gears of war takes little skill to play its a NOOB game

the game has a very small low learning curve you can easily know everything online within like 3 days

because of host, and lag shotgun kills come down to luck or who has host

then you have NOOB ways to kill people like grenade tagging, chainsaw. and the active reload sniper shot which downs somebody in one hit....

overall IMO there is no such thing as a "great" player because gears of war is a NOOB game

you could have a good team with tactics

but as far as the individual once you know the game, and the maps you are pretty much just as good as everyone else

DISCUUSS

Disagree on the skill. But it did get boring pretty fast.

You suck in Gears don't you?Aljosa23

3/2 odds that that's true.

You suck in Gears don't you?Aljosa23

name something in gears that takes skill besides getting a headshot with the sniper

everything else is based on host, lag, or just plain NOOB things like grenade tagging, and chainsaw

pressing the B button WOW SO MUCH SKILL

just face it gears of war is a NUB NOOBY GAME thats why the online community is garbage

Not all games can be as exciting as the ones on the Wii or the ones PS3 owners are waiting for

The skill it requires to play a game is not a problem. When you are in a room of people who are really good, then it is reaction time, knowledge and ability that will allow you to be victorious.

I practiced playing UT2K4 and now find it really easy to play, is that now a noob game?

Try it on LAN. no lag, no host advantage, no screaming 12 year olds...Harbadakus

Yeah, but then you gotta find 8 people locally to play with. And I don't know about you, but I don't wanna play with the same 7 people everyday :?.

Try it on LAN. no lag, no host advantage, no screaming 12 year olds...Harbadakus

yeah it gets alot better on LAN

but i wish they had dedicated servers so i could play better matches online

Not all games can be as exciting as the ones on the Wii or the ones PS3 owners are waiting for

Neal_Gore

at least PS3 games have dedicated servers, and no lag

the HOST aspect of gears of war is the greatest flaw IMO

The only thing I didn't like about gears was it having the typical, boring, shooter ending.

"The war continues" DUM DUM DUM.

Yawn. How many more of those are we going to get? END THESE WARS ALREADY!

if you are an experienced shooter, any shooter will be more easy. try it on hardcore. it's not a noob game. maybe you are just too darn great.danneswegman

uMMM look at my gamertag ive beaten the game on INSANE

i have almost every achievement besides SERIOUSLY, and this is ANNEX

trust me as a veteran of this game , im not just some ps3 fanboy i have played gears extensively and have REAL complaints

[QUOTE="Aljosa23"]You suck in Gears don't you?tidus222

name something in gears that takes skill besides getting a headshot with the sniper

everything else is based on host, lag, or just plain NOOB things like grenade tagging, and chainsaw

pressing the B button WOW SO MUCH SKILL

just face it gears of war is a NUB NOOBY GAME thats why the online community is garbage

- Manuevering (jumping, utilizing cover for transportation)
- blind firing
- nade tossing (without the aiming line)
- no scope headshots
- getting up from a downed state and killing the enemy hovering over you to (whether they're in front of you or behind etc.)
- stagger cancelling and shooting (after you're meleed)
- catching the guy who tags you with a nade and kill him (whether it's with a gun or the actual nade inside you :lol: )

There's so much more I could list, but I don't wanna get to deep into it. Personally, I think Halo is a game that takes little to no skill.

[QUOTE="Neal_Gore"]

Not all games can be as exciting as the ones on the Wii or the ones PS3 owners are waiting for

tidus222

at least PS3 games have dedicated servers, and no lag

the HOST aspect of gears of war is the greatest flaw IMO

I agree completely.

[QUOTE="danneswegman"]if you are an experienced shooter, any shooter will be more easy. try it on hardcore. it's not a noob game. maybe you are just too darn great.tidus222

uMMM look at my gamertag ive beaten the game on INSANE

i have almost every achievement besides SERIOUSLY, and this is ANNEX

trust me as a veteran of this game , im not just some ps3 fanboy i have played gears extensively and have REAL complaints

But the game was fun. What more do you want? Want hard? Play Ninja Gaiden.

the game has a very small low learning curve you can easily know everything online within like 3 days

because of host, and lag shotgun kills come down to luck or who has host

then you have NOOB ways to kill people like grenade tagging, chainsaw. and the active reload sniper shot which downs somebody in one hit....

