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[GooseMan69]

What happened? The first game was mind blowing at the time. There was nothing like it. Despite two successful sequels, the series stagnated after. It lost its identity. 4 and 5 were basically high budget gamepass fodder.

Is a God of War esque resurgence even feasible at this point? Memes aside, was Cliffy B actually holding this franchise up on his back?

 

[Airbus Jr]

It lost its identity. 4 and 5 were basically high budget gamepass fodder.

Is a God of War esque resurgence even feasible at this point?

Sory im confused

First you said that it lost its identity despite 4 and 5 are keeping the same thing and gameplay are esentially the same from the previous 3 game?

How can it lost its identity when they re not changed much?

And then youre demanding a radical changes ?

 

[Banjo64]

Will it ever return to the relevancy it once had? Obviously not. What happened? Epic made a fantastic trilogy and that should have been that. The only Gears I would ‘support’ moving forward would be if they made a MP only F2P title.

 

[hello505]

Make it dark and gritty like the first one.

 

[Bernd Lauert]

Seeing all the recent threads about it on GAF, it looks like it's still pretty relevant

 

[SmokedMeat]

Lotta Gears talk as of late.

The series a major redo.

 

[Ben87fr]

I believe one of the problems with 4 and 5 are the new characters, i just don't like them, give me Marcus/Dom and Cole and Baird

 

[Black_Stride]

The last Gears game was a while ago and we are still talking about it today.
It must still be relevant.

The Coalitions are magincians with that engine, and their branch usually has features that Epic ends up making taking and putting into the main branch.
So you can just imagine what kind of advancements they have made with Unreal Engine 5, which is already a powerhouse like engine.




Its an easy game to shit on because people who dont play it think Gears 1 - 6 play exactly the same.
I do full runs pretty much every year, and you can feel the evolution from Gears 3 to 4.
Gears 5 soo good to play.


Gears is one of those games that has a very low skill floor.....then an astronomically high skill ceiling, so playing it in passing youll say well this is easy and basic, then you face real competition and you are like these guys arent playing the same game are they?

I dont consider myself high tier, but atleast well above average.
And even in Horde mode youll see how far apart the floor and the ceiling are, youll have teammates who are literally just duck, shoot, move, duck, shoot.......then they are shocked they got zero kills from rounds 1 through 20.
Then youll have a guy on the team the round just started and half the wave is gone.
How did you even get to that side of the map that quickly?


The wall is only there for you to bounce off, and/or to take a quick.....and I mean quick breather.....its not your house.

 

[OmegaSupreme]

Seeing all the recent threads about it on GAF, it looks like it's still pretty relevant

We are nostalgic for the good games. Sue us. To answer the op. No. Not under the current developer. They make pretty games but that's it.

 

[Flutta]

 

[StealthGoblin]

It’s big draw was it’s MP and there are other games that do it better. So no.

 

[RoboFu]

It’s all in marketing, gears 5 was a fantastic game. Easily better than most AAA shooters last gen. They just needed to show that it was great instead of just saying “ gears 5! “

 

[TheGodfather07]

probably not. maybe they can make a game thats better but it will never be as popular as it once was. the multiplayer audience that halo and gears once dominated has long moved on from those games.

 

[Belthazar]

Is a God of War esque resurgence even feasible at this point? Memes aside, was Cliffy B actually holding this franchise up on his back?

It would've needed to be a God of War tier franchise in the first place, which it never was.

 

[SJRB]

Peak dudebro-era franchise, a genre of a bygone era.

 

[Chukhopops]

What’s with all the Gears threads lately?

Personally I don’t care much for the story but the series is relevant to me for its MP, both 4 and 5 were great experiences.

There’s something unique about how those games play and control compared to other shooters which I really enjoy.

 

[Leyasu]

The question should really be:

Will GAF ever return to relevancy whilst console war threads are allowed to thrive and fester?

