Who remembers fighting extra hard in battle right after the scene Dom had to kill his wife? Teenage me hated grubs so much after that. Gears 2 story was really good
I won't lie, Benjamin's death. Before hand I was efficient, focusing on headshots and keeping my distance, Benjamin's death shook my core, my friend straight up told me to calm down, I'd rush in, changing my Hammerburst and Longshot, to Shotgun and Lancer. Lowkey this damn game series caused me to feel hate towards a fictional faction. Love this series.
@@peanutpaste1402 i got blood thirsty after Doms death. My dad and I already had the feeling his wife was dead, we were surprised to see her alive but after Tai we were like "no way she survived"
I always try to imagine a scenario where I somehow survived E-Day if it ever happened to us and I’ve yet to think of a scenario where I do 😭 I’m dead on day one
@ThaGravedigger same here I'm able to kill a few of those lil wrech things but then I get stepped on by a brewmack or get my arms ripped off by a regular locust or blown up by a ticker, death would be inevitable for me.
I don't know if the average civilian would be able to kill any locusts because they have a very thick skin and small arms don't do much to them as far as I've heard, in fact the snub pistol for example uses cal. 50 rounds. Probably living far from densely populated areas is what would give people a better chance of survival.
The first 3 gears were untouchable mostly cliffy B. and his team cliffs p ersonal life spilled into the game and you cant argue the results but i never understood how a game would get so much hype release be a great game still to this day and the support would fall off pretty quickly with only really 1 dlc and it was great just think if cliff and his crew done more for each game like raams shadow instead of maps i think that is why they didn't have staying power for some hell i still play 3
It would be great, but with a studio dedicating themselves to retconning character development and plot in favor of a Strong Woman™️ as the protagonist that they make sure you remember is a woman every few minutes, I’m gonna guess not
Man finding Maria brought me to tears when I first played Gears 2. You'd hear mission after mission how much Dom misses her and the stories he would tell, only for him to find her in that state. The only thing close to that was Dom's death in 3.
Gets me every single time. That and the ending of Final Fantasy 7 Crisis Core with Zack's death when the camera flies by Cloud dragging the Buster Sword towards Midgar and Zack asking if he became a hero.
@@zroberts02 I really hope that one day they reel the whole GoW series onto PC. I want to replay every part but not really wishing to by an Xbox for it.
@@zroberts02 Dom wanted to die. Having to put his own wife out of her misery almost broke him. He wanted to be with his wife, but didn’t want to just kill himself, he knew his death had to have purpose so as to not be selfish and just abandon his friends. So when he sacrificed himself to save his friends, he got his wish.
Someone had once told me that Tai had killed himself to free his soul from his body as per his cultural beliefs. Apparantly if your body is broken by trauma or disease they're meant to free themselves from it. Never fact checked anything on it, it's just a bit I heard once upon a time.
I feel like it potentially diminishes the impact that scene is supposed to have. Tai was introduced as a stoic, spiritual yet hardened individual. He could take a lot and bounce back up. The decision to off himself was supposed to showcase just how brutal the Locust were, that even a guy like Tai would choose suicide from the experience. I suppose it doesn't completely negate that idea, but it certainly changes the focus of the decision.
@@biggrayalien4791 I don’t feel it takes away because like he said to be put into the position where you felt you were forced to do that, you’d have to have been completely physically and mentally broken.
@@benben3277 Tai's expressions in his final moments was not one of a faithful, whole man just carrying out his cultural beliefs. He was a shell of what he used to be I don't think it's mutually exclusive for Tai's cultural beliefs being that BUT he actually killed himself because of the trauma of facing such brutality not really thinking about adhering to his beliefs in those final moments he just wanted to end his pain.
The second Berserker scared the hell out of me, it was so unexpected, you're just walking through a greenhouse, and the Berserker just casually steps out.
The scene where Dom euthanizes his wife is so heart wrenching, not just because of what Dom had to do, but because you see Marcus pause after the first shot to wait and see if a second shot rings out.
That birthing farm thing was so brutal it was almost out of place in gears. Very little talk about sex in the series compared to other adult dark fiction(berserk for example) and then BOOOM fetuses in jars and child **** with no happy ending
It make sense in the Gears universe due to the cog fighting a 79 year war and than fighting the locust horde, humanity population had to be so low because of that
@@brianachim2670 especially considering that if the death tool was so extreme, human survival instinct would have kicked and probably would produce a baby boom of biblical proportions to compensate.
@@brianachim2670 People that have never been to war such as yourself would say such a thing. Remember this war brings out the best of us as well as the worst of us it's all about survival.
