This is a perfect breakdown covering all of the issues Gears 5 has as a whole. It's crazy how much can change in a franchise when the wrong people have control of it.
While 4 isn’t on par with original trilogy it’s still a solid gears. For me it had the one of the best horde modes not as good as 3 but still very good. But gears 5 completely shifted direction and is not gears of war at all here’s hoping gears 6 at least reverses some of the damage done to the franchise.
They didn't even need to continue. Gears of War 3 was a perfect ending to the series. Also it seems like a lot of people favorite franchises are getting fucked over. Saints Row is now the next victim. I just hope my favorite franchise, God of War, doesn't fall next.
Yes but the gears of war lore extends way WAY beyond the first 3 games. There could have been spin off games after gears 3 exploring the locust-lambent war, pendelum war, beginning of the locust war and more. But I do agree that there shouldn't be more stories after Gears 3, Gears 3 should be the end of the locust human war or the war to end all wars as I like to put it.
The beginning part of the video made me realize how badly they try to make the Cog look bad. Remember the Stranded? They hated the cog for forcing them to join what could basically described as a losing battle, as well as seeing the destruction of the Hammer of Dawn, and how it killed millions and millions of lives? I hate how in 5, they go "Omg! Fascists!"
@@RisingInTheFlesh so instead of describing why people think the cog are fascist they just screech fascist it's literally how the r3t4rded left does it irl
@@GunslingerLvit’s almost like the word of gears is grey and not even the outsiders are correct. You are SO close to getting it but you choose to not see what the game is saying
Honestly making more gears of war games isn’t so much of a bad idea in my opinion but I’d prefer spin off games hell even movies of this brand. like Raam’s shadow and judgment. Just want that horror vibe and grey filter back in like the OG trilogy had.
I wish for that, too. But the trending now a days are colorful and comically games like fortnite. It's so pathetic seeing franchises as Gears of War that has a more horror vibe to be turned into this fck fest just to go along with the fortnite trend to see if they can earn more money on it without caring of the product's name/brand. Hell, they even took out the "Wars" from the title probably because it could give an idea of a more mature violent game lol
Ew no. That's exactly what ruins shit. This Gears show they're making is probably going to be some kind of woke trash like Gears 5 is and any spin off games they'd make would be just as bad as this game. I'm not even holding my breath for E Day because this company sucks balls at making Gears games.
I want to see more stories based around the Onyx Guard or just different squads in general. I have no interest in The Swarm or whatever NoName brand locust they come up with. Just give us more stories from within the Locust War. I think a story not unlike Halo Reach would do really well in the Gears universe. A suicide mission that contributes to the overall goal that was 3's inevitable end.
OK hear me out; A story set leading to the end of Gears 3. A story which feels like Reach/Suicide Squad. Mixed in with James Vegas story from Mass Effect, where the survivor realises everything done was for naught. That all their work, all their moments of grandeur is undone, when they just had to wait.
My big two issues about the game (storywise) is how they had forced conflict between JD, Fahz and the others only for it to just resolve in the Vasgar act, like Fahz becomes a totally different charaxter and JD goes back to his GoW4 self leading me to believe thet just wanted them out of the picture for half the story. The other thing was the open world acts, they were fun don't get me wrong but if you remove them for the story this Gears game is the shortest by far in the story. By far I felt the strongest acts were the first and last because of this fact as well as their pacing
Finally i've been saying this about JD for soooo lonnggg. Like everyone hates JD for no reason, He's a soldier and soldiers gotta make judgement calls at times so shiting on him for trying to save everyone is so stupid.
