as a woman who's been playing all the gears games since 2010, i completely agree that 4 and 5 absolutely suck. i appreciate a very well written story that has characters you can connect with in one way or another (which i did with the og games and no they weren't Anya or Sam or Bernadette). E-Day has me hyped for going back to the Locust War and i'm so excited to see both Dom and Marcus again fighting at each others side. The story is just too good to water it down in the way they've been doing it. BROTHERS til the end
@TheEmperorDoctor exactly. if it ain't broke, don't try and fix it. Gears of War was perfectly fine the way it was. the holy woman empire doesn't have to dominate everything.
@@EK-yh1oiwomen may like the later Gears games because of Kait being a main character. But look more and people see all the new characters are bland and generic. But Kait also because they had to get the voice actress that voices all women the same way
@@thewallpersonified3152 😂😂 Please !! Stop it !! Stop lying! Doom and Unreal Tournament were popular and trendy in these years. Stop it !! We played these games in university, you are lying to the wrong guy! Gears have the same engine as Unreal Tournament, similar armored guys were in the 2003 Unreal Tournament promo videos.
I remember when I hosted a Gears of War 3 tournament at home. Three friends had brought over their consoles and 36in flat screens. With fully loaded horde and multiplayer games, adding in pop and pizza, it was the best time.
4 and 5 weren't bad like the 343 halos. The biggest complaint in the community seems to be you played as a woman, but that just seems like a vocal minority of incels whining for no reason.
@@a1way5watch1ng9 gears 4 and 5 are trash and playing as a woman is one of the problems. Why should i care about this Mexican woman and her mom i don't know her. Also 4 and 5 is just another instances of taking male-dominated products and trying to make the focal point in them, and then you wonder why all of them fail. I would say the same thing if they came out with a tomb raider game and it had a male character as the lead. I would say why is a male character starring in a tomb raider game.
@@a1way5watch1ng9gears 4 and 5 are trash and playing as a woman is one of the problems. Why should i care about this Mexican woman and her mom i don't know her. Also he literally gave you reasons why 4 and 5 are trash they're way too easy and enemy AI is trash.🤦🏿♂️ Also 4 and 5 is just another instances of taking male-dominated products and trying to make the focal point in them, and then you wonder why all of them fail. I would say the same thing if they came out with a tomb raider game and it had a male character as the lead. I would say why is a male character starring in a tomb raider game.
@a1way5watch1ng9 Gears of War 4 and 5 of garbage. And that chick Kate is annoying she's a petulant child, she's vindictive she's disobedient, rude etc. she's nothing like Marcus Fenix in Gears of War 1, 2 and 3. Why should i care about this Mexican woman and her mother? I don't know her or care about her character. Marcus Fenix is the type of leader that i would want to follow if he was my commander not that whiny brat Kate. Also Kate just gets to disobey orders and do whatever she wants. Marcus Fenix went to jail because he tried to save his father Also he gave you other reasons why the last two Gears of War are trash. Gears of Wars 4 and 5 are way too easy and the AI in 4 and 5 are also trash. It's just another instance of taking a male-dominated franchise and trying to insert women into the lead and you wonder why it fails. And I would say the same thing if they came out with a new Tomb Raider video game and Lara Croft wasn't in it, and instead they had a male lead. I would say why is a male lead in a Tomb Raider game.
Gears ended with the third one, for me. Once Cliffy left, it became average. Even the graphics became cartoonish. I recall the gaming media mocking the colour pallette, labelling it brown. But that realistic, gritty tone, was Gears. When they started adding robots & the focus was taken away from Marcus, the magic was lost. I don't want Gears 6. I want a complete reboot, with Cliff back in charge. Great video, I completely agree with all your points. Gears was the personification of masculinity, done in a fun way.
Cliff was awful and took a lot of credit that didn’t belong to him. Also a super douche in real life, he was neighbor in nc. Trust me, if you ever meet him, you’ll hate him
Tai was considered 'unbreakable' by many, true...but not even someone like him could be put through Locust torture without coming out the other side wrong... Maria on the other hand got put through an even worse form of the Locust torture where they end with lobotomy via gouging a knife into the base of the upper eyelid so the blade scrapes at the portion of the brain that makes a person who they are alongside other things like basic motor functions; its how they make obedient slaves and why she looks so dessicated by the time Marcus and Dom find her in 2
Tai killed himself because of ptsd he couldn't live with the trauma the locust put him through and doms wife didnt zombify when she changed thats how she actually looked where as before dom basically had rose tinted glasses on.
Tai killed himself because his body was just a carcass. He believed in the afterlife (or reincarnation, i do ;t really remmember) so he "freed his souls" (it was on the comics)
I genuinely miss short, linear, singleplayer campaigns (8-15 hours max on normal difficulty) that are also highly replayable. The problem with modern AAA games is you either get an open world or some kind of RPG with hundreds of hours of padding... or, on the other side of the scale, excessively cinematic, linear campaigns that have only 30-50% of it being actual gameplay. And I hate when the latter is often considered as the same thing as the older, more gameplay-focused games. I love Max Payne 3, but it's certainly an example of just how much things changed across the years from the way games were handled way back in terms of the ratio between story and core gameplay.
Yeah, I was going to play Dishonored 2 but I realized I had a lot of acheievments to get in the first game. I went through the whole game and dlc with energy to play it more as I messed up my ghost run. The game takes less than 10 hours to beat at a casual rate and has lots of replayablity. I tried to play Deus Ex HR but I think its a little too dated or something. I'd like to try the sequel which Ive seen on sale for 5$. These "immersive sim" games they call them are superb imo. They respect your time and have excellent gameplay.
@@iBishopEsquire, I'm almost done with Human Revolution, and, while I agree that certain gameplay mechanics are dated (as some quick examples, tap to aim with no options for holding a button down for it... or the janky gunplay), I still think it holds up really well. Pacing is fantastic story-wise, especially! Altho it still does take a while to get into immersive sims since I would still usually prefer more straightforward games with engaging combat as the core pillar... but that's more of a preference thing.
Gears of War E-day just dropped a trailer and it honestly looks like a return to form. Somber music, gritty violence, horrors of Armageddon and most importantly Dominic and Marcus back together.
@intellectic9155 They have said it will be a 'modern take' on their relationship and have talked about them being youthful and vulnerable. So yeh I'm a little worried lol.
With companies like Sweet Baby Inc basically having a death grip over the throats of Microsoft and other companies, we might never get a good gears game again.
Considering the events of the last week, I'd say it's the other way around, where Microsoft has a death grip on the studios under its umbrella. Including The Coalition, Gears of War's current development team. Whether or not Sweet Baby Inc has any real power over a game's success, is inconsequential --- Microsoft doesn't guarantee job security, either way. And I imagine morale has plummeted quite drastically, as a result. There _is,_ however, a possibility The Coalition has immunity, being a steward of one of Microsoft's flagship franchise, just like 343i, but there's no assurance of this.
“I didn’t play gears until 2023” God I love it when it someone discovers peak gaming late in life. A testament to the quality. No hype. No nostalgia. Proof that the game was PEAK
He definitely missed out on the multiplayer side of things though. And even though the games do hold up it is a completely different experience to play them when they first came out and just be blown away.
Tai Kaliso wasn’t turned into a Locust, he was being tortured by Scorge to the point of irreparable trauma, and that happens before we found Maria living the longer lasting effects of that same torture, just a little correction
@@taintedgoose9138 yeaaaah, I’m also a little bit confused about his comments about 4 & 5 being “femenine and being about motherhood and mother daughter relationship” when the relationship between Reina and Kait is blatantly ignored and Kait shuts it off every time she’s asked about it, I’m definitely not a fan of both games but I think he was kinda being salty about Kait being a main character (which, she’s awful, dull, uninteresting but definitely doesn’t make the game “femenine” at all)
Yo i think you need to go and play the games again lol. Maria was tortured and Lobotomised, Tai got his mind broken by torture he wasnt being turned into a locust
This game was way ahead of its time, still holds up today in 60fps on newer consoles. I still play with people online, it sucks when games are so bad now you go back to the good stuff. Im 33 now and I think I grew up in the best gaming era, halo 2/3, gears 1, cod 3 and 4, battlefield 3/4....etc
I feel like games like this will never come back, but with videos like this makes me feel great, knowing I wasn’t the only one around the world that experienced such a game.
I was a big fan of the Gears of War games. Played 1 - Judgement. I went on an hiatus for a while cuz of adult life. I returned and picked up the latest game in the series; gears 5. And I am shocked by how everything is different. The writing is bad too. Only pro I can think of is the gore is still fine
I used to play Gears of War 1/2/3 on Gamebattles and it was literally my childhood/entire teen hood lol. Probably thousands of hours invested into it. I was so ready for Gears 4 but I lost all interest from there on out. Idk man, just something about it. It wasn’t the same Gears of War anymore. Same happened with Halo. These series’ both died after 3.