I swear, the Birthing Creche was the most disturbing discovery that I made about the COG reading the comics. It's even more disturbing if you think about the fact that every single woman in the COG showed in the First Trilogy was steryle, and that's the only reason why they're in the main plot. Great video Abz, Im still here and I really appreaciate how your contents are evolving and your Channel Is growing. Keep It up king, God bless
Yeah that’s a good point that I’ve not thought of before tbf 😳 & thanks bro! Glad to still see you here, I appreciate you as always, we’ll keep growing and creating great content!
@@andrewt.7555 Not exactly. Anya had a son with Marcus thanks to a specific medical treatment, part of the Fertility Program developed After the end of the locust war. The Program was unstable, in fact Anya died trying to conceive a second son, and that's why tu Program got suspended.
@@andrewt.7555 You're right bro, the whole GOW saga shows the negative effects of a long term war on the few survivors, and they all suffer from tragic losses or Major issues rebuilding a society
I never knew about some of these. Worst ones imo are the forced impregnation of both sides, the Coalition and the locust were doing that, and the torturing. Tai killed himself and he's a beast of a man. Can't imagine what it would be like for a random citizen in that universe..
Actually realizing what Dom went through when finding Maria is mind changing. Having to shoot the one you love the most in such a dramatic, well played out plot is so attention grabbing it's crazy. Gears of war 2 will forever be the best story for any game in the series.
I'll be honest, I was expecting something unexpected akin to someone getting freaky with a locust...since I already knew all this things about the lore
I actually never thought about the cremation that much and it makes a lot of sense! Really great video man, very useful for those who are looking to get to know about the lore of the gears franchise! Keep being awesome man, much love 💙
Just had a thought: Remember how Baird and Paduk talked about what happened to Sofia, and Paduk said she was abducted by some guys wearing COG tags? What if Sofia was fertile and the government wanted to put her in a Birthing Creche, so she deserted and went looking for Paduk? Only for some gears to track her down and drag her back, either out of loyalty to the COG or because they wanted a turn with her at the Creche?
cant be the case since she left the cog WITH paduk and didnt leave it looking for paduk as .it was implied that they were romatically inolved so they decided to leave together. like Baird said "what about sofia i heard she left the cog to be with you". but the writers did say they left it up for interpretation
@@prodigen3683 I thought that dialogue implied Paduk had already left the COG before Sofia deserted? The writers left a lot of details about her fate vague in case they want to bring her back in another game someday, which I hope they do.
I always thought it was morbidly funny that when Dom euthanizes Maria, he goes for the fucking BOLTOK. A weapon known for popping heads like watermelons dropped off a building. It couldve been a Snub, or one quick shot with the Lancer, or a swift knife to the base of the skull. But no, he chooses the Boltok that would completely behead her and cover himself in her brains. At point blank range lol. Idk if Im the only one that thinks thats darkly hilarious.
@@mechalapod5901 yea pretty sure he did lol. My only guess as to why the devs chose the Boltok there is so you would hear the loud dramatic gunshot off screen. They didnt want to show her death. But they couldve shown Dom drawing a knife and then cut away and have her death be heavily implied. At least he didnt pull out a Boomshot.
@@tdpuuhailee8222 Could you tell me where to begin with the lore of 40K? I've asked some friends of mine before and they have trouble answering that question.
Man one thing they really nailed in Gears 2 was the soundtrack. The music did such a good job of making the player feel like a gear in an ever shrinking army fighting against increasingly impossible odds, knowing that they are the last thin line of defense against extinction. Mainstream games today just cannot accomplish the same feats.
There are so many aspects of horror in gears of war, i know its highly regarded for its action but I gotta say at points it works fantastically as a horror game due to the bleak atmosphere setting and scenes some of em just give off this longing sense horror and dread
At least there was that one Gear in one of the Comic's, during operation Hollow Storm(Hollow S#%tStorm) was able to be some of the very few probably, to break out and escape from the Hollow, but only to meet his demise after words before he could even get back to forward base. And side note that would make kinda of a good character in Gears 6 or a prequel game of a Gear who managed to escape the Hollow and allow its horrors as a P.O.W and live to tell the tail and maybe along side with other P.O.W's.
Easily one of the most heartwrenching series I've had the pleasure of growing up with. Many developers have shown their own renditions of war but the Coalition took its horrors to an entirely different level. A world consumed and shaped by war like no other.
@@KingAbzTV Update: I've bought gears of war 2 and 3, I'm halfway through gow 2 (im at the ruined city part) and I LOVE IT so far, it's so damn fun, I love benjamin carmine, the whole game is soooo fun. I couldn't stop myself from trying out gears 3 multi and beast, i liked those so much i completed all 12 waves of beast on casual on my first time - legendary games!
