I wont go into detail about what I'm talking about just incase someone comes here who hasn't finished the game so anyways...

I just finished the Gears 2 hardcore campaign with a friend and loved every minute of it (especially the heart surgery :P), and the last boss looked so amazing and fun to fight but it was a real letdown when you finally kill him. I was thinking to myself "was that it?" and it was... He was way to easy to kill especially because there was no way you could die since you were in the helicopter. 

You right, I was expecting a more challenging ending but I'm almost glad that I didn't have to go through another RAAM again...

Yeah, I agree with that. Fun game though.

The scene with Maria was effed up.

after being F'ed up by General raam I appreciated an easy boss  :D

Agreed although it was extremely epic. Oh and RAAM SUX!

"The scene with Maria was effed up."

"Crayola said:

"The scene with Maria was effed up."

Tell me about it. I teared up."

Tell me about it. I teared up."

"you're kidding me. The 'emotional' attempts in a game like this are like a serious moving trying to be funny by throwing a joke at you, its not funny at all, and you're not sure if they actually intend it to be or not. I just laughed at all that, honestly. Its not the right tone of game for it at all."

"Crayola said:

"The scene with Maria was effed up."

Tell me about it. I teared up."

I don't know, I think I find it harder, with the overall tone of the game, and everyone being this huge tough dude, that them feeling something like that just doesn't seem right to me. I looked at a few reviews and they said this same thing, so I was interested to see if I felt the same way, and I pretty much did. I think because except for that one part really, the rest of the game has a normal pacing, and they're just killing everything and being themselves it seems. I still overall thought just the first act alone was better than the entire game of Gears 1, so it was overall much better imo. Just the on rails like sequences on Insane are going to be bullshit, I can tell already.

I liked the last boss. Did not ruin the  moment at the end by having to repeat the fight like 10 times.

"SpikeSpiegel said:

Tell me about it. I teared up."

That was a sad part indeed, I almost started to cry.

pause422 said:

"you're kidding me. The 'emotional' attempts in a game like this are like a serious moving trying to be funny by throwing a joke at you, its not funny at all, and you're not sure if they actually intend it to be or not. I just laughed at all that, honestly. Its not the right tone of game for it at all."

 I thought the emotional parts were great... To each their own."

By that point i was way tired of having to restart like 5 times  on boss fights because random stuff kept killing me, so it was a relief to just sit back and watch it burn, but if i hadn't been playing for about 10 hrs straight i'm sure i would have wanted a bit more out of the final fight, yea

"brukaoru said:

"SpikeSpiegel said:

Tell me about it. I teared up."

That was a sad part indeed, I almost started to cry.

pause422 said:

"you're kidding me. The 'emotional' attempts in a game like this are like a serious moving trying to be funny by throwing a joke at you, its not funny at all, and you're not sure if they actually intend it to be or not. I just laughed at all that, honestly. Its not the right tone of game for it at all."

 I thought the emotional parts were great... To each their own."

Go play a Final Fantasy game or hell, even The Darkness.  Those moments actually try to impact you.  GoW 2's big emotional moment didn't even do anything because you never even get to know Dom's relationship with Maria other than "OMG MARIA I FOUND U BUT UR TOO SKIINY FUR MEH!'"

"brukaoru said:

"I thought the emotional parts were great... To each their own."

Go play a Final Fantasy game or hell, even The Darkness.  Those moments actually try to impact you.  GoW 2's big emotional moment didn't even do anything because you never even get to know Dom's relationship with Maria other than "OMG MARIA I FOUND U BUT UR TOO SKIINY FUR MEH!'"

"Wolswor said:

"brukaoru said:

"SpikeSpiegel said:

Tell me about it. I teared up."

That was a sad part indeed, I almost started to cry.

pause422 said:

"you're kidding me. The 'emotional' attempts in a game like this are like a serious moving trying to be funny by throwing a joke at you, its not funny at all, and you're not sure if they actually intend it to be or not. I just laughed at all that, honestly. Its not the right tone of game for it at all."

 I thought the emotional parts were great... To each their own."

Go play a Final Fantasy game or hell, even The Darkness.  Those moments actually try to impact you.  GoW 2's big emotional moment didn't even do anything because you never even get to know Dom's relationship with Maria other than "OMG MARIA I FOUND U BUT UR TOO SKIINY FUR MEH!'"

I'm sorry everything has to be spoon fed for you."

I laugh at the people who can't sit back and enjoy a story. Bu---bu-----they aren't Japanese super children!!!! WAAAAHH!!! Oh and the Bomb Crew would rip apart the story.

"SpikeSpiegel said:

"Wolswor said:

"brukaoru said:

"SpikeSpiegel said:

Tell me about it. I teared up."

That was a sad part indeed, I almost started to cry.

pause422 said:

"you're kidding me. The 'emotional' attempts in a game like this are like a serious moving trying to be funny by throwing a joke at you, its not funny at all, and you're not sure if they actually intend it to be or not. I just laughed at all that, honestly. Its not the right tone of game for it at all."

 I thought the emotional parts were great... To each their own."