Gears was the Perfect way to hop in to that gen of gaming. Had a 360 in the house because the ps3 came out later, but this is the type of game that sells consoles. It was such a different industry back then.
From what i remember. There was a huge shift in third person shooters once RE4 came out. While it is true that Gears pioneered third person cover shooting, RE4 pioneered the over the shoulder precision aiming camera which at the time i saw many games adopting into their design. At the time the Games i noticed such as the first Uncharted, Dead Space, MGS4, GTAIV, and several others started using RE4's precision aiming mechanics, including gears itself.
Yes RE4 was one of the first 3rd person shooters, but Gears popularized the cover based shooter. Last of Us and Uncharted both borrowed this from Gears. Games like GTA 4 you can see didn't borrow Gears mechanics and were worse for it.
What? Tye didn't get turned into a Locust what are you talking about? Hahaha. He killed himself cause of the brutal torture he went through and wanted to put himself out of his misery
A lot of the people in the coalition who were taking the franchise in that direction on 4 and 5 are no longer there. So the studio is now moving to do E-day before they can figure out what to do with 6.
we can let it sink with this Marcus left his post to save his dad, costing lives and being put in jail, Dom never questioned him for that, in fact followed him to it He sucker punched Hoffman doing that, and even despite his anger for that and him leaving his duty, he still has Marcus on the field on the first game Baird and Dom hated each other in the firt game, but never was a factor to stop doing their job Dizzy was a stranded completely and considering how much they hate the COG, he still joined so his family could be secured Michael Barrik had his hatred towards the COG for ruining his life, and he still joined as he thought someone had to get things done Even Judgement, Loomis wanted Kilo squad dead for using the missile unauthorized, and when they are overrun by locust, they still help each other to take down Karn Gears 5 has Kait and Del hating on JD for shooting protesters who clearly were menacing his life (and as far as I know was an order from Jinn to begin), and the event why he leaved the COG, his supposed best friends shit talking him a whole episode despite showing he would sacrifice himself for them a chapter earlier, there is no loyalty whatsoever
Gears of War 4... Maybe it's me? The dialogue/writing was hollow. Felt like it was created, just for money? Gears of War 3 finished the story, basically. But nope, The Swarm had to be a thing. With nothing new offered. Bring back the horror element and fear/pressure in cover based crossfire.
Gears 4 and 5 were like Dom seeds, completely fucked up. I remember first playing GoW(2) in 2009 and i loved it so much i played it 1000s of times. From that point i bought every single part and thought that after not so perfect "Judgement" they'll surely snap out.. Boy was i wrong, althou latest trailer for E-day gave me goosebumps and if it delivers i may buy xbox just to come back to the serie again
@@39patrykos Relatable. Me and a buddy first played Gears of War 2. We killed it in Horde Mode and the campaign. Gears of War 3 was when we hit Versus Mode. Good times. And then right, Judgment came out... It was experimental and did not work for most. Especially the "two piecing". Balance was off horribly. 4 and 5 felt like cash grabs. The Coalition milking the cow, basically. With E-Day, I hope it's not like most, Battlefield 2042 for example. Built up the hype, but bombed on delivery.
@@jaredsmith4919 That just hits different. It's hard to find such a great games that also feature Coop nowadays. It's been some time since Gears 5 was released so im trying to think of E-day not as Bf42, but as Cod Ww2 or Bf1 that actually gave us what we wanted. I really hope that Coalition realized how much we loved this Good ol' story
@@39patrykos Most you may have to dig for, that fly under the radar. Indie devs most of the time. My opinions differ there with those two titles. Usually because of age and/or preference. To say Dead Space 2 or Borderlands 2 when they released. Complete improvement, can't really say there were too many negatives. Back on point. It feels like Halo Reach to me? A lot of people loved it? But going from Halo 3 to Reach felt like a downgrade. And it made some sense since it was a prequel. But doesn't have to be? It's tricky but possible. For E-Day the story of Dom and Marcus could be great if handled with care? The Locust Drones being beefed up could be a welcome challenge? Though weapons and gameplay I hope they don't try to manipulate it too much?
It didn't go wrong anywhere. The trilogy ended in full glory. If anything, it's the gaming corpo industry that is not able to leave IPs alone and milks them to no end.
I remember playing the prequel game gears tactics and refunding after 20 min because they had a side objective to save human prisoners. For those who don’t know a major plot point of Gears 2 is that Locust all the sudden started taking prisoners and processing them for god knows what. This is shocking since the Locust notoriously don’t take prisoners, and this entire mystery leads to finding out what happens to Dom’s wife. That entire thing is just retconned because the Devs didn’t play any of the older games and don’t give a shit about the lore.
13:01 that was some nasty editing right there 😂 10/10 video. As someone who has been playing Gears non stop since '07 (just finished a 3 hour session of Gears5) your analysis (especially about the story and male bonding) is spot on. Love the video brother 💪🏾
When Anya held Marcus back after Dom’s sacrifice in the third game is when I knew the franchise was done. I knew it was going to be female focused after that
Gears of war will forever hold a special place in my heart. the music, the dialogue, the story, the gameplay, gears 1-3 is just perfect. i sometimes go back and replay gears 1 and 3 and it never gets old. the comradery is some of the best ive ever seen in any game. its so damn realistic especially if youve served . my mom took me to a toys r us when i was like 10-14 years old and let me pick an M rated game. it was either Afro Samurai or Gears of War 1. i chose gears. we get home, turn the xbox and start playing. that ominous title screen will never leave my mind. my hears all the cussing and sees all the blood and knew she messed up buying me this game😂 the Berserker haunted me for years till ingot older and just laughed at it. i even know lines from the game like the back of my hand
That trailer for gears 1 was amazing. The online, crab walking, Hosting Over power, MLG battles… man what a great time to be alive and a kid with no responsibility with all your buddies and shiiiite talking after a match. I’ll never forget how amazing these 3 games where. I still put beating General RAMM on insane on my resume, that’s a life achievement.
My friend used to always get his ass kicked by "The Bolter" enemy type. Im like, "Son!!!!! U gettin yo ass kicked by a dude with a pistol! Wtf you doin son?!" We all be down, hes got 1 guy to kill and chokes...like the damn 92-95 Buffalo bills.
8:06 From the PlayStation side of an isle I feel the same way about God of War games. The original was gory as hell but compared the pussified reboot series. This is an industry-wide problem.
14:23 i disagree. what makes the game good is that you do feel the burden of orders when they come from command. whenever you have to take a long route, redo a faulty mission, go back down a dark and eerie path in a storm with krill,, etc, your thought process is the same as a soldier who has to suck it up and get it done, while the commanding officers and anya sit behind their desks.
I played Gears 3 probably x10. Featuring women was cool . But making it about women and being the main character reaks of that modern audience Bullshit. On top of other problems the newer ganes had
Gears of war 1 is my all time favorite game and I adore the OG trilogy to death, making me a fan. Even if games like 5 & Judgment aren't as good, I still enjoy them.
I believe that Judgment had a lot of good ideas that were implemented unevenly in a way that made it hard for people to appreciate its genuinely good parts while its bad ideas stood out like sore thumbs. The story was excellent (even though it retconned things in the lore didn’t need retconning to produce an equally good story) and the way the challenge system played into it was actually a brilliant idea from a narrative standpoint. The problems there lie in how poorly many of the challenges are implemented and how its map design in the campaign made things unnecessarily punishing to players on the higher difficulties. As for its bad parts, the control scheme change and changes to the effectiveness of weapons like the Gnasher, I agree that these were mistakes that are jarring for people jumping from one game to the next. I believe that a PC port and modding tools would allow players to fix the worst mistakes in Judgment as such that the intended experience would be able to shine through.
Back when these games came out, they also had very fun online PvP modes similar to cod/halo like team deathmatch, executioner, king of the hill, which were a lot of fun and very competitive. Gears 2 and 3 also introduced horde mode and beast mode which are a ton of fun as well. This added a lot of replay-ability beyond the story modes. It was honestly such a great series, and it's too bad they couldn't make more games like the first three to keep the franchise alive.
gears 1 and 3 to this day are my favorite multi-player experiences its crazy that a 3rd person shooter could have a mechanism that seems so minor aka wall bouncing and canceling leading to perhaps the most high skill ceiling and intensive movement mechanic I've ever seen, and I have thousands of hours in cs surf and tf2 rocket and sticky jumper maps. there's just nothing else quite like being a good gears player on a movement tech level 👌 go back and check out some of those old essence montages and thank me later 👍
Im gonna adress this since nobody does: kate diaz is the rey skypalpatine of her franchise... ¿Huh? ¿the hell im talking about? Is quite simple, she is the granchild of the main enemy from the last trilogy, she is anoying and has no likible character traits and is using the last main male protagonist as her personal coach and father figure... and potentially gona survive the son of him to in the sequel
I have to admit, your review is spot on. I played gears on split screen with the my brother growing up and it was incredible. The game was way beyond its time and I remember being in awe about the dynamics. In split screen I truly felt dependent on ensuring my brother would have my back because the AI was so good. The story line so immersive, when Dom died it literally made me teary eye. It was incredible experience, the emotion and character building was amazing. Gears 4/5 felt generic trying to use the gears of war title as a means of credibility. It felt very flat to me, lacked completely connection with the characters.
