It is a great remaster in concept, but it sucks that it had dogshit support after launch.. no Xbox One X update or X/S optimization, not even a fix for that intermittent blur/sharpening effect on a 4K display. PC optimization is still broken!
The remaster is great ill give it that(the campaign), but it fucking bugs me that they ruined the atmosphere by turning the brightness up to 95 and removing the costant eerie feeling the original had, tiny details like that make me preffer the original above the rest, was also harder on insane RAAM is a beast
What annoys me the most about Ultimate Edition is the change of camera work during cutscenes. In the original, it has some kind of "found footage" vibe, with the camera shaking and not focusing on particular characters. It really gave a feeling of unease. In UE the camera feels too action movie, you lose most of the horror aspect.
This is why I don't like remasters - they change things unnecessarily. And it's not whether one prefers the change or not, any change (of something highly successful) shouldn't be supported. The OG Gears was highly popular for what it was, flaws and all. So just leave popular things alone. It's like thinking you can improve on the Mona Lisa - maybe you can, but then it's not the Mona Lisa anymore.
@@hrthrhs that's why i still think Halo:CEA is the best remaster i have played myself since it lets you swap between the updated graphics and the classic ones even mid game while also leaving the cutscenes unchanged in both the original and anniversary graphics. Halo 2:A seems to have switched to pre-rendered ones for the anniversary graphics, but aside from that i'm pretty sure it has done the same thing as CEA (haven't played through OG Halo 2 or 2 Anniversary but i assume its the case)
Something that I like from Ultimate edition was the fact that instead of Marcus being angered at Kim’s death he’s instead shocked along with that cutscene RAAM completely towers over everyone which works really well
Same, I always hated how Marcus just sits there and watches as RAAM approaches and kills Kim in the original. That being said, I also hate that They changed RAAM staring into Kim's lifeless eyes before he tossed his corpse down and walked away like a badass.
For me it doesn't suit his character. Marcus is a strong intimidating man that never seemed intimidated by anything, he looked death in the face and just went with it without complaining once. When he looked shocked it seemed like he turned into a millenial sjw beta male for a few seconds. In the original he looked angry and frustrated when he saw Raam killing Kim.
@@wutaguy nah honestly the way raam throws kim off his big ass knife and tjen stares at marcus as if to say "your next" is better than him just walking off. its infinitely better.
@@loveisthemostpowerfulforce1397 well it does suit his character. as he looks suprised/upset when tai also kills himself on the prisoner ship because he wasnt expecting tai to dk that as tai is also someone who stared death in the face at the hands of skorge.
@@godzvnm No, even when Tai killed himself Marcus looked upset but still stoic, he didn't break down crying or anything like that, as I said, stoic. In Ulimate version his facial expressions look like a helpless child's. That's my perspective.
You can see a major change of tone just by looking at the menus they make for this new games, its either a close up on a Character's Model or a Map. For Gears 1, one of the most chilling moments was loading the game, hearing that haunting soundtrack and seeing that red omen flashing. In Gears UE, you got the same music, but it doesnt fit anymore because of the bright maps as backgrounds. The graphics for Gears UE are good and the additional chapters are a welcome surprise (I agree they dont add much to the story tho), but everything is too bright and polished. I felt the same thing about the Queen reveal at the end, it was not a good choice and I believe the true intention of that cutscene was to show the Hydra not the one riding it, by showing Myraah they changed the focus.
This is coming from someone who has never played the original so I won't have any nostalgia bias. Personally, I think I can look past that, I love how the characters seem to have way more "emotion" in their facial animations when compared to original, but I I do see what you mean, a lot of the gritty and sort of colorless color scheme is pretty much gone but since I never played the original I guess it never really impacted me that much.
@@catfacesarecool5948 and I can agree with you on that. I can clearly picture a moment of Bairds face in UE. That shows off Baird very well. However, I will complain about the faces looking a bit awkward.
@@catfacesarecool5948 we can agree with that, the thing is the direction of some cinematics doesn't fit with some expressions and some situations. For example, Marcus's expressions during Kim's death cinematic are top notch, put the direction with the berserker introduction just makes the scene feel weird compared to the original.
Dude I'm right there with you regarding loading up the game. I remember grabbing a snack late night and came back to my room filled with dark red lighting and chilling ass music. Love it.
From what I know of Epic had always used maps to render their main menus even in Gears 1 days. It was mainly just clever use of materials and mesh/model placements, along with using the map as cinematic piece as to why it looked convincing for a 2D animation artwork.
Wish the gears remaster was ported properly to pc and didn't run like shit... They really just need to do a gears trilogy for pc and leave gears alone forever
Yea, or let people who are passionate run the franchise, and just maybe, MAYBE even make a other,better story line where we follow new, memorable characters that we can care about. We even cared about the lesser, minor characters like Minh. [When I say minor, I don't mean how he impacts the story because Minh did have weight.]
Yea true, although I still think they should do a pendulum wars game or a spin-off Carmine game since it wouldn’t stray to far away from the original and also could have a lot of change too if they play there cards right they could get some fans back.
It’s an inherent problem with hero driven stories. You put Marcus through so much bs that he comes out on top, what could possibly stop him? Forces them to derive from the story they originally meant to keep in tact
I disagree. Gears Ultimate Edition is actually the only REAL good Gears Game the Coalition Developed even though the Art Stile Took a Bit of a hit. The MP was greatly improved with Element from Gears of War 3(tagging enemies) and a Team Deathmatch Mode and for the First time as a Console Player you could experience the additional only and REAL Brumak Fight on Foot of the Gears of War PC Version for the first Time! But The Original was more gritty and cutscenes Like Raam VS Kim are really better in the Original.
I had the ultimate edition it didn't grip me so I sold it. I bought gears of war I only completed it last month 10 out of 10. The original just has a different feel.
Yeah the original does have it's own feel that's just unique to itself and unfortunately that special feel will very likely never be felt again in another gears game because it's just something exclusive to the original
The brumak chapter was for me very important: full of action, difficult, and most importantly, a logical connection between the assault on Fenix manor and Timgad station. It was not just a useless filler. I played GoW for the first time on pc, and it was an unforgettable experience. Anyway, I strongly agree with the statement that the characters in Ultimate Edition have lost their rough callousness. Now they look more like shoppers facing the sales week end.
Only thing I can agree on is that they did change the atmosphere from being dark and gritty to colorful and happy. Other than that, this was a great remaster.
You do realize the brumak part was in the original PC launch of gears 1 right ? So were the additions in the last chapter. They were actually removed from the xbox version but was intended to be in it.
If I'm not mistaken I'm pretty sure the queen was ment to be revealed at the end of the original too but they hadn't reached a point of satisfaction with her character model or concept art so they put a reskined version of raam on a special version of a reaver that was intended to be the queen's instead and later decided to make that version Skorge's mount instead
I have to respectfully disagree with Omaha with some of the cutscenes. I thought the remake was interesting by allowing Cole to act as the on the spot mediator between Baird to Dom and Marcus. Such as the way that Cole would position himself between Dom and Baird after the first Berserker. I have more to add. But I have a flight in 20 mins. I'll see you soon. I still love your content Omaha!!!
Yeah it was “interesting” but also pointless, I feel they messed around with the narrative just because they knew they could. Also the constant camera cuts added were beyond distracting
I liked the remaster quite a bit. I personally thought it was very faithful and the definitive version that should be played. If anything, we should have Ultimate Editions for the second and third games (and maybe even Gears of War: Judgment as well).
@@antoniobrown247 This video did bring up some decent points, but I feel he was too harsh on the remaster. The remaster gets many things right, and it reminds us gamers that games used to be really good back then; they were just limited by the technology of their time. If anything, XBOX Game Studios and the Coalition should be giving us faithful video game adaptions to the Gears of War novels. They could have the events told in those books in chronological order using the modern iteration of the Unreal Engine in one collection. This can help keep the Coalition busy while satiating the Gears of War fanbase for more story content. It wouldn't surprise me if these adaptions or a collection of adaptions sold like hotcakes if marketed properly.
I thought the remake overall was amazing. Gears of War 1 is one of my favorite games of all time and I felt like Coalition did a phenomenal job remaking the game especially in the performance side of things. Personally I’m not going to discredit the entire remake because of its slightly different art style and cutscenes.
I rather like the art style of the cog soldier, the most, And I was praying they stocked with it in futures titles, Sadly They didn’t and I hated the newer ones over and over.
Biggest impression I got was weaker cutscenes, and being able to see things I couldn't in the original. I do think the darker original set a better atmosphere.
