The Lost Gears of War We Never Got To See

[@senormarston]

I, even to this day, hope to see a trilogy about the Pendulum Wars; but not now, not in the state that Gears of War and Microsoft Studio are, they would fuck it up like they have been doing for most of its exclusives. I really hope a day we get to see stories and games being developed the right way so that day we can see a Gears of War in the Pendulum Wars being announced

[@Rrgr5]

I was expecting that, but sadly never happened and the IP is in MS hands now.

[@isaac3095]

Either that or early E-Day just like RAAM shadow

[@agentcodybanx8909]

What is "the right way"? You haven't given any examples of where it went wrong or what could be better

[@crysisrevelation6132]

If they ever do a game set in the Pendulum Wars, they could do it as an RTS. Like C&C 3 with a hint of Company of Heroes for the cover mechanics. Hypothetically, UIR vs COG with the Locusts as an easter egg/expansion.

[@SeanWalsh1]

@@agentcodybanx8909it went wrong by not focusing on the main characters, and going feminist

[@Gilroysmash86]

There is potential for a game showing how UIR handled the locust war. Be an interesting way to learn more about them and how they operate

[@Rrgr5]

As I remembered they were added to the COG, at least most of them, when E-day happened they didn't have much of anything, the ones you saw on Gears 3 were mostly nostalgic ex-military, most of their government has gone.

[@atcandotherthings4985]

The UIR according to novels and comics got wrecked on emergence day with only a few survivors remaining and became stranded

[@pjemrey6676]

That's the thing, they didn't handle it. They got systematically disassembled. The Republic of Gorasnaya fell literally the first day of the Locust invasion. On top of that, the COG bombarded it with hammer of dawn strikes afterwards

[@FlyOnAlbatross]

@@pjemrey6676still it would be interesting to see the final days of the Pendulum Wars thru Miran Trescu’s eyes. He promised his father he would continue the fight with the COG. He had every intention of keeping that promise. Suddenly these monsters come out of the ground and within a matter of hours his entire country is reduced to nothing. I would love to know how he kept it all together all those years. The man was very decisive. I have no doubt he had to abandon many of his country men on E-Day in order to secure what remaining population he managed to evacuate to sea. I would also love to see the years that Paddrick Salton spent crossing Sera to find the Pesanga. The stories that could be told are dark and deep. I loved Karen Travis’s books. I keep my fingers crossed she delves back in to the Gears Universe.

[@MERCERENiTY]

Indeed. I've felt for some time that, the UiR perspective has juicy fresh potential. The Pendulum war is good potential as well. In a Pendulum war game, the developers could include the unplayed perspective of the locust underground. Imagine being able to experience the surface war, and then the underground (locust) situations, within the campaign.

[@brotherhoodofsteel4751]

I would love to see a game where the Onyx guard actually gets a moment to shine. I always hate the trope of having an elite unit that only serves the purpose of getting killed to show how tough the enemy is.

[@875unknown]

Got a couple ideas that might work for telling games lore wise: - Play as a locust drone or Theron Guard fighting Lambent and humans (Standard, COG, UIR). This could be played out just before E-Day fighting the lambent underground and then fighting humanity on E-Day. To expand on this, maybe even fighting other Locust post-Jacinto sinking as it is possible a few locust could have lost faith in the Queen, going from nearly an overwhelming victory against humanity to fighting in the mud to survive like humanity and losing their home in the span of two years surely would make some think about their loyalty and direction. Plus, would be interesting to see their side of the story from a locust's perspective and go into how one could think. If released as a trilogy it could be structured like so: Game 1: Locust Civil War and E-Day Game 2: Operation Hollow Storm Game 3: Surviving in the Wastes If wanted, it could be tied into the sequels where Locust tribe/s somehow survived Adam's device and are aiming to survive. Potential is what could they do story wise? Could Humanity and Locust remnants come to some very uneasy alliance to fight this threat? Do sparks reignite? Does this tribe just aim to stay hidden to avoid annihilation? It has potential. - Play UIR/COG during the Pendulum Wars. In a violent 80 year war, there's gotta be a lot to tell especially with characters such as Adam Fenix and Paduk. Could have a war told from two characters on opposing sides. - Play as a Standard in a horror game - you ain't no Marcus Fenix, you a random guy who's gonna be mulch unless you are careful. This could be an opportunity to revive the horror vibes and atmosphere from GoW 1.

