<![CDATA[Gears 2: "Bigger, Better, More Badass" - Kotaku Comments]]> <![CDATA[Gears 2: "Bigger, Better, More Badass" - Kotaku Comments]]> <![CDATA[Gears 2: "Bigger, Better, More Badass"]]> NEEDS MOAR BADASS!! That is all....
GOOO COALTRAIN!


excel_excel

]]> <![CDATA[Gears 2: "Bigger, Better, More Badass"]]> Fun, Absorbing Gameplay > Story anyday as far as I'm concerned and Gears had that in spades. I love games with a great narrative (BioShock, Mass Effect) but I also love games with gameplay that's so fun that I can play the same levels over and over again (Gears, Halo, etc...). Very rarely do they both happen in the same game. After I beat BioShock I had no desire to go back and play it again but I played through Gears 5 times. That says something about gameplay over story in my mind.

Gray665

]]> <![CDATA[Gears 2: "Bigger, Better, More Badass"]]> People have to keep in mind that Gears is a three part series, and the first game of its kind. Naturally, the first game should lay down the foundation of the story and leave players with questions. That will trasition into anticipation for the next game. Also, remember from the get-go of development for the first game it was stated that multiplayer was going to be the main selling point.(Hey, it what their used to, [UT]).

Jaid

]]> <![CDATA[Gears 2: "Bigger, Better, More Badass"]]> @Dauragon C. Mikado: Haha! Let me guess. You must be 12? Maybe 13?

Kaneda

]]> <![CDATA[Gears 2: "Bigger, Better, More Badass"]]> @Dauragon C. Mikado:
I take it you never played Loom, Day of the Tentacle, Full Throttle, or Grim Fandango. I miss Lucasarts point and click adventure games.

myasir

]]> <![CDATA[Gears 2: "Bigger, Better, More Badass"]]> I mean... if GoW2 really is somehow deeper than the first one while being as or more fun to play, then i'll consider it a good game. If it isn't, but still manages to be as or more fun than the first one, i'll still consider ir a good game.

Dynosaulo

]]> <![CDATA[Gears 2: "Bigger, Better, More Badass"]]> I think games must be fun. If it's fun without any good story, itss OK. I'll buy it for the fun. If it's fun because of a good story it's OK too. I'll buy it for the fun.

Games, for me, are supposed to entertain. If a game can entertain you while not having a good plot, why the hell would it need one?

Anyway, that's just me, though...

Dynosaulo

]]> <![CDATA[Gears 2: "Bigger, Better, More Badass"]]> @2SBs: @Dresarius: @Kantwon: It is a good question. I mean, I assume it has something to do with the fact that the humans on that planet are really trying to wipe out the Locust entirely so that they can completely control the emulsion repositories under ground. This probably has to go with what Ortega said about the story in this article: We may see the Locust in a more sympathetic light this time around, because, really, they were only trying to protect themselves from the humans in the first game.

peAr nectAr

]]> <![CDATA[Gears 2: "Bigger, Better, More Badass"]]> @Dauragon C. Mikado: My feelings exactly. Video games are intended purely for entertainment, which is not to say that games with gripping narrative don't have their place... its just that EVERY game's sole intention is to be entertaining.

That said, i'm ready to chainsaw some monstrosities from ass to armpit

tehGloom

]]> <![CDATA[Gears 2: "Bigger, Better, More Badass"]]> Do people who play GoW hang fake rubber testicles at the back of their pick up trucks?

Kaneda

]]> <![CDATA[Gears 2: "Bigger, Better, More Badass"]]> I played single player through once in 10 or less hours. It was fun. The story was okay.

I played the multiplayer and co-op for 140 hours. It was awesome. The lag was horrificly bad and the game was borderline broken. Yet, it was still fun as hell.

But now there are really kickass multiplayer shooters out that run smooth as silk, namely COD4 and Halo 3. If Epic wants my money, then absolutely must get their online experience to run silky smooth, plain and simple.

