"Remember Thai? Remember how he was captured by the Locust and within a day he had been tortured to the point that he committed suicide in front of delta? You know what could have made that better? A joke from Baird about how he won't be attending that hat convention next year!" - Coalition Devs probably.
It’s like people who know nothing about Gears just saw the gameplay, heard some banter between Cole and Baird, and came to the conclusion that these are just big dumb buff guy chainsaw games. Kait is more toxic than any male character (not counting Locust obviously) from the previous games besides Prescott himself, and at least he did his fucked up shit because he was trying to save humanity.
@@gloriouss6352 one of the reasons why I enjoyed the change from JD after what happened with the hammer of dawn is that he became far more responsable and more tough, only to have "little missy more important than you" telling him that her personal problems are bigger than saving the lives of the people in that village.
@Liam Whatling Only to have it taken away for a character that adds nothing to the story besides being a spokeperson for the devs idiotic ideology of pushing more strong female leads, as if there were none in gaming before. Decided to sacrifice a potential good narrative for more whiny Kait and her "drama" about being the granddaughter of Myrrah, having everyone cater to her and show complete disregard towards the chain of command and trying to protect people from the swarm.
The best part about Gears was the prologue in Gears 4. We get to experience (briefly) the Pendulum Wars, E-Day and V-Day from the eyes of grunts. As soon as I saw the Swarm and realised that we didn’t ‘kill’ the Locust in Gears of War 3, I reacted with nothing other than “wow, this is lame.” They had the opportunity to explore the universe through spin-offs, but no we get sequels to a story that had a satisfying conclusion. We get annoying, disrespectful and forceful new characters that alienated me the whole way through the sequel games.
Now that I think about it, having the Locust come back makes everything you fought for in Gears 1-3 be in vain! The Coalition really dug themselves into a hole, making the Locust 2.0 into super soldiers able to adapt to anything
That Swarm never should have happened, and if it had to, it should have ended at Gears 4. The Swarm would never have been as effective if Kait never had to connect to the Berserker Matriarch and awaken Reyna.
I don't think that a sequel was a bad idea but they wasted the potential. I remember hearing an interesting theory before Gears 4 that the Swarm were creatures that lived underground BELOW the imulsion. And we never saw them in the previous games because, of course, they had no way to get through all the imulsion and pass it, so after the original trilogy ended with the Lambent, Locust, and Imulsion gone, they were able to expand outward. But no, the one single thing no one wanted of the Locust just coming back happens.
The problem with Kait is she's basically like a teenager with authority problems, which wouldn't be such a problem if she was a secondary or background character but no she's basically what the entire storyline of these new games is based around which is really BAD.
@@vermin9190the fact that they haven’t remaster the original trilogy is a shame. Granted it prob has something to do with Dom’s voice actor not wanting anything to do with the series, but still.
Blown away that from a writing perspective, Kait is simply allowed to say and do as she pleases with no repercussions or consequences. Every character stood around her just gives her the podium, and the story flows accordingly. Mad. Get Rod out.
Jeez I never realized how similar the Gears games are to the Star Wars Sequels. - No Direction in story - Annoying main characters that no one likes - Main Characters are immature, don't take anything seriously and act like children - "Strong Female Character"/ Mary Sue - OG Characters getting pushed to the side - Annoying Humour constantly being inserted - Forgettable Soundtrack - Weak Forgettable Villains - Boring environments - Feels like Fanfiction - Not Memorable at all I'm genuinely convinced that Movie makers/Game Devs watch goofy Loud=Funny clickbait RUclips videos and base they're script and writing off those videos.
its the way of entretainment right now. ITs not about making great stories, its about checking the boxes for political agendas. Being man baddddd! I cant stand marvel movies and their constant stupid jokes, same as starwars and as a huge fan of Gears of war games 4 and 5 are the only games ive never finished. even the multiplayer sucks
looks like entertainment to gen Z, and the today tiktok and instagram media for those people... i like gears 4 mechanics and history, it is relatable, but the new gears are clearly less aggressive in terms of military performance and more in a social way... wich is pretty impresive because they are at war and most of the time the old ones are carrying the plot and the new ones are like scolded childs... wich is pretty bad, but i enjoyed the 4th game, at least in latin spanish the voice actors are more normal than the english ones, but still feel like pretty bad management in history, i were playing gears ultimate and i had problems not with the story but finding some doors, and then i went to gears 3 (i do not have gears 2 right now) then i were playing and the story were pretty chaotic in a good way, but i wanted to her "in and out" in-game so i play gears 4, it were like i said, but the mechanics and the controller were pretty good polished, i think i end that game more because the gameplay is pretty good, more than the history, or the characters.
*Me after playing Gears 4:* "Well, they wanted to show us the new era. Explained Seras situation and had a shitty ending. Its the first new Gears from TC. They will be better in 5, it cant be worse, they have still Rod Ferguson!" *Me after playing Gears 5:* " For the love of god. Just give us a Gears Of War 2 remaster and end this series. Its like looking a dog suffer to death. Just shoot it and end his suffering."
Remember that Marcus Fenix was in prison because he disobeyed orders to try to save his father. Marcus Fenix was a famous war hero and they still put him in prison. So yes, Kait the grunt should be in prison or shot for going AWOL if the writers followed the logic of their universe.
@@EmergencyChannel The COG are explicitly Fascist and have brutal disciplinary procedures. Summary execution would possibly be a little out of line without a trial first, but nobody is going to refuse a lawful order, lay hands on their CO, and get away with it. Given Kait's amazing dedication to not exhibiting military values and other conduct unbecoming, she'd be lucky if she got a reassignment to make big rocks into little rocks. Although Marcus and crew always seemed to me like the sort to try percussive maintenance before using official means.
@@beanother1an690 i love this comment Kait deserve to die in new hope surrounded by all the sires that Marcus and Dom let behind when te got out of the lab
I’ll be be honest with you. I truly believe everyone should be entitled to they’re own opinion and I hate myself for saying this to you but damn you... goddamn you for like this pathetic excuse of a Gears game.
Oh my god yes! My friend says Gears 2 is his favorite and while he and I have quite different personality types I think Gears 2 is my favorite as well. They should add more environmental desctrution to the Ultimate version. With Unreal Engine 5 coming out it can begin by the community I bet with permission from Epic. Just like how Unreal Tournment 4 was supposed to go.
Unfortunately it won't... the Coalition seem more focused on squeezing more money out of fans by adding in random ass characters not related to the universe (like those three black WWE wrestlers)
While I personally deeply enjoy Judgment is the weakest of the original games and it’s still WAY better than 4 and 5 Colonel Loomis would have fucking executed Kait within the first five minutes of having her under command 😂 probably wouldn’t even give her a military trial or anything
For me, Kate is easily the most unlikable character in all of video games, tv, movie, etc. She is so intolerable she’s the sole reason I stopped playing gears 5 after the second mission. At least in gears 4 she wasn’t shoved down my throat as “the main character”. I don’t use this word a lot but I actually HATE her with a passion.
If it was actually a plot point that Kate was actually a civilians that picked up rifle and pretended to be a soldier due to having some personal stake in the conflict and we trying to not be found out, that might've actually been more interesting than what we got.
Absolutely disagree about the old characters, they should have been left out of this whole thing entirely. The new games should have been set 250 years in the future so the devs would have no choice but to actually invest in writing good new characters, rather than banking on nostalgia to carry them.
The first 4 Gears of War games were "too masculine" for this era of SWJ crap. That's why they had that rude little girl as the main character in Gears 5.