overall IMO there is no such thing as a "great" player because gears of war is a NOOB game

you could have a good team with tactics

but as far as the individual once you know the game, and the maps you are pretty much just as good as everyone else

DISCUUSS

tidus222

Well if it's such a noob game, you should be absolutely PWNing everyone else then right? And Lag depends on your connection speed. I have comcast high speed, so I don't have any lag.

the game has a very small low learning curve you can easily know everything online within like 3 days

because of host, and lag shotgun kills come down to luck or who has host

then you have NOOB ways to kill people like grenade tagging, chainsaw. and the active reload sniper shot which downs somebody in one hit....

overall IMO there is no such thing as a "great" player because gears of war is a NOOB game

you could have a good team with tactics

but as far as the individual once you know the game, and the maps you are pretty much just as good as everyone else

DISCUUSS

tidus222

wow, just, wow

Play a clan match and come back to me and say the same thing, people do things in that game that would make u pee ur little pants

You suck in Gears don't you?Aljosa23

[QUOTE="danneswegman"]if you are an experienced shooter, any shooter will be more easy. try it on hardcore. it's not a noob game. maybe you are just too darn great.tidus222

uMMM look at my gamertag ive beaten the game on INSANE

i have almost every achievement besides SERIOUSLY, and this is ANNEX

trust me as a veteran of this game , im not just some ps3 fanboy i have played gears extensively and have REAL complaints

yeah i know.

so you finished the game on all ways possible and then decided it was a noob game......

You get better as you progress.. when a game has no challenge for you, buy another game. Try Ninja gaiden for instance

what are you trying to accomplish with this thread?

Gears is ok, but is very shortand over-rated. I think it has possibly the worst community of any Xbox Live game online, and this thread isn't doing much to convince me otherwise. In my opinion, if this game didn't look the way it does, it would have died in a bargain bin somewhere. Don't get me wrong, I love my 360 and I was hyped up about Gears, but it's so shallow and really was a let down.

On System Wars and Gamespot it was a success and a great tool of 'ownage', but in reality there are a lot of people that think the game flat out sucks. I honestly do not care what awards Gears won - it doesn't make it the best (Citizen Kane didn't win any awards when it was released) - it's glaringly obvious that if it didn't look the way it does, not only would a lot of people not bothered to pick it up in the first place, but reviews wouldn't have been so favourable. At the time it was a kick in the nuts because it looked so damn good, and reviews got caught up with that. More sensible reviewers looked at the gameplay first and proceeded to be underwhelmed, which was then lauded by the general gamer as 'biased'.

The test for me came when I first bought Gears - I didn't have a HDTV then, just a 14" standard definition small TV. I played Gears right through to the finish, first time of playing (of course on hardcore mode, as I had heard Casual was way too easy), and came out of it thinking 'all this wait, for that?'. So I jumped into multiplayer, hoping for a true classic. After about 10 rounds of Shotgun blasts not hitting people right next to me, people tagging me from miles away, chainsaw animations glitching and people not dying after being chainsawed, I got very fed up. I carried on playing it, but aside from one game on canals where we all banned Shotgun use, I've never enjoyed a single game of Gears online. I can happily come in the top couple of players - I'm not crap - but it's just not really fun. I can't help but get the feeling that the people I kill have had shots straight at me that missed, and in a game that wasn't completely broken online, would have beaten me. It never feels fair, whether I win, lose or draw. There are glitches all over the place, the host advantage is truly sickening, the gametype selection (even with the lame domination gametype thrown in) is stupidly paltry, voice chat is sketchy at best (plug a mic into controller 2 and you used to be able to hear the other team talking during the game) and the code in terms of shots and weapon contact is laughable at best.

I now have a 37" HDTV and put Gears on it when I first bought it - the graphics blew me away, and I sat there thinking 'woah, this is what I was missing!' I finished the single player again, and after the initial graphical impact had worn off, I was left with the same hollow shell of a game, devoid of any soul, skill or enjoyment. If it wasn't for using the graphics to show off my 360 to people, I would have thrown Gears into the garbage of Ebay a long time ago.

And the truth is that I'm no Playstation fanboy or 'Cow'. I have very little patience with my PS3 at the moment due to Sony being awful about it, and seek solstice with my beloved white curvy box next to the TV. I adore Forza 2, Halo 2 and 3 beta, and Guitar Hero 2, and Rainbow Six Vegas is absolutely tremendous. And I still think Gears is massively over-rated and a game made solely for the 'ADD' generation of dumb muscleheads. And that isn't aimed at anyone in particular, more an observation of the community.

