Gears of War 3

LeonJ · Posted: Wed Sep 21, 2011 10:57 am�� Post subject:

Yeah, certainly a dickload of DLC up front. I hate that. I can't put my finger on the MP though, it's way smoother. I think the framerate is more stable actually and that's why it feels better.
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Fetidchimp · Posted: Wed Sep 21, 2011 11:24 am�� Post subject:

That dlc makes no sense to me, epics reasoning would have been, people will see your gun skins and think you are cool, no, they will know you are a knob.
It isn't like unlocking some weapon so that people will be in awe of your skill when they see you and go, that is tough to get that gun, they will go, oh look some noob paid 50 bucks for a coloured gun. Sort of defeats the purpose.....now i am off to buy some sweet horse armour.
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THEMAN · Posted: Wed Sep 21, 2011 2:24 pm�� Post subject:

anyho... got my disc swap and since I live in the city anyhow; came home to test the new disc to make sure its not my x360. Works. Played the sequence at the start - fantastic visuals. Won't say anymore but I got goosebumps when the logo came up when Marcus woke up.

Looking forward to this so much. I have dinner planned tonight but so tempted to bail out and play Gears3 instead.
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myzz · Posted: Wed Sep 21, 2011 3:59 pm�� Post subject:

I would bail.. no dinner is as good as first playing gears

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G3ck0 · Posted: Wed Sep 21, 2011 5:13 pm�� Post subject:

So what's the point of ranked matches? They kind of seem completely pointless. And I'm glad there are less newbs running around with shotguns, that was almost enough to make me stop playing.

XtremeXfactor · Posted: Wed Sep 21, 2011 6:21 pm�� Post subject:

My console didn't like the disc and it was excessively loud during installation. Usually when this happens, installation runs at 1% every 10-20 minutes (this occurred with UFC 2010, Aliens vs Predator, CSI Hard Evidence and a few others etc), surprisingly the installation only took 15 minutes total.

However it still "boots" and acts like it is using the disc until just after the title sequence. Still the amount of noise isn't as bad as how the original Gears of War game disc sounded in my first 360 console. The loudest noise i've ever heard, and i have a reasonable tolerance for loud noises.

Didn't start campaign, i jumped straight to TDM, then Execution online.
Played Horde and Beast modes on my own

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I don't put too much stock in the graphics, they look ok...... but if i focus on the surrounding area, i almost get motion sickness (not full on, but i can just tell it's not pleasant to look at for long periods of time).

I love the game play though, it took me a few goes to get used to the shotgun, i'll never be as good as i was in the original Gears where my reflexes were at their peak. I gradually got good at Gears 2, but i didn't play it often enough to remain consistently competitive.

Capo18 · Status: Offline Joined: 18 Sep 2011 Posts: 5 $poons: 1.40

Hey guys my copy keeps freezing at the main menu, the game is installed to the hard drive. I've read some other people are experiencing the same issues and it's more common on the 1st generation of xbox (which is what I have) has anyone else had this issue?

Cian · Posted: Wed Sep 21, 2011 9:49 pm�� Post subject:

Finished it earlier today. Beautiful. I can't recommend this game highly enough, it's perfect. And I completely understand if you don't like it, but you're still wrong. Gears of War 3 makes me appreciate this industry and shows how amazing it can be. Now to play it all over again...

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ManeKast · Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2011 1:28 pm�� Post subject:

Just picked this up from JBhifi (EB refused to price match @ $69).

Scored some preorder cards too, yiew.

Time to dust off the 360........ tonight.
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Exodus · Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2011 2:14 pm�� Post subject:

Were they just giving the pre-order cards out with every purchase, ManeKast? Was thinking of buying a second copy for my brothers so they can stop harassing me for mine when I'm in my man-cave playing Gears.

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LeonJ · Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2011 3:49 pm�� Post subject:

Ha, I love it how EB aren't price matching. Such dicks.
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THEMAN · Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2011 3:54 pm�� Post subject:

well, my local EB is selling it for $69.95.

but yeah EB sucks

* on gears comment: played 1 ACT. hardcore mode. bit easy. :/ Gorgeous visuals and I love the post explosion debris cloud that's particle based and obscures your view. We've come a long way from flat mapped animated planes for explosive debris cloud.
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LeonJ · Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2011 4:14 pm�� Post subject:

It is pretty damn easy on hardcore.
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dloiscute · Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2011 9:52 pm�� Post subject:

Picked this up today. Lets see how this all wraps up.

