Pixar consulted on Gears of War: Judgment

 @Raxyman Next time I hit the bookstore (a few weeks) I'll try and remember to check that out (Ready Player One).

 @SolidTy I can say the same. I didn't know there were people who didn't see GeoW story as interesting or exciting. The best part of all was the clean conversation, that's so damn hard in the internet XD.

I already enjoyed the game's story, so the book was mind-blowing to me. Nevertheless i think that Karen Travis is a fine writer, it truly made their past look crystal clear to me. Since the books have less fighting and more political and emotional concerns, you might find interesting.

PS: But if you're looking for a good book then i also recommend Ready Player One, most of the covers i've seen look awful (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a4/Ready_Player_One_cover.jpg/220px-Ready_Player_One_cover.jpg), but the book itself is awesome. Some great references from the 80s too. It isn't a VG book on itself, but their presence in the story was remarkable to me.

 @Raxyman Maybe I'll check out the books, although I don't read video game books to be honest. I figure for the same price I can pick up something that I may have missed (some great literature is out there that I'm always keeping my eye out for, reading up Philip K. Dick's and Asimov's library right now)...but I can see your points.

Will just chalk this up to different strokes for different folks. :P It was nice chatting with you all the same. I learned that some people honestly and truly found the GeoW story to be deep and moving. :P

 @SolidTy Well, then i just guess it's a difference of creation, because the people you know think that the worm was stupid, the people i know thought it was awesome. It seems like a regional cultural difference. I can tell by the kinds of movie you listed. I didn't watched most of them with a clear exception of Schindler's list, and i hated that movie... Don't get me wrong, it is a good movie, but i hate that feeling of weakness and impotence, maybe that's what i like about GeoW. They are FUBAR and they keep fighting and killing, it's about finding a way out.

If you ever get curious you can try reading the books, those i can assure you that it's not a macho fest, it gets deeper on each character's backstory, maybe with that info you might sympathize more with GeoW characters, but i'm not sure since, like i said, you and i seem to differ a lot in points of view.

I just think you are exaggerating a bit by saying that the Gears story wasn't well written, maybe it didn't moved you, but that doesn't make that part bad, because it did worked on a lot of people. I try to respect opinions as much as i can, but when opinions began being stated as facts, it does get a little annoying. They are consulting Pixar to make the sotry even better, but Karen Traviss alreasy helped on GeoW 2 and 3 stories.

 @Raxyman There are thousands of articles like that about GeoW series, I just posted one. Seriously, feel free to google that, I thought this was well known. EPIC hiring Pixar talent indicates they aren't good writers.

As far as the GeOW 1-3 trilogy, I'm not trying to convince anyone that I not only played it in this pixar article. I already played this game online with Gamespotters long ago. This is just a discussion in an article that only we are keeping track of.  I own all of the geow games and bought all DLC.. In fact, In geoW 1/2, I have 1000+ gamerscore. geoW3 I have close to a 1000.  I have 113,00 Gamerscore, and GeoW is my favorite 360 franchise.

As far as the giant worm, I have a tiny little section to comment, so I can't get in depth. You are the first person I ever met that didn't think that giant worm business was silly. If I remember, I had to saw four hearts, it so gross and stupid...which is why I love geow.

Again, I've played these games twice - three times because I enjoy the gameplay and completely over the top macho story.  When I played it co op with friends, we all laugh at the story online and locally as we know EPIC is just joking around. It's a parody of every macho movie I've ever seen.

As far as stories, I'm well read college lit guy, so I enjoy stuff like Slaughter House 5, 1984, Fahrenheit 451, Catch 22, THE GREAT GATSBY, ...movies like Mr. Holland's Opus, Being John Malkovich, Schindler?s List, The Sting, GoodFellas, North by Northwest, The Shawshank Redemption, 300, etc. I can watch 300 for the manfest it was, like I can enjoy geoW for the same reason.

I won't go into spoilers, but nothing about the Dom and his wife scene was well written. It wasn't earned, and it's hard to empathize with chainsawing steroid warriors. I guess we just travel in completely different circles. :P

 @SolidTy And now that i read. 1 article from a site i've never even heard about backs your opinion. And the site's name is Badass Digest, it's bound to have a macho pose like you think GeoW have.

 @SolidTy Dood, without trying to be annoying. TL:DR...

I'll answer to your first comment then.

It was NOT just a macho fest, sorry, maybe you only see it this way and there's no changing it, but it just isn't. That's the most simple way of mocking a story that's not understood. It looks like you are judging from watching Gears of Awesome, the game has a message to everyone, you just don't see if you don't care, if all you want is step on grubs and chainsaw them.

And i gotta hand it to ya, you're first guy i've ever met that said that the worm part was lame. Talking with my friends, in foruns or online i've never saw anyone think like that. And worms eat fungis, bacterias, protozoas. All os that is availiable underground. And what about ending in a helicopter sequence? You wanted to end how? With explosions and QTEs like Call of Duty? They were being evacuated from a explosion area and a flooding city, what did you suggest? Run away and swim? Or it's more realistic to be in a evac by heli?