For story, I thought the first was fine and I do want the questions answered, but I don't care if the quality of the story telling is better this time through.

sand0789

]]> <![CDATA[Gears 2: "Bigger, Better, More Badass"]]> The first gears really seemed to take the popular "over the shoulder" third person view and successfully mix it with the tempo and pace of shooters like CS and Halo. For that alone I applaud it.

If it delivers more of that tempo and style, then any extra narrative driven motive to play it is just icing on the cake for a shooter fan like me.

.digiwalsh

]]> <![CDATA[Gears 2: "Bigger, Better, More Badass"]]> Serious contender for game of the year along GTA

reptile168

]]> <![CDATA[Gears 2: "Bigger, Better, More Badass"]]> I just want more action. That one level where you had to hold off the zerg rush at the front of that building... I just replayed that over and over. Man that was fun. The rest of the game was alright but meh. It was all shooting form behind cover at guys behind cover form long distances away (atleast on the hardest difficulty). Need more medium range combat!

Derigor

]]> <![CDATA[Gears 2: "Bigger, Better, More Badass"]]> "Gears received acclaim for its characters"

...you mean sterotypes, right?



LevelHead

]]> <![CDATA[Gears 2: "Bigger, Better, More Badass"]]> "Capps says he told the designers, "I want D-Day," and less the spying and infiltration feel he felt the previous installment had."

And now im going to get the game.

Ra is on That 70s Show

]]> <![CDATA[Gears 2: "Bigger, Better, More Badass"]]> I can't wait!!!

dead_red_eyes

]]> <![CDATA[Gears 2: "Bigger, Better, More Badass"]]> @NPlace:
"Dom's wife is the Locust queen. You heard it here first."

Nah, someone on Kotaku mentioned that before when news first came out about Dom and his wife. People are basically expecting it now. Hopefully we're wrong, because that's just far too standard a plot twist.

@NPlace:
"I feel like the first Gears laid the groundwork, and the second one will really take off with the story. They had a great world, setting, and characters, they just didn't really do much with it."

That was my take too. The first felt like a practice session, a dress rehersal if you will, for the main event. I'm expecting to be impressed.



DARTH_TIGRIS

]]> <![CDATA[Gears 2: "Bigger, Better, More Badass"]]> @Archaotic: REALLY? I'm trying to figure out exactly when was this golden age where all videogames had wonderful narrative experiences and 100 hour RPG's weren't a niche market. Videogames have only recently begun to have strong narratives that are comparable to books/movies/ect and even so, thats too a very minor degree.

If you look at every other video game ever made over the past 30 years, they have all followed the basic plot of "there is evil afoot! Stab/shoot/punch/buttstomp it in the FACE!"

Please point me to this period of time where every game on the shelf at the local game store was an amazing engrossing narrative experience. Seriously I would love to catch up on what I have been missing.

Dauragon C. Mikado

]]> <![CDATA[Gears 2: "Bigger, Better, More Badass"]]> Meh. I wasn't a fan of the first one, got bored of it after a few plays.

I think I'll reserve my judgment until I see some in-game footage.

Fallible

]]> <![CDATA[Gears 2: "Bigger, Better, More Badass"]]> @TheHun:
They'd do that if there were more games WITH good stories. Folklore, Bioshock and Lost Odyssey are basically the only games I've played since 2006 with storylines worth their weight...it's starting to wear me down these days, seeing nothing but mass-market oriented shooters and sports games, while everything else just falls by the wayside.

Archaotic

]]> <![CDATA[Gears 2: "Bigger, Better, More Badass"]]> Sorry epic, I done with the Gears of War universe. Too many other games yet to be played.

goldwings

]]> <![CDATA[Gears 2: "Bigger, Better, More Badass"]]> @Mara: No, it would be impossible for him and the Epic team to just love gore glory and guns; infeasible even. It's because they have small penises, can't get a woman, and are making up for 4 solid years of swirlies. I mean after all that you either join the NRA, buy a Hummer, or make a game adored by hunreds of thousands. Also, they aren't as smart as you.

Garro

]]> <![CDATA[Gears 2: "Bigger, Better, More Badass"]]> If Epic discover the meaning of narrative then I'll probably buy it.
If not....

