That first game had a serious horror aspect to it that was missing in all subsequent games. I loved 2 but it didn't have the same vibe, and 3 really leaned hard into the generic action game feel even if I loved it too
It kinda sucks that the Locust race was retconned to being a genetic cross between human and Imulsion. The idea that they were some indigenous, ever present but silent force that waited for humanity to destroy themselves *before* their Emergence Day was one of the best aspects of the original trilogy
@@batonrougerp7423 not really? It almost entirely contradicts it's because the Horde was always kidnapping people to turn into new Locust. But, they needed to be kidnapped children already anyway; and why would they need more soldiers if they could have just kept reusing the Sires? Again, it's more convoluted than it needs to be. And the idea of many theories as to what the Locust are, but no concrete answer is better than a convoluted one. Mystery over bloated reasoning.
For free? Bro you're treating us too much man! A few minutes in and I can tell there is a lot of effort and time put into this. Keep being awesome man! 👌 💙
The remastered version of the berserker killing that cog soldier has always been the most gut wrenching death I've ever seen and heard in a video game. Reason?, the screams the get cut off as he's being pulled apart. This has literally been the only time I'm on the verge of throwing up from a video game death
They aren't. The Locust are like bees. Many different types, with vast physical differences with different jobs, but they are all bees. There are no "races" of Locust. They are all Locust.
I absolutely LOVE how at the berserker part Dom was on the ground bleeding out. That was hilarious to me because the exact same thing happens to me EVERY time I play gears 1. He is so useless at that part and in the final boss fight. The AI in gears 1 is just awful at sone points
When I fight the Gears 1 berserkers, it's as much a fight against them as it is their attention span. I swear, it was like Dom was actively trying to distract them so they wouldn't charge where I needed them to!
If you look close enough, you can see the Savage Hunters are wearing a beasts jaw over theirs. Given what’s known about Locust, it could be to further intimidate their targets when they’ve caught up with them. Or just to look amazing
This was a great video. I'm a total nerd for things like sci-fi or video game lore, which is why I hav this compulsion to collect anything that tells lore or history for a game like skyrim especially. I loved that it had actual books you could read with great stories and lore, I try to collect one of every book whenever I start a new character, even to the point I build a library on my house, even tho it means I can't hav an alchemy lab or other useful building in its place.
I miss the horror feel of GoW 1, though thankfully 5 brought some of it back. I still have a clip from day one of my exploration of the creepy daycare basement. I even caught a ghost face in one of the door windows, gave me a right scare too.
Exactly, Gears 1 had a real horror element that sadly fell off with Gears 2 and totally died in Gears 3. I recall when Gears 2 came out I was kinda off put by the more generic vibe, and 3 just made it worse but I still loved those games
we are getting a E-Day game I don’t think we will see anything new but probably more primitive and first gen armor and ranks of the Locust. either way we Gearheads are eating good yet again
Me and my brother LOVED playing GOW and we played every game until 4 (we don't have Xbox nor really plan to) and to be honest, from what I have seen/read/heard I thought the new GOW I feared that it was dying out. But seeing your videos made me relive all the moments of me and my brother playing and I just wanna thank you for reigniting the GOW fanbase once more
Thanks man, I love to hear that! Those were the days!! Gears is so amazing, it’s a special franchise and I’m glad I can help keep the gears turning on RUclips!
New gow is on PC it best to own PC now then console because like you said you don't own the new Xbox with PC it can last forever you just need to replace parts to upgrade if you want better performance
I’m pretty sure the large fangs of the savage hunter is actually a part of an animals skull they made into protective head gear. You can see their real mouth inside the helmets mouth. Idk why it’s red in color though.
What's crazy is how Nile convinced the chairman is he was creating a new Army while in private a new race to take Humanities place he calls it the cleansing multiple times
I love the gears of war universe because they fought a pointless war over a resource that they’d have to destroy to save themselves it honestly parallels real life
I may be mistaken, but myrrah wasn't bred. Niles used her cells and the sires cells. They were infertile remember? Also its not just more humane, but much faster to grow a subject in a tube. Myrrah was in no way bred lmao
@@KEVERIANC also very slow and not efficient to produce the gears franchise as either she would die due to the stress her body was under in the pregnancy OR they come out ripping and tearing thus also ending her. Don't worry - it didn't happen and niles even sugested that that was on ethical and moral bridge he didn't nor could burn. Seems he had A standard
Don't know why but at 1:25:50 when u said my name my heart sank lol it took a while for me to finish the video because I would rewind to make sure I didn't miss anything and amazing job abz
this was really fun to watch man, i played gears 1-3 but none of the other games, but i've always loved gears story and characters and lore. i really hope to see more gears game in the future
All the locust units and creatures ever presented within the locust horde that you get the face, I really like the boomers and they're various ranks and roles. If I had to pick a variant, I would definitely go for the butcher do the fact that the butcher is a chef and I wonder what locust cooking is like besides just rock worms.
