Microsoft acquires rights to Gears

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'I have always felt that Gears' cover mechanics were vastly outdone by Rainbow Six Vegas'.

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I am not arguing who outdid whom. It's no secret that the permeated use of cover systems in third person shooters was the byproduct of its implementation in Gears. Epic wasn't the first to did this, but they did it best.

 

'I am not arguing who outdid whom'.

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That's fine, neither am I. It's an interesting debate and angle of discussion, however.

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'Is it fair to compare the two though? I mean they are vastly different games... Unless I'm misinterpretation what you guys are saying'.

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You can compare apples to kittens... you can compare whatever you'd like, though you may not necessarily come out with relevant results ; ) You're not misinterpreting anything, by the way : ) I can kill plenty from cover in Gears myself, not that I enjoy
Gears' floaty, inaccurate Lancer.

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They are quite different games but isolated it's easy to examine the cover mechanics. My main preference is the way that you don't have to toggle out of cover in Vegas and can easily be shot out of cover whether you're firing or not. In Gears I found it
especially frustrating when bullets would clearly go straight through an enemy's back and not register a hit and I find toggling in and out of cover too automated... too simple and not particularly engaging.

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I very much enjoy the way that the Vegas games integrated their cover mechanics with the left trigger as well... it worked well and gave you several different, effective ways to engage an enemy.

 

[quote user="ChainSmokingBob"]

'I am not arguing who outdid whom'.

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That's fine, neither am I. It's an interesting debate and angle of discussion, however.

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'Is it fair to compare the two though? I mean they are vastly different games... Unless I'm misinterpretation what you guys are saying'.

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You can compare apples to kittens... you can compare whatever you'd like, though you may not necessarily come out with relevant results ; ) You're not misinterpreting anything, by the way : ) I can kill plenty from cover in Gears myself, not that I enjoy
Gears' floaty, inaccurate Lancer.

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They are quite different games but isolated it's easy to examine the cover mechanics. My main preference is the way that you don't have to toggle out of cover in Vegas and can easily be shot out of cover whether you're firing or not. In Gears I found it
especially frustrating when bullets would clearly go straight through an enemy's back and not register a hit and I find toggling in and out of cover too automated... too simple and not particularly engaging.

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I very much enjoy the way that the Vegas games integrated their cover mechanics with the left trigger as well... it worked well and gave you several different, effective ways to engage an enemy.

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You know, I've never really thought much about the cover system in Vegas, but that's because of how nice and fluid it was in the game play and how well it worked. Your post really made me think back on it and now I am just thinking it over and really appreciating
how well the cover system was executed in the Vegas games. I don't think it'd be the best cover system for a game in the style of Gears, but I am a big fan of it.

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I"d really like to see Ubisoft get their *** together and release a new Rainbow Six that plays a lot like Vegas. I miss playing it with all my buddies, it's probably the most fun I've had this gen in multiplayer along with Halo 3 and Worms.

 

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I really enjoyed it, personally. I must get Vegas 2 back because one of my mates has it and has never played it... great two games.

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Haven't heard much about any other Rainbow games coming out but I'm pretty keen.

 

[quote user="ChainSmokingBob"]

Haven't heard much about any other Rainbow games coming out but I'm pretty keen.

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Patriots? It's been flying pretty low on the radar as of late but it's still on development.

 

So Black Tusk wasnt even working on a game this whole time? Apparently what they showed at E3 was only a tech demo?..So now what? They start working on Gears and maybe in three years it releases? I thought the demo they showed could be a Crackdown 3 demo.So
disappointed.

 

Concerned we'll get another Judgement level gears, but hey, whatever.

 

'Patriots? It's been flying pretty low on the radar as of late but it's still on development'.

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I know it's coming out, but no-one's heard much about it.

 

[quote user="ChainSmokingBob"]

'Patriots? It's been flying pretty low on the radar as of late but it's still on development'.

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I know it's coming out, but no-one's heard much about it.

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Because it has been cancelled and rebooted multiple times.

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I swear, people keep praising Ubisoft lately for the new IP push, but it seems they are running around with their heads cut off.

 

[quote user="ChainSmokingBob"]

I know it's coming out, but no-one's heard much about it.

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Last I heard of it, there was a debacle over the unfortunate passing of Tom Clancy last year and the problems that brought in regards to his IP. Ubisoft was quick to fix the problem - it IS one of their cash cows after all.