EDIT: All Gears 5 Defenders, no this isn't the same video. Each video I've done on the game explores different topics. If this is a 're-upload' to you I can't imagine what those destiny focused channels are. Gear 5 really is an odd game, is does a lot right, but it also does an incredible amount wrong. The game itself isn't exactly awful, but it just feels almost nothing like a gears game. The game losing the "of war" in the title seems like a good indicator of how this series has changed. With downgraded gore, an oversaturated art -style, generic and odd-sounding music, weird cross overs, a change of marketing, a not so subtle political stance, and so much more, I just can't find myself calling this game a gears game in almost any manner. It really does feel like a Frankenstein attempt to throw as many modern trends at a wall called gears 5, in the hops that something sticks. Instead though, all it's done is alienate the old and hardcore fans, and fail at gaining many new ones, leaving it in a really rough spot. Timestamps: Downgraded Gore: 3:42 Oversaturated Art-Style: 7:37 Music- From Iconic To Generic: 10:46 Gears 5- A Poor Collection Of Trends: 15:59 Final Thoughts/Conclusion: 22:30 A big Thank You to these patrons for their support in this content and all future content to come! -SamWise1973 Executive Producer -Shane Kruse Paypal: PayPal.Me/ShepardGaming Twitter: twitter.com/ShepardGaming_1 (follow me here to communicate more!) Patreon: www.patreon.com/ShepardGaming
Shepard Gaming I’ve seen people enjoying playing the game, that’s good but they should also be aware of what is going on with the game because of the issues it has.
I agree mate! It has gotten better and is at least working now, but there are still pretty big issues in the game and it still doesn't really look or feel like gears
Yeah that's another great series for comparisons! I enjoyed 5 since it was my first one, but after playing the others I hated it! Plus 6 was terrible.. but now the series is incredible again after biohazard and the remaster!
Shepard Gaming I genuinely miss the feeling of going against all odds on the previous gears gave if the collation actually had ppl that played the original gears they would make it a lot better understanding the fundamentals and lore the gears world has created smh hopefully gears 6 makes a astonishing comeback
Bro like all of this is so true everything you say is true honestly my favorite game ever is the gow series lol when i was younger I used to actually have nightmares about the locust i also used to think they were real because I was so young lol
I have to agree that the Swarm still feel like a dime-store version of the Locust. The creature designs are interesting, but they don’t match up to the terror evoked by the Kryll, Berserkers and Corpsers. Also, I feel like Gears 3 really hit the sweet spot between colorful and vivid environments while also keeping the the gruff and grit of the first two entries.
I mean listen, I can respect the attempt at trying to make it like the Locust didn't die, but just cocooned to become a new threat is....plausible at best, but it just falls flat on its face tbh.
Gears 3 was hated for the Retro Lancer and Sawed Off Shotgun but honestly it was the most well rounded and well balanced of the original trilogy. It was near perfect and despite the noob weapons we didn't know how good we had it.
Shepard Gaming I hope they make JD the main character again. Even though it wasn’t as great the first time I think it’ll go good the second time. I feel like JD got the MOST character development but wasn’t shown much. I hope the expand on this. Great video!
Marcus needs to take back the reins of this franchise if they decide to continue on with it. As a fan since day one they should've just left this franchise alone after Gears of War 3.
Yeah the Locust, Lambent and Immulsion where destroyed at the end of GoW 3. Also Myrra had a reason to hate humanity, and the Lambent gave her and the Locust a reasonable enough motivation to try to conquer the surface. Before it became too much to manage her and the Locust where happy to just stay underground away from the Humans Myrra hated so much. And even then she contacted Adam Fenix to try and figure out a solution before waging all out war. They just ran out of time. They had some actual depth rather than just being monsters. What are the swarms motivations for fighting humans? Why are they hellbent on getting a new queen? Just coz the Locust did? Seems to me the only reason they exist is to extend the series past the point where it should have reasonably ended. They are really poorly thought out and really nothing more than a shell of what the Locust where.
The series has been on life support since Judgement. In every Gears game, I go to the sound and move the meter just to hear Marcus say "Bring it!" If he doesn't say it, it's not a good Gears game.
I can't even fathom how idiotic those shareholders must be, because they do the same thing every time. They demand that a game appeal to everyone, and the result is a game that appeals to no-one. Or almost no-one.
that's why movies suck too, all formulaic and need an already established IP attached to it by name or it won't get funded. Nobody cares about taking risks anymore or making art. Just trying to make something that appeals to all which turns out mediocre and satisfies the 'cudas and casuals only. The original fans of whatever IP they molest basically hate it the most when they do shit like this. Label them toxic, when they would have been your biggest supporters if you did a shred of fan service and weren't just cash grabbing w no vision. It sucks, but thats everything these days, fruity politics also heavily pollute the arena, satisfy the critics, and nobody else gives a shit except for how it fucked up their beloved franchises. I'm just thankful my backlog is almost immeasurable. Maybe 1 or 2 games a year, 1 or 2 movies a year even have the potential to get a fans' purchase from me. I know better and vote w my wallet. Everyone is too greedy to take risks and make something great or even good, only profitable is what they go for--The shit sucks recently. When it doesn't, I support it.
@@penguinjay An intelligent policy to follow for a consumer, I too buy about 2 games a years at most. And I only go to the movies once a year on average. Because so much entertainment these days is just hollow, vapid, corporate checklists in disguise. Netflix has a few good shows though, mainly because they just let creators do whatever. Of course, this is because Netflix is too lazy to engage in anything even remotely close to QA, but even so, we get a few gems on Netflix every couple of years.
I just wish they went back to the “horror” style like in gears 1..it seems like every game has gotten further away from that and more towards shooting and action..gears 3 is still the goat so they have improved in areas but as far as the story mode goes I like it more when it’s an horror/action game with an emphasis on horror
@Randy Marsh im a little confused by that statement because you said that everyone used the lancer/retro but the shotty was OP..so were people using the shotty or the lancer? lol and from my experience, which was is many countless hours in that game, this was the first game people weren't forced to use the shotty and actually had some options that negated how dominate the shotgun had been in previous games. now when you play gears if you are not using the shotgun, you are pretty much fucked..of course some people are alright with the lancer in the old and new games but those old and new games are still controlled by the gnasher..i like your name by the way lol good old randy
It's true about the horror element, I remember when I was little I was up to the mission where your COG ally gets brutally dismembered by a mysterious creature named "The Berserker" in Gears 1 and hearing how he endured his final moments of life I literally got so scared I switched back to Halo 3 and never touched that game again lol. Until a year later I finally decided to man up and complete that mission and complete the game. I was still scared as hell, especially facing General Ram in the end. But I felt so accomplished that I faced my fears fighting against these non moral enemies that who knows what will do to you if you got captured (that was going through my young mind lol. And I remember all the time booting up Gears of War 1 and hearing that eerie and spooky main menu theme song which really scared me everytime I played the game. Gears of Shit 5 has non of that nor any memorable things about it....
V A L I still remember when I was 10 years old, my dad started the game and the music was horrifying. As soon as the campaign started Marcus kicked the door and some dismembered bodies were just hanging from the ceiling while he simply said “NICE”. All that happened while I was hiding my eyes behind pillows lol
they should have a remastered collection for 1, 2 and 3. If they do that first then come back to do gears of war 6, then maybe they'll understand what made gears of war a great franchise
ABitKnobbish. What’s the point if you have the most played game for a month if the players playing it won’t stick around, because that’s usually what happens when you aim at a different group of players. I can only see non gaming related reasons to play Gears 5, or good graphics but as a Gears of War fan I see absolutely no improvements to keep me invested
rod Ferguson can only do soo much it’s not necessarily his fault he is the only og left in the gears family. He can’t do much without cliffy b and epic games. I love gears but I believe gears is dead. Guys it’s time to bury it move on to a new game
Jason Aguilar me too bro, this guy nails what is wrong with this game, and should listen to him meanwhile TC is only interested in getting failed attempts at gaining new fans and not listen to the true hardcore fans, but there main interest right now is selling OP skins rip off and take advantage of the few fans that still support this game. What a shame
I dont care what anyone says but it definitely was the most impactful scene in all the gears. Dom dying was depressing but it wasn't done as well as when dom found Maria. The buildup to it was done perfectly with tai and seeing what happens and the anticipation building was spot on. It makes me wet
The only things I liked about "4" and "5" the idea of different Lancers in "5", the COG Squad mission in "4", the Pendulum Wars Flashback in "5", and there were some cool voicelines for Raam, Skorge, Jermad, Ukkon, Queen Myrrah, etc.