Shame you didn't show the rainy level or the krill at night section, when you compare those two parts specially it's very clear how much better the OG version looks than the remake
For a supposed fan you get a lot of stuff wrong in these videos. Microsoft didn’t create the Coalition let alone didn’t create it with the sole purpose of creating Gears. They tapped Black Tusk Studios (an already existing dev) to make the game since they were so impressed with their tech demo and game concept they were working on since their inception. Microsoft put that project on hold the moment they got the Gears IP. Microsoft sought out Rod Furgeson to shepherd the series. It was ROD’s decision to turn Black Tusk into The Coalition, it was Rod’s decision to make Black Tusk the 343 of Gears. It was ROD’s decision to do Ultimate and I quote “show me you guys know how to make Gears first.” He wanted Ultimate to be the way it turned out. He wanted the series to be stagnant in 4 because he didn’t let them deviate from the formula like they did with 5. As bad as the story and Kait is in 5 the gameplay is probably the most interesting in the series. They managed to evolve it past just chest high walls unlike 4. Rod was also the one that pushed for Kait to be the main character. He’s also the one who would says stuff like “first female gears character”…. Even tho he worked on 1 and Anya existed. Not to mention Sam or Sophia in 3 or Judgment. And you can tell by his interviews and the way he treated and responded to the fan base over RIGHTFUL criticism of Kait. Go figure Rod sucks all live, soul, and creativity out of Gears, shits on the legacy of the previous trilogy with all this revisionist bullshit…….. then he leaves after Gears 5 launches. Rod was always the problem with Gears and especially the new Gears. There may be hope yet for 6 but I know for a fact a lot of Coalition devs were bummed that Rod came in, cancelled their dream project and chined them to Gears. I know there’s some bitterness and resentful ness behind the scenes
From what I remember it was Rod's idea for G1 at the time, which a second player could pick gender-based characters. Wasn't just fully implemented to have player-character based lineup scripting like in G3-5, along with possible storyline damage when Microsoft contracted Epic for more titles. (So lot of what he had asked for years did exist, but just needed team of people and technical limitations to voice opinions) Problem think with Gears UE in general was with them reworking lot of assets and heavily changing post processing, lighting, and rendering in general. Lot of split fans were probably hoping of a soft-remaster, which had very few changes for cheap price tag. Xbox One compiled and 1080P/60 FPS gameplay, textures increased to their original 4096x4096 image scale (anything lower remastered, or retrieved from Epic's archives), and lastly bug fixes and content from PC port. (Mainly fixing issues on side related to particles and materials, can be seen on maps like Rooftops, main menu and gun reload animations. Along side with improved server-side networking usage to prevent issues on host advantage.) Gears 4 from what I remember was being worked on by Epic before the franchise acquisition, based on an in-house G3 rewrite to early version of UE4 (lot of G3 assets can still be found in retail as temporary placements.) As likely was that and UE were likely part of the reason too why that game was stagnant, besides all the technical changes.
The gory and visceral details of mutilated locust bodies being removed on the remastered was a let down. I enjoyed seeing their guts and bones. It's a cool detail.
Bro I had the same opinion on the Berserker encounter! The original cutscene was meant to be intense and scary and the way Delta reacts to it was realistic and appropriate. But in the ultimate edition they just act like they aren’t scared at all and the way the Berserker killed that cog soldier was not really scary to me because it looked like a little kid taking playdoe apart.
@@superpug3514well what’s more scary about that scene was the visuals. Not revealing what it looked like too much thanks to its flashes and when it was beating the guy to death what made it work is that there was more blood in it and you actually hear him screaming in serious pain. And not to mention delta squad was actually afraid and took that situation seriously instead of acting like it was just another day in the office.
@@superpug3514 dude when you are being beaten to death from feet to head of course someone is gonna start screaming in pain. In Ultimate edition he’s being torn apart and it’s just as slow but he’s not reacting like that it just sounds more like he’s falling a cliff and that just ruins the terror in the scene.
I would've taken a 60fps, all dlc "Fenix Collection" no remastered, just opt'd for xbox one, gow1-3 and with judgement on the side like Halo did with its ODST--anyway, the GoW UE was cool/great. Not amazing or redefining. I personally thought my idea of would ve have done better and kept the community together and alive. Instead of divided. But yeah the UE did eat the horror/Resident Evil-y feel and replaced with Halo (4, 5)lighting and plastic lookin textures cause they're flat, clean and lit up /look like Minecraft's Plastic texture pack fo' realio. But yeah, I still don't regret my tat of the crimson omen. Badass franchise, with great characters and refreshing elements god... those gibs were so juicy in 1, 2 and 3. 🖤
It's funny how you criticise the acting/direction in the remake but in the same breath acknowledge that it's all the same voice lines from the original. I don't think any of the dialog was actually re-recorded. Just remastered. However, I won't disagree that UE feels like the inferior version. A lot of the animation looks very cartoon like. Just watch the scene where Marcus and Dom are running out of the prison towards the helicopter. I also feel like the PC chapters don't add anything meaningful, and as mentioned here, only slow down the progress of the overall story. One of my biggest gripes about UE is that you can't choose whether to play the campaign with or without those extra chapters.
I don’t know man, i like the UE one better as it really hits you know you can’t get the same feeling with the lighting the UE had compared to what the OG had, with the flames bouncing of the blood on minhs face, crazy man.
@@benjamincarmine8966 both are iconic in their own way! I could honestly believe that if I'd seen the UE version before the OG then my opinion very well could be different, my opinion could be based off of nostalgia, I'm not exactly sure. but I know that in the OG's version it really set the tone to me, and showed me just how ruthless the locust were, and even Raam himself. one of my favorite scenes in gaming though, can't give the original team at epic, and TC enough credit for how they portrayed it!
I’ve only ever played the ultimate edition and thought it was great, I still felt that the horror and gritty, realistic feel that people talk about is there. Am I rlly missing so much by not playing the OG gears 1?
Gears 1 had such a distinct and menacing vibe. The remastered failed to capture it. The only thing Ultimate Edition really improved on was the gameplay. Because the original was too clunky for today's standards.
If theyre gonna make or attempt a good gears of war game like the first 3 they need to remember why they were so unique any further horror aspects of game could be covered for sure like the years of locust and lambent wars with Raam and Scorge leading the drones to victory
One of the first things I noticed mihns death and how the new scene had less of an impact. The original scene was badass. The new one seemed watered down. With the old one you could tell that he was blinded by everything going on and was wrapped up in battle and didn't see the big guy coming after him.
Just beginning the video, but i have this theory that TC deliberately botched the remake just to have something to point at when asked for remakes or even just a port to pc for 2 and 3, because The Coalition just doesnt care about gears.
Maybe I'm imagining things, but one thing I noticed about UE and really disliked was how "bouncy" and exaggerated the animation looked in cutscenes. I was definitely glad to see the tomb scene mentioned. Didn't like what TC did there at all. I thought TC did good by Versus, but man did they butcher the shit out of the campaign.
I’m getting so tired of these remasters that update the graphics but completely ruin the art direction. What they did to these new GTA games, especially 3, is just disgusting. Liberty city was gloomy and grimey, now it’s super bright. Also, in terms of just new games like back 4 blood, it’s insane how much better left 4 dead 2 looks from an art style, despite coming out 12 years ago. B4B just looks like call of duty game. I feel like good art direction is just lost in so many games now
Did anyone notice in the remastered version in all of the cut scenes all of the characters spoke faster? Like they had shorter breaks in between sentences and they would speak more quickly
Ultimate Edition has it's issues but it's easily the best traditional Gears experience on modern hardware. Hell for other series I love like Killzone I'd die to have something like U.E. for that so atleast there is a modern version of it people can enjoy.
I agree with a lot of the criticisms made here, but I fundamentally disagree with the take on the bonus chapters in the final act. They were developed by Epic and were already part of the original PC version, so it's no fault of the Coalition. Granted, their inclusion feels tacked on from the base game. But it's also arguable that the transition from Act IV to V was jarring. Up until that point, your role had been to gather information on the Locust tunnels, then suddenly you're whisked off to catch a train and deploy the bomb.
I haven’t played the OG Gears in well over a decade, but there are beats and quotes that I still regurgitate to this day. Cole and Baird split off in to the sewers, Marcus and Dom regrouping with them through a grate in the floor - Dom can “smell them from a mile away” Baird gets pissed, Marcus argues, Dom and Cole mock their argument. “Ain’t that cute?” “Like two assholes on their first date.” The introduction of the Theron Guard: “uhh..what was that noise?” “just the wind” “Yeah right, when was the last time the wind said ‘hostiles!’ to you!?” “I hope I got the right path here” “HEY! I hope we BOTH do” “Lookit all that juice!” “How much you think all this is worth?” “I don’t think I can count that high…” There are so many memorable moments, particularly Act 2 + 3 with the Kryll and factory respectively. The introduction to lambent wretches in the rain, seeing them clamber over pipes (where you’re heading, dreading impending ambush) through the storm. The terror and tension of having to use spotlights to stay out of shadows for fear of being chewed up by kryll, all while being under fire from a troika turret and snipers, using propane tanks to create traversable areas… The game was methodical in its mechanical execution. It rewarded the time spent in cover, planning your next move. It wasn’t just point and shoot, it was about tactical positioning (some times a little obsessively, nearly every firefight had a flanking route to take) and co-operation. The characters in the original had chemistry, individual personality, that was so easy to digest and understand. They were a unit that bonded as the story progressed, and as a result the player bonded with them too. We’ll never get another GoW and it’s kind of heartbreaking to see what the franchise has become. I could just be jaded by nostalgia but GoW was the first game I had seen on the 360, the day it released - my friend showed me and he had reached the tomb with the first berserker encounter. I was only 13 but I was stunned and immediately engrossed. The atmosphere, the polish, the design, all of it was gold standard innovation. What we have now is a dead horse being snub executed with a 10 year old mashing the B button.
I haven’t played ultimate edition but the comparisons you put in the video looks like they turned the brightness up to maximum. Which the best part of the gears games was the small amounts of horror aspects you got in it. And turning up the brightness to 150 does not add to that affect.
This was way too critical of Gears. I'm kinda sick of people saying this. While Gears Remaster wasn't the best it could be, it's story and execution was awesome.
