@@KingAbzTV Yeah, their designs and personalities rock. I also love their teeth-clench teamwork, they're both loyal to Myrrah and their people but they're complete opposites and hate each other because of it.
I always found it interesting how in depth they made Sraak's mentality in the comics. He had a massive ego because of his stature and seniority over the rest of the locust which eventually came back to bite him. It is also interesting how if you look into the comics, he doesn't show any inkling of care towards the trinity of worms and I personally believe that if he did have his way and the horde stayed in the hollow, he would eventually just flee in the last moments of the lambent assaults with a unit of guards just based off his personality and mentality.
Sraak's death was an unfortunate waste. He had every opportunity to be a good leader. His incompetence as a general was primarily due to his lack of effort as his lieutenants gave him reports and awaited strategy but instead he completely ignored them. That's like you are playing team death match and you ask for your teammate to cover you but he doesn't even pick up his controller instead he just tells you to try harder and if you fail it's your fault.
This is why Raam is the greatest Locust warrior and general because he hade what it needs to be a leader. He's a strategist, He knows when a battle is won and lost, he shows courage and loyalty to his people and to his queen,hell he even knew Sraak would ambush him and set up a trap. Above else General Raam is my Locust because he's fearless and ruthless when it comes to being a Locust.
Yeah I don't even consider this new "gears" trilogy canon, and as far as I'm concerned they won the war and lived happily ever after. That said I still want gears games so, they should make prequels even let us take the role of raam and skorge against the horde.
@@Elnegro.. I'd love a game about the pendulum wars, but i think a game about the locust-lambent war before E-Day would be cooler. Locusts have a lot more personality than is shown in the games, so having a game centered around them would be awesome
@@marranin007 Why not both? I want the story of the pendulum wars and the lambent grub war. Imagine having RAAM fleshed out, and we get to see his bound with his brothers. Imagine seeing the Pendulum wars from both sides, seeing the extent and dirtiness of both factions. More importantly I would love to see more Cog vs Locast prequels, there are over 14 years of war to explore from a regular cogs perspective, or another elite squad in the shadows or something. Would give us a greater appreciation for the characters and overall story, and no matter what it's pretty much guaranteed to be better than the new shit trilogy.
Don't see many RUclipsrs that make gears content now on days, even fewer on lore so is nice to someone making these sort of vids. Keep up the good work!
@@KingAbzTV I've watch some of your vids including this one and the Dom one, I'm definitely enjoying these. Especially since my knowledge on Gears's Lore/Universe only comes from the first three games and 4&5, so learning more about some of these characters and other things is nice and you do a great job at these!
i would love to play as the Locust story in the game to see their pov and the only main character to play as is Raam and have player 2 as Skorge that would be awesome to see but i wonder what future games of Gears Of War comes next.
this was a really enjoyable and awesome watch! every gears lore vid you do makes me have a bigger appreciation for the series and now wanting to buy all the comics
Ok so I don't get it, so like in the comic are they speaking locust and this is just all being translated? Or can they speak fluent seran? Cause if they can it's so weird trying to imagine RAAM and Skorge cursing and joking with eachother in their voices from the games lol
I always wonder if negotiations ever took place or could’ve taken place between locust and humans to ally themselves (even if only temporarily) to defeat the lambent.
I believe Adam Fenix had contacts with the Locust and a deal was made that they wouldn't emerge and attack Humanity in exchange Fenix would help solve the Lambent problem. Fenix however prioritized the hammer of dawn over this agreement and by the end of the pendulum wars the Locust were out of time and had to attack or face certain death to the Lambent. Fenix did eventually build the machine and use it to destroy both lambent and locust at the end of Gears 3 but not completely as seen in 4 and 5. I don't know about comic books and all but that's what I got from the games.
Adam knew of the locusts about 4-5 years before E-Day. He was very much involved with developing the hammer of dawn but knew that with genetic makeup of all locusts was imulsion. He couldn't find a way of destroying the lambent without also killing all the locusts. Queen Myrrah knew from the beginning that humans and locusts could never coexist, being that they fought for nearly 100 years over imulsion. Experimentend on their own kind, tried to weaponize miners who suffered from rust lung, and created the locusts.
