kryll, but that's because they are not corporeal they are literally Shadow. Although I noticed the long distance an older weapon travels, it's not a bug though it's, just that like the rest of the game, is so intense he throws it while swapping.

Second, play Kill.Switch, it was used to almost the exact same way. It wasn't a great game, so they didn't even mention the great use of cover. The active reload thing I see as a more Suvival Horror type of setting, because they're so intense that if you miss the reload you could die, will die more likely.

Third, the Horror in that game isn't really psychological like Gears is. In Doom, well Doom 3 since the other 2 weren't scary even for that generation, played on a fear of the dark more then being afraid of what's coming. It like the rest of the Dooms were too easy, you never died because Ammo and health were not a problem to find. F.E.A.R. does the Japanese type horror, where you're not so scared as you are creeped out, I call this the Silent Hill Syndrome. lol. Though unlike Doom, you do fear for your life rather then just something jumping out. But in Gears, you have so many elements of horror, they use movie like lighting, surprises, use of the dark, use of suspense, it unlike most Survival Horror games uses many elements.

And last, no game in history has ever made a prequal BEFORE making a sequal into a Trilogy. It's been done before in movies though, hence my reference to Pitch Black. You missunderstand, I'm talking about a Trilogy that actually has 4 games, just 3 of the games are spin offs from the original game. ;) Pitch Black did it to get to know who Riddick is before they make him the hero in the Chronicles Trilogy.

[Retroboy]

This just in: sony announced that Resistance: fall of man will also be made into trilogy, ken kutaragi had this to say: "our developers tried really hard to make a cheap Gears of War rip off, and we won't stop until we finish the fight".

hey sony hater, why the hell you go on about sony for, get fecked you wiitard.

If resistance becomes a trillogy its nothing to do with sony, its Insomniac Games , sony arent going to stop a company making a game trillogy series because your a fecking wiitard.

[bavelb]

Mic bug:

When you play online, unranked matches, a lot of the times people who join the map rotation after the first game has start, won't be audible. You have to make a new game and let people rejoin.

It sucks bigtime and is my one big gripe with the game.

[Retroboy]

i hate the 360 for two player games full stop, its stupid why you have to create 2 profiles on your HD just to be able to play.

Why the 360 cant allow all games to be 2 player from scratch is a mystery to me, but heck its Microsoft what can we expect.

[bavelb]

It does that so it can seperate achievements/gamerpoints and such. Makes perfect sense from MS perspective.

[Trashcat]

hey sony hater, why the hell you go on about sony for, get fecked you wiitard.
If resistance becomes a trillogy its nothing to do with sony, its Insomniac Games , sony arent going to stop a company making a game trillogy series because your a fecking wiitard.
The point was not the trilogy but the fact that Resistance is a cheap Gears of War rip off. As for Insomniac just like Naughty Dog they are owned with guts by sony so they are not to decide what project to make, if you think they retained any independence think again. With 360 having 2 system selling first person shooters and sony having none (Killzone failed miserably) sony obviously ordered Resistance to be made for the ps3 launch. A developer that was making only Spyro and Ratchet & Clank games for the last 10 years comes up with a first person shooter about an unknown alien race invading the earth right for the ps3 launch - thats too convenient for sony to be Insomniac's own decision you fecking Retardfanboy.
hate the 360 for two player games full stop, its stupid why you have to create 2 profiles on your HD just to be able to play.
Why the 360 cant allow all games to be 2 player from scratch is a mystery to me, but heck its Microsoft what can we expect.
Damn right it takes whole 2 minutes to make a new profile that you can use for the rest of your 360's life what the hell were they thinking??? Damn Microsoft doesnt care about retards who need parent's or supervisor's help to make a new profile for them, but retards want to play too! We should really make sure some organisation against the descrimination of retarded people gets to know about this outrage, every game should be started with ONE press of a big shiny button that has a proper inscription "press me once to start the game" on it. Geez dude you could really use some BrainAge, or at least Nintendogs maybe they will teach you something...

[Retroboy]

trashcat, get over your self.

Resistance is completely different.

GoW is a 3rd person Action/Shooter.

Resistance is a 1st person Action/FPS.

seriously, stop with your I HATE SONY type of remarks, as you think sony are copying this/that and especially blaming them when the game has nothing to do with sony apart form it beign launched to that console.

[Scorpion3]

i hate the 360 for two player games full stop, its stupid why you have to create 2 profiles on your HD just to be able to play.

Why the 360 cant allow all games to be 2 player from scratch is a mystery to me, but heck its Microsoft what can we expect.

I'm guessing this is the lazy ass gamer talking, right? lol. Come on, is it REALLY that hard to make another profile? All you have to do is name it and hit ok. It's like playing MP on Halo 2, even with Default, you still want to have your own.

trashcat, get over your self.

Resistance is completely different.

GoW is a 3rd person Action/Shooter.

Resistance is a 1st person Action/FPS.

seriously, stop with your I HATE SONY type of remarks, as you think sony are copying this/that and especially blaming them when the game has nothing to do with sony apart form it beign launched to that console.