Zeouterlimits

]]> <![CDATA[Gears 2: "Bigger, Better, More Badass"]]> @Archaotic: well the vast majority of games are not shooters. It's just that it's a very popular genre.

Some shooters are deeper than others (bioshock) others are just plain superficial (UT3) story wise. Thats just the way it is. Some good, some bad; just like movies.

At least the crappy ones make you appriciate a good story that much more, eh?

TheHun

]]> <![CDATA[Gears 2: "Bigger, Better, More Badass"]]> More badass... The first Gears was already too ''badass'' for me. Was Cliffy B bullied in school and now he has to prove what kind of a man he is.

Mara

]]> <![CDATA[Gears 2: "Bigger, Better, More Badass"]]> I figured it out, Gears of war..okay stay with me, Gears Of War is the Mortal Kombat of FPS games.

ahhhhh I can sleep now.

jigglypoofs

]]> <![CDATA[Gears 2: "Bigger, Better, More Badass"]]> @TheHun:
The problem I see is that the vast majority of games that are coming out nowadays are shooters, meaning the genres we used to hold up as the main purveyors of story (RPGs, adventure games, and survival horror) are becoming less and less common. There are fewer opportunities for gamers to get good storylines, while generic action-movie tripe fills the shelves.

Thus, the only way to correct this situation, since bullheaded Western developers aren't going to stop making FPS games as long as Halo, Gears, and CoD are profitable, is to make developers start putting real story into their FPSes.

See where I'm coming from here?

Archaotic

]]> <![CDATA[Gears 2: "Bigger, Better, More Badass"]]> /yawn @ Benstein.

TheHun

]]> <![CDATA[Gears 2: "Bigger, Better, More Badass"]]> /yawn @ Gears of War.

Benstein

]]> <![CDATA[Gears 2: "Bigger, Better, More Badass"]]> @Edmon: Stop stealing my ironic words.

Badasser is mine! MINE!

*sigh*..I'm bored.

Woodwater

]]> <![CDATA[Gears 2: "Bigger, Better, More Badass"]]> "Cole Train's character's personality owes a lot to creative ad-libbing by Lester "Mighty Rasta" Speight"

Shazam!

Racism, you say? Why, it's straight from the horses mouth! For funsies.

I was always planning on getting Gears 2, but now I feel a fluttering of warm hope for something truly awesome. The stories quality, dare I say, may even surpass Halo. By American standards thats like saying we're killing Titans, but by Japanese standards it's like two ittle beetles having at it...

You know, if I get one moment in Gears 2 that's in line with the "Mad World" trailer, I'll be happy. Well, happy story wise.

Here's to good firefight inducing game mechanics, chainsaw bayonets, and well tuned multiplayer! Huzzah!

Garro

]]> <![CDATA[Gears 2: "Bigger, Better, More Badass"]]> @Archaotic: If you want great stories then you can always read books.

Not all games are suited for epic tales. The survival horror genre is expecially good when things are left unexplaind and your main focus is survival. I really like the movie Cloverfield the for that exactly that reason. There were no scientists to explain it all, big military figures to be an ass , politicians etc. It was just about survival. I hope they don't lose their focus in GoW2 by adding all these twists.

I don't understand why people think the shooter genre is the place to expect great stories. It's the movie equivalent of Action movies, which are usually not very deep. Ocasionally it's good to have some more sophisticated action movie like the Matrix, but i do enjoy watching Transformers too.

TheHun

]]> <![CDATA[Gears 2: "Bigger, Better, More Badass"]]> see when I read that it;s going to be 'Bad ass' I just sigh and think it's aimed at 12 year olds who think 'The Undertaker is scary eh?'

Why not make it good instead of badass eh? the first one was kinda shallow, good but shallow.

jigglypoofs

]]> <![CDATA[Gears 2: "Bigger, Better, More Badass"]]> @peAr_nectAr: Thanks for answering my first question, the second question comes from the ending, its what the locust queen says at the end. its like DugDawg said, what are locust fighting for?