We might not be on earth, but they aren't on an "alien" planet, they were born there, as much as the locusts. Using Sera was a way of making a sci-fi story without needing to explain "When did Earth became like this?". It was a different planet with a different story.

********************SPOILER ALERT TO ANY THAT DIDN'T FINISHED THE TRILOGY********************

And you're not convincing that you actually played the game, both humans and locusts were there, the lambent infection started to spread Adam volunteered to find a cure so that the Queen would not decide to take over the surface. THEY invaded, not the humans. It's like imagine if all of a sudden Mexico becames inhospitable (by no one fault), then they decide to take over the USA because they think it's their right. Who's the good and the bad guy here?

And even if you didn't have the eye to see and interpret this, if you didn't cared at all when Dom had to shot Maria, who was imprisioned for a great deal of time according to the story (and in a week they broke one of the hardest soldiers the Gears had, Tai Kaliso, what do you think they did to her? If she haves any guilt in infecting the locusts with imulsion...), then you just didn't played the game or can't enjoy a good story.

 @Raxyman Daddy! :P

http://badassdigest.com/2011/09/19/video-game-review-gears-of-war-3-is-the-best-in-the-big-dumb-series/

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That may seem as cliched as can be but the story?s actually the best of the trilogy thus far, even though it?s still filled with melodrama and cheap attempts at wringing emotion out of these one-note characters. Fans of the single most hysterical moment of this very silly series will be pleased to note that Dom gets a similar scene in this one. In fact, it?s probably even better, being that it?s a big slow-motion moment punctuated by the most eye-rolling choice of music possible. You?ll see.

Look, Epic Games- we understand that you want to change up the excellent action of the series with an stirring story that we get invested in, but you have to stop taking cues from Michael Bay movies. None of these emotional cutscenes are earned and they nearly all fall flat. I mean, even after spending dozens of hours with Marcus Fenix do we even know who he is? He?s got a gruff voice and he?s a good leader, and you?ve heard that he was a war hero till he disgraced himself by abandoning his post trying to rescue his father, but that?s about it. You know nothing of him, and this is the main character! Course, maybe they expect us to read those Gears of War novels? (snicker)

But even though the characters are boring as can be the story of this world is fascinating,..."

"...Gears of War 3 is easily the best of the series, but it?s not going to be swaying anyone. At this point you know if you like the game or not, and should base your purchase on that. I love the big stupid series, the same way I love Bad Boys 2. Stupid as shit, fun as hell, and even better when you?re liquored up with buddies."

 @Raxyman EPIC was just pooping out crap and making a fun 3rd person shooter. I'm sure they are laughing all the way to the bank every time a new GeoW comes out, but the biggest laughs come from those that post online that these games touched their hearts, that this series is poignant, passionate, and anywhere near intellectual.

Again, I'm not bashing the fun gameplay, I own the series. It's fun, but I'll never understand how GeoW has a good story. It's like EPIC looked up every macho man scenario in every movie ever and slapped it into a game, and hoped the audience was so young, they wouldn't realize how much garbage and cliche they slapped in the games. I thought that the games were a parody of macho men and laughed all the way through it. with friends.

We quote Marcus & crew all the time and laugh at the sound bites. :P

 @Raxyman I respect that you liked it, but all that stuff was cliche and thrown in to a psuedo attempt at a story about macho men. I enjoyed the GeoW trilogy for what it was, a mindless shootathon. Chainsawing a giant worm's heart? How lame. How did such a worm feed before hand? Where was it when the planet was colonized. The first two games end in a helicoptor sequence? it's ridiculous.

The worst part was the fact we are on an alien planet fighting what seems to be the Locust home planet. So in essence, we are the bad aliens, and we are fighting their locust homeland security, and we are supposed to be the good guys? How am I going to cry for Dom's love for his family, or even feel an ounce of sympathy for Dom in between Dom Hacking up soldiers with a bloody chainsaw? Wha??!

 @syafiqjabar On August 20, 2007, Epic Games acquired a majority share in People Can Fly.

@CheeseRa ugh, apparently you didn't actually read my previous comment. I didn't hate the movie by any means, I just don't think it's good in comparison to some other Pixar films. It also has plenty of characters that seem like they were created just so that little kids would repeat their lines over and over months after they've seen the movie (like Darcy or Dorcy the father's girl fish helper, the "cool" turtles, the seagulls, etc). It isn't as obnoxious as crap like Shrek 2 or something, but there's still a lot of problems I have with the film. THANKFULLY it's still not anywhere near as bad as Shark Tales. Holy crap that movie was terrible. Either way, I still don't like it. I'm not insulting people who like it and I don't think it's total garbage or something, I just think Pixar has made films that are significantly better. Specifically Wall-E.

 @Jedilink109  @syafiqjabar  @CheeseRa im pretty sure your hatred for nemo is completely baseless and irrational, there is nothing wrong with the movie