Gears 2 gets overlooked so much it’s crazy. Hard to believe when it improved upon the first installment in literally every way. Spent hours playing that campaign with my little bro.
Does anyone else remember how they allured to locust predecessors already existing? They would tell tales of monsters in the mines. I remember a RUclipsr who went into depth about how it was seemingly retconned. I feel like the locusts coming from a native species was way better than being changed to just test subjects.
Man i still remember playing the first game with my dad when it first dropped. Nothing beat one guy using the search light to keep the birds away from the other. Now im 35 and still remember that shit fondly
I still remember how good the gears series was 1 through 3. Always improving there gameplay and adding great content through story and gameplay with each passing title. Not a huge fan of the series after the main 3 but glad that the gameplay still remained great.
I really with the newer gears continued with the gritty morbid story and art style gears 1-3 had. The newer games took a really big shift that I’m not a huge fan of.
I see what you mean, but you have to keep in mind that in Gears 4 and 5, the humans pretty much have rebuilt, so it wouldn't be gritty and dark as it should be. I wonder how it will be like for the 6 installment meant. It's been a bit, but the ending of Gears 5 kind of gave the sense of the gritty and dark tone of it imo
A remake of the first gears of War as more of a 3rd person survival horror game would b really cool imo, the first gears had a really dark and kinda scary feeling that the later gears just didn't hav. I was actually kinda scared of the locust in the first and the berserker scene is one that emphasizes that Sci-fi horror feel it had.
Top tier fucked up was in the light novels how they decided to recall all gears and use the hammer of dawn on entire cites a crash and burn tactic to help increase their odds of winning. The aftermath was in the third game when we meet griffin. It’s sad that we find out later the entire time COG they did it to themselves trying to win the pendulum wars cost them in gears 6 when they find out the truth of the locust.
One of things i wonder is what the Locust would’ve been like if Adam had helped them right away and solved their lambent issue, preventing them from needing to attack the surface.
I knew that Dom was not going to have a happy ending, but his ‘reunion’ with what was left of Maria was still painful. When Gears of War 3 was in development I emailed Karen Travis and begged her to not kill Dom, or at least write a scene in which Dom and Maria spend one last night together in which she became pregnant and gave birth before Dom saw her again. I begged, I really did, and even offered to sign any sort of release that I would not seek even a single dime if they used my idea (though it would have been nice of them to have tossed me a free copy of GoW3 if they did), but she ignored me and Dom died, joining his wife and children. But had Dom discovered his new son or daughter it would have given him reason to live, or had Marcus and Arya discovered Dom and Maria’s (unknown to them) last child they could have raised that child in memory of his/her parents, and that child would have been a few years older than J.D. and could have been his big brother or big sister. Alas, they ignored me and I’m still pretty salty about it.
I found myself falling into the Gears rabbit hole again since I finally played the first and second games and I’m playing Judgement (thanks Game Pass) I played Gears 3 A LOT when I was younger (heck, my dad had gotten it and the guide, got it on launch day). Me and my brother played it a lot and we loved the Carmines and Delta. I had played Gears 4 and 5 too but I’m going to revisit them as I’ve not played them in years
Kinda figured processing would be number 1, I remember playing Gears 2 when I was 8 years old (too young to be playing) I remembering have nightmares for days after seeing Maria’s death. It was awful lmao
I absolutely loved this series and still do. That said, the storyline would have made so much more sense overall if the Locusts were actually resurrected humans from the pendulum wars mutated by the imulsion. This would have solved so many plot issues like why the Locusts were kidnapping humans.
I feel like gears 2 really cranked up the darkness with the series, the locust were mysterious in the first game with them just being monsters with guns and the community wanted to know how they came to be and how evil they were so epic was like "sure ok so they're actually a disgusting mutated hybrid of human and animal and they basically skin people (and like children too) alive just cause they find it amusing. Love this world and series, just hope gears 6 is more like halo infinite
That scene with dom and Maria hurts so much more now that I have my wife in my life. I couldn’t begin to imagine what dom would go through having to spare his wife that kind of life. These games are brutal but I do love them!
If you flip over the symbol of a mechanical/engineered machine from the gamebook cover of gears of war 3, you get a pyramid with mechanical arms. Trippy sh.
8 year old me didn’t understand what was going on but me at 12 has burning hatred for those grubs I now understand the Maria cutscene and more of the deaths
How can there be so many Locust drones when there are so few berserkers to give birth to them? Even if every single berserker was kept out of combat, and spent her entire life breeding, the Locust population would not be that high.