Dont use the gears 2 menu theme man, its so good it makes me cry. I miss watching the Bare your Teeth trailer for that game, the atmosphere was perfect
If they wanna earn back my trust they should remaster 2 and 3 and hell even judgement and keep all Microtransactions out of them. It would go a long way
I believe this is your 4th or 5th video on Gears 5 and I half to say everything you said is on point. The identity of the Gears of war franchise is dying. And yes a few people may get upset but politics do play a factor in this decision that the coalition have made.
Member when you could blow someone's body part off for the last kill and see the body part fly towards the end-of-round screen? Member skillful shotty battles? Member dark grittiness? Member good campaigns?
F*cking well said!.. I have all the old Gears figures/statues, Gears wallet and key chains, and even the original Gears of War omen tattooed on my right shoulder.. But Gears 5 is NOT Gears of War. Marcus IS Gears of War.. WTF happened. BRING BACK CLIFFY B!!!! (Cliff Bleszinski)
@@shepardgaming5594 The multiplayer is still so broken. I swear, in my last 5 games, I was MVP, and I can't get out of Silver 1.. Check my screen shots on my Xbox account. BigPoppaAce. Not worth playing when I can't rank up.. Love what you're doing with this channel and maybe, if enough people stop playing or bitch about the game, we will see a change.
Man it’s the SJW push in media and games and microsoft is pushing it. They changed all the characters around to push a female lead when the Marcus, Dom, Cole train, and Baird made the game what it is. Just like Master Chief and Cortana made halo. Microsoft is pushing this shit in their first party studios whether the fans and gamers like it or not. It’s sad to see such beloved franchises fall so hard to the point I switched to Playstation and prob won’t look back.
It's not too late for Gears to return to it's former glory. I agree with this guy what he says at the beggining of the vid, giving honest reviews and comparing what made 1 2 and 3 great, is bound to get back to the creators for them to learn
I stopped liking gears properly after gears of war 3 I played the other ones but they just weren’t the same don’t get me wrong gear of war judgment was ok not bad but they should have stopped their imo gears of war 3 has to be the best one made
They should have focused more on jd and his previous cog life and changed the character of foz When jd is explaining himself on why he opened fire on the protesters how he is scared and ashamed it was honestly the most gears thing in this game we want more broken souls fighting together not an already strong kait that can handle anything they throw at her.
But Cait is also broken. She loses family and friends, she cries and suffers like the other characters, and then she keeps fighting like the others do.
That's what annoyed me the most. He *accidentally* committed a war crime and it's clear it haunts him. His reason is even rather valid. "They were throwing *fire bombs* at us, we were being attacked, there were enemies in the area, it was all so sudden and confusing. We made a mistake." Sure, be mad that innocent lives were lost thanks to his actions. But he's genuinely sorry and his reason is valid. I don't see why they completely alienated this guy they've known for years thanks to one problem. I feel they squeezed Lizzie's Friendly Fire death in there just to make him more 'hateable'. But it was just awful writing. Oh the Hammer achieved it's goal but then just.. Fucked up? For the first and only time? Oh Lizzie's door just happens to be broken now despite her not being hit? Oh JD can't rip a simple door open, or at least use his Lancer that can cut through solid osmium? She didn't even try to drive away as a last ditch effort? The "Carmine Dies" joke is just old. Gary's was just plain stupid and felt more like an Easter Egg, sure, fine, but Lizzie was established as a character and still killed before you could properly appreciate her. Just dead for the sake of being dead, with the Carmine name slapped on as a joke and to make it so she's not just some random driver that dies, but a "proper character". JD was selfish and impulsive, sure, but he was never an asshole or monster. Yet they paint him to be one for absolutely no reason. Is it just to make Kait feel stronger and more independent? Are they attacking JD because he "likes" this "Fascist Army?" I don't understand why he got butchered so damn hard.
I hope Gears 5 makes a Destiny 2 comeback. They need to have the devs in charge of the game and not the shareholders. And if it truly is on the devs, then I'm beyond disappointed.
I feel like a large part is still the devs actually and not exactly the shareholders. Forza horizon 4 was still great and not filled with micro-transactions!
If you watch the dev blogs, their design choices don't meet fans ideas and overall they refuse to make the game like before, watch GGZII he also gives good feedback and lately it has been erupting.
I highly doubt it will make a comeback. I've never liked the verses in Gears so I don't care, but the campaign is meh and horde and escape is boring plus the sheer lack of content and characters is disgusting.
I don’t think that it’s a bad game per se, but I just don’t give a single crap about Kait and Del, and only have a crap about J.D. but only because he’s the son of Marcus and Anya. Glad to see that the next game is going back to Gears of War, not Gears 6. I’ve been wanting a game about the Pendulum War and Emergence Day since I played the first GoW game, so I’m pretty excited.
And for the love of God - they’re called magazines or mags, NOT “clips”. No one is using the M1 Garand, and that’s pretty much the only firearm that ever used ‘clips’.
Series needs to pull a Tai and just Gnasher itself. Reboot the series do it right. Give us the gore, the music, the companionship, the horror. Prescott speech in title sequence of 2 was perfect. Definitely set the mood. I miss this series what it used to be. Still think about the Kryll if y'all remember that
I will never stop criticizing gears I met my best friends on gears 3 and I’ve loved this series and me and my friends have been so disappointed in 4 and 5 please fix this the coalition
Worst part of Gears 5 is Horde. They were going in the right direction in Gears 4 Horde...then screwed us. "You're going to play our way, not yours" is, apparently, The Coalition's motto.
@@shepardgaming5594 I actually do wonder. Because everything you described, save the gore, applies to both gears and halo 5. All the way down to the dang robots.
It’s pretty sad. If they would quit trying to target the rated E audience then they would bring more players in and the players that grew up with the franchises. Microsoft and their first party franchises are so self destructive with microtransactions and their lack of quality. They keep making short cuts for monetary reasons. They could have done so much better.
I'm with you that JD needs to be the main character. I think the arbitrary "choice" in gears 5 was a big mistake. JD needs to lead gears 6 and deal with his grief as his father did
I do not understand why NOW the towned down gore and "industriell steel look" is a problem in gears 5 when Gears 4 started shifting away from the "Destroyed beauty look" that made the original Gears Trilogy so GREAT It´s just the stile of TC, and i guess it will stay... Regarding the Gears 5 campaign/story. It seems to me that the first half was still a good Gears campaign, but the second part felt rushed and cumbersome.. Almost like it was done by a different! team
Can i ask why you guys don't like horde in 5? I'm a PC gamer so I never got into horde on the older ones. I just played the campaigns with my friend which i've always loved from the original 3 gears. This is my first time owning a gears game myself since the first one and I'm actually enjoying horde mode quite a bit. But it's not worn out for me cuz I didn't play it much at all until now.
@@Kylemathews1 the class system is needlessly restrictive, the maps are all really small, the difficulty requiring a reset after a wipe is unfun and too punishing, the skills aren't very engaging and it's just not as enjoyable.
As an update from a Halo fan: 343i is still ignoring us older fans. From their #ask 343 we can see that they are combining old and new. On paper this doesn't sound bad but weapons and art are still being changed for the sake of change. And we saw Sprint, Slide, and Clamber. Not sure if ADS will be there but a lot of use are speculating that it will be. No dual wielding or Playable Elites, which have been asked for the past decade. Basically with each update we learn that more is being taken out and or changed for w/e reason. Also they are going down the open world train so 343i hasn't learned their lesson from trend chasing.
Another incredible video. All the points you make are accurate. When playing Gears 5 I just couldn't put my finger on what was missing...now it's so obvious. Thanks Keanu for another honest video.
Matt C You forgot? EA seems to have a track record of saying they won't do something, and then changing their minds later when the situation "demands" them to.