2SBs

]]> <![CDATA[Gears 2: "Bigger, Better, More Badass"]]> @Tepoz: I think GoW2:Badassier would make a better title. I'd like to play Gears of War one of these days. But none of my friends own a 360 and my computer is a laptop so its video card ain't that great.

greeble

]]> <![CDATA[Gears 2: "Bigger, Better, More Badass"]]> @peAr_nectAr: For the second question he's referring to what the voiceover said during the end of the first Gears where the female voice said we can't fail to win this war or something like that. It's good question that I hope they answer in the second one.

Kantwon

]]> <![CDATA[Gears 2: "Bigger, Better, More Badass"]]> @peAr_nectAr: At the end of the game the locust queen goes on about how "we must win, we have to win, we cannot fail" seems like they have some sort of motive besides we're evil mole men with glowstick water.

Dresarius

]]> <![CDATA[Gears 2: "Bigger, Better, More Badass"]]> @Edmon: "t's sad that most of my favourite FPS games are as old as the hills, but it seems no-ones realised that games that are only about graphics and gore only appeal for so long."

Or maybe different people like different things.

What you enjoy from a game and what I (or any other person who isn't you) enjoy from a game is completely different.

I had an absolute blast blowing shit up and slicing locusts in half in Gears. I never expected an amazing story, I just wanted to cut suckers in half with my chainsaw.

I love games with engrossing stories that leave me with something when I finish, but at the same time I like games where I do nothing but blow shit the fuck up.

Gears of War fills up that second slot quite well

Dauragon C. Mikado

]]> <![CDATA[Gears 2: "Bigger, Better, More Badass"]]> I had no idea it was a war over limited resources. I thought it was just "monsters living beneath the surface rise up and kill all humans." I missed the part giving their motivation.

Sean Beanland

]]> <![CDATA[Gears 2: "Bigger, Better, More Badass"]]> Then again, there's nothing wrong with a good old fashioned popcorn fest. I'll be checking out GoW2:Badasser.

Tepoz

]]> <![CDATA[Gears 2: "Bigger, Better, More Badass"]]> @Edmon:
Agreed, 100%. You echoed my point perfectly.

@rotcepsurt:
Well, if you play games for immersion, then sure, that makes sense. But I don't, and I'm sick of games ignoring story in order to pimp out how badass they are with more gore, more stupid catchphrases, and more inspid one-note protagonists.

Archaotic

]]> <![CDATA[Gears 2: "Bigger, Better, More Badass"]]> @2SBs: Marcus was sent to prison because he disobeyed orders and left his unit to go save his father from the Locust.

And I don't really understand your second question.

peAr nectAr

]]> <![CDATA[Gears 2: "Bigger, Better, More Badass"]]> I feel like the first Gears laid the groundwork, and the second one will really take off with the story. They had a great world, setting, and characters, they just didn't really do much with it.

I'm looking forward to running with Delta Squad again.

NPlace

]]> <![CDATA[Gears 2: "Bigger, Better, More Badass"]]> @Ejvid04:

I'm the same- I'm a certifiable story whore (I played AD&D for years). However, there was something about GoW that drew me in. Sure, I got killed all the time in MP but I still enjoyed it.

Snuffbox

]]> <![CDATA[Gears 2: "Bigger, Better, More Badass"]]> Dom's wife is the Locust queen. You heard it here first.

NPlace

]]> <![CDATA[Gears 2: "Bigger, Better, More Badass"]]> As much as I love a story, it doesn't matter to me as long as the game itself is fun. People still play tetris and thousands of other games, even mario.. which really don't have much of a great story.. but there still fun.

This better be badass.. I love GoW.

Ejvid04

]]> <![CDATA[Gears 2: "Bigger, Better, More Badass"]]> The first game was, for lack of a better word, badass.

