Hardly a revelation. 1890 is much different to 1905, 1930 to 1945... 65 to 1980, 1985 to 2000. I mean, this is pretty normal for society to be drastically different after *15* years pass lol
The documentary was fake and edited. No one was going to cut the chainsaw. That executive woman was talking about something else and they clipped her to make it sound like she wanted to cut the most important weapon in the game lmao, because they needed a "bad guy" for the documentary."
The game always included the chainsaw, this argue was about a trailer, not the game. The Documentary needed some created drama, so they created fake drama.
I'm glad that they tried real hard to keep the chainsaw. Because it became one of the most iconic weapon in video games. Once you see the chainsaw gun , you know what game you are playing
@@godzilla7391 It's edited. The woman in this video did a whole video about it. She was talking about something else entirely and they clipped it to make it sound like she wanted to cut the chainsaw because the team making the documentary needed a bad guy for the story
And in Cliffs book he says the chainsaw didnt really made sense, but it was so cool... Well, it does make sense, you could have a small piston engine doing that. Gears 1 is a masterpiece.
The story wasn’t as good but the gameplay is still phenomenal. Almost 20 years and imo gears has consistently maintained the greatest gameplay of any popular modern shooter franchise
@@dawsynlarson696 not too many on ultimate, at least not ranked. Player matches is where everyone is. Play GOW1 and play public matches about a good 200 of us still on
@@PingaheimerBelieve it or not, woke liberals still hate him.There are some woke youtubers made some bad video about him even though those videos doesn't actually say anything bad about him but those video titles are just clickbaits.
This is such a great "time capsule" of what game development used to be like in early 2000. Calling a guy "walking hr nightmare", discussing boob size of an NPC, taking about crunch in the open, actually playing live demos on stage... This stuff just doesn't happen anymore.
20 years ago it was still the same problem: Suits having control over the creative direction of the developers that they don't understand. Great documentary.
I am 3 and a half minutes into this and it's already so insane to me that a company willingly published this. Insane how much culture has changed, but I guess it really has been 20 years 💀
@jameshill8493 I bet you're from the US. I am and anything more than 5 yrs ppl are shocked. Dumbest thing ever. I love being in my late 30s and my gf in her mid 20s. She's hot too 😁
Epic also didn't want to sell the maps as DLC, they wanted to do what they did with Unreal on PC forever, keep giving free content to keep players engaged and around. They believed more in the day 1 sales of the games in the franchise, so they wanted to keep people there so they'd get huge sales on Gears 2 and so on. MS ofcourse saw things differently, and that began the 1st map packs delays that went on forever, until Epic got upset enough to start putting out little blogs explaining that the maps were actually done early and it was MS struggling with them. They eventually gave in to MS after a final behind-closed-doors sitdown where clearly MS dropped bags of $$$$ on Epic, and the transparency disappeared and the $DLC$ map packs became a thing in Gears.
What a great time capsule of what life was like back in the day! It's the perfect blend of cringe and nostalgia. The fact that the game still holds up today goes to show how much of a labor of love this was for the team that worked on it.
13:00 execs trying to cut the chainsaw bayonet that became synonymous with the series. Good example of how dumb suits ruin everything and nearly ruined that.
Completely fake. They were NEVER going to cut it and that executive woman NEVER even suggested that. These are edited clips, the filmmakers making the documntary needed a "bad guy" so they clipped it together to look like she was pushing that. She never even made that suggestion, she is talking about something else entirely.
The fact that there was this much discussion over the chainsaw is crazy. When I first saw Gears of War I was like, "You had me at chainsaw gun. Gimme gimme gimme."
I was there for the midnight launches of Halo 2 & 3, Gears 2 & 3, Wow vanilla, Burning Crusade, Wrath of the Lich King....kids today have no idea what it was like to gather with a hundred fans of gaming in the middle of the night and buy your game at 1 in the morning. Those were the days!
@@awepizza I would argue it started in 2012-2013 when console games began to be more mobile in nature. Over the last year we have seen console games become grindfests requiring almost pay to play in too many ways. I miss the days when games were 15-20 hour incredible adventures that you enjoyed, put down, and picked up the next one and rinse and repeat. That was the beauty of that 360/PS3 era. They still come but are far and few between.