To be honest, he's the best written of the new trio, imo. Not sure if the writers are so bad that trying to make a character unlikeable actually makes me more sympathetic to them, or there's a decent writer just doing as they're told, but by actually giving JD flaws and shattering that naive cockiness he's had since 4 made me like him as a character. His actions have consequences that he himself (and everyone around him) acknowledge. Unlike Kait. Even when Kait acknowledges how badly waking up Reyna affects humanity, Del's like "It's not your fault". JD made a panicked decision in an impossible situation and likely saved more lives than if he hadn't given the order to open fire on the rioters. Same with settlement 2. I'd argue all of them would have been wiped out by the Swarm, had he not played hammer bait. He obviously distanced himself from the others due to guilt and shame, especially given the condemnation and disgust in Del and Kait's eyes when Faz blurted the truth out. Having gone through all of that and began to repair his friendships, only to lose Del as he does will really force JD to mature and harden as a character. He's earned the role of the main protagonist in my opinion, unlike Kait. She's never held accountable for her actions and she's a lot more selfish than other characters, who have put the good of others before their own desires time and time again. Marcus defies orders and costs humanity a key battle and is sentenced to life imprisonment (only avoiding being shot because of Prescot's deal with Adam). Baird defies orders and his entire squad is court marshalled. Again, they barely avoid being shot because the idiotic Colonel sees Karn and fights alongside them and even then, he demotes Baird out of spite. Kait has screwed up more than any other character and faces no consequences for her actions. Humanity as a whole gets to suffer vs a more organised and evolving Swarm, though.
@@Shay96 JD is definitely the only character from current gears games with enough depth to be worthy of being in the older games. An I find it funny that in gears 5 they kinda make you want to save del instead JD because throught the game they try to make him seem terrible so when you get to that point it's a "Easy" choice. I wouldn't be surprised if JD is dead in the canon ending. Game is hot trash.
I loved gears - 1's over the top ending and the sheer fear of the kyrill Gears 2 was utterly nasty and took the idea of slavery and the need for blood and war torn prisoners of war to a whole new level while also bringing in more boss fights that felt like story progression and not just there to extend the story. Gears 3 Probably the best example in the franchise of how to finish a mother clucking story. Shattering core plot while making what was left of delta squad the heroes they should be. The loss of Dom was utterly heart breaking and really showed how much pent up depression the characters were waking up to each and every day bringing a whole another level of just how mentally strong the main protaginist was. Being in jail for what 5-10 years of, finally meeting back up with your best bro then watch him have to suffer through another what 15 years at your side. The depth of Marcus Fenix was reaching the highest point its ever gotten to. Gears Revelation was good but felt too dated Gears 4 just felt like how do we nerf Marcus and still claim him to be the main character IDK lets make his son the MC. Gears 5 MORE of the same the worst part is the DLC is better than the main story. I hate saying this but the new gears games just feel like a literal waste of space. The Carmine family is more memorable THE ENTIRE coalition story line is FUCKING forgetable 4 FUCK SAKE. I'd beg just about any other dev to just take over and just remake a proper Gears of War 2 and then be done with this franchise. Just go do anything else. TBH.
4 i dont have to much of a problem with considering they had to run off with the lovust war being over i just wish we got to see more of the main crew (and had less wind flares for goodness sake) but 5 has zero redeeming qualitys for me
@@MJSGamingSanctuary i agree (i think i could be totaly miss reading your reply) i preferd the locust, lambet and even the swarm they brought in later over the cog robots i liked actually being able to snipe something and kill it in one shot instead of haveing to shoot its head twice giving it my position and haveing to reloud just to kill it the game could have been mutch mutch better then it was but again it has some things in it that make it ok to me
@@AwildGwen If I were writing the 4th game I would have had it that Lament Locust survived. The WMD ending of 3rd game by utilizing COG equipment creating a resistant new strain of locust. That could survive the event and what then the kids discover and accidentally do is poke the dormant hive. By trespassing being though like marcus the kids get way over their head in trouble and end up getting cornered by multiple Lambent Berserkers and then the real ticking time begins. As the plot swaps to Marcus having to round up the old Delta squad and EVERYONE has to go bail out the kids. A classic old COG meets new. And I'd give Jack for Gears 4 the ability to make a temporary on the go disposable hammer of dawn Triangulation ultra ability. The only issue with this is while its super accurate it also overclocks the near by satellites meaning. Jack's ordinance request has a long charge up but and equally scary response to the large charge up. Infact the hammers responding ordinance is so strong that it can one tap berserkers at the cost of them then also exploding massively and it wipes out beacons that cost a significant amount of the already rare supplies.