I never hated the game just stopped playing it but after watching you for a while I replayed all of them and watched almost all your vids for it lmaoo I love this game gears of war 5 is super fun too been ranking up and playing when I can I love the series
Absolute fantastic video man, I love seeing people still post these games. Again I loved the video. And I hope your as excited for the new Gears e day game as I am❤
By the way I am not sure how old Raam was, Sraak was one of the oldest Locust Drone, could be what we saw Average Drones are just kids. and Raam was Fully matured?
Ik this has nothing to do with the video but I'm trying to beat GOW1 Ultimate Edition on hardcore difficulty and I cant seem to get past General RAAM he shreds my health lol, do you got any advice? Thanks
Sorry if this is a dumb question what gears were you playing as the locus in the background? Also what is your opinion on beast mode from gears 3? I loved it but it never came back :(
To an extent you can understand why Meyra (dont know if I spelled it right) wanted to destroy humanity not condoning it but understand enough to see why
So im confused, i thought niles in gears 5 said myrrah wasnt bred with the sires but had her stem cells used to create the locust. Did i miss something in that?
I know im late to the party lol but I beleive the cleaver Theron took over the cooking and butchering since the butcher disappeared as well as the mualer
New sub for u big bro good info I'm a OG gear head lol I remember when it first came out when I played it I knew it was gonna take off but I'm not a big fan of their newest ones but it's fine
Ooo I need to take notes for my Fallout RP creating new species would make my RP more unique. As of making this comment I have finished the Gears trilogy in a few weeks.
Headcannon for butcher Theron is maybe it’s a rite of passage to show courage and to earn the right to be a full on Theron and to get all its privileges ie weapons breeding rights and status
Not sure if it’s just me but is this a different version of gears 3? I’ve never seen that game mode where you’re able to play as the grinder and all, or is that vs bots? Also it looks real crisp too, is that like an HD mod or something?
It’s a gears of war 3 pc build that I downloaded thanks to members in the Gears PC discord. I used commands to spawn in as the Grinder for instance on a regular game mode
A movie or show is just being called by this universe even though it’d be very hard to do. I’d think someone like Blizzards animation team would be the best for doing the visuals not story obviously or Neil blomkamp someone who can do sci fi with a twist and lots of gore just hope if something does it get made it’s not cheap feeling which is most likely will be
Timestamps for Lore Movie:
0:00 Start
0:51 Sires
3:03 Locust Drones
6:10 Berserkers
15:25 Locust Drone Subclasses and Variations
32:35 Locust Ragers
36:16 Grenadiers & Hunters (Drone Species)
48:03 Therons (Drone Species)
58:00 Locust Kantus
1:07:08 Locust Boomers
1:21:20 Scions
1:25:34 Conclusion
Is there a female kactus
😅
Cool
Imma say it...sires can go kill themselves now!
They should kill themselves now!
They're live is worth nothing
Where the wretches
YO A GEARS TUBER IN 2022?! FOR REAL? I have mad respect for you keeping this franchise alive via your channel.
I appreciate that, thank you!
@@KingAbzTV We appreciate it too man
Ain’t gonna get no respect from me… not like this is a rare game or anything….
@@macysondheim Why did you have to comment if you can't say anything supportive?
@@cajunfries6955 People always feel the urge to say something, negative or positive. It's up to you to give them the attention they want.
Bro as a kid I was terrified of the berserker mission especially with the cutscene. Man do I miss the old times
I was 10 and I was so scared too!
It was my dad who played but damn ..
I never finished Gears 1 because I kept failing that mission but now years later I beat the trilogy
That first game had a serious horror aspect to it that was missing in all subsequent games. I loved 2 but it didn't have the same vibe, and 3 really leaned hard into the generic action game feel even if I loved it too
I was against the Berserker yesterday bro. Forgot all about it and got scared lmao
@@dottietyre9062lol honestly speaking bro how did you feel about that?