Gears of Woke 6 was a self telling story that needed no release. If they wanted a female character, should have kept Anya alive. Its new to us but nothing beats sticking it to the broken; like rolling a red-stained carpet over a flaccid rainbow.
When it comes to the original GOW games it's like you said, they're about brotherhood. Soldiers who start out as strangers who grow to die for each other. Something that E-Day has a lot potential for with showing how dom and Marcus learned to become brothers in arms. With Gears 4 and 5 the tone is completely off compared to the others. No one cares about JD and his dad issues with Marcus or kait discovering her identity of being related to the locust queen, or del just being... there, he doesn't really contribute anything to the plot aside from being the best friend. also the writing is just not right, it's trying way too hard to be like a buddy cop joss Whedon script. I wonder if they'll ever make a gears 6? I don't think many people would care if they abandoned it, it would be kinda funny actually.
This was a really great watch! I'm in agreement pretty much all the way, and having played the hell out of the first three games in the Gears franchise back as the released it still only just now fully registered with me just how much Gears of War really did change up the entire gaming industry. After that first one came out it became the game design template for other devs making third-person shooters to work off of. It would have been easy for those guys to coast through a lax dev cycle for the 2 sequels but they still kept at it with the refinements and improving the narrative writing chops each time. Like that scene where Dom reunites with his wife, with the camera panning around them to first show how Dom was seeing her as he remembered so the gut punch hits hard when reality subtly creeps in to reveal the utterly broken state of her. The why they executed that allowed us to experience that loss with Dom in each moment as hope turned to dread and reached it's climax that was the horror in the tragedy. The scene plays out pretty fast but damn did it leave an impression! Great vid once again! I've been subbed for a little while now but only finally got around to leaving a comment, so let me say you're content is consistently on point and you have my appreciation my good man!
You know whats funny? They decide to make a female character and suddenly the game has to be all soft. They could have created a female character and explored how she faces the horrors of a war and come through as a soldier. Different from the way of men, but still badass and believable. In the same way that the character you mentioned is a grunt but he still cares about his wife.
I’ll tell you the exact reason Gears of War failed: Greed. As someone who’s put literally thousands of hours into Gears of War and was top 10 in the world for Gears 1 I truly have seen the decline of Gears of war from within. The decline started in Gears of War 3 when attempting to appeal to the masses and gain even more money they sold out and reverted to copying other games for their success. They implemented game modes like team deathmatch, made the gameplay more noob friendly with weapons like the sawed off shotgun and tried everything to get more newbies to play their game. The downfall grew from there until we seen Gears 5 with their Terminator skins and FOMO cash shop. The first 2 games had an exciting and immersive campaign but yet again it was three that ran out of ideas and instead said “ohhh shiny explosive locusts” In truth It went for graphics over gameplay, copying others instead of innovating and sold its soul, and no matter how hard they try, it will never be successful ever again.
Weren't the Lambents in Gears 1 and 2 as well (at least the Lambent Wretches and Drones)? Sure, Gears 3 did introduce new Lambent variants, but I never saw that as a sign of them running out of ideas.
Going to be controversial to say, but it was at its best when it was just the dude bro shooter. They added some emotion to add more depth to the story and characters in 2 onward but it was still just gritty gore and testosterone. Then, the whole tone and shooter changed. The devs moved around and changed. Cliffy B changed. Then, the whole franchise changed for the worst trying to appeal to everyone and forgetting the core attraction to the series. There was nothing wrong with just being that hardcore dude bro shooter, but like Halo 4, Gears 4 onward tried chasing trends and culture zeitgeists and lost its charm.
Gears 3 sucked too, trivialized a lot of boss enemies and changed the shooting to more cod like with half the ammo and two held weapons that had to constantly be swapped vs planning and conserving ammo like 1 and 2
I was about 5 years old when i played Gears of war 1 it was my first video game and it has stuck with me ever since Im 18 now heading to college and im still in love with the franchise even if the new installments are not as good as previous ones
Gears 1 changed games for me. It was Gritty, violent, looked incredible, and had a brutal Multiplayer. 8 Rnds, execution. You die, you sit out the round. Gears 2 was even more epic. Horde mode for hours. Sadly, I think Gears 3 moved away from what made 1 and 2 great. It introduced TDM to compete with trends at the time, it introduced paid cosmetic skins, it was so bright and colourful. I still.played the hell out of it, but I missed the dark black blood and violence from the 1st 2 games.. I enjoyed Gears so much, I even have a tattoo of it. A simple COG.
if you watched the xbox showcase, 95% of the games were women based. whether it was skateboarding, warriors, assassins, shooters, the video game industry and hollywood are in shambles. also, we're all sexists, nothing wrong with that.
Not to worry we got masculinity coming back now on gears E day. No women bs just dudes fighting a war as it should be. Nothing against women gears 3 had women and it was appropriate. Anya and Sam were beloved characters.
All we have so far is a trailer. Essentially a very well done advertisement. There’s nothing that says they won’t push the same crap that every other game does when the game finally releases.
You are easily swayed. We’ve seen the bait and switch move before. Most recently Stellar Blade where they changed the game after it launched through game patches after promising that they would not do that.
@@majorgear1021Someone went over that (ShortFatOtaku) and it’s not as clear as people thought. Because there’s still very obviously sexy costumes in-game. Long story short, it seems they “borrowed” real life outfits without getting licenses, and changed them enough to avoid a lawsuit. And I think the blood changed either because the trailer was an earlier build, or because it’s based on whether or not you’re wearing the “nude” costume. He has a summary at the end if you want to skip to that.
Played the gears serie like...dozens of time. It's interesting that you bring the difficulty up. Back then, the achievement linked to finishing the game in insane difficulty was very coveted. Most people needed to play it with a friend to get it. I remember telling some people online how I managed to finish it solo on insane and...they just wouldn't believe me. In the collector version, the team explains that their goal at first was to make a horror game. Then they settled on a "dark-war" game. You can see a lot of disturbing scenes through the first specifically. Those actually added to the heavy feeling of war. Secondly, Cliff explained that he wanted to get away from all the classical tropes of scifi games like yellow zebras on the ground, spaceships coming from the sky or hyper futuristic ennemies. This is why we had helicopters, underground ennemies and beast-mounted weaponry. This helped to get immersed even more in the world. And they even managed to make the sequel being better! My only regret is that I can't play them on PC since I don't have consoles.
I’m pushing back against one comparison. You said Last of us copied gears but imo Last of us/uncharted revolutionized cover shooters by taking away snapping to cover and just integrating character animation and cover. Which most games do now instead of what gears did. It’s outdated now how gears cover shooting works.
Completely agree with you, you put this together well as someone that played gears from the start. I fell asleep with controller in hand playing gears 5
Watching this after the trailer released yesterday, Gears 1 is what brought me to Xbox. I got it for Christmas and my brother and I played it together on split screen. It’s still my favourite gaming memory to this day, it’s my favourite franchise of all time. Seeing Dom save Marcus in the trailer yesterday brought tears to my eyes. All those memories with my brother back and nothing will ever take those away. This franchise is more than a game to me, I’m so happy they’re going back to their roots with E-Day
The main problem with the newer gears is that they forget what makes gears gears. Their to focused on getting more people to play gears then just making a gears game. Just look how to changed the name it went from Gears of WAR to Gears. Each new Gears game is dumbing down the gore and violence. Just look at the Gears 5 gameplay the blood looks like jellO. Going back to OG gears 1 and 2 that shit was violent. I remember taking the time to look at a locust corpse after I chain sawed them. Seeing guts and bone coming out and thinking Nice. Remember how in Gears 1 Carmine got shot in the face and you saw a big hole in his head then his lifeless body hits the ground? In Gears 5 I cant even think of a scene being that dark or violent. Now you think okay the violence is toned down that means the story should be good right? No its not. Gears 4 was alright but, not as good. I take as a decent first Gears game made by the new studio. Then Gears 5 stop focusing on JD then mind you previous game made him the main character and the prime focus for the trailers. To focus on Kate. Yes Kate the one that no one really cared for some did do to the mystery at the end of 4 and her mom dying. Not only that they try to make every single way to make JD look like a dick. Bold move for them to do unfortunately for a good few people some people liked JD now your making him an ass of himself. Not only that but, Gears 5 multiplayer sucked due to them focusing on microtransactions . Horde mode was a shadow of its former self the only cool mode might have been Hive . I barely remember the multiplayer in Gears 4 and 5 thats how dull it was. Not to mention if you wanted to character skin you have to get lucky and spend a good bit of money to get it. Older gears game you unlock by challenges or just got it from the store. Which is kinda crappy but, atleast I did have to spend 50+ to unlock UIR skin. The only point I disagree with the video is the part about women. Im not a sjw just wanted to say its fine to have females in gears but, dont make like Kate. There are plenty of females in the gears books that are just as badass as finx and it doenst pull the Mary Sue shit like Kate. Oh just thought about it the part of "Following orders" its not really a gears theme because in the books marcus didnt follow orders and got a whole city killed due to his actions. Still a good video on the subject but, I would have added that the Collation is just trying to appease to the market then Gears fans.