Remakes and remasters always seem to lose the charm of the original in some way or another. Halo: CE Anniversary loses the atmosphere of the flood levels, Dark Souls Remastered has terrible, flat lighting, Gears of War UE has the issues you listed, the Demon’s Souls “Remake” changes so many things it barely preserves the original intentions in character designs and worldbuilding while doing almost nothing to improve the gameplay, the Dead Space Remake’s necromorphs look like clayface and not fleshy or like corpses and the plasmacutter’s sound design got heavily neutered. I love all of these remasters/remakes, too, because at least the franchises are getting attention, but they usually miss out on the little things that made the originals so special
Finally somebody called out Gears of War DX: Director's Cu-- I mean Gears of War: Ultimate Edition! Lots of Gears of Wars 1 characteristics, atmosphere, emotion and style lost to a cashgrabby remaster/remake no one wants to call out on. It's like watching a Star Wars Special Edition cut. At least The Coalition didn't unleash their inner-George Lucas and try to get rid of the original version's existence and made it backwards compatible instead. A big middle finger that the Ultimate Edition gets a 4K boost, but not the original despite that being and the other 360 entries being compatible. FPS Boost on Series X, though. Still, even with it's multiplayer improvements and additional levels (Which felt forced in adding nothing to the game except padding/filler) just play the original version, Gears of War newcomers! Ultimate Edition not even worth touching even with a 10ft. stick. Only worth trying if you have Game Pass, but even then it makes you want to play the original instead. Honestly saddens me this trend continues with remasters and remakes going against the original vision. Sonic Colors Ultimate, GTA Definitive Edition, even Crash N. Sane, Pac-Man World Re-Pac, CTR NF and Spyro Reignited are guilty of that despite being quality remakes. I hope this trends ends now and we will get not only remasters and remakes that not only improve the mechanics, visuals and everything else to make them playable/enjoyable by modern standards, but preserve what made the originals so special art direction and artist's original vision-wise.
It's more of a reimagination in my opinion, since a a remaster would've just been a console port with upgraded textures and second mastering off the original audio. The source code is also same as PC, but with newly written custom code and ton of backporting from Gears 3 and maybe early UE4.
I liked Ultimate edition for the updated visuals but the colourful palette was just off putting, Gears 1 wasn’t colourful because it wasn’t supposed to be. If they wanted colour they could have made another Halo game.
Just for fact correction the team symmetric-style map multiplayer tdm gameplay was started around mid 2006. As this was when the filming for "Race To E3" and showcase for an unreleased map called "MP_WaterFront." (Was private show casing and leftover content files as for how I know the map name.) MP likely was finalized around the 2 weeks before released, but actual development dates months back. The Brumak chapter from what I remember was added back in, because it was a scrapped enemy and vehicle type (like how you could ride it in Gears 2.) So it made sense as to utilize the time bit of extra power PCs had, promotional reasons, and to fill in the lack of content that Act V had. (Plus think too they couldn't do it back then with 360 as how terrible update support was) ua-cam.com/video/rKkt20zEUAo/v-deo.html
@@thenegativoneify I enjoyed my playthrough of the game. I thought it looked cooler, but I never made connections like I've seen in here, which I do agree with. But I really think that everyone just wants to have fun in Gears again.
I thought it was fine I did remember liking the orginal cinematics better though, but it had been so long since I played the first one I couldn't clearly remember them
The sound design is something I really don't like in the remaster. I love the Lancer's firing sound in 2 and 3 more than in the very first but in the remaster the Lancer sounds like this weird firecracker and it just makes me wish they'd just stick with the original weapon sound effects.
@@XXAnthonyCarmineXx it didnt they revamped the sounds or perhaps added new ones on top of the original sounds, which makes it sound bloated and mechanical
I’m gonna play devil’s advocate and say that I liked how polished UE was. I don’t think it took away from the dark atmosphere, though I understand why some people might feel otherwise. It’s okay to update classics into modern times, like they did with Spyro, Crash Bandicoot , and Ratchet & Clank. When I first played UE it felt like I was playing a new Gears game, but with the OG Delta we’ve all come to love
@@in4mus85 To be fair, I feel GoW 2 had that horror element, like trekking through New Hope for example. That was a pretty dark level (both literally and metaphorically)
4:21 If they never would have put multiplayer in the series and there was people who said "I wish this game had multiplayer" There would be thousands of people defending the lack of multiplayer saying stuff like "Not every game needs multiplayer! It would have taken away from the story, it would probably have been bad anyway and would not be able to compete with the competition" and so on. There are so many games over the years that didn't have multiplayer which I would have loved to see multiplayer for and we will never know if they would have been successful or not. I'm so glad they decided to add it, it was very successful too back then.
I downloaded this game with pc game pass, I'm not a Gears of war fan, but i wanted to revive the gameplay i had with my friends before in gears of war 2, but when i started playing this game in mid-hard difficulty i stopped playing cause 2 things, Bugs (Glitching chainsaw animations) THE STUPID AI, MY GOD THEY WILL JUST RUSH TO THE ENEMY AND GET DOWN IN 2 SEC, AND THE MATE THAT IS NEXT TO HIM WON'T REVIVE HIM, AND THE ONE THAT IS DOWN WILL CRAWL EVEN MORE TO THE ENEMY. I CAN'T EVEN HELP THEM CAUSE THEY ARE IN NO COVER ZONE AND THE TURRET WILL ALWAYS GET ME.
I'm currently playing through the entire franchise for the first time (on Gears 3 right now) and this video just convinced me to play the original Gears 1 after completing the fifth.
one thing that greatly bothered me is that the remade textures are *too* good and *too* clean. in the original, textures were dirty, high contrast but simultaneously dull. characters look ugly on purpose. marcus, dom, cole and baird look dirty, sweaty and gross. they give the appearance that they're soldiers that haven't had a shower in weeks. they looked bleak and exhausted. in the remake ... they're all clean shaven with well-hydrated skin, clean teeth and clean hair. ironically them looking so "clean" made them look "ugly" in a bad way. even the locust look like they got their hands on some skin moisturizer.
I remember 2006 being 13 years old and playing GoW1 for the first time. Mom took me to Best Buy to buy it. I was addicted. I even played competitively online
I agree I thought it was great, I think these guys are just unappreciative of what we got. I think extra scenes and levels are a bonus to fill in holes from the original.
@@ssgelijah117 i just came across this channel today and i gotta say this guy seems like he nit picks at things just to complain instead of having more valid points. It was a good remake
I’m playin all of the gears again for the first time in a while and was deciding if I wanted to play ultimate cuz I’ve never played it before or if I just wanna play the OG ima play the OG thank you bro
I think personally Ultimate Edition is a solid 7/10 remaster. It's fine if you want a more modern experience or something closer to what a flashback would look like, funnily enough. I think the crisp lighting compared to the originals dark, moody tone sets a different kind of isolation. The original has an oppressive atmosphere, but the remaster reminds me of a cold overcast day. Even the title screen reflects that. I've always had this notion that a lot of the time, when back things happen, the world goes on, which is why horrible things happen on beautiful days. In the same way, I think the remaster unintentionally captures this idea. The best example I can point to is at 3:16 when the lighting is bright, but not... optimistic? It's partly sunny, and while you're focused on fighting the Locust, there is still an entire world out there that is just devastated. Also, in the entire game's defense, though you didn't really bring it up - the game takes place in a fallen city. The Locust have no need to pillage human settlements, they can just make it underground, so it kind of makes sense for plants and such to be untended but not overgrown. There's not much for the plants to soak up or a reason for them to be wild. The original and the remaster both have this as a sort of background thought.
This is why i still have my 360. The dark horror tone of the original was the best thing for me , i remember being in high school and watching the mad world trailer on tv , it sent chills down my spine that I'll remember forever. ❤
part of it may have something to do with dom's original VA not wanting to do any more work with the gears franchise. Notice in gears 5, they almost never mention dom; kait specifically says "it was marcus, baird, cole, and THOSE GUYS" that took out the giant riftworm. so maybe theyre trying to figure out how to remaster 2 and 3 to include dom's lines without having to worry about royalty payments or whatever. aka a bunch of red tape bs, but it exists nonetheless
The original Gears games from the Xbox 360 are just the best in the series. No offense to fans of 4 and 5, but they suck when it comes to story, plots, and characters. 4 plays it WAAAAY too safe, and feel like it was made for a much younger audience. 5 is better, but the open-world part of the game just doesn't fit and the main cast is still dry and boring. MS really needs to pull themselves together on Gears 6 and hopefully, it will also be the last we have to see from this trilogy's cast dry nuts.
All I want is the original trilogy on pc. what's the point in releasing gears 1, 4 and 5 for pc and then missing out on 2, 3 and judgement. Where they went wrong is only releasing the first game on pc then calling it ultimate edition when it should have released all the games in one pack like Halo mcc
Emilio HQ I concur, the truth is Microsoft didn't have a plan for Gears of War when they bought it. Just make more and milk it dry. Which is why the new ones (the sequels, including "Tactics") are really inconsistent, dumb, and often unplayable. Just throwing stuff at a wall to see what sticks, instead of actually listening to their fan base.
@@OMAHA16 Your definitely right about that, at the moment we have to stick to playing all of them on an emulator which is not the most reliable but it works, I'm disappointed in Microsoft as they are the ones preaching game preservation and what not, then when its time to walk that walk, they start buckling over their own feet and look like amateurs.
I like the ultimate edition and all, but can’t help but feel like I’m seeing Disney characters take over the game while playing it :/ like they dead fuckin ass look like Disney characters vs the old ones
Idk, my cousin and I grew up with Gears. My cousin loved the remaster so much he had me buy it so we could play together again. Honestly I loved it, sure it's not as dark but honestly I enjoy being able to see everything better. The mood and atmosphere honestly doesnt feel that different, more like it's been pulled back to not be as forcefully edgy of what we already know. And I enjoy the cutscenes, altho I didnt notice Carmine was basically cut from them. Given he was my fav growing up I will admit I dont like his removal. However I do like how the characters look young altho I do wish they were dirtier like in the original. Regardless I felt the remaster was basically perfect because nothing was really taken away overall that isnt already felt Carmine aside.
Yeah, people who cry about a remake being ruined because there aren’t as many shadows used to hide low poly textures are morons. The game looks modern now, they want to actually show off the fidelity instead of using techniques from the early 2000s used to hide bad graphics. Bad arguments will be bad arguments.