They should have Marcus wake up in the 6 installment of gears and have flash back dreams of gears 4 and 5 and have his wife come in wake him up and say those were bad dreams now we have all the cast back with a teen jd and a new story where I don't know a story without fkn dB robots and locusts return or have a inter galcatic war on earth where they call there alien locust
I agree with the music on how it doesn’t sound anything like gears. However, I did like how they used a couple of past gears 1 and 2 soundtracks in like two or three chapters . 🤔 Love these vids btw :)
btw what makes it worse is that destroy-able environments aren't even included in multiplayer, horde, nor escape. Except the stupid ice on Icebound (aka the worst map ever created in gow history)
I agree completely with everything you stated. I hope Gears OF WAR 6 brings back the name. Puts the Center on the Fight for Survival or Humanity against the Swarm & Makes JD the main Protagonist. Gears 5 did do some things right. I just wish Marcus, Cole, Baird, Sam, Paduk & Clayton had larger roles in the game. Bring back Hoffman as well!
I can 100% confirm that the argument of bringing back the original look of gore would be very resource consuming is complete bullshit. They're just nothing but lazy and afraid to do things that the first game already did
Because I grew up with an Xbox, Gears and Halo 3 have always been my favorite games. It just seems like every juggernaut game franchise like these two are bound to be ruined with recent trends and microtransactions. SMH
Every time I hear the Gears 1 main menu song I imagine Dom and Marcus fighting against Locusts on a bridge next to an ocean and it still creeps me the hell out after more than a decade
@@shepardgaming5594 these newer ones would never catch my attention the same time the very first gears came out. Gears one was amazing despite how old it was and the resources available to make it.
It stopped being gears of war to when the Locust Horde were completely ruined and the new characters sucked ass and are just sjw trash and not gears of war chacaters and Marcus son was a massive waste of protenial and should of been 30 years old and voiced by Steve Blum and had a different name because JD sucks what kind of name is that just fuck the coaltion they complety ruined the series.
@@Elitesolider1023 maybe something besides james, but jd stands james dominic. And i appreciate they put doms name in the game but yes horde was amazing
The reality is, if Gears 5 came out on PlayStation, it would’ve been huge. Xbox has a much smaller market and the game did great within that consumer base. Gears will be fine.
Shepard Gaming I think people don’t give Judgement enough Credit for the things it did right. Sure the multiplayer was not good and had almost no maps in it, the weapon scheme was an unnecessary change and some other stuff weren’t gears like, but the campaign was okay, the new modes were enjoyable, it wasn’t the worst game ever
I feel like gears 4 should have been brighter than the original trilogy to show they were coming from a time of peace but they missed the opportunity to transform it back to the dark gritty feel by they end of the game to show times of war are back
I really loved how the Gears 3 shotguns could turn someone into mincemeat in close range and how you can be turned into meat chunks yourself. Sometimes it can feel a bit cheap but the satisfaction and high you receive from those near-death experiences are unrivaled. The closest I have gotten to that feeling is surviving an entire match of Titan fall without dying. It just felt right.
Man although I was only 8, I used to be scared playing gears 1 and 2, but In a good way. I liked that I could relate to the characters and atmosphere of the game. It added a sense of realism and led to me being thankful that the locust weren’t real. But now, even though i think gears 5 is fun, it’s just not how the franchise used to be.
Gears started to lose me when they tried to butcher JD and shove Kait in as the protagonist for brownie points from femitards. But it REALLY lost me when I realized that you couldnt just BE a character in horde mode. And that your weapons were locked. Not coming back until shit is fixed.
@@shepardgaming5594 seriously you agree with all of this? Lost a bit of respect for your video and opinion when you think Kait as a playable character is "brownie points from femitards"
Just made General in the Tour of Duty the other day and unlocked the associated achievement. The brutal monetization of the cosmetics has now chased me away from the game for a good while. So many other games to play.
Everyone help gears of war and do ur part and send this video and ur thoughts that the new inverse omen sucks and we want the gore from the first game back
Span :D yeah completely agree. I mean yeah the skiff or whatever its called was fun to drive around but damn i swear half the game was in the desert and snowy area and there was nothing to so besides ski around. Obviously there were little side quests but they were no where near satisfying or had any true reason to be there. Really would appreciate for that to not make a return in gears6. Gears is a linear playstyle and should stay that way period.
I havent played gears since the 360 era, but picked up Gears 5 for next to nothing on a steam sale and so far im enjoying the game, it isnt the OG trillogy but it isnt a bad game.
This game went from me playing it everyday with gears 2 and 3 to me actually working out and having a life now with gears 5 shit ain’t right man 😔just give me a gears 2 and 3 remaster PLEASE
ok i do agree with a lot of these points, but there's just one thing. I do miss it being dark and gritty, but in gears 4, humanity had 25 years to rebuild and maybe overtime as the swarm wars rages on, it will become the dark and gritty game we love. All we'll need is a good soundtrack like gears 2.
I love how professional and fluid your videos are, especially this one since I love Gears of War. Everything is on point and perfectly explained. I've also been a fan since 2006 and feel the exact way. TC we have given you literally EVERYTHING you need to come back strong.
Gears of War 2 still the best Gears seen. I hope CliffyB gets really into help production for Gears 6 now that R. Ferguson is gone. Please bring the darkness and slower paced tru gears combat back! Fuck Gears of Duty!
@@shepardgaming5594 I watched the last half of the video and I agree about the sound track. I remember when I was 7, I was always intimidated by the Gears 2 menu music.
This videos absolutely feels like it is coming from a loving Gears of War fan. Thank you for summarizing what the community as a whole has been feeling, and what they hate about this new game. I applaud you. Although I do have to disagree with having the Halo characters, I feel like they feel at home in Gears.
Tyler Gable He would be better than kait; her dialogue was probably written by a 5 year old. I mean come on. “This isn’t about you, this is about me” or the priceless dialogue between her and jinn where jinn says that “you can help stop this” and kait says “lady, what the fuck do you think i’ve been doing”. What happened to marcus and his “i just lost my fucking brother” or “you feel that? Thats from dom, and everyone else you killed you bitch!” The dialogue is more cheesy and comedic rather than dark and gritty. And that pretty much sums up the entire atmosphere of 4 and 5 compared to 1, 2, and 3.
The free roam stuff was a chore to get through. Huge miscalculation by the developers. The first time I’ve ever put down a Gears title without beating it in one sitting. Plus there was absolutely 0 substantive story progression here. I feel like as far as story goes, the new hipster writers pretty much had their ending in mind back in 2015 and not much else. In 4, they set up the world and the characters in the first couple levels, and then not much else went down worth noting. So in this sequel, there’s no meat to the story, cause the writers are just waiting for their ending in 6. The revisiting of the Gears 2 locations was interesting for a few minutes, but unfortunately NOTHING came of it. I thought they were setting up some kind of Alien spaceship reveal up in the Mountains (Locust Alien Theory), but nope, just unbelievably - disappointingly - predictable clone/gene splicing/human goblin chimera “have babies with a goblin” stuff. Oh well. ALSO... The save Del/JD thing. It’s most likely nothing will come of this either. BioWare seemed incapable of transferring this stuff between games properly, and I wouldn’t imagine the Coalition will be any better about this. They’ll probably just kill off both characters right at the start of Gears 6 and be done with that idea.
IMO I feel like it’s a trend Halo had its downfall with Halo: 5 Black Ops had its downfall with Black Ops 4 (not 5 but close enough) And now Gears... What’s happened to our favorite games..... 😔
The game has a ton of problems: - Its name, it should be called Gears of War 5 not Gears 5 - The Campaign has some glaring issues, it still has missing Components/Collectibles. Preventing people from getting all achievements. - The Campaign only has 4 Acts. It should have at least 5 or 6 Acts. It wants to be a new chapter in the Gears of War franchise, then go all out with the story. - Campaign should have a class system where you can edit your class before playing, so you can use whichever Relic weapons you like (if you collected them). - Marcus and his crew should definitely be the protagonists in Gears of War 6 instead of Kait and her group. - The gore and destructible environment in Gears 5 are pathetic compared to previous games. Weapons don't 'feel' as powerful as well anymore. - Horde has not enough maps, a lot of missing Locust enemies and to much annoying Swarm and DeeBees who nobody likes. The fabricator and Furnace make it unnacessary complicated. And why are the perks you can upgrade during the 50 waves so lackluster?? - Versus is still suffering from Gnasher fanatics. No fun at all there! - The in game store is veey greedy and ruins a big part of the fun and excitement. No need to grind of people can buy everything for outrageous prices. - Amd lastly, the music...... they should have hired Hans Zimmer. His Modern Warfare 2 soundtracks are still amazing! Horde and Campaign are where it's at and it is dissapointing.........