It amazes me how people these days think being a child than an adult is what's going to save the world. That's why no one is acting like adult and why people deride the old works as "too Mature." They do not want to shoulder the burden of being a responsible adult.
I've never seen anyone say that, a female main character for gears isn't the problem, if it was someone like Sam or Anya we were playing it would be pretty good, it's the fact that it's kait who's written to be angsty and entitled
I'm very happy to see there's still gears of war fans who see the truth behind the new trilogy. Its a bastardized version of something truly special from my childhood. The music, characters, story, everything about it felt like it was made from passion instead of a cash grab made to milk old fans dry
I've honestly been wondering myself, "why don't I like these new games?" I mean I love the older games, I grew up with them. Playing Gears in Elementary school with my dad and eventually my friends. We loved the gritty take on the Gears games, it was bloody, scary, and intriguing. But when Gears 4 came out I felt sort of empty when playing it, I couldn't nail what it was but I felt disinterested in the game. Gears 5 which I got last year I thought was slightly better than 4 but still couldn't nail what was missing. I wasn't pulled in by the new characters nor was I super excited to see where the story went. This franchise has dug itself in its own grave, they retconned plot points from the old games and left me unsatisfied with the new games. It really hurts to see this franchise kind of go down a weird path, this game was a huge part of my childhood. While most kids sat around playing Lego games and Minecraft, I played Gears along with those games. You nailed it with the full analysis, I really couldn't nail why I felt like I couldn't enjoy Gears games as much anymore. I didn't know if I was just getting older if the series was getting worse or I was moving on. You earned a sub for deep diving into this, I enjoyed the video.
Couldn’t have said it better myself! I actually had to force myself to complete the Gears 5 campaign. It was just so boring and the characters so unlikable I could only play it for like an hour at a time. It actually took me a week to finish the main campaign. With the original trilogy, I had to stop myself from playing the game too much so I could savor everything and rely enjoy the story.
The more I hear, the more I know I made the right call on not getting Gears 5. Hell, it’s on sale on Steam right now for $10. Even for just that little it holds no appeal.
4th game was meh, 5th game is puke inducing garbage. I had to mute the game in "open world" sections in order to get through it. Colossal waste of time.
Kait is possibly one of the worst characters in modern gaming. Whoever wrote her dialogue and narrative effectively promoting her to the lead character in the last 2 games needs firing and kept away from Gears games forever. Its the same with so many films and other cultural products. Kait is this grotesque caricature of what a strong female character is and you find so many such badly written characters everywhere. Gamers actually like good female leads, often preferring them to the male equivalents, but any criticism of bad writing or storytelling featuring females is deflected and written off as sexist and misogynist.
When you spoke of the stakes in game I really agree, I just replayed the mission in Gears of War 2 when your on Dizzy’s rig. The stakes felt real as King Ravens were shot out of the sky and Rigs off the road, not to mention the characters talking over the radios about fallen comrades.
Every time Kait says something it makes me vomit, what an awful way to write a character like geez. Also Jim as a leader is pathetic. That’s why the only gears girls I like are from other games, they are actually likable and interesting
A week or so ago I was talking to a friend about playing Gears 2 with him. He was going off about how it was a bad game because it was old. Later on, he said that he remembered that he actually played a Gears game a little while back, actually. And he said that a scene made him cry. I was expecting something like Ben's death, or one of the scenes with Dom, but nope. He meant choosing between Del and JD in Gears 5. Man got teared up over making a choice between Annoying and Unlikable. You can't make this stuff up. We're gonna keep on getting games like Gears 5, because of 3 things. -1: The devs have no respect or understanding about the franchise -2: The devs don't care about what the playerbase says, they chalk that up to toxicity and entitlement. No, the devs only care about what the shills at places like IGN say. -3: Players like my friend here. Players who have never experienced the original, so they have no point of reference for how bad the modern games are. We're in a liminal time. There's a new generation of squeakers playing video games these days. They've never touched a 360 or a PS3. Heck, some of them probably haven't used a One or a PS4. These new players won't have the same experience we did. So a lot of these long-lived, older franchises either die out as their fans grow older, or they try to live with the times, and lose their identity.
Bro, like, also the setup for the Gears 5 choice. Like, Queen Reyna says nothing about making choices for anything. The game just outright says choose someone. Kait has the knife in her hand and coulda gone Thanos style aim for the head, but like no. I only chose JD 'cause the knife was in my right hand and he was on the right side of the screen. SMH.
Because woohoomen with a feminist's understanding of strength write them. They're immature, its clear as day in everything they say, think, and make. They didn't have strong people growing up, so they only know what caricatures they've seen in media and around them, bad TV shows and abusive boyfriends their mum had growing up if their dad wasn't the example they had to follow. Its funny that they claim female empowerment, but their idea of strength is that of the quintessential weak, toxic male. Their characters don't act like woohoomen, they act like insecure men. They don't understand what strong femininity looks like, because their mothers were weak as well. All they know is anger, self centeredness, rudeness, and disrespect. Ironically, they show through their actions they don't think woohoomen can be strong. They spit on strong woohoomen and seek in every aspect to make themselves like men. Woohoomen can be strong, men can be strong, but weak men and woohoomen will raise weak men and women and behave like weak men and woohoomen. Characters are a direct reflection of the authors skill and quite often a mirror into their own psyche. But I'm just an armchair psychologist with 2 years of schooling.
as a massive halo fan, it pains me to see its brother franchise going through a similar problem. it seems like gears has lost, or at least confused its identity. it's like microsoft has a problem with destroying sacred franchises
I would not say it’s Microsoft trying to destroy these series on purpose more by accident they want to continue these stories. they know the games sell the problem is the studios they set up to continue these games 343 for Halo and Coalition for gears just have no clue what they’re doing and have basically none of the original people who made the games that these companies are being asked to continue. The end result 343 and coalition make ok at best and dumpster fire at worst games ( I like Halo 4’s story then Halo 5 was dumpster fire of a story, mp was fine though) and now both studios have to some how save their stories in game 6 and I doubt they could realistically pull it off
the coalition is trying to make there new blockbuster gears game, but what they forget is that there already exists an identity and people LOVE that identity. don’t fix something that isn’t broken
Character development in the original gears trilogy was amazing each character was relatable, interesting and made difficult choices and followed orders through loss and sorrow in a dark and bleak war torn world the new gears games are way too goofy, over the top, cringe worthy, annoying and are just all idiots
The gameplay is pretty terrible too. The fact that EVERY enemy is a cookie cutter bullet sponge ruins horde and escape. Gears judgement for example did this really well. Even the cheap horde-like missions were fun because each enemy type served a purpose with more than just a big health bar to back them up
Gears 4: JD, Del, Kait going through rebellious phase of puberty Gears 5: Kait gets her first period and makes everyone else pay for it. Gears 6: uh..uhhh.. Kait kills her mom because she dislikes her friends???
@@pyroide2212 that is strange. I think it’s just Game devs trying to incorporate too much about politics in games and just becoming to hipster or something along the lines of the trying to keep ups it’s changing times. Cuz times right now are way different then what they were last decade.
@@pyroide2212 The cause is people's gut health. Today people are more unhealthy than ever compared to 20 or even 10 years ago. Gut health affects the brain, and thus it effects creativity. It's a strange reason, but It's true.
