Gears of War: Ultimate Edition

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Anyone picking this up tonight/tomorrow? Thinking about picking it up but would like some people to play multiplayer with.
 
I didn't know it was already coming out. Thanks for the heads up. I may get on tonight to play some coop. Gamertag is ArmeniusLOD.

Any word on a release date for the PC version? It's probably going to be a Windows 10 exclusive, isn't it...
 
I'll add you later.

Daddydemgainz is my tag. I think I might go pick it up on my lunch, but not 100% sure yet.
 
I got it, but haven't installed it to my Xbox One yet. I'm hoping I can play it tonight.
 
Gears of War: Ultimate Edition is brilliant. Don't get the Deluxe version. It's crap. $20 for extra skins.

The only problem is the Gears of War game is not "adjusted" for today's technology. Back in the day the biggest TV was maybe 45in. Try playing Gears of War: Ultimate Edition on a 4k 75in TV sitting 4 feet away. It will give you a headache, really really fast. There's just too much jumping and bouncing. I hope it's adjusted in a future update.
 
phas3d said:
Try playing Gears of War: Ultimate Edition on a 4k 75in TV sitting 4 feet away. It will give you a headache, really really fast. There's just too much jumping and bouncing. I hope it's adjusted in a future update.
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Or - Don't sit 4 feet away from a 75 inch screen?

You have an extremely unusual use case that most people would not recommend. Also A 4k TV isn't going to help your experience in this case. Your TV might actually be making your experience worse because of input lag caused by the extra image processing.
 
Armenius said:
I didn't know it was already coming out. Thanks for the heads up. I may get on tonight to play some coop. Gamertag is ArmeniusLOD.

Any word on a release date for the PC version? It's probably going to be a Windows 10 exclusive, isn't it...
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Most likely sometime next year and yes.
 
Armenius said:
I didn't know it was already coming out. Thanks for the heads up. I may get on tonight to play some coop. Gamertag is ArmeniusLOD.

Any word on a release date for the PC version? It's probably going to be a Windows 10 exclusive, isn't it...
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It's already been released for PC. What would be the point of re-releasing it? Can almost assure it'd look the same.
 
It's funny that after all the hype of running on an updated engine with upgraded visuals that the game still looks and plays exactly the same, with flat textures, pixelated shadows and loose controls. It probably would feel better on the latter point if the campaign was running at 60 FPS instead of 30. One nice thing, though, is that the game looks less gray and brown to me than the original, as if there is no post-process screen filter going on at all and you see the natural colors of the models and lighting.

That said, the game is still fun as hell :D.
zamardii12 said:
It's already been released for PC. What would be the point of re-releasing it? Can almost assure it'd look the same.
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Because the original uses the now-defunct Games for Windows Live, and finding a copy of the original these days is going to run you $40-$80 anyway.
 
zamardii12 said:
It's already been released for PC. What would be the point of re-releasing it? Can almost assure it'd look the same.
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MS announced that Gears Ultimate is coming to the PC during E3, dude. Also, the first port was not great.
 
Mozex said:
Or - Don't sit 4 feet away from a 75 inch screen?

You have an extremely unusual use case that most people would not recommend. Also A 4k TV isn't going to help your experience in this case. Your TV might actually be making your experience worse because of input lag caused by the extra image processing.
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On my Samsung 4K I can disable upscaling to reduce the lag.
 
I hope the pc port sales exceed their expectations and hopefully get them to think about releasing the new gears and halo 5 on win10 aswell.
 
I completely forgot how to play this game on multiplayer. I'm trying to aim at everyone and dying constantly. Finally a few rounds in, I remember to use the shotgun and DON'T use the aim trigger. Then I start blasting me some fools.
 
phas3d said:
Gears of War: Ultimate Edition is brilliant. Don't get the Deluxe version. It's crap. $20 for extra skins.

The only problem is the Gears of War game is not "adjusted" for today's technology. Back in the day the biggest TV was maybe 45in. Try playing Gears of War: Ultimate Edition on a 4k 75in TV sitting 4 feet away. It will give you a headache, really really fast. There's just too much jumping and bouncing. I hope it's adjusted in a future update.
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You could also be too close try moving to 6, 8, or 10 feet. I'm playing it on a 60" plasma and I haven't gotten a headaches.
 
phas3d said:
Gears of War: Ultimate Edition is brilliant. Don't get the Deluxe version. It's crap. $20 for extra skins.