If GoW 2 is more badass, I'm sold

I *heart* Epic

Snuffbox

]]> <![CDATA[Gears 2: "Bigger, Better, More Badass"]]> I hope they really take the time to flesh out the story. The first Gears of War had this rich atmosphere that was just begging to be explored, but sadly, it never was. We never got to see Marcus Fenix's court marshall or how things came to be as they are. I was looking forward to "emergence day," but it never came. We never got to see how the war started or what the locusts were fighting for. Moreover, all of the characters were charicatures -- stereotypes really, that never had a chance to evolve. Sure, I had a few laughs at some one-liners by the "Cole-train," but I wanted more. I wanted to see what was at stake, and I hope Gears 2 goes the distance to make up for what lacked in the first game

DugDawg

]]> <![CDATA[Gears 2: "Bigger, Better, More Badass"]]> I didn't really enjoy the first Gears of War game. I was playing it and thinking about all the better times I had playing things like:

Dues Ex,
System Shock II,
Bioshock,

And I realised that I am just done with playing games that do not have an excellent and gripping story.

It's sad that most of my favourite FPS games are as old as the hills, but it seems no-ones realised that games that are only about graphics and gore only appeal for so long.

Gears of War 1 had almost no story,
Gears of War 2, "badasser" as it is, is unlikely to have one either.

So I won't be buying it.




Edmon

]]> <![CDATA[Gears 2: "Bigger, Better, More Badass"]]> As long as the game has 4 Player Co-op Campaign over Live, it'll be a great buy.

I don't see why the 1st one wasn't 4 player, considering you run the whole game as a squad of 4. Not enough time to get it done I gather.

I also got the 1st game for the Multiplayer but that didn't last me long, I got tired of these next-gen games not having matchmaking. It is impossible to keep players in the room when they get beat badly. Matchmaking = needed for all games. I would also like to see clan/squad options (past clan tags) but apparently that is asking too much.

I Spit On Your Comments

]]> <![CDATA[Gears 2: "Bigger, Better, More Badass"]]> I think this'll be solid. I loved the first one and played tons and tons of multiplayer.

I sincerely doubt people will buy GoW2 for the story, though, but Epic is free to try and make that a selling point.

You're buying this game to brutalize your opponents, duel with a chainsaw, kill, maim and destroy.

I'd rather see a massive horde of dozens of Locust footsoldiers storm the screen than gain some insight about Dom's backstory.

This is a shooter and not an RPG, like Capps told IGN.

DaPress

]]> <![CDATA[Gears 2: "Bigger, Better, More Badass"]]> All I want to know is why was Marcus sent to prison, and why the locust can't fail to win the war?

2SBs

]]> <![CDATA[Gears 2: "Bigger, Better, More Badass"]]> Is it going to be spread out on more than one DVD, because otherwise I seriously doubt it's going to be that much bigger and they're going to just end up disappointing people.

jsf49

]]> <![CDATA[Gears 2: "Bigger, Better, More Badass"]]> @Archaotic: I personally can do without all of the narration. Nothing kills a games immersion for me more than a five minute cutscene.

rotcepsurt

]]> <![CDATA[Gears 2: "Bigger, Better, More Badass"]]> Aaawwww Yeeeeaah.

It'll be Badasser 4 sure yo.

Woodwater

]]> <![CDATA[Gears 2: "Bigger, Better, More Badass"]]> They should probably watch all this hyping. Sooner or later they're going to hype it up so much that it'll end up DOA or far under expectations.

Sparx

]]> <![CDATA[Gears 2: "Bigger, Better, More Badass"]]> Huh.

I wasn't really drawn into Gears on the 360 at first. I gave it a second try on the PC and loved it. The story isn't very compelling, or that original for that matter. But it was fun, badass, and at times, challenging.

I'm looking to GoW2 now, this article got me interested. I hope it'd come out on the PC a lot faster then the first one did.

TheOtis

]]> <![CDATA[Gears 2: "Bigger, Better, More Badass"]]> Ack.

"The first Gears of War..."

caleb

]]> <![CDATA[Gears 2: "Bigger, Better, More Badass"]]> While I commend these guys for apparently trying really hard to expand the story and depth of Gears of War, I really can't help but be a skeptic here. The reason people played that game was not the barely-there story, and Epic knows that.

I just can't see this game producing the kind of narrative depth that the industry needs these days.

Archaotic

]]> <![CDATA[Gears 2: "Bigger, Better, More Badass"]]> The Gears of War melted my face and runied my sofa...this time I am going to be ready with mop, bucket and bib on hand. This is my most anticipated game this year besides little big planet.

caleb

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