The line, "This isn't about you! It's about me!", made me shut off my console without saving. I tried giving the new games a chance, but, WOW did they fuck it up... No proper character development, every problem revolves around Kait, not the Locust, and they even turned the original cast in to cardboard characters, in the games AND the books >:/ The new book when Gears 4 came out, did NOTHING substantial for its new main cast. I don't even want to touch the books after that. The audiobooks suck, too.
When Gears 4 came out I kinda did like the campaign, had potential and I was interested. Gears 5 did very little, I learned nothing new and they added barley anything. All they did was say that Kait was related to Myraa which everyone already knew, Reyna is back, and the hammer of dawn is online. That’s it, I thing else. I don’t know how there isn’t more ratings calling it bad.
Because they deleted most reviews from day one to February of that following year. I did a day one rating giving critical feedback and not being a dick still got deleted. It was a 3/5 star rating. XBOX HAS A FAKE Gears 5 rating
Great point on graphics, I haven’t played the original gears in so long I almost forgot how gruesome it was. Gears 5 feels toyish as hell now that I look at it closely
Also, about the lack of adherance to the chain of command, said chain of command doesn't even work right in Gears. In the US Army, a new soldier starts out as a Private and will stay one until about a year in service, in which they get promoted to Private First Class. A year after that, they get promoted to Specialist, the rank that MG guys and Grenadiers typically occupy, and a year after that, they get promoted to Corporal. It isn't even a year after Gears 4, and yet Kait skipped what (if Epic based the COG's military off of ours) should have been THREE YEARS of service, and even then, she does NOT have the right to lead ANYONE. And sure, Marcus got shot up a lot of ranks in Gears of War when Kim died, but that was specifically because Kim was killed and Marcus was the next best guy to take charge of Delta. What should have happened in that god-awful "this isn't about you, it's about me!" scene was Marcus putting Kait in her place, then telling JD "And that's how you deal with insubordination, James."
@@JackalGoldKick true. But Marcus was present. Even when Lizzie died, evem though that was more JD. A man in grief needs a target, even if it doesnt exist, he'll make one
@@jujuthethird4602 But some people will blame others anyway, that is how human beings work. What you say is true, and would work as a resolution/catharsis. Stranded have no problem blaming the cog, and Hoffman in Gears 1 definitely had an issue with Fenix being let out. This(carmine) is a particular case, and would work more on the grounds of its a video game and we have seen the family die firsthand. We never even see how Clay feels about losing Lizzie, nor do we see JD offer condolences.
To see jd the only character I personally liked just get shat on through out the game needlessly annoys me because givin the politics of the game jd is the only white guy on the team so yanno he must be bad and kait the women must he better and more important then anyone else
What? It has nothing to do with the fact he’s white. Plenty of white characters are shown as heroic in the sequel trilogy. Jesus is everything about race with you people?
@@dukes1993724 it really does and honestly I don't care about race but giving the shit they were saying yes it does has somthing to do with him but I aint gonna explain that to your dumb ass
@@dukes1993724 It actually does because in Gears of War 4 it was basically shown that JD was going to be the new face of the franchise, son of Marcus Fenix and it had the feel of a kind of passing of the torch from Marcus to him. In Gears 5 they decided like a lot of media today they wanted to prop up gender politics instead of telling a good story. So all game long JD is treated like a horrible person though nothing he does is all that bad, and when he returns in the 3rd act he goes around continuing to be a decent guy and apologizing to everyone while his "friends" keep looking down on him. Why? Because he is straight white guy, and in this era of modern media that's an unforgivable sin, so the game goes out of it's way to tear JD down whenever it can and tries (but fails) to prop up Kait as the new face of the franchise but she is childish, entitled, petulant, always seems angry even when people are being nice to her. Then there is Del who I liked a lot in Gears 4 but hated in Gears 5 because like JD he was meant to be the new Marcus, Del was the new Dom. Was anyway, that role gets scraped into turning him into an annoying, goofy, comic relief character who you can't take seriously for even a moment every time I started to like Del he would say or do something idiotic. Now Gears of War was never a brilliant storyline but it was one you could take seriously even if just as an action game. These games are like if someone tried to take the Marvel Cinematic Universe and Gears of War throw them in a blender then call it good. Those things do not mesh well at all. As they are two very different styles of entertainment trying to do very different things. God I am not holding out much hope for Gears 6.
VAST majority of the reason most people bought these newer games (that were long time GOW fans) was nostalgia alone, which quickly wore off when they actually played them
Talking about shafting classic characters. Dom... There are only 3 collectables and 1 Easter egg and 1 sighting. The Easter egg being in 4, collectables being in 4 and 5 and the sighting being at the start of 4. I hate how no one even mentions Dom in the game. For example the rift worm kait mentions Marcus, Cole and baird but not Dom... But let's not talk about dizzy, bernie, the classic onyx guard ect
@James Vaughan Marcus literally mentioned his dad when kait was around. I'm not asking Marcus, Cole and baird to constantly talk about him. I just want the characters to atleast mention him once.
The biggest display of everything that is wrong with the writing is for me, Dom’s death, I literally had tears in my eyes, mostly due to the connection the writers were able to deliver You can’t get that from something that is hollow
My biggest beef with Gears 5: the choice at the end. Like, why? Why give you the choice of who to save and who to let die? To be more, "ground-breaking?" To be more like Mass Effect, maybe? Is Gears 6 going to take into consideration the choice you made or are the writers going to take the lazy way out and make it so whomever they choose lives and dies and the rest of us just have to deal with knowing how we played Gears 5 was pointless?
Gears 4 made me love JD. JD became one of my favorite characters after playing that games story, but I fucking HATED HOW 5 decided *Hey remember the guy you played as? Yeah let’s just throw him out like some fuckin side character after the prologue!*
anyone else feel like kait's arc died in the middle of gears 5 with the matrich, i think rather than JD turn bad it should have been Kait, she is related to Myrah after all, would've been cool to see one of the good guys go bad and see how all our favourite old characters and the new react to seeing someone they care for go bad ... maybe not a perfect plot but better than zombie reyna :/ great vid :)
@Josh Ochoa we can hope. But i feel it's too late for some of these plot beats to happen now. I really hope they do something with reyna cause right now she stands as a massive waste of a character, we really need a reason to get more invested in the swarm. Kinda feel the story is a but aimless at the moment, but i still hold hope for gears 6 :)
@Josh Ochoa would've loved a full game length raam shadow :) come to think of it the bit in gears 5 where kait takes control of some swarm forces was my favourite bit. Makes you wonder why they didn't bring beast mode back, they clearly have the means to do it. "Such wasted potential"
Plus it's not even bloody or violent compared to its superior Counterpart. Plus adding new gay from WWE lets me know how deep in the shit hole they dug themselves in
@@ZaMonolith1986 Yeah and not only that the attention to detail was incredibly dumbed down too in Ultimate as well, take a look at some dead bodies in both versions for example, the corpses in the original were rotting half decomposed skeletons while in Ultimate the body are all these generic body models dressed in red with 1 fourth of their head blown off. And that's just the tip of the iceberg too.
I Just wanted to Say that in gears of war judgment paduk said to baird you wanna stay friends let's don't see each other again and gears 5 Just ignore that
Glad I didn't waste my money. The gears I grew up on was fun, atence, scary, sad, joy, entertainment and a brother hood. I felt like I was actually in war fighting for freedom, safety and peace. Everything you said was 💯% on point, couldn't said it any better. I played Gears 4 and wasn't really feeling the storie like the other Gear games.