Imagine if you started the franchise in the eyes of the locust first before the cog. It’d probably show their perspective as heroes and survivors rather than villains considering the locusts origins
god with all this lore why isn't there a television series made yet? God it could be animated or live action at this point. Besides that another awesome lore video man keep up the amazing work.
After reading all of that, it still bothered me that Raam was able to outsmart General Sraak but can’t do it against two avenge humans (Marcus and Dom) on the training due to plot reason. Anyway, keep it up, Woo!
I guess we can find some logic when we consider that both Marcus and Dom were not only veterans of the Locust War, but of the Pendulum Wars as well. Making them extremely deadly foes of RAAM.
@@littlebadassgaming cole was using a light to kill the kryll. This is what allowed marcus and dom to get past his defenses. Edit: if you watch the cutscene you can see this
Love your videos ! You should do a top 10 strongest gears character list and explain why then maybe your top 10 strongest locust characters would be cool
I just still can't believe that Raam and Skorge not only met each other, but also worked together as a team for a while before E-Day, and also it feels so surreal that in the comics they actually said full sentences, speeches and even rude words like Marcus and his squad. For many years, people thought that Raam and Skorge were rivals, making some versus videos about which of them would defeat the other, when in reality they were like brothers, almost as the Locust counterpart of Marcus and Dom. I'm still wondering if Skorge founded Marcus and Dom casually during Gears of War 2 campaign, or he was actually haunting them to avenge his closest friends.
My first gears was the first it was installed in a JTAG Xbox 360 I bought with my savings I get by working in vacations back in 2019 it take sometime and the sniper was my saviour in those high difficulty playthroughs but since I have seen that they are reducing the difficulty of gears of war games since the gears 2
So how did the locust have the numbers to effectively fight against the COG and the rest of humanity who been endlessly waging war against each other for over a thousand and something years with seer numbers so vast that nuking their own cities was a last ditch stop gap measure to stop the literal tide of locust emerging underground. They had enough numbers to do this while simultaneously waging a war and losing a war against the lambent who outnumbers the locust nearly 10 to 1 all of which were former locust who got infected. All of which stems from their queen and her original group similarly to how Adam and Eve did for humanity eons ago but in the span of a century. And in that century they leaned how to build city/towns, farm, raise livestock, tame wild/mutated beast, govern said city/towns, create a religion on worms, create a language, learn military tactics/structure/logistical supply, build guns/blades/armor and how to do all of that effectively in between breeding sessions to be able to have the manpower to actually get shit done on that scale. all the while hiding from any and all humans, forsaking their ways, teachings, knowledge and technology. All starting from 50 or so lab experiment escapes with half being enraging females that want to murder everything and have to be tied down to make kids. In 70ish years on top of that before they warred against the lambent and the humans.
I’ve always wondered how did the locust have enough troops to almost completely take over the surface while holding back the lambent at the same time it doesn’t make much sense to me
If the Locust had spent more time and effort fighting the Lambent, instead of each other, they would not need to leave the Hollow to invade the surface.
Dead space remake drops in January, The Callisto protocol drops in December. Until then I’ll be doing my Gears lore videos alongside other lore stuff I think of.
I don't know if it's out there anywhere I tried looking . But I've always wondered what the life expectancy of a locust would be . I wanna ask you abz , what do you think the expectancy of a normal drone in perfect quality of life would be as well as what you think the average expectancy of the horde as a whole would be . The ones who have watched your horde lore videos I'm sure we agree the expectancy could be heavily varied 😂
It's likely the two factions are simply acting more in opposition to humanity than working together with one another. They both just want humans to die atm and don't care about each other.
What is the thing you tend to say at the beginning or end of every video? I've been trying to figure it out but can't for the life of me make it out :c
The fact that there is a non-Berserker locust who is so massive he can chokeslam RAAM's 9-foot ass like a punk is genuinely scary. I kind of wish they hadn't made him such a bad leader character. If he had been some kind of freakish frontline commander just like RAAM, then SRAAK would have been an incredible enemy to actually fight in-game (I know there's a multiplayer skin for him, but he isn't 12 feet tall, so shut up).