[@kaionyx9873]

I can only agree with you, as a such fannof the first trilogy then the second one which was also good but not the sane as the first… also the idea of the locus, where i like a lot, cause fan side of the locust lore and story it would be amazing.

[@jackmarshall9258]

There were different casts, but none opposed Meredith. Except for the lambet. The Trinity of Worms we're basically preachers. They were the ones that screamed, also known as kantus. If I'm remembering correctly, they weren't for war with the humans, but they weren't against it. Fighting the humans just became necessity since they were being pushed back by the lambet. The reason fighting the humans became necessity because they needed out of Hollow where all the imulsion is. If your city is basically built next to a lake of parasites, and the only way to go is through another civilization, you're probably going to go through the civilization. Especially when the only interaction that you've had with them is being their test subject for war.

[@jackmarshall9258]

Well, the idea of fighting the lambett as a locust would be awesome. I can understand why they didn't. It'd be a hell of a lot of friendly fire. It would just be too confusing. When the only difference between your team and the enemy team is that they slightly glow.

[@gr8m887]

I would pay good money for a Judgement-style spin-off about Clayton Carmine during the Locust War.

[@MetaITurtle]

Im glad they brought Paduk back in Gears 5 , even though he said if they want to stay friends to not see one another again..but this also shows that Paduk was lying about that and actually cared for him. His actions spoke louder.

[@PsychopathicV2]

So am I. Question is though was Paduk lying about not seeing each other again or was it just out of necessity due to the locust returning? The nomads were in rough shape when you meet them.

[@MetaITurtle]

@PsychopathicV2 That's a good point. It kind of was the same reason why they met in Judgment again too. But the line "I have an old FRIEND that can help us" thats not a quote but I remember Baird saying something along those lines. So I think they both care for each other but Paduk won't actually say it.

[@dontknowdontknow9769]

@@PsychopathicV2 if i have to assume they found that Sofia is alive and contacted them and so they made peace

[@empirednw6624]

Fun fact, gears 4 was initially pitched as a horror game. As time went on the devs decided that concept didn’t go well with the characters so it was dropped.

[@xXClassicUserXx]

I can see why given JD and That one black dude are corny ass hell in that game doing that marvel comedy awkwardness

[@empirednw6624]

@carm-nice the game was initially going to be way darker in atmosphere and tone.

[@ChadHellgado]

@carm-niceI honestly thought Gears 4 felt like a marvel movie compared to the other 3. It kept trying to be comedic more than serious.

[@theta_clips]

It's the issue with new games, they all want to be the 3rd act in a story because writers are too lazy to create interesting characters that develop over the course of the game, so you have Marvel teams like JD and the Cog-Kids team, who have no charisma, personality or anything notable about them besides their gender or maybe their race, because it's way easier to just start out with 4 characters and force them into a situation than have it develop like in the original trilogy.@@ChadHellgado

[@empirednw6624]

@carm-nice the concept was that humanity was still going extinct and there was still little hope after the war. The rebuilding didn’t go very well because the planet was just too damaged and dead, and the swarm were going to be seen as the final nail in the coffin for humanity. This made the game just feel too hopeless because it seemed everything was pointless and for nothing so it was changed to humanity actually getting back on their feet and the swarm were just a wrench thrown into rebuilding that could become a new locust horde if it wasn’t dealt with quickly enough.

[@chrisg6517]

That's really unfortunate to hear cliffs side of the story. As i heard many people say over the years that GOW never needed a sequel triogly(for which I strongly agree) there was so much prequel Era story content untold that could've been introduced into games. An pendulum war base game,the locust civil war,base game prequel story arcs of other characters carmine brothers,sam,jace,dizzy,Hoffman.......etc and I wouldn't even mind a story arc game centered around the stranded LOLL. One thing I will say that judgment did right in my opinion was capturing the feeling of what society looked like before and during E-Day I wished they had expanded upon that more though.

[@claytonmachine12]

Yeah. The story was over. The Locust were dust. The lambent were Dust. There were no enemies left. Then they "wElL aCtUaLy"d the fucking thing with the dumbest reasoning.

[@primepossum6997]

Don't forget Overrun mode! My 2nd favourite GoW multiplayer right behind GoW3 Horde

[@Winnie_daze]

​@@primepossum6997 God yes the overrun mode had so much potential to be in the later games! The mix of horde and beast mode is a really interesting concept I wish they developed more

[@jjw4646]

Who cares about the story. We need a strong Gears MP again!! That’s what made GoW great.. not the campaign🙄

[@Chairdolf]

Honestly this reminds me of naruto they make all the stories of the old days and the other people and they then fuck it up by going forward and now showing us before i find it funny that many of my favorite franchise have doe this to me

[@Nolongerhereanymore]

Now I wish their was a gears of war judgement 2 with a full Paduk and Sofia campaign....