Nobody cares I don't think that's entirely true because Kate what's the most played character in MP I don't know why it wasn't going to go that way in the first place because at the end of gears 4 we all knew it was going to be her story moving forward Marcus storyline dies in gears 3 Kate connection to the locusts is more interesting to me than JD storyline so why would they make JD the main character nothing to tell on his part
Same thing happened with killzone on playstation, kz2 turned the gritty realism and high recoil intense hardcore shooter action to a 12 then had to codify it even after selling like hotcakes
This is how I know you hardly played the game. The violence isn't toned down at all, and you spent most of your comment whining about playing as a female character. People who actually play the game use kaits character in multiplayer a lot, so it's just nonsense incel whining.
As a xbox fan I don't like gears 4 and gears 5 and that gears of war is dungeon like something /gears of war for me is gears 1/2/3 even gears tactics is better than 4 and 5
Loved 1-3 even changing up the locusts to gladiator designs later on it felt the same & yet fresh, a lot of your points I've had in my head to, you just put them into words..... Great video wish we could go back to 3 no loot boxes battle passes just up close & personal fun
I always had the feeling that Gears 5 was well received by the community after the fourth game had a rough time. It was clear for me from the start that the franchise needed kind of a new direction after the first trilogy and the very mediocre Judgment. I actually enjoyed the fifth game, especially the Next-Gen-Version looking and playing great. Gears of War is at least facing similar problems God of War on the PlayStation had. Both franchises don't shine with a wide range of Gameplay features and a rich, deep story. God of War is now going a complete different direction while The Coalition tries to stick when it comes to the roots of the series while trying new things. They are at least doing a better job in my opintion compared to 343 Industries with Halo which is currently a train wreck, Gears is miles away from this derailed train.
Theory: why the AI got worse? In older games if the visual fidelity couldn’t be push further other areas were explored. Now marketing focuses on graphics and the development focus shifted to make beautiful games as this is how they can be sold. This is why AI does not get enough attention. It is a very complex process to make AI fun to play with. I recommend GDC panel on Doom 2016 AI (dumb it down to make it fun).
One thing I do wanna say: I don't have an issue with a female lead as some of the comments here imply. Gears lore is so deep I wouldn't mind the focus not be on Marcus and Co. for a bit, same as Halo with MC (Reach and ODST was great without him) Kait's biggest issue (and new Delta squad) is she's just doesn't really have a personality that sticks out. If she had, say Baird or Cole or even Sam's attitude, I would care a lot more when things went wrong for her. Give her Fahz's personality! I cared more about him than Kait seeing her mother. She also was a brat at times in 5. What she needs is her own "Cole train on the mic in gears 2" scene and I would love her a lot more Also even though I never played Gears 4-5 on insane, I will say Gears 1 is pretty easy on insane. It only got hard to me during the Raam fight (pause)
Gears of War actually did not create cover-based shooter genre, only popularized it. The first shooter with cover-based mechanic is Winback series by Omega Force in 1999. But the cover-based mechanics that we knew today was first introduced by Namco USA's Kill Switch in 2003.
as a woman who's been playing all the gears games since 2010, i completely agree that 4 and 5 absolutely suck. i appreciate a very well written story that has characters you can connect with in one way or another (which i did with the og games and no they weren't Anya or Sam or Bernadette). E-Day has me hyped for going back to the Locust War and i'm so excited to see both Dom and Marcus again fighting at each others side. The story is just too good to water it down in the way they've been doing it.
BROTHERS til the end
What does being a woman have to do with it?
@TheEmperorDoctor exactly. if it ain't broke, don't try and fix it. Gears of War was perfectly fine the way it was. the holy woman empire doesn't have to dominate everything.
@@EK-yh1oiwomen may like the later Gears games because of Kait being a main character. But look more and people see all the new characters are bland and generic. But Kait also because they had to get the voice actress that voices all women the same way
No way did 4 and 5 absolutely suck.
Honestly.. I enjoyed 5 a lot. It had a great story and MP was decent enough to be consistent with it. Nothing however will top Gears 1 and 3 MP.
Put it simply:
Gears 1-3: Are Timeless
Gears 4-5: Are Chasing Trends
Gears 1-3 also followed trends, the trends were different, so it is not on point.
@gvagear those games didnt follow a trend, they made a trend
@@EmmanuelPR427 yes and no. gears of war united trends. Warhammer, Quake, Doom, all the boomer gore. It was a different era of gaming.
@@gvagear And at the tim of gears release, none of those were popular or trendy
@@thewallpersonified3152 😂😂 Please !! Stop it !! Stop lying! Doom and Unreal Tournament were popular and trendy in these years. Stop it !! We played these games in university, you are lying to the wrong guy! Gears have the same engine as Unreal Tournament, similar armored guys were in the 2003 Unreal Tournament promo videos.
Beating gears 1 with my friend split screen is a core memory. Rip Anthony Carmine…
he always dies in the first 5 minutes 🤣
Im sorry for your lose brother; although not physically, he’ll always be with you 💯
Everytime i play gears , i remember how we played it with my brother, i really miss him(
My bro and I actually replayed all the Gears last year. Was heaps of fun.
@@ALCblackout24HDit is a gears of war character.
I remember when I hosted a Gears of War 3 tournament at home. Three friends had brought over their consoles and 36in flat screens. With fully loaded horde and multiplayer games, adding in pop and pizza, it was the best time.
I remember running horde partys on gears 2! 4 tvs in the living room everyone in a party! 2 large pizzas and a lot of dr pepper!
🔥
This and a blunt
Pop.... You from the Midwest.
@@Mac_DNHi came to say this lol
Gears of War is what converted me to Xbox. Been there ever since
Amen
I'm sorry to hear that.
Man that’s loyalty fr
how is that brand loyalty holding up?
@@Milky-Hazard Stronger than ever. I'm actually a Nintendo fan as well
The same thing happened with the Halo franchise when 343 took over.
yup
4 and 5 weren't bad like the 343 halos. The biggest complaint in the community seems to be you played as a woman, but that just seems like a vocal minority of incels whining for no reason.
@@a1way5watch1ng9 gears 4 and 5 are trash and playing as a woman is one of the problems.
Why should i care about this Mexican woman and her mom i don't know her.
Also 4 and 5 is just another instances of taking male-dominated products and trying to make the focal point in them, and then you wonder why all of them fail.
I would say the same thing if they came out with a tomb raider game and it had a male character as the lead. I would say why is a male character starring in a tomb raider game.
@@a1way5watch1ng9gears 4 and 5 are trash and playing as a woman is one of the problems.
Why should i care about this Mexican woman and her mom i don't know her.
Also he literally gave you reasons why 4 and 5 are trash they're way too easy and enemy AI is trash.🤦🏿♂️
Also 4 and 5 is just another instances of taking male-dominated products and trying to make the focal point in them, and then you wonder why all of them fail.
I would say the same thing if they came out with a tomb raider game and it had a male character as the lead. I would say why is a male character starring in a tomb raider game.
@a1way5watch1ng9 Gears of War 4 and 5 of garbage.
And that chick Kate is annoying she's a petulant child, she's vindictive she's disobedient, rude etc. she's nothing like Marcus Fenix in Gears of War 1, 2 and 3.
Why should i care about this Mexican woman and her mother? I don't know her or care about her character.
Marcus Fenix is the type of leader that i would want to follow if he was my commander not that whiny brat Kate.
Also Kate just gets to disobey orders and do whatever she wants. Marcus Fenix went to jail because he tried to save his father
Also he gave you other reasons why the last two Gears of War are trash. Gears of Wars 4 and 5 are way too easy and the AI in 4 and 5 are also trash.
