One of the things Daniel and I like to do together is play video games. We've both been playing video games since we were kids, so it's something fun to do together. In fact, when we were dating, he used to bring over his laptop and we'd play Diablo II on a LAN. Since then, we tend to go through phases of what our go-to game is at any given time. Between then and now, the progression has been: C&C Generals -> Rise of Nations -> Battlefield 2 -> Battlefield 2142 -> WoW -> Halo 3 -> Gears of War 2.
Our most recent kick playing Gears of War 2 is mostly due to the online Horde mode. In fact, I don't think I've played through any of the campaign in that game. If you've not played Gears of War 2 in Horde mode, let me explain. It's played on xbox live where you're teamed up with other players to make a group of 5. You then play against a wave of NPCs of varying degrees of difficulty. Players don't respawn until the start of the next wave, but you can revive teammates that are "down" but now completely dead yet. Every 10 waves, the difficulty level of the type of enemies resets, but their base stats increase. This means that wave 11 actually feels easier than wave 10. There are a total of 50 waves. I've made it up to 26 and Daniel has made it as far as 34.
The reason we moved from Halo 3 to Gears of War 2 is entirely due to the online play. We played through the all of the Halo 3 campaign on hardcore, but after awhile the online play gets old. We just got tired of lopsided teams (which we saw fairly regularly, in spite of the intricate ranking system) and general mean-spiritedness (aka "tea bagging", trash talk, etc.). Since Gears of War has all the human players on the same team working together, you sometimes get people who can't pull their weight, but I rarely get on a team where people quit out early or sabotage their own team. Besides, in the rare instance where this has happened, your team usually fails out before wave 10 and you start over with a fresh bunch. On the other hand, by the time you've spent an hour getting past wave 20 with a group of teammates, it really is in your best interest to watch their back, work together, etc.
So there you go, if you're looking for a good multiplayer game to pass some time with a loved on on an idle Friday evening, give Gears of War 2 a look. Because nothing says "I love you" like hunting down the last wretch together.
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You've been on XBox Live this whole time, and never mentioned your gamertag in any of my comments? Add me as a friend - GravyTrain6. We've made it through Level 50 once, and gone back and helped different people for probably another 50 levels. We've also gone through and gotten all of the Achievements for Horde which includes beating Level 10 on all of the Flashback and Combustible maps. I've also helped out a few friends getting those same achievements mutliple times. Not to brag, but I'm over 50,000 kills over the life of playing. So yeah...add me as a friend.
Ok, request sent! I haven't focused on the achievements much in Gears of War 2 yet. In Halo, we went back, got all the skulls, etc, but I haven't done much of that in Gears yet. I keep seeing "Skeletons In Your Closet" and "Seriously 2.0" counting up in online play, but I've got a ways to go.
Anywho, I'll look for you next time I'm on!
Last night was the first night I haven't been in on probably a month or so...if not longer. I missed it though and was reminded that going to bed at 9:00 (last night) results in just as much sleepiness the next day as going to bed at 2:00 in the morning (every other night in the last couple of months).
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