There's alot more stories they can tell with general RAAM because let's not forget the fact that this took place a few years before the locust human war began and RAAM died 10 years into the locust human war so there could be dozens of more stories they can fit in in between those events. I don't just wanna see raams rise and death because I already know that I wanna see the atrocities he inflicted on humanity during the war. we only know 2 people that have been killed by RAAM, Alecia Valera and Minh young Kim. There could be countless other stories told through COG perspective where they faced general RAAM and lived to tell the tale, oooh that would be epic.
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Man, the Rise of Raam comics are the best, really solidified my love for Raam, Skorge, and Karn and the rest of the Locust High Council.
Definitely! Also made me a big fan of Vrol and Ukkon
@@KingAbzTV Yeah, their designs and personalities rock.
I also love their teeth-clench teamwork, they're both loyal to Myrrah and their people but they're complete opposites and hate each other because of it.
@@KingAbzTV who exactly is Vrol? (Love your videos by the way)
@elijahbutcher9522 What about Droak and Jermad?
Man, i cant imagine how a game of locust/lambent would have looked like back then. i mean, RAAM's shadow was epic on its own.
I always found it interesting how in depth they made Sraak's mentality in the comics. He had a massive ego because of his stature and seniority over the rest of the locust which eventually came back to bite him. It is also interesting how if you look into the comics, he doesn't show any inkling of care towards the trinity of worms and I personally believe that if he did have his way and the horde stayed in the hollow, he would eventually just flee in the last moments of the lambent assaults with a unit of guards just based off his personality and mentality.
That’s very interesting I didn’t know that
Sraak's death was an unfortunate waste. He had every opportunity to be a good leader. His incompetence as a general was primarily due to his lack of effort as his lieutenants gave him reports and awaited strategy but instead he completely ignored them. That's like you are playing team death match and you ask for your teammate to cover you but he doesn't even pick up his controller instead he just tells you to try harder and if you fail it's your fault.
This is why Raam is the greatest Locust warrior and general because he hade what it needs to be a leader. He's a strategist, He knows when a battle is won and lost, he shows courage and loyalty to his people and to his queen,hell he even knew Sraak would ambush him and set up a trap.
Above else General Raam is my Locust because he's fearless and ruthless when it comes to being a Locust.
It's the reason I play as him in multiplayer
I'm more interested in this guy than in Kate or her story.
The Locust were more interesting than the swarm
This man is spitting facts while the Coalition is shitting games.
Yeah I don't even consider this new "gears" trilogy canon, and as far as I'm concerned they won the war and lived happily ever after.
That said I still want gears games so, they should make prequels even let us take the role of raam and skorge against the horde.
@@Elnegro.. man just like halo, Gears fans just love to complain about anything new and inventive. 😂
@@Elnegro.. I'd love a game about the pendulum wars, but i think a game about the locust-lambent war before E-Day would be cooler. Locusts have a lot more personality than is shown in the games, so having a game centered around them would be awesome
@@marranin007 Why not both?
I want the story of the pendulum wars and the lambent grub war.
Imagine having RAAM fleshed out, and we get to see his bound with his brothers.
Imagine seeing the Pendulum wars from both sides, seeing the extent and dirtiness of both factions.
More importantly I would love to see more Cog vs Locast prequels, there are over 14 years of war to explore from a regular cogs perspective, or another elite squad in the shadows or something.
Would give us a greater appreciation for the characters and overall story, and no matter what it's pretty much guaranteed to be better than the new shit trilogy.
Don't see many RUclipsrs that make gears content now on days, even fewer on lore so is nice to someone making these sort of vids.
Keep up the good work!
Thank you! Hopefully you enjoyed the video and the work I’ve been doing!
@@KingAbzTV I've watch some of your vids including this one and the Dom one, I'm definitely enjoying these.