 

[GametimeUK]

I still love Gears. 4, 5 and Hivebusters were crazy good and I had a great time playing them. They were such a visual treat too on both console and PC. Gears is still massively relevant to me.

Will it be as relevant to the mainstream audience as it once was back then? Probably not, but I don't really care either. If I get new games I'm the series and I enjoy them that's all that matters to me.

 

[JackSparr0w]

Will it ever return to the relevancy it once had? Obviously not. What happened? Epic made a fantastic trilogy and that should have been that. The only Gears I would ‘support’ moving forward would be if they made a MP only F2P title.

Kindly piss off mate.

 

[Banjo64]

Kindly piss off mate.

Why man? The multiplayer has always been the main selling point and it’s not like 5 wasn’t riddled with MTX anyway. Get it F2P with a 5 year road map and maybe the game wouldn’t have 100 concurrent users 3 years after launch.

 

[hello505]

Why man? The multiplayer has always been the main selling point and it’s not like 5 wasn’t riddled with MTX anyway. Get it F2P with a 5 year road map and maybe the game wouldn’t have 100 concurrent users 3 years after launch.

That's like BS, I play Gears 5 MP daily and there's like 10,000-15,000 players on console. Not 100.

 

[JackSparr0w]

Why man? The multiplayer has always been the main selling point and it’s not like 5 wasn’t riddled with MTX anyway. Get it F2P with a 5 year road map and maybe the game wouldn’t have 100 concurrent users 3 years after launch.

Because I've never played a Gears campaign that I didn't enjoy. Every non battle royale multiplayer shooter is suffering playerbase wise and I don't think Gears could change that.

 

[Banjo64]

That's like BS, I play Gears 5 MP daily and there's like 10,000-15,000 players on console. Not 100.

That’s absolute bollocks 15k

There’s 140 players playing it on Steam right now.

I’d love to see the hard numbers for Xbox as Gears 5 isn’t in the top 50 games played in the UK and is behind some really average games.

 

[Banjo64]

Because I've never played a Gears campaign that I didn't enjoy. Every non battle royale multiplayer shooter is suffering playerbase wise and I don't think Gears could change that.

Probably true to some extent but Overwatch, Destiny 2 and Six Siege continue to have healthy player bases.

 

[Ass of Can Whooping]

Turn it into a proper GaaS and drop the campaign.

 

[JohnnyFootball]

I don't see any of the MS games regaining what they once were. That's on MS. Halo MCC was a disaster. Halo 5 was unremarkable and Halo Infinite was a huge money sink that could never keep an audience.

Gears 4 and 5 were pretty solid games IMO.

 

[Sosokrates]

Seeing all the recent threads about it on GAF, it looks like it's still pretty relevant

Yeah lol.

H hello505 is not even trying to hide it now.

 

[adamsapple]

Gears 4, 5 and Hivebusters is a fantastic trilogy.

I don't agree with OP at all

 

[mxbison]

Only if they do a complete overhaul of the combat mechanics. The same old sitting behind a cover wall mowing down bullet sponge enemies until the wave is over and the music stops and repeat, just doesn't do it anymore.

 

[hello505]

Yeah lol.

H hello505 is not even trying to hide it now.

Don't ever @ me boy.

 

[Kiya's Guard]

To when xbox only had gears and halo, and many players were discovering shooters? Don't think so. I'm still waiting for 2, 3 snd judgement to be brought to pc, Microsoft

 

[Sosokrates]

Don't ever @ me boy.

Then dont spam

 

[rofif]

Sory im confused

First you said that it lost its identity despite 4 and 5 are keeping the same thing and gameplay are esentially the same from the previous 3 game?

How can it lost its identity when they re not changed much?

And then youre demanding a radical changes ?

you don't know these games well enough if YOu dont see 4 and 5 as lost identity.
These are no longer the same games as trilogy. It is completely different.
Would be better if they gow 2018 it

 

[STARSBarry]

I think it still has its fanbase, but I don't think it will be as mainstream as it was with the original trilogy. It seems the gameing landscape has moved on, I still have my golden lancer in my parents loft from the midnight launch of gears 2, it just dousent have that draw anymore.