Some of what you said is pretty much generic stuff that everyone has been saying about the game being lacking with some opinions tossed in. "Gnasher finatics" Yeah, go play a different game if you don't like the gnasher. 2nd, this is the *most* lancer/open gears in the franchise. Cliffy B. Wanted and designed gears to specifically be Close range gritty action, not a generic rifle based shooter.
KillerZ x Ace Did you ever thought about how the campaign in this new games feel unfinished, like not just about the length of it, the story doesn’t feel like you accomplish something, it just ends in a cliffhanger. Back in gears 1 and 2 when you played the campaign and reached the end, even if you did not exterminate the locusts, you felt that you did something big, killing Raam and destroying the locusts tunnels and flooding Jacinto were awesome moments. It just doesn’t feel like TC know how to tell a story.
That scene with Dom and Maria is so unforgettable and gave me goosebumps all over again, wish TC would go back to what made Gears so different with its horror aspect
Same dude ! Last cod i played was ghosts back when the xbox one released and luckily gears UE dropped and was playing that untill gears 4 came but now i am well and truly done with this franchise
The other day I finally got to explore gears of 3 vs maps and let me tell you I was impressed how each map had its own environment sounds on the back ground, check out the Hotel map wow the wind, and Steps on wooden floor and rocks. I was so satisfied to hear enemies and being able have a fighting chance if the enemy is coming from behind. In gears 5 I don’t hear enemies I just die, is sad how previous gears give you the feeling that you are in the map and GOW 4-5 feels empty and boring
I didn't even realise how un gears like the new games actually were until I watched this and now I'm sad lol. The clips of the old games brought back major memories
EDIT: All Gears 5 Defenders, no this isn't the same video. Each video I've done on the game explores different topics. If this is a 're-upload' to you I can't imagine what those destiny focused channels are.
Gear 5 really is an odd game, is does a lot right, but it also does an incredible amount wrong. The game itself isn't exactly awful, but it just feels almost nothing like a gears game. The game losing the "of war" in the title seems like a good indicator of how this series has changed. With downgraded gore, an oversaturated art -style, generic and odd-sounding music, weird cross overs, a change of marketing, a not so subtle political stance, and so much more, I just can't find myself calling this game a gears game in almost any manner. It really does feel like a Frankenstein attempt to throw as many modern trends at a wall called gears 5, in the hops that something sticks. Instead though, all it's done is alienate the old and hardcore fans, and fail at gaining many new ones, leaving it in a really rough spot.
Timestamps:
Downgraded Gore: 3:42
Oversaturated Art-Style: 7:37
Music- From Iconic To Generic: 10:46
Gears 5- A Poor Collection Of Trends: 15:59
Final Thoughts/Conclusion: 22:30
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Shepard Gaming I’ve seen people enjoying playing the game, that’s good but they should also be aware of what is going on with the game because of the issues it has.
I agree mate! It has gotten better and is at least working now, but there are still pretty big issues in the game and it still doesn't really look or feel like gears
Yeah that's another great series for comparisons! I enjoyed 5 since it was my first one, but after playing the others I hated it! Plus 6 was terrible.. but now the series is incredible again after biohazard and the remaster!
Shepard Gaming I genuinely miss the feeling of going against all odds on the previous gears gave if the collation actually had ppl that played the original gears they would make it a lot better understanding the fundamentals and lore the gears world has created smh hopefully gears 6 makes a astonishing comeback
Bro like all of this is so true everything you say is true honestly my favorite game ever is the gow series lol when i was younger I used to actually have nightmares about the locust i also used to think they were real because I was so young lol
"For Christ sake, your black guy doesn't even go wooo"
-Flashgitz
I did miss Cole screaming
“This ones about kait” *gunshot*
What's this got to do with 40k?
@Rocki Boi Is he even really black?
@@dawsynlarson696 Ghost Marcus: "Pardon the pun, James, but the franchise has lost its spirit!"
I have to agree that the Swarm still feel like a dime-store version of the Locust. The creature designs are interesting, but they don’t match up to the terror evoked by the Kryll, Berserkers and Corpsers. Also, I feel like Gears 3 really hit the sweet spot between colorful and vivid environments while also keeping the the gruff and grit of the first two entries.
Everything in the new games is a dime store version of the original. The locust have suffered just as much as the fans.
I mean listen, I can respect the attempt at trying to make it like the Locust didn't die, but just cocooned to become a new threat is....plausible at best, but it just falls flat on its face tbh.
True dat
Gears 3 was hated for the Retro Lancer and Sawed Off Shotgun but honestly it was the most well rounded and well balanced of the original trilogy. It was near perfect and despite the noob weapons we didn't know how good we had it.
Y’all remember when you used to see a rib cage when you’d chainsaw someone?
I know it was pretty satisfying as odd as that sounds haha
Shepard Gaming Same thing when you’d pop someone’s head and you’d see the broken head. I don’t know what happened to Gears I miss it man :(
Oh yeah those headshots were brutal!
Shepard Gaming I hope they make JD the main character again. Even though it wasn’t as great the first time I think it’ll go good the second time. I feel like JD got the MOST character development but wasn’t shown much. I hope the expand on this. Great video!
I barely remember that.
When dom died we cried but when I got choice to kill del I laughed😂😂
That’s the difference between epic and coalition
Del is such a beta male honestly. I hated him in Geara 5. In 4 he was ok
Yall have no heart like at all lol
I didn't like Dell or JD in 4, but they managed to develop both of them deeper in 5 and make them likable
@@Pedro38906 Just barely lol
It was actually pretty damn sad when jd dies tho. U missed it
Gears of war 3 is a masterpiece, just give me that remastered
For real!
The reward system for gears 3 for
Me has been the best multiplayer experience
I hope TC make one remaster of gers of war 2 and 3 on PC ;)
Gears 2 remastered
They should remaster gears 2 and fix the camera having a seizure every time you run and have dedicated servers so people wont become god hosts.
Marcus needs to take back the reins of this franchise if they decide to continue on with it. As a fan since day one they should've just left this franchise alone after Gears of War 3.
Yeah the Locust, Lambent and Immulsion where destroyed at the end of GoW 3. Also Myrra had a reason to hate humanity, and the Lambent gave her and the Locust a reasonable enough motivation to try to conquer the surface. Before it became too much to manage her and the Locust where happy to just stay underground away from the Humans Myrra hated so much. And even then she contacted Adam Fenix to try and figure out a solution before waging all out war. They just ran out of time. They had some actual depth rather than just being monsters.
What are the swarms motivations for fighting humans? Why are they hellbent on getting a new queen? Just coz the Locust did? Seems to me the only reason they exist is to extend the series past the point where it should have reasonably ended. They are really poorly thought out and really nothing more than a shell of what the Locust where.
Gears 5 isn’t even Gears of War. Seriously. The name of the game even hinted that.
Couldn't agree more!
Why are you every where
It sounds like a free to play game that makes you pay for everything 😂😂
Lol so true and savage
Real talk! That's exactly I've been saying.
The series has been on life support since Judgement.
In every Gears game, I go to the sound and move the meter just to hear Marcus say "Bring it!" If he doesn't say it, it's not a good Gears game.
I can't even fathom how idiotic those shareholders must be, because they do the same thing every time. They demand that a game appeal to everyone, and the result is a game that appeals to no-one. Or almost no-one.
Exactly! It happens every time..
that's why movies suck too, all formulaic and need an already established IP attached to it by name or it won't get funded. Nobody cares about taking risks anymore or making art. Just trying to make something that appeals to all which turns out mediocre and satisfies the 'cudas and casuals only. The original fans of whatever IP they molest basically hate it the most when they do shit like this. Label them toxic, when they would have been your biggest supporters if you did a shred of fan service and weren't just cash grabbing w no vision. It sucks, but thats everything these days, fruity politics also heavily pollute the arena, satisfy the critics, and nobody else gives a shit except for how it fucked up their beloved franchises. I'm just thankful my backlog is almost immeasurable. Maybe 1 or 2 games a year, 1 or 2 movies a year even have the potential to get a fans' purchase from me. I know better and vote w my wallet. Everyone is too greedy to take risks and make something great or even good, only profitable is what they go for--The shit sucks recently. When it doesn't, I support it.