Especially since my knowledge on Gears's Lore/Universe only comes from the first three games and 4&5, so learning more about some of these characters and other things is nice and you do a great job at these!
I had no idea Ra'am was such close friends with Skourge. I hope we can see more of them both in E-day
Who’s here now that E day is announced? We might see him in game
Dude, imagine being able to see all the High Council members! That would be sick.
Same
A Sraak enemy in a beast mode 2.0 would go crazy. He'd be cool to see in horde too though
He's basically a dumber, but bigger and stronger RAAM. He doesn't even have a beast of his own like RAAM, Skorge, or Myrrah.
@@aztumtheknightofwumbo7060 yeah but given that he’s half the size of a Brumak he doesn’t really need one
@aztumtheknightofwumbo7060 Karn has Shibboleth.
Megatron: Take notes starscream. That will be you if keep it up with these obsessive sick strives for power you have no idea of controlling.
I always saw parallels between RAAM and sraak and Megatron and starscream
i would love to play as the Locust story in the game to see their pov and the only main character to play as is Raam and have player 2 as Skorge that would be awesome to see but i wonder what future games of Gears Of War comes next.
Some video game characters from Gears deserve to be in Mortal Kombat.
Would be dope if we switch between cog and locust and uir in campaign on gear's E day
A sraak boss in horde would be very interesting
this was a really enjoyable and awesome watch! every gears lore vid you do makes me have a bigger appreciation for the series and now wanting to buy all the comics
Thank you friend I’m glad you enjoy the videos!
Kind of sucks he wasnt spared for the front lines he probably wouldve made a huge difference in the locust civil warfare
Let’s go!!! Another amazing video (:
Ok so I don't get it, so like in the comic are they speaking locust and this is just all being translated? Or can they speak fluent seran? Cause if they can it's so weird trying to imagine RAAM and Skorge cursing and joking with eachother in their voices from the games lol
I believe it's just being translated
I always wonder if negotiations ever took place or could’ve taken place between locust and humans to ally themselves (even if only temporarily) to defeat the lambent.
I believe Adam Fenix had contacts with the Locust and a deal was made that they wouldn't emerge and attack Humanity in exchange Fenix would help solve the Lambent problem. Fenix however prioritized the hammer of dawn over this agreement and by the end of the pendulum wars the Locust were out of time and had to attack or face certain death to the Lambent. Fenix did eventually build the machine and use it to destroy both lambent and locust at the end of Gears 3 but not completely as seen in 4 and 5. I don't know about comic books and all but that's what I got from the games.
Adam knew of the locusts about 4-5 years before E-Day. He was very much involved with developing the hammer of dawn but knew that with genetic makeup of all locusts was imulsion. He couldn't find a way of destroying the lambent without also killing all the locusts. Queen Myrrah knew from the beginning that humans and locusts could never coexist, being that they fought for nearly 100 years over imulsion. Experimentend on their own kind, tried to weaponize miners who suffered from rust lung, and created the locusts.
Amazing video once again
Imagine if you started the franchise in the eyes of the locust first before the cog. It’d probably show their perspective as heroes and survivors rather than villains considering the locusts origins
Devs have stated they want players to feel the fear of Locust and monstrous beings from underground.
Your theory takes that out of the question
If only SRAAK had intelligence he would’ve been the most unstoppable force the Locust ever had.
personally i called him Big Backpack Jones
I be thinking I know so much on gears and this guy pops up with somthing undiscovered
A brew, biscuits and King Abz before bed; what a combo!
Tell me about it!
Funny that if you put one or two bolt into raam during gow1 and he dont go down like sraak
Sraak don't have that special black theron armor like RAAM. RAAM got the good stuff.
god with all this lore why isn't there a television series made yet? God it could be animated or live action at this point. Besides that another awesome lore video man keep up the amazing work.
I agree, I would love a Gears animated series. Thanks for watching friend!
You must be happy now with the recent news of a Gears Of War animated series and movies coming soon.