It kinda sucks that the Locust race was retconned to being a genetic cross between human and Imulsion. The idea that they were some indigenous, ever present but silent force that waited for humanity to destroy themselves *before* their Emergence Day was one of the best aspects of the original trilogy
So basically mole people attacking the surface world but yeah wish they are just other species of humanoids instead of spices DNA humans
@@batonrougerp7423 not really? It almost entirely contradicts it's because the Horde was always kidnapping people to turn into new Locust. But, they needed to be kidnapped children already anyway; and why would they need more soldiers if they could have just kept reusing the Sires?
Again, it's more convoluted than it needs to be. And the idea of many theories as to what the Locust are, but no concrete answer is better than a convoluted one.
Mystery over bloated reasoning.
I didn’t mind it.
The locust were referenced to be a human creation in gears 2
That wasn't a thing though, ever since Gears 2 they have been semi human mutants
For free? Bro you're treating us too much man! A few minutes in and I can tell there is a lot of effort and time put into this. Keep being awesome man! 👌 💙
Thank you bro really appreciate that my friend!
The remastered version of the berserker killing that cog soldier has always been the most gut wrenching death I've ever seen and heard in a video game. Reason?, the screams the get cut off as he's being pulled apart. This has literally been the only time I'm on the verge of throwing up from a video game death
57:55 I love the theory that the locust Theron's are older drones which explains the whisper in their voice
They aren't. The Locust are like bees. Many different types, with vast physical differences with different jobs, but they are all bees. There are no "races" of Locust. They are all Locust.
Kantus are drones too?
@@Nolongerhereanymoreno there kantus
@@bigguy7353bro you know what he means by races another word would be type cmon dont get so technical
Gears of War was such a good game. It was the reason why I wanted a 360 - that and Lost Planet. I miss those middle school days. ❤
Lost planet fucked
Yooo lost planet was awesome
Hey! Are we lost twins? 😂 It's the same for me!
I absolutely LOVE how at the berserker part Dom was on the ground bleeding out. That was hilarious to me because the exact same thing happens to me EVERY time I play gears 1. He is so useless at that part and in the final boss fight. The AI in gears 1 is just awful at sone points
When I fight the Gears 1 berserkers, it's as much a fight against them as it is their attention span. I swear, it was like Dom was actively trying to distract them so they wouldn't charge where I needed them to!
Use the squad commands.
@@danielgoertz8962 Use the squad commands.
If you look close enough, you can see the Savage Hunters are wearing a beasts jaw over theirs. Given what’s known about Locust, it could be to further intimidate their targets when they’ve caught up with them. Or just to look amazing
This was a great video. I'm a total nerd for things like sci-fi or video game lore, which is why I hav this compulsion to collect anything that tells lore or history for a game like skyrim especially. I loved that it had actual books you could read with great stories and lore, I try to collect one of every book whenever I start a new character, even to the point I build a library on my house, even tho it means I can't hav an alchemy lab or other useful building in its place.
Thats really awesome to hear! Glad you enjoyed the video, I'll be creating many more great lore vids!
I miss the horror feel of GoW 1, though thankfully 5 brought some of it back. I still have a clip from day one of my exploration of the creepy daycare basement. I even caught a ghost face in one of the door windows, gave me a right scare too.
Exactly, Gears 1 had a real horror element that sadly fell off with Gears 2 and totally died in Gears 3. I recall when Gears 2 came out I was kinda off put by the more generic vibe, and 3 just made it worse but I still loved those games
Bro, all I can say is thank you for keeping my childhood alive! UR A REAL 1!!!
Legend Sam bro thanks, always love Gears!
we are getting a E-Day game I don’t think we will see anything new but probably more primitive and first gen armor and ranks of the Locust.
either way we Gearheads are eating good yet again
I like to think that Ragers are Grenadiers who have the recessive trait that allows them to metamorphose into deadly close-range soldiers.
Me and my brother LOVED playing GOW and we played every game until 4 (we don't have Xbox nor really plan to) and to be honest, from what I have seen/read/heard I thought the new GOW I feared that it was dying out. But seeing your videos made me relive all the moments of me and my brother playing and I just wanna thank you for reigniting the GOW fanbase once more
Thanks man, I love to hear that! Those were the days!! Gears is so amazing, it’s a special franchise and I’m glad I can help keep the gears turning on RUclips!
