Beating Gears of War 3's Insane Difficulty Broke Me

I beat Gears of War 3 on Solo Insane
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[@Arrrash]

Hope you enjoyed :). My plans for the next video are likely Doom 3!

[@Perdi-wr1zc]

Can’t wait for doom 3!!

[@zwizzii]

I always finish the game on hardcore, then insane immediately after. Lol its just more engaging for me. Lol i have finished every game atleast twice, Except for gow 4 i just couldnt do it that game sucks

[@Arrrash]

@@zwizziiI went casual into insane 🤣

[@pepsicat2875]

I beat the game in one night with my cousin

[@liam8117]

ANOTHER SUFFER BUDDY!!!! :DDDDDD FOR THE CONTEXT Suffer buddies are people who do the same VERY HARD challenge as either a youtuber twice streamer and maybe just their friends

[@MaskedZoo]

The fact you dumped the lancer for a hammerburst and kept the gnasher hurts my brain. The gnasher is useless on insane. By the time you get close enough to use it effectively, you're already dead. Double ar is usually the way to go since you can always get ammo for both. Typically I only grab the boomshots if I run super reload mutator so I can kill gunkers in one hit if I need to clutch like on the bridge section.

[@Arrrash]

I think I figured that out as I went haha

[@thefreeden]

He's showing the inner Halo player within him. If you ever watched any of his Halo gameplay it's obvious he hates the main full auto rifle for some reason haha.

[@Demon-qc1ye]

On gears 1 and 2, I swapped out the gnasher for a longshot for that exact reason.

[@EvilMonkey403]

also lancer chainsaw (and bayonet to a lesser extent) is better than shotgun because it insta kills most enemies

[@moseisley4454]

It’s a secondary for when you lancer is out

[@JaredRPG]

Can't wait for that Gears Of War E-Day Insane run!

[@Arrrash]

It’s gonna go so hard

[@michaelhuie5878]

The devs said they really want to focus on how physically superior and absolute beasts the Locust are. Especially the regular Drones, so imagine their version of Boomers, Therons, Corpsers, Brumaks and the Kryll.

[@Kahn_s550]

Inconceivable*

[@Arrrash]

I forgot that’s a thing in the new games. I’m in

[@Arrrash]

I can’t wait!

[@keifcuadras9742]

The 2 gunkers outside the stadium part is really tough but there is a trick where if you shoot a boomshot in a specific spot between the pods you can destroy them before they spawn the gunkers killing them immediately

[@AdamAnalytical]

I played through the entire Gears 3 campaign in 4 player co-op on insane back in the day. I don’t think I ever got the final achievement because the last mission was so hard that we took turns having one player be on insane difficulty and the rest of the players would be on an easier difficulty, but we never got to my turn 😢

[@StephenYuan]

That giant bug Myrrah ride was the worst bullet sponge. I don't know how long it took to beat it. Must have been at least an hour, maybe more

[@advocateofkaos3246]

I beat it solo and myrrah took me hours man it's so unfair, last insane run was UE and we'll solo RAAM is tough but doable

[@StephenYuan]

@@advocateofkaos3246 I still haven't done an insane UE run and not from lack of trying.. It's pretty brutal.

[@lotionlean2749]

Hey just a friendly tip active reload single Handley carried me through this that’s was very important to make your gun A LOT stronger ( you can use this in all the games)

[@lofivibes3640]

This and having infinite ammo. Playing on arcade mode with a couple friends makes it so much easier. Could be a issue to unlock with the game dead online. If able to get a couple friends to help unlock in horde mode. Shouldn't take to long.

