Who's getting Gears 2?

[dirk4mvp]

and wants to get their chode bloaded by me?

[IronMexican]

Getting it tomorrow. Just gotta sell FO3 and Fable 2.

[IronMexican]

You should have made this thread in the Club.

[BlackSwordsMan]

getting it tomorrow at circuit city
LE and free 1600 points

[BruceBowenFan]

im getting it the special edition one

[balli]

Probably just a rental as I have little interest in the Gears multiplayer.

[Man Sauce]

Tommorow at 10:00 Best Buy I will be there.
Gamer tag - BootyMaster

[IronMexican]

Am thinking aboot going to the midnight release.

[ATRAIN]

Im getting it tomm and Dirk its on!!

[dirk4mvp]

Im getting it tomm and Dirk its on!!


We can play while we discuss msmaalox :lobt2:

[ATRAIN]

We can play while we discuss msmaalox :lobt2:

lol sure thing bro, im sure ill be on this weekend for sure.

[baseline bum]

GOW2 doesn't look anywhere near as cool as the first from IGN's video review. Freaking IGN looks like it's putting out some ridiculously inflated scores this last year (9.5 for Halo 3, 10.0 for GTA4)

[IronMexican]

10 for GTA is all I needed to hear. MGS got a 10 too. It was nice, but the online wasn't great.

[dirk4mvp]

Few more hours. Today is going by pretty fucking slow.

[IronMexican]

Few more hours. Today is going by pretty fucking slow.

You're doing the midnight release?

[dirk4mvp]

You're doing the midnight release?


Yeah. I live in a semi small town so the line won't be long at all. Went to the midnight release of GTA 4 and only about 15 people were there.

[IronMexican]

Lucky. My shit is packed and it's right next to a car expo place. Hard to explain, but it's embarrassing.

[dirk4mvp]

Me you and Atrain are having an orgy tomorrow.

[Slydragon]

getting it tomorrow at circuit city
LE and free 1600 points

Yea I was thinking of that but I want it at 12am so I did gamestop. At gamestop they give you a code to have some gun that only gamestop will give out, dunno the name but my friend has been telling me I need this gun.

I don't really play Gears online that much tho, but I always go to the same store for 12am launches.

[IronMexican]

Me you and Atrain are having an orgy tomorrow.

Dogg, my mic broke. Ima have to scramble for some extra money to buy some. I just sound like a Mexican though.

[dirk4mvp]

Yea I was thinking of that but I want it at 12am so I did gamestop. At gamestop they give you a code to have some gun that only gamestop will give out, dunno the name but my friend has been telling me I need this gun.

I don't really play Gears online that much tho, but I always go to the same store for 12am launches.


Not sure, but isn't it the Golden Hammerburst? Or maybe it's the lancer. I also think it comes with the Flashback map pack.

[dirk4mvp]

Dogg, my mic broke. Ima have to scramble for some extra money to buy some. I just sound like a Mexican though.

You need to get something, cuz I talk a lot of shit.

[Slydragon]

Not sure, but isn't it the Golden Hammerburst? I also think it comes with the Flashback map pack.

Something like that, I play Gears more for the single player because I suck at games where you hide in shoot as I am a run and gunner I get pop like 10 secs into a match on Gears.

Damn expensive month,

I just beat Saints Row 2 last night so I can start Gears and then next week I will get Little Big Planet and Resistance 2, then the following week I will get Call of Duty 5 and maybe NBA 2k9(will get it this month or next)

[IronMexican]

You need to get something, cuz I talk a lot of shit.

I don't. What time is it over there? Shouldn't you leave already?

[dirk4mvp]

9:34 - Central Time Zone mang.

[IronMexican]

I should have it by tomorrow at 10 PST.

[Heath Ledger]

No 360 for me for 5 weeks because of this fucking itchy cast! Im bummed I so want to play Far Cry 2 and Gears. IF you haven't yet played far cry check it out, it kinda grew on me i hated it at first, its much slower than cod4 but much more tactical.

[Slydragon]

Mine gamestop has pizza amd drinks and doing drawings....my friends gamestop has a band playing

[Slydragon]

Now there is a pimp out suv with like 40 lcd screen and big ass speakers and everyone is playing soul cal. on it

[IronMexican]

It's 12 over there now.

[Slydragon]

Downloading the extra stuff now, then try it out.