[@JohnDoe-pu5gk]

Judgement was awful.

[@cotenaijo3112]

Bro holding out for a shitty romance campaign💀

[@collinbroom7119]

The ONLY thing about Judgement that really gets to me is that the chainsaw bayonett lancer is in service. That didn't exist until around a year after E-Day. Marcus and Tai came up with the idea one day while in a battle and it got implemented into the COG.

[@jackmarshall9258]

You are completely right. I think what happened here was rule of cool. That, and somehow people would complain that it wasn't in the game.

[@maxmazzotti6651]

The fact that Gears never got any full spinoff games like Halo after the old developers left is shocking. I honestly would like ID Software to make a Halo spinoff that adapts the Ghosts of Onyx novel that stays true to the old Bungie games.

[@Boltgunmetal94]

Gears of War tactics? Does that count? I never played it

[@vermin9190]

@@Boltgunmetal94 its garbage. its still broken, the devs just ripped assets from other gears games at the time, nothing new, no new maps, no new game modes and classes added since launch, the story is horrendous, women look like men(like full on beards for characters male haircuts etc), act like men and no customization for your characters. cant change their face, name, bio, nothing and the armor system makes it worse you like this armor welp to bad its only common and here comes a rare that makes the armor look like shit. in short that game sucked balls and the devs for it never loved the GOW franchise. they made their money and left. so fuck em and any new games they make

[@dblundz]

There’s 14 years of the locust war before the trilogy they can tell stories with. Crazy they never utilized that besides a few comics and some books. Time period I would pick would be before the hammer strikes. There’s some awesome moments from the books that would transition well into levels/cutscenes

[@simonball6560]

The fact they only called the fifth game Gears 5 and not Gears of War 5, goes to show how much Microsoft has dumped on this franchise. Gears of War 2 is one of my fave games of all time.

[@RecluseSports]

First person Onyx guard game sounds so damn good. Missed opportunity smh

[@blakefrei3015]

Would love a remasters of GoW 2, 3, and Judgment. Then a Gears 6 that goes back to its roots, with Fenix at the center again.

[@HiddenPoopSock]

Why? Marcus is fucking old give the Fenix bloodline a rest, it’s like the skywalkers in star wars it’s fucking annoying there’s so much interesting characters in the extended lore stop sucking them off for a few games

[@John-Doe-Yo]

I would only want 2 remastered, it was always a little off to me. 1 and 3 were perfect in my eyes.

[@dagreatberich1070]

On the new series x, you can play them at 60fps with the resolution increase.

[@jjw4646]

Judgment? That would be a waste of time. That game was awful.

[@KillSwitchNY]

Play 3 on a series X with HDR and FPS boost on and it looks/feels just as good as 4.

[@mungopress]

An Onyx guard fps would've been so cool. It's a shame that it never came to fruition.

[@GuscioRosso]

Imho Judgement is underrated while Gears 4 and 5 are really overrated.

[@scanthail99]

i forever wished they made a game about the pendulum wars that could have taken place over years and added other stories to it like how they did for Ramm's shadow in GOW3, and or made an RTS GOW game its sad to see a lot of these franchise's that I grew up with just dying and turning to crap

[@Slyslug]

I remember when cliff was like "i dont want GOW to be my legacy" and i, a huge fan of GOW 123, was super upset

[@tekzilla777]

Getting rid of the original Boltok, Hammerburst, and View/Controls really messed up the sequels from the first one.

[@trontosaurusrex9532]

Original Hammerburst and Boltok were my faves in the franchise.

[@saneghost7020]

The 1st 3 where perfect 🥰

[@BectorThemoneycollector]

That would be dope, a game about the onyx guards and what happened to them during the locust war

[@MemeAlchemist]

The fact that there was no update on a Gears 6 (which idk how to feel about in general) kinda tells you the state of Gears of War and it makes me sad. We need a Marcus Fenix collection or something so we can play these amazing games on Steam or at least at a higher framerate with mouse and keyboard.

[@primepossum6997]

After 4 and 5 my interest in 6 is pretty low, ngl. I mostly play Horde and they have just destroyed what was fun about it. The class/cards system means that every game just plays the same

[@Nolongerhereanymore]

Would it be crazy if groups of Locust rebelled against the Queen.