I know. :( Sony is having a hard time as it is, do you Wiitards HAVE to harp on it at all times? What happened to the Passive Nintendo fans that we used to see from the SNES to GC days? :(

[Retroboy]

yup, because the point is we never had to do that before, instead you create another profile which gamedata gets saved to and gamer points.

which is a waste of HD space, where if it allowed you to do 2 player without needing another profile, would be more ideal.

[Taft]

All I can say --> Lazy @ss :P

[DanASBO]

It actually saves time... no need to create different profiles for every single game. Just one for the system, load profile, and off you go.

[Retroboy]

It actually saves time... no need to create different profiles for every single game. Just one for the system, load profile, and off you go.

or better, turn your pad on, away you go, just like we did with the PS2, GC and Xbox.

Sure the profile is great but that should be used more only if your sharing your console with a brother/sister and want to be able to play/load your own games.

[Trashcat]

Resistance is completely different.
GoW is a 3rd person Action/Shooter.
Resistance is a 1st person Action/FPS.
Im not saying Resistance is a copy of Gears, I'm saying its a rip off.
you think sony are copying this/that and especially blaming them when the game has nothing to do with sony apart form it beign launched to that console.
Did you even read what I said before? Insomniac IS OWNED by sony, they make games for them exclusively and the publisher is SCE, maybe they are not officialy branded as "sony game studios" but its pretty obvious even for a retard like you. Resistance to Gears is what Misson to Mars to the Red Planet or Armageddon to Space Cowboys, or like these 2 CG cartoons about ants and other movies that rip off competition's movies.
or better, turn your pad on, away you go, just like we did with the PS2, GC and Xbox.
Sure the profile is great but that should be used more only if your sharing your console with a brother/sister and want to be able to play/load your own games.
You would rather keep bitching than admit that it only takes 2 minutes and is not a big deal.

[Retroboy]

trashcat, resistance is nothing like GoW, it has a completely different story and gameplay style.

So in your views then PGR3 is a rip off from GT, and all the other platform games are rip off's from each other.

No theyre not, theyre completely different games, your just saying resistance is a rip off becuase it has aliens, god isnt resistance more like CoD.

[Scorpion3]

trashcat, resistance is nothing like GoW, it has a completely different story and gameplay style.

So in your views then PGR3 is a rip off from GT, and all the other platform games are rip off's from each other.

No theyre not, theyre completely different games, your just saying resistance is a rip off becuase it has aliens, god isnt resistance more like CoD.

Resistance has an Alien Race-Like thing, made by a disease, GOW has a race of creatures that have lived under our surface for hundreds of years, there's no news on if they're aliens or just some animalistic thing. Though you're right, just because it's Aliens doesn't mean anything, if it did it'd be more of a rip off of Halo. But since it's set in WWII times, it's nothing like it.

[Retroboy]

i agree, just trashcat must have sony issues and somehow thinks Resistance is a GoW rip LOL.

Just got past the Beserker, OMFG that was hard:o

[Scorpion3]

i agree, just trashcat must have sony issues and somehow thinks Resistance is a GoW rip LOL.

Just got past the Beserker, OMFG that was hard:o

I wouldn't say it was hard, I would just describe them as Hectic...because unlike most games where everytime you play through, you know how to dodge them and where they're coming from, they can come out (When you're fighting one) anywhere and any time. Though, if you play it on Insane, you have to hit it with the Hammer of Dawn somewhere around 5 times before it goes down.

[Retroboy]

its was dom, he somehow managed to wander arround aimlessly not getting attacked and im like sheet! sheet! finaly did it tho, co-op mode;)

[Scorpion3]

its was dom, he somehow managed to wander arround aimlessly not getting attacked and im like sheet! sheet! finaly did it tho, co-op mode;)

Oooh...So you cheated. rofl. I know, some people could say it was bad AI on Epic's part for Dom and the rest of the team members, but they give the AI levels on difficulty to make it fair with Enemy AI. If you play on Insane your team are brilliant.

And I just noticed you saying these 2 things.

yup, because the point is we never had to do that before, instead you create another profile which gamedata gets saved to and gamer points.

which is a waste of HD space, where if it allowed you to do 2 player without needing another profile, would be more ideal.

It takes up roughly a MB for the profile along with gamesaves and achievments. :rolleyes:

or better, turn your pad on, away you go, just like we did with the PS2, GC and Xbox.

Sure the profile is great but that should be used more only if your sharing your console with a brother/sister and want to be able to play/load your own games.

No, it's used for achievements not for multiple owners. But where it really shines is online...gamertag profiles anyway. Cause then people that don't do well against Human players but rule against AI can get some recognition online for Co-Op games and such. Along with playing online with Split Screen, all in all the profiles for everyone that plays are well worth it. Oh, and another cool thing is, for example, if you play co-op with one person and then quit your level saves. Then when you play co-op with someone else it loads to another save or if you haven't played with them yet, a new game.