[dirk4mvp]

Fucking kick ass.

[IronMexican]

Hmm, I am in a scramble for money. Idk what to do.

[dirk4mvp]

Sell some stuff.

[resistanze]

GOW2
Farcry 2
Fallout 3
Dead Space
Saint's Row 2
Rock Band 2
Guitar Hero: WT

Can't even touch this shit until Christmas.

[IronMexican]

GOW2
Farcry 2
Fallout 3
Dead Space
Saint's Row 2
Rock Band 2
Guitar Hero: WT

Can't even touch this shit until Christmas.

If I got all that shit for free, I wouldn;t even care if I had to wail till Navidad. Only game I got to sell is Fallout 3 and Gears 1. I get an extra 20% towards gears with some special, though.

[IronMexican]

Seems like I have the money in hand.

[ATRAIN]

Did anyone get this from Best buy and get that tank?

[IronMexican]

Ima leave like at 3 to get it. Barely 11.

[ATRAIN]

Ima leave like at 3 to get it. Barely 11.

I have to get it after work so around 3:30 or so. Hopefully they have my little tank that I get for my pro order.

[IronMexican]

Yess! I migth be leaving soon. I even came up with a little extra money for a mic.

[ATRAIN]

Yess! I migth be leaving soon. I even came up with a little extra money for a mic.

WTF are you selling things?

[IronMexican]

Lol, nah I don't slang. I use to, but ever since my brother went to jail, no. A home boy let me borrow 20 bucks, so that was enough for the mic.

[IronMexican]

I got it. I had to get off early to get ready to do something though. I'll be on like at 3:40.

[BruceBowenFan]

campaign is sick

[BlackSwordsMan]

Took me 3 hours to finish horde with 5 people
really really badass

[Man Sauce]

I bought mine at Best Buy and it came with this free remote control tank.
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[IronMexican]

I only got to 34. Lucky!

[Slydragon]

Took me 3 hours to finish horde with 5 people
really really badass

Same here started at 11:00pm and got done at 1:58, I like that fact that if I (host) pause it on my screen it would pause everyone else, we could all take a piss break or get water.

I was so damn scared my Xbox would freeze and screw everyone else over because I was hosting.

[BlackSwordsMan]

Anyone got a gold lancer code? ^_^

[IronMexican]

I haven't talked on a mic in so long. Everyone makes fun of me for my accent. They just call me "Holmes" or "ese"

[ClingingMars]

Horde is so utterly epic.

-Mars

[BlackSwordsMan]

I haven't talked on a mic in so long. Everyone makes fun of me for my accent. They just call me "Holmes" or "ese"

I got a beaner voice too but no one makes fun of it. Except when I talk fast

[dirk4mvp]

I haven't talked on a mic in so long. Everyone makes fun of me for my accent. They just call me "Holmes" or "ese"


I invited you and you didn't say anything then left. :bking

[Mr.Bottomtooth]

Campaign is fucking nice.

[Heath Ledger]

how is the multiplayer i could give a shit less about campaign

[IronMexican]

I invited you and you didn't say anything then left. :bking

Sometimes it wont let you talk when you first join a party.

[dirk4mvp]

how is the multiplayer i could give a shit less about campaign

At times it can be the most annoying thing you've ever did. I hope you're not a guy who hates getting chainsawed. I swear there hasn't been a round played since it came out that didn't have at least 1 chainsaw kill in it.

[BlackSwordsMan]

how is the multiplayer i could give a shit less about campaign

If you don't have a party of 5 it sucks. It takes a long ass time finding a match.

[IronMexican]

Since the Lancer is a good gun now, the chainsaw kills have like tripled. A lot of times, you will chainsaw some one, followed by someone from his team chainsawing you.

[MaNuMaNiAc]

Anybody know when Gears 2 is coming out for PC?

[IronMexican]

My bet is it would be announced at this E3 in July. Man, this game is awesome.

[Slydragon]

how is the multiplayer i could give a shit less about campaign

I hate Gears multiplayer matches, I'm opposite of you. I play the single player game and horde online but as for VS. online I hate it. I can't get into it on this game, I try but since I love to run and gun and this is a take cover and fire game I always get my ass handed to me.

Get all piss and start to tell myself "If this was CoD4, that other team would have been owned by me" :lol

I beat GoW 1 and then a few months later sold it because I don't hang onto game I don't play no more, I see myself doing that with this game also.

