Gears 2's reign short lived, Halo 3 tops Xbox Live list

I have only played 3 ranked games so far, waiting it's fucking bullshit. If it ai'nt broken, don't fix it

Oh well I've never really gotten into Gears as I can't get over the obvious steroid usage.

No surprises. Everone's fed up of the crappy matchmaking laggy ass shit everyone has to put up with in every single game. Myself included.

Even after the patch still waiting for hours to get into a match (though where it was over 10 minutes, it's now only 7...)

So I got back at playing CoD:MW

Make epic use dedicated servers.
And do something about the broken chainsaw system.
Then watch Gears 2 surge to the top yet again.

Gears 2 has the worst netcode I have ever seen. What happened, Epic? Too much Jack Daniels at work or something?

GOW2 rocked, I loved it but being as mature in nature as it is there is a much more broad audience playing Halo3 IMO....

maybe if the core game mechanics of this pile weren't so broken more people would play it.

The GoW fanboys making excuses, makes me laugh. Halo 3 is a better game, whether you like it or not. H3 ftw.

I TOTALLY agree!

Having a huge titan of a character that can break down walls with nary a sneeze carry around a gun that LITERALLY goes "pew pew" is pure gaming genius.

GO back to Halo, fanboy. Go back to Halo.

Good. I hope it crashes and burns. Gears 1 might not of been perfect but you know what Epic?

All you needed to do with the multiplayer was fix the shotgun and sort out the host.

You didn't fix the shotgun you just changed the problem and the host? Worse than ever except now Captain ignorant gets to host it up all day thinking hes god, getting a massive Ego and not realizing hes just got a massive advantage on everyone.

Moral of the story: Do not fix what aint broken. You ruined the multiplayer Epic, there was a reason the first one stayed in the top 5 for 2 years. It wasn't everyones cup of tea but hundreds of thousands enjoyed it how it was and now you've alienated everyone.

Thats amazing that Halo 3 has been out for more than a year, and it is beating GoW2. All I have to say is, GoW is for fags.

Gee i don't know maybe patching it faster or GOD FORBID releasing a game that didn't need a paych right off the bat might have helped. Hell I haven't even bought the game yet and was in no hurry after I heard all the mess online was/is.

Halo 3 is so overrated!
All you have is players that have mastered the B button Melee to kill and then talk trash all day about how tactile they are. At least GoW2 tries to blend in a bit more strategy to the gameplay rather than a damn cheap shot of a kill.
GoW ain't perfect but its a step in the right direction.
Someone needs to pay more attention to the details and Epic is trying very hard at that, whereas Bungie hasn't changed any visual detail since Halo1 on the orig Xbox, and thats just plain lazy/cockiness on their part.

oh wow surprise surprise,broken matchmaking=lets just play halo 3 again i love horde but after waiting for 20 just to watch your team(or the other quit) its just stupid want to be on top cliffy? fix it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The issue for me has simply been how inaccessible it has been to people like me who are just average players. In addition to having trouble finding a match, when I DO get into a game I am owned so quickly I spend most of my time watching. The teams are almost never balanced. I am probably slightly above average in just about everything I play online (primarily H3, COD4, and GOW), but with GOW2 I find it hard to have fun, and if it isn't fun, I don't play. Private horde mode, tho - good times.

Go Halo 3!

I hate Gears 2. There was faults with it, but overhauling all that shit killed it for me.

Halo 3 community sucks ass too, just to make it equal.

I loved Gears of War 1 because it had a very fast system for getting into games, you could stay on with the same people with virtually no wait at all. I only bought GOW2 because I thought it would be the same, but with some new game modes and improvement. The game modes are there and there are many improvement, but they also made many things that were perfect in GOW1, horrible.

Obviously, the worst problem is the awful, slow matchmaking system. I can't stomach waiting more than 30 seconds to connect to a match, let alone 10 minutes, plus after I wait for so long, the game automatically picks the host, and half the time, they have a shitty connection, so there is insane lag, and half the people leave the game, and the teams get lopsided so if you want to stay in the game, you lose and your ranking takes a hit, and if you quit the game your ranking takes a hit.

I've had GOW1 since it was released, and 2 years later, I could still play for hours at a time and love every minute, but with GOW2, I have a hard time playing for more than a half hour at a time because of the problems. I'm not a big fan of Halo 3's online, but I do understand why people are going back to it. Because GOW2 is broken.

First off, the matchmaking system isn't even remotely close to matching up people of equal skill. My favorite part is how EVERY public game is ranked and yet you might play a team of 5 people who are so damn good playing with each other they run over make-shift teams all day long.

Also, lets not forget about the cheats. Already I've encountered people more than once who hide behind invisible shields and can wield a shotgun, lancer or even torquebow.

And as for the host, the advantage STILL exists for the host. Epic may have lessened the advantage but for competitive players, we want EVERYONE at equal power. If player A is equally as good as player B, the one who gets the slightest advantage (being the host) will probably win all day long and guess what happens to the other player... they get frustrated and go play another competitive game where no such "host advantage" exists.

The Gears of War games are amazing games BUT they are, as people on the internet call it, "broken".

And lets not forget that Epic took out the ability for someone to host a public game and actually pick the maps and game modes. It's all about either pick one of these two choices or you get something else randomly... if you want to play only Gridlock and Fuel Depot, then you should be able to play only those two maps and have it open to the public!

And don't get me started on the fact that FUEL DEPOT was NOT included in the remakes and Clifford B's, Tyro Station (which is no where near as popular as Fuel Depot) got remade.

For the fans my ass... this game was made tailored to what Clifford B wanted to play. Stay in your bubble boy, stay in your bubble.

And for the record, I've not met one person face-to-face or over live that prefers the second games storymode to the first games. Seriously, did they think it was fun to run around inside a meaty looking level and just chainsaw once in a while!? The game is based on find cover and shoot... not hit 'B' button once every 32 seconds...