I’m just going to reinstall gears of war 3 on my Xbox and hope people are still playing. This video perfectly described what happened to gears, shifting from what worked with the story focus being a band of brothers none the less to become a story about people’s issues. I miss the old days of gears and just video games in general, now every game has to be part of some political agenda. I just want a good story to escape the politics.
You wanting to "escape politics" is a political statement. Leftists will say having lgbt representation and annoying female leads is basic human decency. You either speak out against it or keep getting shit on by these fat redarded devs
I used to really like Myraah as a villain, she had her motives, she was smart and it was cool to play as her in gears of war 3 for a change. But the stupid emotes laughing spam made me hate her, seriously how the hell it doesnt bother them to make amazing characters feel like a joke
@@_GeRAHHH Haha true, there were many spongy characters/smaller hitboxes people used to abuse in multiplayer. Specially Classic Baird and Savage Kantus, saw those every match
Gears 3 was a perfect ending. Marcus finally had some peace and wife, that’s where it should’ve ended with that character. Instead the war starts again, his son is a war criminal that everyone hates and there’s a 50/50 Chances he’s now dead. I would rather they went back to the pendulum wars or something with the franchise.
Because of this malarkey, the gears universe could be destroyed in four different ways: being glassed by the covenant from halo, blown up by the death star, invaded by chaos forces loyal to Khorne, or being given an exterminatus by the god emperor of mankind
If they HAD to make a sequel to gears 3, they should’ve had Marcus fighting any Locust survivors after the countermeasure, trying to shutdown the locust survivors desperate struggle to re-establish their monarchy and numbers
That’s….. exactly what they did LMAOOOOO, all of 4 and 5 is the Swarm/Locust mutating from the immulsions counter measure and spend the next 2 games trying to capture Reina and Kate to redevelop their Queen and Matriarch, i mean most of the 4th game you’re literally fighting them inside burial sites, locations where they were literally dumped in mass after the counter measure was launched because without their Queen they had no infrustructure to develop a Nexus, so they just stayed in their burial sites and maybe slightly encroaching into the surrounding areas. Never branches out or created a Nexus, and now since they have their new queen after Kate separated herself from the link, the Swarm/Locust have said infrustructre even stated by Marcus at the end of 5 that now since they have their Queen they’ll have a nexus. I swear Gears fans are so stupid. That’s coming from a hard core long time gears fan.
It's too hard to be optimistic about this game when it deviates from a genuine experience but instead follows a politically correct world that makes no sense.
@@XlPackratlX It really does, though. Sure, it doesn't preach in your face, but the dev team spoke all that bullshit about the importance of a female lead before the game launched. Kait has no significant consequences for her actions and despite being a Corporal, even commanding officers follow her lead without question. Marcus and Baird have both been court marshalled and barely avoided getting shot for disobeying orders, with far less disastrous consequences than Kait's Mt. Kadar excursion, yet she receives no repercussions.
@@Shay96 Exactly! That's bullshit, Kait simply does what she want and nobody punishes her for insubordination! She disobeys orders, treats First Minister Jinn like an idiot countless times, acts like a selfish, demented child and absolutely NOBODY gives a shit about that. And why? Because she is the strong, independent woman the game industry needs, of course. And you can't tell a strong, independent woman what to do! Dx
Gears of War should be a free to play multiplayer game at this point. The campaign will be bad no matter what they write, because modern story telling is puke worthy.