Something I did like about the Ultimate Edition was Kim's death. Not only is he shown being a badass Gear who's survived not only the Pendulum War but also has 14 years as a soldier in the Locust war under his name. I also liked how in this one he puts up a fight against RAAM since the two have history to which Kim would recognize that RAAM is sneaking up on him like when he killed Valera. It also made sense that while Kim did put up a fight only being able to use his chainsaw since RAAM was too close for him to reload the lancer RAAM quickly dispatched of him since the only reason RAAM lost to Kim the first time was because he was getting jumped by a full squadron of gears instead of it being a one on one. This shows respect to both hardened warriors while continuing to make RAAM look bad ass even more so in the remaster since him being able to manhandle Kim by disarming him of his lancer by holding the chainsaw directly in his hand then kicking him away before going in for the death blow is more bad ass than when he just snuck up on him a decked Kim on the head before killing him.
I like the Gears of War series and I was in basic training when it was coming out and served in the military until 2012 so a lot of these Dumber moments have it's real life comparisons.
The attention to detail has been really dumbed down in the remake, take Nightfall: Lethal Dusk for Example where you saw thousands of Kryll flying around in a streamline manner while the remake only shows dozens mindlessly flying around and of course there's Belly of the Beast: Downpour where the thunder and lightning were crashing while a torrential downpour was occurring that added the horror and tension, and then there's the dead bodies where there are these generic red sweatshirt models with half of their face missing that looked like they were killed five minutes prior while the originals where half rotted skeletons, and the camera work is WAY too static and the ending is too fast paced.
another point of contention with this game despite i would much rather be playing it rn MP wise; is the fact they literally told use. (TC) that this remake was only made so they can learn how to develop gears of war. Which you already pointed out the problems in the campaign... but this was also for MP.. however gears 4, 5 are such VASTLY different games. the mp experience really didnt matter nor benefit the company.. hell even 4 mp is not benefiting... cause the mess that is 5. every single time, they tell you we nerfed the lancer and maybe a slight buff, but the gnasher gets "fixed" every update.. The gnasher doesnt stop getting changed despite the gun has been fine several times.. The new games and weapon additions are a mess. they did not study why gears 1 worked... they just copy and pasted it learning nothing from the remake. We have area of denial grenades (ink which was replaced for shocks later on in the series) grenades that instantly kill you even if they land beside you and still also have an area of denial (flames) grenades that detonate several seconds after impact... torque bow can stick a person, can kill someone even if they torque does not stick, but no additional zoom and smaller ammo count. kill execution downs from afar. also chance to kill more than 1 enemy we had snipe which has a full zoom, more shots, and does massive damage to the body encouraging team play. also can kil execution downs (1 shot downs suck. stfu) then they add the embar... can kill numerous enemies in 1 shot. gets 3 shots in a clip. lots of ammo. if it was active it also stopped players from being able to shoot as it stunned them temporary..can kill execution down and the guy trying to pick him up plus as many people in the way of its shot. (Snipe HAD COLLATERAL at one point-Gears J) we get it tc.. your weapons are better than both weapons that competed for attention. if all three of these were on a map, id push this first always. in original gears, lets say t bow and snipe are on the map.. its a lot more of a toss up which i want to get... i mention the grenades and such cause im pretty sure flame nades got implemented in G3. Epic was not always perfect though.. they did also make the same mistakes as tc in some ways.. but the difference is, TC just constantly lies to us. learning how to develop gears... no they didnt... they literally learned nothing.. thats why gears 4 story is freaking terrible.. thats why 5 is even worse... plus every time the games are in water... rod fergusson leaves... after pushing his politics into the game to look good on twitter... im glad he is gone but every time he dips when things dont go how HE wants them..
Honestly think it had to deal more with terms of the art style and how characters/environments were made. As if you look at some of TC's late 2014 to 2015 concepts for the Swarm they originally designed them to be more of as aquatic-alien like, rather than combination of humanoid-reptilians like the Locust. While many of environments are futuristic, the COG had more of industrial and Roman architecture from Gears 1 to 3. Plus final opinion was that it gave the engine more room as for how to break boundaries of Unreal, so you can submit requests to the engine team for additions like how Epic done their work. As for the multiplayer I think they based it off more towards the type of gameplay Gears 3 and Judgment had. As basically before Gears 4 started work TC ended up porting and rewriting ton of the old Gears 3 assets and code over to the more updated UE4 counterparts (for instance unreal script was ancient by then, so everything had to be rewritten over to C++.) After once the build was more stable then development for Gears 4 could be viewed inside of Gears 3's artstyle and assets, which later would be basically finalized in how they had in vision for Gears 4 and 5. By final means too they didn't copy and paste much of Gears 1's work. It was built on top of the 2007 port with much of netcode and other features being backported from Gears 3's engine build. Along with some physical code either written by them, or taken directly from UE4. This reason though is pretty much why ton of the lighting, physical assets, etc all look very much different for even a UE3 game made from around the same time.
Kinda disagree with you on this one my man but nonetheless I respect your insight. I’d like to see this bundled with Gears 2 (maybe remastered too) and 3 with pc support and crossplay/cross progression.
Yeah well because it seems clear TC doesn’t understand why we liked the original trilogy which was gritty bloody and sometimes actually emotional. 4 and 5 act more like they are trying too hard to be marvel with their humor and toned down the gore and characters way too much just for younger audiences which doesn’t really work with a game like gears of war. Another thing the new games totally ditched was the horror elements which help the enemys feel threatening and scary.
Am I the only one who actually loved ultimate edition? It’s still amazing to see my child hood game remastered with great graphics I enjoyed it
Exactly
I enjoyed it
No. You’re not. Just idiots crying about literally anything to garner views. It’s a perfect remake.
It is a great remaster in concept, but it sucks that it had dogshit support after launch.. no Xbox One X update or X/S optimization, not even a fix for that intermittent blur/sharpening effect on a 4K display. PC optimization is still broken!
The remaster is great ill give it that(the campaign), but it fucking bugs me that they ruined the atmosphere by turning the brightness up to 95 and removing the costant eerie feeling the original had, tiny details like that make me preffer the original above the rest, was also harder on insane RAAM is a beast
What annoys me the most about Ultimate Edition is the change of camera work during cutscenes. In the original, it has some kind of "found footage" vibe, with the camera shaking and not focusing on particular characters. It really gave a feeling of unease. In UE the camera feels too action movie, you lose most of the horror aspect.
This is why I don't like remasters - they change things unnecessarily. And it's not whether one prefers the change or not, any change (of something highly successful) shouldn't be supported. The OG Gears was highly popular for what it was, flaws and all. So just leave popular things alone. It's like thinking you can improve on the Mona Lisa - maybe you can, but then it's not the Mona Lisa anymore.
@@hrthrhs that's why i still think Halo:CEA is the best remaster i have played myself since it lets you swap between the updated graphics and the classic ones even mid game while also leaving the cutscenes unchanged in both the original and anniversary graphics. Halo 2:A seems to have switched to pre-rendered ones for the anniversary graphics, but aside from that i'm pretty sure it has done the same thing as CEA (haven't played through OG Halo 2 or 2 Anniversary but i assume its the case)
Something that I like from Ultimate edition was the fact that instead of Marcus being angered at Kim’s death he’s instead shocked along with that cutscene RAAM completely towers over everyone which works really well
Same, I always hated how Marcus just sits there and watches as RAAM approaches and kills Kim in the original. That being said, I also hate that They changed RAAM staring into Kim's lifeless eyes before he tossed his corpse down and walked away like a badass.
For me it doesn't suit his character. Marcus is a strong intimidating man that never seemed intimidated by anything, he looked death in the face and just went with it without complaining once. When he looked shocked it seemed like he turned into a millenial sjw beta male for a few seconds. In the original he looked angry and frustrated when he saw Raam killing Kim.
@@wutaguy nah honestly the way raam throws kim off his big ass knife and tjen stares at marcus as if to say "your next" is better than him just walking off. its infinitely better.
@@loveisthemostpowerfulforce1397 well it does suit his character. as he looks suprised/upset when tai also kills himself on the prisoner ship because he wasnt expecting tai to dk that as tai is also someone who stared death in the face at the hands of skorge.
@@godzvnm No, even when Tai killed himself Marcus looked upset but still stoic, he didn't break down crying or anything like that, as I said, stoic. In Ulimate version his facial expressions look like a helpless child's. That's my perspective.
You can see a major change of tone just by looking at the menus they make for this new games, its either a close up on a Character's Model or a Map. For Gears 1, one of the most chilling moments was loading the game, hearing that haunting soundtrack and seeing that red omen flashing. In Gears UE, you got the same music, but it doesnt fit anymore because of the bright maps as backgrounds.
The graphics for Gears UE are good and the additional chapters are a welcome surprise (I agree they dont add much to the story tho), but everything is too bright and polished. I felt the same thing about the Queen reveal at the end, it was not a good choice and I believe the true intention of that cutscene was to show the Hydra not the one riding it, by showing Myraah they changed the focus.
This is coming from someone who has never played the original so I won't have any nostalgia bias. Personally, I think I can look past that, I love how the characters seem to have way more "emotion" in their facial animations when compared to original, but I I do see what you mean, a lot of the gritty and sort of colorless color scheme is pretty much gone but since I never played the original I guess it never really impacted me that much.
@@catfacesarecool5948 and I can agree with you on that. I can clearly picture a moment of Bairds face in UE. That shows off Baird very well. However, I will complain about the faces looking a bit awkward.
@@catfacesarecool5948 we can agree with that, the thing is the direction of some cinematics doesn't fit with some expressions and some situations. For example, Marcus's expressions during Kim's death cinematic are top notch, put the direction with the berserker introduction just makes the scene feel weird compared to the original.
Dude I'm right there with you regarding loading up the game. I remember grabbing a snack late night and came back to my room filled with dark red lighting and chilling ass music. Love it.
