Holiday Specialtacular 2016: Happy New Gears

Just read through the comments and I think you're being a drama queen, no one's saying anything like that. I think people are just saying they'd rather watch like a 2 hour video where the crew has some actual challenge vs. a 4 hour video where they just roll over all the enemies. I know I don't want to watch it because of that, and was curious if anyone felt the same.

All of this years end of year videos have been great. Doesn't hurt that I'm a huge Gears of War fan either but still getting to watch the entire crew play together was just what I wanted. Well done duders

Dan > Jason as always :-p

Maaan, I'll never understand the love for these horde modes. It always just seems so tedious and bullet-spongey. It doesn't help that I think Gears is a really tedious series of hide-and-seek gameplay with really bad feeling weapons to begin with, but to then add a wave-based mode where you've got, like, no special powers or anything and just fight enemies for hours. Seems totally tedious.

I'm of the mind that if you have that style of gameplay, you need a number of interesting and unique abilities and buildables per class to keep things interesting and varied. It's why I think it's a damned shame Brad gave up on Dungeon Defenders so quickly. Tower Defense and Horde mode aren't quite the same thing, but it became very Horde-mode like in the late game, and the great variety of gear, special abilities and towers, not to mention playstyles between classes, made it so much more fun.

Hell, I'd take like a Titanfall horde mode over this stuff. There's just something I consider anti-fun about cover-based shooters. It's like gameplay designed around NOT doing something. "I'm sitting here. This is the gimmick. I am sitting, and waiting. And the enemies are bullet sponges. If they get close, I will go to another hiding spot."

I guess it just ain't my thing.

To be fair, more of the video is them getting stomped on Wave 50 than breezing through 1-49.

It's a shame that Bradley King Of The Spoilers revealed the outcome of this 4hr video, so I wasn't invested in the tension, but I enjoyed it anyway.

@ez123: ah, cool, that's good to know!

Just going to throw an unneeded tip that auto-sentries are not near as important as manned turrets especially when it comes to boss waves

Vinny's Assassin's Creed joke was very funny. Also I want a gif of him smiling at the camera around 3:33:33.

I really enjoyed this. But then, my thoughts have been dark

I find it weird that the Gears have planes for dropping supplies? They're space people, they should have spaceships and stuff, right?

Disclosure, I've never played a gears...

balls are dicks.

You have a cool dad

Comeback! I can't rest until this is complete!

Finally getting to this 4-hour beast.

02:03:44

Game: Fuccbois ahead!

Dan: ...Fuckboys ahead?

Jeff: Hmm hmm!

It's not inherently a bad design choice. The question is "How long will it take the player to recover from the loss and be back where they started?"

In this scenario, recovering from the loss really means restarting the entire game. In a 2 hour game, that's kind of appalling. It's also unfortunate that this game lets you keep hitting your head against failure, rather than cutting you off. This is the kind of crappy situation I used to find myself in back in the NES days.

Letting the player recover from the loss quickly is fine. Not letting players recover at all by ending the game entirely is also fine (although more players will be upset by this). Letting you continue when you really shouldn't is just bad design.

Would have loved to see more switches to different player cams

Opened all the airdrops prematurely.

Spent all the power on earlier waves.

Didn't pick up power weapons between waves.

Rarely used grenades.

How can you stick with lancers the whole time and wonder why you're having trouble? Maximizing grenade use and stockpiling power weapons is pretty much mandatory in horde.

Ehh, sucks for me that the longest video out of these is the one I have no interest in. Scanning through this and man, that does not look like it's fun after awhile. Bashing their heads against a wall. The intro was great, though! Lil' Brad and Jason in their stockings was amazing.

I wish they'd done another one of these for Gears 5 before Dan left. Ah well.