Originally Posted by thelwig14 (Post 9223632)

Just lots and lots of little things.

First, the multiplayer connection issues are just awful. And when you are finally in a room, Epic forced everyone to be ranked (of course you can do private, but you need a room of 10). So, after the pain of getting into a room, you play the match, and then you are kicked back out to the lobby and have to go through the same process. So for every 5 minutes of waiting to get into a room, you have a equal time of gameplay. I assume Epic was so worried about rank cheating.

The contrast is in COD, everyone stays in the room and teams are rearranged. So in Gears 1, they had basic unranked matches and you could stay in the same room for hours and you had very little idle time (once again, I know there are private rooms, but many don't have 9 Gears friends at once).

In addition, Epic is forcing gamers to play gametypes you don't want to play. I can't imagine Halo or COD forcing gamers to not be able to play team deathmatch solely or some other gametype. The best Epic allows you to do is get it down to 3 gametypes and hope you play team deathmatch.

From a playing aspect, little things like powerful guns overtaking maps, smoke grenades knocking you down, grenade tags on walls (not a bad idea, just implemented poorly), etc..

GOW 2 is a great game, but being a flagship title, these problems, which should never have surfaced in the first place, are unacceptable. And worse, they still haven't been patched.

Originally Posted by GreenMonkey (Post 9225108)

That pretty much covers it. I play Gears 1 with my Gears buddies almost every night. They don't like Gears 2 much...especially being forced to do the matchmaking and stuck playing gametypes you don't want to play.

I thought the patch cleared up some weirdness and it's better IMO but being forced to deal with the matchmaking sucks. And the smoke grenade knock-downs get really annoying.

We're still playing Gears 1 every night. It's full of wonky stuff, but at least we can play match after match without twiddling our thumbs for matchmaking. And it sucks you can't play folks more than once you meet in matchmaking.

Originally Posted by thelwig14 (Post 9225140)

Is there still a decent community left?

GOW 2 fixed things I hated about GOW 1 (getting shot not stopping an animation, hipfire shotgunning, etc...), but I spend more time at the menu than playing GOW 2.

Originally Posted by Krayzie (Post 9227908)

gold lancer is free again on live marketplace.

Originally Posted by Michael Corvin (Post 9223097)

MS is giving away $25,000 in prizes to get people playing GoW2. :lol:

Originally Posted by Giantrobo (Post 9256741)

Yeah, I seem to end up with people on the opposing team who've apparently partied up and played GOW2 all day so they're impossible to beat, and people on my team who drop when things get tough.

Screw versus. :grunt:

Originally Posted by Krayzie (Post 9257234)

Yeah, I was thinking it might be a bit hard though to start off at 47 with no shields and just your normal weapons. I suppose it's nice that you can put it on easy. What difficulty is public horde set to? Normal?