[@maxgoss5653]

I’ve beaten the entire trilogy on insane and I can say for sure that the barg part in this game is by far the hardest most frustrating part of all the games and that’s saying something. I literally had to look up a guide and even then it’s almost complete luck. The trick is staying behind the building in the middle at the right angle where you MIGHT NOT get hit by the explosions. Even then you’re constantly being flanked by elite Therons. I never wanna do that again 💀

[@NathanDavis508]

Love gears. The key to insane for the most part is patience, but there are parts of the gears 3 insane campaign where your best bet is to just run at the enemy and try and grenade tag it, like the 2 gunkers who attack outside the stadium

[@Arrrash]

Dude that part is rough! But yeah I constantly had to tell myself to slow down haha

[@gamesmaster919]

It is absolutely pathetic that this game was not cleaned up and given an official PC port.

[@justinfournier3894]

truly

[@hacheofthefilth13]

I almost did this alone when I was 11, the only thing left was defeating Myrrah, I spent two days trying to beat her, but one day, after coming back from school, my xbox was stolen, and that memory still haunts me to this day.

[@goldengam3rboss88]

the hardest part of the whole game for me was the bridge gunker, it would insta hit after the stadium section when you use the rail and the rail stops.

[@citogonzalez8177]

The screams me and my friends did when we saw the objective get marked out in the top left when we finally killed her after 5 days

[@xokhaliah]

me and my lil brother did this years ago during the summer when we were like 12 and 10 and i still remember how absolutely satisfying finally beating myrrah was, the tempest fight took us WEEKS to beat lol! still one of my all time fav memories having to go thru total hell together

[@ximbabwe0228]

Dizzy does not give a single fuck that Tai sacrificed himself

[@coryn6507]

i remember getting this achievement almost 5 years ago, it wasn’t just the whole game i had to go through but the final boss now that one drove me literally insane. Despite the craziness i just kept going and going and going until i finally FINISHED HER!

[@jboss4real]

I feel your pain, man. Like you said, Insane really does have a learning curve. For example, on the Gunker sections in Act 1, I found out that there are a bunch of Boomshots lying around. They make taking those guys out a lot easier. However, you have to go out of your way to find them. Also, while fighting the Serapedes in the drydock, I ended up luring them away from everyone while my squad took on the Armored Kantus. Then I hopped back and forth over a long barricade as the Serapedes crawled around it so that I could shoot them from behind. These tactics really helped make those sections easier for me. If (for some unholy reason) you ever play on Insane again, I recommend trying them out.

[@requiemagent3014]

Man it would have been cool if Gears 3 ever got a sequel. Oh well to bad that never happened. A shame really.

[@Arrrash]

Lmaoooo

[@MaskedZoo]

I mean, how do you continue a game after you kill every enemy on the planet with a death wave? Gears 4 with its crystal coccoons and juvie transformations isnt great but it kinda makes sense as a reboot of the locust if you didnt want to have it be about fighting space aliens or something else weird.

[@deuceleonard6628]

Heard judgement hears 4 gears 5 may I go on

[@MaskedZoo]

​@@deuceleonard6628 Judgement is a prequel, and not a very good one. I know that the lancer mark 2 is the gun of the franchise, but canonically, it wasnt invented until years after judgement took place. Tai Kaliso kinda invented it when he killed a locust drone with a circular saw in an abandoned department store, and Marcus goes to his dad and says, can you put a chainsaw on a gun because locust skin is too tough to pierce with a knife or bayonet unless you charge like really friggin hard.

[@deuceleonard6628]

@@MaskedZoo yeah I know it’s prequel but I’m saying its was something in 2013 after 3

[@AlkalineOrion]

I did all of Gears of War 3 solo on insane and I left it at the final boss fight. Too many Queen's Guards, each guard is a tank, the fucking Tempest almost seemed immortal. Tried so many times and got more frustrated with it. Gave up with the intention to try the next day and that was about 10 years ago

[@cesarfarias684]

Same, although I had my little brother log in and just focus on the tempest while I kill the guards. Still took like 20 tries

[@ElAnkaraMessi]

bro at this point its a skill issue 😭

[@DoobieKeebler]

I beat Gears of War 3 on insane twice, playing with a different buddy each time. That was when my friends & I would play GoW multiplayer. When Gears 5 came out, I tried to do an insane playthrough as well (like I had with every game in the franchise outside of.... maybe Gears 1), but I repeatedly died like I never died before. My buddy who was playing w/ me got pissed & stopped wanting to play, so I havent beaten Gears 5. It's the reason why, imo, Gears 5 is the most difficult game in the franchise.

