Gears of War 2 surpasses 3 million milestone

Totally agree!

Uh, Gears 2 plays nothing like Gears 1 (at least in MP).

It plays similar enough to be able to tell one is the sequel to the other.

No..the multiplayer plays nothing like gears 1. At all. In the slightest bit.

Epic did what should never be done to a popular multiplayer game, changed everything.

Imagine if the same was done for COD or Halo or whatever your favourite multiplayer game happens to be.

So you are telling me that if you played Gears 1, then Gears 2, you would not be able to say they are 2 games in the same series? That is just dumb. I can play CoD4, then WaW, and say they are in the same series of games even though I do not like WaW. I am not blind to the fact that they are similar. Same with Gears. You may not like 2 as I do not like WaW, but they are none-the-less similar. Maybe it is because I played the hell out of CoD4 and 5 just feels different. Same with you and Gears. Still though, they are similar. Similar does not mean same.

How about the fact that direct hits from many guns don't stop the chainsaw? the shield glitch that allows people to use shotguns with it? No way to know anymore who it is that has a horrible connection, and being forced to play POS modes like Guardian when you want to play ranked modes?

Like I said, I play casually, not ranked. I have not had problems with the shield shotgun combo, and the chainsaw thing is not a problem. If they patch it fine, if not, I don't care. Basically, the problem lies with ranked games mostly. Since I do not play them that often, it obviously does not affect me as much as others. Hence, I hold to my original statement that I love the game and am glad it is doing well.

@ DBoyFlex:

I just want to add to the already majority and say that Gears 2 is NOT Gears 1 with a fresh coat of paint. If it was, it wouldn't be so easy for me to put in Gears 1 and find a match instantly.

Gears 2 has great features like Horde but overall it's no where near what the first one was like.

And as for Halo 3, I think keeping it the same with tweaks and new weapons / maps was the SMARTEST thing for Bungie to do. Everyone bitches that Halo 3 is just Halo 2 with a new coat of paint and guess what, that's what the games players wanted!

Us Gears 1 players didn't want all the drastic changes introduced into the 2nd one and I'm actually turned off a bit.

- Host advantage STILL exists, it's just masked
- Chainsaws are overpowered
- Major glitches still exist
- Matchmaking is flawed and makes it impossible to stay with people you JUST met (unlike Halo 3)
- Story mode is so cliched it's actually insulting
- Characters have lost their original charm by "filling shoes" now rather than just being charming

... there's more but I just don't feel like going on and on.

Also, be sure I am not attempting to say that everybody else who has had a different experience is wrong. I am not oblivious to the huge number of threads about problems. As should be expected, my original post is the game as I have experienced it. I am not going to refer to problems I myself have not had, nor am I going to say the game is problem free if I have had problems. For me, I have not experienced most of the encountered problems, so I stick with above as MY experience. Everybody has their own stories to tell. This is mine.

I guess I need to say it AGAIN. From MY experience. Holy shit. I did not say it was perfect. In MY experience! it has been fine. Good lord you people need to chill and stop trying to tell me that the game sucks when I don't find that to be the case.

So you deleted people just because they didn't agree with you?

sigh

your post makes me sad about the american school system. i'm never having kids!

You will only keep friends who agree with you 100%? that is so sad.

What does me not liking gears of war 2 because it's buggy have anything to do with our school system? Moron I feel internally bad for yours are all you taught about is video games? and No I had to delete 2 friends because they were mad I traded gears 2 and called it crap and started arguing and cursing so I laughed and deleted them comprende?

I think dabilee01 is commenting on your terrible use of punctuation and grammar which is attributed to your American public education.

His disappointment in the American school systems stems from your amazing grammar and punctuation, not from you disliking a video game. (And the fact that you didn't pick up on that really only confirms said disappointments) In your original post, you went on for about a paragraph before you saw fit to put in any punctuation. Forgetting stuff like that makes your posts hard to read.

I think dabilee01 is commenting on your terrible use of punctuation and grammar, which is attributed to your American public education.

LOL Oh god forgive me for my grammar on a comment I wrote about a VIDEO GAME I had no idea this was school and I was SUPPOSE to write correctly so people educated (unlike me) could understand. What's that god? Oh yes I believe they are foolish as well to judge on grammar for a gaming site not an online G.E.D or anything of the sort.

Seriously who the hell judges your grammar on a gaming site? I thought this site was to get away from stuff like that? You want to teach school then go to college and huzzah your on your way to being a teacher just now most students will throw an apple at you just to be an ass.

WhathemeansisthatyourpostreadslikethisandbecauseyouwenttoanAmericanschoolshowsthatyoudon'tknowhowtoformacomplexsentence.

while you may think of grammar as a silly formality, i'm pretty sure it's purpose is to make thoughts, you know, intelligible.

dude i so dont get why everyone is bashing you i mean you are totally making a point here its not like you were unreasonable or making crazy statements its just that these guys dont get you i fully understand you hate gears 2 its probably going to start getting old real soon like in a year or 2 no one will play it anymore. yeah?

same here - i played 3 matches last night, & experienced so much lag that the only way to get kills was to constanly hold the B button to have the chainsaw running while walking around the map.

when i got my 2nd laggy game, i thought it was my connection - ran a speed test & it said my connection was 13500kbps.

all i can say is that Epic have done a poor job with the multiplayer aspect so that anyone outside of the USA get a shitload of lag.

i have no idea why Epic wouldn't have had a localization option in the multiplayer settings so we can vs people in the same country as us to minimize lag.
or even use dedicated servers!

once again i find myself going back to Gears 1.