So few days ago some friends wanted to play some versus for dailies, and we ended up in social (not coop)…
I had a particularly bad experience, with everything, controls, movement, gnasher, etc… I left, I just couldn’t take it anymore (it was social, right)…
I fired up GoW4 and just jumped into a private game and I was shocked by the difference between what I was feeling/seeing there vs what I just experienced in G5…
I realized that it wasn’t the raw movement/slide SPEED that was so turning me off… the controls… in GoW4, when I tell the character to do something, it just DOES IT… be it slide, run, roll… chaining movements together is great, works perfectly, every time… The controls just respond…
In G5, that is not the case, for me… there is this feeling of some buffering, some particular discrete points where you have to press your input, otherwise it’s ignored, so you can’t provide inputs as quickly as you are able, you kinda have to slow yourself down, and judge when you think the game is ready for the next input…
I know, I know, this is hardly technical, or proof or whatever… But this is very much the feeling I got, jumping immediately from one game to the next…
I like G5 Horde. I do… I like it more than GoW4 horde…
But Versus??? Please… I will happily play GoW4 Coop against hardcore/insane AI over any versus in G5… The game play itself is just FUN…
Anyhow, those are just my impressions/opinions… You have your own, and if you feel the opposite, that’s cool…
For me, the switch from GoW4 versus to G5 has been the biggest let down in my (limited) PvP video game ‘career’… (I never played Gears PvP before GoW4, only PvE).