In adressing the locust drone AI in the game they obviously forgot to focus on Dominic Santiago because his AI is just horrible and an annoyance to play with remember?
Every time I watch this "making of" for Gears of War, I just want to jump through the screen in Cliff's office and steal that Fortress Maximus Transformer that's behind him!
13 years later and watching this and seeing Rod Fergusons face reminded me that i'm still salty for being banned from the Gears of War forums by Rod Ferguson for complaining about the bad matchmaking hahaha.
People dont give it credit, but the Hammer of Dawn was fucking revolutionary for the time. Insane experience using it for the first time. left me in awe,
Video game industry in 2005: "Yeah we go out drinking, play games in the office, go shooting, we're one big family just mucking about all the time, just gonna pump out a lil game called Gears ofWar, no biggie" Video game industry in 2020: "We can't make a game we've been working on for 6 years, we ask out employees to crunch 50-80 hours a week to push out half finished products by deadline"
I think it's the company community that motivated these devs to get the game out the door. When you have a positive community drive - work is done with great enthusiasm.
Hey, just wanted to say thanks for uploading this! I remember watching it on MTV when it aired and I had the sudden urge to watch it again. I feel your description for the video is spot-on as well and seriously...thank God for the chainsaw! Gears of War was the game that got me hooked to the Xbox 360 and I can't believe how far it's come. I actually just bought GOW 3 and I can't wait to get started. Thanks again!
It’s so funny bc his relationship has nothing to do with this doc, he thinks it’s about him lol. Cliff is the definition of narcissist. Still to this day.
Microsoft if you're reading this take the hair out of your eyes and take notes, this is how you make a great game, you work with your the teams that you make games with so that they're good, a good game might take a little longer but trusssst me, more money will come that way, players will be happy, its a win win. These companies need to smarten up.
Not sure why this showed in my feed. Before this launched in 2006, I was invited to a launch party in Chapel Hill at a small bar. I think hosted by Xbox live. Maybe 150 people all got to play got a tshirt, chatted with Cliff. Was a great time.
this video is a good example of why games don't feel the same. these guys are a good representation of who used to make our games. this is who i like to call the professional hobbyist. its these same type of people that brought us personal computing in the first place, think the early days of apple. the game creators of today are young and brainwashed by the institution and game development is just a job. these guys grew up with the technology and saw gaming transition from its infancy all the way to the 7th generation . they made games because they loved games.
I only played the first gow like 3 times. Never got into it. But listening to the cliffy b's audiobook, and was curious about this segment. I wish there was some behind the scenes during the formation of epic megagames, and the jazz jackrabbit Era.
To think, this guy had it all. He literally had a hot tub in his house overflow. He was living the dream. Gears 3 releases and he decides to LEAVE to make his own "overwatch" called lawbreakers. He then lost it all.
10:47 I always hated how Rod Ferguson tells the guy to be honest with him if the A.I. sucks, yet when the guy admits its crap, Rod’s expression is clearly not happy lol.
A group of passionate, creative, talented devs and producers that actually loved the game they're making. A far cry from today's corporate and sterile AAA gaming industry.
Cool to see how they were back then, bunch of ragtag developers having fun making a badass game and now years later that same companty (without any of its original dev. team I assume) is one of the biggest game companies out there
![Making of - Gears of War (2006) [Behind the Scenes]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/r4bFx4Tq7A8/mqdefault.jpg)
This feels SO MUCH more ancient than the mid 2000's....holy shit. Society has changed ridiculously in 15 years
it was 2005 but I get what you mean
12:43 Look at the ugly 720p resolution monitors. I used to think that was a high tech look, now it feels like it should be in a museum.
And not for the better.
Hardly a revelation. 1890 is much different to 1905, 1930 to 1945... 65 to 1980, 1985 to 2000.
I mean, this is pretty normal for society to be drastically different after *15* years pass lol
Now Woke Mafia Fucks Up Everything Now!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
“The chainsaw is a good representation of what Gears represents”
Give this man a raise!
