How The Coalition DESTROYED Gears of War

"For Christ sake, your black guy doesn't even go wooo" -Flashgitz

Marcus goes AWOL: Gets sentenced to life in prison and stays behind bars for years. Baird goes AWOL: Gets a whole game about his court martial, barely escapes execution and is demoted to private. Kait goes AWOL: Somehow she gets everyone around her to tell her how awesome she is and how everything she did was fine. She faces no punishment whatsoever for going AWOL.

Coalition: "Kate is the first strong female character" Anya, Sam, Bernie and all the other badass women in gears: "Am I a joke to you?"

In gears of war judgment when Baird didn't do what he was told he got court-martialed. When kait did it nothing happened.

Remember whenever marcus and his team went inside the rift worm to kill it from within in gears of war 2? That's shit was awesome.

Story-wise, GOW 3 was the perfect ending for me. there was hope for humanity to recover after all the sacrifices and suffering of the main cast.

You’re so right about the respect for authority thing. I just played gears 1 again. Marcus will give Hoffmann shit, but he doesn’t question his orders. When Kim dies and Hoffmann puts Markus in charge, Markus falls in line and accepts his responsibility. Baird complains, but he immediately falls in line to the chain of command. This is important for accurately portraying an elite military unit. Dispute over leadership gets people killed in real life or death military operations. Experienced veterans understand how important it is to fall in line

God, it's telling that I find Lizzie, an essentially throwaway character who literally dies in the opening act of Gears 5, to be a better and more interesting new character than Kait, a character who now has 2 games under her belt. At least Lizzie was actually funny and seemed to have taken her driving job seriously when it mattered. Killing her off in the first act was a damn shame, cause she had the potential to be the best character in the whole game.

Why even make a sequel to an already wrapped up story line? There is 80 years of pendulum wars and 17 years of human-locust wars to cover.

this video made me cry because gears of war has basically lost its identity

One thing they should do: A Gears Of War 2 ultimate edition.

The enemies of Gears 4 & 5 are lame. The Locust were a terrifying mysterious subterranean species that enslaved other species. They had their own religion and architecture. Part of why I continued playing Gears of War was to figure out what the hell the Locust were. The characters were also a lot more interesting in the original Gears trilogy.

Man so many people are focused on the dark and gritty thing, but I'm here looking at Gears 1-3 and I see a story of brotherhood and the things soldiers have to do to both survive and protect the brothers in arms besides them. The Locust war was started because the Locust needed to survive and run from the Lambent, but then Gears 5 ruined that and instead changed it to, Queen Mirrah started the Locust war because "government came and took my baby!" Gears 5 has absolutely destroyed an immense amount of lore in the series. It killed my interest in ever getting another new Gears game afterwards. Edit: I would prefer a game set before 1 and let's bring back Dom as the main character

The only emotion I felt was hate for kait

Thank God I wasn't the only one who FUCKING hated. Playing as Kait...

They actually had a great female character, Anya.. Espically in the third, where she quickly grew to one of my favourite characters.. Yet coarse they literary kill her to focus on Kait

They should have explored the war before the locust and followed Fenix thru his youth. That would have been waaaayyyyy better. Also the dark gritty setting needs to return.

At the end of campaign when you had to choose who dies I chose del just because I didn’t want Marcus to be upset i couldn’t care about Jd or Del.

The hate boner for authority in these new games is so weird. They make Prescott out to be an asshole in Gears Tactics like he enjoyed ordering the Hammer Strikes on Sera. It was a hard decision made by multiple people that helped buy humanity some time despite the huge sacrifice. The hate towards him in the third game was understandable since he disappeared after the 2nd game. Though we learn that he had to leave to help Adam Fenix with developing counter measure weapon.

Gears 5 isn’t even a gears of war game, they literally took out “of war” so it’s definitely not the same franchise