Design Battle MP3 vs Gears of War

Which do you think has better Art Design and look better artistically?

Which has more immersive levels andbetter level design?

Hopefully the people who vote in this will be people who've played both.

I say Metroid all the way.

Gears is too muddy for me art-wise. Too generic.

The GFS Valhalla in MP3 is beautifully crafted by those nice people at Retro Studios.

If you think gears has poor art direction your blind. Just because one or two area have too much shine and HDR doesnt make the hole game bad.htekemerald

Its just it was 6 hours (took me that long) of duck, cover, fire, duck, cover, fire.

Puzzles? There were not enough in Gears.

Half-Life and Metroid Prime show FPS/Adventures can integrate really good puzzles into solid fire fights.

[QUOTE="htekemerald"]If you think gears has poor art direction your blind. Just because one or two area have too much shine and HDR doesnt make the hole game bad.darth-pyschosis

Its just it was 6 hours (took me that long) of duck, cover, fire, duck, cover, fire.

Puzzles? There were not enough in Gears.

Half-Life and Metroid Prime show FPS/Adventures can integrate really good puzzles into solid fire fights.

[QUOTE="htekemerald"]If you think gears has poor art direction your blind. Just because one or two area have too much shine and HDR doesnt make the hole game bad.darth-pyschosis

Its just it was 6 hours (took me that long) of duck, cover, fire, duck, cover, fire.

Puzzles? There were not enough in Gears.

Half-Life and Metroid Prime show FPS/Adventures can integrate really good puzzles into solid fire fights.

Yeah I personally find Metroid Prime to be better than Gears of War. Gears of War had some great ideas but I think they could've worked more on level design.

Artistically speaking i think mp3 is the best game this genertion, gears was mind blowing on a technical level, some parts just made me go WOW!!! but it definately wasn't the art direction: big idiots in suits, drab colour pallette etc.

[QUOTE="htekemerald"]If you think gears has poor art direction your blind. Just because one or two area have too much shine and HDR doesnt make the hole game bad.darth-pyschosis

Its just it was 6 hours (took me that long) of duck, cover, fire, duck, cover, fire.

Puzzles? There were not enough in Gears.

Half-Life and Metroid Prime show FPS/Adventures can integrate really good puzzles into solid fire fights.

so? mp3 only took me 7 and a half hours, and thats collecting all 100 powerup items. the puzzles in mp3 could be solved for a 7 year old,and were most of the time worthless.

With Gears you get basically 4 colors.

Gray, Gray, Brownish Gray, and Metallic.

[QUOTE="darth-pyschosis"]

[QUOTE="htekemerald"]If you think gears has poor art direction your blind. Just because one or two area have too much shine and HDR doesnt make the hole game bad.mtradr43

Its just it was 6 hours (took me that long) of duck, cover, fire, duck, cover, fire.

Puzzles? There were not enough in Gears.

Half-Life and Metroid Prime show FPS/Adventures can integrate really good puzzles into solid fire fights.

so? mp3 only took me 7 and a half hours, and thats collecting all 100 powerup items. the puzzles in mp3 could be solved for a 7 year old,and were most of the time worthless.

Really? 7 hours?

Not that I'm having trouble with it, but I'm halfway collected and I'm at 15 hours.

Maybe I read the logs too much.

[QUOTE="darth-pyschosis"]

[QUOTE="htekemerald"]If you think gears has poor art direction your blind. Just because one or two area have too much shine and HDR doesnt make the hole game bad.mtradr43

Its just it was 6 hours (took me that long) of duck, cover, fire, duck, cover, fire.

Puzzles? There were not enough in Gears.

Half-Life and Metroid Prime show FPS/Adventures can integrate really good puzzles into solid fire fights.

so? mp3 only took me 7 and a half hours, and thats collecting all 100 powerup items. the puzzles in mp3 could be solved for a 7 year old,and were most of the time worthless.

:lol: That reminded me of some guy complaining of MP3's "bad level design" he said he ran into an invisible wall that wouldn't let him pass the game. When it was obvious that there was a force field that would go down once you beat the enemies.