@@penguinjay An intelligent policy to follow for a consumer, I too buy about 2 games a years at most. And I only go to the movies once a year on average. Because so much entertainment these days is just hollow, vapid, corporate checklists in disguise. Netflix has a few good shows though, mainly because they just let creators do whatever. Of course, this is because Netflix is too lazy to engage in anything even remotely close to QA, but even so, we get a few gems on Netflix every couple of years.
Playing the Gears 5 campaign, the only time the music hit me hard was when they reused music from the past games in Act 2.
The classic sounds yeah. Best act of the game
Drew Brady Facts but it was so short, they couldn’t even give us that
I'm still pissed they put in escape over beast mode or overrun :(
I know both of those modes should have been included to be honest!
It may be locked away for future content 🙃 Judging by campaign and jack’s abilities, I’m sure they could easily release beast mode.
Beast mode is gonna be added. They wouldn't have added the Oscar death bit where u play as a swarm for nothing and if they did.... Big fuck up
Escape is fun, sorry they can't satisfy all your wants and needs 😭😭😭🤷♂️
@@dylan-uy3pb It's deffo not going to be added.
I just wish they went back to the “horror” style like in gears 1..it seems like every game has gotten further away from that and more towards shooting and action..gears 3 is still the goat so they have improved in areas but as far as the story mode goes I like it more when it’s an horror/action game with an emphasis on horror
OldMoney absolutely
@Randy Marsh im a little confused by that statement because you said that everyone used the lancer/retro but the shotty was OP..so were people using the shotty or the lancer? lol and from my experience, which was is many countless hours in that game, this was the first game people weren't forced to use the shotty and actually had some options that negated how dominate the shotgun had been in previous games. now when you play gears if you are not using the shotgun, you are pretty much fucked..of course some people are alright with the lancer in the old and new games but those old and new games are still controlled by the gnasher..i like your name by the way lol good old randy
It's true about the horror element, I remember when I was little I was up to the mission where your COG ally gets brutally dismembered by a mysterious creature named "The Berserker" in Gears 1 and hearing how he endured his final moments of life I literally got so scared I switched back to Halo 3 and never touched that game again lol. Until a year later I finally decided to man up and complete that mission and complete the game. I was still scared as hell, especially facing General Ram in the end. But I felt so accomplished that I faced my fears fighting against these non moral enemies that who knows what will do to you if you got captured (that was going through my young mind lol. And I remember all the time booting up Gears of War 1 and hearing that eerie and spooky main menu theme song which really scared me everytime I played the game. Gears of Shit 5 has non of that nor any memorable things about it....
Yup well said I used to be genuinely scared of the game! Gears 5 though nothing is scary..
Bro no fr same
This guy👆😁
V A L I still remember when I was 10 years old, my dad started the game and the music was horrifying. As soon as the campaign started Marcus kicked the door and some dismembered bodies were just hanging from the ceiling while he simply said “NICE”. All that happened while I was hiding my eyes behind pillows lol
@@Salieri01 Those were the great memories that made this game what is was 💯
When I heard the gears 1 menu again my heart just thumps
They should have just made a Remastered Collection of the 3 Gears of War games.
At least we have backwards Compatibility
That would have been great!
they should have a remastered collection for 1, 2 and 3. If they do that first then come back to do gears of war 6, then maybe they'll understand what made gears of war a great franchise
They would just fuck it up like they did with ultimate edition.
@@ScoobyZoFEvil how is UE fucked up?
@@Tippinswervin ikr UE was great, better than both gow 4 and 5
It’s 2019 and Gears 5 and Terminator Dark Fate have proven that when you go woke, you still go broke lol.
Yannick Naert lol so true. I heard the next cross over character was Kathy Griffin.
Ill blow my head off if that’s true😂
Yannick Naert gears 5 was the most played game on Xbox for a month. That phrase is meaningless and has never applied to anything.
ABitKnobbish. What’s the point if you have the most played game for a month if the players playing it won’t stick around, because that’s usually what happens when you aim at a different group of players. I can only see non gaming related reasons to play Gears 5, or good graphics but as a Gears of War fan I see absolutely no improvements to keep me invested
ABitKnobbish. it was on the game pass lmaoo what’s your point? people tried the game and realized it was a utter joke and left.
Maria’s Discovery, And Death, And Dom’s Death Killed Me Man.
Dom Was One of My Favorites of The OGs. Cole Is My Second.
Yup I loved Dom and Cole!
Nahh Cole is the best
Akira Kamisaru RIP dom. you will be missed.
Finding tai aswell, the beast that he was and then just finding a shell of him. Thats the gritty nature of gears
Mine is Baird and Dom and Anthony Carmine.
Coming from a gears vet all the way since the first entry, I couldn’t have said it better myself.
We need Cliff back all my OG gear heads know who Cliff is .
Cliffy B got at least one thing right. Not so much after.
I feel you where cliff when you need him rod Ferguson is taking us down a dark path
The real Cliffy B
Are you?
Love old Cliff, but his last few games were.... well.
rod Ferguson can only do soo much it’s not necessarily his fault he is the only og left in the gears family. He can’t do much without cliffy b and epic games. I love gears but I believe gears is dead. Guys it’s time to bury it move on to a new game
That Dom/Marcus scene with doms wife still made me emotional lol just watching that little clip
Damn, I still get chills during the Maria reveal even now.
Jason Aguilar me too bro, this guy nails what is wrong with this game, and should listen to him meanwhile TC is only interested in getting failed attempts at gaining new fans and not listen to the true hardcore fans, but there main interest right now is selling OP skins rip off and take advantage of the few fans that still support this game. What a shame
I do too it's so sad ):
When poor dom says “I don’t know what to do” it made me cry. Doms always been my favorite RIP
I dont care what anyone says but it definitely was the most impactful scene in all the gears. Dom dying was depressing but it wasn't done as well as when dom found Maria. The buildup to it was done perfectly with tai and seeing what happens and the anticipation building was spot on. It makes me wet
I got upset just seeing that again 😩 right in the feels man!
The only things I liked about "4" and "5" the idea of different Lancers in "5", the COG Squad mission in "4", the Pendulum Wars Flashback in "5", and there were some cool voicelines for Raam, Skorge, Jermad, Ukkon, Queen Myrrah, etc.
Dont use the gears 2 menu theme man, its so good it makes me cry. I miss watching the Bare your Teeth trailer for that game, the atmosphere was perfect
Haha sorry mate love that music!
Seth brings me back to times when I was younger playing online with friends. The beginning of gears was amazing.
Will Barbosa yeah the good old days of xbox live, some random sends you a friend request and you play all night
"Sometimes, death is all you can see. It's all around you...it consumes you"
Marcus Fenix
If they wanna earn back my trust they should remaster 2 and 3 and hell even judgement and keep all Microtransactions out of them. It would go a long way
kevin campbell I’m surprised they haven’t. They are a greedy company. Doing that would make them huge amounts of money
They’ll also fuck that up somehow
They cam keep judgment lol
They should do a delta squad collection similar to the mcc and integrate most the maps if not all the maps from gears 1 2 and 3
I believe this is your 4th or 5th video on Gears 5 and I half to say everything you said is on point. The identity of the Gears of war franchise is dying. And yes a few people may get upset but politics do play a factor in this decision that the coalition have made.
Yeah it is haha, no one else was making these videos so I thought I would! Yeah glad you too see politics played a part in it.
@@shepardgaming5594 Keep slamming them King!!! Its the only way things will change. You got my support.
Member when you could blow someone's body part off for the last kill and see the body part fly towards the end-of-round screen? Member skillful shotty battles? Member dark grittiness? Member good campaigns?
Ahh yes I member
I member
F*cking well said!.. I have all the old Gears figures/statues, Gears wallet and key chains, and even the original Gears of War omen tattooed on my right shoulder.. But Gears 5 is NOT Gears of War. Marcus IS Gears of War.. WTF happened. BRING BACK CLIFFY B!!!! (Cliff Bleszinski)
Yup it's changed a lot! Sadly tho Cliffy b is staying out of gaming I believe
@@shepardgaming5594 The multiplayer is still so broken. I swear, in my last 5 games, I was MVP, and I can't get out of Silver 1.. Check my screen shots on my Xbox account. BigPoppaAce. Not worth playing when I can't rank up.. Love what you're doing with this channel and maybe, if enough people stop playing or bitch about the game, we will see a change.