Who remembers fighting extra hard in battle right after the scene Dom had to kill his wife? Teenage me hated grubs so much after that. Gears 2 story was really good
I saw nothing but red after that, even got the cut mission
I won't lie, Benjamin's death. Before hand I was efficient, focusing on headshots and keeping my distance, Benjamin's death shook my core, my friend straight up told me to calm down, I'd rush in, changing my Hammerburst and Longshot, to Shotgun and Lancer. Lowkey this damn game series caused me to feel hate towards a fictional faction. Love this series.
Agreed
My favorite part of the campaign was the New Hope level it's just so damn cool
@@peanutpaste1402 i got blood thirsty after Doms death. My dad and I already had the feeling his wife was dead, we were surprised to see her alive but after Tai we were like "no way she survived"
This happened right before the DLC where you can disguise yourselves as Theron Guards and you can 'sneak' but nah, after all that, it's guns blazing.
Being killed on the first day of the locust invasion would be merciful compared to enduring 17 years of whatever hell that comes after E day.
I always try to imagine a scenario where I somehow survived E-Day if it ever happened to us and I’ve yet to think of a scenario where I do 😭 I’m dead on day one
@ThaGravedigger same here I'm able to kill a few of those lil wrech things but then I get stepped on by a brewmack or get my arms ripped off by a regular locust or blown up by a ticker, death would be inevitable for me.
lmao furry
I don't know if the average civilian would be able to kill any locusts because they have a very thick skin and small arms don't do much to them as far as I've heard, in fact the snub pistol for example uses cal. 50 rounds.
Probably living far from densely populated areas is what would give people a better chance of survival.
My dumb self would see one of the regular locust and think it's my neighbor and try to say hi
I hope this game one day blows up again and people start drawing fanart and giving it way more love then at its peak
I really hope so too! I love Gears so damn much!!
The first 3 gears were untouchable mostly cliffy B. and his team cliffs p
ersonal life spilled into the game and you cant argue the results but i never understood how a game would get so much hype release be a great game still to this day and the support would fall off pretty quickly with only really 1 dlc and it was great just think if cliff and his crew done more for each game like raams shadow instead of maps i think that is why they didn't have staying power for some hell i still play 3
keep the cringe fan arts
Gears 2 Guardian w/ the ye ole shot gun
It would be great, but with a studio dedicating themselves to retconning character development and plot in favor of a Strong Woman™️ as the protagonist that they make sure you remember is a woman every few minutes, I’m gonna guess not
Man finding Maria brought me to tears when I first played Gears 2. You'd hear mission after mission how much Dom misses her and the stories he would tell, only for him to find her in that state. The only thing close to that was Dom's death in 3.
Dom's death in 3 hit me in the chest like a berserkers tits. Had me in fuckin tears.
@@Hells.Chief.Executive especially after playing the first two games as player two, having dom die was personal
Gets me every single time.
That and the ending of Final Fantasy 7 Crisis Core with Zack's death when the camera flies by Cloud dragging the Buster Sword towards Midgar and Zack asking if he became a hero.
Maria and dom is the saddest scene… he did everything he could but it was too late.
Wise words from Dutch, GET TO DA CHOPPA!!
The music in that scene is perfect. The way it builds up more and more tense only to drop into silence at the crucial moment.
@@lebitelexie9350 only better scene is when Dom dies in Gears 3. Made a grown man weep..
@@zroberts02 I really hope that one day they reel the whole GoW series onto PC. I want to replay every part but not really wishing to by an Xbox for it.
@@zroberts02 Dom wanted to die. Having to put his own wife out of her misery almost broke him. He wanted to be with his wife, but didn’t want to just kill himself, he knew his death had to have purpose so as to not be selfish and just abandon his friends. So when he sacrificed himself to save his friends, he got his wish.
Someone had once told me that Tai had killed himself to free his soul from his body as per his cultural beliefs. Apparantly if your body is broken by trauma or disease they're meant to free themselves from it. Never fact checked anything on it, it's just a bit I heard once upon a time.
Yea someone showed off the comic part of that in a youtube vid. Not sure who tho
I feel like it potentially diminishes the impact that scene is supposed to have.
Tai was introduced as a stoic, spiritual yet hardened individual. He could take a lot and bounce back up. The decision to off himself was supposed to showcase just how brutal the Locust were, that even a guy like Tai would choose suicide from the experience.
I suppose it doesn't completely negate that idea, but it certainly changes the focus of the decision.
@@biggrayalien4791 I don’t feel it takes away because like he said to be put into the position where you felt you were forced to do that, you’d have to have been completely physically and mentally broken.