@@Daxter609 hell yes I just hope they don't mess it up
Everyone needs friends like those Therons
After reading all of that, it still bothered me that Raam was able to outsmart General Sraak but can’t do it against two avenge humans (Marcus and Dom) on the training due to plot reason.
Anyway, keep it up, Woo!
I guess we can find some logic when we consider that both Marcus and Dom were not only veterans of the Locust War, but of the Pendulum Wars as well. Making them extremely deadly foes of RAAM.
@@jorgea4810 he got nerfed because lf his lack of kryll and dom and marcus aren't average lol
@@Theta117 the lack of kryll which he still had? Ysure its not because of kryll being very susceptible to imulsion fumes?
@@littlebadassgaming cole was using a light to kill the kryll. This is what allowed marcus and dom to get past his defenses.
Edit: if you watch the cutscene you can see this
These lore vids are the best. Great content man love it.
Thank you my friend!
Love your videos ! You should do a top 10 strongest gears character list and explain why then maybe your top 10 strongest locust characters would be cool
I just still can't believe that Raam and Skorge not only met each other, but also worked together as a team for a while before E-Day, and also it feels so surreal that in the comics they actually said full sentences, speeches and even rude words like Marcus and his squad. For many years, people thought that Raam and Skorge were rivals, making some versus videos about which of them would defeat the other, when in reality they were like brothers, almost as the Locust counterpart of Marcus and Dom. I'm still wondering if Skorge founded Marcus and Dom casually during Gears of War 2 campaign, or he was actually haunting them to avenge his closest friends.
A tale of mind over muscle.
Bro this video is so cool give us more
Weird seeing the locust humanized, I like it though.
Always liked Raam, Skorge and Jermad.
He was so OP but all evil die
What if the locust asked the humans to fight in the beginning of the lambent war? Would they win or would event occur similar before or after?
Maybe peace but also unforeseen outcomes
Like a random mutation created by war
That was fucking cool
They could easily make a locust gears campaign, would eat that stuff up
Would make a good story for, Gears of war: Lambent Wars.
And I thought raam was big asf in the game😭😭
The rise of the best RUclipsr king abz the king of gears of war lore
Thanks Seth bro :)
@@KingAbzTV your welcome
I hope we get locust story too in gears E day
My first gears was the first it was installed in a JTAG Xbox 360 I bought with my savings I get by working in vacations back in 2019 it take sometime and the sniper was my saviour in those high difficulty playthroughs but since I have seen that they are reducing the difficulty of gears of war games since the gears 2
Why is Raam's name always capitalized? It's very annoying considering it doesn't happen for any other character.
Simple answer: he's just built different.
Its actually probably an oversight
So how did the locust have the numbers to effectively fight against the COG and the rest of humanity who been endlessly waging war against each other for over a thousand and something years with seer numbers so vast that nuking their own cities was a last ditch stop gap measure to stop the literal tide of locust emerging underground.
They had enough numbers to do this while simultaneously waging a war and losing a war against the lambent who outnumbers the locust nearly 10 to 1 all of which were former locust who got infected.
All of which stems from their queen and her original group similarly to how Adam and Eve did for humanity eons ago but in the span of a century. And in that century they leaned how to build city/towns, farm, raise livestock, tame wild/mutated beast, govern said city/towns, create a religion on worms, create a language, learn military tactics/structure/logistical supply, build guns/blades/armor and how to do all of that effectively in between breeding sessions to be able to have the manpower to actually get shit done on that scale.
all the while hiding from any and all humans, forsaking their ways, teachings, knowledge and technology. All starting from 50 or so lab experiment escapes with half being enraging females that want to murder everything and have to be tied down to make kids. In 70ish years on top of that before they warred against the lambent and the humans.
I’ve always wondered how did the locust have enough troops to almost completely take over the surface while holding back the lambent at the same time it doesn’t make much sense to me
Who knows, maybe the pregnancy of the berserker was a month and had 10 or 20 offspring per litter.
If the Locust had spent more time and effort fighting the Lambent, instead of each other, they would not need to leave the Hollow to invade the surface.