It's just another instance of taking a male-dominated franchise and trying to insert women into the lead and you wonder why it fails.
And I would say the same thing if they came out with a new Tomb Raider video game and Lara Croft wasn't in it, and instead they had a male lead. I would say why is a male lead in a Tomb Raider game.
Gears ended with the third one, for me. Once Cliffy left, it became average. Even the graphics became cartoonish. I recall the gaming media mocking the colour pallette, labelling it brown. But that realistic, gritty tone, was Gears. When they started adding robots & the focus was taken away from Marcus, the magic was lost.
I don't want Gears 6. I want a complete reboot, with Cliff back in charge. Great video, I completely agree with all your points. Gears was the personification of masculinity, done in a fun way.
Cliffy sucks it. He attacked the fans and hasn't made anything good since
@@TimeMakerManstill doesn’t take away frm his skills
Cliff was awful and took a lot of credit that didn’t belong to him. Also a super douche in real life, he was neighbor in nc. Trust me, if you ever meet him, you’ll hate him
GOW E DAY enters the chat
@@cardonajz1yeah you full of sh*t.
Tai was considered 'unbreakable' by many, true...but not even someone like him could be put through Locust torture without coming out the other side wrong...
Maria on the other hand got put through an even worse form of the Locust torture where they end with lobotomy via gouging a knife into the base of the upper eyelid so the blade scrapes at the portion of the brain that makes a person who they are alongside other things like basic motor functions; its how they make obedient slaves and why she looks so dessicated by the time Marcus and Dom find her in 2
that was the horror element that Gears put you through, not the monster themselves but what they can do
I don't want to fight robots in a Gears game!
I would roll my eyes every time I had to fight them.
That annoyed me more than anything. Was so cringe lol
Facts
The worst part is those dumb leeches that take over robots. 😂🤦🏽♂️
fr
Tai killed himself because of ptsd he couldn't live with the trauma the locust put him through and doms wife didnt zombify when she changed thats how she actually looked where as before dom basically had rose tinted glasses on.
Thank you for clarifying
That scene was devastating, though
Tai killed himself because his body was just a carcass. He believed in the afterlife (or reincarnation, i do ;t really remmember) so he "freed his souls" (it was on the comics)
Yeah I heard that and I was like, did op play a different gears 2 than I did? Like wuuuuut 😩😅
*Tai
I genuinely miss short, linear, singleplayer campaigns (8-15 hours max on normal difficulty) that are also highly replayable. The problem with modern AAA games is you either get an open world or some kind of RPG with hundreds of hours of padding... or, on the other side of the scale, excessively cinematic, linear campaigns that have only 30-50% of it being actual gameplay. And I hate when the latter is often considered as the same thing as the older, more gameplay-focused games. I love Max Payne 3, but it's certainly an example of just how much things changed across the years from the way games were handled way back in terms of the ratio between story and core gameplay.
Yeah, I was going to play Dishonored 2 but I realized I had a lot of acheievments to get in the first game. I went through the whole game and dlc with energy to play it more as I messed up my ghost run. The game takes less than 10 hours to beat at a casual rate and has lots of replayablity. I tried to play Deus Ex HR but I think its a little too dated or something. I'd like to try the sequel which Ive seen on sale for 5$. These "immersive sim" games they call them are superb imo. They respect your time and have excellent gameplay.
@@iBishopEsquire, I'm almost done with Human Revolution, and, while I agree that certain gameplay mechanics are dated (as some quick examples, tap to aim with no options for holding a button down for it... or the janky gunplay), I still think it holds up really well. Pacing is fantastic story-wise, especially! Altho it still does take a while to get into immersive sims since I would still usually prefer more straightforward games with engaging combat as the core pillar... but that's more of a preference thing.
Modern games are designed around influencers on TikTok in all streaming platforms.
Gears of War E-day just dropped a trailer and it honestly looks like a return to form. Somber music, gritty violence, horrors of Armageddon and most importantly Dominic and Marcus back together.
if we get to defeat Kate in battle, then I might buy it.
Careful, pal. They'll probably hint at Marcus and Dom being secret lovers. This is XBOX we're talking about.
@intellectic9155 They have said it will be a 'modern take' on their relationship and have talked about them being youthful and vulnerable. So yeh I'm a little worried lol.
With companies like Sweet Baby Inc basically having a death grip over the throats of Microsoft and other companies, we might never get a good gears game again.
Exactly
Considering the events of the last week, I'd say it's the other way around, where Microsoft has a death grip on the studios under its umbrella. Including The Coalition, Gears of War's current development team. Whether or not Sweet Baby Inc has any real power over a game's success, is inconsequential --- Microsoft doesn't guarantee job security, either way. And I imagine morale has plummeted quite drastically, as a result. There _is,_ however, a possibility The Coalition has immunity, being a steward of one of Microsoft's flagship franchise, just like 343i, but there's no assurance of this.
Came here to say think again!
@SuperDomochan we don't know anything about the new gears game yet.
@@sheercold26well it looks good fromthat trailer.😑 But we will have to be skeptical about it. Let's hope the prequel holds up to the trilogy.
Imagine if they had remastered Gears 2 and 3 like they did with 1
fr
I fucking wish...
“I didn’t play gears until 2023”
God I love it when it someone discovers peak gaming late in life. A testament to the quality. No hype. No nostalgia. Proof that the game was PEAK
He definitely missed out on the multiplayer side of things though. And even though the games do hold up it is a completely different experience to play them when they first came out and just be blown away.
Tai Kaliso wasn’t turned into a Locust, he was being tortured by Scorge to the point of irreparable trauma, and that happens before we found Maria living the longer lasting effects of that same torture, just a little correction
Yeah, I was like what the hell is he talking about lol
@@taintedgoose9138 yeaaaah, I’m also a little bit confused about his comments about 4 & 5 being “femenine and being about motherhood and mother daughter relationship” when the relationship between Reina and Kait is blatantly ignored and Kait shuts it off every time she’s asked about it, I’m definitely not a fan of both games but I think he was kinda being salty about Kait being a main character (which, she’s awful, dull, uninteresting but definitely doesn’t make the game “femenine” at all)
You guys are correct about Tai -- i think we agree Kait is shit
@@InquiziDor001 Wrong.
@@intellectic9155yup your brain dead and have clearly never played gears of war 2.
Reminder, Gears of War became just "Gears" with the 5th installment. That's when i knew it was truly lost.
Did you ever mention gears of war as hey wanna play gears ?
@@jabmpt8169 Your point?
@@jabmpt8169No. Never. it has always been Gears of War.
fr
the name in and of itself has a deeper meaning so I too was very disappointed to see that.
Yo i think you need to go and play the games again lol. Maria was tortured and Lobotomised, Tai got his mind broken by torture he wasnt being turned into a locust
This game was way ahead of its time, still holds up today in 60fps on newer consoles. I still play with people online, it sucks when games are so bad now you go back to the good stuff. Im 33 now and I think I grew up in the best gaming era, halo 2/3, gears 1, cod 3 and 4, battlefield 3/4....etc
yes to all of that but battlefield bad company 2 for me
360 and PS3 era was the best
Still remember the chills from hearing that audiable “BOOM” the first time. Love Gears 1-3!!!
Hearing it judgment ruined my chances of flawlessly completing the challenges
Go woke go broke franchise was built on masculinity still cant believe they pulled that shit.
nailed it
I feel like games like this will never come back, but with videos like this makes me feel great, knowing I wasn’t the only one around the world that experienced such a game.
"The only one" bro, they sold millions of copies. Most gamers know exactly what we've lost.
@@RebelRouser91 facts bro
Where did gears go wrong? They added an woke woman as a protagonist
I was a big fan of the Gears of War games. Played 1 - Judgement. I went on an hiatus for a while cuz of adult life. I returned and picked up the latest game in the series; gears 5. And I am shocked by how everything is different. The writing is bad too. Only pro I can think of is the gore is still fine
The gore is fine but remember "no smoking!" What the fuck?🤣🤷🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️
@@gjergjaurelius9798 Tell me about it. We are literally dismembering each other in gameplay. Cigarettes are so much worse tho. HOW!?
@@xbmario387 shit, now I want a cigarette. Stressing me out!!!😭
I used to play Gears of War 1/2/3 on Gamebattles and it was literally my childhood/entire teen hood lol. Probably thousands of hours invested into it. I was so ready for Gears 4 but I lost all interest from there on out. Idk man, just something about it. It wasn’t the same Gears of War anymore. Same happened with Halo. These series’ both died after 3.
what is Gamebattles?
Gears “Kait has a headache” 5 pretty much lost me
Gears of war 1 gameplay is so good that I forgot its older than rainbow 6 vegas 2 , Which is also a cover based shooter
Rainbow 6 Vegas 2 was so much fun. I like how your character moved its mouth when you talked on the microphone
They started milking the fans for money.
