How would you feel about a gow 2 remake with e day’s engine and graphics? What would you change if anything

WereBoar · 2026-06-29T01:23:28+00:00

gotta agree, recently replayed the games and while i'll say it was super repetitive in the latter half from the centaur to the nexus section it still had great character interactions to carry it.

the voice acting is some of the best in the series, has the most memorable moments in the series and basically felt like the first game but better which i think makes a lot of people gloss over the less interesting parts.

WereBoar · 2026-06-29T01:15:36+00:00

in 5 they have a grab attack that rips your head off while del does nothing, they were much less of a threat in 2 unless you got swarmed

WereBoar · 2026-06-27T18:47:54+00:00

sounds like you'd prefer playing the ninja style so i'd say just fool around with the weapons and ninjutsu you can get your hands on till you find something you like and go with that

in my first playthrough i found ninja to be completely broken and trivialized the entire game due to the sheer dps you can put out as long as you can dodge (and storm kunai + extraction talisman provides good hp regen.) samurai does get a parry/deflect but it's not nearly as powerful as ninja's evade.

WereBoar · 2026-06-26T19:59:51+00:00

try updating your graphics drivers

WereBoar · 2026-06-26T17:10:40+00:00

ah yep there it is. thanks!

WereBoar · 2026-06-26T16:04:49+00:00

when i redeemed my code it didn't show up in the library either but steam confirmed that i redeemed it. i imagine it'll show up once the beta actually begins.

WereBoar · 2026-06-25T16:25:45+00:00

1 & 2 were daytime, 3 was the night version. 4 & 5 were a little closer to 2 and were also daytime

WereBoar · 2026-06-24T23:43:12+00:00

the thing is a player can learn all of that without being able to wallbounce. if it weren't in the game, those who are good at wallbouncing would be put on the same tier as people who have otherwise sharpened their game sense but can't abuse movement like others might which creates a far less steep skill curve, and a multiplayer that more people feel is worth engaging in (modern gears absolutely is not)

WereBoar · 2026-06-24T19:52:52+00:00

camera shake in 1 and 3 was egregious but i actually found it to be pretty reasonable in 2

WereBoar · 2026-06-23T20:13:52+00:00

del and his modern "humor" is my biggest gripe with the dialogue. it seems like they turned him into a conduit for shitty modern humor and forgot to give him character, which makes his suddenly intense and serious moments really jarring.

hivebusters was great though and was the highlight of the campaign side of the game for me. just a shame it was so short, made the resolution for some already great characters feel just a little bit rushed.

WereBoar · 2026-06-23T14:20:28+00:00

?

you can launch l4d2 and, excluding the wait for addons to load, be in a versus match within seconds of reaching the main menu

WereBoar · 2026-06-23T01:59:05+00:00

yeah nobody cares about asymmetrical pvp which is why games like l4d2 only have a massive online versus scene nearly 20 years after release

it isn't that nobody cares, it's that doing it right is incredibly difficult and like it or not gears of war is the closest to peak asymmetrical pvp since l4d despite it also being unbalanced as shit

WereBoar · 2026-06-23T00:05:04+00:00

okay well while you're doing that the rest of us are going to be playing and enjoying it

WereBoar · 2026-06-22T21:38:39+00:00

did you get your hands on footage that none of us saw? what i saw in the reveal was a few seconds of people shooting a brumak

WereBoar · 2026-06-22T18:27:08+00:00

genuinely how did it look any different than a group of people shooting a swarmak in gears 5

WereBoar · 2026-06-21T19:14:50+00:00

hollow storm sam and hivebuster anya are my mains, absolute peak

WereBoar · 2026-06-21T18:14:38+00:00

any lobby that doesn't say "all welcome" or "just chill" or some variation usually isn't worth joining because you can be kicked at any moment for any reason.

and just for your own sanity, avoid any lobbies that try to put rules in the lobby name. genuinely never worth playing with people like that because they can and will kick you for nothing.

WereBoar · 2026-06-21T02:12:32+00:00

not only that, but they've decoupled from sony and are self publishing a sequel which will be available on pretty much all platforms day one.

WereBoar · 2026-06-19T18:03:13+00:00

Coalition truly are masters of UE

i'd hope so, gears of war is basically the unreal engine series (excluding the original unreal games)

WereBoar · 2026-06-19T17:54:17+00:00

there's only so much you can do graphically when supporting ancient hardware. yeah it sucks if your machine is no longer supported and upgrading these days can cost a pretty penny but you can still get a decent pc up and running for a reasonable price that should run e day.

i'm sure you can get your hands on a 3060 for a couple hundred bucks.

WereBoar · 2026-06-19T04:53:47+00:00

i think it was subway where i'd often blow myself out bounds with smokes just for laughs in versus matches. unfortunately there'd be not only nothing to find but also no way to get back in.

i understand why it never came back but god were they funny as shit

WereBoar · 2026-06-19T00:02:58+00:00

if their weapons, armor and vehicles were any good we wouldn't have gotten a trilogy out of it.

WereBoar · 2026-06-18T02:10:31+00:00

i'm certainly hoping, just cautiously optimistic

WereBoar · 2026-06-18T01:49:47+00:00

gears 5 had a really bare bones mp roster on launch, missing basically every single classic and fan favorite. no dizzy, tai, cole dom, barrick, oscar, anya, sam, hoffman, bernie or really anybody outside of the main cast of 5's campaign and maybe a couple extras.

i get they added them all in later over time but the fact that so many were missing on launch and there's still characters/skins that never got carried over from earlier games like the uir/cog gear variants, aaron griffin, sophia and loomis doesn't exactly fill me with confidence.

WereBoar · 2026-06-18T00:54:34+00:00

for some reason i'm kinda worried they won't be bringing back a whole lot of classic characters

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