The good news in all this is that either Capps' conscience or employees convinced him in the end to do the right thing. Also, Epic now has an iron-clad recipe for success: Find out what Mike Capps says you should do, and then do the exact opposite.
Epic president wanted to cut Gears' multiplayer, Mad World ad
by Justin McElroy 
on Oct 29th 2007 3:55PM
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The good news in all this is that either Capps' conscience or employees convinced him in the end to do the right thing. Also, Epic now has an iron-clad recipe for success: Find out what Mike Capps says you should do, and then do the exact opposite.
Reader Comments (74)
Posted: Oct 29th 2007 4:00PM (Unverified) said
Donnie Darko is great. Good thing they didn't listen to him!
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Posted: Oct 29th 2007 4:03PM Vegeta has a ps3 said
indeed. A bit of a mind fuck, but a great movie.
Also Mad Mad world is fucking amazing
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Also Mad Mad world is fucking amazing
Posted: Oct 29th 2007 4:04PM Vegeta has a ps3 said
I still would have bought it even without multiplayer.
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Posted: Oct 29th 2007 4:23PM (Unverified) said
Same here,The campaign was simply great I play it 4 times.
The multiplayer is also good but I wish every match wasn't in the same 3 maps over and over.
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The multiplayer is also good but I wish every match wasn't in the same 3 maps over and over.
Posted: Oct 29th 2007 4:36PM (Unverified) said
I got Gears and a month later I finally got Live, best decision ever. I hear you about the maps, Gridlock check, Canals check, Raven down check. I like all of them =(
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Posted: Oct 29th 2007 4:07PM (Unverified) said
'Nobody knows Donnie Darko any more.'
Yeah, sure. Because my short-term memory only lasts 3 days at a time. Guess I gotta get that memory augmentation plasmid I've been hearing so much about.
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Yeah, sure. Because my short-term memory only lasts 3 days at a time. Guess I gotta get that memory augmentation plasmid I've been hearing so much about.
Posted: Oct 29th 2007 4:09PM Pulov Yuran said
"Also, Epic now has an iron-clad recipe for success: Find out what Mike Capps says you should do, and then do the exact opposite."
I lol'd.
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I lol'd.
Posted: Oct 29th 2007 4:18PM (Unverified) said
And I think it's the best MP ever by far and I've been doing MP since Doom and Duke Nukem. Me and several other people on my friends list still play almost daily (but still squeeze in Halo 3, Forza 2, Puzzle Quest etc)
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Posted: Oct 29th 2007 4:11PM baby sea tuna said
"Boy, that would have made that eight-hour single player campaign a much more bitter pill, wouldn't it?"
*coughHeavenlySwordcough*
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*coughHeavenlySwordcough*
Posted: Oct 29th 2007 4:25PM Demon G Sides said
Except, you are totally wrong. Halo 3 had a 15 hours Campaign, if you played it correctly.
On legendary.
With one Friend.
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On legendary.
With one Friend.
Posted: Oct 29th 2007 4:42PM baby sea tuna said
...and has pretty much unlimited replay value due to multiplayer, the theater, Forge, and the campaign meta-game.
Thanks for playing, Matt B.
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Thanks for playing, Matt B.
Posted: Oct 29th 2007 5:45PM (Unverified) said
"Except, you are totally wrong. Halo 3 had a 15 hours Campaign, if you played it correctly."
I realize Halo 3 has multiplayer and Heavenly Sword doesn't, but by that line of reasoning Heavenly Sword has a 20 hour campaign - beat Hell mode with all the glyphs. Having harder difficulties, etc. does add value, but if you're comparing single player length please stick to first playthough time on standard difficulty.
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I realize Halo 3 has multiplayer and Heavenly Sword doesn't, but by that line of reasoning Heavenly Sword has a 20 hour campaign - beat Hell mode with all the glyphs. Having harder difficulties, etc. does add value, but if you're comparing single player length please stick to first playthough time on standard difficulty.
Posted: Oct 29th 2007 9:28PM (Unverified) said
but bioshock is actually really good. and it took me a little over 20 hours for my 1st playthrough. I'll do a "good" playthrough in another couple months :)
awesome game
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awesome game
Posted: Oct 29th 2007 4:14PM (Unverified) said
Gears of what?
Pfft. Nobody knows that game anymore.
Yeah, right.
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Pfft. Nobody knows that game anymore.
Yeah, right.
Posted: Oct 29th 2007 4:20PM (Unverified) said
I have it on my PSP,XB360 and PC if I had a normal Ipod(Mini FTW) you bet it would be in it.
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Posted: Oct 29th 2007 4:53PM (Unverified) said
i would have laughed harder if the music was rick astley
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Posted: Oct 29th 2007 5:34PM (Unverified) said
Rick astley or Tay Zonday would have been better choices but maybe they thing it was a bit over used.
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Posted: Oct 29th 2007 4:19PM (Unverified) said
Cut Mad world?! One of the best ads the world have ever seen?! yeah that would be Epic Fail.
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Posted: Oct 29th 2007 4:26PM Demon G Sides said
I've never seen Donnie Darko, but that song is amazing.
Also, I'm not a preteen. I'm in college, so don't go flaming me for it.
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Also, I'm not a preteen. I'm in college, so don't go flaming me for it.