What happened to Gears of war is equivalent to what happened to WW2 games. From wars from 20th century to 21th century tik tok. Everything felt real, everything was a lesson to be learned, people when they get in peace times they become more weak and sensitive. Somehow, Gears 1-3 is no where to be sensitive as it represents what fight for something or survive is for. This is what Locust war was all about. This is what ww2 itself was all about. Now people gets weak because they have to represent their weak fighting and not from what real fighting was. Miss the old times of Gears of War
I've really enjoyed your videos about Gears 5. Everything you've pointed out is exactly how the majority of us feel. To see what Gears has turned into is frustrating and sad to see. Appreciate the videos sir.
At least we're getting the old Gears of War back with E-Day, a prequel to the original trilogy when Epic was still in charge of the franchise, before The Coalition and the new Kait Diaz trilogy came along. It takes place 14 years before the events of the original 2006 Gears of War game. It would have been better if we had gotten a Marcus Fenix Collection with the original games remastered.
I was hoping for a Gears of War 2-Judgment re-release anouncememt (since I own a PC and not an Xbox), but I’m really happy about E-Day, personally I think they realized that the new direction they were pushing the series towards to, didn’t work out the way they believed it would.
I love how you pointed out that corporate media are shills who can’t be trusted with their reviews. You’re right that Gears 3 was the perfect conclusion. I just like to think that Gears 4 and 5 are non-cannon and just some dream that Marcus had.
It feels like the Star Wars trilogy from epsisode 7-9 …7 was a good introduction 8 was a confused Mess that had good moments and I dead ass bet 9 was shit out of all extremes… put that in with the new gears games…. THATS basically what’s happening
I honestly hate that they even continued the story after 3. It was a strong ending and should have stayed the ending of the series. I would have set gears 4 in the pendulum wars, main bads would be indies and shit
It's probably been said before, but it bares repeating. Gears 5 feels an excessively expensive expansion pack for Gears of War 4. Even if the game costed 10 dollars for purchase, that'd still be too much in my opinion. Why? MICROTRANSACTIONS!!! AND STUPIDASS FORTNITE DANCES
A very decisive and accurate depiction of not only Gears 5, but the future of the franchise. The Coalition made their bed with this one and now they'll have to lie in it.
One of my biggest issues with the Coalition Gears games are how it feels they completely forgot the impact the Lambent had of the world of GOW. Like you see that in GOW 3 that the Lambent had completely mangled the world and by the end of the game, Adam Fenix said the Lambent were about to "reach a critical stage in their life cycle" where I don't think we ever got clarification of what that means. Then by Gears 4/5, no one even talks about the Lambent despite almost destroying the whole ass world. We don't even see any remaining presence of the Lambent, which you could argue the COG has tried to clean up but I doubt they could clean up everything that the Lambent did. I feel like the Lambent has just been ignored despite being a source of potential in my opinion.
I mean they literally all got fucking killed by the Countermeasure weapon. There is no more imulsion. Zip zero zitch nada. How are you gonna blame the coalition for what epic did in Gears 3.
Honestly Gears five sucked the only good point of that “game” was that Clayton kept living. Honestly I would’ve rather played as Lizzie just due to her last name she would’ve been a better main character than kait.
The locust origin to my opinion.....needs to be retold The Miners should of been the ones that turn sire Their families and mostly the kids would transform into killer monstrosities Aka kid versions of Grenadiers and kantus Drones came in when the grenadiers imbreeded And also Queen myyrah should of been a member of the research group
Locust being part of every monster under ground And these so called stim cells From a little girl that turned 20 years old in a day This dosent sound like gears of war at All Feels like that resident evil or somthing
The locust origin was terrible Like i said Miners turned sire Their families mostly children became the Locust First the grenadiers and kantus They go underground Grenadiers imbreed Then drones came in Their you go boom. Queen myyrah Was a former scientist in my theory And....in my opinion....she should of been
@@Nolongerhereanymore The one thing Tc did right in their campaign was establishing the locust origins in black & white imo. I say this because in Gears 2, when you went to New Hope the chapter was called ‘Origins’ & that’s where the locust origins started but Epic never fully established the Locust’s origins even in 3 or dlc, even at the end of 3 when Adam Fenix begins to spill some of his mistakes. So I’m glad they were established, you’re probably annoyed cos Kait was involved & I get that but if you take Kait & Del out of those scenes it explains it well regardless. Niles has been one of the best written characters in the universe.
