Haven't bought a new TRIPLE AYYY game in years :michael-laugh:

  • Esoteir [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    quantum theory

    holy shit it's art nouveau gears of war :michael-laugh:

    • doublepepperoni [none/use name]
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      2 years ago

      Some Japanese dudes looking at a gameplay video of the first Gears of War for five minutes and going "This is what the gaijins like? Okay, I think I got it. Big ugly man wearing an entire scrapyard shooting at equally big monster dudes with huge guns from behind chest high walls in ruined cityscapes and also everything is dark and murky"

      As bad as everything in the game looks the worst part might still be the name, just... what the fuck, guys :lenin-confused:

    • pyrpelo [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      looks exactly how i remember GoW 1 looking lmao

        • Esoteir [he/him]
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          2 years ago

          gears of war fuckin slaps, and they did a much better job than halo continuing the series past the original devs :comfy-cool:

          • pyrpelo [he/him]
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            2 years ago

            at least 343 managed to release MCC on PC, only good thing they did :dumpster-fire:

            • Esoteir [he/him]
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              2 years ago

              yeah good point, without the MCC I couldn't have tricked my friends into playing The Library on legendary so there's that going for them

              • doublepepperoni [none/use name]
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                2 years ago

                Provided you can actually get the incredibly patchy co-op working. Seriously, it's so bad for 1 and 2 :sadness-abysmal:

            • Esoteir [he/him]
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              2 years ago

              100% agree on all sequel complaints, the spooky hollow earth aesthetic was way fuckin better

              that being said the cosmodrome section of 5 was pretty rad :stalin-approval:

                • barrbaric [he/him]
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                  2 years ago

                  wasn’t the UIR supposed to be even more callous towards human life than the already monstrous COG?

                  Pretty sure that's just in-universe propaganda. The COG were the ones who used the hammer of dawn to blow up the entire enemy civilization and then destroy the biosphere.

                    • barrbaric [he/him]
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                      2 years ago

                      Makes sense. At the end of the day, the protagonists are all soldiers who were following orders. I don't think any of them were ever going to *rebuild society much, they'd just let the people in command build things and go along with it. Also obviously we need another 6 Gears games so there has to be more chainsawgun fights.

                        • barrbaric [he/him]
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                          2 years ago

                          At this point it's part of the aesthetic of Gears though, isn't it? Like how Star Wars can't get away from lightsabers and x-wings (Andor notwithstanding). The franchise is so managed by corporate that there's no room for originality, we just have to keep doing the same thing over and over again with slightly shinier graphics.