[@RoyalAssassinBE]

Yeah I think 4 and 5 are harder on insane. Or maybe I just didn't played them enough. Did got 4 on insane. But mostly because I had great help. 5 I don't even have finished on hard-core. Now it's been so long I played I'm gonna struggle on easy as well. 😂

[@jagers-diabetes524]

See, I've run gears on insane once or twice. Always found it a challenge. But watching someone fail this much makes me feel better about myself. It also makes me question a lot of things.

[@adarkwind4712]

I started an insane campaign on 3 not too long ago. Bruh, the bridge section to get to the stadium made me rage harder than I have in a long time.

[@manuelzelaya8973]

As a person who played on Insane for Gears of War 3’s campaign. I can agree that you eventually at some point break after so many deaths and go numb afterwards

[@jamescook1086]

The queen boss was hell but still clapped them cheeks

[@saanyofficial6154]

Man my younger brother and I would go through insane on all of the gears of war games. It was like as soon as we beat gow 1 on insane it was the expectation moving forward and the rest of the installments.

[@bigriffliebe8427]

Major Malfunction was very hard medal to get. loved that many people didn't have it.

[@nunchuksteev9811]

Insane was harder no doubt, but once I slowed down, stopped being so aggressive, it became my preferred way to play the campaign, especially on couch co-op. It just feels more intense because if you mess up you wont survive. The ammo consumption is a problem though. Boltok is king.

[@mrbrocephus3849]

I’m still stuck on coal train on the cord. With him sliding down the rope thing. It’s been 6 years 😂

[@Arrrash]

That section is brutal

[@sambridges8738]

It hurts me to see him ignore the hat in the store as cole

[@saint_alucardwarthunder759]

What's with it?

[@sambridges8738]

@@saint_alucardwarthunder759 just adds a hat on him for a bit

[@willytjr1]

That ADS feature on the Hammerburst made my insane run a cake walk

[@xBodiezz]

57:51 when you said Minh was trying to get revenge on Raam it’s the other way backwards that’s the reason why Raam killed him in gears of war 1

[@davidjacobs7465]

I completed it on insane difficulty some time ago. And what I rememeber to be the hardest part is probably the queen Myrrah boss fight. Near the dome there's no good cover to cover all sides as you hide from the heat ray while a theron guard shoots you from the back or sides. The only cover I found to work was back by the elevator you come up in. Other than that the toughest moment was fighting the armored kantus for the first time. No so much because of the kantus, but more because of the serapedes forcing you to constantly be on the move.

[@RoyalAssassinBE]

Yeah you need to kill does Therons asap. And take your time with the queen. I think I only completed it with a 4 man squad. And even than it's a pain in the ass.

[@violated5H4RK]

When I did this back in the day solo as well I found out you could actually stick the gunker with a grenade and it’s a one” shot” kill I mean it’s faster than waiting for your squad to take care of them.

[@gxrm1538]

“blud is playing csgo” - 13:40 😭😭😭

[@JosephSiket]

Honestly after playing these series for more than a decade now it is truly safe to say, that the original trilogy was never ment to be played on INSANE in one player mode, it was meant coop or split screen only.

[@icecoldsnakeYT]

33:35 HEY I RECOGNIZE THAT! 😉😉

[@Generalphoenix8438]

I feel your pain. I compleyed it to prove my metal as a gear but got all three games insane achievements. I did it solo as im a lone wolf. Fun fact when i finished this at my uni flat and made one of my flatmates run to the kitchen asking what happened he flipped when he saw i beat it after hes seen me go through this for days. I had classes and final work to do.