Man it’s the SJW push in media and games and microsoft is pushing it. They changed all the characters around to push a female lead when the Marcus, Dom, Cole train, and Baird made the game what it is. Just like Master Chief and Cortana made halo. Microsoft is pushing this shit in their first party studios whether the fans and gamers like it or not. It’s sad to see such beloved franchises fall so hard to the point I switched to Playstation and prob won’t look back.
Anyone who defends this game must have bought iron
MrGoldfishwish gears 2 was the best u got to ride a reaver and a brumak
I'll defend some parts of Gears 5, but gears 1, especially 2 and 3 will always be the best!
Love 5 but your joke bangs.
I defend it bc I love all the gears games yes I bought a little iron but that doesn't mean anything all the gears game are good in my opinion
Jonno Cotton ya it’s a lot like halo where the original trilogy are the only games worth a damn
I like you, you speaking facts brother, gears isn’t gears anymore ):
Thanks mate! And I know it's dropped so far ):
It's not too late for Gears to return to it's former glory. I agree with this guy what he says at the beggining of the vid, giving honest reviews and comparing what made 1 2 and 3 great, is bound to get back to the creators for them to learn
We need a Marcus fenix collection
I stopped liking gears properly after gears of war 3 I played the other ones but they just weren’t the same don’t get me wrong gear of war judgment was ok not bad but they should have stopped their imo gears of war 3 has to be the best one made
@@goom1046 same
Did this dude just say I can still play Gears 3?🤔
If so I need to make a trip to GameStop
SoulReaperSlayer19 yes, multiplayer is still alive. And probably more so now that gears 5 is a disaster.
Heck, there’s still people playing the first game if you wanna join.
Gonna install right now!
gamepass
I love gears 1 2 3 the best gears games ever
The OG trilogy was amazing!
If only they would release all of them with out changing much or nothing on pc
Hell I stay on that gears 3 grind. I even got those gears 3 stickers for my 360.
Still got my gow 3 lm x360👌
Same there are still on my 360
They should have focused more on jd and his previous cog life and changed the character of foz
When jd is explaining himself on why he opened fire on the protesters how he is scared and ashamed it was honestly the most gears thing in this game we want more broken souls fighting together not an already strong kait that can handle anything they throw at her.
Very well said and I agree!
And less if the self congratulatory dialogue please. "Oh Fahz I'm so glad youre here with us" lol fuck off
How about...Make a prequel trilogy about pendulum war. Even spin-off game about thrashball?
But Cait is also broken. She loses family and friends, she cries and suffers like the other characters, and then she keeps fighting like the others do.
That's what annoyed me the most. He *accidentally* committed a war crime and it's clear it haunts him. His reason is even rather valid. "They were throwing *fire bombs* at us, we were being attacked, there were enemies in the area, it was all so sudden and confusing. We made a mistake."
Sure, be mad that innocent lives were lost thanks to his actions. But he's genuinely sorry and his reason is valid. I don't see why they completely alienated this guy they've known for years thanks to one problem.
I feel they squeezed Lizzie's Friendly Fire death in there just to make him more 'hateable'. But it was just awful writing. Oh the Hammer achieved it's goal but then just.. Fucked up? For the first and only time? Oh Lizzie's door just happens to be broken now despite her not being hit? Oh JD can't rip a simple door open, or at least use his Lancer that can cut through solid osmium? She didn't even try to drive away as a last ditch effort? The "Carmine Dies" joke is just old. Gary's was just plain stupid and felt more like an Easter Egg, sure, fine, but Lizzie was established as a character and still killed before you could properly appreciate her. Just dead for the sake of being dead, with the Carmine name slapped on as a joke and to make it so she's not just some random driver that dies, but a "proper character".
JD was selfish and impulsive, sure, but he was never an asshole or monster. Yet they paint him to be one for absolutely no reason. Is it just to make Kait feel stronger and more independent? Are they attacking JD because he "likes" this "Fascist Army?" I don't understand why he got butchered so damn hard.
Honestly, everyone needs to spam epic with” WE NEED GEARS BACK!”because when they were in charge,the game was beautiful
I hope Gears 5 makes a Destiny 2 comeback. They need to have the devs in charge of the game and not the shareholders. And if it truly is on the devs, then I'm beyond disappointed.
I feel like a large part is still the devs actually and not exactly the shareholders. Forza horizon 4 was still great and not filled with micro-transactions!
If you watch the dev blogs, their design choices don't meet fans ideas and overall they refuse to make the game like before, watch GGZII he also gives good feedback and lately it has been erupting.
I highly doubt it will make a comeback. I've never liked the verses in Gears so I don't care, but the campaign is meh and horde and escape is boring plus the sheer lack of content and characters is disgusting.
Its the devs. They've gone "woke".
@@prestigeworldwide2632 hes right you know
I don’t think that it’s a bad game per se, but I just don’t give a single crap about Kait and Del, and only have a crap about J.D. but only because he’s the son of Marcus and Anya.
Glad to see that the next game is going back to Gears of War, not Gears 6. I’ve been wanting a game about the Pendulum War and Emergence Day since I played the first GoW game, so I’m pretty excited.
And for the love of God - they’re called magazines or mags, NOT “clips”. No one is using the M1 Garand, and that’s pretty much the only firearm that ever used ‘clips’.
crazy they dont think the old gore that was a staple and what gears was known for was not important to keep around 😂
And that’s why Gears 3 was supposed to be the end. Well,
Yup it's hardly the same franchise
Boba Fett I see
Much like Halo 3
Series needs to pull a Tai and just Gnasher itself. Reboot the series do it right. Give us the gore, the music, the companionship, the horror. Prescott speech in title sequence of 2 was perfect. Definitely set the mood. I miss this series what it used to be. Still think about the Kryll if y'all remember that
Good job! Totally agree with you. Like how you arent scared of voicing your thoughts and facts.
Thanks mate I always try and just say how I honestly feel!
I will never stop criticizing gears I met my best friends on gears 3 and I’ve loved this series and me and my friends have been so disappointed in 4 and 5 please fix this the coalition
I will as well mate
Yeah, I got closer with my cousin because of gears, loved the series so much but now...I don’t know what coalitions thinking
Worst part of Gears 5 is Horde. They were going in the right direction in Gears 4 Horde...then screwed us. "You're going to play our way, not yours" is, apparently, The Coalition's motto.
When gears of war get halo'ed. Makes you wonder if 343 and the coalition overlap
Haha very true
@@shepardgaming5594 I actually do wonder. Because everything you described, save the gore, applies to both gears and halo 5. All the way down to the dang robots.
It’s pretty sad. If they would quit trying to target the rated E audience then they would bring more players in and the players that grew up with the franchises. Microsoft and their first party franchises are so self destructive with microtransactions and their lack of quality. They keep making short cuts for monetary reasons. They could have done so much better.
They don’t really understand gears same as old developing team.
I'm with you that JD needs to be the main character. I think the arbitrary "choice" in gears 5 was a big mistake.
JD needs to lead gears 6 and deal with his grief as his father did
Yea I miss JD as .ain character
Exactly he better be the lead in gears 6...
SPOILER ALERT: JD might not even be in gears 6 because you can choose to kill him during the campaign
Naturally Selected what grief? Didn’t play 4 and 5
@@DarkeeQueen another reason the series is dead
I do not understand why NOW the towned down gore and "industriell steel look" is a problem in gears 5 when Gears 4 started shifting away from the "Destroyed beauty look" that made the original Gears Trilogy so GREAT
It´s just the stile of TC, and i guess it will stay...
Regarding the Gears 5 campaign/story. It seems to me that the first half was still a good Gears campaign, but the second part felt rushed and cumbersome.. Almost like it was done by a different! team
My girlfriend loved playing horde in gears 4 with me, it was her first gears game and even she didn't enjoy gears 5 horde mode.
Damn yeah that's when you know they messed up
I enjoyed playing horde on gears 3 and 4, it was fun but gears 5 just ruined it, TC ruined everything! They ruined my childhood game!