@@biggrayalien4791 I think it actually highlights how spiritual he was that even broken he kept to his faith
@@benben3277 Tai's expressions in his final moments was not one of a faithful, whole man just carrying out his cultural beliefs. He was a shell of what he used to be I don't think it's mutually exclusive for Tai's cultural beliefs being that BUT he actually killed himself because of the trauma of facing such brutality not really thinking about adhering to his beliefs in those final moments he just wanted to end his pain.
Will never forget the fear and dread of the first Berserker encounter
Especially when you had to sneak past them 😭
My god I'll never forget that feeling
Played with my nephew
We were 8 and 7
Played the first chapter and restarted everytime we got to bull in the china shop level 🤡
The second Berserker scared the hell out of me, it was so unexpected, you're just walking through a greenhouse, and the Berserker just casually steps out.
I remember thinking omg that thing is coming towards me
Saddest thing i realized awhile ago Marcus was waiting for 2 gunshots in that scene
I never realized that
nooooo
Bro.... I never even thought about that wtf
The last mission in gears of war 2 was so good damn they don't make it like the original 3 anymore
I always loved how GOW shows how Humanity will recklessly abandon it's traditions and humanity for the sake of survival.
The scene where Dom euthanizes his wife is so heart wrenching, not just because of what Dom had to do, but because you see Marcus pause after the first shot to wait and see if a second shot rings out.
Holy crap I never realized he was waiting for the second shot
That birthing farm thing was so brutal it was almost out of place in gears. Very little talk about sex in the series compared to other adult dark fiction(berserk for example) and then BOOOM fetuses in jars and child **** with no happy ending
It make sense in the Gears universe due to the cog fighting a 79 year war and than fighting the locust horde, humanity population had to be so low because of that
@@andresherrera2902 Doesn't justify it
@@brianachim2670 especially considering that if the death tool was so extreme, human survival instinct would have kicked and probably would produce a baby boom of biblical proportions to compensate.
@@brianachim2670 Don't think he is jusyifying it, just not out of place.
@@brianachim2670 People that have never been to war such as yourself would say such a thing.
Remember this war brings out the best of us as well as the worst of us it's all about survival.
I swear, the Birthing Creche was the most disturbing discovery that I made about the COG reading the comics. It's even more disturbing if you think about the fact that every single woman in the COG showed in the First Trilogy was steryle, and that's the only reason why they're in the main plot.
Great video Abz, Im still here and I really appreaciate how your contents are evolving and your Channel Is growing. Keep It up king, God bless
Yeah that’s a good point that I’ve not thought of before tbf 😳
& thanks bro! Glad to still see you here, I appreciate you as always, we’ll keep growing and creating great content!
Not Anya. Her and Marcus have a son.
@@andrewt.7555 Not exactly. Anya had a son with Marcus thanks to a specific medical treatment, part of the Fertility Program developed After the end of the locust war. The Program was unstable, in fact Anya died trying to conceive a second son, and that's why tu Program got suspended.
@@raffokukoc8065 hmmm... Tragic. Thanks for the info
@@andrewt.7555 You're right bro, the whole GOW saga shows the negative effects of a long term war on the few survivors, and they all suffer from tragic losses or Major issues rebuilding a society
I never knew about some of these. Worst ones imo are the forced impregnation of both sides, the Coalition and the locust were doing that, and the torturing. Tai killed himself and he's a beast of a man. Can't imagine what it would be like for a random citizen in that universe..
I mean we did get a glimpse of a civilian being processed with Maria. God that scene still hits like a freight train.
@@Elkantar_Rostorgh231sad
"Worst ones imo are the forced impregnation of both sides" XDDDD no they are not what the fuck, procesing is way worst
@@Har1ByWorldbros never been graped
@@garaltxabushi8214 elaborate
Actually realizing what Dom went through when finding Maria is mind changing. Having to shoot the one you love the most in such a dramatic, well played out plot is so attention grabbing it's crazy. Gears of war 2 will forever be the best story for any game in the series.
I'll be honest, I was expecting something unexpected akin to someone getting freaky with a locust...since I already knew all this things about the lore
10 year old me was not emotionally ready for gears of war 2 level of sadness
I actually never thought about the cremation that much and it makes a lot of sense! Really great video man, very useful for those who are looking to get to know about the lore of the gears franchise! Keep being awesome man, much love 💙
I appreciate your support as always bro, glad you enjoyed the video, although this vid was a bit more graphic than usual! 💙
Yea I gotta be honest that was the one I didn't know about
Just had a thought: Remember how Baird and Paduk talked about what happened to Sofia, and Paduk said she was abducted by some guys wearing COG tags?