I'm sorry dude but how the locust was made Every creature of the Hollow Myyrahs stim cells How in God's name did TC come up with this If the locust are part everything under ground they shouldint even look like humanoid lizards They should be looking like 6 armed mutants And their is no way those researchers were able to get samples of Every thing Underground They would shorly be killed
i couldn't even finish this campaign, and skipped the multiplayer all together. Ultimate edition is the only decent game they made, even though the gnasher is completely broken.
I’ll be honest I really hated the open world section. Not because it’s open world but because you’re forced to listen to Kat and Del’s crappy dialogue about JD. I mean if he’d let her secret out who knows what Jinn would’ve done to Kait. The game was really weakly trying to villainise him the whole time and I didn’t really see him as the bad guy. Sure Fahz is an ass but he’s not a terrible person overall, he saves Del a few times and gets really torn up if he or JD dies. Honestly I ended up muting the dialogue on the Skiff so I couldn’t hear them complaining about JD like he’s an absolute villain where he was trying to do the good thing.
My problem is that JD didn't get any growth from Gears 4. Along with the other's. Gears characters should have deep character arks. That's didn't happen. I hope Gears 6 isn't Nothing like kait. To much surrounding her. What also gets me in Gears 4 is the trailer for JD. Why would coalition put so much emphasis on him as a kid if he wasn't going to he the main character throughout the new games.
Honestly I don't blame the coalition for some of the design decisions they made, but yeah the sequels played it way too safe and marketable. I always thought that if they wanted to make something new and original with the GOW license maybe a horror game would've fit the bill ... It's not like there weren't elements of horror already in the first 3 games. :)
The biggest thing I loved the most that you mentioned was the micro transactions. I left and didn’t return for a year because of how poorly that store was run. I came back after they learned how to fix a mistake. Fool me once…
I enjoyed the multiplayer and horde in 5, but will always think 2/3 will be better fun factor wise. A remake of the the original trilogy is the only thing that can bring back the spark that was present from 2006-2014.
Five would be great if you played as Phx or Jr. Playing as Kate was forced and picking who dies ???? Should have had Kate been kid napped and the boys survived.
Your breakdown was really great. You should diversify to more popular games bcz I don't think your channel will grow much if you stick to this franchise which has its one foot in its grave.
I was pissed how Marcus and JD was treated. Like Marcus already lost a lot of family and your telling me his son not only dies, but is made the villain while Del is a typical joke for the female to point out his stupidity? 4 and 5 does not exist in my book
If I was in charge of the gears of war franchise, I would make a pendulum wars game, a survival/ open world where you play as the stranded and have to fight the locust, and a game where you play as the UIR's perspective of fighting the locust
If The Coalition were to retcon various parts of Gears 5 using Kait’s electroshock therapy sequence as the flashpoint, they *could* actually salvage things in Gears 6. JD’s defenestration and humiliation, the resurrected and transformed Reyna (who even thought that was a workable idea?!), that needless Sophie’s Choice, the destruction of Jack, etc. could all be washed away with an opening that reveals Kait was taken by the Swarm after being mentally subverted following a failed attempt to sever the telepathic connection (sadly, the salvaging of the franchise might actually have to leave that intact). The proceeding events of Gears 5 would be revealed in flashbacks from Del to have taken place very differently and ended on a very different note with the only commonality between Kait’s increasing, manipulation-influenced delusions and reality being the locations that events took place. With JD and Del being Kait-less a newer, more likable, and less obnoxious female character can be introduced - perhaps a sister to Lizzie Carmine (who I didn’t feel was nearly as bad as Kait or really an affront to Clayton). What do you think?