[PM5K]

I hate Gears multiplayer matches, I'm opposite of you. I play the single player game and horde online but as for VS. online I hate it. I can't get into it on this game, I try but since I love to run and gun and this is a take cover and fire game I always get my ass handed to me.

Get all piss and start to tell myself "If this was CoD4, that other team would have been owned by me" :lol

I beat GoW 1 and then a few months later sold it because I don't hang onto game I don't play no more, I see myself doing that with this game also.

I'll give you 12.00 for it.

I agree, I prefer COD4 MP over Gears (I haven't played Gears 2 online yet)...

[BruceBowenFan]

not the ending i was expecting from gears but good overall

[resistanze]

Horde is the only mode I play in MP. Four of my friends, it's pretty ill.

I'll also start a co-op campaign with my friend.

[Heath Ledger]

Describe the horde mode, i wasnt a big fan of gears 1 even the multiplayer i thought it was cool at first but not a lot of replayability it just got old really quick. Im debating on if I should get this game its doubtful I will play it much now with the cast, I can't use my left thumb.

[BlackSwordsMan]

horde is just kill a bunch of locust and then you start over
it's actually pretty badass

[balli]

If you don't have a party of 5 friends, just how hard is it to get into a horde game? And how long do they generally last before you get got?

I wasn't going to get gow 2, but I've just read review after review and post after post talking up horde as the best thing ever.

[resistanze]

You have the option to be randomly assigned to a group of 5 for Horde on XBL. When I tried it, t took a while for me to find players, I'm not really sure why.

I played with 2 or 3 of my friends and we got stuck on wave 8 of Horde on 3 different maps on Hardcore mode :lol. On one map we got to wave 14, and I think there's 50 waves total. Anyways, you need A LOT of teamwork if you're gonna get far in Horde.

[Slydragon]

The first time I tried it with one friend and we couldn't even get pass wave 10, Next night it was both of us plus his brother and brother gf and another friend of his. We got to 36 before we all died, but you can continue from the Lv you died on to get the horde 50 achievement.

[PM5K]

The first time I tried it with one friend and we couldn't even get pass wave 10, Next night it was both of us plus his brother and brother gf and another friend of his. We got to 36 before we all died, but you can continue from the Lv you died on to get the horde 50 achievement.

Why aren't you on my friends list?

[Slydragon]

Why aren't you on my friends list?

Whats your gamertag and PSN id?

[PM5K]

Whats your gamertag and PSN id?

My GT is ConsoleStop

I don't know my PSN off hand.

Do you have or are you getting Resistance 2?

[Slydragon]

My GT is ConsoleStop

I don't know my PSN off hand.

Do you have or are you getting Resistance 2?

Yea I will be getting R2 this week along with Little Big Planet.

[PM5K]

Yea I will be getting R2 this week along with Little Big Planet.

You son of a bitch....

[TwAnKiEs]

lol...

my friends and tried playing Horde on Insane and keep getting stuck on wave 2:lmao

we get rally close but we haven't had a chance to play with every slot filled up

[Heath Ledger]

im blademaster on the 360 if anyone wants to add me im kobwebb on the ps3

[Slydragon]

not the ending i was expecting from gears but good overall

Yup, end boss was disappointing. I say GoW 1 had a better single player experience. GoW2 spent to much time underground and least pt 1 had different places and I loved that 1 stage were you had to drive and flash the lights on the flying creatures in part 1. It was fun but less than I had hope for.

[Slydragon]

BTW, Master Chief is the queen, lame Halo plug in for a upcoming Halo vs Gears game.

[TwAnKiEs]

Haven't gotten that far but I have to say, the Boss on the water was awesome.. It took me a while.. I kept getting stuck in mid air and that damn thing kept killing me .....:hat

[dirk4mvp]

I'm finally getting the hang of MP. Best way to avoid getting chainsawed is the 2 piece. The shotgun is effective if you aim it. I wonder who the genius is that thought making the smoke grenage able to leave you rendered helpless on the ground for 3 second a good idea.

[PM5K]

So how far has everyone gotten on Horde, anyone gotten to 50 on any difficulty?

[Slydragon]

So how far has everyone gotten on Horde, anyone gotten to 50 on any difficulty?


