Xeogred wrote:Games like this is why Gears of War is pretty lame in my book.
Agreed. Vanquish ruined the cover shooting genre for me. Everything after has been a disappointment.
I agree that Vanquish was MUCH better than Gears of War in terms of gameplay, but I prefer the plot of Gears, and I do quite enjoy having a machine gun with a chainsaw on it and cutting enemies' bodies in half a moment's notice.
Xeogred wrote:I can't remember a single thing about Gears' plot other than giant alien bugs and big football players.
On the other hand, the final stretch of both Vanquish and Metal Gear Rising will be amazing tales I take to the grave. Can never forget that stuff.
THE COLE TRAIN RUNS ON WHOLE GRAIN. Idk, I like dark, gritty, apocalyptic stuff, even if it's tropey as hell, so Gear is, stylistically, very much to my liking. But it's basically giant alien bugs vs football players on steroids. With chainsaws. Can't forget the chainsaw.
My wife and I co-op'd the first Gears a year or two ago. I remember being hyped to play it given how incredible its critical reception was. But alas, for us it turned out to be a 6/10 experience. Gears 1 had a lot of shitty game design to go with its not so bad moments. The plot was a joke and I barely remember anything about it. But I agree that chainsawing enemies never got old. Especially the first time my wife and I played versus multiplayer, and she spent so long finding the perfect sniping spot, and then I snuck up behind her and VROOM VROOM yo ass is in bloody chunks. She was legit pissed.
Exhuminator wrote:My wife and I co-op'd the first Gears a year or two ago. I remember being hyped to play it given how incredible its critical reception was. But alas, for us it turned out to be a 6/10 experience. Gears 1 had a lot of shitty game design to go with its not so bad moments. The plot was a joke and I barely remember anything about it. But I agree that chainsawing enemies never got old. Especially the first time my wife and I played versus multiplayer, and she spent so long finding the perfect sniping spot, and then I snuck up behind her and VROOM VROOM yo ass is in bloody chunks. She was legit pissed.
Gears 1 has a very memorable setting but a very forgettable plot. This was one of my main complaints with the game when I nearly beat it a couple months ago. The game more or less goes out of its way to short-change the narrative and keep the player in the dark about why you are where you are, what you're doing, who's who. I ended up enjoying it a lot less than I could've, I think. I will agree though that chainsawin' bitches never did get old.
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1) Bonk's Adventure (NES)
2) Little Samson
3) Holy Diver
4) Holy Diver (legit!)
5) Mitsume Ga Tooru
6) TMNT II: The Arcade Game (NES)
7) Mighty Final Fight
8] Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!!
9) Monster In My Pocket
10) Battle of Olympus
11) Gunstar Heroes (repeat)
12) Dragon Age: Inquisition
13) Dragon Age: Inquisition - Trespasser
14) Captain America and the Avengers (NES)
15) StarTropics
16) Double Dragon II: The Revenge (NES) (save states)
17) Double Dragon II: The Revenge (NES) (legit)
18) Crisis Force
19) Esper Dream 2
20) Felix the Cat
21) Moon Crystal
22) Panic Restaurant
23) Frankenstein (NES)
24) Crystalis
25) Nekketsu Kakutou Densetsu
February:
26) Killer Instinct (GB)
27) Mashin Hero Wataru Gaiden
28) Sly Spy (Arcade)
29) The Red Star (unreleased XBOX, also on PS2)
30) Adventure Island 4
31) Cocoron
32) Batman: Arkham Knight
33) Xeodrifter (Vita)
34) Doom 2
35) Brandish: The Dark Revenant
36) Magical Pop'n
37) The Ninja Warriors (SNES)
38) Phantasy Star (SMS)
39) Phantasy Star III
40) Super Smash Bros. for 3DS
41) Brandish: The Dark Revenant (Dela Mode)
March:
42) Freedom Planet (Milla, 82 lives lost)
43) Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis
44) Lara Croft Go
45) Oniken
46) Mario & Luigi: Paper Jam
47) Batman: The Video Game (GB)
48) Batman: The Video Game (NES)
49) Super Spy Hunter
April:
50) Mega Man 2
51) Mega Man 4
52) Mission: Impossible (NES)
53) Mega Man 6
54) Super Mario Bros. 3
55) Sword Master
56) DuckTales 2
57) Rush'n Attack (NES)
58) Mega Man 3
59) Mega Man 5
60) Mega Man
61) S.C.A.T. - Special Cybernetic Attack Team
62) TaleSpin (NES)
63) Double Dragon III (NES)
64) Donkey Kong (NES)
65) Astyanax (NES)
May:
66) Master Chu and the Drunkard Hu
67) The New Ghostbusters II (NES, proto)
68) Castlevania: Symphony of the Night (PSP, via Dracula X Chronicles)
69) Revenge of Shinobi
70) Shinobi III
71) Shadow Dancer
72) El Viento
73) Earnest Evans
74) One Must Fall 2097
75) A Nightmare on Elm Street (NES)
76) Hebereke
77) Contra
78) Wario Land: Shake It!
79) Gimmick!
80) Ninja Gaiden (GG)
81) Wai Wai World 2 (NES)
82) Zoda's Revenge: StarTropics II
83) Uncharted: Golden Abyss
84) Double Dragon (SMS)
June:
85) Astra Superstars
86) Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance
87) Star Wars: Dark Forces 2 - Jedi Knight
88) Star Wars: Dark Forces
89) VVVVVV
90) Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Hyperstone Heist
91) Broforce (PS4)
92) Momodora: Reverie Under the Moonlight
93) The Terminator (SCD)
A decent platformer / run-and-gun based on the movie. Obviously. There's some pretty unclear objectives because of how foreground and background objects can be obscured, and the last stage can be completely, absolutely cheap and lame. But I figure I could finish it completely if I started from the beginning now that I know how things work. Thankfully, even though I was playing on the Sega CD, there's a stage select code so I wasn't losing progress all the time.
And for the record, I looked it up, and it isn't just a port of the Genesis version. Very different game.
