You thought Tartarus in Halo2 was hard as well?
Finally someone agrees with me.

It wasn't that hard, but certainly harder than most of the Gears boss battles. I agree with you that they should be harder.

Has anyone thought that maybe we don't need a singular creature as a boss but instead a larger army? I honestly thought that the battle at the end of act 2 (defending Stranded camp) was a significantly more fun battle than the Corpser or the berserkers?

With the berserker, you just stood in front of a door/column/ass-end-of-the-train but in the big battle, you actually got to pop in and out of cover headshotting Locust with your sturdy Longshot rifle?


Who knows, maybe defending the "Impenetrable" plateau from hordes of Locust knocking on the front door will be the end Boss battle for Gears 2? Gears 3 could take place with only your current squad finding their own way to the Queen to kill it once and for all.

Yeah we were talking about that pages back, having big battles rather than boss battles. Would be cool to mix it up, not have the whole game be the same type of fighting.

While the big battle to finish does have its merits, I prefer having a conclusive boss fight at the end, as it gives the game a bit more of a sense of having finished. If like Woudo said you kill a Locust horde, with the game ending once you've killed them all, I know I for one would feel the ending was a bit lacking (like in Vegas), but killing a pivotal character (ie a final boss) gives more of a sense of accomplishment, and you leave the game more satisfied.

I don't know, that's just my take on it.

I agree that a boss battle probably would be better now that you put it that way. It depends on if they want a cliffhanger or not, a big battle without a definate ending would be good for it but it would kind of be shitty I guess. They could always put a long cutscene after the big boss battle to set up the cliffhanger I guess.

Definitely agreeing with shatter.
I hope they don't end up killing all the Locust Horde. If it comes to that, we may not see the result of GoW3.
And yeah, I would rather be left with a cliffhanger. A small cut scene after the last battle would be great, hopefully it leaves you with suspicion. The cliffhanger creates a lot of theories and possibilities over some heads.

I don't think they would do anything that would make it impossible for there to be a third game. Most likely will be some sort of a cliffhanger one way or another. Even the first game had one with the Queen talking.

quote Woudo

Has anyone thought that maybe we don't need a singular creature as a boss but instead a larger army? I honestly thought that the battle at the end of act 2 (defending Stranded camp) was a significantly more fun battle than the Corpser or the berserkers?

Maybye the queen continualy ... "makes" more Drones and such, and you have to defend for yourself untill the king raven comes and you see a realy cool gun the size of the train In GOW1 which you use in GOW3

Yeah, I don't like the idea of having a big battle as the final fight in GoW2. It doesn't leave you with a good impression. If a huge battle does occur, it show either be in the middle of the campaign or near the ending of the game.

quote think of something

Since the escape from that house chapter, I've always wanted to face the giant slug thing with rockets on it's back, that would be fun, but not a ending boss.

I think that the end should be an all out war with the locust, like the team being surrounded by hundreds of them, and you have to survive for a certain amount of time. Then for a final clip, the Locust queen should appear, saying some boring crap like last time, just with a better cliff hangar.

quote xtremepokemontrainer

quote think of something

Since the escape from that house chapter, I've always wanted to face the giant slug thing with rockets on it's back, that would be fun, but not a ending boss.

I think that the end should be an all out war with the locust, like the team being surrounded by hundreds of them, and you have to survive for a certain amount of time. Then for a final clip, the Locust queen should appear, saying some boring crap like last time, just with a better cliff hangar.

Do you mean the Brumak?

Some new general, raam was easy.

I can see another general happening, but not as the final boss. I don't think they'll do the same thing as the first.