Gears of War 2 Spoiler thread.

[S Freud]

So I finished the game last night and was curious to talk about what people thought of the end after the credits.

The message from Adam Fenix had me confused at first. Was it an old transmission or was he talking about the sinking of the city.

Also how are they going to live there now that they have filled the entire underground with water?

 

[Kabob]

Probably woulda been easier to talk about this in the existing GoW thread, it's already been brought up by more than one person. Just add SPOILERS in front of it.

 

[S Freud]

Originally posted by: kabob983
Probably woulda been easier to talk about this in the existing GoW thread, it's already been brought up by more than one person. Just add SPOILERS in front of it.

I thought it would make more sense to just start a spoilers thread. I was one of the people that brought it up. I took the suggestion by another member that a spoiler thread would make it easier so people won't have to read around posts if they are taking more time to complete the game.

 

[blurredvision]

I was said member who suggested a spoiler thread, so I 100% support this!

As far as the message from Adam Fenix, here it is for those who missed it:

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=H-sHL4tUx88

To me, it seemed like it wasn't the original intent or plan of Adam's to sink Jacinto, so it's possible that Marcus and Dom were tricked into doing the Queen's dirty work. But it should be interesting to see how it'll play out, because it seems as if humans created the Locust, seeing as to how their queen is a human . Adam obviously had a hand in it, but possibly realized what they were doing, or realized what was happening after it was too late, and tried going rogue.

 

[S Freud]

Blurredvision,

The way the queen spoke of Adam seemed odd to me. Almost hinting that he is still alive. What would the locust queen benefit from the sinking of Jacinto?

 

[SneakyStuff]

One thing I don't understand from the campaign. The level where you enter the secured facility, are those specimins supposed to be an attempt by the humans to create something to fight the locust? I didn't really understand that part.

 

[S Freud]

Originally posted by: SneakyStuff
One thing I don't understand from the campaign. The level where you enter the secured facility, are those specimins supposed to be an attempt by the humans to create something to fight the locust? I didn't really understand that part.

Maybe this is something that will lead us to how the locust came about if we follow Blurred's theory.

 

[blurredvision]

Originally posted by: S Freud
Blurredvision,

The way the queen spoke of Adam seemed odd to me. Almost hinting that he is still alive. What would the locust queen benefit from the sinking of Jacinto?

The queen would benefit because Jacinto is supposedly the very last human stronghold. From what I gathered, they were obviously trying to sink it anyway, it's just that Marcus and Dom sank it before the Locust were ready.

I really need to go back through the game, I played through it pretty quickly, and can't remember some of the stuff worth a damn.

EDIT: Here's the queen video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PwgQwa3rd5U

She seems to speak positively about Adam Fenix, but her sentence about him is so ambiguous, it's hard to tell. Also, she says they are the first humans to desecrate that place, so maybe she isn't fully human, or maybe she just doesn't consider herself to be human. But she looks human and is perfectly fluent, it's just that monstrosity on her back that is a bit weird.

So I don't really know. I didn't really read through any of the pickups that found all that well, so I'm sure I missed a bunch of stuff in those. I remember something about humans doing some kind of tests on monstors, of which were getting out of control and killing people.

 

[S Freud]

The whole point of sinking the city was the flood underground and drowned all the locust correct? The queens speech at the end left it pretty open as to whether the locust survived or not.

 

[UpgradeFailure]

Hell I wouldnt be surprised if the Queen is somehow Marcus's mother or something crazy like that

 

[UpgradeFailure]

Did they ever tell us why the Locust were fighting eachother? The normal kind vs the glowing kind? Did I miss anything there?

 

[bdubyah]

well, they wanted to kill the humans so they could control the surface. then they could flood the hollow and kill the lambent locust and i would assume also destroy the immulsion that feeds the lambent.

or so i've gathered...but i have ADD so i could be wrong.

also, from the looks of that facility...either the humans created the locust and forced them underground and they are now retaliating, or those creatures were some sort of "soldiers" that went wrong. or maybe they were captured locust that humans were trying to convert something.

 

[blurredvision]

Those creatures that bust out of the big "test tubes" looked WAY too much like the Flood monsters from Halo. Anytime I see them while playing Horde with some friends, I immediately think of the Flood.

 

[R Nilla]

Here are my thoughts after completing the campaign. Let me preface it by saying I really enjoyed Gears 2. Definitely better than the first one.

- What happened to the Berserkers? I have no desire to encounter the Kryll ever again, so good call there, and it would be boring to have more Hammer of Dawn vs. Berserker moments, but it would have been cool to have a sequence or two with Berserkers and a new way to kill them.

- I didn't really care for the tank portion. I'll probably enjoy it more in co-op, but alone it was lame since when you move forward it goes whatever way the cannon is pointing. It was much better than the vehicle portion of Gears 1, but still not that great overall. The Reaver riding was also annoying, mainly because it's too hard to aim and the other Reavers move all over the place.

- As others have said, what's up with the test tube "Flood" Locust, and the Queen? Some more information would have been nice, but I guess we'll have to wait for Gears 3.

- I'm disappointed that there weren't any boss battles like RAAM. All of them had pretty much one specific way to defeat them, whereas RAAM was like any other enemy (but maybe that's not a good thing).

- Also, the Skorge battle was pretty disappointing. It amounted to a drawn out series of quick time events, which I absolutely hate. If they would have had the chainsaw duel portion, plus you had to shoot him or something, that would have been more interesting.

- There were a ton of scenic views throughout the game that were simply amazing. I was extremely impressed with the graphics and details in this game. Especially things like everyone getting all bloodied from being in the giant worm. Man that was a lot of blood.

- Horde is awesome, and being able to play multiplayer against bots was a great decision by the devs.

That's all I've got at the moment. I'm looking forward to playing through the campaign a few more times via co-op.

 

[SneakyStuff]

I want to replay and find more things for the war journal, maybe shed some light on these questions!

 

[S Freud]

Originally posted by: SneakyStuff
I want to replay and find more things for the war journal, maybe shed some light on these questions!

I found myself wondering a lot of things while playing the game.

Are the Brumaks and other creatures in the game part of the locust? or are they beasts that the locust have tamed? I was assuming part of the locust since you never seem to come across any others.

It also seemed like most of the things the locust use are alive. Such as the torture ships seem like giant bugs.

Where did the locust get the ability to make weapons and other machinery like the brumaks cannons and such? This leads to one theory that the locust are in fact mutated humans from a project similar the the one in the lab you had to fight.

Maybe I'm being a bit to critical on some of these points. Just wanted to see what some of you guys were wondering or thought about this.