From what I know of Epic had always used maps to render their main menus even in Gears 1 days. It was mainly just clever use of materials and mesh/model placements, along with using the map as cinematic piece as to why it looked convincing for a 2D animation artwork.
Wish the gears remaster was ported properly to pc and didn't run like shit... They really just need to do a gears trilogy for pc and leave gears alone forever
Yea, or let people who are passionate run the franchise, and just maybe, MAYBE even make a other,better story line where we follow new, memorable characters that we can care about. We even cared about the lesser, minor characters like Minh. [When I say minor, I don't mean how he impacts the story because Minh did have weight.]
Yea true, although I still think they should do a pendulum wars game or a spin-off Carmine game since it wouldn’t stray to far away from the original and also could have a lot of change too if they play there cards right they could get some fans back.
@@benjamincarmine8966 Yea, Going back to the Pendulum War wouldnt sound too bad. But I dont think Coalition cares about Gears OF WAR anymore.
@@parkerp1ayz ikr…
Playing Gears 3's RAAM's Shadow with new graphics would be amazing. :)
Yeah, I liked how the old gears were dark. It matched the over all story which was dark and scary. The new games miss that
It’s an inherent problem with hero driven stories. You put Marcus through so much bs that he comes out on top, what could possibly stop him? Forces them to derive from the story they originally meant to keep in tact
For me, I think Ultimate Edition has the better and more accessible multiplayer, but the original version has the better campaign.
I love UE multiplayer. Super lit
How, UE's campaign is literally the original plus more
@@wattsnottaken1I can NEVER find games
@@steelbear2063It's Already Been Explained In Detail.
Summary:
Atmosphere Is Sh*t, Characters Are Ruined, Filler Chapters.
I disagree. Gears Ultimate Edition is actually the only REAL good Gears Game the Coalition Developed even though the Art Stile Took a Bit of a hit. The MP was greatly improved with Element from Gears of War 3(tagging enemies) and a Team Deathmatch Mode and for the First time as a Console Player you could experience the additional only and REAL Brumak Fight on Foot of the Gears of War PC Version for the first Time! But The Original was more gritty and cutscenes Like Raam VS Kim are really better in the Original.
I’ve been saying this for years if the multiplayer was alive I’d play it over gears 4 and 5
@@marquisondeck Me too
Amen
I don't think so. I think the best game coalition has developed was gars pop. And they took it away
@@maximomox1807 Never Played that
We need a gears collection. Like mcc
Agreed 👍
I'm so down for that.
I agree but keep the games as their original versions or have an option to switch between versions like in mcc.
@@xgrillsenx
To be fair, the original games are backwards compatible.
@@Trenex1000 That's true but it would be nice to also have the games ported to pc
I had the ultimate edition it didn't grip me so I sold it. I bought gears of war I only completed it last month 10 out of 10. The original just has a different feel.
Yeah the original does have it's own feel that's just unique to itself and unfortunately that special feel will very likely never be felt again in another gears game because it's just something exclusive to the original
yes, the truth. THEY ARE NOT THE SAME GAME!!!!
A worse feel
@@RT-bt5ql wrong
Yea that direction was good af
Agreed. It isn't very much improved on, and I miss the grittier/horror-esque atmosphere of the original
No problem, it’s all still there.
@@codyjackson1875 the undeground section of the campaign is literally darker with the new lighting changes. Really great on Auto HDR!
graphics are good, but the artistic direction is wrong for the tone of the game.
too clean for a world that is suposed to be really fucked up.
GORE WAS TONED DOWN FOR SURE and the characters looked plastic to me in the remaster
The brumak chapter was for me very important: full of action, difficult, and most importantly, a logical connection between the assault on Fenix manor and Timgad station. It was not just a useless filler. I played GoW for the first time on pc, and it was an unforgettable experience. Anyway, I strongly agree with the statement that the characters in Ultimate Edition have lost their rough callousness. Now they look more like shoppers facing the sales week end.
Agreed it’s my favorite chapter
I think the point was there was just too much going on in the chapter.
Only thing I can agree on is that they did change the atmosphere from being dark and gritty to colorful and happy. Other than that, this was a great remaster.
They changed character expressions, the dialogue and the facial expressions and scenes in general didn't match as good as the original.
@@loveisthemostpowerfulforce1397 That’s because it was 2006 and they didn’t have the technology for advanced facial expression.
@@codyjackson1875
The only reason.
@@codyjackson1875 Nah dude, there's so many emotions conveyed much better in the original.
It went all Disney ................
I actually thought the changes were simply graphical because I had played each far apart. Thank you for pointing out the issues.
You do realize the brumak part was in the original PC launch of gears 1 right ? So were the additions in the last chapter. They were actually removed from the xbox version but was intended to be in it.
If I'm not mistaken I'm pretty sure the queen was ment to be revealed at the end of the original too but they hadn't reached a point of satisfaction with her character model or concept art so they put a reskined version of raam on a special version of a reaver that was intended to be the queen's instead and later decided to make that version Skorge's mount instead
Totally agree about the direction of the ultimate edition cutscenes. They really ruined the tone and feel.
I have to respectfully disagree with Omaha with some of the cutscenes.
I thought the remake was interesting by allowing Cole to act as the on the spot mediator between Baird to Dom and Marcus. Such as the way that Cole would position himself between Dom and Baird after the first Berserker.
I have more to add. But I have a flight in 20 mins. I'll see you soon.
I still love your content Omaha!!!
Yeah it was “interesting” but also pointless, I feel they messed around with the narrative just because they knew they could. Also the constant camera cuts added were beyond distracting
I've played the original a million times and when I played the ultimate edition it felt literally the same to me but It looks way better.
That's because it is minus a few key ingredients which he clearly explained if you actually whatched the video lol
It’s because ur probably on your phone for every cutscene
IT WAS A REMASTER, NOT A REMAKE, HOW DID YOU NOT GET THAT?
Really though. A lot of people fail to realize the difference between the two.
Calm down because it's more of a remake than a remaster.
@@ferntin4479 No it isn't.
@@thecircleoft.e.d2121 yes it is
@@bosyogurtlight It fucking isn't.
Wait people actually didnt like this remake
What? This shit was fucking awesome
i like the UE
My cousin and I relived our childhood playing through UE
I liked the remaster quite a bit. I personally thought it was very faithful and the definitive version that should be played. If anything, we should have Ultimate Editions for the second and third games (and maybe even Gears of War: Judgment as well).
@@Trenex1000 hell yeah brother some people just isn't satisfied with anything.
@@antoniobrown247
This video did bring up some decent points, but I feel he was too harsh on the remaster. The remaster gets many things right, and it reminds us gamers that games used to be really good back then; they were just limited by the technology of their time.
If anything, XBOX Game Studios and the Coalition should be giving us faithful video game adaptions to the Gears of War novels. They could have the events told in those books in chronological order using the modern iteration of the Unreal Engine in one collection. This can help keep the Coalition busy while satiating the Gears of War fanbase for more story content. It wouldn't surprise me if these adaptions or a collection of adaptions sold like hotcakes if marketed properly.
I thought the remake overall was amazing. Gears of War 1 is one of my favorite games of all time and I felt like Coalition did a phenomenal job remaking the game especially in the performance side of things. Personally I’m not going to discredit the entire remake because of its slightly different art style and cutscenes.
I rather like the art style of the cog soldier, the most,
And I was praying they stocked with it in futures titles,
Sadly
They didn’t and I hated the newer ones over and over.
It's been years since I've played the original. I'm kind of excited to see what points this video makes.
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This might be the most pointless youtube comment I've ever seen.
@@narukami597 followed by the most useless reply?
Biggest impression I got was weaker cutscenes, and being able to see things I couldn't in the original. I do think the darker original set a better atmosphere.
Shame you didn't show the rainy level or the krill at night section, when you compare those two parts specially it's very clear how much better the OG version looks than the remake
For a supposed fan you get a lot of stuff wrong in these videos. Microsoft didn’t create the Coalition let alone didn’t create it with the sole purpose of creating Gears. They tapped Black Tusk Studios (an already existing dev) to make the game since they were so impressed with their tech demo and game concept they were working on since their inception. Microsoft put that project on hold the moment they got the Gears IP. Microsoft sought out Rod Furgeson to shepherd the series. It was ROD’s decision to turn Black Tusk into The Coalition, it was Rod’s decision to make Black Tusk the 343 of Gears. It was ROD’s decision to do Ultimate and I quote “show me you guys know how to make Gears first.” He wanted Ultimate to be the way it turned out. He wanted the series to be stagnant in 4 because he didn’t let them deviate from the formula like they did with 5. As bad as the story and Kait is in 5 the gameplay is probably the most interesting in the series. They managed to evolve it past just chest high walls unlike 4. Rod was also the one that pushed for Kait to be the main character. He’s also the one who would says stuff like “first female gears character”…. Even tho he worked on 1 and Anya existed. Not to mention Sam or Sophia in 3 or Judgment. And you can tell by his interviews and the way he treated and responded to the fan base over RIGHTFUL criticism of Kait. Go figure Rod sucks all live, soul, and creativity out of Gears, shits on the legacy of the previous trilogy with all this revisionist bullshit…….. then he leaves after Gears 5 launches. Rod was always the problem with Gears and especially the new Gears. There may be hope yet for 6 but I know for a fact a lot of Coalition devs were bummed that Rod came in, cancelled their dream project and chined them to Gears. I know there’s some bitterness and resentful ness behind the scenes
From what I remember it was Rod's idea for G1 at the time, which a second player could pick gender-based characters. Wasn't just fully implemented to have player-character based lineup scripting like in G3-5, along with possible storyline damage when Microsoft contracted Epic for more titles. (So lot of what he had asked for years did exist, but just needed team of people and technical limitations to voice opinions)
Problem think with Gears UE in general was with them reworking lot of assets and heavily changing post processing, lighting, and rendering in general. Lot of split fans were probably hoping of a soft-remaster, which had very few changes for cheap price tag. Xbox One compiled and 1080P/60 FPS gameplay, textures increased to their original 4096x4096 image scale (anything lower remastered, or retrieved from Epic's archives), and lastly bug fixes and content from PC port. (Mainly fixing issues on side related to particles and materials, can be seen on maps like Rooftops, main menu and gun reload animations. Along side with improved server-side networking usage to prevent issues on host advantage.)