[@TheStrayHALOMAN]

What I wanted for Gears 5 was the old locust siding with the COG under their new King and Queen being Kait and JD. This would cause a civil war between the old Drones/Scions and the Swarm. I would have the civil war start immediately after Kait kills Myrrah in the Rift/Hive mind. The swarm would want biological unity just like now while the locust want the classic monarchy back but since new Queen is Kait and this time also with a king the Locust would become tense allies of humanity just out of loyalty to the royal family.

[@Nolongerhereanymore]

Interesting

[@unr34L-]

@@TheStrayHALOMANthat sounds so genius brah wtf

[@nathanparmar3447]

@@TheStrayHALOMANwas it just me who hated all the robot enemies in the campaign for gears 5 would’ve loved fighting original locust enemies

[@TheStrayHALOMAN]

@@nathanparmar3447 It's not that I don't like them it's that I don't like seeing them everywhere. I think it's cool they all have Jack's face.

[@Illussives]

I always wanted to look into the carmine family (specifically Anthony and Benjamín) as I am a carmine lover of the series and would love a game based on them as well as a game based on the Pendulum wars as that I would love to be commando hoffman as the main protagonist giving him some character development.

[@darklord7289]

I would have personally loved to see an Onyx Guard 1st person game focusing on the intensity of combat. Make it in a mix Of Doom and Star Wars Republic Commando. Also comparing the Expanded World building of GOW and Star Wars (4:49) Really warms my heart, 2 of my favourite nerdy franchises.

[@KateHikes83TJD]

holy shit it would been the goat 😍🔥🔥

[@darklord7289]

@@KateHikes83TJD yes, exactly why I champion the expanded depth's of the world building so much. Well at least a pre Disney and 2016 COG. bring in people with passion, creativity and originality and it can be ignited by just simply reminding us how good it was without it pandering with surface level appeal.

[@seantanski4776]

Damn the Onyx Guard game would have been so cool

[@danielballinger9680]

I love the franchise, have ever since my dad got me the first game when I was a kid. Seeing how the Coalition has not only destroyed the core fabric of the game but also the community splitting from those who just want anything gears they will take mediocre and those who expect quality when it comes to their favorite franchise really hurts. I would love to see not just Gears but also Halo go back to the glory days of Gears 3 and Halo 3/Reach. I'm sad that I will likely never see them rise to where they once stood, but I am glad to have been a part of the ride and hope that when Anya said that "we finally have a tomorrow" will come to fruition.

[@mr.j9125]

Gears of war developers should of took a different route completely. Just imagine it. A pendulum war game. Games based on different point of views during the locas attacks and after

[@vahlok1426]

I miss when Gears of War had its horror vibes. The first game has some legitimately spooky moments, even while you're playing as a macho-man with a small arsenal.

[@That1GuyUDontKnow]

Gears of War judgment needs a remake fixing the controls, the arcade point system and integrate the side missions into insane difficulty removing the option to select them entirely.

[@johnmccormack5300]

When Omaha uploads you know it's going to be a great day

[@shinjigaming7185]

I pray every single day we get a Pendulum Wars game

[@ColDAXX]

Sad, that would have been dope to see. A survival horror game about Gears of War would be cool, like playing as one of the stranded.

[@VeryBadPlayerTV]

"Gears of War is an example of when developers are holding gold in their hands and not knowing what to do with it." I see a comment like this and then i think about the first 3 games right. What the fuck else were they even supposed to do when we really ask ourselves. like i guess they can do prequels but in reality they kinda just did everything they needed to for 1-3. they TRIED to prequel with judgement and look at it... its just weird. my only solution would be to not make a "gears of war" game but to make a "locust something" based game where you play as generals in the locust army and take down soldiers and generals in the cog that died, take over cities that the cog lost etc. This way you could still make epic gears of war like stories but without fucking with marcus and the gang.

[@Mexman75]

A 4 to 5 player co-op Onyx game would have been awesome

[@jonathanbell8887]

I’m surprised you didn’t go into the actual title of the video that discusses all the detail of cliff B’s idea for more games and the concept art they made.

[@fxn09here]

The intro was fire asf

[@Merlaut715]

Righteous, I would've loved a first-person Gears.