What if Sofia was fertile and the government wanted to put her in a Birthing Creche, so she deserted and went looking for Paduk? Only for some gears to track her down and drag her back, either out of loyalty to the COG or because they wanted a turn with her at the Creche?
fucking scary to think of.
cant be the case since she left the cog WITH paduk and didnt leave it looking for paduk as .it was implied that they were romatically inolved so they decided to leave together. like Baird said "what about sofia i heard she left the cog to be with you". but the writers did say they left it up for interpretation
@@prodigen3683 I thought that dialogue implied Paduk had already left the COG before Sofia deserted? The writers left a lot of details about her fate vague in case they want to bring her back in another game someday, which I hope they do.
Who is sofia?
@@rapatacush3 The fem squadmate from Gears Judgement
I always thought it was morbidly funny that when Dom euthanizes Maria, he goes for the fucking BOLTOK. A weapon known for popping heads like watermelons dropped off a building.
It couldve been a Snub, or one quick shot with the Lancer, or a swift knife to the base of the skull. But no, he chooses the Boltok that would completely behead her and cover himself in her brains. At point blank range lol. Idk if Im the only one that thinks thats darkly hilarious.
On the bright side she can't be used for bloodmount chow.
Didn't RAAM execute a Gear with a Boltok?
@@mechalapod5901 yea pretty sure he did lol. My only guess as to why the devs chose the Boltok there is so you would hear the loud dramatic gunshot off screen. They didnt want to show her death. But they couldve shown Dom drawing a knife and then cut away and have her death be heavily implied. At least he didnt pull out a Boomshot.
@@connorb237 BOOM
I guess he just really wanted to make sure that he would end her suffering. He wasn’t taking any chances lol
When Abz started to talk about the Birting Creche, I was like:
"Wait is he telling Gears of War lore or Warhammer 40K lore?"
I'm new to Warhammer 40k. Like, REALLY new to the lore. They have breeding programs like Gears of War did? Was it worse than Gears?
@@seanbrown2294Worst then you think.
"The best thing that can happen to you in Warhammer 40K is that you aren't in Warhammer 40K"
@@tdpuuhailee8222 Fuuuucckkk... and to think I became interested in Warhammer because of memes and Zanny. Russianbadger too.
@@seanbrown2294 Welcome to the grimdark universe of Warhammer 40K.
@@tdpuuhailee8222 Could you tell me where to begin with the lore of 40K? I've asked some friends of mine before and they have trouble answering that question.
Man one thing they really nailed in Gears 2 was the soundtrack. The music did such a good job of making the player feel like a gear in an ever shrinking army fighting against increasingly impossible odds, knowing that they are the last thin line of defense against extinction. Mainstream games today just cannot accomplish the same feats.
Yes definitely! The aura and the official soundtrack really helped encapsulate the world that you’re in
Both Maria's and Dom's deaths were some of the saddest of any video game series I've ever witnessed.
There are so many aspects of horror in gears of war, i know its highly regarded for its action but I gotta say at points it works fantastically as a horror game due to the bleak atmosphere setting and scenes some of em just give off this longing sense horror and dread
At least there was that one Gear in one of the Comic's, during operation Hollow Storm(Hollow S#%tStorm) was able to be some of the very few probably, to break out and escape from the Hollow, but only to meet his demise after words before he could even get back to forward base.
And side note that would make kinda of a good character in Gears 6 or a prequel game of a Gear who managed to escape the Hollow and allow its horrors as a P.O.W and live to tell the tail and maybe along side with other P.O.W's.
Learnt quite a few disturbing things in this video, didn't know it was that dark!
Easily one of the most heartwrenching series I've had the pleasure of growing up with. Many developers have shown their own renditions of war but the Coalition took its horrors to an entirely different level. A world consumed and shaped by war like no other.
I bought the first gears of war agme, I instantly fell in love with it's gameplay and lore, can't wait to play more games from the series.
Hell yeah! Hope you enjoy & would love to hear more of your thoughts as you keep playing through the games! ⚙️
@@KingAbzTV Update: I've bought gears of war 2 and 3, I'm halfway through gow 2 (im at the ruined city part) and I LOVE IT so far, it's so damn fun, I love benjamin carmine, the whole game is soooo fun. I couldn't stop myself from trying out gears 3 multi and beast, i liked those so much i completed all 12 waves of beast on casual on my first time - legendary games!
@@cloacky4409 hell yes! Gears 2 campaign is my favourite!
@@KingAbzTV How's gears 3 campaign when compared to 1 and 2?
@@cloacky4409 much better than 1 imo, has lots of impactful moments, 2 is slightly better though for me
4:53 was straight bars for a few seconds.
lol
Literally
Can't just show Marias death like that dog. That scene still has me messed up all these years later. "Enough to make a grown man Cry!"