Go play a Final Fantasy game or hell, even The Darkness.  Those moments actually try to impact you.  GoW 2's big emotional moment didn't even do anything because you never even get to know Dom's relationship with Maria other than "OMG MARIA I FOUND U BUT UR TOO SKIINY FUR MEH!'"

I'm sorry everything has to be spoon fed for you."

I don't see how that has anything to do with spoon feeding anything to anyone. The fact is, you're just not invested enough in the relationship to care.  They just dump it in there like the whole Tai thing they went over in the bombcast, it was just totally unnecessary. I'm sorry but hearing a couple quotes and seeing a picture doesn't do jack for me. They needed to either have her in Gears 1 or extend the intro to have any sort of impact. Plus it was just way too obvious what was going to happen."

^key word "sort of"
that's just not good enough to have the gamer care about her.

I kept waiting for a rematch at the end with Skorge, and when it didn't happen and I basically walked all over the last boss I was kind of like, Really? That's how you want to end it? Wasn't bad; reminded me of Half-Life 2 where they basically made the player God for the last level, but still expecting a bit more.

"SpikeSpiegel said:

"Crayola said:

"The scene with Maria was effed up."

Tell me about it. I teared up."

you're kidding me. The 'emotional' attempts in a game like this are like a serious moving trying to be funny by throwing a joke at you, its not funny at all, and you're not sure if they actually intend it to be or not. I just laughed at all that, honestly. Its not the right tone of game for it at all."

I thought it was a weird sequence myself.  I didn't get emotional or anything, I just kind of struck there, dumbfounded at what I was seeing.  Then what happened after that brought me back to reality as it totally ruined everything that happened.

The final "boss" was a joke.  I definitely appreciate that it was easier than Raam, but at the same time, I expected a final challenge.

WTF???! i had to restart on the final boss 4 times... kidding

the maria/prisoner parts was actually pretty sad but then im one of those people who can't stand human suffering.

Maria part was well done.  I teared a little as well.  By far the most emotional/sad part of the Gears series.

"Wolswor said:

"brukaoru said:

"SpikeSpiegel said:

Tell me about it. I teared up."

That was a sad part indeed, I almost started to cry.

pause422 said:

"you're kidding me. The 'emotional' attempts in a game like this are like a serious moving trying to be funny by throwing a joke at you, its not funny at all, and you're not sure if they actually intend it to be or not. I just laughed at all that, honestly. Its not the right tone of game for it at all."

 I thought the emotional parts were great... To each their own."

Go play a Final Fantasy game or hell, even The Darkness.  Those moments actually try to impact you.  GoW 2's big emotional moment didn't even do anything because you never even get to know Dom's relationship with Maria other than "OMG MARIA I FOUND U BUT UR TOO SKIINY FUR MEH!'"

I'm sorry everything has to be spoon fed for you."

When you hear about someone dying on the news who you have never met before, do you cry? I sure as hell as don't. You feel bad but you won't be effected in the long run. In order to care about someone, you need to know that person. The only time you ever saw Maria was through the pictures. You never even heard her speak and never saw Dom and her together besides when you found her. You had no idea what Maria was like or what Dom and Maria were like as a couple. That being said, I didn't hate the scene. While it didn't really evoke a sad emotion, it definitely made your hatred of the Locust much stronger."

"SpikeSpiegel said:

"Wolswor said:

"brukaoru said:

"SpikeSpiegel said:

Tell me about it. I teared up."

That was a sad part indeed, I almost started to cry.

pause422 said:

"you're kidding me. The 'emotional' attempts in a game like this are like a serious moving trying to be funny by throwing a joke at you, its not funny at all, and you're not sure if they actually intend it to be or not. I just laughed at all that, honestly. Its not the right tone of game for it at all."

 I thought the emotional parts were great... To each their own."

Go play a Final Fantasy game or hell, even The Darkness.  Those moments actually try to impact you.  GoW 2's big emotional moment didn't even do anything because you never even get to know Dom's relationship with Maria other than "OMG MARIA I FOUND U BUT UR TOO SKIINY FUR MEH!'"

I'm sorry everything has to be spoon fed for you."

When you hear about someone dying on the news who you have never met before, do you cry? I sure as hell as don't. You feel bad but you won't be effected in the long run. In order to care about someone, you need to know that person. The only time you ever saw Maria was through the pictures. You never even heard her speak and never saw Dom and her together besides when you found her. You had no idea what Maria was like or what Dom and Maria were like as a couple. That being said, I didn't hate the scene. While it didn't really evoke a sad emotion, it definitely made your hatred of the Locust much stronger."

"Milkman said:

When you hear about someone dying on the news who you have never met before, do you cry? I sure as hell as don't. You feel bad but you won't be effected in the long run. In order to care about someone, you need to know that person. The only time you ever saw Maria was through the pictures. You never even heard her speak and never saw Dom and her together besides when you found her. You had no idea what Maria was like or what Dom and Maria were like as a couple. That being said, I didn't hate the scene. While it didn't really evoke a sad emotion, it definitely made your hatred of the Locust much stronger."