New gow is on PC it best to own PC now then console because like you said you don't own the new Xbox with PC it can last forever you just need to replace parts to upgrade if you want better performance
So Sraak was taller than the beserkers ?? Wow
Gears Of War is one of my favorite games I love getting to know every locust variation and other things like Kantus Boomer ect
I’m pretty sure the large fangs of the savage hunter is actually a part of an animals skull they made into protective head gear. You can see their real mouth inside the helmets mouth. Idk why it’s red in color though.
I always assumed the grinders were somewhat intelligent since they use more advanced tactics and seem to have some sort of leader role.
This guy talks about boltok drones being super skilled with a boltok pistol meanwhile they're my main victims whenever I loose my favorite 6 shooter
What's crazy is how Nile convinced the chairman is he was creating a new Army while in private a new race to take Humanities place he calls it the cleansing multiple times
I love the gears of war universe because they fought a pointless war over a resource that they’d have to destroy to save themselves it honestly parallels real life
I may be mistaken, but myrrah wasn't bred.
Niles used her cells and the sires cells.
They were infertile remember?
Also its not just more humane, but much faster to grow a subject in a tube. Myrrah was in no way bred lmao
That would be effed up if that were true
@@KEVERIANC also very slow and not efficient to produce the gears franchise as either she would die due to the stress her body was under in the pregnancy OR they come out ripping and tearing thus also ending her.
Don't worry - it didn't happen and niles even sugested that that was on ethical and moral bridge he didn't nor could burn.
Seems he had A standard
She wasnt bread she was human
@@Lemontarts01 Yeah because that’s so much worse than children being experimented on lmfao
@@codyjackson1875…it is. Imagine being a little girl getting raped by a sire. Don’t know about you but I’ll take the experiments.
Don't know why but at 1:25:50 when u said my name my heart sank lol it took a while for me to finish the video because I would rewind to make sure I didn't miss anything and amazing job abz
No worries man, every little helps to support me and the channel! Thank you bro as always 💙
@@KingAbzTV np
Locust Driver are crazy
Fun fact: locust drones have 2 hearts
Can't wait till they make a rts game of gears like halo wars or c&c be awsome
this was really fun to watch man, i played gears 1-3 but none of the other games, but i've always loved gears story and characters and lore. i really hope to see more gears game in the future
Thank you glad you enjoyed the video!
All the locust units and creatures ever presented within the locust horde that you get the face, I really like the boomers and they're various ranks and roles. If I had to pick a variant, I would definitely go for the butcher do the fact that the butcher is a chef and I wonder what locust cooking is like besides just rock worms.
The smiley face in the middle of the savage Theron’s armor will never not make me laugh lol😂
I never hated the game just stopped playing it but after watching you for a while I replayed all of them and watched almost all your vids for it lmaoo I love this game gears of war 5 is super fun too been ranking up and playing when I can I love the series
I was listening to it and didn't watch most of it, so i thought it was called emotion instead of imulsion from the way you said it.
I really wish I would've gotten the notification because it would've helped me with the 6 hour drive back from vacation
no bother bro, you stopping by and watching the vids means a lot !
Gonna need popcorn for this video!
Ya but it sucks when the cernals get stuck in your teeth or do it only happen to me
Absolute fantastic video man, I love seeing people still post these games. Again I loved the video. And I hope your as excited for the new Gears e day game as I am❤
Great vid bro, gears lore is amazing
Thank you bro :)
By the way I am not sure how old Raam was, Sraak was one of the oldest Locust Drone, could be what we saw Average Drones are just kids. and Raam was Fully matured?
Greeeaaat video man!!! Love the Gears lore!!
Thank you!!
7:10 will always be funny to me no matter how old this franchise gets
Love these long lore videos, man.
This C.O.G Gear's name was Gyules. 7:13 - 7:14.
When were ragers introduced?
I watch this whole thing to lean about the locust and to get ready for Gears of war E-day
I stopped at gears 3 not by choice just life but man I used to love gnasher battles love gears so want a movie
Wow I didn’t know Raam was the same height as the berserkers 😯
This deserves more likes
Ik this has nothing to do with the video but I'm trying to beat GOW1 Ultimate Edition on hardcore difficulty and I cant seem to get past General RAAM he shreds my health lol, do you got any advice? Thanks
Use a torque bow to kill the kryll then pop him with the longshot in the head!
I would use a torgue bow then spam grenades and just a few longshot headshots
Two grenades and then spam torgue bow
Love these videos dude
Thanks man I’m glad you’re enjoying them!