[@wr5488]

Awesome game! I beat it on insane over a decade ago I think lol The Queen in the final fight is in my top 5 hardest bosses ever. Soooo many minions… Also there was one segment in the final level I had no ammo and had to kill like 3 bloodmounts(?) in melee while being sniped at. That took forever to beat.

[@Cherrygreenie_alex]

1 hour video is crazy and good

[@theblackdragon2623]

i pretty sure in gears 3 their were red ammo boxes you could get ammo from for the sniper or i might be thinking of gears 2 someone let me know which cause its been awhile

[@katman2192]

Gears 3 has the best thrird person gunplay in any game ever made but insane mode is torture

[@SempraReal]

#1 Gears KZbinr 2024

[@maxgoss5653]

*King Abz has entered the chat*

[@FestIf]

General ram on insane is the hardest thing I've ever done, halo 2 legendary outskirts doesn't even cone close to ram on insane

[@RoyalAssassinBE]

Raam isn't that hard on insane. With a torque bow and a Lancer and some grenades it's easy to kill him. I struggle more with him on casual 😂 but when I played on insane I expected the worst. But killed him in a few tries.

[@mythical.martinez1609]

I still haven't beaten the Shadow of Ram on insane and its the tickers for me

[@MaskedZoo]

The part with the school desks? Good times.

[@MyFace-ie3tj]

Recommendations swap a gun with carmines torque bow remember doing a lot to gunckers

[@lew_4713]

No better feeling when you get past that checkpoint after loads of tries

[@Arrrash]

100%

[@SeanM132]

Did the same challenge, do them for all Gears games (including no upgrades to Jack on Insane Gears 5 solo) and I honestly think avoiding the barge with Palace Guards to fight was the hardest thing i've ever done on Gears 🤣

[@Chiyomi_Anzai599]

I beat Gears 2 on Insane just today, 22/07/2024. Now I won't be playing Gears 3 on Insane UNTIL I get infinite ammo Mutator unlocked first for Arcade cause people say Hardcore/Insane isn't that bad in Arcade mode. I just did my hardcore run a month ago in Arcade. :)))

[@taurvanath]

I remember when i moved I didnt have internet for nearly 4 years. But i did have gears of war 3. I spent nearly 2 months trying to beat that mug on insane solo. Its agonizing. And that final boss is bullshit. Lol. It was a monumental achievement.

[@sinurgi]

i did this same run back in 2012-2013 when i was about 10 or 11, i finished it but boy i never attempted another solo insane campaign again 😂

[@stefanmekkinosson175]

Im currently playing through the Gears trilogy again. Dusted off my old Xbox360 after 8 years and I had to check my achievements if i had the solo insanity achievement. I have it, but i dont have the co-op one. Ao I did it solo too.

[@aaronlaughter6471]

A little lore tidbit, the Savage Locust, were not doing good, they were doing bad, to the point if you were a Locust and got caught even taking jus a tiny bit more then what you needed (food/water) it was death on the spot. The Locust were suffering just as bad as the humans.

[@natecoats2390]

Just got done with ultimate edition (insane) now I'm going back to the original. I plan on getting all camping achievements from all games before E-day drops.

[@Rehabz4Quitterz]

.69%? Nice

[@bigpimpin7218]

I've done gears 2 and 3 insane solo and just finished ultimate co-op with a buddy. We are doing the trilogy and he doesn't believe me when I tell him how bad 3 is.

[@Freelancer837]

Sad to see no lack of cover challenge

[@Arrrash]

I don’t think it would be possible on gears 3

[@jamesandrews3700]

Actually tried this year's ago and got to the ash city part before I quit. Wanted to continue awhile back but the save was corrupted

[@hanibalking7841]

All the lambent have a weak spot beside the head.the gunkers spot is his stomach. I'm at the point where your trying g to get to the stadium. Can't wait to see how much fun you have on the rail section at the end of that level

[@hanibalking7841]

Lmfao I was right. The zip line areas a bitch lmfao.