Can i ask why you guys don't like horde in 5? I'm a PC gamer so I never got into horde on the older ones. I just played the campaigns with my friend which i've always loved from the original 3 gears. This is my first time owning a gears game myself since the first one and I'm actually enjoying horde mode quite a bit. But it's not worn out for me cuz I didn't play it much at all until now.
@@Kylemathews1 the class system is needlessly restrictive, the maps are all really small, the difficulty requiring a reset after a wipe is unfun and too punishing, the skills aren't very engaging and it's just not as enjoyable.
Man I still get shocks hearing Dom say" I don't... I don't know what to do. I don't know what to do man." When he finds Maria.
The fact that the game downgraded it’s gore with the potential of graphics nowadays... what an L 🤦🏽♂️
I know for real..
Go play killing floor 2
@@Kylemathews1 no
@@Jactheitalian K try Deep Rock Galactic, it's even better actaully.
As an update from a Halo fan: 343i is still ignoring us older fans. From their #ask 343 we can see that they are combining old and new. On paper this doesn't sound bad but weapons and art are still being changed for the sake of change. And we saw Sprint, Slide, and Clamber. Not sure if ADS will be there but a lot of use are speculating that it will be. No dual wielding or Playable Elites, which have been asked for the past decade. Basically with each update we learn that more is being taken out and or changed for w/e reason. Also they are going down the open world train so 343i hasn't learned their lesson from trend chasing.
I've been let down so much lately in Halo, Gears, Star Wars, GOT, than I'm not even surprised anymore
I said from the start by calling it "gears" it's disassociating it's self from the "gears of war" franchise. Anyways great vid ✌️
Thanks mate I appreciate it and you're right!
Another incredible video. All the points you make are accurate. When playing Gears 5 I just couldn't put my finger on what was missing...now it's so obvious. Thanks Keanu for another honest video.
Thanks mate I appreciate it! Yeah it's deviated away from the older games a little too much
Keep up the good work love the tone of your video like reasonable feedback for TC and not just hating
Thanks mate yeah I try to do that!
Coalition: fans we are listening
Me: oh are you talking to me or my wallet?
I'm just counting down the days for Jedi: Fallen Order. An EA game that has no multiplayer or monetization? It's like finding a unicorn in the wild!
I know it better be good in hyped for it!
With E.As track record. I have no faith in that game. They will f the game up in some way. I'm calling it right now.
Matt C only twist is you never do...
Matt C You forgot? EA seems to have a track record of saying they won't do something, and then changing their minds later when the situation "demands" them to.
Its looks like another rip-off from dark souls/surge. Kinda getting sick of them.
They should have Marcus wake up in the 6 installment of gears and have flash back dreams of gears 4 and 5 and have his wife come in wake him up and say those were bad dreams now we have all the cast back with a teen jd and a new story where I don't know a story without fkn dB robots and locusts return or have a inter galcatic war on earth where they call there alien locust
I agree with the music on how it doesn’t sound anything like gears. However, I did like how they used a couple of past gears 1 and 2 soundtracks in like two or three chapters . 🤔
Love these vids btw :)
Thanks mate! Yeah they had some good throwbacks, but I wish the soundtrack overall had more OG gears in it
btw what makes it worse is that destroy-able environments aren't even included in multiplayer, horde, nor escape. Except the stupid ice on Icebound (aka the worst map ever created in gow history)
I agree completely with everything you stated. I hope Gears OF WAR 6 brings back the name. Puts the Center on the Fight for Survival or Humanity against the Swarm & Makes JD the main Protagonist. Gears 5 did do some things right. I just wish Marcus, Cole, Baird, Sam, Paduk & Clayton had larger roles in the game. Bring back Hoffman as well!
I hope so as well mate!
I can 100% confirm that the argument of bringing back the original look of gore would be very resource consuming is complete bullshit. They're just nothing but lazy and afraid to do things that the first game already did
I just dont want TC to make anymore gears. They're clearly aren't fit for the job.
I don't right now but I hope they can turn it around
I completely agree and rod fegouson is rain Johnson of Gears of war fuck that guy and Phil Spencer what a bunch of sjw reatared greddy douchebags.
Because I grew up with an Xbox, Gears and Halo 3 have always been my favorite games. It just seems like every juggernaut game franchise like these two are bound to be ruined with recent trends and microtransactions. SMH
This game made a hard push with terminator for some weird reason and terminator flopped in theatres. Kind of sums up this game to unfortunately
Yup I agree completely!
Every time I hear the Gears 1 main menu song I imagine Dom and Marcus fighting against Locusts on a bridge next to an ocean and it still creeps me the hell out after more than a decade
It stopped being gears of war when it wasn't about delta anymore
I can understand that but I didn't mind 4
@@shepardgaming5594 you see i wouldnt of mind it, cause they at least kept it about marcus fenixs family, but really kait??
@@shepardgaming5594 these newer ones would never catch my attention the same time the very first gears came out. Gears one was amazing despite how old it was and the resources available to make it.
It stopped being gears of war to when the Locust Horde were completely ruined and the new characters sucked ass and are just sjw trash and not gears of war chacaters and Marcus son was a massive waste of protenial and should of been 30 years old and voiced by Steve Blum and had a different name because JD sucks what kind of name is that just fuck the coaltion they complety ruined the series.
@@Elitesolider1023 maybe something besides james, but jd stands james dominic. And i appreciate they put doms name in the game but yes horde was amazing
The reality is, if Gears 5 came out on PlayStation, it would’ve been huge. Xbox has a much smaller market and the game did great within that consumer base.
Gears will be fine.
This Game is pure trash... Even worst than judgement...
Damn now that's savage lol, I actually really enjoyed Overrun mode in judgement!
Shepard Gaming I think people don’t give Judgement enough Credit for the things it did right. Sure the multiplayer was not good and had almost no maps in it, the weapon scheme was an unnecessary change and some other stuff weren’t gears like, but the campaign was okay, the new modes were enjoyable, it wasn’t the worst game ever
Judgement was good though. For a 360 game and console. Ultimate Edition was Laggy.
Hahahhahahaha so true pure trash it so clunky something or everything is just wrong gears needs to have it midevil Roman look and dark gore back
I was a hardcore gears fan during the 360 days. But I couldn't even play gears 5. Something was definitely off
Gears 1 and 2 will always be my favorite games of all time. Gears 3 has my favorite multiplayer of all time
I feel like gears 4 should have been brighter than the original trilogy to show they were coming from a time of peace but they missed the opportunity to transform it back to the dark gritty feel by they end of the game to show times of war are back
I really loved how the Gears 3 shotguns could turn someone into mincemeat in close range and how you can be turned into meat chunks yourself. Sometimes it can feel a bit cheap but the satisfaction and high you receive from those near-death experiences are unrivaled. The closest I have gotten to that feeling is surviving an entire match of Titan fall without dying. It just felt right.
Man although I was only 8, I used to be scared playing gears 1 and 2, but In a good way. I liked that I could relate to the characters and atmosphere of the game. It added a sense of realism and led to me being thankful that the locust weren’t real. But now, even though i think gears 5 is fun, it’s just not how the franchise used to be.
Gears started to lose me when they tried to butcher JD and shove Kait in as the protagonist for brownie points from femitards.
But it REALLY lost me when I realized that you couldnt just BE a character in horde mode. And that your weapons were locked.
Not coming back until shit is fixed.
Yeah I agree with what you said
@@shepardgaming5594 seriously you agree with all of this? Lost a bit of respect for your video and opinion when you think Kait as a playable character is "brownie points from femitards"
TeryonTheHuman a female protagonists has nothing to do with catering to the feminist, you’re just a fucking sexist
Just made General in the Tour of Duty the other day and unlocked the associated achievement.
The brutal monetization of the cosmetics has now chased me away from the game for a good while.
So many other games to play.
Everyone help gears of war and do ur part and send this video and ur thoughts that the new inverse omen sucks and we want the gore from the first game back
I really hated the “open world” sections, they were soo boring, i just really wanted something to happen while playing those areas. 😪
Span :D yeah completely agree. I mean yeah the skiff or whatever its called was fun to drive around but damn i swear half the game was in the desert and snowy area and there was nothing to so besides ski around. Obviously there were little side quests but they were no where near satisfying or had any true reason to be there. Really would appreciate for that to not make a return in gears6. Gears is a linear playstyle and should stay that way period.