You should cover the same type of things you did on this video but for the swarm next
Sorry if this is a dumb question what gears were you playing as the locus in the background? Also what is your opinion on beast mode from gears 3? I loved it but it never came back :(
To an extent you can understand why Meyra (dont know if I spelled it right) wanted to destroy humanity not condoning it but understand enough to see why
It’s Myrrah, just an fyi
So im confused, i thought niles in gears 5 said myrrah wasnt bred with the sires but had her stem cells used to create the locust. Did i miss something in that?
I know im late to the party lol but I beleive the cleaver Theron took over the cooking and butchering since the butcher disappeared as well as the mualer
Love the gears content 💜
I must have been out of the gears game for too long as I didn’t even know there was a lancer without the chainsaw lol
The ultimate podcast
Always nice to see a geartuber keeping it alive
Big up the locus massive! Always llayed them as my preferred race in multilayer. Also felt for them.
New sub for u big bro good info I'm a OG gear head lol I remember when it first came out when I played it I knew it was gonna take off but I'm not a big fan of their newest ones but it's fine
The Locust are so freaking cool man...... 👀
Abz Your The Best At Making Vids
Thank you bro that means a lot 💙
The Savage Drone looks badass
Awesome ❤
What’s the name of your intro song, it’s hype af!!! Great video btw keep up the awesome work!!!!!
It’s the attack on Titan betrayal remix! Amazing show btw if you haven’t watched it!
& thanks my friend!!
I’ve probably played gears 1 thru judgement a couple hundred times and I always went for a head shot on druges.
Juicy Lore Video , hawt ^^
I never knew the berserkers were females
so the Matriarch was bred from Myrrah right? wouldn't that make it Kate's genetic aunt? since the Matriarch and Reyna are the children of Myrrah???
All these years later, the Sires were the only video game enemy that actually gave me a nightmare.
that berserker scared the shit out of me when I was a kid
Yo what's that intro song called man? That beat goes hard! Great Video man!
That makes me wonder if the Ragers are all Locust genetic work as well
Could you do one on cpomaring the Locust to the Swarm and Lambent??
Which locust is the most annoying for you guys ????
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I thought I saw a comic or something or maybe I just assumed this specific Berserkers came out of a cave saw this train ran and jumped on it 8:34.
Notice the Matriarch has longer spikes on the top part of it's back 12:15.
Or female breed of the Locust horde 12:29 - 12:30.
Pulling up to see general RAAM is terrifying.
Was that gameplay from a modding gamemode? It looked like you were playing as beast mode characters in standard multiplayer.
It's the gears of war 3 jacinto build, a special PC build that was initially used by devs for testing and debugging.
Ooo I need to take notes for my Fallout RP creating new species would make my RP more unique. As of making this comment I have finished the Gears trilogy in a few weeks.
I miss the old rager. They were like mini berserkers
what game mode he playin on which gow for the game footage
Theorie maybe ketor droak was the scarred kantus unless droak died pre emergence
Headcannon for butcher Theron is maybe it’s a rite of passage to show courage and to earn the right to be a full on Theron and to get all its privileges ie weapons breeding rights and status
I just wish Gears was a big game again bro 😭
Maaaan who was mating with the bezerkers though
Not sure if it’s just me but is this a different version of gears 3? I’ve never seen that game mode where you’re able to play as the grinder and all, or is that vs bots? Also it looks real crisp too, is that like an HD mod or something?
It’s a gears of war 3 pc build that I downloaded thanks to members in the Gears PC discord. I used commands to spawn in as the Grinder for instance on a regular game mode
Locust Sniper drippy fr🥶
I never knew gunkers were just immulsion infused butchers. 🤔
I love the tack on Titan music that starts
Yo according to you between the locust Granadier and swarm Granadier who is stronger
A movie or show is just being called by this universe even though it’d be very hard to do. I’d think someone like Blizzards animation team would be the best for doing the visuals not story obviously or Neil blomkamp someone who can do sci fi with a twist and lots of gore just hope if something does it get made it’s not cheap feeling which is most likely will be
58:02 Woah, Halo reference there
Who else is immune to a Carmines death
Awesome
Halo vs gears of War unsc vs cog which military is better
Different topic
Why don't we see the antigravity and cloaking tec of Jack on other gear and vehicles?
What about the shriekers😢😢
They should be in my hollow creatures lore movie!
What about speakers
Don't know why I didn't get a notification for this? WTF
:((