They did, he was the head of the games since 1 all the way to 5
@@86Fallowcp wrong ... he only did 1 - 3 and Judgement Day
And thats why 4 and 5 were so bad
Wow, really glad Epic pushed for the chainsaw
IKR
The documentary was fake and edited. No one was going to cut the chainsaw. That executive woman was talking about something else and they clipped her to make it sound like she wanted to cut the most important weapon in the game lmao, because they needed a "bad guy" for the documentary."
The game always included the chainsaw, this argue was about a trailer, not the game. The Documentary needed some created drama, so they created fake drama.
I don't understand why it was so contentious. Doom had a chainsaw 13 years prior to Gears.
@@Palendrome proof or doubt
When cliff was the force behind the series. It was a whole different game
Dhillon he was a douche back then but knew how to hussle
@@johnmin7607 he also was a legend in Unreal tournament.
now look what TC has done to gears :/
Facts
@@EggEnjoyer Um, so...what does love life have to do with how you act.. makes no freakin sense. Your jelly thats all my man.
I'm glad that they tried real hard to keep the chainsaw. Because it became one of the most iconic weapon in video games. Once you see the chainsaw gun , you know what game you are playing
Gavin Tai Yeah, seemed like from that clip, with the Microsoft reps, that they may have been trying to push away with it.
Lancer
@@godzilla7391 It's edited. The woman in this video did a whole video about it. She was talking about something else entirely and they clipped it to make it sound like she wanted to cut the chainsaw because the team making the documentary needed a bad guy for the story
@@Palendrome wow. Media has no chill. Sheesh
And in Cliffs book he says the chainsaw didnt really made sense, but it was so cool... Well, it does make sense, you could have a small piston engine doing that. Gears 1 is a masterpiece.
*Although I've enjoyed GEARS 4/5, nothing will ever beat 1-3 and it's thanks to Bleszinski.*
The story wasn’t as good but the gameplay is still phenomenal. Almost 20 years and imo gears has consistently maintained the greatest gameplay of any popular modern shooter franchise
Not a single cod or halo story ever resonated with me and I’ve never found the gameplay actually stellar. Just passable
4/5 🤣🤮🤮
14 years later people are still playing Gears Of War 1 online
Fr ?? I tried finding online matches on the ultimate edition version and got nothing
@@dawsynlarson696 not too many on ultimate, at least not ranked. Player matches is where everyone is. Play GOW1 and play public matches about a good 200 of us still on
@@FlamingChickenTA here i come
@@JusticeGamingNY lmao all A1 players too bro.
@@FlamingChickenTA nice
“14 years building up to this moment, since I started doing it.” And the game opens up 14 years after e-day. Never thought about that until now
damn, when did he start working in videogames, when he was a teenager? he looks like he's in his 20s in this video lol
@@Marchochias he says at one point he’s 31 here, so he would’ve started at 17
I’ve gotta give it to the guy, he lead a team to develop and make one of my favourite games series of all time.
There is no way in which any hater can skew it to not give him credit, he was the lead designer.
@@PingaheimerBelieve it or not, woke liberals still hate him.There are some woke youtubers made some bad video about him even though those videos doesn't actually say anything bad about him but those video titles are just clickbaits.
This is such a great "time capsule" of what game development used to be like in early 2000. Calling a guy "walking hr nightmare", discussing boob size of an NPC, taking about crunch in the open, actually playing live demos on stage... This stuff just doesn't happen anymore.
Thank jeebus
and wearing an "im retarded" T shirt lol. He would be fired for that now days.
@@nothankyoutubeshut up
@@chancefoy6287 lul
@chancefoy6287
Lol, no you sad loser. Besides the live demo, the work culture sucked.
This feels like the movie “Grandma’s Boy.”
omg it does hahaha
I thought the same thing!
Wow so cool to see this snapshot of games development from 2005 in 2024. The MTV style of editing is hilarious lol
20 years ago it was still the same problem: Suits having control over the creative direction of the developers that they don't understand. Great documentary.
It's hilarious you dont realize most of this was edited for drama.
It's not real brotha
@@MrMrTravmanwhatev puzzy
it was a problem no doubt. but ESG back then didn't exist, a new cancer among the studios.