Also you beat it in 7 hours? I find that hard to belive, who was the last boss?

[QUOTE="darth-pyschosis"]

[QUOTE="htekemerald"]If you think gears has poor art direction your blind. Just because one or two area have too much shine and HDR doesnt make the hole game bad.mtradr43

Its just it was 6 hours (took me that long) of duck, cover, fire, duck, cover, fire.

Puzzles? There were not enough in Gears.

Half-Life and Metroid Prime show FPS/Adventures can integrate really good puzzles into solid fire fights.

so? mp3 only took me 7 and a half hours, and thats collecting all 100 powerup items. the puzzles in mp3 could be solved for a 7 year old,and were most of the time worthless.

if you mamaged to finish metroid in 7 hours than it would have taken you less than 2 hours to finish gears (i know your lying anyway)

[QUOTE="mtradr43"][QUOTE="darth-pyschosis"]

[QUOTE="htekemerald"]If you think gears has poor art direction your blind. Just because one or two area have too much shine and HDR doesnt make the hole game bad.mushroomscout89

Its just it was 6 hours (took me that long) of duck, cover, fire, duck, cover, fire.

Puzzles? There were not enough in Gears.

Half-Life and Metroid Prime show FPS/Adventures can integrate really good puzzles into solid fire fights.

so? mp3 only took me 7 and a half hours, and thats collecting all 100 powerup items. the puzzles in mp3 could be solved for a 7 year old,and were most of the time worthless.

Really? 7 hours?

Not that I'm having trouble with it, but I'm halfway collected and I'm at 15 hours.

Maybe I read the logs too much.

probably. my roommate is playing it, and hes put in about the same as you, but because he reads and scans just about everything. that nonsense didnt interest me, so i didnt do it :P

[QUOTE="mtradr43"][QUOTE="darth-pyschosis"]

[QUOTE="htekemerald"]If you think gears has poor art direction your blind. Just because one or two area have too much shine and HDR doesnt make the hole game bad.Kaze_no_Mirai

Its just it was 6 hours (took me that long) of duck, cover, fire, duck, cover, fire.

Puzzles? There were not enough in Gears.

Half-Life and Metroid Prime show FPS/Adventures can integrate really good puzzles into solid fire fights.

so? mp3 only took me 7 and a half hours, and thats collecting all 100 powerup items. the puzzles in mp3 could be solved for a 7 year old,and were most of the time worthless.

:lol: That reminded me of some guy complaining of MP3's "bad level design" he said he ran into an invisible wall that wouldn't let him pass the game. When it was obvious that there was a force field that would go down once you beat the enemies.

Also you beat it in 7 hours? I find that hard to belive, who was the last boss?

Okay so me taking 15 hours is normal?

I thought I was slow or something. :\

[QUOTE="darth-pyschosis"]

[QUOTE="htekemerald"]If you think gears has poor art direction your blind. Just because one or two area have too much shine and HDR doesnt make the hole game bad.mtradr43

Its just it was 6 hours (took me that long) of duck, cover, fire, duck, cover, fire.

Puzzles? There were not enough in Gears.

Half-Life and Metroid Prime show FPS/Adventures can integrate really good puzzles into solid fire fights.

so? mp3 only took me 7 and a half hours, and thats collecting all 100 powerup items. the puzzles in mp3 could be solved for a 7 year old,and were most of the time worthless.

anyone who says gears has better art obviously hasn't witnessed mp3's skytown :shock: incredible, the bosses were also fantastically designed and detailed.---OkeyDokey---

The pirate world also looks awesome, as does Bryo (spell :P), I loved the acid rain parts in the pirate world looks all red w/ some yellow kinda weird but cool.

[QUOTE="darth-pyschosis"]

[QUOTE="htekemerald"]If you think gears has poor art direction your blind. Just because one or two area have too much shine and HDR doesnt make the hole game bad.mtradr43

Its just it was 6 hours (took me that long) of duck, cover, fire, duck, cover, fire.