The only problem is the Gears of War game is not "adjusted" for today's technology. Back in the day the biggest TV was maybe 45in. Try playing Gears of War: Ultimate Edition on a 4k 75in TV sitting 4 feet away. It will give you a headache, really really fast. There's just too much jumping and bouncing. I hope it's adjusted in a future update.
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"Hey everyone, look at me I have a 75 inch 4K TV in a tiny shoebox apartment! I can't even play popular games without a headache but look at me!"
 
phas3d said:
Gears of War: Ultimate Edition is brilliant. Don't get the Deluxe version. It's crap. $20 for extra skins.

The only problem is the Gears of War game is not "adjusted" for today's technology. Back in the day the biggest TV was maybe 45in. Try playing Gears of War: Ultimate Edition on a 4k 75in TV sitting 4 feet away. It will give you a headache, really really fast. There's just too much jumping and bouncing. I hope it's adjusted in a future update.
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Why the fuck would you be sitting 4 feet away from a 75" TV. No wonder you're having headaches... did you not even consider sitting farther away? That's like going to a movie theater and sitting in the front 3 rows.
 
Nobody buys a 75" TV and then sits 4 feet away (unless you are retarded) from it unless he's got such a small living room or whatever that he has no choice but to sit real close. This sounds more like look at me trying to show off attention.
 
Can we get back on topic?

Wow, I had forgotten how much BS the difficulty scaling in the game is. I restarted on Insanity so I could get the difficulty achievements in one go, and the amount of health you lose to the health the enemies gain is unfair. And the AI is programmed to take advantage of it, running fearlessly around cover to kill you with a melee in one shot.
 
villain71 said:
Nobody buys a 75" TV and then sits 4 feet away (unless you are retarded) from it unless he's got such a small living room or whatever that he has no choice but to sit real close. This sounds more like look at me trying to show off attention.
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Mr. Magoo would.
 
villain71 said:
Nobody buys a 75" TV and then sits 4 feet away (unless you are retarded) from it unless he's got such a small living room or whatever that he has no choice but to sit real close. This sounds more like look at me trying to show off attention.
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It's not nice to call people names. That kind of thing can get you banned. You've been here long enough to know better. You aren't 13 years old.

It's just where I like sitting. I've posted pics of my setup. Pretty confident my arrangements are a little larger than typical. If it makes you and others feel better to think i'm bragging then go right ahead. Jealousy rears many different heads.

I had someone else play the game on my other Xbox one downstairs in our main room: 52in 1080p display sitting 6+ ft away. Same issue. Headaches after 5 minutes of playing. Only game to experience this on.
 
phas3d said:
I had someone else play the game on my other Xbox one downstairs in our main room: 52in 1080p display sitting 6+ ft away. Same issue. Headaches after 5 minutes of playing. Only game to experience this on.
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Do you get headaches on your smaller TV with greater distance too?
 
phas3d said:
It's not nice to call people names. That kind of thing can get you banned. You've been here long enough to know better. You aren't 13 years old.

It's just where I like sitting. I've posted pics of my setup. Pretty confident my arrangements are a little larger than typical. If it makes you and others feel better to think i'm bragging then go right ahead. Jealousy rears many different heads.

I had someone else play the game on my other Xbox one downstairs in our main room: 52in 1080p display sitting 6+ ft away. Same issue. Headaches after 5 minutes of playing. Only game to experience this on.
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Its more you then the game. There are several people that don't get headaches. You have to adjust to it. Its one those things you have to train your brain to adjust to it. You have may have to do many short sessions to get adjusted. Now its 5 minutes maybe next time you're able to 15 or 20 minutes.

Its like pilots, the planes don't adjust to them to where they don't blackout or get g-lock. They have to adjust to it, granted that is a more severe situation compared to a headache from video game.
 
Gears of War is just one of those games that will give you a headache. Bioshock (the first one, not sure about the others) and Borderlands are others. I've watched my son play Gears for a few minutes and then had to go lie down.
 
htpc_user said:
Gears of War is just one of those games that will give you a headache. Bioshock (the first one, not sure about the others) and Borderlands are others. I've watched my son play Gears for a few minutes and then had to go lie down.
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I concur. It may be the combination of a low-contrast color palette and motion blur.
 
The shaky-cam effect they added to give the game a more realistic look to it really bothers some people. It never bugged me, but some other games definitely do.
 
Oh yeah, and I just remembered Bulletstorm, too. Watching my son play that game almost put me in a coma. OK, not literally, but it was rough.
 