After jd messed up with the hammer of dawn at the start of gears 5 I was ready and excited to see him grow from it maybe turning from a friendly rebellious cluts into a Mature leader learning from his past mistake and understanding that this is a war and not a joke. Instead I got Kate 😐
Don't think they will. That would require them to give a damn about fans, and they don't even listen to them. The problem is, MS (and most of the gaming industry) and their devs don't talk to the fans + when they hear criticism, they just call you a racist or women-hating bastard. They will NEVER admit their mistakes and that they are more activists than games creators.
You what’s idiotic somehow now these kids can run and climb with heavy weapon sets like mulchers and not slow down while also being being able to aim like grinders In gears 2 where this weapon was introduced Marcus and co could not dash they had to set weapon down to fine aim same with gears 3 yet here they can run with it climb with it and aim likes grinder da fuck
Dude, thank you for this video. It perfectly, PERFECTLY summarises the core issue with what seemingly feels like every damn single franchise now beyond their third entry. Thanks for also not shying away from the elephant in the room in regards to Gears 5; that being the obvious inclusion of feminism and diversity. The Gears of War series has predominantly always focused on the Fenix bloodline. I knew we were in for a shocker when the trailer showed Kait as the main lead. She was a second rate, cardboard character who amounted to jack shit in her debut title, and now they want me to blow smoke up her ass? The Coalition can get screwed man. Long live the real Epic trilogy.
Coalition pretty much hijacked the GoW title and made it their own game from the base. Imagine if EPIC made 4 and 5. That story would have been so ridiculous.
I’m the best gears character
it would be my pleasure to serve under you sir
Serve the queen
@@generalraam322 meh...i would rather serve a big strong man like you big boy
@@Mary...22-u9j ok u can be one of elite Theron gaurds
I agree
"Remember Thai? Remember how he was captured by the Locust and within a day he had been tortured to the point that he committed suicide in front of delta? You know what could have made that better? A joke from Baird about how he won't be attending that hat convention next year!" - Coalition Devs probably.
Lol
They should have given him Dizzy’s cowboy hat for the scene he shoots his brains out. Would have added much needed brevity to that scene.
@@dukes1993724 ☝️this guy. this guy gets it.
It’s like people who know nothing about Gears just saw the gameplay, heard some banter between Cole and Baird, and came to the conclusion that these are just big dumb buff guy chainsaw games. Kait is more toxic than any male character (not counting Locust obviously) from the previous games besides Prescott himself, and at least he did his fucked up shit because he was trying to save humanity.
can't imagine the scene where dom find is wife done by these guys ...
The only problem I have with Gears as opposed to GOW, is that Kait is so insubordinate that she’d be discharged from the military real quick.
they turned Professional Soldier into Guerilla Fighter
Or jailed forever.
What? No way. Her superiors would love her for being such a girlboss. They'd celebrate her balls. lmao
Well you’re a kid who didn’t grow up with the old Games
I annoyed me that JD wasn’t leading missions when he joined back up with Kait. He’s a captain.... taking orders from a corporal.
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Yep, ludacris and nonsensical dear viewer. And the writing didn't justify any of it.
@@OMAHA16 “Screw your order it’s not about you it’s about me”
Bitch incarnate come to mind!
@@ausaralexander2627 the devs try to make her seem like a "strong women" doing that shit but no it's just annoying and makes her unlikable.
@@gloriouss6352 one of the reasons why I enjoyed the change from JD after what happened with the hammer of dawn is that he became far more responsable and more tough, only to have "little missy more important than you" telling him that her personal problems are bigger than saving the lives of the people in that village.
@Liam Whatling Only to have it taken away for a character that adds nothing to the story besides being a spokeperson for the devs idiotic ideology of pushing more strong female leads, as if there were none in gaming before. Decided to sacrifice a potential good narrative for more whiny Kait and her "drama" about being the granddaughter of Myrrah, having everyone cater to her and show complete disregard towards the chain of command and trying to protect people from the swarm.
The best part about Gears was the prologue in Gears 4. We get to experience (briefly) the Pendulum Wars, E-Day and V-Day from the eyes of grunts. As soon as I saw the Swarm and realised that we didn’t ‘kill’ the Locust in Gears of War 3, I reacted with nothing other than “wow, this is lame.”
They had the opportunity to explore the universe through spin-offs, but no we get sequels to a story that had a satisfying conclusion. We get annoying, disrespectful and forceful new characters that alienated me the whole way through the sequel games.
Now that I think about it, having the Locust come back makes everything you fought for in Gears 1-3 be in vain! The Coalition really dug themselves into a hole, making the Locust 2.0 into super soldiers able to adapt to anything
Preach man , gears needs that god of war reboot , or just spin offs
That Swarm never should have happened, and if it had to, it should have ended at Gears 4. The Swarm would never have been as effective if Kait never had to connect to the Berserker Matriarch and awaken Reyna.
I don't think that a sequel was a bad idea but they wasted the potential. I remember hearing an interesting theory before Gears 4 that the Swarm were creatures that lived underground BELOW the imulsion. And we never saw them in the previous games because, of course, they had no way to get through all the imulsion and pass it, so after the original trilogy ended with the Lambent, Locust, and Imulsion gone, they were able to expand outward.
But no, the one single thing no one wanted of the Locust just coming back happens.
@@Freelancer837 That's a pretty interesting theory and a lot better than them being Locust 2.0
Not to mention they couldn't come up with an original enemy so they literally resurrected the locusts and called them something different.
@@b0n3crasher8
Atleast he comes up with a legitimate point you are just here bitching 😂
Right? They’re trying so hard to be different but at the same time keeping original Gears elements to try and retain die hard fans
@@adolfgaming1761?? but he's right.
Literally the "you can use my homework but change it a bit" meme.
The problem with the newer Gears games stems from the main character, Kate. Every problem branches out from her.
OMG U AINT NEVA LIED
Idk JD's actually REALLY lame too.
It's literally just Kait. She's a terrible character
@@sovietonion2031 legit if kait wasn’t in Gears 5 jt would be a decent game
The problem with Kait is she's basically like a teenager with authority problems, which wouldn't be such a problem if she was a secondary or background character but no she's basically what the entire storyline of these new games is based around which is really BAD.
Btw I also hate how they just gave up on JD as a protagonist. Like they only used him on to get us on board, to then switch bait out on us.
I played gears 5 b4 any other gears then I played 1 to judgement recently.. I regret saving Del over JD.. Jd is Marcus Fenix fkn son.
@@walebanj8388 yep
@@walebanj8388 im glad you went back and played the OG GOWs. now welcome to the brotherhood gears you understand our pain
@@vermin9190the fact that they haven’t remaster the original trilogy is a shame. Granted it prob has something to do with Dom’s voice actor not wanting anything to do with the series, but still.
@@ghostflame9211Hm. Can they reuse the existing voices and update graphics and the game engine?
I'm surprised not many people have pointed out how this is exactly what happened to Star Wars with the sequels
It so obvious after u hear it lol
"The Locust never died." "Somehow Palpatine returned..."
Exactly
The same stuff that’s causing Hollywood’s downfall is happening across all of entertainment
Blown away that from a writing perspective, Kait is simply allowed to say and do as she pleases with no repercussions or consequences.
Every character stood around her just gives her the podium, and the story flows accordingly.
Mad.
Get Rod out.
Just like the poor writing in the new Star Wars sequel
then there was the god awful dialogue where she says "hey I'm glad you came" with Dell.
once you go woke you go broke and gears is woke now
They should have just court marshaled Kate, send her ass to prison Marcus style and let Clayton Carmine replace her
She's a mary-sue, they clearly think strong female character means annoying b!tch that nobody can say no to because tits and vag
Jeez I never realized how similar the Gears games are to the Star Wars Sequels.