[@tHEPEk-kk7jg]

A game with a convoy of onyx guards during the pendulum wars or even early locust war we never saw would be awesome. I don’t think coalition is capable though. Imagine a whole game with onyx and being able to see all the interesting onyx characters and how the devs and creators could design them based off their ranks and specialization in the onyx. We could have new armor and helmet concepts that dive deeper into the rank hierarchy of onyx armor. We could see more helmetless onyx like Sofia Hendrix but only thing I didn’t like about Sofia was her hair which didn’t feel military approved w that dangling bun but yeah more onyx characters could be cool depending on how they tackle character design. The one thing I loved about the OG trilogy was that all the gears felt like professional soldiers you could take seriously which would need to come back in order to nail onyx guard characters. Bad asses that don’t need to say badass things to make you think they’re badasses like when we first see Marcus in the Raven just felt badass the whole tone no explanation or joke needed. I miss character designs like Kim, Barrick, Tai, Valera, Ben, Anthony they just felt like soldiers. Especially Kim being very by the book we need more gears like Kim. The OG characters in the new games got butchered and feel to basic or water down or over done like Cole always saving the day. Cole saves the day again but in a huge mech that was ugly and did not look gear of war to me. We just need better characters and new fresh bad ass characters that feel like gears and take the job seriously unlike Del. Del is just terribly annoying and JD is horribly bland. The Franchise needs stop with the woke bs, ideas and writing or give it to another studio who actually cares about gear of war lore and hardcore fans of the dark gritty trilogy it use to be.

[@theguybehindyou4762]

Telling woketards to stop using popular franchises to preach their dogma is like telling addicts to stop taking drugs.

[@TwistedExisted894]

I wouldn't mind a graphics update to the first three. but I don't even seeing that happening; but this does feel like a love letter to gear fans and just growing up to something brutal

[@willmelvin2351]

I've always wanted a story like Judgement where we get to see events before the time we know it. It was cool in Gears 4 where they had you play through the pendulum wars a little along side Dom stealing the HOD. They just keep dodging these opportunities to give this franchise better stories.

[@XXAnthonyCarmineXx]

Tactics was cool getting to see the hammer drop for the first time

[@tonytattletaleliano956]

I think either the pendulum wars or a locust perspective on the war would be awesome they nailed it with general raam I'd like to see it maybe like a run of the mill grub squad or a a new unheard "boss"

[@killybass3925]

Holy shit when you said Lucas arts it gave me goosebumps! That took me way back, great video

[@mikeychainsaw9760]

Gears of war :The pendulum wars would be a dope prequel. Cast could be a young Victor Hoffman Bernadette Mataki Samuel Byrne Helena Stroud

[@alienatedslayer]

Beat the first 3 on the hardest difficulty. Never felt like playing the others. The characters just don't do it for me. Also doesn't help that older games have more detail and destruction.

[@ChadHellgado]

Playing as offbrand Nathan Drake, his token comedic relief black friend, and strong female protagonist really did make the story less interesting.

[@AdaWong2068]

a game that started very good in 2006 and is now dead i hate to say that since this is a childhood memroy

[@TuggSpeedman-eh9ls]

Chaps Gas Station spinoff was a missed opportunity

[@OAndreDrumond]

Another banger video. Rip to a great franchise.

[@GTA_500]

They should make a pendulum wars game they talk about the pendulum wars so much.

[@5hane9ro]

I think if Judgement launched with more base content, had more mission variety, and base MP felt more like Gears, then the franchise would have gone this direction. I love Judgement, but I see why people hated it

[@primepossum6997]

Multiplayer being human v human was a big miss IMO. TDM should always be Locust v human

[@stealthyturtles]

The MP PvP was totally botched. The game played great in the campaign and had a decent story, it was like they phoned in a B team to make the MP though and went a more CoD fast action input game instead of a tactical shooter with wall bouncing

[@bartinator3475]

I wish we would get great games like this again. The new ones look fantastic but I personally don’t like the direction they went in.

[@deejayy8303]

They literally just up and left Gears 5 out of no where lol if they gave us more good classic maps I wouldn’t even be complaining about the wait until the next game… but gridlock, canals, and clock tower seem so rare in the rotation!

[@Kouh_Sijaed]

CliffyB was a treasure at Epic and Tim Sweeney like the Randy that he is made him leave.

[@travisreed1730]

I wonder what a Stranded .vs. Locust DLC would be like.