Edit: best manual.
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LeonJ · Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2011 11:55 pm�� Post subject:

We gotta go some horde mode dlo.
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THEMAN · Posted: Fri Sep 23, 2011 12:24 am�� Post subject:

up to ACT III. I think they might have broken the game design with the 4P gameplay - constantly having those other 3 makes the game really easy. You can hide in a corner and your AI team will wipe out the enemies - btw that and the fact that there's always someone to revive you means that I'm not dying much.

For eg the room where the eggs hatch with the little monster bugs, could have been cool but you literally didn't have to shoot anything - just roll around and the team kills them all; then, you'd have to fight the mother and shoot her eye - I used my pistol weapon and the whole thing which should have been nerve wracking and amazing was super easy.

Its interesting to see what they've done so far to mix it up but the lack of difficulty has meant that I'm charging through the game. There are some rooms where you literally charge in, blast like crazy, punch thing left right... and then you hear the room clear sound.

Not sure what to make of it.
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LeonJ · Posted: Fri Sep 23, 2011 10:24 am�� Post subject:

It is shockingly easy on Hardcore. I'm not sure what the go is with that.
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ManeKast · Posted: Fri Sep 23, 2011 11:19 am�� Post subject:

XtremeXfactor · Posted: Fri Sep 23, 2011 11:30 am�� Post subject:

Yet to play the campaign, too busy playing Horde, Beast Mode and TDM, Warzone, Execution etc.

I am enjoying it thus far, not at the same height of the original just yet. But having loads of fun.

I'll have to judge the difficulty of the campaign when i start playing it, i did do a pseudo "Insane" run on co-op. But i am more a casual/normal difficulty Gears player

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Crank · Posted: Fri Sep 23, 2011 11:37 am�� Post subject:

Really enjoying this, but yeah, weird difficulty levels. Hardcore my ass. Does the difficulty increase noticeably when playing online co-op?

G3ck0 · Posted: Fri Sep 23, 2011 12:31 pm�� Post subject:

Was playing multiplayer last night and "Mad World" started playing, minus the singing. It was kind of awesome, and changed the mood of the game. Why did this happen? I want it to happen again!

Ah, here we go:

Nietzsche · Posted: Fri Sep 23, 2011 1:26 pm�� Post subject:

It happened to me to. Totally threw me off and was amazing.

THEMAN · Posted: Fri Sep 23, 2011 7:44 pm�� Post subject:

finished. alright game. difficutly ruined it a little for me. Wayyy too easy to the end. Some of the segments that they did were so pointless in light of the fact that you kind of get through in under 2 minutes? All the escort+driving sequences couldn't measure up to the awesome gears 1 sequence with the light and that nightbatkiller things. The sub sequence was long and boring

I did enjoy what I played of it; when the end boss of the 3rd game is much easier than ramm... /sigh.

End talk
so I'm guessing no more gears? I think I liked the ending. Can't think too much into what is a pulpy actioner. I wish the queen wasn't killed in a cinematic and the dialogue wasn't just maniacal idiocy. also, thought dom's death was hilarious... accelerating car and alll that, he could have jumped out. It just seemed like they had to find a reason to kill him and it felt so convienient that in the ensuing firestorm; all the other good guys survived and mad world played. Slow mo explosions. slow mo flames licking. slow mo jumping. It was hilairous.

ActIV was the most amazingly. Art lighting, visuals. best part of the game.
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THEMAN · Posted: Fri Sep 23, 2011 7:56 pm�� Post subject:

and someone else mentioned this elsewhere but the stalks are the new emergency holes - and that kind of blew my mind. I guess it is. Very cool!
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Nietzsche · Posted: Fri Sep 23, 2011 8:10 pm�� Post subject:

In some ways this was designed quite poorly. For instance fighting those smaller single creepers has zero challenge whatsoever as when you die someone picks you up. Really the only major challenge is huge numbers which means the other players are busy elsewhere or cheap deaths.

Anyway the campaign isn't blowing me away, only done 2 chapters though but I love the multiplayer. So good for it to just work and I really feel like machine guns actually have a shot at killing things which is better than the endless shotgun matches. Even had a few games of MVP.

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