- No Direction in story
- Annoying main characters that no one likes
- Main Characters are immature, don't take anything seriously and act like children
- "Strong Female Character"/ Mary Sue
- OG Characters getting pushed to the side
- Annoying Humour constantly being inserted
- Forgettable Soundtrack
- Weak Forgettable Villains
- Boring environments
- Feels like Fanfiction
- Not Memorable at all
I'm genuinely convinced that Movie makers/Game Devs watch goofy Loud=Funny clickbait RUclips videos and base they're script and writing off those videos.
Anthony Mendez
100% dear viewer, and the developers The Coalition are pretty much exactly the same as Lucasfilm.
its the way of entretainment right now. ITs not about making great stories, its about checking the boxes for political agendas. Being man baddddd! I cant stand marvel movies and their constant stupid jokes, same as starwars and as a huge fan of Gears of war games 4 and 5 are the only games ive never finished. even the multiplayer sucks
@@rafaelojeda2777 yup. Its about checking off the boxes to not get the SJWs upset
1:07 the dumb ass main character literally being the most annoying she can be ever
looks like entertainment to gen Z, and the today tiktok and instagram media for those people... i like gears 4 mechanics and history, it is relatable, but the new gears are clearly less aggressive in terms of military performance and more in a social way... wich is pretty impresive because they are at war and most of the time the old ones are carrying the plot and the new ones are like scolded childs... wich is pretty bad, but i enjoyed the 4th game, at least in latin spanish the voice actors are more normal than the english ones, but still feel like pretty bad management in history, i were playing gears ultimate and i had problems not with the story but finding some doors, and then i went to gears 3 (i do not have gears 2 right now) then i were playing and the story were pretty chaotic in a good way, but i wanted to her "in and out" in-game so i play gears 4, it were like i said, but the mechanics and the controller were pretty good polished, i think i end that game more because the gameplay is pretty good, more than the history, or the characters.
*Me after playing Gears 4:* "Well, they wanted to show us the new era. Explained Seras situation and had a shitty ending. Its the first new Gears from TC. They will be better in 5, it cant be worse, they have still Rod Ferguson!"
*Me after playing Gears 5:* " For the love of god. Just give us a Gears Of War 2 remaster and end this series. Its like looking a dog suffer to death. Just shoot it and end his suffering."
Loomis and Prescott would have had Kait shot immediately, hell Loomis would have done it himself the moment he heard she was commanding CAPTAIN JD.
Remember that Marcus Fenix was in prison because he disobeyed orders to try to save his father. Marcus Fenix was a famous war hero and they still put him in prison. So yes, Kait the grunt should be in prison or shot for going AWOL if the writers followed the logic of their universe.
@@EmergencyChannel Exactly it is absolutely ridiculous.
@@EmergencyChannel The COG are explicitly Fascist and have brutal disciplinary procedures. Summary execution would possibly be a little out of line without a trial first, but nobody is going to refuse a lawful order, lay hands on their CO, and get away with it. Given Kait's amazing dedication to not exhibiting military values and other conduct unbecoming, she'd be lucky if she got a reassignment to make big rocks into little rocks. Although Marcus and crew always seemed to me like the sort to try percussive maintenance before using official means.
The original Marcus would've given her the "unexpected chainsaw training" he threatened Ben Carmine with for that.
@@beanother1an690 i love this comment
Kait deserve to die in new hope surrounded by all the sires that Marcus and Dom let behind when te got out of the lab
I got bored in gears 4 and 5. 3 is still my favorite.
Gears is a trilogy!
3's levels turn in to nothing but horde modes and is a major turn off me
I like Gears 5 but the “this isn’t about you” line is so obviously awful and cringeworthy
I’ll be be honest with you. I truly believe everyone should be entitled to they’re own opinion and I hate myself for saying this to you but damn you... goddamn you for like this pathetic excuse of a Gears game.
I think people would not like it even if it was this way so they can't win some people love it some people hate it
You like that shit? Go and play that. You kind of gears fans just ruined my childhood. Thank you very much.
@@JinnYoungKim
Sounds like a Star Wars fan.
The zoomer or MCU-style humor doesn't help though.
Neither the deconstruction.
I hope Gears 2 Ultimate becomes a thing. I'd love to play it at 4K 60FPS with HDR and Ray tracing. That would be amazing.
Oh my god yes! My friend says Gears 2 is his favorite and while he and I have quite different personality types I think Gears 2 is my favorite as well. They should add more environmental desctrution to the Ultimate version. With Unreal Engine 5 coming out it can begin by the community I bet with permission from Epic. Just like how Unreal Tournment 4 was supposed to go.
Or Gears of War Fenix Edition. Gears 1 2 3 all at 4k 60fps or 1440 120
@@fishnutz5196 yeah because no one wants 4
That Maria scene in Gears 2 is already beautiful voiced and animated... but image with updated visuals. Oh man. I'll be crying in 4K
Unfortunately it won't... the Coalition seem more focused on squeezing more money out of fans by adding in random ass characters not related to the universe (like those three black WWE wrestlers)
Say what you will , Baird's story in judgement was 10x better than 4 and 5
I know im late, but most people actually like the judgement campaign. Everyones issue is the multiplayer.. with the exception of overrun
@@yourgrandmasjzexboyfriend tbf their mp was so good and different from a new company like it should
While I personally deeply enjoy Judgment is the weakest of the original games and it’s still WAY better than 4 and 5
Colonel Loomis would have fucking executed Kait within the first five minutes of having her under command 😂 probably wouldn’t even give her a military trial or anything
For me, Kate is easily the most unlikable character in all of video games, tv, movie, etc. She is so intolerable she’s the sole reason I stopped playing gears 5 after the second mission. At least in gears 4 she wasn’t shoved down my throat as “the main character”. I don’t use this word a lot but I actually HATE her with a passion.
Man, it's crazy how ALL your opinions on everything you talk about in these Gears videos mirror my opinions perfectly.
So you're both dull as rocks then.
kait is not a soldier she is a civillian attempting to convince she is a soldier but failing miserably
If it was actually a plot point that Kate was actually a civilians that picked up rifle and pretended to be a soldier due to having some personal stake in the conflict and we trying to not be found out, that might've actually been more interesting than what we got.
@@Wolfman7870 yeah that actually works
It hurts so bad to see JD have interesting development and as soon as it begins to get good watch him get shafted.
Litterally every extra gear's intro was better than Kait's Whiny Arc
Absolutely disagree about the old characters, they should have been left out of this whole thing entirely. The new games should have been set 250 years in the future so the devs would have no choice but to actually invest in writing good new characters, rather than banking on nostalgia to carry them.
Or not make a new gears of war Game and l leave it be with part 3 ending ! No point since locust and lambent are dead !
The Coalition needs to see this
Thay may not care
But what you wrote is true
I think Coalition did watch it...
There are 30 dislikes.
Yeah but they wouldn’t do anything with it the coalition’s main focus is to attract kiddies with bright colors and woke people with LGTB flag banners
@@adolfgaming1761 😂
this video is full of misinformation
The first 4 Gears of War games were "too masculine" for this era of SWJ crap. That's why they had that rude little girl as the main character in Gears 5.
It amazes me how people these days think being a child than an adult is what's going to save the world. That's why no one is acting like adult and why people deride the old works as "too Mature." They do not want to shoulder the burden of being a responsible adult.