The first time I tried it with one friend and we couldn't even get pass wave 10, Next night it was both of us plus his brother and brother gf and another friend of his. We got to 36 before we all died, but you can continue from the Lv you died on to get the horde 50 achievement.


Took me 3 hours to finish horde with 5 people
really really badass


lol...

my friends and tried playing Horde on Insane and keep getting stuck on wave 2:lmao

we get rally close but we haven't had a chance to play with every slot filled up

:rollin

[PM5K]

:rollin

You think I read the whole thread?

I did read a couple of those though, I was asking for more replies...

[dirk4mvp]

What's the best map for Horde?

[IronMexican]

Lancer still sucks ass on this game. I went back to the shotgun. Day One is still the gayest map ever.

[IronMexican]

What's the best map for Horde?

Security or Avalanche IMO

[dirk4mvp]

Day One is still the gayest map ever.



Security says hi.

[IronMexican]

I like security. Avalanche is the best.

[IronMexican]

Man brah, I was just beasting! A lot of people call me a 2 piecing whore.

[dirk4mvp]

BTW, Master Chief is the queen, lame Halo plug in for a upcoming Halo vs Gears game.


What? Is there something I'm missing?



Skorge sucked. He had the potential to be a badass boss when he cut the tank in half, but he didn't make an appearance after that till that lame ass boss battle. Raam was way better.

[IronMexican]

What? Is there something I'm missing?



Skorge sucked. He had the potential to be a badass boss when he cut the tank in half, but he didn't make an appearance after that till that lame ass boss battle. Raam was way better.

The story sucked? I was waiting for my friend to get on to beat it. It's no fun by yourself.

[Heath Ledger]

I got Gears last night add blademaster(gamertag), i only played horde one time and we reached level 11. It was hard to play with the cast but i guess i held my own.

[BlackSwordsMan]

skorge looks cool but is weak just beat him and his gay hydra on insane

[dirk4mvp]

The story sucked? I was waiting for my friend to get on to beat it. It's no fun by yourself.


No the story was great. Skorge sucked though.


It was kinda lame how they just "lost" the lightmass bomb on the way to bringing it underground in the helicopter.

[ClingingMars]

ClingingMars on the 360, hit me up for Horde/Co-op

-Mars

[Heath Ledger]

Mofo's nobody has yet to add me...

BLADEMASTER (360)

[dirk4mvp]

Let's get a ST match going sometime.

[Heath Ledger]

im game

[IronMexican]

Alright. we should try this weekend

[dirk4mvp]

Mofo's nobody has yet to add me...

BLADEMASTER (360)


I just added you. I'll be online later tonight, so send me an invite or something.

[TwAnKiEs]

Anyone hear the message from Fenix's dad..... possible cliffhanger for GOW3? I think the 3rd installment (if it is made) will be the during pendellum (SP?) wars.

[BlackSwordsMan]

Anyone hear the message from Fenix's dad..... possible cliffhanger for GOW3? I think the 3rd installment (if it is made) will be the during pendellum (SP?) wars.

been confirmed that gears is a trilogy and I doubt it

[BlackSwordsMan]

900/1000 on Gow2. I need 2 more meatflags for my achievement.

[TwAnKiEs]

Check this out....:lmao:lmao:lmao

GOW2 Easter Egg (http://www.n4g.com/xbox360/News-230375.aspx)

[Slydragon]

Check this out....:lmao:lmao:lmao

GOW2 Easter Egg (http://www.n4g.com/xbox360/News-230375.aspx)

WTF, :lol

[BlackSwordsMan]

Is it the toaster? I tried finding it couldn't find it.

[TwAnKiEs]

Is it the toaster? I tried finding it couldn't find it.

Yeah... When I get a chance I am going back to see of I can find it . :p:

[ATRAIN]

900/1000 on Gow2. I need 2 more meatflags for my achievement.

DAMN did you beat it on Insane?

[balli]

Anybody else having trouble getting your saved single player campaign to load when you're connected to Live? It won't load my game unless I unplug my ethernet cable.

[ATRAIN]

Anybody else having trouble getting your saved single player campaign to load when you're connected to Live? It won't load my game unless I unplug my ethernet cable.

Nope.

[IronMexican]

Anybody else having trouble getting your saved single player campaign to load when you're connected to Live? It won't load my game unless I unplug my ethernet cable.

Nope. I finished the game today. I did one chapter on casual cause I set it there on accident, now I gotta remember which one was it.

