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Gears of War 2 & Diablo III
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Jesus Jul 19 2008, 07:50 AM Post #1
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Well I have played both game series and the new sequels look soooo much better. I liked the whole gears of war story and thought it was alright but the gameplay was so intense in that game. Like I was hooked playing gears of war. IGN also posted about the storyline on the 17th of July which is here,

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E3 2008: Gears of War 2 Story Details
How Epic Games plans to deliver a knockout story.
by Nate Ahearn

July 17, 2008 - The first Gears of War wasn't exactly known as a powerhouse for its story. In fact, it was the opposite in most people's eyes with more of a shell of a plot that was meant to be fully exposed at a later date. That date has been set as November 7, 2008. The day that the Gears world will supposedly be unearthed in an entirely different way thanks to a much deeper storyline. Crafting that plot is Josh Ortega, a well-known writer in the world of comics and science-fiction and he's now bringing new life to the Xbox 360's most anticipated game of the year.

We sat down with him at a Microsoft-hosted event during E3 to discuss exactly what fans can expect from Gears of War 2.

IGN: What were your thoughts about Gears before doing it; I know you've done comic books -- Spider-Man, Batman, all that...

Josh Ortega: I would say in terms of Gears it was a cool universe. Immediately, from an artistic style, because working in visual media, especially comics, I appreciated the visual style first and foremost. I was a little late to actually play it when I finally got to it I just loved it. To this day I still play. Recently because I was getting ready for all this multiplayer stuff, I was like, man I gotta brush up. Playing guys like you... (speaking into the microphone) This guy's good by the way!


IGN: That's going in the interview, you better believe it.

Josh: I had to start brushing up. But brushing up for campaign stuff, in the Gears universe all the time. Just recently beating it on hardcore and playing it on insane and feeling good about it. The stickiness of the game is amazing, people just keep going back to play Gears. Even after all this time the multiplayer's still fun for them. The new stuff, as you play it, is even the next level. It's so much tighter than the first one. It was just a universe that was easy to jump into. There's also a ton of potential. It's always fun to work on a franchise from the early stages, there's just so much you can do.

IGN: Speaking of seeing potential in an unformed universe, with the characters did you see specific archetypical characters and places you could go with them?

Josh: Yeah, right away there was stuff with the arc of the story that me and Cliff and Rod (Ferguson) as well were all on. We had to fight for a few story points but I think they're going to be things that are new for people. Stuff that people haven't quite experienced, at least not from a third-person videogame. Maybe in other media, but yeah, it was really one of these things where there's a wealth of possibilities and with all the characters and the templates that they set up with the first one. Credit to everyone who worked on the first game for setting up a lot.

Some people say it's a bad story, it's not a bad story, it's a sparse story. Not everything made it in, not really the fault of everyone else, but what made it in was definitely memorable. Like I always say, Gears every once in awhile will get that criticism and I just have to say hey, what was it the third Lord of the Rings that was top at the box-office and won every damn award? And that's what Gears did, it was the top-selling title and it won all the awards. It's kinda hard to criticize a game at that point. You could nitpick but it did its job; it set the universe. I think it's better to be sparse than to say too much and do something stupid which I think they avoided. That gave me a wealth of possibilities to work with.


From what I see I believe this will be a great storyline.

Now Diablo III just looks like it will blow the other Diablos away in the dust. I will miss the old graphics and more availability of classes, but I guess I can deal with it. From what I heard there will be a total of 5 classes, me only knowing of 3, A Barbarian which looks totally destructive and powerful, the witchdoctor which sort of looks like a ripoff of a necromacer, and some sort of knight class that sort of leaked. Now for the other two classes, I guess we would just have to wait or just take some guesses. I say some sort of magician or "sorceress" I mean if they didn't have any magic based characters it would just be a tad bit awkward because from the beginning of diablo they had a spell caster. Then I guess the last would be some sort of archer or "amazon" but I do not really know :P It is always fun to take a guess though.

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I have played a bit of GOW 1, its incredibly hard, so, i quit playing it and traded it in :)
I traded in 2 wii games for myself and got £40 to spend at GAME! I forgot how much GOW was.
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slayer766 Jul 22 2008, 07:31 PM Post #3
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I've always been a big fan of the Diablo games, as Blizzard is a great company which produces some of the best PC games ever. Diablo 3 is waaay beyond anything I'd ever imagined....everything looks phenomenal the graphics are amazing since they are using a new 3d engine for it, I can't wait for this game to come out!


Gears of War was incredibly fun, was not too hard even on Insane, I played that with my cousin and we were just flying through the game dieing a lot but it was FUN! Gears of War 2 I hope will live up to it's name and continue to be a badass game!
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Did you signed up for trial for these games as they are not released.

Gears of war 2 is going to be very awsome. Especially the new weapons and enemy's

I have not looked at the new diablo.
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Oh then you must :P Only downfall of it is that now there will only be 5 classes, Barbarian, Witchdoctor, Pally thingy supposedly but the other two I have no clue. And there is a trial that you can sign up for :o I heard at the the Blizz convention this October they will be releasing A LOT more information on D3. The game is really well thought through if I don't say so myself. While monsters drop things for all, you get your share, it sort of divides it evenly amongst everyone. Also I sort of like how you don't need anymore HP pots :P Anyways hopefully more will be released in October :o
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Oh then you must :P Only downfall of it is that now there will only be 5 classes, Barbarian, Witchdoctor, Pally thingy supposedly but the other two I have no clue. And there is a trial that you can sign up for :o I heard at the the Blizz convention this October they will be releasing A LOT more information on D3. The game is really well thought through if I don't say so myself. While monsters drop things for all, you get your share, it sort of divides it evenly amongst everyone. Also I sort of like how you don't need anymore HP pots :P Anyways hopefully more will be released in October :o
i just looked at the site and the trailers. It looks very good indeed. There will be 5 classes but each class has a male/female option. I also like the new features: Little quest in game, and you can use objects around you. You can break a wall down on an army of enemy's and they die.
I am still looking for a trial though.
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Yeah don't believe D3 have a trail yet :P Still it is definitely an improvement by choosing a gender and the graphics are outstanding. And yes using your surroundings to kill enemys is just awesome because it gives it more of a realistic feel.
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I have collected all the information that i could find about it and made a kind of preview about it.

link: http://s1.zetaboards.com/inspiredgaming/topic/549086/1/#new

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The diablo games were alright in my oppinion i guess. The big problem is that there sill hack and slash based to which im not a huge fan of. Though if im just killing things out of bordem then its perfect.
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Diablo will always be a hack n slash game.
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