The point is to make money lmao not make games for you for free
@@MrAjking808 You mean ripping fans off
@@brianachim2670 nobody is getting ripped off 😂 just entitled & whiny
Atmosphere gears 1.2.3 🔥🔥
Gears was the Perfect way to hop in to that gen of gaming. Had a 360 in the house because the ps3 came out later, but this is the type of game that sells consoles. It was such a different industry back then.
From what i remember. There was a huge shift in third person shooters once RE4 came out. While it is true that Gears pioneered third person cover shooting, RE4 pioneered the over the shoulder precision aiming camera which at the time i saw many games adopting into their design. At the time the Games i noticed such as the first Uncharted, Dead Space, MGS4, GTAIV, and several others started using RE4's precision aiming mechanics, including gears itself.
Yes RE4 was one of the first 3rd person shooters, but Gears popularized the cover based shooter. Last of Us and Uncharted both borrowed this from Gears. Games like GTA 4 you can see didn't borrow Gears mechanics and were worse for it.
There was loads of cover based shooters on PC well before gears, I guess it lead to more console clones but it was far from the first to do it well
I simply appreciate that my peak of gaming was experienced during Gears 1 - 3, Halo 1 - 3, MGS 1 - 4 and COD MW1 - MW3.
What? Tye didn't get turned into a Locust what are you talking about? Hahaha. He killed himself cause of the brutal torture he went through and wanted to put himself out of his misery
Thank you for clarifying
The coalition is the problem , they don’t deserve this game . Wait till 6 , it’s gonna be bad y’all .
Yea it sucks
A lot of the people in the coalition who were taking the franchise in that direction on 4 and 5 are no longer there. So the studio is now moving to do E-day before they can figure out what to do with 6.
It isn't just the Coalition. It's Microsoft and XBOX as a whole.
This was a great overview of the gears franchise grew up on it never finished gears 4 had the exact same sentiment.
11:38 Baird was always my favorite character, every time he said something I was laughing or giggling 😂
we can let it sink with this
Marcus left his post to save his dad, costing lives and being put in jail, Dom never questioned him for that, in fact followed him to it
He sucker punched Hoffman doing that, and even despite his anger for that and him leaving his duty, he still has Marcus on the field on the first game
Baird and Dom hated each other in the firt game, but never was a factor to stop doing their job
Dizzy was a stranded completely and considering how much they hate the COG, he still joined so his family could be secured
Michael Barrik had his hatred towards the COG for ruining his life, and he still joined as he thought someone had to get things done
Even Judgement, Loomis wanted Kilo squad dead for using the missile unauthorized, and when they are overrun by locust, they still help each other to take down Karn
Gears 5 has Kait and Del hating on JD for shooting protesters who clearly were menacing his life (and as far as I know was an order from Jinn to begin), and the event why he leaved the COG, his supposed best friends shit talking him a whole episode despite showing he would sacrifice himself for them a chapter earlier, there is no loyalty whatsoever
Gears of War 4... Maybe it's me? The dialogue/writing was hollow. Felt like it was created, just for money? Gears of War 3 finished the story, basically. But nope, The Swarm had to be a thing. With nothing new offered. Bring back the horror element and fear/pressure in cover based crossfire.
Gears 4 and 5 were like Dom seeds, completely fucked up. I remember first playing GoW(2) in 2009 and i loved it so much i played it 1000s of times. From that point i bought every single part and thought that after not so perfect "Judgement" they'll surely snap out.. Boy was i wrong, althou latest trailer for E-day gave me goosebumps and if it delivers i may buy xbox just to come back to the serie again
@@39patrykos Relatable. Me and a buddy first played Gears of War 2. We killed it in Horde Mode and the campaign. Gears of War 3 was when we hit Versus Mode. Good times. And then right, Judgment came out... It was experimental and did not work for most. Especially the "two piecing". Balance was off horribly. 4 and 5 felt like cash grabs. The Coalition milking the cow, basically. With E-Day, I hope it's not like most, Battlefield 2042 for example. Built up the hype, but bombed on delivery.
@@jaredsmith4919 That just hits different. It's hard to find such a great games that also feature Coop nowadays. It's been some time since Gears 5 was released so im trying to think of E-day not as Bf42, but as Cod Ww2 or Bf1 that actually gave us what we wanted. I really hope that Coalition realized how much we loved this Good ol' story
@@39patrykos Most you may have to dig for, that fly under the radar. Indie devs most of the time. My opinions differ there with those two titles. Usually because of age and/or preference. To say Dead Space 2 or Borderlands 2 when they released. Complete improvement, can't really say there were too many negatives. Back on point. It feels like Halo Reach to me? A lot of people loved it? But going from Halo 3 to Reach felt like a downgrade. And it made some sense since it was a prequel. But doesn't have to be? It's tricky but possible. For E-Day the story of Dom and Marcus could be great if handled with care? The Locust Drones being beefed up could be a welcome challenge? Though weapons and gameplay I hope they don't try to manipulate it too much?
It didn't go wrong anywhere. The trilogy ended in full glory. If anything, it's the gaming corpo industry that is not able to leave IPs alone and milks them to no end.
I remember playing the prequel game gears tactics and refunding after 20 min because they had a side objective to save human prisoners.
For those who don’t know a major plot point of Gears 2 is that Locust all the sudden started taking prisoners and processing them for god knows what.
This is shocking since the Locust notoriously don’t take prisoners, and this entire mystery leads to finding out what happens to Dom’s wife.
That entire thing is just retconned because the Devs didn’t play any of the older games and don’t give a shit about the lore.
I miss the Gears trilogy, but with Sweet Baby Inc. having Xbox as their client, I have no hopes for gears 6.
Yea its cooked
Have u seen the new trailer its goinnback to its roots. A game based on E day
@@nippy3126Bait and switch. Just watch.
13:01 that was some nasty editing right there 😂 10/10 video. As someone who has been playing Gears non stop since '07 (just finished a 3 hour session of Gears5) your analysis (especially about the story and male bonding) is spot on. Love the video brother 💪🏾
When i had to pay for loot boxes in four to MAYBE get a character in a limited time i quit this shit.
Using A as the button to do everything related to cover was GENIUS!! I LOVE IT!!
When Anya held Marcus back after Dom’s sacrifice in the third game is when I knew the franchise was done. I knew it was going to be female focused after that
Gears of war will forever hold a special place in my heart. the music, the dialogue, the story, the gameplay, gears 1-3 is just perfect. i sometimes go back and replay gears 1 and 3 and it never gets old. the comradery is some of the best ive ever seen in any game. its so damn realistic especially if youve served .
my mom took me to a toys r us when i was like 10-14 years old and let me pick an M rated game. it was either Afro Samurai or Gears of War 1. i chose gears. we get home, turn the xbox and start playing. that ominous title screen will never leave my mind. my hears all the cussing and sees all the blood and knew she messed up buying me this game😂 the Berserker haunted me for years till ingot older and just laughed at it. i even know lines from the game like the back of my hand
That trailer for gears 1 was amazing. The online, crab walking, Hosting Over power, MLG battles… man what a great time to be alive and a kid with no responsibility with all your buddies and shiiiite talking after a match. I’ll never forget how amazing these 3 games where. I still put beating General RAMM on insane on my resume, that’s a life achievement.
lmao now im convinced theres another me
I remember going through each difficulty in Gears 1 and me and one of my buddies playing split screen
Insane is so hard
My friend used to always get his ass kicked by "The Bolter" enemy type. Im like, "Son!!!!! U gettin yo ass kicked by a dude with a pistol! Wtf you doin son?!" We all be down, hes got 1 guy to kill and chokes...like the damn 92-95 Buffalo bills.
LMAO
8:06 From the PlayStation side of an isle I feel the same way about God of War games. The original was gory as hell but compared the pussified reboot series. This is an industry-wide problem.
14:23 i disagree. what makes the game good is that you do feel the burden of orders when they come from command. whenever you have to take a long route, redo a faulty mission, go back down a dark and eerie path in a storm with krill,, etc, your thought process is the same as a soldier who has to suck it up and get it done, while the commanding officers and anya sit behind their desks.
4 and 5 are soulless caricatures of gears of war. They’re more Fortnite than gears.
4 still had good multiplayer (didn't really play 5 much). Story wise though, yeh far inferior to the original Trilogy.
I played Gears 3 probably x10. Featuring women was cool . But making it about women and being the main character reaks of that modern audience Bullshit. On top of other problems the newer ganes had
Man this is so accurate. It wasn’t just gears that got soft. It’s the whole gaming industry just went woke and gay at the same time. 😂😂😂
Gears of war 1 is my all time favorite game and I adore the OG trilogy to death, making me a fan. Even if games like 5 & Judgment aren't as good, I still enjoy them.