Puzzles? There were not enough in Gears.

Half-Life and Metroid Prime show FPS/Adventures can integrate really good puzzles into solid fire fights.

so? mp3 only took me 7 and a half hours, and thats collecting all 100 powerup items. the puzzles in mp3 could be solved for a 7 year old,and were most of the time worthless.

In the first seven hours i was on skytown, ok tell me what item you need to disable the defence shield from the space pirate planet?

[QUOTE="---OkeyDokey---"]anyone who says gears has better art obviously hasn't witnessed mp3's skytown :shock: incredible, the bosses were also fantastically designed and detailed.SuperMario_46

The pirate world also looks awesome, as does Bryo (spell :P), I loved the acid rain parts in the pirate world looks all red w/ some yellow kinda weird but cool.

thinking about those places makes me want to play through it again :)

why would i even bother giving info on the game like the last boss, what item is gotten where, and what not, when anyone could answer those questions? for example, when you are shooting off satellites that tell you where stuff is, one of them instead gives you info on aether and the other on a planet i cannot remember the name of. no one would believe me anyway no matter what info i gave.mtradr43

Aether?

That was prime 2 dude.

why would i even bother giving info on the game like the last boss, what item is gotten where, and what not, when anyone could answer those questions? for example, when you are shooting off satellites that tell you where stuff is, one of them instead gives you info on aether and the other on a planet i cannot remember the name of. no one would believe me anyway no matter what info i gave.mtradr43

Claims =/= Fact.

I claim that it took you 30 hours to beat MP3.

Prove me wrong.

[QUOTE="mtradr43"]why would i even bother giving info on the game like the last boss, what item is gotten where, and what not, when anyone could answer those questions? for example, when you are shooting off satellites that tell you where stuff is, one of them instead gives you info on aether and the other on a planet i cannot remember the name of. no one would believe me anyway no matter what info i gave.SuperMario_46

Aether?

That was prime 2 dude.

XD

[QUOTE="mtradr43"]why would i even bother giving info on the game like the last boss, what item is gotten where, and what not, when anyone could answer those questions? for example, when you are shooting off satellites that tell you where stuff is, one of them instead gives you info on aether and the other on a planet i cannot remember the name of. no one would believe me anyway no matter what info i gave.SuperMario_46

Aether?

That was prime 2 dude.

shoot off all the satellites, you will see what im talking about.i think you need to get the spider ball before you can do it.

[QUOTE="mtradr43"][QUOTE="darth-pyschosis"]

[QUOTE="htekemerald"]If you think gears has poor art direction your blind. Just because one or two area have too much shine and HDR doesnt make the hole game bad.SuperMario_46

Its just it was 6 hours (took me that long) of duck, cover, fire, duck, cover, fire.

Puzzles? There were not enough in Gears.

Half-Life and Metroid Prime show FPS/Adventures can integrate really good puzzles into solid fire fights.

so? mp3 only took me 7 and a half hours, and thats collecting all 100 powerup items. the puzzles in mp3 could be solved for a 7 year old,and were most of the time worthless.

In the first seven hours i was on skytown, ok tell me what item you need to disable the defence shield from the space pirate planet?

not quite sure what you are asking, but is it the grapple upgrade that lets you suck or add energy to stuff? i may be misinterpreting your question.

why would i even bother giving info on the game like the last boss, what item is gotten where, and what not, when anyone could answer those questions? for example, when you are shooting off satellites that tell you where stuff is, one of them instead gives you info on aether and the other on a planet i cannot remember the name of. no one would believe me anyway no matter what info i gave.mtradr43

coz you are lieing.

if you weren't, no matter how moronic the debate may seem you could prove to us you at leasy have the determination to look it up on wikipedia.

I find it extremely weird that someone would beat Prime 3 in just 7 hours, especially (or at least) this earlyo after the game's release.Kaze_no_Mirai

It's called lying to win at internet arguments.