[@thebanktv6930]

gear of war 1 xbox in that time blow my mind and many of my teenager friend 90 era I and my friend run to play game at internet cafe

[@EthanTheDinoNerd]

Playing through Gears of War ultimate edition just because i don't want to play Gears 4 and even though im enjoying it I already seeing downgrades from the original. 3 i can list is 1. The rain in Act 3 looks less like hard rain and looks more like it's sprinkling. 2. lambent wretches look less like they're filled with lambent and look like they been drinking lava. 3. That scene where theres corpses everywhere isn't as bloody as the original and they just use the sliced up bodies inside of making new models of humans with their guts out. And some of the body placement are very goofy.

[@EthanTheDinoNerd]

Also it seems like the partner AI is awful. In the original I died from the Berserker because of my bad dodging but in this one Dom keeps dying because he just loves blocking the door so the Berserker would instantly kill him. Also in Act 2 with the darkness part Dom keeps running back and forth beside me like a robot not knowing where to go.

[@ogquikscoper6990]

They really butchered the series with 4 & 5. The old gears games felt like a REAL WAR with REAL STAKES. Not just JD and Del bickering at each other every chance they get and making unfunny jokes after a gunfight. Also NO ONE asked for a “open world” gears game. if you even want to call it open world…lmao

[@chrisg6517]

This is very true. That was some half assed marketing talking about open world like WTF!? Lol.

[@nathanparmar3447]

Finally someone said it That open world characteristic of gears 5 campaign was awful hope they don’t bring it back ever

[@mariobadia4553]

I have no idea what people have been smoking because those games a f****** good. Plus they take s*** from the extended lore put it in the game like the Cog breeding programs which were a thing during in the war

[@primepossum6997]

Pre-release I saw many videos about how great the "open world" is. Then you find out it is a glorified loading screen where you just drive in a lifeless world going to the next location

[@jackmarshall9258]

​​​@@primepossum6997Where else did you think they were gonna hide? All the components for Jack's upgrades And if you don't like it, just go to the main locations and skip everything else It's completely optional. Edit. I feel like someone's gonna try to take that in the wrong way. What I meant was to explore, is completely optional.

[@rageplai9555]

I really feel like they should make some horror games set in Gears of War maybe 1 survival horror and then another more traditional horror game. I figure you don't play as COG or any type of military person and that the person you play as ends up dying or being taken

[@special_k_kman]

Wait.... he calls Cole gus in that scene!?

[@Kyr0g3nz]

I also think they should do a bigger dive into hive busters or I think they should dive into onyx as well. You should have the player play as the most elite squad

[@icyog128]

It's all good we still got Gear 1-5 and that's good enough

[@guilherme5094]

Oh Cliff, I really admired this asshole. It's a bizarre world we live in today, I don't want any more games in this franchise to be released, I want Gears of War to rest in peace and with dignity. Great video man👍👍!

[@thebanktv6930]

they should make loucst campain such as locust civil war with lambert

[@LATEXXJUGGERNUT]

I'm on it.

[@juanjuarez246]

Give me a trucking sim game as Dizzy.

[@LongShotLivo]

Love watching your Gears videos!

[@johnathanl487]

Livo!

[@Destructor2001]

maybe we could had got a prequel trilogy where we look at the pendulum wars

[@torshec8634]

Ah 2013, two GOWs, Gears of War Judgement and God of War Ascension didn't perform well as much as they like during at the tail end of a console generation.

[@jasonblundelldobebussing]

Thank oil war for bringing us first Gears. And Cliffy B.

[@RamblesAndNonSense]

All these new games are weird. Not just gears but just in general. Fan: i love gears of war. Dude that game was awesome! Developers: but...and hear me out...what if...there was an item cash shop...AND you can make your character twerk and do the fortnight dance? (There are other problems. Not just the cash shop. Its just the obvious example) Dummies: Oh hell yeah! I cant wait to buy the new Marcus skin! This one has him wearing PJ's with puppies on it! I just unlocked the new anime lancer! Sweet! Nevermind things like, Story. Good Characters. Cool weapons. Cool fights (violence) New monsters. Cool conflicts (meaning the plots or character infighting or what have you) Characters taking the plot seriously. Cool level design. Cool map design (multiplayer) Fun multiplayer. Blah blah blah I guess its just an age thing. Fans: "Back in my day, Gears was cool" Kwel Kids: "Lol you dont get it! Your time is over old man! Gears of war was thrash. Always was. Now gears 5 was the real deal! That Vaguely native american chick that is a whiney, bitchy, incompentent, lazy, selfish, agressive, stupid, A.W.O.L-er is clearly the best thing to happen to the series! You just dont understand! Old man!