I've never seen anyone say that, a female main character for gears isn't the problem, if it was someone like Sam or Anya we were playing it would be pretty good, it's the fact that it's kait who's written to be angsty and entitled
@@Geo-st4jv don’t forget Bernie would be a really good character
I'm very happy to see there's still gears of war fans who see the truth behind the new trilogy. Its a bastardized version of something truly special from my childhood. The music, characters, story, everything about it felt like it was made from passion instead of a cash grab made to milk old fans dry
Maaaann when I saw new day (aka new gay) in one of the gears commercials I felt like they just gave me the middle finger🤦🏾
Coalition need to fix all of this humor and stuff gets old really fast
GEARS 5 SUCKS
They ruin the theron guards armor again in multiplayer
agreed
How? (Never played the multiplyer on the original trilogy). And I like the Theron guard skin.
YESSSS I DID
It does not.
Looks great tf are you rambling about?
I've honestly been wondering myself, "why don't I like these new games?" I mean I love the older games, I grew up with them. Playing Gears in Elementary school with my dad and eventually my friends. We loved the gritty take on the Gears games, it was bloody, scary, and intriguing. But when Gears 4 came out I felt sort of empty when playing it, I couldn't nail what it was but I felt disinterested in the game. Gears 5 which I got last year I thought was slightly better than 4 but still couldn't nail what was missing. I wasn't pulled in by the new characters nor was I super excited to see where the story went. This franchise has dug itself in its own grave, they retconned plot points from the old games and left me unsatisfied with the new games. It really hurts to see this franchise kind of go down a weird path, this game was a huge part of my childhood. While most kids sat around playing Lego games and Minecraft, I played Gears along with those games. You nailed it with the full analysis, I really couldn't nail why I felt like I couldn't enjoy Gears games as much anymore. I didn't know if I was just getting older if the series was getting worse or I was moving on. You earned a sub for deep diving into this, I enjoyed the video.
I miss GOW3 multiplayer,the maps were amazing
Couldn’t have said it better myself! I actually had to force myself to complete the Gears 5 campaign. It was just so boring and the characters so unlikable I could only play it for like an hour at a time. It actually took me a week to finish the main campaign. With the original trilogy, I had to stop myself from playing the game too much so I could savor everything and rely enjoy the story.
Gears three was so good gears 4 was not
4 was definitely better than 5.
For me, the GOW series ended at 3.
They never made an actual sequel to it.
gears trilogy ended with judgment
@@bwahbid I should bitch slap you for acting like a grammar nazi. but I won't. Instead I'll type this out.
@@bwahbid personally I don’t give a shit whatever you wanna call it trilogy or quadrilogy the point is the series ended with judgment
@@bwahbid that's obvious, but so am I
bwahbid 369420 not trying to be an ass but nobody likes being corrected over the slightest shit when they already gotten their point across.
For all you people bitching about Judgment, I’ve played that game more than Gears 4 & 5 alone
The more I hear, the more I know I made the right call on not getting Gears 5. Hell, it’s on sale on Steam right now for $10. Even for just that little it holds no appeal.
Xbox game pass is better
Get the xbox game pass for $1 and try it out. That’s what I did
Antonio H waste of GBs
The entire OG trilogy is on Xbox One/Series X-S for twelve bucks each.
Bro kait pushing Marcus around like that is such horse shit
4th game was meh, 5th game is puke inducing garbage. I had to mute the game in "open world" sections in order to get through it. Colossal waste of time.
Kait is possibly one of the worst characters in modern gaming. Whoever wrote her dialogue and narrative effectively promoting her to the lead character in the last 2 games needs firing and kept away from Gears games forever.
Its the same with so many films and other cultural products. Kait is this grotesque caricature of what a strong female character is and you find so many such badly written characters everywhere.
Gamers actually like good female leads, often preferring them to the male equivalents, but any criticism of bad writing or storytelling featuring females is deflected and written off as sexist and misogynist.
I miss the GOW 2 main menu was my favorite besides the Cole Train Rap
When you spoke of the stakes in game I really agree, I just replayed the mission in Gears of War 2 when your on Dizzy’s rig. The stakes felt real as King Ravens were shot out of the sky and Rigs off the road, not to mention the characters talking over the radios about fallen comrades.
This is the problem with sequel trilogies. It’s hard to make the stakes as important as the previous trilogy.
Every time Kait says something it makes me vomit, what an awful way to write a character like geez. Also Jim as a leader is pathetic.
That’s why the only gears girls I like are from other games, they are actually likable and interesting
A week or so ago I was talking to a friend about playing Gears 2 with him. He was going off about how it was a bad game because it was old.
Later on, he said that he remembered that he actually played a Gears game a little while back, actually. And he said that a scene made him cry.
I was expecting something like Ben's death, or one of the scenes with Dom, but nope. He meant choosing between Del and JD in Gears 5.
Man got teared up over making a choice between Annoying and Unlikable. You can't make this stuff up.
We're gonna keep on getting games like Gears 5, because of 3 things.
-1: The devs have no respect or understanding about the franchise
-2: The devs don't care about what the playerbase says, they chalk that up to toxicity and entitlement. No, the devs only care about what the shills at places like IGN say.
-3: Players like my friend here. Players who have never experienced the original, so they have no point of reference for how bad the modern games are.
We're in a liminal time. There's a new generation of squeakers playing video games these days. They've never touched a 360 or a PS3. Heck, some of them probably haven't used a One or a PS4. These new players won't have the same experience we did. So a lot of these long-lived, older franchises either die out as their fans grow older, or they try to live with the times, and lose their identity.
Bro, like, also the setup for the Gears 5 choice. Like, Queen Reyna says nothing about making choices for anything. The game just outright says choose someone. Kait has the knife in her hand and coulda gone Thanos style aim for the head, but like no. I only chose JD 'cause the knife was in my right hand and he was on the right side of the screen. SMH.
Cramming women into roles for the reason of….. what? Why does every strong title start doing this?
Because woohoomen are being put in undeserved positions of power.
I got both 4 and 5 for free with gold and I still feel like I got scammed
Gears 5 is not a Gears of War, they removed the "of War" so it's a diffrent series
Why why why why are lead female characters always written this way (nowadays)
Because woohoomen with a feminist's understanding of strength write them. They're immature, its clear as day in everything they say, think, and make. They didn't have strong people growing up, so they only know what caricatures they've seen in media and around them, bad TV shows and abusive boyfriends their mum had growing up if their dad wasn't the example they had to follow. Its funny that they claim female empowerment, but their idea of strength is that of the quintessential weak, toxic male. Their characters don't act like woohoomen, they act like insecure men. They don't understand what strong femininity looks like, because their mothers were weak as well. All they know is anger, self centeredness, rudeness, and disrespect. Ironically, they show through their actions they don't think woohoomen can be strong. They spit on strong woohoomen and seek in every aspect to make themselves like men.
Woohoomen can be strong, men can be strong, but weak men and woohoomen will raise weak men and women and behave like weak men and woohoomen. Characters are a direct reflection of the authors skill and quite often a mirror into their own psyche.