[dirk4mvp]

Anybody else having trouble getting your saved single player campaign to load when you're connected to Live? It won't load my game unless I unplug my ethernet cable.



Yeah. It started for me after a while.

[IronMexican]

We need to get an ST party one day. 5 people and rank up.

[ATRAIN]

We need to get an ST party one day. 5 people and rank up.

ST clan?

[IronMexican]

No, just a party. All you need is 5 people.

[dirk4mvp]

I've been stuck on the gold rank for a week, don't know how to get above that.


Let's play.

[ATRAIN]

I've been stuck on the gold rank for a week, don't know how to get above that.


Let's play.

hit me up when your online man, im either playing that or COD: WAW

[balli]

I've been stuck on the gold rank for a week, don't know how to get above that.

I haven't played online yet, but I listened to a 360/Gears podcast the other day where they were talking about how terribly fucked the ranking system is. Some people will win 50 matches and not rank up while sometimes people are just ranking up for no apparent reason at all. Nobody knows what the ranks are, because they're just using arbitrary symbols, or how to affect them. Furthermore, they're just matching up people irregardless of rank. Seems pretty shitty that a game of this magnitude could fuck up the logistics of its online component so badly.

[IronMexican]

I haven't played online yet, but I listened to a 360/Gears podcast the other day where they were talking about how terribly fucked the ranking system is. Some people will win 50 matches and not rank up while sometimes people are just ranking up for no apparent reason at all. Nobody knows what the ranks are, because they're just using arbitrary symbols, or how to affect them. Furthermore, they're just matching up people irregardless of rank. Seems pretty shitty that a game of this magnitude could fuck up the logistics of its online component so badly.

They rank you up by rank. It can be a bitch. My friend has that rank after the golden thing, so if we play online, the other team will have all gold, and sometimes we get stuck with a guy with 1 bar.

[dirk4mvp]

I haven't played online yet, but I listened to a 360/Gears podcast the other day where they were talking about how terribly fucked the ranking system is. Some people will win 50 matches and not rank up while sometimes people are just ranking up for no apparent reason at all. Nobody knows what the ranks are, because they're just using arbitrary symbols, or how to affect them. Furthermore, they're just matching up people irregardless of rank. Seems pretty shitty that a game of this magnitude could fuck up the logistics of its online component so badly.

LOL I guess it is pretty fucked. I just read on the xbox.com forums about a guy who's first game went from no rank to the rank with 2 bars after finishing the match with 1 kill and 2 deaths.

[IronMexican]

LOL I guess it is pretty fucked. I just read on the xbox.com forums about a guy who's first game went from no rank to the rank with 2 bars after finishing the match with 1 kill and 2 deaths.

:rollin:rollin

[balli]

Let’s take a moment to look over the ranking system in Gears of War 2, to make sure everyone understands what they’re looking at when they check out other players online. Your rank in Gears of War 2 multiplayer is based on your TrueSkill rating, which calculates the relative strength of all players on Xbox LIVE.

Gears of War 2 RanksThere are five ranks total, and the first rank is achieved after you play your first multiplayer match. The more Gears 2 matches you win, the higher your rank will be, and your rank will go down when you lose matches. Rank is not affected by Horde Mode and private matches. The ranks are displayed in game using the icons to the left.

TrueSkill is like the chess ELO system, which tries to predict who should win the match based on the skill of the players. If you were predicted to lose and your team wins, then your TrueSkill goes up more than if you won and you were predicted to win. This holds true for the inverse scenario: If you were predicted to win and you lose, then your ranking drops more than if you were predicted to lose.

Rank is not a constantly increasing value, such as is typical in role-playing games (RPGs). Your rank may plateau or even drop as it closes in on your correct and accurate skill level. It will probably take tens of Public Xbox LIVE matches for your rank to move in one direction or another, and it may even take hundreds of matches to achieve a skill with the highest rank we offer, assuming you are good enough to get there.

Also, keep in mind that each rank icon represents a specific range or bucket of TrueSkill values, so while your skill is fluctuating in very small increments from match to match, your rank icon will only change when your skill moves from one bucket to the next. Therefore, your rank is not just about number of kills or experience or the amount of time played. It's an aggregated representation of your skill level based on your wins and losses during Public Xbox LIVE matches. And yes, quitting will lower your rank.

- Six Okay