[@orrinprovost2153]

I remember when the game wiped your medals, so ended up finishing regular insane 3 times and arcade insane 3 times, just so I can have thos onyx medals lol

[@drewbacca_ttv2512]

Bro the hardest achievement is the seriously achievements im that sad I got all of them on each gears but man what a grind

[@premeirsteam]

I agree with the fact that this is the hardest insane achievement out of the original trilogy died about more than 20 times😂😂

[@premeirsteam]

Also the loadout i used the beat the 3rd game was boomshot and lancer but the 1st 2nd and UE the lancer and torque bow is the wepons i used to beat them on insane

[@jonathansoares5454]

So many years later I was in high school doing this and you die and suffer in the same spots😂😂 good memories 🎉

[@XTHELEACH]

Brooo this shit was SO tough to beat! Better grab some cover and play like horde mode💀🤣

[@bones_tv9383]

I only managed to make it to the queen, same with judgment. Never beat it though, just 1,2, and 4 by myself. 😅

[@destinypunch1097]

i miss all my friends from gears ngl

[@ops2237]

To be honest, gears 3 campaigns were never played tested on insane

[@jakehernandez9188]

In Act VI reckoning all I can say is that, THAT IS THE MOST BS MISSON but I can finally say that I beat 1,2,3 on insane and gears 4 and 5 on inconceivable

[@Miles117-s1y]

Wow Memories thank you for this video going to buy this game at GameStop

[@ericwinters1513]

The last boss in Gears 3 was total BS (on Insane). I don't know that I ever got it and I beat the first two games on Insane.

[@justwhaleseals]

My Childhood❤

[@qb3540]

I tried playing Gears 3 on insane but I ran out of ammo during the first Gusher encounter.

[@Dj-sf7or]

this brought back bad memories lmao

[@anthonydavenport1841]

O beat this solo on insane during my like 9th grade summer. Achieving this really pissed me off lmao

[@choasmarine2702]

So I've been playing gears of war 3 on insane difficulty for about 6 months cuz of the final mission

[@nathanielnadeau6501]

Seriously, whoever designed that barge section is an absolute jackass. Even on co-op, which is the only way I could beat it on Insane, it's still a nightmare and requires not only incredible coordination and skill but also luck.

[@dawsynlarson696]

I shit you not this achievement took me 2 YEARS to obtain 😂😂 tbf I was playing on and off but literally the only part that was fuckin impossible was the infamous finale myrrah boss battle

[@BomackillerP.R]

Drop em I'm in there

[@TH3P0PS]

I thought heaps of people beat the game on insane??? I’ve done the whole series. Maybe I’m better at it then I thought.

[@evolvedHE]

Let's gooooooooooooooooooo

[@fadedBLAZE89]

The zipwire bridge section is ass. So is the armored kantas with the serapedes and the queen mira fight. I raged so hard on those sections.

[@halakon666]

Sniper is your friend in insane.

[@keloing923]

Gears 2 was horrible for me. I played co-op and it was a nightmare. Pacing, glitches and “let’s split up” sections ruined the game for me. I still love 1 & 3! Should 4 be skipped? I’ve heard it’s the black sheep of the franchise.

[@Arrrash]

I recently played 4. I enjoyed it, but it’s not to the same level as the trilogy and the enemies you fight in the early game aren’t nearly as fun as the locust

[@tosportsfan2342]

Gears 4 insane run or inconceivable? Just beat gears 4 on insane yesterday and I decided to take a break and finish ultimate edition on insane before going back for inconceivable on gears 4. So far I’ve done gears 1,2,4 on insane need to unlock gears 3 and judgement insane again 😢

[@Arrrash]

I’m working on unlocking inconceivable rn!