But I'm just an armchair psychologist with 2 years of schooling.
as a massive halo fan, it pains me to see its brother franchise going through a similar problem. it seems like gears has lost, or at least confused its identity. it's like microsoft has a problem with destroying sacred franchises
I would not say it’s Microsoft trying to destroy these series on purpose more by accident they want to continue these stories. they know the games sell the problem is the studios they set up to continue these games 343 for Halo and Coalition for gears just have no clue what they’re doing and have basically none of the original people who made the games that these companies are being asked to continue. The end result 343 and coalition make ok at best and dumpster fire at worst games ( I like Halo 4’s story then Halo 5 was dumpster fire of a story, mp was fine though) and now both studios have to some how save their stories in game 6 and I doubt they could realistically pull it off
Halo Infinite is also trash
the coalition is trying to make there new blockbuster gears game, but what they forget is that there already exists an identity and people LOVE that identity. don’t fix something that isn’t broken
And the fact that this video will probably never get a thousand views shows how dead this franchise really is 😢
Don’t worry it has 2 thousand views, the series isn’t dead yet, just in the shadow of other games.
Look a the mexican youtubers. They ger 10k + views per video. Maybe Gears community is bigger in LATAM.
@@snipernan7448 it absolutely is. They keep gears alive. In America, I Kinda feel like gears is fading...
15,115 views now
Character development in the original gears trilogy was amazing each character was relatable, interesting and made difficult choices and followed orders through loss and sorrow in a dark and bleak war torn world the new gears games are way too goofy, over the top, cringe worthy, annoying and are just all idiots
It's Modern Writing.
Or the "MCU" humor effect.
The gameplay is pretty terrible too. The fact that EVERY enemy is a cookie cutter bullet sponge ruins horde and escape. Gears judgement for example did this really well. Even the cheap horde-like missions were fun because each enemy type served a purpose with more than just a big health bar to back them up
Gears of War 1-3: a beautiful movie
Gears 4-5: sounds like the fucken neighbors complaining about their personal lives.
Gears 4: JD, Del, Kait going through rebellious phase of puberty
Gears 5: Kait gets her first period and makes everyone else pay for it.
Gears 6: uh..uhhh.. Kait kills her mom because she dislikes her friends???
I’m seeing something GoW 1-3 perfect GoW 4-5 garbage. Halo 1-3 perfect Halo 4-5 garbage. Sniper Elite 1-3 perfect Sniper Elite 4 stale and boring. Something is up.
@@pyroide2212 that is strange. I think it’s just Game devs trying to incorporate too much about politics in games and just becoming to hipster or something along the lines of the trying to keep ups it’s changing times. Cuz times right now are way different then what they were last decade.
@@pyroide2212 The cause is people's gut health. Today people are more unhealthy than ever compared to 20 or even 10 years ago. Gut health affects the brain, and thus it effects creativity. It's a strange reason, but It's true.
The line, "This isn't about you! It's about me!", made me shut off my console without saving. I tried giving the new games a chance, but, WOW did they fuck it up...
No proper character development, every problem revolves around Kait, not the Locust, and they even turned the original cast in to cardboard characters, in the games AND the books >:/
The new book when Gears 4 came out, did NOTHING substantial for its new main cast. I don't even want to touch the books after that. The audiobooks suck, too.
when Marcus did that he got a life sentence and abandoned alone in a locust infested prison
When Gears 4 came out I kinda did like the campaign, had potential and I was interested. Gears 5 did very little, I learned nothing new and they added barley anything. All they did was say that Kait was related to Myraa which everyone already knew, Reyna is back, and the hammer of dawn is online. That’s it, I thing else. I don’t know how there isn’t more ratings calling it bad.
Because they deleted most reviews from day one to February of that following year. I did a day one rating giving critical feedback and not being a dick still got deleted. It was a 3/5 star rating. XBOX HAS A FAKE Gears 5 rating
@@xXClassicUserXx Exactly
Great point on graphics, I haven’t played the original gears in so long I almost forgot how gruesome it was. Gears 5 feels toyish as hell now that I look at it closely
Also, about the lack of adherance to the chain of command, said chain of command doesn't even work right in Gears.
In the US Army, a new soldier starts out as a Private and will stay one until about a year in service, in which they get promoted to Private First Class. A year after that, they get promoted to Specialist, the rank that MG guys and Grenadiers typically occupy, and a year after that, they get promoted to Corporal.
It isn't even a year after Gears 4, and yet Kait skipped what (if Epic based the COG's military off of ours) should have been THREE YEARS of service, and even then, she does NOT have the right to lead ANYONE.
And sure, Marcus got shot up a lot of ranks in Gears of War when Kim died, but that was specifically because Kim was killed and Marcus was the next best guy to take charge of Delta.
What should have happened in that god-awful "this isn't about you, it's about me!" scene was Marcus putting Kait in her place, then telling JD "And that's how you deal with insubordination, James."
Pitch:Clay Carmine could/should have a grudge against the fenix family, considering two of his brothers and his niece died under their leadership.
Benjamin and lizzie yep but when Anthony died minh was the commander at the time
@@JackalGoldKick true. But Marcus was present. Even when Lizzie died, evem though that was more JD. A man in grief needs a target, even if it doesnt exist, he'll make one
Here's the thing that's how war works and squads if they under their leadership u can't blame them
@@jujuthethird4602 But some people will blame others anyway, that is how human beings work. What you say is true, and would work as a resolution/catharsis. Stranded have no problem blaming the cog, and Hoffman in Gears 1 definitely had an issue with Fenix being let out.
This(carmine) is a particular case, and would work more on the grounds of its a video game and we have seen the family die firsthand. We never even see how Clay feels about losing Lizzie, nor do we see JD offer condolences.
Benjamin said he's glad Anthony died a heros death
To see jd the only character I personally liked just get shat on through out the game needlessly annoys me because givin the politics of the game jd is the only white guy on the team so yanno he must be bad and kait the women must he better and more important then anyone else
Yeah fuck the CCP AND FUCK THIS FEMINIST BULLSHIT
@@blackfacegaming191 lmao what
What? It has nothing to do with the fact he’s white. Plenty of white characters are shown as heroic in the sequel trilogy. Jesus is everything about race with you people?
@@dukes1993724 it really does and honestly I don't care about race but giving the shit they were saying yes it does has somthing to do with him but I aint gonna explain that to your dumb ass
@@dukes1993724 It actually does because in Gears of War 4 it was basically shown that JD was going to be the new face of the franchise, son of Marcus Fenix and it had the feel of a kind of passing of the torch from Marcus to him. In Gears 5 they decided like a lot of media today they wanted to prop up gender politics instead of telling a good story. So all game long JD is treated like a horrible person though nothing he does is all that bad, and when he returns in the 3rd act he goes around continuing to be a decent guy and apologizing to everyone while his "friends" keep looking down on him. Why? Because he is straight white guy, and in this era of modern media that's an unforgivable sin, so the game goes out of it's way to tear JD down whenever it can and tries (but fails) to prop up Kait as the new face of the franchise but she is childish, entitled, petulant, always seems angry even when people are being nice to her. Then there is Del who I liked a lot in Gears 4 but hated in Gears 5 because like JD he was meant to be the new Marcus, Del was the new Dom. Was anyway, that role gets scraped into turning him into an annoying, goofy, comic relief character who you can't take seriously for even a moment every time I started to like Del he would say or do something idiotic. Now Gears of War was never a brilliant storyline but it was one you could take seriously even if just as an action game. These games are like if someone tried to take the Marvel Cinematic Universe and Gears of War throw them in a blender then call it good. Those things do not mesh well at all. As they are two very different styles of entertainment trying to do very different things. God I am not holding out much hope for Gears 6.
I played this once and then put it down. On the other hand I've played GOW 1,2,3 countless times. What a shame. Shame on you gears.
Welp... when your more interested in making a statement then telling a good story
That what happens
VAST majority of the reason most people bought these newer games (that were long time GOW fans) was nostalgia alone, which quickly wore off when they actually played them
Just remember that Kait is wearing Anya's armour...