[@mariobadia4553]

four and five had 99% of the things you talked about you just choose to ignore them because you have a hate boner and you want to be upset. Plus the older Gears of War games are too Brown for my liking. By that I mean they have that shity brown piss filter that really takes me out of the game

[@primepossum6997]

One of my favourite parts of Gears was grinding to unlock new skins. When you came across an Onyx guard in multi you knew he'd put in the hours. Now people just buy Neon skins and the game looks goofy

[@negativezero8174]

@@mariobadia4553 It's a post apocalyptic setting where 90% of the planets surface is burned to a crisp. Of course it was gonna be brown you retard. Grimdark settings shouldn't be colorful because sissies like you don't understand what a warzone looks like.

[@robaArmstrong]

Paduk still joined the fight in gears 5

[@BobBob-up8fz]

Gears 1, 2 & 3 are amazing. Up there with the og Halo trilogy in terms of stories. Although I did enjoy parts of Gears J, 4 & 5. The stories were weak. Pendulum wars/ E-day/ Locust-Lambent war. Plenty of awesome era's to explore with this universe. Gears 4 intro gave us a glimpse of what they could be like.

[@ClearlyBalkan]

Franchise 10 years in the future compared to any other game, single and multiplayer portion equally. So sad this once great franchise is dead.

[@steelbear2063]

All of this to say "yeah there could be a Gears FPS about Onyx Guard".

[@Elkantar_Rostorgh231]

I still think the biggest crime of the Gears of War games is that we never got to see Alex Brand put into a video game proper, other than the horrid games of 4 and 5 existing cause The Coalition wanted to rehash the story of Gears of War 1 with no proper context.

[@charliehotelromeo284]

Praying theres a remaster trilogy

[@leso204]

there is' GOW aniversary edition .................

[@bakerke1]

i’m a little confused are we not counting Gears 4 and 5 as part of the gears of war franchise?

[@wearsjorge55]

Kinda surprised the coalition went for gears 4 instead of more spin offs. I know they dont sell as well as the mainline games but when gears 4 was first announced all the talk surrounding it was "how the hell are they gonna continue this story theres nothing left this is a monumental task that can backfire so easily"

[@wdtipvr1888]

Only thing that would save Gear of War franchise is get it out of The Coalition hands or replace all the Coalition team completely and bring back Cliffy B again, without Ron Fergussion this time (that dude sucks) and a few other OG gears heads that worked on the originals to go along with new game makers that are true fans of gears to work on their IP. Then remake the first 3 gears games top to bottom visuals and tweak the mechanics to go back to an in between version version of gears 2 and 3. This over done wall bouncing where people slide all over the map is stupid and unrealistic. I know I'm saying that in a Sci-fi game but it's true. That's all gears 4 and 5 were, bunch of tools wall bouncing. And its not even they were good at it. But the horrible sales of gears 4 and 5 show it. Looked like Gears of War on ice. Might as well made it a hockey game. Also Microsoft then needs to make it true cross platform so Playstation and PC can buy and play it, not just PC. It would make millions and millions again (that's why they make games, to make money duh) then they can start making cool spin off games that have good stories of they original 3. Instead of the crap fans got in gears 4 and 5.

[@ChadHellgado]

I actually enjoyed Judgement’s campaign. It was more arcadey with how broken all the weapons were. You could easily take down a Boomer with a snub pistol. It had beautiful graphics, with Baird and Cole in their full glory. Definitely did Baird justice, showing he was a badass way before the first gears.

[@jacemenard9168]

You can be good at CoD or any other multi-player. But the guys good at Gears are God tier

[@cadis4257]

Shame what happened to gears of war. I wish it honestly stopped after judgement. It better that way rhem seeing it be vandalized as we see today with 4 and especially 5

[@mariobadia4553]

What was so bad about those games anyway they were fun as hell and I like the story. Plus I like how it paints a picture about how the Cog are not really good guys instead they were corrupt as hell before during and after the war. They are not like the UNSC from Halo

[@Juvi4309]

This might be niche but I wish there was more pve content as the locust since there’s a lot of awesome locust skins but as someone who plays much less pvp, they are next to functionally useless for me.

[@stealthyturtles]

That General RAAM dlc was pretty cool

[@CJS3637_MforAone]

Loved the video. Just a question though, does anybody know the song omaha used for the intro? It's an absolute banger and I wanna add it to my playlist.

