Gearheads breakout of the "Insane" Asylum!!!

posted by Blankman

Sun Nov 16, 2008 at 04:26:19 PM EDT

Just like a prophet, 3Suns made the call that the Gearheads would be the first to conquer Wave 50 on Insane difficulty when Cliff divulged that Epic’s best testers only made it to Wave 17 or so.  Well true believers, we did it. We did it within the first eight days of the game’s release.  ***I'm not sure about those claiming that they've beaten it on Insane difficulty on the official Epic forums, but this image that I provided is proof enough.  They're basing this on their scores on the leaderboards.

The band of misfits (cue the ‘A-Team’ theme music) consisted of:  Zoso Fan, Infidel, 3Suns, Sai Tyrus, and myself (Blankman).  The core three from Wave 1 thru 50 were: Zoso, Infidel, and myself.  Many thanks go out to 3Suns' boys (Johann and Timothy), PureRage, Razor Hanzo, Degrees, Robbins, Grymmy, Jambi, and Really Doe for filling in along the way. This was truly a community accomplishment! :D

We started from Wave 1 on the ‘Day One’ map and whittled away at this for about three days.  The dirty, dirty Horde didn’t stand a damn chance!  Forget about throwing the kitchen sink at us, the Locusts threw the damn house!  We have it all on film, baby!  Gearheads FTMFW!!!

*BTW: Happy Birthday, Zos!!!  He's 22 today!  We hope that you get everything you wished for!  Steph was making him a Gears-themed cake!  Awesome! :)

What difficulty level will you be playing on Gears 2?

posted by Kenai 91

Tue Oct 21, 2008 at 09:17:38 PM EDT

I never finished Gears 1 on Hard core.  I've still got a couple of chapters to finish.  I am going to do that before Nov 7th...

I am kind of a wimpy gamer.  I played COD2&4 on casual.  Some other games on veteran (Brothers in Arms), and Halo3 on legendary.  But, I'm usually playing on casual.  I suck pretty much..

Anyway, got me to thinking about Gears 2.  I am going to man up and play through the first go around on Hardcore.  Then, would then like to play co-op with someone on Insane (No way I'm going to beat Insane on Solo)...

So what about you? (Things are pretty slow around here, so I picked this lame topic to confess and promise to do better :-)

What are you going to be playing on?

Be honest.  And why?

Oh, and what about Horde mode?  Are we just going to start off on Hardcore?  Or are we gonna go whimpy and start on Casual?

I vote for starting on Hardcore...  Even if we don't get many levels at first, it would be cool to playing it at such a intense level...

Unless you've got something better to talk about...

What do you think?