Man, if that's really Mark Strong then he must be a pretty big fan of Warhammer 40K to be lending his voice to a POS like this.
Yeah it's unfinished and all that... but if they're at the stage of development where they're already hiring a big name actor like Strong then it's probably pretty far along.
@spacefish: This game is like the least cutting edge game possible, except maybe Counter-Strike. It's shooting mechanics that are one decade old wrapped in lore that is also one decade old. There's basically no way for them to make Gears of War cutting edge again. I have mad respect for Epic Games, they're an awesome developer that have made several of the most important shooters ever (Unreal Tournament and UT2004, Gears of War,) and they were awesome, but Gears of War needs to disappear. It's too old.
Too ''old''? What does that even mean? How is Gears of War's iterative gameplay any different from the progression of any other shooter? Gears gameplay works, and there's still no other cover-based shooter that can come close to matching it. The recent remastered version of the original Gears also shown that these games have come a long way since in improving and tightening up the controls throughout the franchise. Not to mention the additional mechanics they each add to the fray.
Claiming that Gears 4 has ''decade old mechanics'' is like saying Street Fighter V's mechanics are 20+ years old.
I done my part too! I had sent Rorie a couple of PMs about bringing the spotlight to the front page, and after the second PM it went official mere days later, so. Just sayin' ;)
@yummylee: I felt Inquisition tackled those subjects in a really heavy-handed way. The way they changed things around in the lore to fit their views really pulled me out of that game.
What, Krem? What was changed in the lore for his sake? I thought he was implemented really naturally into the game personally. Heavy-handed is certainly not how I'd describe him or his role in the game. And I should also add for the record that I think Inquisition as a whole sucks and that it's modern BioWare's worst game... But I thought Krem was alright at least and credit where credit's due and all that.
What's surprising to me is that the transgender character in Dragon Age: Inquisition, Krem, didn't receive any sort of backlash that approaches what's going on with Baldur's Gate, least not to my knowledge. And this is a male transgender character, so he's like a minority within a minority. This is a good thing of course, but at the same time it makes me perplexed as to why Baldur's Gate is receiving so much flak. I haven't played BG, but it does at least sound like Krem is more of an established character to the one in BG, so that possibly erases the contingent of complaints that he was underdeveloped.
Krem was cool af. I think people, if they didn't keep talking to him, would never know that he was transgender. It was a long and interesting conversation that happened over pretty much the whole game. I don't think I heard most of his story until over halfway through the game. So, the cynical part of me says that maybe people didn't talk to Krem enough to hear his entire story, and that was why there was no vocal complaints about the character ie - they just didn't know. The hopeful side of me is that people did continue to talk to Krem and because he was such an awesome and well written character, when they got to the culmination of his story, they accepted him.
I have no idea, but I had so much fun talking to everyone in that game, so I bothered Krem after every big mission and story beat. I thought his story was cool and I wanted to see where it went.
Ah, you make a good point regarding how people could have simply not followed through and learned of his backstory. Though, in some ways, it's kind of impressive for how him being transgender doesn't define him completely. It's not something he immediately spouts out upon you meeting him and instead lets it exist as but one piece of his character that you can (possibly) learn. Him being voiced by Jennifer Hale was the icing on the cake, too. I never even realised until I checked out the game's overall cast list. It was the same sort of pleasant surprise to learning Nolan North voices David in The Last of Us!
I liked Krem too, a shame he couldn't have joined your party. Although if that were possible I'm almost certain there unfortunately would have been a controversy similar to this BG situation...
What's surprising to me is that the transgender character in Dragon Age: Inquisition, Krem, didn't receive any sort of backlash that approaches what's going on with Baldur's Gate, least not to my knowledge. And this is a male transgender character, so he's like a minority within a minority. This is a good thing of course, but at the same time it leaves me perplexed as to why Baldur's Gate is receiving so much flak. I haven't played BG, but it does at least sound like Krem is more of an established character to the one in BG, so that possibly erases the contingent of complaints that he was underdeveloped.
For all of the Gears of War clones that kept popping up everywhere during the heyday of Gears, the important thing to note is none of them were as good as the original thing. There's no other cover-based shooter that can really even touch Gears of War, so the idea that we're oversaturated with Gears-esque gameplay because of all the clones just doesn't fit for me.
I more than anyone bemoan the rather predictable path they've taken with Gears 4*, but even if they are simply making another Gears of War game then that still sounds really fucking awesome to me. Gears of War is in a league of its own, and every new Gears release is akin to the King of cover-based shooting sitting back on its throne. For all of the problems Judgment had (which was primarily a lack of content) the core gameplay was still fantastic.
*It's clear they haven't followed the Game Informer coverage of the game otherwise they would have also brought up the striking similarities the new enemy type 'the swarm' have with the Locust. They're even shown to still use the hammerburst!
Well, since this game is now coming out on PC, they should release GOWs 2, 3, and Judgement in an HD pack or something, so PC players can get the full GOW experience. Might as well, since the Xbox One and Windows 10 have become cross-platform.
It hasn't been completely confirmed that Gears 4 is coming to PC. It's pretty likely mind you, but Rod has only said as far as that it could ''possibly'' come to PC.
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