What they could have done is make the game about the pendulum wars. Seeing Tai in the battlefield. Young Marcus fresh out of boot camp. But no they did a star wars
Yeah at the end of this game I went back and Played gears 4 and man the multi-player in that game is what gears is all about besides the Lancer being over Powered. The game was fast pace, exciting and extremely fun really felt like a gears game
As a PC player that wanted to play gears of war on PC I was very disappointed. Coming back to the game and just finding microtransactions plastered everywhere put me off the game. Completed it on the hardest difficulty too. I used to enjoy horde mode in gears of war 3 which was another big reason why I bought the game, although the horde mode in gears 5 just sucks. I'd like if they just made something like what 343 done with the MCC and put all the good games into one package across on pc with NO MICROTRANSACTIONS. Imagine matchmaking GOW1 GOW2 GOW3 and Judgement all in the same game and playing all the campaigns with friends incredibly easy, would keep player count high across all the games as well. Gears 5 is a waste of money if you are expecting it to be anything like the original trilogy.
Gears 5 had the best movement/combat in the series mainly because it was the newest entry, but everything else really sucked compared to the original 3. I hope E Day innovates on the gameplay from 5 but really brings back the gritty gory mature tone of the original 3
For me it was how bright and shiny the series got that killed it for me. I loved fighting ugly monsters in the dark grey and brown world of gears 1, as their software devolped by gears 3 things were a bit more colorful but explained away as this is how things look in Sera during summer. When i played gears 4 and spent more time than i would have liked in fighting robots in bright sunshine amongst flower pots in a pristine city with everything covered in bright neon lights, i realized i didnt like the series anymore, expecting more distopian apocalypse atmosphere setting but finding a fucking 80s fever dream instead lol. I completely forgot gears 5 existed till recently, never played it and i dont really have any interest in continuing this new gears series.
3 things Gears of War DOES NOT NEED: 1- Open World Map 2- That annoying fortnite style where characters dance or make moves totally out of character 3- Political position like this boring woke feminist agenda
Missed this video. Took one look at GoW5 and was like “nah. It’s dead.” Real early on. Still enjoy horde mode, but other than that…look how they massacred my boy….
Tbf I finished gears 5 recently. Done it 2 player on insane and 100% collectibles and it was the most fun I’ve had in gaming for years. The ending is terrible picking between jd and dell, but other than that, playing the game with a friend is a good time.
The problem is kait (assuming del is dead in the future). She has nothing to add other than "she's reynas kid". The diaz family is not something i will ever care about. Building up Jack was a fun feature, they need two separate teams working on it. One for multiplayer and one for campaign mode and story. I personally only play for the story personally, and the characters i like from the new, Fahz and JD. They have something to develop there. Kait, has nothing. But JD and Fahz can fit in with the old guys. Their personalities can blend in with them, as long as the stop putting them in the butt of the joke position. With gears 6, i want way WAY less kait and I'd like to be able to play as a variety of the characters similar to how judgement was and a story that has meaning and originality to it and in terms of gameplay, i want it to feel HEAVY again to match to the weight of the situations of the plot and story. In short, i want less or no whiny selfish shallow bitches and more big grizzly war machines like the originals (that includes the women). The open world stuff can work, but needs to be less copy pasted as you said and they should stay away from all other rpg elements. Gears of War needs to go back to being a straight forward brutal shooter. And, what's more, it needs to reclaim it's original full title. Gears of War. Gears doesn't do well as a name for me, although if they call the next one gears 6, im ok with that provided after that, they strip out all the crap, like kait (can you tell i hate her??) And the childish selfish character 'motivations' they gave her and others and then, wheb there's a new story to tell, or even just telling the story ofva young Dom and Marcus in the pendulum wars and stuff, that's what i want to see. The swarm are just locust lite. Surely after 6, they'll be gone permanently? And given it's a scifi game, other planets exist presumably, which means somewhere out there, there's a new threat ready to attack Sera or something. Not aliens like halo or anything, but something. But yeah, the next game has a lot to make up for and best be the last we see of kait and the diaz family.