This isn't entirely true.  There is a minor flashback Dom experiences when Delta is swallowed into the Worm.  It's not much, and I'm not saying it adds anything truly substantial, but you do see an interaction."

the last boss fight was ok, since you got the epic moment with the brumak. Also what happen to Dizzy?? Is his death or what?

"Wolswor said:

"brukaoru said:

"SpikeSpiegel said:

Tell me about it. I teared up."

That was a sad part indeed, I almost started to cry.

pause422 said:

"you're kidding me. The 'emotional' attempts in a game like this are like a serious moving trying to be funny by throwing a joke at you, its not funny at all, and you're not sure if they actually intend it to be or not. I just laughed at all that, honestly. Its not the right tone of game for it at all."

 I thought the emotional parts were great... To each their own."

Go play a Final Fantasy game or hell, even The Darkness.  Those moments actually try to impact you.  GoW 2's big emotional moment didn't even do anything because you never even get to know Dom's relationship with Maria other than "OMG MARIA I FOUND U BUT UR TOO SKIINY FUR MEH!'"

I'm sorry everything has to be spoon fed for you."

You can assume the emotional connection between them. It just takes a little bit imagination. Can you imagine all the things the locusts did to her? All the things to Tai? There is a lot shown as far the acting in there that the player has to pick up on.

To me the emotional part wasn't necesarrily Maria dying, but knowing that Dom had been looking for her all this time and even having a glimmer of hope that she was still alright only to find that by the time he got to her she was little more than an emaciated corpse.

Pretty effed up.

"To me the emotional part wasn't nessecarily Maria dieing, but knowing that Dom had been looking for her all this time and even having a glimmer of hope that she was still alright only to find that by the time he got to her she was little more than an emaciated corpse.

Pretty effed up."

"You can assume the emotional connection between them. It just takes a little bit imagination. Can you imagine all the things the locusts did to her? All the things to Tai? There is a lot shown as far the acting in there that the player has to pick up on.

Someone mentioned Final Fantasy for stories but seriously, practically all you do is read wall and wall of text. 

"

"SpikeSpiegel said:

"You can assume the emotional connection between them. It just takes a little bit imagination. Can you imagine all the things the locusts did to her? All the things to Tai? There is a lot shown as far the acting in there that the player has to pick up on.

Someone mentioned Final Fantasy for stories but seriously, practically all you do is read wall and wall of text. 

"

All of the things done to him in the span of.....30 minutes?  WOooooo, after being told time and time again "Tai is crazy un-killable, like a brumak" he breaks very very easily.  And if you can't read then go play the darkness as I said before, it is ALOT more emotional than Gears.  Gears goes from slow-motion "COLES SO COOL!!!!" to serious.  It's laughable how they tried to suddenly make their game seem to appeal emotionally as well.  As if someone told them their game is just a gore-fest and they decided to add that in the last 15 seconds."

The final boss was well animated, had good graphics, and that's all I care about.

You can't have a game that is serious and funny? The Darkness was crap. Seriously.

"You can't have a game that is serious and funny? The Darkness was crap. Seriously.

He breaks easily? Oh my god. I am officially no longer going to post in this thread. I can now tell how old you are.

"

That last boss was so awful. Talk about ending on a bum note.

I totally hated the Carmine thing, the Tai thing and the Maria thing.  They just shove the characters in 2-3 scenes and they *spoilers* die.

Ok i honestly just joined this to yell at a good number of you. You don't freaking understand good cinematics. They show how brave Tai is, and they make him a very likeable and stoic guy, who is unkillable. THEY DIDNT KILL HIM, HE COMMITS SUICIDE!!!! Although it is left to the imagination, i really dont think that Tai "broke" easily. You can infer from the hooks in his back and baird's comment ("i told you man, i could hear them screaming from the docks!") that what they did to Tai was painful and traumatic. Again, ITS FREAKING TORTURE. I bet Fenix, Dom, or even Cole wouldn't have survived Skorg's assault, much less lasted in torture and imprisonment!! 

"brukaoru said:

"SpikeSpiegel said:

Tell me about it. I teared up."

That was a sad part indeed, I almost started to cry.

pause422 said:

"you're kidding me. The 'emotional' attempts in a game like this are like a serious moving trying to be funny by throwing a joke at you, its not funny at all, and you're not sure if they actually intend it to be or not. I just laughed at all that, honestly. Its not the right tone of game for it at all."

 I thought the emotional parts were great... To each their own."

Go play a Final Fantasy game or hell, even The Darkness.  Those moments actually try to impact you.  GoW 2's big emotional moment didn't even do anything because you never even get to know Dom's relationship with Maria other than "OMG MARIA I FOUND U BUT UR TOO SKIINY FUR MEH!'"..

.....are you fucking kidding? SHE LOOKED LIKE SHE WAS ALREADY DEAD! I THOUGHT SHE WAS FOR LIKE THE ENTIRE SCENE TIL HER EYES MOVED AND DOM SHOT HER! I was expecting just a skeleton or something, but no! SHE WAS STILL ALIVE!!! that was so fucked up! i mean, i thought he was going to get closure....not have to do it himself!