Gears 2 gets overlooked so much it’s crazy. Hard to believe when it improved upon the first installment in literally every way. Spent hours playing that campaign with my little bro.
and made it smaller than the first
Phenomenal work Abz, I would love to see this to turn into a series.
Thank you bro! It's an idea for sure!
The stuff most people don't know about the Gears lore. Good stuff as usual Abz 🔥
god never thought id see these moments again. Dom just breaks my heart everytime i see him, he would've loved JD
Putting me in the feels with Dom and Maria great video keep it up 👍
Sorry I had to 😆thanks for watching!
Your boi Abz back at it again with that quality lore content!
Hell yes 😎
Poor dom, went through so much pain. Hope he meets his family in eternal paradise
Does anyone else remember how they allured to locust predecessors already existing? They would tell tales of monsters in the mines. I remember a RUclipsr who went into depth about how it was seemingly retconned. I feel like the locusts coming from a native species was way better than being changed to just test subjects.
Man i still remember playing the first game with my dad when it first dropped.
Nothing beat one guy using the search light to keep the birds away from the other.
Now im 35 and still remember that shit fondly
I still remember how good the gears series was 1 through 3. Always improving there gameplay and adding great content through story and gameplay with each passing title. Not a huge fan of the series after the main 3 but glad that the gameplay still remained great.
I really with the newer gears continued with the gritty morbid story and art style gears 1-3 had. The newer games took a really big shift that I’m not a huge fan of.
Yah also to bad for me.
The story telling and great punchlines from 1-3 are also nowhere to be found coalition pretty much killed the whole franchise.
Coalition pulled a 343 if you get what I mean.
@@aztumtheknightofwumbo7060 who else do you think could run the gears series?
@@SteCollects Certainly a company that knows dark and gritty. Like the devs who made Dead Space Remake.
I see what you mean, but you have to keep in mind that in Gears 4 and 5, the humans pretty much have rebuilt, so it wouldn't be gritty and dark as it should be. I wonder how it will be like for the 6 installment meant. It's been a bit, but the ending of Gears 5 kind of gave the sense of the gritty and dark tone of it imo
Absolutely slaying it mate, lore videos are popping off!
Thanks bro, putting in the work!!
Man, after every sad scene and every big fight, i balled out went absolutely berserk and psycho on those ugly beast
The most creepy fact is that Baird was willing to sell Sam to the survivors in exchange for bacon.
mmm, bacon
Bacon is a lot less annoying.
Currently on gears of war 4 started today. So far, can’t beat 2
Damn Tye’s death effed me up as a kid. Legit didn’t want to keep playing because I didn’t want to see anyone else die
Great Video topic never would have thought of it, that's thinking outside the box
I enjoyed the gritty horror atmosphere injected with nonstop 🔥 action and hopelessness wtf happened with 4/5 by the way fighting robots suck
A remake of the first gears of War as more of a 3rd person survival horror game would b really cool imo, the first gears had a really dark and kinda scary feeling that the later gears just didn't hav. I was actually kinda scared of the locust in the first and the berserker scene is one that emphasizes that Sci-fi horror feel it had.
This is something ive been saying for ages. Could be a horror series spin-off set during the first few months, years of the locust war
"Processing" would also be used to convert a Gear into a grub.
Nightmare fuel. Right there.
carmines tone when he's looking at tai really shows how much the locusts are bastards
Top tier fucked up was in the light novels how they decided to recall all gears and use the hammer of dawn on entire cites a crash and burn tactic to help increase their odds of winning. The aftermath was in the third game when we meet griffin. It’s sad that we find out later the entire time COG they did it to themselves trying to win the pendulum wars cost them in gears 6 when they find out the truth of the locust.
One of things i wonder is what the Locust would’ve been like if Adam had helped them right away and solved their lambent issue, preventing them from needing to attack the surface.
Bro I was just a kid when I started Gears of War on my 360. When I got the first Berserker level, I nearly shat my pants
13? Same
I edited on the Gears of War wikia for a time, and it was nice that some of the contributions I made got into a video. GJ, man.
Thank you fellow Gear, the Allfathers are proud of your work ⚙️💙
Wow I haven’t seen that Dom scene in years and I’m actually in tears. It really holds up
I have been officially disturbed
Yeah in gears 2 you really felt they hopeless in the game and it really made you look at it if this was me what would I do.
this is a great video, keep it up!!
Thank you! Next lore video will be dropping tonight so I hope you enjoy the next one too!