The "Created by Geoff Keighley" at the end felt like a post-credits stinger lol
2:20 crying at this, why did they dedicate a section of the video specifically to this. its like someone in editing was out for him LMAOOOOOO
He was the editor, it was up to him to put it in. I think he was showing off his 19 yo piece of pussay
That was bill gates making sure it was ready for Fall release
and later how they broke up
Cliff was going through a divorce at the time
lol that had nothing to do with gears but they still put in there 😂
I am 3 and a half minutes into this and it's already so insane to me that a company willingly published this. Insane how much culture has changed, but I guess it really has been 20 years 💀
The nostalgia hitting hard rn 🥺🥺😭😭❤️❤️
"im 31 and shes 19" -cliffy b
Stud
10 mins later ''we broke up'' hahaha
God bless
I’m 24 and my girlfriend is 20, I’m getting people being weird about the age difference. Couldn’t imagine 31 and 19
@jameshill8493 I bet you're from the US. I am and anything more than 5 yrs ppl are shocked. Dumbest thing ever. I love being in my late 30s and my gf in her mid 20s. She's hot too 😁
Before the dark ages
Before the Spencepire
Holy shit this was back when E3 actually mattered to the industry, like, A LOT.
Epic also didn't want to sell the maps as DLC, they wanted to do what they did with Unreal on PC forever, keep giving free content to keep players engaged and around. They believed more in the day 1 sales of the games in the franchise, so they wanted to keep people there so they'd get huge sales on Gears 2 and so on. MS ofcourse saw things differently, and that began the 1st map packs delays that went on forever, until Epic got upset enough to start putting out little blogs explaining that the maps were actually done early and it was MS struggling with them. They eventually gave in to MS after a final behind-closed-doors sitdown where clearly MS dropped bags of $$$$ on Epic, and the transparency disappeared and the $DLC$ map packs became a thing in Gears.
watching this 2024 is just crazy. it was mind blowing back there
At 16:22 you can see the original cover behind cliff on the left. Interesting how it shows Marcus and Carmine but not Dom.
I never thought THE ayylmao was a gears fan! What a welcome surprise! :0
That was promo/early cover until the final product was finished but still very cool we get to see it
Apparently you where originally going to be able to pick doms gender so maybe thats why?
Damn this is like watching an episode of Orange County choppers when the time is running out on a build haha
What a great time capsule of what life was like back in the day! It's the perfect blend of cringe and nostalgia. The fact that the game still holds up today goes to show how much of a labor of love this was for the team that worked on it.
13:00 execs trying to cut the chainsaw bayonet that became synonymous with the series. Good example of how dumb suits ruin everything and nearly ruined that.
You dont realize its staged for the docu?
@@PhyrexJ no how do u know?
Can’t believe they almost didn’t have the chainsaw, can’t imagine gears without it
Completely fake. They were NEVER going to cut it and that executive woman NEVER even suggested that. These are edited clips, the filmmakers making the documntary needed a "bad guy" so they clipped it together to look like she was pushing that. She never even made that suggestion, she is talking about something else entirely.
It's funny now how Microsoft wanted to cut the Lancer lol
We could have lived in a very fucked up alternative reality
Thankfully the stars aligned
ms has always been the suckiest
No it's edited that way. Laura Fraser never talked about cutting out the lanzer from the game. It was edited from another conversation on a cinematic.
I miss these times.
man...these vid docs and like Bungies videos are why so many of us wanted to work in the games industry growing up, also Cliffy B is such a bro
I remember watching this on the Gears 1 limited edition DVD
The fact that there was this much discussion over the chainsaw is crazy. When I first saw Gears of War I was like, "You had me at chainsaw gun. Gimme gimme gimme."
Love seeing how one of my all time favorite's got out together especially since gears still lives on. Long live gears
I was there for the midnight launches of Halo 2 & 3, Gears 2 & 3, Wow vanilla, Burning Crusade, Wrath of the Lich King....kids today have no idea what it was like to gather with a hundred fans of gaming in the middle of the night and buy your game at 1 in the morning. Those were the days!
Oh you’re one of THOSE …
Same brother, gaming lost its soul, at least the mainstream ones.
@@awepizza I would argue it started in 2012-2013 when console games began to be more mobile in nature. Over the last year we have seen console games become grindfests requiring almost pay to play in too many ways.
