Infinity Ward/Bungie + Gears gameplay = GOTY

I love the gameplay ideas that Epic has come up with. The campaign and Horde mode are excellent but their multiplayer is a bug-infested, lagfest.

Now whether you like Halo 3 or COD4 or not, you can't say that their online multiplayer isn't high quality. There are almost no exploits, matchmaking is pretty good, and unless there is just a bad host, there is almost never any lag.

Now, FPS is a genre that is just overrun with different choices, more choices than gamers need. However, the third-person strategic shooter (Gears) is almost all by itself. An untapped market.

Just look how much demand there is for a third-person strategic shooter. Even though Epic didn't fix anything in their multiplayer, it still sold record numbers. Gamers are desperate for a Gears-type of gameplay to put up with Epic's utter failure.

For those saying Epic just announced a patch to fix all of what I just mentioned, have you all forgotten what happened after the patch for Gears 1? Either A) it created new glitches or B) only changed the methods of doing the same glitches.

Epic also said they were going to make the netcode for Gears 2 to be "more efficient" but it lags just as bad as Gears 1 (if not worse).

I just hope the developers (Infinity Ward and Bungie especially) have already caught on to this trend and are making a "Gears-killer" as we speak, because honestly - it won't take much effort to topple it.

A Co-Op developed game between Bungie and Infinity Ward would be......well.....I think the universe would explode from the awesomeness that followed.DarkGamer007

While if they joined up that would be awesome but I meant for it be read as for Infinity Ward to do this or for Bungie to (or both would make amazing competition).

...did you really just say STRATEGIC 3rd person shooter?

...no...just......just no..

They arent anymore strategic then normal fps games.

Though ive come to loathe bungie for H3 and Gear of war was god awful. CoD 4 was the only one i had interest in sticking with long enough to stay top teir.

Gears was too slow and boring AND predictable imo.

Halo 3 was... well you ran as fast as you would if you were jogging in snow/deep mud/molassous or whatever sticky tough treading substance. Not to mention bungie felt it a good idea to keep the sight damn near at chin level so you have to look at the clouds to pull a headshot off. Though we seem to have settled for good games being games that actually FUNCTION without bugs instead of ones that are fun and have options.

...did you really just say STRATEGIC 3rd person shooter?

...no...just......just no..

They arent anymore strategic then normal fps games.

Though ive come to loathe bungie for H3 and Gear of war was god awful. CoD 4 was the only one i had interest in sticking with long enough to stay top teir.

Gears was too slow and boring AND predictable imo.

Halo 3 was... well you ran as fast as you would if you were jogging in snow/deep mud/molassous or whatever sticky tough treading substance. Not to mention bungie felt it a good idea to keep the sight damn near at chin level so you have to look at the clouds to pull a headshot off. Though we seem to have settled for good games being games that actually FUNCTION without bugs instead of ones that are fun and have options.

sharpshooter188

A lot of people who don't like strategic games claim them to be "too slow."

Besides you kinda missed the point of my post anyways.

,What, you mean like a Rainbow Six game when you say strategic shooter?

And everyone, for the love of god, stop saying H3 is rubbish, I LOVE IT

...did you really just say STRATEGIC 3rd person shooter?

...no...just......just no..

They arent anymore strategic then normal fps games.

Though ive come to loathe bungie for H3 and Gear of war was god awful. CoD 4 was the only one i had interest in sticking with long enough to stay top teir.

Gears was too slow and boring AND predictable imo.

Halo 3 was... well you ran as fast as you would if you were jogging in snow/deep mud/molassous or whatever sticky tough treading substance. Not to mention bungie felt it a good idea to keep the sight damn near at chin level so you have to look at the clouds to pull a headshot off. Though we seem to have settled for good games being games that actually FUNCTION without bugs instead of ones that are fun and have options.

sharpshooter188

So you mean overblown marketing and failure to deliver? That's all we've seen out of Epic and Bungie lately. Just let Infinity Ward handle it.Zoso-8

Game developers are a business. Gears of War is the only game of its kind right now. Why make yet another FPS which will have to compete with say ten games when you can make a third person strategic shooter (like Gears) and only have Gears to compete with. If they can make a stable multiplayer (which they have with their others games, then they will sell like crazy.