I've had a bunch of hours with the game already, because I'm a loser of course. I have beat the story, unlocked every achievement save four of the harder ones, beat horde, and played a considerable amount of time in multiplayer. That being said, this is what makes me angry.

• Story -- While the set pieces and overall "epic" feeling of the events is amazing, the storyline never impacted me. I had no emotional pull, and felt like the story was stretched in terms of plot. If you read a wiki summarization of the entire game, you realize you hardly did anything. Just everything you do, you get screwed over and have to do it another way.
• Chainsaw. I am a big chainsaw bitch myself, but I can realize what makes it over-powered. Often times, when two people are supposed to clash, instead one person decimates the other. Or, if a person is turned around and you are coming from behind; if he starts to turn around sometimes it can blow right through you. Also, it seems more capable of driving through bullets. Shotguns, lancer... I've gone through it all still revving. Also, you'll consistently lock onto the wrong opponent.
• Shields, it seems balanced for them to move slow and yet have cover, but it seems a bit overpowered currently. Most of the time you won't have the requirements to effectively kill them. Then when they hide behind the shield, their pistol bullets will take you down faster.
• Matchmaking is slow. As I've found in a thread, apparently EPIC realizes this problem and is possibly fixing it, or waiting for the servers to calm down. Whatever it is, it needs to be fixed. I want to jump in and play, not sit in a lobby looking for matches that constantly refresh.
• Too much time before and after matches. Voting is fine and all, but then you have to wait twenty seconds or so while it loads, another fifteen for it to start. Then you have to sit there, literally listening to the opposition being a bunch of bitches and yelling comments at you after a match. If anything, at least let me go right back to the lobby. My blood pressure will go through the roof if I have to listen to bragging idiots with clan gamertags after every match.
• Lag. I've joined numerous games with lag issues. It's not fun teleporting for an entire game.
• The voting system. I like voting on maps, but not on game types. If I want to do matchmaking, I'd prefer it my choice. I hate doing Territories and have to play Annex, just because people vote it. Not much motivation for me to play happily.
• Stopping power. I have heard a lot of people complaining about stopping power, and I don't really see why. Regardless, the main complaint here is that there is too much of it.
• Concussion grenades. Don't even get me started on how long it takes to get back up, or how cheesy your battle-hardened character falls. On top of that, let's add planted grenades to the scheme of things. It slows down the pace of the game, and encourages turtling.

I'm got HUGE expectations for Gears 2 and from what you said, you might be right, I'll be disappointed.

ReTarDedFisHy hasn't played it, but from what he's seen, Gears 2 looks like the best 360 title this year :O

But he also heard that there were some issues with the game's multiplayer.
It seems that a lot of people don't like the weapon sliding, says it breaks the game.

ReTarDedFisHy doesn't know much, if anything at all, so he doesn't really know what he's talking about really, don't take his word for it. Looks like a great game, though :}

"ReTarDedFisHy hasn't played it, but from what he's seen, Gears 2 looks like the best 360 title this year :O

But he also heard that there were some issues with the game's multiplayer.
It seems that a lot of people don't like the weapon sliding, says it breaks the game.

ReTarDedFisHy doesn't know much, if anything at all, so he doesn't really know what he's talking about really, don't take his word for it. Looks like a great game, though :}"

Liquid Prince said:

"Weapon sliding?"

I can't agree more with the voting issue.  And I shot a, Locust revving his chainsaw, with a shotgun, and he chainsaw'd me.  >:|

"ReTarDedFisHy said:

"ReTarDedFisHy hasn't played it, but from what he's seen, Gears 2 looks like the best 360 title this year :O

But he also heard that there were some issues with the game's multiplayer.
It seems that a lot of people don't like the weapon sliding, says it breaks the game.

ReTarDedFisHy doesn't know much, if anything at all, so he doesn't really know what he's talking about really, don't take his word for it. Looks like a great game, though :}"

Weapon sliding?"

Most of your complaints basically put you in the, "I ran around in the first Gears shotgunning everyone to death, and now that I can't, this game sucks."

Guys, guys, guys....

"Most of your complaints basically put you in the, "I ran around in the first Gears shotgunning everyone to death, and now that I can't, this game sucks.""

That's a lot of stuff that... I'm going to say it... be prepared... grinds your gears!

Where's my rimshot?

I think your wrong and you complain too much,so ya i don't care.

"Most of your complaints basically put you in the, "I ran around in the first Gears shotgunning everyone to death, and now that I can't, this game sucks.""

"I think your wrong and you complain too much,so ya i don't care."

*Worm Spoiler!*

Wow, I thought the story was really cool, especially hearing Marcus Fenix shout "THEY'RE SINKING CITIES WITH A GIANT WORM!" I've been playing a bit of multiplayer and having a good time with it. Seems like an issue of personal taste, maybe take up Halo?

"*Worm Spoiler!*

Wow, I thought the story was really cool, especially hearing Marcus Fenix shout "THEY'RE SINKING CITIES WITH A GIANT WORM!" I've been playing a bit of multiplayer and having a good time with it. Seems like an issue of personal taste, maybe take up Halo?"

Only mentioned halo because matchmaking is fast and you can choose your game type, bubble shields are balanced, there's not much lag and you can veto to change the map, and no concussion grenades and not much lag. The only downsides are no chainsaws (though gravity hammers are satisfying) and lots of screaming 10 year olds.

What's wrong with Epic? They patched things in the first game only to put them back in the second. Chainsaw and Double melee are retarded. Why make them so strong again?

I haven't played the game online so I don't have a comment about your multiplayer issues (yet!). However, regarding the first complaint about the story, that's the same way it was in Gears of War. Delta Squad is trying to do something and it doesn't work so they head out to try plans B and C which sort of work but then lead them down another path where another plan is put into action. The only real accomplishment of the game was that you killed a lot of locust while traveling from point A to point B. I hated that. It seems Gears of War 2 has the same problem.

"*Worm Spoiler!*

Wow, I thought the story was really cool, especially hearing Marcus Fenix shout "THEY'RE SINKING CITIES WITH A GIANT WORM!"

I myself am finding the multiplayer to be kind of repetitive. I mean, run to boomshot/sniper/torque bow/ etc. I loved the first, and I love this, but it has HUGE flaws. I suppose I just kinda expected more =[

I hope L4D will be better =]

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I have been having lots of fun with the game, but yeah it def has problems.  The lag and matchmaking issues are what get to me the most.  Also, I have been unable to figure out how to mute annoing players.  It is possible right?  Someone told me that you can't... That seems crazy.

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Thank you! 

most of these are pretty minor issues imo. I doubt they will change the matchmaking system at this point also, so dont get your hopes up.

"most of these are pretty minor issues imo. I doubt they will change the matchmaking system at this point also, so dont get your hopes up."