But these days it's battle royales and CoD or CoD battle Royale that are discussed in the office, not Gears.

 

[LazyParrot]

Seeing all the recent threads about it on GAF, it looks like it's still pretty relevant

I'm not sure to what extent GAF could be considered a reliable indicator of what's relevant among gamers as a whole. This place is utterly obsessed with shit 99% of people simply don't care about, whether it's minuscule differences in frame rate or the politics of female NPC hair length.

 

[Riky]

Gears 5 had the best multiplayer of the series, so it's in good hands and that's the mode that people play the longest.
Add on UE5 and it's going to be incredible with such a talented studio.

 

[AJUMP23]

Gears is still a good series. I think the last one had some impact when it released.

 

[TrueLegend]

I wanna see fable and other ips in forefront... Ratchet and Clank wasn't a forefront game. But Insomniac took it to that level. A lot of people are tired of hearing gears and halo because it's going on for 15 years....like enough is enough dude. You have other IPs too in the deep freezer.

 

[Dibils2k]

Only if they do a complete overhaul of the combat mechanics. The same old sitting behind a cover wall mowing down bullet sponge enemies until the wave is over and the music stops and repeat, just doesn't do it anymore.

the issue they have is MP, they cant make drastic gameplay changes, its always very popular (and has microtransaction) and so they cant alienate those people in hope of bringing new single player players

 

[Airbus Jr]

you don't know these games well enough if YOu dont see 4 and 5 as lost identity.
These are no longer the same games as trilogy. It is completely different.
Would be better if they gow 2018 it

Completly different? Whats so different? Gameplay mechanic still the same

 

[Chukhopops]

Only if they do a complete overhaul of the combat mechanics. The same old sitting behind a cover wall mowing down bullet sponge enemies until the wave is over and the music stops and repeat, just doesn't do it anymore.

I don’t think you’ve played a lot of MP if that’s what you think the combat is about - even at an average level you have to use all mobility options to succeed.

SP in Easy/Normal difficulty isn’t a good way to judge a specific gameplay generally speaking.

 

[DenchDeckard]

Is gears of war 6 about to be announced or something.....How is there like numerous threads popping up over the last few days...

must be paid content, surely?

Looks like people re starved for it!

 

[DragonNCM]

Just finishing GOW 5 and I'm bored to death...
Gears 1-3 are masterpiece, 4 & 5 are totall junk.

 

[Gamer_By_Proxy]

Doubt it. MS doesn't seem to let their assigned IP studios (coalition, 343, etc) stray too far off from what got them where they are, and the series needs a real reboot.

 

[II_JumPeR_I]

Not if they keep that outdated gameplay.
MP aswell has to evolve big time. No more Fortnite shotgun meta without jumping

 

[ozz ex machina]

The problem with Gears and Halo is that they don't want to upset the hardcore but aging and dwindling fanbases they have by doing any radical changes. But the flipside is all the young kids do not give a flying fuck about classic 4v4 multiplayer games like we all did.

It's a shame but I feel like these games are doomed to slowly die out one way or another. Maybe time for a new IP and leave these ones to breathe for 10 years.

 

[Fart Knight]

Another Gears thread

 

[LordCBH]

5 was pretty darn good. A nice rebound from 4, which I thought was just boring.

 

[Shubh_C63]

Of all the tentpole franchise MS had Halo is likely the only one who can return to relevancy, even when Coalition is a better studio.

I loved the Ski roaming part which people hate here. Devs should have some balls to bring new ideas, turn the map upside down, bring gore back, go to fucking space I don't care, introduce mutant allies, steal things from Outriders, but please keep getting better at TPS storytelling because I can't see Gears Gameplay getting any better than its right now, which is sad.

 

[rofif]

Completly different? Whats so different? Gameplay mechanic still the same

Everything is different. Its shite