I always felt G5's story was never apealing, always following what Kait said just for the sake of it, h3ck, even a guy like Marcus following what she wanted without a question. Just didn't make sense at all. Great video resuming what happened to this game! I would love to hear your thoughts in depth on the DLC. I feel like this story bring back the "Gears" feel. Althought it's not perfect, of course it has its flaws, it does feels that it could be a step into the right direction.
Well if you watch the making of gears of war, even just the original or gears of war 2 as well, you can really feel the passion and the love to make an awesome epic game with great story and dialogue and it needs to feel real. All these games nowadays are taking way too much inspiration from fortnite. Not every game franchise has to be like fortnite man
I personally liked the game. The story was good in my eyes. While not as good as two or three it hit with me. It definitely was not as bland as one (and yes it was bland and you had to play the other games to actually get any answers). The jokes hit, the dark parts hit, the silent parts hit. The Easter eggs and collectibles tell that it was made with people that understood the old gears and extended lore.
Your notes are what real fans think. The Coalition recently said they won't be releasing a new Gears anytime soon. I hope they don't release it at all and they aren't the studio responsible for Gears. Ah, sorry, correct pronunciation is Gears of War. Coalition "Gears" doesn't exist.
I just finished The gears 5 game. Never played other gears games. I Have to say that I think gears 5 great game. Maybe not goat game but great still. Nice action and graphics. To Be Honest I think The biggest issue between new and old games IS that we are so used to The genres now. Back in a Day there were no halos, cods or gears. When they came out they were something special. I cant imagine what they should do to capture The old feeling.
Bruh you just said the only Gears of War game you played was 5. You don't understand how good the OT is without playing them. Look at the recent God of War and Resident Evil games, they show how to revitalize a series without pissing off the old fan base, while still having core elements that make it a (insert title) Game, as well as adding new features that were never there before.
Why the hell didn't they just make a prequel trilogy. Hell you can still use marcus if they wanted to. But doing the sequels first was a bad move. Gears 4 is like the force awakens and hears 5 is the last jedi
I wish JD stayed as the main character, even he was 100x more interesting than Kate and I really wanted to learn more about him. He's literally the son of the 2 best characters in the entire series he had so much potential, instead they give it to the goddamn locust queens granddaughter. They should have made her the antagonist by the end of gears 5 so not liking her would end up making sense
Kinda late on this. But the biggest waste Imo was the Swarm. They are meant to be apparently Successors to Locust but honestly they just seem like a mix Halos Flood but in a reddish pink color and Locust. They have some cool things about them but they aren’t as cool as the Locust. I think the Swarm should of been much more intimidating and a Threat. Like Swarm Drones could be much more Intelligent and Be equals to the COG Veterans. Maybe The Swarm can learn something from their Predecessors and learn from their Mistakes. I honestly think they have potential it right they are just Locust 2 and that’s disappointing.
As someone who rarely plays MP in Gears (I mostly stick to campaign and horde), Gears 5 is one of my favorites in the series. It's hard to say it's better than the OG trilogy, but I put it about on par with it. For context, I despise Gears 4 for its annoying story and characters. I find it to be the worst in the series by a mile. I like Judgement more than most but I also haven't played it since launch so what does that tell you?
I think the cast Reaction to JD being the cause of the Massacre wasnt really because he fired first and gave the order. Rather that he LIED About it for years leaving the blame on Fahnz despite how it impacted Del and Kait. Like it wasnt just about the death. It was the betrayal of the lie and playing innocent all these years. Del and Kait reaction was very warranted for the situation.(Badly written and developed but still warranted.) I think JD breakdown was literally meant for him to be killed off. (They even mention Anya having another child supposedly to even keep MArcus having another offspring potentially). I know the playerbase will probably choose JD to live. But considering it was Kait choice and JD lied about the settlement massacre which is one of the core reason for Outsider and COG fallout. It really hard to see "Kait" choosing to let JD Live. Especially after she bonded with Del and was literally her wingman while she went on a self discoverring journey.
