Like that title ? I'm proud of it.
Anyway , today I'd like to talk about a game that is def not on anyone's A list, despite how proud it makes some game devs feel. Also the music that should have been connected to it . . just sayen.
So first I'd like to point out a Metal band from France that does everything right. Gojira
The funny thing about music is everyone likes something different, everyone has a common interest and everyone has an opinion on some one else's tastes. Well if your reading this I am gonna shove mine down your throat.
Gojira is an embodyment of everything done right in a Metal band, technically these guys know their intruments, the drums are perfect the bass and lead guitars are perfect, and the lead vocals is exactly on par with what is going on. I feel its not my place to pick apart lyrics, and different music means different things to people and thats apart of what makes it sacred
Gojira always places the listener in a world of despair however makes you feel as if there is hope, gives you the ugly and shows you the truth to feel better about it. i am always wisked away to foriegn dreamt lands to over come the forces of ev1L , and I think that is the best part about it.
Gojira def does not try to push you passt their sound, by sounding like someone else, they have their own thing, that is familiar and you can feel good about it, please give these guys a listen specifically their from Sirius to Mars album, I promis you'll be tworting minions in no time.
Music I feel and games, go hand in hand. I can truely appreciate the hard work that goes into makeing noise sound good. It provides and atmosphere are depth to a situation. being that I just introduced you to a great band, I'd like to talk about the game i put on mute to listen to said album
Gear of War:
What can be said about a game that everyone has said everything about? What is to be said for the game that brought the 3rd person shooter genre into the forefront? Should I show you what it looks like? Post one of thousands of videos of player montages? Go over the many arguements that being the host in a PVP match determines the winner?
nope. I wana talk to you about what I think GEARS could do to become better, and as a 28 year old HC gamer , tell you what connection I had with it.
So when GEARS was first released it was my first stint to XBOXLIVE , I spent hunderds of hours wasting away in front of the TV trying my best to figure out the shotgun kills, sniper head shots and the "roddy run " glitch (your always running and chainsaw smokin" I also got pretty good at chainsawing people out of nowhere , to which i was kicked from alot of games for being a N00b, I gotta tell ya , if you can chainsaw someone while they are shooting at you, your not a n00b, your L33t
So LIVE games aside the game really sucked you in, the story line in the first GEARS made you really feel connected to the characters you were playing. You were really scared of the Horde, and you really felt like your gun was your BFF.
Now, in the second GEARS the sorty just got bigger and grander, you were taking the fight to the HORDE, you were gonna whoop them at their source, we learned about DOM and his past , and got a sense of urgency in gettin through the game.
Aside from visually being the best looking game out there, the story rockin something fierce, a few things added, yet took away from the game
Now I can't speak too much about the online game now, as I sold it as soon as i tried getting a match going online a few times (big connectivity issues in the begining), but I didnt like it, I didnt like meat shielding, or portable shields , or any of that, the PVP was unbalanced, attaching a grenade to a wall so that someone could trip over it was stupid to me. It felt as though the core of the game play was taken away, that as long as you placed a few 'nades around a map you could catch someone off guard, and no way to detect it comming. All in all too much added from 1 and no balance, the shotguns were no longer and equalizer, which was nice because very diffcult to pull of one hit kills, buit if you could you were rewarded. The other weapons seems too touchy the next time around.
I have not touched GEARS 2 online in quite some time, but as I can tell from message boards and the like, not much has changed, except things are a bit faster when connecting.
It feels like a game like that could have maybe done with map upgrades, maybe some traps, maybe some new weapons , not shields and stunning smoke nades. . . i really hated those. .
anyway as alway i am going to tell you to go off and do your ownt hing with these games, as where I might hate it, you might enjoy it, thus is the beauty of things like that
However what I think would make for a better next go round, maybe a more roots things, could be better . .
How about a mode where the first team that get to the Bornack (the giat monster things the Hordes ride) get to control it , then the point would be to pull the other team off its back via Harpoons and floor traps?
or a rush mode where the Bornack thing runs from one end of the map to the other, and you have to take it down before it gets there, for the Horde it would be some form of tank the GEARS would have
and maybe a really big map with 32 people, with bugies and walkers and flyers and all kinds of stuff, call it WAR mode, last team standing wins.
How about a vehicle only mode, what could be cooler than 8 to 10 Bornacks on the screen trying to kill each other?
and cliffy b if your out there bro, somewhere is cyber space, loose the friggen shield and planted nades please, please for the love of the unholy loose the stuff that cluttered the play , refine the "shotty" give us maybe better cover, actual environment damage, like the ability to take away someone's cover, no more meat sheild "if you shoot it enough it goes away " thing . How about some battle damage instead, how about if i shoot someone enough they loose a limb? or bleed out if i dont stop and heal up? what about some kill perks. no listen before you leave
how about at 3 kills i get a map, showing everyone no matter what, at 5 i get a care package with a random weapon and at 7 i get maybe a better weapon? or a helicopter ride with a turret
not too much of a rip off but something
and how about a classic kill mode, non of this "downed" first business, you shoot him, he dies. period.
Also how about some friggen heavy metal damn it . . heavy . fukinn M E T A L
The story should evolve more, maybe how the Humans got there, what in fact is emultion? ( i know my spelling sux) Will there ever be a GEARS movie now that it been scrapped?
I can go on and on, but the fact is GEARS has def not been the talk of the LIVE table these days , more people are FPSing it up, which is fine, but believe it or not GEARS 1 took more skill to play that any FPS , and damn it cliffy b (again if your out there) give me , us , them , something to be passionate and proud of again, make me want to go out and get a COG tatoo and not regret it
oh and cliffy . . if your there, dont count your chickens before they hatch, and don't release the game unless you are SURE its done, glitch free, beta tested, and you will be supporting the content for at least 5 map packs of new maps, not rehased maps . . new ones . .
k i'll leave it there, i go off on tangents and make no sense , but listen to Gojira, play Gears , and someone tell cliffy b back to basics, but on a grander scale . .more on my twisted brain later
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