I miss the days when games were 15-20 hour incredible adventures that you enjoyed, put down, and picked up the next one and rinse and repeat. That was the beauty of that 360/PS3 era.
They still come but are far and few between.
They nailed it forsure, I'm so lucky to have been a teenager when this game came out. Great times both online/offline.
Imagine your boss just casually loaning you his Lamborghini. He seems like such a chill boss
Tim Sweeney is VERY different these days now that he's got that Fortnite money
@@gtotheunit91 yeah he's a big douche, same as Phil Spencer. The whole MS team turned out be weirdos lol.
In adressing the locust drone AI in the game they obviously forgot to focus on Dominic Santiago because his AI is just horrible and an annoyance to play with remember?
Every time I watch this "making of" for Gears of War, I just want to jump through the screen in Cliff's office and steal that Fortress Maximus Transformer that's behind him!
13 years later and watching this and seeing Rod Fergusons face reminded me that i'm still salty for being banned from the Gears of War forums by Rod Ferguson for complaining about the bad matchmaking hahaha.
*Thank you for uploading this gem!*
5:45 "E3 ITS THE FUCKING SUPERBOWL OF VIDEOGAMES INDUSTRY..." and now the E3 is dead, all the videogame companies kill the event
2:00 I instantly know who is behind all the achievement names now 😂
I remember buying this at launch and being blown away. The first 2 are all I care about to this day.
Not 3?
People dont give it credit, but the Hammer of Dawn was fucking revolutionary for the time. Insane experience using it for the first time. left me in awe,
Back when gaming was just about making a good game for people to have fun with
Thanks to every single one of those devs for this masterpiece.
Video game industry in 2005: "Yeah we go out drinking, play games in the office, go shooting, we're one big family just mucking about all the time, just gonna pump out a lil game called Gears ofWar, no biggie"
Video game industry in 2020: "We can't make a game we've been working on for 6 years, we ask out employees to crunch 50-80 hours a week to push out half finished products by deadline"
fr dude i miss this its so sad to see what gaming has become
I think it's the company community that motivated these devs to get the game out the door. When you have a positive community drive - work is done with great enthusiasm.
Facts
Shipping a 2022 AAA game is at least 10x more effort than shipping a 2006 game (also only on one platform).
@@rcl5555 Not even remotely correct
Came here looking AS soon as i heard Microsoft indicating they wanted the chainsaw out
BusinessmanBob is Online
We need cliffy in gears
I am proud that they pushed for chainsaw assault rifle🥰
Cliff would have been definitely cancelled if he wore that T-shirt now days😂
... he IS cancelled lol
He is already cancelled by woke liberals.Despite him making such great games.Its sad honestly how people have changed.This is why trump needs to win.
this world seemed so much more normal
4:25 Bonnie! Crazy to see so many big names in this one video
Wonder how the Microsoft people that were worried about the lancer feel now haha
Man i always get chills when i see a xbox 360 controller lol. Just brings me back
Thank you guys! You're fucking legends!
Gears 4 is out now and imagine if they didn't have the chainsaw on the lancer
Andrew Lavagnino if gears didn't have it. The world would blow up.
There wouldn't be a gears 4
Andrew Lavagnino Yeah, seemed to me that the Microsoft reps didnt want it.
Hey, just wanted to say thanks for uploading this! I remember watching it on MTV when it aired and I had the sudden urge to watch it again. I feel your description for the video is spot-on as well and seriously...thank God for the chainsaw! Gears of War was the game that got me hooked to the Xbox 360 and I can't believe how far it's come. I actually just bought GOW 3 and I can't wait to get started. Thanks again!
this 4 year old comment is also awesome.
@@KashMunni120 your 4 year old comment also is awesome
@@jokerandthethief3719your 2 year old comment is considered ancient now!
@@JessicaGarcia-xf9wr I can't believe its been 3 months since you said this
“I’m 31 and she’s 19” lol ok cliff 2:22
9:52
Legal
It’s so funny bc his relationship has nothing to do with this doc, he thinks it’s about him lol. Cliff is the definition of narcissist. Still to this day.
