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Gears Again


On 11/16/2015 at 12:57 AM by KnightDriver

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Played more Gears of War: Judgment today after watching the Eagles lose by one point to the Dolphins. Thankfully Gears was fun, because the game wasn't. 

First thing I did today, though, was boot up my Xbox One and insert the Gears Judment disc. The system wouldn't recognize it, but I remembered there was an update, so I did that. 2GB and an hour later (I was watching the football game while it downloaded and installed) I popped the disc in again and the system saw it, but there was a 7GB download in order to play it. I forgot that Xbox One actually downloads the whole game to the hard drive and then only uses the disc to confirm that you own it. Well, I wasn't willing to wait at least an hour for this download. The football game was over, and I was ready to play, so back I went to Xbox 360. 

Mark and I played the rest of the compaign on Normal so he could get the achievement for that and then we picked up all the rest of the hidden cogs for another achievement. Then we started playing through the whole game again on Casual, just to do all the Declassified conditions for each level. This is an option in each level that adds special conditions that make the game harder. We had done all but 11 of them, and with no way to know which levels we hadn't done, we started going through the whole game again on Casual. I figured it would be fun to play on easy one time. This way you can try things and mess around too. It was fun to use meat shields and all the different weapons you find along the way. 

Tomorrow we'll be at it again. We'll finish the game again on Casual and have all the Declassified conditions done. Then we'll tackle multiplayer and see how that goes. There are some achievements I know I'll never get like finishing the game on Insanse difficulty and several of the multiplayer ones that require lots of public matches. I'm going to try and open it up to randoms, but Mark sometimes gets frustrated with that, so I'll see how it goes. 

That's about it. 


 

Comments

Machocruz

11/16/2015 at 01:22 AM

I like doing multiple runs of games similar to that. I usually do a normal one first. Then a challenge run, then an easy run to try out all the things that weren't practical or were risky in the other difficulties, like using melee weapons in a shooter

KnightDriver

11/17/2015 at 01:04 AM

Yea, that's cool. Mark and I tried Hardcore, and, although I liked the challenge, he seemed frustrated with it. The Declasified Missions in each level also add conditions to each level. like several limit you to certain weapons, others add reduced visibility, wind, or reduced visual clarity as you get hit. I liked these alterations of the gameplay but I had to convince Mark to do them every time. He just wanted to run-and-gun and blow Locust to chunks. 

Matt Snee Staff Writer

11/16/2015 at 10:15 AM

ug, that Eagles game!  Against the Dolphins!!!

Sounds like you're having a lot of fun. I love co-op games. 

KnightDriver

11/17/2015 at 01:06 AM

Co-op is the best, but even that can get scrappy at times. I was really pissed during Survival missions when bots weren't doing their job and covering my back when I was keeping one side of the approach clear of locust. 

Matt Snee Staff Writer

11/17/2015 at 02:43 AM

yeah, but sometimes co-op can make up for a mediocre campaign.  

KnightDriver

11/18/2015 at 03:17 AM

Yea, I've played lots of mediocre games, but had fun because they had at least two player co-op. 

goaztecs

11/16/2015 at 07:53 PM

I dig that you and your friend like to go through games multiple times to unlock achievements. You folks are getting everything out of the game. I think I've said this before but I will at some point get Gears a real playthrough. 

KnightDriver

11/17/2015 at 01:11 AM

We, or maybe just I, was hoping to get the achievements in Survival Mode and Overrun, but the multiplayer was more limited in several ways than in Gears 3. Fatigue set in as we tried that last Survival map for an achievement again. You have to win 10 waves and it takes a good long time. We would get into the 10th wave and lose after almost a hour of gameplay. Very frustrating. 

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