MP is as generic as Gears of War, people. Just because Samus is a woman who wears a funky suit running around bigger levels doesn't make the art direction any better.

That said, MP has much better level design. After all, it's an adventure game. The TC is just looking to start a flame war, considering that both games are entirely different.

not quite sure what you are asking, but is it the grapple upgrade that lets you suck or add energy to stuff? i may be misinterpreting your question.

mtradr43

I know you are lying to begin with, but you are also incorrect.

[QUOTE="SuperMario_46"]

[QUOTE="mtradr43"]why would i even bother giving info on the game like the last boss, what item is gotten where, and what not, when anyone could answer those questions? for example, when you are shooting off satellites that tell you where stuff is, one of them instead gives you info on aether and the other on a planet i cannot remember the name of. no one would believe me anyway no matter what info i gave.mtradr43

Aether?

That was prime 2 dude.

shoot off all the satellites, you will see what im talking about.i think you need to get the spider ball before you can do it.

[QUOTE="mtradr43"][QUOTE="darth-pyschosis"]

[QUOTE="htekemerald"]If you think gears has poor art direction your blind. Just because one or two area have too much shine and HDR doesnt make the hole game bad.SuperMario_46

Its just it was 6 hours (took me that long) of duck, cover, fire, duck, cover, fire.

Puzzles? There were not enough in Gears.

Half-Life and Metroid Prime show FPS/Adventures can integrate really good puzzles into solid fire fights.

so? mp3 only took me 7 and a half hours, and thats collecting all 100 powerup items. the puzzles in mp3 could be solved for a 7 year old,and were most of the time worthless.

In the first seven hours i was on skytown, ok tell me what item you need to disable the defence shield from the space pirate planet?

not quite sure what you are asking, but is it the grapple upgrade that lets you suck or add energy to stuff? i may be misinterpreting your question.

1. I already have the spider ball, i dont know what your talking about

2. WRONG, you need the x ray visor + the special beam, dont remember the name, i know its green:P.

MP is as generic as Gears of War, people. Just because Samus is a woman who wears a funky suit running around bigger levels doesn't make the art direction any better.

That said, MP has much better level design. After all, it's an adventure game. The TC is just looking to start a flame war, considering that both games are entirely different.

The_Ish

mp3 generic :|now ive heard everything

[QUOTE="The_Ish"]

MP is as generic as Gears of War, people. Just because Samus is a woman who wears a funky suit running around bigger levels doesn't make the art direction any better.

That said, MP has much better level design. After all, it's an adventure game. The TC is just looking to start a flame war, considering that both games are entirely different.

---OkeyDokey---

mp3 generic :|now ive heard everything

Someone replying too a better poster with a witless remark that doesn't refute anything. Now I have heard everything. :|

[QUOTE="---OkeyDokey---"][QUOTE="The_Ish"]

MP is as generic as Gears of War, people. Just because Samus is a woman who wears a funky suit running around bigger levels doesn't make the art direction any better.

That said, MP has much better level design. After all, it's an adventure game. The TC is just looking to start a flame war, considering that both games are entirely different.

The_Ish

mp3 generic :|now ive heard everything

Someone replying too a better poster with a witless remark that doesn't refute anything. Now I have heard everything. :|

If you'd heard everything you'd understand in SW people make stupid comments.

I asked people which they liked. Stated which one I prefered, and why not the other.

I didn't say they were "kiddy", or stupid.

I like things for originality. Something is still original if its the thing that did it originally.

Or if it reinvents a genre.

Gears of War is for people who can't wait for Halo 3.

There is no peer to Metroid Prime other than maybe Half-Life.

This isn't flamebait, at least at first it wasn't.

To be flamebait sir, one must carry the torch too.

[QUOTE="The_Ish"][QUOTE="---OkeyDokey---"][QUOTE="The_Ish"]

MP is as generic as Gears of War, people. Just because Samus is a woman who wears a funky suit running around bigger levels doesn't make the art direction any better.