@@Hero11170 doesn't mean it's moral
Im sorry you've been brainwashed by 50 y/o feminists@GetShrekd
BILLION
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The amount of mt dew in this video is insane lol
Well we’ll never have another age like this in gaming…
Shame on the documentary crew for trying to make it look like the Producer wanted the chainsaw cut from the game.
Microsoft if you're reading this take the hair out of your eyes and take notes, this is how you make a great game, you work with your the teams that you make games with so that they're good, a good game might take a little longer but trusssst me, more money will come that way, players will be happy, its a win win. These companies need to smarten up.
Not sure why this showed in my feed. Before this launched in 2006, I was invited to a launch party in Chapel Hill at a small bar. I think hosted by Xbox live. Maybe 150 people all got to play got a tshirt, chatted with Cliff. Was a great time.
7:10 Cliffs shirt 😂 ohhhhh god the early 2000's
"Rod is a walking HR Nightmare"
Guess he fits right in at Blizzard.
why was I not in my professional years during this era
If you don't know, I'm absolutely clueless as to how you came across this video lmao
Those were the days...
7:11 his shirt LOOOOL
Amazing how much they were talking about the chainsaw lmao
Different times. First time seeing this video. Can't believe Microsoft wanted the chainsaw out.
Do you believe everything you watch?
Gears of war was the game that pushed my dad over the edge and he canceled my xbox live subscription.
Cliffy has always been a weird bastard
this video is a good example of why games don't feel the same. these guys are a good representation of who used to make our games. this is who i like to call the professional hobbyist. its these same type of people that brought us personal computing in the first place, think the early days of apple. the game creators of today are young and brainwashed by the institution and game development is just a job. these guys grew up with the technology and saw gaming transition from its infancy all the way to the 7th generation . they made games because they loved games.
whoever directed this was a psychopath
I keep thinking of this comment the more I watch this and it gets funnier and funnier 😂😂😂😂😂 This shit is wild
😂
Thank u for keeping the saw
I only played the first gow like 3 times. Never got into it. But listening to the cliffy b's audiobook, and was curious about this segment. I wish there was some behind the scenes during the formation of epic megagames, and the jazz jackrabbit Era.
This is what all game studios need to be nowadays. Sucks how it’s gotten now. No talk about Microtransactions or dlc.
Man, I was in game development during these years. They were the best.
To think, this guy had it all. He literally had a hot tub in his house overflow. He was living the dream. Gears 3 releases and he decides to LEAVE to make his own "overwatch" called lawbreakers. He then lost it all.
youre kidding right? nexon published lawbreakers. you think he didnt get paid? one of the most well known devs in early 2010s lmao. yeah right
I'm sure he invested his money well. Just because his new project didn't do well doesn't mean he's poor lol
I can't believe this was almost 20 years ago.
10:47 I always hated how Rod Ferguson tells the guy to be honest with him if the A.I. sucks, yet when the guy admits its crap, Rod’s expression is clearly not happy lol.
Gears 4 and 5 :3 i duck you duck
Lol. Stupid Rod.
Oh god just also noticed Cliff's shirt at 7:10
At the scene with Bill Gates when "BusinessManBob" came online...
At first i thought it would say "Bill Gates is online" 😂😂
Boyyy, I'm on some nostalgia right now, came here to watch this after being reminded about it from cliffy Bs biography "control freak".
God bless you Cliffy B, created my favourite game series of all time
This is a blast from the past.
Kind of crazy how Cliff immediately shows multiple red flags
Fascinating to watch this in 2024
A group of passionate, creative, talented devs and producers that actually loved the game they're making.
A far cry from today's corporate and sterile AAA gaming industry.
seems like they were trying to turn this into a reality tv show, not even joking
Cool to see how they were back then, bunch of ragtag developers having fun making a badass game and now years later that same companty (without any of its original dev. team I assume) is one of the biggest game companies out there
MS: They still want the chainsaw
Me: Of course they do?! why wouldn't they
Always be grateful for Gears wotta game .
:46 Rod Ferguson HAHA!
2:22-2:38 felt like such an odd detour in the video
Cliffys “YOUR RETARDED” shirt 😂 I need that
I’ve been to the Flying Saucer bar before , nice!