I believe that Judgment had a lot of good ideas that were implemented unevenly in a way that made it hard for people to appreciate its genuinely good parts while its bad ideas stood out like sore thumbs. The story was excellent (even though it retconned things in the lore didn’t need retconning to produce an equally good story) and the way the challenge system played into it was actually a brilliant idea from a narrative standpoint. The problems there lie in how poorly many of the challenges are implemented and how its map design in the campaign made things unnecessarily punishing to players on the higher difficulties. As for its bad parts, the control scheme change and changes to the effectiveness of weapons like the Gnasher, I agree that these were mistakes that are jarring for people jumping from one game to the next.
I believe that a PC port and modding tools would allow players to fix the worst mistakes in Judgment as such that the intended experience would be able to shine through.
Back when these games came out, they also had very fun online PvP modes similar to cod/halo like team deathmatch, executioner, king of the hill, which were a lot of fun and very competitive. Gears 2 and 3 also introduced horde mode and beast mode which are a ton of fun as well. This added a lot of replay-ability beyond the story modes. It was honestly such a great series, and it's too bad they couldn't make more games like the first three to keep the franchise alive.
gears 1 and 3 to this day are my favorite multi-player experiences its crazy that a 3rd person shooter could have a mechanism that seems so minor aka wall bouncing and canceling leading to perhaps the most high skill ceiling and intensive movement mechanic I've ever seen, and I have thousands of hours in cs surf and tf2 rocket and sticky jumper maps. there's just nothing else quite like being a good gears player on a movement tech level 👌 go back and check out some of those old essence montages and thank me later 👍
Im gonna adress this since nobody does: kate diaz is the rey skypalpatine of her franchise...
¿Huh? ¿the hell im talking about? Is quite simple, she is the granchild of the main enemy from the last trilogy, she is anoying and has no likible character traits and is using the last main male protagonist as her personal coach and father figure... and potentially gona survive the son of him to in the sequel
i prefer gears 2 instead of 3
I have to admit, your review is spot on. I played gears on split screen with the my brother growing up and it was incredible. The game was way beyond its time and I remember being in awe about the dynamics. In split screen I truly felt dependent on ensuring my brother would have my back because the AI was so good. The story line so immersive, when Dom died it literally made me teary eye. It was incredible experience, the emotion and character building was amazing. Gears 4/5 felt generic trying to use the gears of war title as a means of credibility. It felt very flat to me, lacked completely connection with the characters.
Microsoft will not return because all these companies are too focused on “inclusion” instead of making good games.
I also think the original Gears games, especially the 1st, were pretty scary. I remember playing Gears 1 and the Beserker part used to terrify me!
Gears of Woke 6 was a self telling story that needed no release.
If they wanted a female character, should have kept Anya alive.
Its new to us but nothing beats sticking it to the broken; like rolling a red-stained carpet over a flaccid rainbow.
The music is also amazing.
When it comes to the original GOW games it's like you said, they're about brotherhood. Soldiers who start out as strangers who grow to die for each other. Something that E-Day has a lot potential for with showing how dom and Marcus learned to become brothers in arms. With Gears 4 and 5 the tone is completely off compared to the others. No one cares about JD and his dad issues with Marcus or kait discovering her identity of being related to the locust queen, or del just being... there, he doesn't really contribute anything to the plot aside from being the best friend. also the writing is just not right, it's trying way too hard to be like a buddy cop joss Whedon script. I wonder if they'll ever make a gears 6? I don't think many people would care if they abandoned it, it would be kinda funny actually.
Playing GOW1 on insane until 4am with my buddy, priceless, we called it Gears and Beers!
Tai wasn't being turned into a locust he was tortured and mentally destroyed and defeated.
I’m currently playing through 1 and plan on doing the other 2 as well, and I can’t believe how well it stands up! So excited to run through them all
The sawed off shotgun is where skill in multiplayer disappeared
The first effort to assist new players, not a good game plan. All of us were once new players, we took our beating and hung in there.
Sounds like someone with a modded controller got his ass blasted a few times with the double barrel lmao
3rd person, hiding behind a wall, one hitting people. Takes no skill dudes
@@OlórinDaGrey You need the skill to get here without dying
@@OlórinDaGrey I literally called this crouching tiger hidden bitch when I would play with my friends.
This was a really great watch! I'm in agreement pretty much all the way, and having played the hell out of the first three games in the Gears franchise back as the released it still only just now fully registered with me just how much Gears of War really did change up the entire gaming industry. After that first one came out it became the game design template for other devs making third-person shooters to work off of. It would have been easy for those guys to coast through a lax dev cycle for the 2 sequels but they still kept at it with the refinements and improving the narrative writing chops each time. Like that scene where Dom reunites with his wife, with the camera panning around them to first show how Dom was seeing her as he remembered so the gut punch hits hard when reality subtly creeps in to reveal the utterly broken state of her. The why they executed that allowed us to experience that loss with Dom in each moment as hope turned to dread and reached it's climax that was the horror in the tragedy. The scene plays out pretty fast but damn did it leave an impression! Great vid once again! I've been subbed for a little while now but only finally got around to leaving a comment, so let me say you're content is consistently on point and you have my appreciation my good man!
You know whats funny? They decide to make a female character and suddenly the game has to be all soft. They could have created a female character and explored how she faces the horrors of a war and come through as a soldier. Different from the way of men, but still badass and believable. In the same way that the character you mentioned is a grunt but he still cares about his wife.
There were female characters in Gears 3. Those characters being Anya and Sam
I’ll tell you the exact reason Gears of War failed: Greed.
As someone who’s put literally thousands of hours into Gears of War and was top 10 in the world for Gears 1 I truly have seen the decline of Gears of war from within. The decline started in Gears of War 3 when attempting to appeal to the masses and gain even more money they sold out and reverted to copying other games for their success. They implemented game modes like team deathmatch, made the gameplay more noob friendly with weapons like the sawed off shotgun and tried everything to get more newbies to play their game. The downfall grew from there until we seen Gears 5 with their Terminator skins and FOMO cash shop. The first 2 games had an exciting and immersive campaign but yet again it was three that ran out of ideas and instead said “ohhh shiny explosive locusts”
In truth It went for graphics over gameplay, copying others instead of innovating and sold its soul, and no matter how hard they try, it will never be successful ever again.
Weren't the Lambents in Gears 1 and 2 as well (at least the Lambent Wretches and Drones)? Sure, Gears 3 did introduce new Lambent variants, but I never saw that as a sign of them running out of ideas.
Going to be controversial to say, but it was at its best when it was just the dude bro shooter. They added some emotion to add more depth to the story and characters in 2 onward but it was still just gritty gore and testosterone. Then, the whole tone and shooter changed. The devs moved around and changed. Cliffy B changed. Then, the whole franchise changed for the worst trying to appeal to everyone and forgetting the core attraction to the series. There was nothing wrong with just being that hardcore dude bro shooter, but like Halo 4, Gears 4 onward tried chasing trends and culture zeitgeists and lost its charm.
“More like ten shitloads”
Only god of war has pulled this off well imo
Gears 3 had female characters but still had that bro theme
Gears 3 sucked too, trivialized a lot of boss enemies and changed the shooting to more cod like with half the ammo and two held weapons that had to constantly be swapped vs planning and conserving ammo like 1 and 2
GOW 3 is the best one.
And it was inclusive without being forced. All the characters were cool and fun to watch.
I was about 5 years old when i played Gears of war 1 it was my first video game and it has stuck with me ever since Im 18 now heading to college and im still in love with the franchise even if the new installments are not as good as previous ones
Gears 1 changed games for me.
It was Gritty, violent, looked incredible, and had a brutal Multiplayer.
8 Rnds, execution. You die, you sit out the round.
Gears 2 was even more epic. Horde mode for hours.
Sadly, I think Gears 3 moved away from what made 1 and 2 great. It introduced TDM to compete with trends at the time, it introduced paid cosmetic skins, it was so bright and colourful. I still.played the hell out of it, but I missed the dark black blood and violence from the 1st 2 games..
I enjoyed Gears so much, I even have a tattoo of it. A simple COG.
if you watched the xbox showcase, 95% of the games were women based. whether it was skateboarding, warriors, assassins, shooters, the video game industry and hollywood are in shambles. also, we're all sexists, nothing wrong with that.
Gears of War was the first game I ever played that wasn't a flash game or a mini game or something like that. so Im nostalgic af
What went wrong? A different company was formed to handle the Series and they sucked at it. Microsoft has a history of doing this (Halo anyone?)
And they’re about to do it with Fable now, lol.
@@mrshmuga9 Fable been trash.