[@sgt.thomasofdeltasquad2601]

Dude should've used the shotgun

[@Zsand100]

Do seriously 4.0 next

[@Paulog2003]

This shit was so fucking impossible trust me

[@k.hollow]

36:15 bro just sucker punched you

[@PickleSlap55]

Play it with no hud and get active reloads 😎💪🏻 T pose

[@Natrez914]

FRAG OUT!!

[@ArabianFreedom]

I did all on insane solo difficulty and I find GoW4 is the hardest.

[@Arrrash]

It’s on my list :)

[@The7DirtyWords]

Gears 1 is arguably the hardest one. Solo Gears 3 is the easiest Gears on Insane. Now if we count in 4 and 5, they are the hardest in the franchise.

[@pinkinthesushi]

Wtf are you smoking, Gears Of War 1 on Insane is so much more easier compared to Gears Of War 3 because aside from the lambent wretches and raiding the imulsion factory full of Theron Guards, GoW 3 does all that and then some, from the bullshit lambent enemies (Gunkers, Drudge variants and Polyps) to the insane amount of Queens Guard units thrown at you by the end I promise you, you just haven’t played both in a while but I have.

[@llayo]

@@pinkinthesushifacts

[@ZackAttack-zp1gf]

Good job, I just did it on coop instead back in the day lol

[@Arrrash]

Probably the better choice 😂🤣

[@ZackAttack-zp1gf]

Now Halo 2 legendary was a bitch and I did that solo

[@Arrrash]

I’ve only ever done that one coop idk if I’m brave enough for solo

[@ZackAttack-zp1gf]

Oh nice, I couldn’t imagine coop tho since iron skull is active regardless lol 😆

[@MaskedZoo]

Its either fun or frustrating when everyone goes in on insane. People can die from the funniest things and you'll laugh your ass off or get angry at the red failure screen.

[@MoistPocket]

The blimp section was annoying af 😂

[@Demon-qc1ye]

Really? It’s harder than gears 1 and 2? I completed gears 1 on insane a few years ago and recently I completed gears 2 on insane. Gears 2 wasn’t that bad, but gears 1 with the corpser fight and raam… I can’t imagine gears 3 being even harder than that.

[@Arrrash]

I’d say it is, but also based on achievement % it is too so that kinda backs it up. I’d say Mira is harder than raam tho he also is very hard

[@Demon-qc1ye]

@@ArrrashI mean, it has been quite a while since I played it so I might be forgetting about certain sections, and I also never tried it on insane. But gears 3 insane is something I’m planning on doing soon, so I guess I’ll learn the pain of completing it firsthand.

[@Arrrash]

have fun!

[@HearItHereFirstTV]

Is this nadeshots cousin?

[@Arrrash]

I wish

[@HearItHereFirstTV]

@@Arrrash lol no hate just saw a similarity

[@isaiahmcneese5766]

all good get better tho😂

[@trknjoi9590]

Real ones know that Gears of War 2 on solo insane is the hardest. There is not game more difficult. Gears of war 3 was a piece of cake compared to 2. If I died 300 times on Gears 2 it was easily 150 on Gears 3

[@hxlobeats]

Fr?

[@trknjoi9590]

@@hxlobeats bro it’s so difficult it’s insane. No pun intended

[@hxlobeats]

@@trknjoi9590 im about to beat 3 it’s not that hard on act 5 rn u might be right

[@hxlobeats]

@@trknjoi9590 beat it 121 deaths

[@LambentTuguy]

Gears 3 was easy af on Insane.....

[@smokinacestm]

Can you solo gears 3 on insane?

[@ItsJznj]

W it’s sfsu my account got banned so I got jznj hopefully we get a new gears game 🙏💯

[@Arrrash]

Oh no! How’d it get banned lol

[@ItsJznj]

@@ArrrashIt was a 4 letter I bought and I didn’t swap it to a different account so it got banned but at least I got jznj swapped to my account so it won’t get banned