Gears 4 from what I remember was being worked on by Epic before the franchise acquisition, based on an in-house G3 rewrite to early version of UE4 (lot of G3 assets can still be found in retail as temporary placements.) As likely was that and UE were likely part of the reason too why that game was stagnant, besides all the technical changes.
That's why
Artistic vision >>>>> technology
The berserker's introductory cutscene is proof of that.
The gory and visceral details of mutilated locust bodies being removed on the remastered was a let down. I enjoyed seeing their guts and bones. It's a cool detail.
Bro I had the same opinion on the Berserker encounter! The original cutscene was meant to be intense and scary and the way Delta reacts to it was realistic and appropriate. But in the ultimate edition they just act like they aren’t scared at all and the way the Berserker killed that cog soldier was not really scary to me because it looked like a little kid taking playdoe apart.
So a gorilla smacking the ground looks scary to you? Thats all I thought of when I saw that cutscene in the original.
@@superpug3514well what’s more scary about that scene was the visuals. Not revealing what it looked like too much thanks to its flashes and when it was beating the guy to death what made it work is that there was more blood in it and you actually hear him screaming in serious pain. And not to mention delta squad was actually afraid and took that situation seriously instead of acting like it was just another day in the office.
@@johnfuller1303 Its a beserker theres not gonna be much time to scream because if it gets a hold of you, you'll be dead in like .3 seconds
@@superpug3514 dude when you are being beaten to death from feet to head of course someone is gonna start screaming in pain. In Ultimate edition he’s being torn apart and it’s just as slow but he’s not reacting like that it just sounds more like he’s falling a cliff and that just ruins the terror in the scene.
@@johnfuller1303 Go watch the scene again biased hater, as I said there wouldn't be much time to scream, he was dead instantly.
I would've taken a 60fps, all dlc "Fenix Collection" no remastered, just opt'd for xbox one, gow1-3 and with judgement on the side like Halo did with its ODST--anyway, the
GoW UE was cool/great. Not amazing or redefining. I personally thought my idea of would ve have done better and kept the community together and alive. Instead of divided. But yeah the UE did eat the horror/Resident Evil-y feel and replaced with Halo (4, 5)lighting and plastic lookin textures cause they're flat, clean and lit up /look like Minecraft's Plastic texture pack fo' realio. But yeah, I still don't regret my tat of the crimson omen. Badass franchise, with great characters and refreshing elements god...
those gibs were so juicy in
1, 2 and 3. 🖤
i never realized they changed this much of the OG game. i thought it was just an update for the graphics. so sad.
I really hate it when games get remastered with a different art style than the original with basically no new content added.
It's funny how you criticise the acting/direction in the remake but in the same breath acknowledge that it's all the same voice lines from the original.
I don't think any of the dialog was actually re-recorded. Just remastered.
However, I won't disagree that UE feels like the inferior version.
A lot of the animation looks very cartoon like. Just watch the scene where Marcus and Dom are running out of the prison towards the helicopter.
I also feel like the PC chapters don't add anything meaningful, and as mentioned here, only slow down the progress of the overall story. One of my biggest gripes about UE is that you can't choose whether to play the campaign with or without those extra chapters.
am I the only one that prefers minhs death in the original? it was way more noteworthy and iconic than in UE
I don’t know man, i like the UE one better as it really hits you know you can’t get the same feeling with the lighting the UE had compared to what the OG had, with the flames bouncing of the blood on minhs face, crazy man.
@@benjamincarmine8966 both are iconic in their own way! I could honestly believe that if I'd seen the UE version before the OG then my opinion very well could be different, my opinion could be based off of nostalgia, I'm not exactly sure. but I know that in the OG's version it really set the tone to me, and showed me just how ruthless the locust were, and even Raam himself. one of my favorite scenes in gaming though, can't give the original team at epic, and TC enough credit for how they portrayed it!
@@Gloomskifuck yeah! The og was still a fucking masterpiece!
I’ve only ever played the ultimate edition and thought it was great, I still felt that the horror and gritty, realistic feel that people talk about is there. Am I rlly missing so much by not playing the OG gears 1?
No, Gears Ultimate Edition is great, do Not believe other Things.
*BUT* If you are really into Horror, then the OG Gears of War is really to prefer.
I agree, i enjoyed ultimate edition too. UA-camrs are very nit picky with their games but each to their own
I've only played the ultimate edition too. I enjoyed it a lot, really amazing.
How can you still feel it if you never felt it in the first place playing the original? 🤔
I played the og but i personally find the cinematics better in the ultimate, especially when raam is first shown
Gears 1 had such a distinct and menacing vibe. The remastered failed to capture it. The only thing Ultimate Edition really improved on was the gameplay. Because the original was too clunky for today's standards.
That explains a lot why I felt something was wrong, but I couldn't get what was it
If theyre gonna make or attempt a good gears of war game like the first 3 they need to remember why they were so unique any further horror aspects of game could be covered for sure like the years of locust and lambent wars with Raam and Scorge leading the drones to victory
One of the first things I noticed mihns death and how the new scene had less of an impact. The original scene was badass. The new one seemed watered down. With the old one you could tell that he was blinded by everything going on and was wrapped up in battle and didn't see the big guy coming after him.
Just beginning the video, but i have this theory that TC deliberately botched the remake just to have something to point at when asked for remakes or even just a port to pc for 2 and 3, because The Coalition just doesnt care about gears.
Gears 6 May be the end
@@Nolongerhereanymore i just want gears 2 and 3 on steam so i can die fullfilled
I dont even care about 6 anymore, i just want to hop off TCs trainwreck and play the campaign of the good games with my dad once more
Sounds good
Wtf are you babbling about
Maybe I'm imagining things, but one thing I noticed about UE and really disliked was how "bouncy" and exaggerated the animation looked in cutscenes.
I was definitely glad to see the tomb scene mentioned. Didn't like what TC did there at all.
I thought TC did good by Versus, but man did they butcher the shit out of the campaign.
I’m getting so tired of these remasters that update the graphics but completely ruin the art direction.
What they did to these new GTA games, especially 3, is just disgusting. Liberty city was gloomy and grimey, now it’s super bright.
Also, in terms of just new games like back 4 blood, it’s insane how much better left 4 dead 2 looks from an art style, despite coming out 12 years ago. B4B just looks like call of duty game. I feel like good art direction is just lost in so many games now
0:55 Did all that subterranean ninja warrior ass shit right there just to get his tummy filled with shells 😂
Did anyone notice in the remastered version in all of the cut scenes all of the characters spoke faster? Like they had shorter breaks in between sentences and they would speak more quickly
For sure, same lines, but the pacing changed.
Ultimate Edition has it's issues but it's easily the best traditional Gears experience on modern hardware. Hell for other series I love like Killzone I'd die to have something like U.E. for that so atleast there is a modern version of it people can enjoy.
I agree with a lot of the criticisms made here, but I fundamentally disagree with the take on the bonus chapters in the final act. They were developed by Epic and were already part of the original PC version, so it's no fault of the Coalition. Granted, their inclusion feels tacked on from the base game. But it's also arguable that the transition from Act IV to V was jarring. Up until that point, your role had been to gather information on the Locust tunnels, then suddenly you're whisked off to catch a train and deploy the bomb.
I haven’t played the OG Gears in well over a decade, but there are beats and quotes that I still regurgitate to this day.
Cole and Baird split off in to the sewers, Marcus and Dom regrouping with them through a grate in the floor - Dom can “smell them from a mile away” Baird gets pissed, Marcus argues, Dom and Cole mock their argument.
“Ain’t that cute?”
“Like two assholes on their first date.”
The introduction of the Theron Guard:
“uhh..what was that noise?”
“just the wind”
“Yeah right, when was the last time the wind said ‘hostiles!’ to you!?”
“I hope I got the right path here”
“HEY! I hope we BOTH do”
“Lookit all that juice!”
“How much you think all this is worth?”
“I don’t think I can count that high…”
There are so many memorable moments, particularly Act 2 + 3 with the Kryll and factory respectively. The introduction to lambent wretches in the rain, seeing them clamber over pipes (where you’re heading, dreading impending ambush) through the storm. The terror and tension of having to use spotlights to stay out of shadows for fear of being chewed up by kryll, all while being under fire from a troika turret and snipers, using propane tanks to create traversable areas…
The game was methodical in its mechanical execution. It rewarded the time spent in cover, planning your next move. It wasn’t just point and shoot, it was about tactical positioning (some times a little obsessively, nearly every firefight had a flanking route to take) and co-operation.
The characters in the original had chemistry, individual personality, that was so easy to digest and understand. They were a unit that bonded as the story progressed, and as a result the player bonded with them too. We’ll never get another GoW and it’s kind of heartbreaking to see what the franchise has become. I could just be jaded by nostalgia but GoW was the first game I had seen on the 360, the day it released - my friend showed me and he had reached the tomb with the first berserker encounter. I was only 13 but I was stunned and immediately engrossed. The atmosphere, the polish, the design, all of it was gold standard innovation.
What we have now is a dead horse being snub executed with a 10 year old mashing the B button.
Cap. You’ve played it since then
I haven’t played ultimate edition but the comparisons you put in the video looks like they turned the brightness up to maximum. Which the best part of the gears games was the small amounts of horror aspects you got in it. And turning up the brightness to 150 does not add to that affect.
