Gears of War: Judgement

DeSelby83 wrote: »

Ye I'm a bit skeptical myself about it and to be honest no horde = no sale. That was my favourite bit about gears. Never had much interest in the versus multiplayer side

Hahahahaha....oh wow Epic, way to destroy any interest in your game. Really liked GoW 1-3 but havent paid much attention to this, but with no Horde mode they can do without me monies....

im either gonna get this or the new tomb raider im still undecided on which to get

calex71 wrote: »

No horde or locust in multiplayer? Well I guess now we know what will be in the season pass dlc don't we.

They took one of the best mode from muliplayer to sell to us as an extra, well kiss my money good bye MS/Epic...... I don't know for sure it will be sold as DLC but why take it out of the game otherwise?

Because they think they will make more money by cutting sections off to sell it to you.

Now, some users around here are perfectly okay with it and will tell you it's perfectly normal in todays development but I think most of us know the truth of the situation to be honest.

This needs to come out on PC.

Kirby wrote: »

Because they think they will make more money by cutting sections off to sell it to you.

Now, some users around here are perfectly okay with it and will tell you it's perfectly normal in todays development but I think most of us know the truth of the situation to be honest.

No, some users prefer to go on facts rather than opinions based on speculation and nonsense.

There are two new modes being added to Judgement, Overrun and Free-For-All. I imagine they're replacing Horde Mode with the former since it's already featured in two games and People Can Fly, the studio actually developing the title, want to leave their own mark on the franchise.

It was announced at E3 2012 that Gears of War: Judgment will feature a new game mode called OverRun. As the COG, you’ll be protecting two sealed Emergence Holes and a Hammer of Dawn beacon. If you successfully defend the Hammer of Dawn, the round will end, blowing the Locust to smithereens. If the Locust reach the Emergence Holes and uncover them however, the COG are ripped to shreds by a flood of Kryll.

As for Free-For-All, I imagine that's exactly what it says on the tin.

Nothing like engaging in a bit of intellectual dishonesty in order to try and score points on the internet. I'm sure you're quite aware of the difference above so I don't really see the point in elaborating further.

As for Horde Mode, it seems like it's still there in the form of Survival Mode.

I'll probably be picking this up anyway. Although I find some of the proposed design decisions odd, I'm interested to see what PCF can bring to the table. The changes to the campaign sound pretty promising so far and Overrun looks like it could be a lot of fun.

Kirby wrote: »

Nothing dishonest there buddy. You claimed you deal in facts and don't speculate. In your next sentence you went on to speculate. All I did was quote you.

I agree with you about the game. Your speculation about horde mode being rebranded was exactly what I posted above you. You probably didn't see it. No problem here.

The problem was with your previous post which was accompanied by the rather snarky remark about other posters. To be honest, I probably should have just ignored it for what it was but since it sparked a couple of misleading posts that subsequent posters thought to be true, I bit.

I would have thought the difference between what we posted was rather obvious. I made a reasonable and clearly labelled assumption based on the available information and didn't try and pass it off as fact. You and calex71 have said that MS/Epic have cut the mode because they want to resell it later. While calex71 at least said he didn't know for sure, you professed to know the "truth" of the situation.

The problem here of course is that you weren't basing that off of anything, in fact, you'd gotten the most basic information wrong. People Can Fly are handling development duties on Judgement, not Epic. While the possible inclusion of a retooled Horde Mode is great, there would have been nothing malicious about PCF dropping it in order to focus their resources on creating something new for their entry in the series. If they had wanted to go back and build new maps and content for Horde Mode at a later date for DLC then that would have been fine too. I find it quite bizarre that a studio or studios can be criticised for flogging a franchise one minute and then for developing new game modes rather than rehashing older ones the next.

Part from the Eurogamer preview gives hope for us Horde-junkies:

Beyond that, there's multiplayer, enlivened, this time, by Survival, a class-based co-op offering in which you defend a control points from increasingly horrible waves of enemies. Maps are large and complex, the rhythm is suitably relentless, and each class comes with a specific load-out and a neat skill. The engineer can repair the barbed wire barricades slung around the battlefield, for example, while the scout can climb certain objects and throw down beacons that tag any enemies that pass through them. It's lovely stuff with five players - a more focused, technical kind of Horde game. In its shuddering blasts of artillery and artfully placed cover it feels just like Gears. In its tight, quietly clever tactical focus, it feels just like Bulletstorm.

So Horde mode with add class dynamics....I could dig that. And the talk of randomising where emergance holes pop up in the campaign, similar to the spawning in games such as Left4Dead, might make it a bit more fun than playing through a tough section so much you know exactly which doors enemies appear through.

Opinion of GoW:J....switched to interest piqued.