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I agree, definitely. I'm not against it so much, but achievements should be middle-ground, not up in the atmosphere. I mean the goal is to be good enough to obtain them all. I agree, Gears 2 shouldn't have 5 achievements you can get in 2 minutes (a la Avatar). But they shouldn't shut the public (whether their novice or expert) out.

We all love what Cliff B has done for gaming, more notably the Unreal series and now Gears of Wars a new franchise...

Gears of War was AMAZING, still is to this day. Lately, we've gotten to see how nitpicky he can be. For instance:

Throttled Achievements: GoW2 (or GeOW2) will feature throttled achievements. What does this mean? (Paraphrasing Cliff B) If you are going for the Headshot achievement (presumably 100 for this game as well), you will only get one credit towards the achievement per match. If they all end up like this, then getting to 10,003 kills (explain that next) will be bitch.

Kills Online: Well, Gears first did 10,000 kills in ranked matches. The Club one-upped them by asking for 10,001 kills online. More recently Battlefield Bad Company asks of you to kill 10,002 people online. Safe to say, Gears 2 will ask 10,003. Pretty funny, unless Cliff goes nuts and says like 11,000 or 20,000.

Anybody notice anything else? I'm not picking on the guy, but he just has a vision for how he wants his games to be played and I commend him for it, though it outrages Achievement whores and fans alike. I'm never good online, so it won't bother me much. If the netcode gets fixed, I might actually be better than I appear now...

I'm really excited for this game. My friend and I played the game in co-op 3x. We know NOW the achievements stack. But we played on Casual, Hardcore, and Insane all in one weekend! Not a very long game mind, especially in co-op. But it was fun everytime. I can play that game all the time. I'm sure this game will be the same.