I knew that Dom was not going to have a happy ending, but his ‘reunion’ with what was left of Maria was still painful. When Gears of War 3 was in development I emailed Karen Travis and begged her to not kill Dom, or at least write a scene in which Dom and Maria spend one last night together in which she became pregnant and gave birth before Dom saw her again. I begged, I really did, and even offered to sign any sort of release that I would not seek even a single dime if they used my idea (though it would have been nice of them to have tossed me a free copy of GoW3 if they did), but she ignored me and Dom died, joining his wife and children. But had Dom discovered his new son or daughter it would have given him reason to live, or had Marcus and Arya discovered Dom and Maria’s (unknown to them) last child they could have raised that child in memory of his/her parents, and that child would have been a few years older than J.D. and could have been his big brother or big sister.
Alas, they ignored me and I’m still pretty salty about it.
Gears 5 wasn't bad as a video game, but as a gears game, it lacked darkness and seriousness.
Finding prison cells where they kept children wasn’t dark enough for ya?
I've been replaying through Gears Of War again starting from Gears Of War to Gears 5 and I forgot how much I love the series
In gears of war 2 is when i realized the locust were no joke. They broke humans until they killed themselves.
being brutal isn't a running theme, it's the whole damn point of the story and games.
You can't just play that fuckin scene with Dom and Maria bruh
I tear up every single goddamn time
💔
I remember being really confused about why Tai would kill himself as a kid. Knowing what I know now, I think I understand a little bit better.
Yall keep forgetting Marcus plowed Maria down in the hollows. The funniest thing about gow lore 😂
I found myself falling into the Gears rabbit hole again since I finally played the first and second games and I’m playing Judgement (thanks Game Pass) I played Gears 3 A LOT when I was younger (heck, my dad had gotten it and the guide, got it on launch day). Me and my brother played it a lot and we loved the Carmines and Delta. I had played Gears 4 and 5 too but I’m going to revisit them as I’ve not played them in years
hell yeah really glad to hear!
The cog created locust thats crazy
Warhammer 40k makes gears lore look like. Sweet bedtime story.
Weird comparison but okay
Blood mounts might be fed human flesh, not just human heads.
I still can't get over how even the strongest of locus can breed with the berserk and can only imagine how they treated the offspring 😬
Kinda figured processing would be number 1, I remember playing Gears 2 when I was 8 years old (too young to be playing) I remembering have nightmares for days after seeing Maria’s death. It was awful lmao
3:42 even cliffyB regrets writing that part in the lore
Guess that explains why all the characters were super buff all the time 😂
Damn locust is brutal in every horror way in Gears of war 2
God, i forgot how deep this shit was, I actually shed sole tears just now
I absolutely loved this series and still do. That said, the storyline would have made so much more sense overall if the Locusts were actually resurrected humans from the pendulum wars mutated by the imulsion. This would have solved so many plot issues like why the Locusts were kidnapping humans.
The locust breeding wasn't noticed by Hoffman, it was Bernie who discovered it when she was out on a scouting op
The Locust were like a combo of Mordor and Imperial Japan…. Geeze.
I feel like gears 2 really cranked up the darkness with the series, the locust were mysterious in the first game with them just being monsters with guns and the community wanted to know how they came to be and how evil they were so epic was like "sure ok so they're actually a disgusting mutated hybrid of human and animal and they basically skin people (and like children too) alive just cause they find it amusing. Love this world and series, just hope gears 6 is more like halo infinite
I was only a kid when playing these games so the weight of the scene with Dom and Maria is something else now.
If y'all didn't know apparently locust are just humans that got experimented on
Amazing vid abz
thank you bro!!
@@KingAbzTV np
Need more videos like this covering stuff like this
maria was a tragedy but hearing about the berserker oh frick man
That scene with dom and Maria hurts so much more now that I have my wife in my life. I couldn’t begin to imagine what dom would go through having to spare his wife that kind of life. These games are brutal but I do love them!
If you flip over the symbol of a mechanical/engineered machine from the gamebook cover of gears of war 3, you get a pyramid with mechanical arms. Trippy sh.
8 year old me didn’t understand what was going on but me at 12 has burning hatred for those grubs I now understand the Maria cutscene and more of the deaths
Jeez I remember the last three. The first two are new to me. I also remember what happened to Bennie
taught me stuff missed playing the games and uploaded on my birthday.
Really makes you appreciate gears 2 even more
Gears hands down is one of the best Multiplayer games ever created.
marcus.....i dont know what to do......
I think out of all of these, the Birthing Creche is the worst of them all. Reminds me of another birthing program that happened in real life history.
5:20 gets me everytime like bro means that shit
6:25 this shit STILL hits hard.
I cried when Dom had to kill Maria.
Where can I find the comics I’ve been looking I just don’t know where to go
How can there be so many Locust drones when there are so few berserkers to give birth to them? Even if every single berserker was kept out of combat, and spent her entire life breeding, the Locust population would not be that high.
That is why 5 is dumb.