We need to see this in gears e day game like it just makes sense to put it
General Sraak show up at the end of the game on the xbox360 version
Such a young species managed to build an industrialized and organized society across the entire world & their population must be over a billion
Sraak is like RAAM but if he just got older.
Which is litterally just Sraak.
He's also taller.
He also has different armor.
That's all.
And when are you gonna do your other more videos like dead space
Dead space remake drops in January,
The Callisto protocol drops in December.
Until then I’ll be doing my Gears lore videos alongside other lore stuff I think of.
Man no wonder Marcus didn't get to meet sraak since the war
Mf Raam was the original Eren Yeager💀had a dream of emerging on the surface just to kill every human possible💀
RAAM the attack titan
@@KingAbzTV ay fuckin yo💀💀💀💀💀
I love the lore but I have a question can you do a lore video on how they reproduce or if they need to
Check out my video ‘5 of the creepiest things on Gears of War Lore’ that will explain any questions :)
Theron guards ❤️🫡
I don't know if it's out there anywhere I tried looking . But I've always wondered what the life expectancy of a locust would be . I wanna ask you abz , what do you think the expectancy of a normal drone in perfect quality of life would be as well as what you think the average expectancy of the horde as a whole would be . The ones who have watched your horde lore videos I'm sure we agree the expectancy could be heavily varied 😂
Is there a reason the lambent wrenches work together with the locust in the first part of of gears 1 ?
It's likely the two factions are simply acting more in opposition to humanity than working together with one another. They both just want humans to die atm and don't care about each other.
Maybe wretches are still tameable in their lambent state
Curious how sraak armor looks more similar to a gears armor to locust ones
We do know Marcus father had contact with the locust maybe sraak was that contact would explain his actions
Yo gears of war emergence day in future needs a story dlc based off this
Love the vids. Any of you guys read the slab?
yep , brilliant book and I'll be covering some stuff from that book soon too
where can we read the comic
What is the thing you tend to say at the beginning or end of every video? I've been trying to figure it out but can't for the life of me make it out :c
“I’m your host Abz” ?
They should have a gears of wars but the locust story
I read that as General Spank at first
It,s so so good 🤩
instead of gears of war 4 and gears 5, they should have made a prequels focusing on the rise of RAAM and the fall of SRAAK
I hope you don’t run out of ideas bro, I love these. I could watch this for an hour straight.
Thanks bro, I hope so too!
love the brotherly bond between raam and skorge. if only the games showed this
Raam vs sraak video
What comics can i read these stories in?
Finna boot up Gears 3 just to play Rise of Raam DLC
The fact that there is a non-Berserker locust who is so massive he can chokeslam RAAM's 9-foot ass like a punk is genuinely scary. I kind of wish they hadn't made him such a bad leader character. If he had been some kind of freakish frontline commander just like RAAM, then SRAAK would have been an incredible enemy to actually fight in-game (I know there's a multiplayer skin for him, but he isn't 12 feet tall, so shut up).
They did the same to raam in every multliplayer component, however on gesrs 2 mp he do have slight boost to hieght compared to any ohter charater
Screw Sraak, glad RAAM destroyed him in seconds.
12ft tall is as tall or taller than a warhammer primarch what the hell.
There's alot more stories they can tell with general RAAM because let's not forget the fact that this took place a few years before the locust human war began and RAAM died 10 years into the locust human war so there could be dozens of more stories they can fit in in between those events. I don't just wanna see raams rise and death because I already know that I wanna see the atrocities he inflicted on humanity during the war. we only know 2 people that have been killed by RAAM, Alecia Valera and Minh young Kim. There could be countless other stories told through COG perspective where they faced general RAAM and lived to tell the tale, oooh that would be epic.
And will carmine, who was killed by raam in like the first second of e-day
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Sraak was arrogant if only he listened to RAAM he would have lived still but his selfish ways got himself slained by RAAM
Bare hands and a torque bow lol
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Do they still make comics?
Last ones they made were like 2/3 years ago, hopefully they’ll make some more soon
His name sounds funny in Polish xD