This was way too critical of Gears. I'm kinda sick of people saying this. While Gears Remaster wasn't the best it could be, it's story and execution was awesome.
Game is cencored lots of gore removed that is in the original. Just played them back to back
Remakes and remasters always seem to lose the charm of the original in some way or another. Halo: CE Anniversary loses the atmosphere of the flood levels, Dark Souls Remastered has terrible, flat lighting, Gears of War UE has the issues you listed, the Demon’s Souls “Remake” changes so many things it barely preserves the original intentions in character designs and worldbuilding while doing almost nothing to improve the gameplay, the Dead Space Remake’s necromorphs look like clayface and not fleshy or like corpses and the plasmacutter’s sound design got heavily neutered. I love all of these remasters/remakes, too, because at least the franchises are getting attention, but they usually miss out on the little things that made the originals so special
Finally somebody called out Gears of War DX: Director's Cu-- I mean Gears of War: Ultimate Edition! Lots of Gears of Wars 1 characteristics, atmosphere, emotion and style lost to a cashgrabby remaster/remake no one wants to call out on. It's like watching a Star Wars Special Edition cut. At least The Coalition didn't unleash their inner-George Lucas and try to get rid of the original version's existence and made it backwards compatible instead. A big middle finger that the Ultimate Edition gets a 4K boost, but not the original despite that being and the other 360 entries being compatible. FPS Boost on Series X, though. Still, even with it's multiplayer improvements and additional levels (Which felt forced in adding nothing to the game except padding/filler) just play the original version, Gears of War newcomers! Ultimate Edition not even worth touching even with a 10ft. stick. Only worth trying if you have Game Pass, but even then it makes you want to play the original instead. Honestly saddens me this trend continues with remasters and remakes going against the original vision. Sonic Colors Ultimate, GTA Definitive Edition, even Crash N. Sane, Pac-Man World Re-Pac, CTR NF and Spyro Reignited are guilty of that despite being quality remakes. I hope this trends ends now and we will get not only remasters and remakes that not only improve the mechanics, visuals and everything else to make them playable/enjoyable by modern standards, but preserve what made the originals so special art direction and artist's original vision-wise.
Ultimate edition is definitely better than gears 4 and 5 though. Those games suck
This isn’t a remake it is a Remaster
This was never meant to be a remake...it was a remaster of the pc version
It's more of a reimagination in my opinion, since a a remaster would've just been a console port with upgraded textures and second mastering off the original audio. The source code is also same as PC, but with newly written custom code and ton of backporting from Gears 3 and maybe early UE4.
I liked Ultimate edition for the updated visuals but the colourful palette was just off putting, Gears 1 wasn’t colourful because it wasn’t supposed to be. If they wanted colour they could have made another Halo game.
I didn't know how bad I needed gears of war with a laugh track
Just for fact correction the team symmetric-style map multiplayer tdm gameplay was started around mid 2006. As this was when the filming for "Race To E3" and showcase for an unreleased map called "MP_WaterFront." (Was private show casing and leftover content files as for how I know the map name.) MP likely was finalized around the 2 weeks before released, but actual development dates months back.
The Brumak chapter from what I remember was added back in, because it was a scrapped enemy and vehicle type (like how you could ride it in Gears 2.) So it made sense as to utilize the time bit of extra power PCs had, promotional reasons, and to fill in the lack of content that Act V had. (Plus think too they couldn't do it back then with 360 as how terrible update support was)
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I thought it was pretty good i liked it
Thank you..i dont get everyone's hate
@@thenegativoneify I enjoyed my playthrough of the game. I thought it looked cooler, but I never made connections like I've seen in here, which I do agree with. But I really think that everyone just wants to have fun in Gears again.
I thought it was fine I did remember liking the orginal cinematics better though, but it had been so long since I played the first one I couldn't clearly remember them
The sound design is something I really don't like in the remaster. I love the Lancer's firing sound in 2 and 3 more than in the very first but in the remaster the Lancer sounds like this weird firecracker and it just makes me wish they'd just stick with the original weapon sound effects.
Thats how it sounded originally like it was spraying more than shooting
@@XXAnthonyCarmineXx it didnt they revamped the sounds or perhaps added new ones on top of the original sounds, which makes it sound bloated and mechanical
I’m gonna play devil’s advocate and say that I liked how polished UE was. I don’t think it took away from the dark atmosphere, though I understand why some people might feel otherwise. It’s okay to update classics into modern times, like they did with Spyro, Crash Bandicoot , and Ratchet & Clank. When I first played UE it felt like I was playing a new Gears game, but with the OG Delta we’ve all come to love
GOW1 was literally the only game in the series with a dark, bleak horror tone to it. They took away what made it unique.
@@in4mus85 To be fair, I feel GoW 2 had that horror element, like trekking through New Hope for example. That was a pretty dark level (both literally and metaphorically)
4:21 If they never would have put multiplayer in the series and there was people who said "I wish this game had multiplayer" There would be thousands of people defending the lack of multiplayer saying stuff like "Not every game needs multiplayer! It would have taken away from the story, it would probably have been bad anyway and would not be able to compete with the competition" and so on.
There are so many games over the years that didn't have multiplayer which I would have loved to see multiplayer for and we will never know if they would have been successful or not. I'm so glad they decided to add it, it was very successful too back then.
I absolutely loved the Ultimate edition and had a blast playing it.
Same here
Same here too
Same here
Just got it this week and noticing alot of bugs. Will they fix this?
@@trigunite8902 doubt it, mulitplayer is dead so they wont pay attention to it.
I downloaded this game with pc game pass, I'm not a Gears of war fan, but i wanted to revive the gameplay i had with my friends before in gears of war 2, but when i started playing this game in mid-hard difficulty i stopped playing cause 2 things, Bugs (Glitching chainsaw animations) THE STUPID AI, MY GOD THEY WILL JUST RUSH TO THE ENEMY AND GET DOWN IN 2 SEC, AND THE MATE THAT IS NEXT TO HIM WON'T REVIVE HIM, AND THE ONE THAT IS DOWN WILL CRAWL EVEN MORE TO THE ENEMY. I CAN'T EVEN HELP THEM CAUSE THEY ARE IN NO COVER ZONE AND THE TURRET WILL ALWAYS GET ME.
Ultimate is good for the added story, but nothing (save for gears of war PC) beats the original gears of war in terms of art, and MP.
Wow I didn't even remember what the original was like when I played UE. I didn't even know anything was different lol
I'm currently playing through the entire franchise for the first time (on Gears 3 right now) and this video just convinced me to play the original Gears 1 after completing the fifth.
60fps on series X makes it feel like a completely different game! Haven't played the original since the 360 launch.
@@DonYoGi8331 way easier to aim eh?
@@OMGtheykilledKenny42 I correct myself, I can't get with the original version. Those graphics...yikes. Utimate Edition is where it's at👌
@@DonYoGi8331 both the OG and UE got FPS boost!
@@OMGtheykilledKenny42 yes but compared to UE the original still looks like a 360 game just sped up.
one thing that greatly bothered me is that the remade textures are *too* good and *too* clean. in the original, textures were dirty, high contrast but simultaneously dull. characters look ugly on purpose. marcus, dom, cole and baird look dirty, sweaty and gross. they give the appearance that they're soldiers that haven't had a shower in weeks. they looked bleak and exhausted. in the remake ... they're all clean shaven with well-hydrated skin, clean teeth and clean hair. ironically them looking so "clean" made them look "ugly" in a bad way. even the locust look like they got their hands on some skin moisturizer.
The update with the FPS Boost on the XSX is pretty damn good...
👌downloaded the original trilogy and GOW Judgement because of that feature.
I remember 2006 being 13 years old and playing GoW1 for the first time. Mom took me to Best Buy to buy it. I was addicted. I even played competitively online
I guess I’m of the minority when I say that gears UE was a great remake despite the lack of grit and horror the original had to offer.
I agree I thought it was great, I think these guys are just unappreciative of what we got. I think extra scenes and levels are a bonus to fill in holes from the original.
@@ssgelijah117 i just came across this channel today and i gotta say this guy seems like he nit picks at things just to complain instead of having more valid points. It was a good remake
It's not a remake, it's a remaster which is why they didn't add anything new to the game
I’m playin all of the gears again for the first time in a while and was deciding if I wanted to play ultimate cuz I’ve never played it before or if I just wanna play the OG ima play the OG thank you bro
I think personally Ultimate Edition is a solid 7/10 remaster. It's fine if you want a more modern experience or something closer to what a flashback would look like, funnily enough.
I think the crisp lighting compared to the originals dark, moody tone sets a different kind of isolation. The original has an oppressive atmosphere, but the remaster reminds me of a cold overcast day. Even the title screen reflects that. I've always had this notion that a lot of the time, when back things happen, the world goes on, which is why horrible things happen on beautiful days. In the same way, I think the remaster unintentionally captures this idea. The best example I can point to is at 3:16 when the lighting is bright, but not... optimistic? It's partly sunny, and while you're focused on fighting the Locust, there is still an entire world out there that is just devastated.
Also, in the entire game's defense, though you didn't really bring it up - the game takes place in a fallen city. The Locust have no need to pillage human settlements, they can just make it underground, so it kind of makes sense for plants and such to be untended but not overgrown. There's not much for the plants to soak up or a reason for them to be wild. The original and the remaster both have this as a sort of background thought.
I wasn't much of a fan of the new graphics in the first place but wow didn't know it was this much shit...
Gears 2 had the best campaign and gears 3 had the best multiplayer
This is why i still have my 360. The dark horror tone of the original was the best thing for me , i remember being in high school and watching the mad world trailer on tv , it sent chills down my spine that I'll remember forever. ❤
Bro how the fuck is it still working?