[@daswordofgork9823]

I think a Gears of War strategy game, like Company of Heroes, would be cool. Cover based systems, melee combat from DoW 2, some vehicles and monsters, I could see it working.

[@stuartbagley2586]

Have you tried Gears Tactics. It’s pretty great. Not real time but turn based with good characters, story and gameplay.

[@daswordofgork9823]

@@stuartbagley2586 That is more X-COM rather than Company of Heroes. It’s just not the same.

[@Schaden-freude]

Yeah for sure, Gears could definitely excel as a fast paced but somewhat arcadey RTS like COH over XCOM

[@EON314]

Damn its been a long time since I played this game, I wished they put the original trilogy on Steam

[@Paradox-es3bl]

I think a bog part of why even Gears 3 started feeling a bit hit and miss, for me, is Cliff Blezinski. He was transitioning out of his Cliffy B persona, and I think he "mature" vibe was the wrong one for Gears. He kinda needed the young, dumb, rockstar energy. Or, perhaps I should say Gears needed that energy. Imo, for Gears to excel, it needs a Cliffy B, not a board room Cliff Blezinski. I mean, 4 & 5 were kinda fine... I actually really like Gears Tactics... but I also feel like Gears 3 was supposed to be the finale, and the newer games aren't really feeling as bad as Terminator sequels or even 343 Halo... but it's also not the same thing. It's I guess more like Fast & Furious starting especially with 5. Like don't get me wrong, I like 5-8 I think I saw? But they're not the same series as 1 & 2, especially lol. And honestly, continuing after 7, especially with the tumors of bringing Paul Walker's Brian back? After his character's perfect finale? Nah. The series should've ended with 7. Or at least, it should've steered away (pun intended) from the cast we had. End with the implication that Brian retired and Dom & his family are still out there doing stuff... And then only do spin-offs lol. Gears after 3 feels kinda like that.

[@joseph2000117]

I hate when people talk shit about Gears. The story is genuinely incredible. The book the Slab shows how rich the lore truly is. Gears deserves much more respect from the gaming community than it gets

[@alastor8091]

Who talks shit about Gears? 4 and 5 are shit, but the trilogy is damn near perfect.

[@joseph2000117]

@@alastor8091 in the sense that Gears caused the brown-chest-high-cover-shooter that a lot of people were sick of by the end of the 360. It is mostly critics. Kinda like how people talk shit about the 1st 3 God of War games. By people I mean critics and really cynical people. I should have clarified. But even to this day, a lot don't give due credit to Gears

[@Giddyboon]

I always thought that they should do a Halo Reach. A prequel to Gears 1 but on E-day. We got a taste of it in the prologue of Gears 4, that being probably the most boring gears story, the only good part was the E-day intro. Play as a squad of onyx guards or something not 1st person though

[@fictionforeternity8926]

What truly could have been… goddamnit😤

[@Kyr0g3nz]

Bro why don’t people give 4 and 5 the credit it deserves they did so good in the new games

[@xepicxyoshix5982]

I loved Gears Of War 3, I guess because I had family and friends who I played the game with, my KD in Capture The Leader was 4.5 😆

[@jaywallah5917]

Fortnite shoulda been a spin-off about the Stranded surviving the lambent ghouls 😰🔥

[@jasonwilliams5046]

Judgement should have featured Marcus, and the events leading up to his court martial

[@gamesmaster919]

Gears was doomed the second Cliff Bleszinski was not in charge

[@Jtoob-z5n]

I knew it died after 3. I enjoy 5’s horde mode, even as generic it is. We should let it be and just make another series.

[@maxmazzotti6651]

12:53 same for Halo

[@huntersleepybrown2988]

gears 2 my first game when i was a little turd was like love at first sight best 15 mins to play

[@deepfriedbollocks4402]

lets not deny that gears judgements multiplayer is absolute ass cheeks

[@msimrow]

everything made after the original series isn't that good. Gears 5 was the worst of all of them. The main storyline is so bad and the character Kait is poorly written and made it hard to play.

[@wickdaline8668]

Am I the only guy who sees no reason to hate Kait?

[@wh3nderson95]

​@@wickdaline8668Yes.

[@jordangl1]

@@wickdaline8668 Yes

[@jordangl1]

Agreed. Couldn't finish it myself.

[@RamblesAndNonSense]

​@@wickdaline8668yeah. Pretty much. She is pretty Terrible. She should not have been the main focus of the game/story. The game should not even have been made at all.