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Gears of War 3
Topic Started: Monday Apr 12 2010, 08:55 AM (1,627 Views)
King Hiss
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Surely this is one that the vast majority of us will be getting? I'll be on board for sure.

Not only would we be not offended by your drunken outburst Blue, but we would kindly ask that you attempt to repeat the performance and allow us to join you. ;)
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Might get it, play through it and likely trade it soon there after.
Not being a fan of GoW, I'm only getting it to finish the trilogy of the story really. But then again. I don't even know what the story is about so either way doesn't really matter I suppose.


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Reviews are coming out - an oddity in these times for review of a major release to be out a week before the game is due, usually the embargo until just before or the day of release

8 from eurogamer, 9 from Gamesradar, both say SP is great but not quite as good as gow2 but that multi is excellent. Apparently you can have a laugh-track, americam sitcom style....
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Plus apparently u should play on hardcore otherwise there's no challenge
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Im guessing by the reviews its a 'slide a pack of cash under the table' style like most blockbuster titles (CoD etc) where they get rated high for their kickbacks.

Still unsure if I'm getting this, I'm impartial to the laziness to actually get it.



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Eurogamer are usually pretty good. Gamesradar I'm less sure about.

I must admit though, I'm more excited about the lancer replica than the game. Gonna run round stabbing shit and making pew pew noises when i get it.


Edit/update - Edge gave it 9. (if you know edge you'll know why I am now officially excited.)
Edited by felicitous blue, Sunday Sep 18 2011, 11:00 AM.
yo listen up here's a story
about a little guy that lives in a blue world
and all day and all night and everything he sees
is just blue like him inside and outside
blue his house with a blue little window
and a blue corvette
and everything is blue for him and hisself
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shall be getting tomorrow after work. (fuck midnight launches)

Let's kill some horde!

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Seriously, how good is it? The moment I started playing, the controls just felt natural again, the characters felt sentimentally familiar, and I just wanted to keep on playing. Didn't even get to finish off the first chapter and yet I spent the night dreaming of killing Locusts. Forgot how much I love these games.

The DLC, however, is an act of bastadry. I'm rather disappointed in Epic for this, though I get the feeling this has M$'s fingerprints all over it. $45 worth of weapon skins that are on the disc??? That's nasty...

The one good bit of DLC though is the Season Pass, which gets you 4 lots of the main DLC (characters and maps) that they have planned for the next year for a third of the price off. First is coming in November. It's over a thousand points cheaper than the full weapon pack. :-/
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Loving it. Running through straight off the bat in co-op with my brother as we did in the others. You playing on hardcore Hiss? We are and it feels like What Normal did in the other 2
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Horde is soo fucking awesome now, you are able to build fortifications and whatnot now, but even on normal it can be extremely hard even with a base built....
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This game is ace. Nec I went to join after you sent the invite earlier but you'd dropped out I think, I needed to take a break anyway.

Hiss, try it out in 3d if you haven't already. It's a little suspect in places, but during firefights it's fucking awesome.... I suggest turning the 3d effect right down though, cause otherwise its a bit too much - messes up distance (ie, makes what would be about 10m away seem like 100...)
yo listen up here's a story
about a little guy that lives in a blue world
and all day and all night and everything he sees
is just blue like him inside and outside
blue his house with a blue little window
and a blue corvette
and everything is blue for him and hisself
and everybody around
cos he ain't got nobody to listen to

i'm blue da ba dee da ba die...
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I've just been playing it on Normal, but it is fairly easy so far. Like an enjoyable stroll through a fun park. I always ended up co-oping through the game several times anyway so I usually leave hardcore to my second run.

It's in 3D??? I was just saying last night that it would be cool if it had it, but nothing that I saw on the cover said that it did. I'll have to poke around in the options.
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Go to visual options, should be an onscreen prompt (x I think) to get to the 3d options. You may need to switch your tv to "side by side" mode if it doesn't auto-detect it.

Being side-by-side you lose a bit of resolution, but I think the trade off is worth it. Theres a rumor that there will be a "full 720 stereoscopic" patch down the track... Not sure whether that's just wishful thinking.


We need to get a few games happening, co-op would be good once I've finished SP first run through.
yo listen up here's a story
about a little guy that lives in a blue world
and all day and all night and everything he sees
is just blue like him inside and outside
blue his house with a blue little window
and a blue corvette
and everything is blue for him and hisself
and everybody around
cos he ain't got nobody to listen to

i'm blue da ba dee da ba die...
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Wow, it's easy to miss, and I did obviously. It's the Y button in the video options. It gets a little mention at the bottom of the screen.

Wasn't sure if I liked the 3D at first, but it definitely adds to the game once you settle in. I especially liked the back end of the first chapter with the bits of the bridge falling off. It's a loooooong way down!
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Yeah, I wasn't completely at ease with the 3d at first. My first instinct was crank it up, but i think its better just a couple of notches up from the lowest setting.

I can't be sure, but I think it does actually make some gameplay difference as well, ie easier to judge distance. I never have that much trouble with that in 2d anyway, hence can't say for sure it gives any advantage in multi... It's offset by the lower Rez, I guess.

My favorite is when you have a turret shooting at you, first time I've genuinely felt like things where flying out of the screen in a 3d game...


I played a bit of "team deathmatch" yesterday, I'd forgotten how much I like gow multi especially now that I'm a bit over COD. Nice to have a change.
yo listen up here's a story
about a little guy that lives in a blue world
and all day and all night and everything he sees
is just blue like him inside and outside
blue his house with a blue little window
and a blue corvette
and everything is blue for him and hisself
and everybody around
cos he ain't got nobody to listen to

i'm blue da ba dee da ba die...
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Horde anyone?
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Soon wolfster, I'm just finishing off some work for the day
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I've just jumped off after finishing campaign and playing a few matches of tdm. Will probably jump back on soon, well up for some horde.
yo listen up here's a story
about a little guy that lives in a blue world
and all day and all night and everything he sees
is just blue like him inside and outside
blue his house with a blue little window
and a blue corvette
and everything is blue for him and hisself
and everybody around
cos he ain't got nobody to listen to

i'm blue da ba dee da ba die...
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Lonely Wolf
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Maybe we can set up a big session tomorrow?
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