PogoLothoin Yeah exactly, i felt the same
5:35 why you gotta do this to me man. 😭
Haha I know I'm sorry mate!
i dont know what to do man!
I think the game was fine - stale, but fine. It was the fucking game-breaking glitches that made me hate it.
The scene with Dom and Maria made my heart sink
I havent played gears since the 360 era, but picked up Gears 5 for next to nothing on a steam sale and so far im enjoying the game, it isnt the OG trillogy but it isnt a bad game.
This game went from me playing it everyday with gears 2 and 3 to me actually working out and having a life now with gears 5 shit ain’t right man 😔just give me a gears 2 and 3 remaster PLEASE
ok i do agree with a lot of these points, but there's just one thing. I do miss it being dark and gritty, but in gears 4, humanity had 25 years to rebuild and maybe overtime as the swarm wars rages on, it will become the dark and gritty game we love. All we'll need is a good soundtrack like gears 2.
I love how professional and fluid your videos are, especially this one since I love Gears of War. Everything is on point and perfectly explained. I've also been a fan since 2006 and feel the exact way. TC we have given you literally EVERYTHING you need to come back strong.
Gerald Gomez exactly!
Gears of War 2 still the best Gears seen. I hope CliffyB gets really into help production for Gears 6 now that R. Ferguson is gone. Please bring the darkness and slower paced tru gears combat back! Fuck Gears of Duty!
Did Epic have a hard time selling over the Gears brand? I dont know much about that. I wonder what Gears would be like if Epic was still doing it.
Well after fortnite I can't imagine they would have done gears, but maybe they could have done more games before ever even considering fortnite!
@@shepardgaming5594 I watched the last half of the video and I agree about the sound track. I remember when I was 7, I was always intimidated by the Gears 2 menu music.
Thanks mate! Yeah the soundtrack used to VERY iconic!
Or even better if cliffy b stayed around, hee obviously saw what was coming, took his money and left before this atrocity landed on his shoulders.
It would still be better then this crap
This videos absolutely feels like it is coming from a loving Gears of War fan. Thank you for summarizing what the community as a whole has been feeling, and what they hate about this new game. I applaud you.
Although I do have to disagree with having the Halo characters, I feel like they feel at home in Gears.
I really don't like that they changed the main character all i wanted to do is play as JD throughout the campaign
Same mate
JD is gay as hell too.
Tyler Gable He would be better than kait; her dialogue was probably written by a 5 year old. I mean come on. “This isn’t about you, this is about me” or the priceless dialogue between her and jinn where jinn says that “you can help stop this” and kait says “lady, what the fuck do you think i’ve been doing”. What happened to marcus and his “i just lost my fucking brother” or “you feel that? Thats from dom, and everyone else you killed you bitch!” The dialogue is more cheesy and comedic rather than dark and gritty. And that pretty much sums up the entire atmosphere of 4 and 5 compared to 1, 2, and 3.
The free roam stuff was a chore to get through. Huge miscalculation by the developers. The first time I’ve ever put down a Gears title without beating it in one sitting. Plus there was absolutely 0 substantive story progression here. I feel like as far as story goes, the new hipster writers pretty much had their ending in mind back in 2015 and not much else. In 4, they set up the world and the characters in the first couple levels, and then not much else went down worth noting. So in this sequel, there’s no meat to the story, cause the writers are just waiting for their ending in 6.
The revisiting of the Gears 2 locations was interesting for a few minutes, but unfortunately NOTHING came of it. I thought they were setting up some kind of Alien spaceship reveal up in the Mountains (Locust Alien Theory), but nope, just unbelievably - disappointingly - predictable clone/gene splicing/human goblin chimera “have babies with a goblin” stuff. Oh well.
ALSO... The save Del/JD thing. It’s most likely nothing will come of this either. BioWare seemed incapable of transferring this stuff between games properly, and I wouldn’t imagine the Coalition will be any better about this. They’ll probably just kill off both characters right at the start of Gears 6 and be done with that idea.
Imagine if gears had tripwire interactive helping out with the gore/executions.
Yeah someone commented about the Gore and I said to play killing floor 2
IMO I feel like it’s a trend
Halo had its downfall with Halo: 5
Black Ops had its downfall with Black Ops 4 (not 5 but close enough)
And now Gears...
What’s happened to our favorite games..... 😔
The game has a ton of problems:
- Its name, it should be called Gears of War 5 not Gears 5
- The Campaign has some glaring issues, it still has missing Components/Collectibles. Preventing people from getting all achievements.
- The Campaign only has 4 Acts. It should have at least 5 or 6 Acts. It wants to be a new chapter in the Gears of War franchise, then go all out with the story.
- Campaign should have a class system where you can edit your class before playing, so you can use whichever Relic weapons you like (if you collected them).
- Marcus and his crew should definitely be the protagonists in Gears of War 6 instead of Kait and her group.
- The gore and destructible environment in Gears 5 are pathetic compared to previous games. Weapons don't 'feel' as powerful as well anymore.
- Horde has not enough maps, a lot of missing Locust enemies and to much annoying Swarm and DeeBees who nobody likes. The fabricator and Furnace make it unnacessary complicated. And why are the perks you can upgrade during the 50 waves so lackluster??
- Versus is still suffering from Gnasher fanatics. No fun at all there!
- The in game store is veey greedy and ruins a big part of the fun and excitement. No need to grind of people can buy everything for outrageous prices.
- Amd lastly, the music...... they should have hired Hans Zimmer. His Modern Warfare 2 soundtracks are still amazing!
Horde and Campaign are where it's at and it is dissapointing.........
Very well said it's got a laundry list of issues..
Marcus' story concluded nicely. There isn't much he can do that we haven't seen already. Bring him back, and oh no, TC is running out of ideas.
Some of what you said is pretty much generic stuff that everyone has been saying about the game being lacking with some opinions tossed in.
"Gnasher finatics"
Yeah, go play a different game if you don't like the gnasher. 2nd, this is the *most* lancer/open gears in the franchise.
Cliffy B. Wanted and designed gears to specifically be Close range gritty action, not a generic rifle based shooter.
KillerZ x Ace Did you ever thought about how the campaign in this new games feel unfinished, like not just about the length of it, the story doesn’t feel like you accomplish something, it just ends in a cliffhanger. Back in gears 1 and 2 when you played the campaign and reached the end, even if you did not exterminate the locusts, you felt that you did something big, killing Raam and destroying the locusts tunnels and flooding Jacinto were awesome moments.
It just doesn’t feel like TC know how to tell a story.
That scene with Dom and Maria is so unforgettable and gave me goosebumps all over again, wish TC would go back to what made Gears so different with its horror aspect
I stopped playing this game and went to play mw. RIP gears
I have as well actually lol
After MW i quitted with the massive camping.
@@emanuelramos7096 you gotta have the right squad tho. Knowing that there will be campers all the time.
Same dude ! Last cod i played was ghosts back when the xbox one released and luckily gears UE dropped and was playing that untill gears 4 came but now i am well and truly done with this franchise
@@abbasshussainh786 UE better than 4 & 5.
Dom panicing and asking Marcus what to do, still brings tears to my eyes. Best (gears) gaming scene I ever saw
They need Cliff or give us a gears 2 remake
Wow! I agree 100% This is not my beloved GEARS game. I haven't even finished the campaign . So sad!
Delancy Richardson I didn't even started it lol and I'm a gear head this game and 4th is trash
I play gears 3 and 4 more then 5 at the moment
BaneFiend 62 4 is just as bad
Yeah I've started playing 3 a lot more now!
Gears of War
4 is no where near as bad as 5
The other day I finally got to explore gears of 3 vs maps and let me tell you I was impressed how each map had its own environment sounds on the back ground, check out the Hotel map wow the wind, and Steps on wooden floor and rocks. I was so satisfied to hear enemies and being able have a fighting chance if the enemy is coming from behind. In gears 5 I don’t hear enemies I just die, is sad how previous gears give you the feeling that you are in the map and GOW 4-5 feels empty and boring
Gears of war 3 ended for me.
I can see why, although I thought 4 was a decent attempt by newcomers gear 5 was the wrong move!
@@shepardgaming5594 The Store is fucking disgusting...
Once Anya and Dom died, it wasn't the same for me.
It really is especially after what they've done recently..
I didn't even realise how un gears like the new games actually were until I watched this and now I'm sad lol. The clips of the old games brought back major memories