Posted: Oct 29th 2007 4:29PM (Unverified) said
What does being a preteen have to do with Donnie Darko? I saw it in college. You should be flamed for being in college and NOT having seen Donnie Darko..... It's a perfect college age film.
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Posted: Oct 29th 2007 4:29PM (Unverified) said
Well I think you are overrated
-1 heart thingie...
j/k
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-1 heart thingie...
j/k
Posted: Oct 29th 2007 4:46PM baby sea tuna said
Incredibly overrated (with the notable exception of the line "Sometimes I doubt your commitment to Sparkle Motion.")
I return your heart thingy.
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I return your heart thingy.
Posted: Oct 29th 2007 4:51PM hey buddy said
I'll go on record as someone who didn't enjoy Donnie Darko as much as I wanted to... And I did want to - I saw it the week it opened, the first time around, not the director's cut, however. I guess I'll have to give it another try. I like the cycling scenes in the hills (reminiscent of 'Jules et Jim')...
I am looking forward to 'Southland Tales,' however - the director's new film about life after a terrorist attack and living in the police state that America becomes.
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I am looking forward to 'Southland Tales,' however - the director's new film about life after a terrorist attack and living in the police state that America becomes.
Posted: Oct 29th 2007 4:59PM (Unverified) said
I don't think it's overrated but I love how a movie like "Donnie Darko" or "Fight Club" or "Memento" comes out and everyone and their mom is a philosopher.
Stoner: Dude did you see Donnie Darko?
Me: Yeah, why?
Stoner: Dude, what if... the future... is actually the past?
Me: Just... kill yourself.
To change that conversation from "Stoner" to "Sorostitute", replace all instances of "dude" with "like".
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Stoner: Dude did you see Donnie Darko?
Me: Yeah, why?
Stoner: Dude, what if... the future... is actually the past?
Me: Just... kill yourself.
To change that conversation from "Stoner" to "Sorostitute", replace all instances of "dude" with "like".
Posted: Oct 29th 2007 4:32PM VampireHunterZ said
Damn suits! They are so annoying at my job. Where the fuck do they get their ideas from?
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Posted: Oct 29th 2007 4:34PM VampireHunterZ said
Damn suits! They are so annoying at my job. Where the fuck do they get their ideas from?
Hope I didn't double post.
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Hope I didn't double post.
Posted: Oct 29th 2007 4:35PM hey buddy said
Well, hindsight is certainly 20/20, and since this game did so well, it's easy to question anything that seemed like it would have changed it for the worse. But those decisions didn't actually happen, as we have both multiplayer, and that overly 'senty' commercial.
And this sums up the ever-so-kneejerk "LOL/Douchebag" internet, even if it's only in jest: "Epic now has an iron-clad recipe for success: Find out what Mike Capps says you should do, and then do the exact opposite." Yeah, ok... Except by nature of what you're saying, 'Gears of War' would never have been made.
Begs the question: What else have we missed due to shortsightedness or even simple cost/time related issues? Maybe Nintendo should have put that multiplayer in Metroid Prime...
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And this sums up the ever-so-kneejerk "LOL/Douchebag" internet, even if it's only in jest: "Epic now has an iron-clad recipe for success: Find out what Mike Capps says you should do, and then do the exact opposite." Yeah, ok... Except by nature of what you're saying, 'Gears of War' would never have been made.
Begs the question: What else have we missed due to shortsightedness or even simple cost/time related issues? Maybe Nintendo should have put that multiplayer in Metroid Prime...
Posted: Oct 29th 2007 4:41PM DBuckEye said
I never thought Gears' multiplayer was that great. I never really played it online, but it isn't something like Halo or Smash Bros where I keep wanting to go back to it. And correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think that after September 25 anyone said, "Well the multiplayer is good, but why don't we stick to Gears?"
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Posted: Oct 29th 2007 5:24PM Mr Khan said
My friends seem to have recorded that effect too
The same people who played Halo 2 for practically a year straight are already putting down Halo 3 for whatever else there is (Call of Duty Four, although some are waiting patiently for Army of Two and Brawl for their multiplayer fixes)
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The same people who played Halo 2 for practically a year straight are already putting down Halo 3 for whatever else there is (Call of Duty Four, although some are waiting patiently for Army of Two and Brawl for their multiplayer fixes)
Posted: Oct 29th 2007 4:51PM (Unverified) said
Gears has decent Online Multiplayer....if everyone didn't quit every freakin' 5 seconds because their losing 2 - 0. If there was a system to punish frequent quiters, it would be much better.
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Posted: Oct 29th 2007 4:58PM R V said
I have 2 problems with the game. 1- Who the fuck is the lady that keeps talking in both sp and mp.
2- Where the fuck did the missiles on the train come from? It was like right after the house somehow there was missiles on a train...
Shotgun hit then shoot ftw!!!!
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2- Where the fuck did the missiles on the train come from? It was like right after the house somehow there was missiles on a train...
Shotgun hit then shoot ftw!!!!
Posted: Oct 29th 2007 5:09PM (Unverified) said
I didn't like Gears' competative multiplayer very much, though I will say that the first x times I curb stomped/Chainsawed/Hammer of Dawned/Bow and Arrow thingied someone, it was super gratifying and one of those "OMG!!!!" moments.
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Posted: Oct 29th 2007 5:09PM (Unverified) said
Considering how genious his suggestions are...
...this guy should work for Sony, preferably in the PR department.
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...this guy should work for Sony, preferably in the PR department.
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