Gears of War difficulty has always been broken as fuck. The game is balanced around Normal difficulty. There was a bit in Gears 3 where you are ziplining into an area with a Gunker which requires a lot of retries to avoid getting hit as soon as you hit the ground with a OHK on Insane difficulty. Aside from that, it follows the give-enemies-huge-HP-bars school of higher difficulty modes.

The 30fps for the campaign when all of the pre-release press crowed about 60fps pisses me off.
 
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Plague_Injected said:
Gears of War difficulty has always been broken as fuck. The game is balanced around Normal difficulty. There was a bit in Gears 3 where you are ziplining into an area with a Gunker which requires a lot of retries to avoid getting hit as soon as you hit the ground with a OHK on Insane difficulty. Aside from that, it follows the give-enemies-huge-HP-bars school of higher difficulty modes.
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The thing is, the AI in the game is actually really well done in my opinion. I think that the ramp up in AI aggressiveness and "intelligence" on the harder difficulties is enough that altering the health amounts should not have been necessary. It's all the more frustrating with the loose aiming that it takes a full unboosted Lancer clip to kill a drone on Insane with body shots.

Plague_Injected said:
The 30fps for the campaign when all of the pre-release press crowed about 60fps pisses me off.
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Same. I immediately noticed it when I started playing the Campaign and nearly vomited. I can only play the game for 15-20 minutes at a time because of the eye strain... It makes me worried about the statement that the framerate will be unlocked on the PC version.
 
Okay... so after that last statement, I grinded RAAM on Insane for 8 hours (half of which was probably due to the obscene loading times). I really don't remember dying in one hit during this fight. Thankfully, the cheese method still works, it just seems to take a lot more luck to stick. I had to sleep for 10 hours afterward to get my eyes to stop bleeding...
 
phas3d said:
Gears of War: Ultimate Edition is brilliant. Don't get the Deluxe version. It's crap. $20 for extra skins.

The only problem is the Gears of War game is not "adjusted" for today's technology. Back in the day the biggest TV was maybe 45in. Try playing Gears of War: Ultimate Edition on a 4k 75in TV sitting 4 feet away. It will give you a headache, really really fast. There's just too much jumping and bouncing. I hope it's adjusted in a future update.
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sitting 4ft away? ummm. WHy would you do that? Anything that close would give you headaches.
 
Plague_Injected said:
The 30fps for the campaign when all of the pre-release press crowed about 60fps pisses me off.
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wait this old ass remake from 2006 is locked at 30fps? No wonder people are getting motion sickness, I know the xbone is massively under powered but if they managed to pull off Forza at 60fps then whats the excuse for this?
 
Ticker305 said:
wait this old ass remake from 2006 is locked at 30fps? No wonder people are getting motion sickness, I know the xbone is massively under powered but if they managed to pull off Forza at 60fps then whats the excuse for this?
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Maybe the number of enemies on screen? It also looks like ambient occlusion is being used in the campaign and may be too much for the console to handle. There are no hiccups during gameplay, thankfully. But I could not say with certainty. The multiplayer runs at 60 FPS.

Forza gets away with fudging a lot of things because you're not really going to tell the detail while actually driving. The crowds are billboarded, for example, and a lot of the background detail is low poly and low texture resolution. It at least looks like they're using anisotropic filtering in Forza 6. Horizon 2 is an exception, as being open world they wanted as much detail as possible.
 
If that single player is only 30fps, what's the point? Might as well just dig up the old PC version (it can do 60+ fps) and jack up the graphics. Grab some mods to boost things even further.
With the Uncharted remaster you get 3 full games and 60fps, it's sad that this game couldn't do the same.
30fps is barely passable with new games. With a remake - that's inexcusable.
We're one step away from devs making games 15fps and forcing interpolation.
 
zamardii12 said:
It's already been released for PC. What would be the point of re-releasing it? Can almost assure it'd look the same.
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It does not look the same. A lot of environments and almost all models/textures have been redone in higher resolution. And, good luck getting GFWL to work.
 
Got this game today. Add me on XBL if you would like to do co op. I am assuming there is co op in the campaign?

So excited.
 
KickAssCop said:
Got this game today. Add me on XBL if you would like to do co op. I am assuming there is co op in the campaign?

So excited.
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Yes, the whole campaign is designed around 2-player co-op. I'd like to get the co-op achievements, but I probably won't be able to get on tonight. Possibly tomorrow afternoon.
 
Is it just me or is the difficulty above normal annoying as hell. I die in seconds.
Don't remember it that bad on PC.
 
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