Not to worry we got masculinity coming back now on gears E day. No women bs just dudes fighting a war as it should be. Nothing against women gears 3 had women and it was appropriate. Anya and Sam were beloved characters.
All we have so far is a trailer. Essentially a very well done advertisement. There’s nothing that says they won’t push the same crap that every other game does when the game finally releases.
I doubt they will go completely back to roots with it though.
I'm sure they will add some cringe.
Don't be so hopefully, little child. The Coalition haven't made a good game yet and are all in on the modern day shit.
You are easily swayed. We’ve seen the bait and switch move before.
Most recently Stellar Blade where they changed the game after it launched through game patches after promising that they would not do that.
@@majorgear1021Someone went over that (ShortFatOtaku) and it’s not as clear as people thought. Because there’s still very obviously sexy costumes in-game. Long story short, it seems they “borrowed” real life outfits without getting licenses, and changed them enough to avoid a lawsuit. And I think the blood changed either because the trailer was an earlier build, or because it’s based on whether or not you’re wearing the “nude” costume. He has a summary at the end if you want to skip to that.
Played the gears serie like...dozens of time. It's interesting that you bring the difficulty up. Back then, the achievement linked to finishing the game in insane difficulty was very coveted. Most people needed to play it with a friend to get it. I remember telling some people online how I managed to finish it solo on insane and...they just wouldn't believe me.
In the collector version, the team explains that their goal at first was to make a horror game. Then they settled on a "dark-war" game. You can see a lot of disturbing scenes through the first specifically. Those actually added to the heavy feeling of war.
Secondly, Cliff explained that he wanted to get away from all the classical tropes of scifi games like yellow zebras on the ground, spaceships coming from the sky or hyper futuristic ennemies. This is why we had helicopters, underground ennemies and beast-mounted weaponry. This helped to get immersed even more in the world.
And they even managed to make the sequel being better!
My only regret is that I can't play them on PC since I don't have consoles.
I’m pushing back against one comparison. You said Last of us copied gears but imo Last of us/uncharted revolutionized cover shooters by taking away snapping to cover and just integrating character animation and cover. Which most games do now instead of what gears did. It’s outdated now how gears cover shooting works.
Imo Gears has it right with the sticking to cover. I love Uncharted and Last of Us Multiplayer but the feeling of sticking to cover felt amazing.
Completely agree with you, you put this together well as someone that played gears from the start. I fell asleep with controller in hand playing gears 5
1 to 3 was amazing. 4 and 5 had unacceptable humor for kids almost and Kate was giving hints of wokeness till 5 they went all out.
They better not put any transformers in the next game
bro misgendered the Berserker smh
Watching this after the trailer released yesterday, Gears 1 is what brought me to Xbox. I got it for Christmas and my brother and I played it together on split screen. It’s still my favourite gaming memory to this day, it’s my favourite franchise of all time. Seeing Dom save Marcus in the trailer yesterday brought tears to my eyes. All those memories with my brother back and nothing will ever take those away. This franchise is more than a game to me, I’m so happy they’re going back to their roots with E-Day
The main problem with the newer gears is that they forget what makes gears gears. Their to focused on getting more people to play gears then just making a gears game. Just look how to changed the name it went from Gears of WAR to Gears. Each new Gears game is dumbing down the gore and violence. Just look at the Gears 5 gameplay the blood looks like jellO. Going back to OG gears 1 and 2 that shit was violent. I remember taking the time to look at a locust corpse after I chain sawed them. Seeing guts and bone coming out and thinking Nice. Remember how in Gears 1 Carmine got shot in the face and you saw a big hole in his head then his lifeless body hits the ground? In Gears 5 I cant even think of a scene being that dark or violent.
Now you think okay the violence is toned down that means the story should be good right? No its not. Gears 4 was alright but, not as good. I take as a decent first Gears game made by the new studio. Then Gears 5 stop focusing on JD then mind you previous game made him the main character and the prime focus for the trailers. To focus on Kate. Yes Kate the one that no one really cared for some did do to the mystery at the end of 4 and her mom dying. Not only that they try to make every single way to make JD look like a dick. Bold move for them to do unfortunately for a good few people some people liked JD now your making him an ass of himself. Not only that but, Gears 5 multiplayer sucked due to them focusing on microtransactions . Horde mode was a shadow of its former self the only cool mode might have been Hive . I barely remember the multiplayer in Gears 4 and 5 thats how dull it was. Not to mention if you wanted to character skin you have to get lucky and spend a good bit of money to get it. Older gears game you unlock by challenges or just got it from the store. Which is kinda crappy but, atleast I did have to spend 50+ to unlock UIR skin.
The only point I disagree with the video is the part about women. Im not a sjw just wanted to say its fine to have females in gears but, dont make like Kate. There are plenty of females in the gears books that are just as badass as finx and it doenst pull the Mary Sue shit like Kate. Oh just thought about it the part of "Following orders" its not really a gears theme because in the books marcus didnt follow orders and got a whole city killed due to his actions.
Still a good video on the subject but, I would have added that the Collation is just trying to appease to the market then Gears fans.
Nobody cares I don't think that's entirely true because Kate what's the most played character in MP I don't know why it wasn't going to go that way in the first place because at the end of gears 4 we all knew it was going to be her story moving forward Marcus storyline dies in gears 3 Kate connection to the locusts is more interesting to me than JD storyline so why would they make JD the main character nothing to tell on his part
Same thing happened with killzone on playstation, kz2 turned the gritty realism and high recoil intense hardcore shooter action to a 12 then had to codify it even after selling like hotcakes
This is how I know you hardly played the game. The violence isn't toned down at all, and you spent most of your comment whining about playing as a female character. People who actually play the game use kaits character in multiplayer a lot, so it's just nonsense incel whining.
@@a1way5watch1ng9 nice bait
@@kingofkingsohio dumbest logic ever, tryhards ALWAYS pick the female characters for a smaller hitbox not bc they like them lmaoo😂💀
I remember beating the gears of war trilogy with my dad those were good times
As a xbox fan I don't like gears 4 and gears 5 and that gears of war is dungeon like something /gears of war for me is gears 1/2/3 even gears tactics is better than 4 and 5
Loved 1-3 even changing up the locusts to gladiator designs later on it felt the same & yet fresh, a lot of your points I've had in my head to, you just put them into words..... Great video wish we could go back to 3 no loot boxes battle passes just up close & personal fun
I always had the feeling that Gears 5 was well received by the community after the fourth game had a rough time. It was clear for me from the start that the franchise needed kind of a new direction after the first trilogy and the very mediocre Judgment. I actually enjoyed the fifth game, especially the Next-Gen-Version looking and playing great. Gears of War is at least facing similar problems God of War on the PlayStation had. Both franchises don't shine with a wide range of Gameplay features and a rich, deep story. God of War is now going a complete different direction while The Coalition tries to stick when it comes to the roots of the series while trying new things. They are at least doing a better job in my opintion compared to 343 Industries with Halo which is currently a train wreck, Gears is miles away from this derailed train.
Well the difference is god of war also came back as good as before with even more depth, gears didn't
The Coalition is much better than 343 Industries... that is an indisputable fact.
Theory: why the AI got worse? In older games if the visual fidelity couldn’t be push further other areas were explored. Now marketing focuses on graphics and the development focus shifted to make beautiful games as this is how they can be sold. This is why AI does not get enough attention. It is a very complex process to make AI fun to play with. I recommend GDC panel on Doom 2016 AI (dumb it down to make it fun).
One thing I do wanna say: I don't have an issue with a female lead as some of the comments here imply. Gears lore is so deep I wouldn't mind the focus not be on Marcus and Co. for a bit, same as Halo with MC (Reach and ODST was great without him)
Kait's biggest issue (and new Delta squad) is she's just doesn't really have a personality that sticks out. If she had, say Baird or Cole or even Sam's attitude, I would care a lot more when things went wrong for her. Give her Fahz's personality! I cared more about him than Kait seeing her mother. She also was a brat at times in 5.
What she needs is her own "Cole train on the mic in gears 2" scene and I would love her a lot more
Also even though I never played Gears 4-5 on insane, I will say Gears 1 is pretty easy on insane. It only got hard to me during the Raam fight (pause)
Forgot how hard the soundtrack went in Gears 1
Does Winback not count as a progenitor of the 3rd person cover-based shooter?
No
@@majorgear1021 Then what game does?
I hope Gears Of War E-Day lives up to the good old days
Gears of War actually did not create cover-based shooter genre, only popularized it.
The first shooter with cover-based mechanic is Winback series by Omega Force in 1999. But the cover-based mechanics that we knew today was first introduced by Namco USA's Kill Switch in 2003.
He stated nobody played killswitch especially in comparison to geaes
He literally said that in the video.. Lol
In cliffs defense making musicals sounds dope
Nah we're so back now