[QUOTE="Neal_Gore"]

Not all games can be as exciting as the ones on the Wii or the ones PS3 owners are waiting for

tidus222

at least PS3 games have dedicated servers, and no lag

the HOST aspect of gears of war is the greatest flaw IMO

not debating with you, but how many games on the PS3 are dedicated?

[QUOTE="Aljosa23"]You suck in Gears don't you?tidus222

name something in gears that takes skill besides getting a headshot with the sniper

everything else is based on host, lag, or just plain NOOB things like grenade tagging, and chainsaw

pressing the B button WOW SO MUCH SKILL

just face it gears of war is a NUB NOOBY GAME thats why the online community is garbage

How bout trying to get a boom shot off on a moving target escpecially on how sucky the boom is unless you get active reload. The boom is nothing like the rocket launcher in quake where you can hit the ground and have it hurt the enemy. How bout getting the tourque bow down to a tee on a moving target, how bout using the shotty on a moving target, and how about avoiding getting tagged, chainsawed. Its not all noobish and yes to an extent the host can be a pain because of the fact that you are connected to him. Gears can be tough when your enemy is just as good as you, and I think it makes it challenging when it is an even playing field.

[QUOTE="tidus222"][QUOTE="Neal_Gore"]

Not all games can be as exciting as the ones on the Wii or the ones PS3 owners are waiting for

LEGEND_C4A

at least PS3 games have dedicated servers, and no lag

the HOST aspect of gears of war is the greatest flaw IMO

not debating with you, but how many games on the PS3 are dedicated?

I'm so sick of hearing this crap about no lag, I dont care if you have dedicated servers or not. Its something called packets and when you are playing online a bunch of people it does tend to hit a bottle neck on anything. So enough with this no lag. Its the internet it will lag sooner or later.

I'm sure being able to get close enough to chainsaw someone aint a noob move....jonesy1911

Depends who you're playing. It's a noob move if you CAN'T kill off someone trying to chainsaw you.

You suck in Gears don't you?Aljosa23

I believe he does. He porobably got owned hard online and came here to bash the game to make up for his lack of skill.

MLG Pro says different.

every game takes skill anyone says different is dumb thats why you have people who suck and people who are nasty at the game.

[QUOTE="danneswegman"]if you are an experienced shooter, any shooter will be more easy. try it on hardcore. it's not a noob game. maybe you are just too darn great.tidus222

uMMM look at my gamertag ive beaten the game on INSANE

i have almost every achievement besides SERIOUSLY, and this is ANNEX

trust me as a veteran of this game , im not just some ps3 fanboy i have played gears extensively and have REAL complaints

U want a cookie

You suck in Gears don't you?Aljosa23

the game has a very small low learning curve you can easily know everything online within like 3 days

because of host, and lag shotgun kills come down to luck or who has host

then you have NOOB ways to kill people like grenade tagging, chainsaw. and the active reload sniper shot which downs somebody in one hit....

overall IMO there is no such thing as a "great" player because gears of war is a NOOB game

you could have a good team with tactics

but as far as the individual once you know the game, and the maps you are pretty much just as good as everyone else

DISCUUSS

tidus222

of course. the game is won by whoever has the better internet connection, not whoever has more skill.

then you have NOOB ways to kill people like grenade tagging, chainsaw. and the active reload sniper shot which downs somebody in one hit....

tidus222

Oh I'm sorry. I thought people could survive being tagged by a grenade, survive being chainsawed and survive sniper shots with ease. You pretty much just killed your own arguement.

If Sniper is cheap and Shotgun is cheap and the guns are polar opposites it means that there is a balance of long and close range....

As far as actual skill goes I'm not very good at the game. Its the one game I can never be good at because I always revert to thinking I'm playing RE4 at random spos in the middle of the game.

the game has a very small low learning curve you can easily know everything online within like 3 days

tidus222

Is not a Newb game but sure there are a lot of newbs playing ;).

IMO Gears of war is balanced but is more like a Paper,Rock,Scissors kind of game but is also a cool game to play with friends since it requires a good amount of teamwork to win.So in xlive ranking matches I just mute everyone and try to play in a Team.