That said, MP has much better level design. After all, it's an adventure game. The TC is just looking to start a flame war, considering that both games are entirely different.

darth-pyschosis

mp3 generic :|now ive heard everything

Someone replying too a better poster with a witless remark that doesn't refute anything. Now I have heard everything. :|

If you'd heard everything you'd understand in SW people make stupid comments.

I asked people which they liked. Stated which one I prefered, and why not the other.

I didn't say they were "kiddy", or stupid.

I like things for originality. Something is still original if its the thing that did it originally.

Or if it reinvents a genre.

Gears of War is for people who can't wait for Halo 3.

There is no peer to Metroid Prime other than maybe Half-Life.

This isn't flamebait, at least at first it wasn't.

To be flamebait sir, one must carry the torch too.

Well then I apologize for calling your thread flamebait, since you seem sincere enough.

MP is as generic as Gears of War, people. Just because Samus is a woman who wears a funky suit running around bigger levels doesn't make the art direction any better.

That said, MP has much better level design. After all, it's an adventure game. The TC is just looking to start a flame war, considering that both games are entirely different.

The_Ish

Metroid Prime as generic as GoW? The games are different in almost every aspect. Just compare some screenshots of the two. Gears nails the whole post apocalyptic thing and Metroid nails the diverse alien landscapes. Personally I love Metroids style and level design, nothing touches it IMO. Gears has technical merit beyond compare. So Metroid easily beats Gears IMO.

[QUOTE="The_Ish"]

MP is as generic as Gears of War, people. Just because Samus is a woman who wears a funky suit running around bigger levels doesn't make the art direction any better.

That said, MP has much better level design. After all, it's an adventure game. The TC is just looking to start a flame war, considering that both games are entirely different.

metroidman7_11

Metroid Prime as generic as GoW? The games are different in almost every aspect. Just compare some screenshots of the two. Gears nails the whole post apocalyptic thing and Metroid nails the diverse alien landscapes. Personally I love Metroids style and level design, nothing touches it IMO. Gears has technical merit beyond compare. So Metroid easily beats Gears IMO.

Gritty sci-fi world with cavemen-like soldiers, or gritty sci-fi world with a few more colors...hmm...hard to chose...

And you're right, these are two different games, so theres no point in comparing them, considering their genre demands different level designs. Since MP is an adventure game thats more than worth the plastic its made with...it would obviously win in the level design department. I did not dispute this, why did you reply to my post?

[QUOTE="metroidman7_11"][QUOTE="The_Ish"]

MP is as generic as Gears of War, people. Just because Samus is a woman who wears a funky suit running around bigger levels doesn't make the art direction any better.

That said, MP has much better level design. After all, it's an adventure game. The TC is just looking to start a flame war, considering that both games are entirely different.

The_Ish

Metroid Prime as generic as GoW? The games are different in almost every aspect. Just compare some screenshots of the two. Gears nails the whole post apocalyptic thing and Metroid nails the diverse alien landscapes. Personally I love Metroids style and level design, nothing touches it IMO. Gears has technical merit beyond compare. So Metroid easily beats Gears IMO.

Gritty sci-fi world with cavemen-like soldiers, or gritty sci-fi world with a few more colors...hmm...hard to chose...

And you're right, these are two different games, so theres no point in comparing them, considering their genre demands different level designs. Since MP is an adventure game thats more than worth the plastic its made with...it would obviously win in the level design department. I did not dispute this, why did you reply to my post?

because you're still acting like they are the same. seriously, go compare screenshots of the two and try to come back here telling me that Metroid is just Gears with "more colors". If Gears wasn't so damn linear it mighthave beatMetroid. Choosing a alternate path for minutes at a time just isn't gonna sit with me. If you still think what you're saying, go buy MP3 and beat the game. the last planet is f-ing amazing in its design.

Artistically speaking i think mp3 is the best game this genertion, gears was mind blowing on a technical level, some parts just made me go WOW!!! but it definately wasn't the art direction: big idiots in suits, drab colour pallette etc.

---OkeyDokey---

umm, Bioshock?