@@twinblade02 by a miracle 😂
@@ivanautomata5640 Is it the OG first gen? Because the later S models after the Kinect came out were much more reliable than the original lmao
Sweet. That’s why I like the remake. All of the horror vibes with objectively better visuals.
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It's not that old.
Gears one gave me the impression that the air on Sera smelled like hot metal and stale garbage. UE cleaned that up, to its detriment.
Its a remaster not a remake. Yes thats important. No it doesn't change the fact it was a let down.
I am so damn glad that i still have and enjoy the original three games. I will cherish the originals forever.
2021 and we still don't have original trilogy...I just don't get it why Microsoft or coalition hates original 3 (4)games so much... 😐
Probably since some people didnt like UE they gave up on making more. Kinda reminiscent of the switch from 4 -5
part of it may have something to do with dom's original VA not wanting to do any more work with the gears franchise. Notice in gears 5, they almost never mention dom; kait specifically says "it was marcus, baird, cole, and THOSE GUYS" that took out the giant riftworm. so maybe theyre trying to figure out how to remaster 2 and 3 to include dom's lines without having to worry about royalty payments or whatever. aka a bunch of red tape bs, but it exists nonetheless
@@ghostflame9211 imagine being Microsoft and not paying royalties while you just have 99999999999999 of $
It's a remaster...not a remake.
Huge difference.
The original Gears games from the Xbox 360 are just the best in the series. No offense to fans of 4 and 5, but they suck when it comes to story, plots, and characters. 4 plays it WAAAAY too safe, and feel like it was made for a much younger audience. 5 is better, but the open-world part of the game just doesn't fit and the main cast is still dry and boring. MS really needs to pull themselves together on Gears 6 and hopefully, it will also be the last we have to see from this trilogy's cast dry nuts.
All I want is the original trilogy on pc. what's the point in releasing gears 1, 4 and 5 for pc and then missing out on 2, 3 and judgement. Where they went wrong is only releasing the first game on pc then calling it ultimate edition when it should have released all the games in one pack like Halo mcc
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I concur, the truth is Microsoft didn't have a plan for Gears of War when they bought it. Just make more and milk it dry. Which is why the new ones (the sequels, including "Tactics") are really inconsistent, dumb, and often unplayable. Just throwing stuff at a wall to see what sticks, instead of actually listening to their fan base.
@@OMAHA16 Your definitely right about that, at the moment we have to stick to playing all of them on an emulator which is not the most reliable but it works, I'm disappointed in Microsoft as they are the ones preaching game preservation and what not, then when its time to walk that walk, they start buckling over their own feet and look like amateurs.
Your brightness for the Ultimate version in this video is really high. On default or a little lower looks on par with the original.
I had to play the game with low brightness to feel somewhat scared lol
It's sad to I have more fun gow judgement than 5
I like the ultimate edition and all, but can’t help but feel like I’m seeing Disney characters take over the game while playing it :/ like they dead fuckin ass look like Disney characters vs the old ones
Gears Trilogy! would be amazing!
Idk, my cousin and I grew up with Gears. My cousin loved the remaster so much he had me buy it so we could play together again. Honestly I loved it, sure it's not as dark but honestly I enjoy being able to see everything better. The mood and atmosphere honestly doesnt feel that different, more like it's been pulled back to not be as forcefully edgy of what we already know. And I enjoy the cutscenes, altho I didnt notice Carmine was basically cut from them. Given he was my fav growing up I will admit I dont like his removal. However I do like how the characters look young altho I do wish they were dirtier like in the original. Regardless I felt the remaster was basically perfect because nothing was really taken away overall that isnt already felt Carmine aside.
Yeah, people who cry about a remake being ruined because there aren’t as many shadows used to hide low poly textures are morons. The game looks modern now, they want to actually show off the fidelity instead of using techniques from the early 2000s used to hide bad graphics. Bad arguments will be bad arguments.
Something I did like about the Ultimate Edition was Kim's death. Not only is he shown being a badass Gear who's survived not only the Pendulum War but also has 14 years as a soldier in the Locust war under his name. I also liked how in this one he puts up a fight against RAAM since the two have history to which Kim would recognize that RAAM is sneaking up on him like when he killed Valera. It also made sense that while Kim did put up a fight only being able to use his chainsaw since RAAM was too close for him to reload the lancer RAAM quickly dispatched of him since the only reason RAAM lost to Kim the first time was because he was getting jumped by a full squadron of gears instead of it being a one on one. This shows respect to both hardened warriors while continuing to make RAAM look bad ass even more so in the remaster since him being able to manhandle Kim by disarming him of his lancer by holding the chainsaw directly in his hand then kicking him away before going in for the death blow is more bad ass than when he just snuck up on him a decked Kim on the head before killing him.
I like the Gears of War series and I was in basic training when it was coming out and served in the military until 2012 so a lot of these Dumber moments have it's real life comparisons.
They better not touch 2 and 3. Knowing them, they will make Baird trans or something.
The attention to detail has been really dumbed down in the remake, take Nightfall: Lethal Dusk for Example where you saw thousands of Kryll flying around in a streamline manner while the remake only shows dozens mindlessly flying around and of course there's Belly of the Beast: Downpour where the thunder and lightning were crashing while a torrential downpour was occurring that added the horror and tension, and then there's the dead bodies where there are these generic red sweatshirt models with half of their face missing that looked like they were killed five minutes prior while the originals where half rotted skeletons, and the camera work is WAY too static and the ending is too fast paced.
another point of contention with this game despite i would much rather be playing it rn MP wise; is the fact they literally told use. (TC) that this remake was only made so they can learn how to develop gears of war. Which you already pointed out the problems in the campaign... but this was also for MP.. however gears 4, 5 are such VASTLY different games. the mp experience really didnt matter nor benefit the company.. hell even 4 mp is not benefiting... cause the mess that is 5. every single time, they tell you we nerfed the lancer and maybe a slight buff, but the gnasher gets "fixed" every update.. The gnasher doesnt stop getting changed despite the gun has been fine several times.. The new games and weapon additions are a mess. they did not study why gears 1 worked... they just copy and pasted it learning nothing from the remake.
We have area of denial grenades (ink which was replaced for shocks later on in the series)
grenades that instantly kill you even if they land beside you and still also have an area of denial (flames)
grenades that detonate several seconds after impact...
torque bow can stick a person, can kill someone even if they torque does not stick, but no additional zoom and smaller ammo count. kill execution downs from afar. also chance to kill more than 1 enemy
we had snipe which has a full zoom, more shots, and does massive damage to the body encouraging team play. also can kil execution downs (1 shot downs suck. stfu)
then they add the embar... can kill numerous enemies in 1 shot. gets 3 shots in a clip. lots of ammo. if it was active it also stopped players from being able to shoot as it stunned them temporary..can kill execution down and the guy trying to pick him up plus as many people in the way of its shot. (Snipe HAD COLLATERAL at one point-Gears J) we get it tc.. your weapons are better than both weapons that competed for attention. if all three of these were on a map, id push this first always. in original gears, lets say t bow and snipe are on the map.. its a lot more of a toss up which i want to get...
i mention the grenades and such cause im pretty sure flame nades got implemented in G3. Epic was not always perfect though.. they did also make the same mistakes as tc in some ways.. but the difference is, TC just constantly lies to us. learning how to develop gears... no they didnt... they literally learned nothing.. thats why gears 4 story is freaking terrible.. thats why 5 is even worse... plus every time the games are in water... rod fergusson leaves... after pushing his politics into the game to look good on twitter... im glad he is gone but every time he dips when things dont go how HE wants them..
Honestly think it had to deal more with terms of the art style and how characters/environments were made. As if you look at some of TC's late 2014 to 2015 concepts for the Swarm they originally designed them to be more of as aquatic-alien like, rather than combination of humanoid-reptilians like the Locust. While many of environments are futuristic, the COG had more of industrial and Roman architecture from Gears 1 to 3. Plus final opinion was that it gave the engine more room as for how to break boundaries of Unreal, so you can submit requests to the engine team for additions like how Epic done their work.
As for the multiplayer I think they based it off more towards the type of gameplay Gears 3 and Judgment had. As basically before Gears 4 started work TC ended up porting and rewriting ton of the old Gears 3 assets and code over to the more updated UE4 counterparts (for instance unreal script was ancient by then, so everything had to be rewritten over to C++.) After once the build was more stable then development for Gears 4 could be viewed inside of Gears 3's artstyle and assets, which later would be basically finalized in how they had in vision for Gears 4 and 5.
By final means too they didn't copy and paste much of Gears 1's work. It was built on top of the 2007 port with much of netcode and other features being backported from Gears 3's engine build. Along with some physical code either written by them, or taken directly from UE4. This reason though is pretty much why ton of the lighting, physical assets, etc all look very much different for even a UE3 game made from around the same time.
@@MIComp7806 summary: they butchered it
I love watching videos on different perspectives people have of these games. Great video man
Kinda disagree with you on this one my man but nonetheless I respect your insight. I’d like to see this bundled with Gears 2 (maybe remastered too) and 3 with pc support and crossplay/cross progression.
Dam, this guy must really hate the coalition 😔
Yeah well because it seems clear TC doesn’t understand why we liked the original trilogy which was gritty bloody and sometimes actually emotional. 4 and 5 act more like they are trying too hard to be marvel with their humor and toned down the gore and characters way too much just for younger audiences which doesn’t really work with a game like gears of war. Another thing the new games totally ditched was the horror elements which help the enemys feel threatening and scary.
@@johnfuller1303 true, but I think the new games have a few good elements and characters, like Kait and Fahz.
The remaster is a joke as everything from the coallition
Hey. I lowered the brightness of my game. Looks terrifying and I love it. I already fixed the one issue issue I had with the game lol