*Casually goes for headshots on Kait as to not damage the armor.
Talking about shafting classic characters. Dom... There are only 3 collectables and 1 Easter egg and 1 sighting. The Easter egg being in 4, collectables being in 4 and 5 and the sighting being at the start of 4. I hate how no one even mentions Dom in the game. For example the rift worm kait mentions Marcus, Cole and baird but not Dom... But let's not talk about dizzy, bernie, the classic onyx guard ect
SASxVEN0MZz
Indeed dear viewer, it's disrespectful.
@James Vaughan Marcus literally mentioned his dad when kait was around. I'm not asking Marcus, Cole and baird to constantly talk about him. I just want the characters to atleast mention him once.
@James Vaughan this you👉🤡
*When the fantasy world becomes a direct reflection of our world it ceases being a fantasy.*
Remember when kait was good? Yeah me neither
The biggest display of everything that is wrong with the writing is for me, Dom’s death, I literally had tears in my eyes, mostly due to the connection the writers were able to deliver
You can’t get that from something that is hollow
My biggest beef with Gears 5: the choice at the end. Like, why? Why give you the choice of who to save and who to let die? To be more, "ground-breaking?" To be more like Mass Effect, maybe? Is Gears 6 going to take into consideration the choice you made or are the writers going to take the lazy way out and make it so whomever they choose lives and dies and the rest of us just have to deal with knowing how we played Gears 5 was pointless?
They did it to make Gears 6 more replay-able. Play once seeing how it dies with JD dead, than another play through with Del dead.
Don’t scare me by suggesting that there will be a Gears 6.
The series ended with gears 3. Epic doesn’t work at making gears games anymore.
Gears 4 made me love JD. JD became one of my favorite characters after playing that games story, but I fucking HATED HOW 5 decided *Hey remember the guy you played as? Yeah let’s just throw him out like some fuckin side character after the prologue!*
anyone else feel like kait's arc died in the middle of gears 5 with the matrich, i think rather than JD turn bad it should have been Kait, she is related to Myrah after all, would've been cool to see one of the good guys go bad and see how all our favourite old characters and the new react to seeing someone they care for go bad ... maybe not a perfect plot but better than zombie reyna :/
great vid :)
@Josh Ochoa we can hope. But i feel it's too late for some of these plot beats to happen now. I really hope they do something with reyna cause right now she stands as a massive waste of a character, we really need a reason to get more invested in the swarm. Kinda feel the story is a but aimless at the moment, but i still hold hope for gears 6 :)
@Josh Ochoa would've loved a full game length raam shadow :) come to think of it the bit in gears 5 where kait takes control of some swarm forces was my favourite bit. Makes you wonder why they didn't bring beast mode back, they clearly have the means to do it. "Such wasted potential"
Gears judgement was underrated AF at least it still feels like classic gears of war
Plus it's not even bloody or violent compared to its superior Counterpart. Plus adding new gay from WWE lets me know how deep in the shit hole they dug themselves in
“Hope runs deep” was my fucking jam when I was a kid. 12 year old me put so much time into gears of war 2
The fact Kait bitches out marcus at 1:20 is sad af and ruined gears for me
Gears died after 3. i wouldn't touch 4 and 5 never even played them once , gears of war was pure dark and kinda horror badass Game
This what happens when women take control over video game development they literally make everything worse lol I’m so glad I switched over to ps4
Lets be honest the new cast would die in SECONDS to a lambent berserker. lmao.
It’s odd, but I feel like the gears games are written by the people who did the Star Wars sequel trilogy
Gears of War 2s Locust Theme with the vocal chanting is my favorite track from the franchise.
It's been 11 years since I last played Gears 2, and when you mentioned music, the menu theme played.
*That's memorable*
I prefer play the original GoW 1 than Ultimate
I think its fine playing the story, its not bad, but youre right the original had an aura to it like no other.
@@ZaMonolith1986 Yeah and not only that the attention to detail was incredibly dumbed down too in Ultimate as well, take a look at some dead bodies in both versions for example, the corpses in the original were rotting half decomposed skeletons while in Ultimate the body are all these generic body models dressed in red with 1 fourth of their head blown off. And that's just the tip of the iceberg too.
Gears of War was trying to be Gears of War.
Gears is trying to be the bright and colorful Disney-fied Marvel version
Modern.
Writers.
The bad kind.
Very bad.
😔
The humor in Gear 4-5 is akin to that of Mass Effect: Andromeda, its so bad and unneccessary
I Just wanted to Say that in gears of war judgment paduk said to baird you wanna stay friends let's don't see each other again and gears 5 Just ignore that
Glad I didn't waste my money. The gears I grew up on was fun, atence, scary, sad, joy, entertainment and a brother hood. I felt like I was actually in war fighting for freedom, safety and peace. Everything you said was 💯% on point, couldn't said it any better. I played Gears 4 and wasn't really feeling the storie like the other Gear games.
The amount of doors you gotta open in gears 5 is ridiculous
After jd messed up with the hammer of dawn at the start of gears 5 I was ready and excited to see him grow from it maybe turning from a friendly rebellious cluts into a Mature leader learning from his past mistake and understanding that this is a war and not a joke. Instead I got Kate 😐
Yeah a whole game about her mother if we listen to jd that whole story line of 4 and 5 would never happen
Damn I hope a coalition member views this video
Don't think they will. That would require them to give a damn about fans, and they don't even listen to them. The problem is, MS (and most of the gaming industry) and their devs don't talk to the fans + when they hear criticism, they just call you a racist or women-hating bastard. They will NEVER admit their mistakes and that they are more activists than games creators.
Things I hate about gears of war 5
1. Playing as Kait
2. Sam being offscreen
3. Open world.
4. The story.
Gears of War 2 THE BEST GEARS OF WAR EVER 💯 factual statement no debate need it
Gears 5 is a disgrace to the Gears name.
You what’s idiotic somehow now these kids can run and climb with heavy weapon sets like mulchers and not slow down while also being being able to aim like grinders
In gears 2 where this weapon was introduced Marcus and co could not dash they had to set weapon down to fine aim same with gears 3 yet here they can run with it climb with it and aim likes grinder da fuck
Stupid choice they made was making the player choose which player to keep and which one to die. Completely ruined the franchise
Dude, thank you for this video. It perfectly, PERFECTLY summarises the core issue with what seemingly feels like every damn single franchise now beyond their third entry. Thanks for also not shying away from the elephant in the room in regards to Gears 5; that being the obvious inclusion of feminism and diversity. The Gears of War series has predominantly always focused on the Fenix bloodline. I knew we were in for a shocker when the trailer showed Kait as the main lead. She was a second rate, cardboard character who amounted to jack shit in her debut title, and now they want me to blow smoke up her ass? The Coalition can get screwed man. Long live the real Epic trilogy.
I could spend an hour breaking them all down.
Okay... do that 😁
You sir deserve a medal,gears 4 and 5 are simply soulless.
Coalition pretty much hijacked the GoW title and made it their own game from the base. Imagine if EPIC made 4 and 5. That story would have been so ridiculous.
Gears 4 and 5 are a complete waste of human resources.
I hate gears 5 especially the ending 🤦🏾♂️
Went to shit after they pushed Cliff out the back. Sometimes it's best to end things as a trilogy
Goddam Gears 5 made me reeeeaallly hate Kates character. If she’s the lead in Gears 6, the game will be DOA💀
Perfectly said brother. You took the words out of my mouth