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General => Video Game Bored => Topic started by: EightBitNate on September 01, 2019, 04:21:04 PM

Title: Gears
Post by: EightBitNate on September 01, 2019, 04:21:04 PM
I know the popularity for these games is dwindling but I’m a huge fan of the series.

Anyone as hyped for Gears 5 as I am? Also down to play co-op with someone.
Title: Re: Gears
Post by: demi on September 01, 2019, 04:51:01 PM
I might sub to game pass for a month just to play the campaign
Title: Re: Gears
Post by: EightBitNate on September 01, 2019, 04:54:11 PM
Yeah there’s no reason not to give it a try if you have game pass. This is like the first true high quality AAA to launch on the service (save for FH4)
Title: Re: Gears
Post by: Nintex on September 01, 2019, 05:39:03 PM
Interest in Microsoft first party games is below 0 for me at this point.

This week it hit me that the last Microsoft Studios games I was excited about (outside of the Forza Horizons) was Quantum Break 3 years ago.  :doge
Rare Replay was cool but over 75% of that had nothing to do with Microsoft.

Played HALO 5 on GamePass, it was serviceable.
Played Gears 4 on GamePass it was eh.

Gears 5 is hopefully a 'meh'.

Kinda weird though because the Xbox One X is easily one of my favorite consoles of all time.
Title: Re: Gears
Post by: kingv on September 01, 2019, 08:48:53 PM
Gears 4 felt sort of low budget... like video game production values increased over time but they just decided to stay stuck in 2006. It feels sort of anachronistic in that way.

I hope 5 is an all around improvement.
Title: Re: Gears
Post by: toku on September 01, 2019, 10:09:10 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_2BTn5BNBQ
Title: Re: Gears
Post by: Rahxephon91 on September 01, 2019, 10:25:18 PM
I thought Gears 4 was pretty bad. Or rather simply meh. New characters sucked, gameplay felt tired, story was whatever, and a lot of the game was fighting robots with shitty guns.


I haven’t seen much of Gears 5 that has done anything for me. Making Kait the main character seems lame and more of a topical choice then any creative choice. And just like with 343, nothing the Coalition has said inspires confidence in their ability to really energize this series.

But I’ve played all of them. So I’ll play this one.
Title: Re: Gears
Post by: EightBitNate on September 01, 2019, 10:53:59 PM
Quote from: Dantizzinel on September 01, 2019, 10:00:31 PM
I only ever really disliked Gears 1, it's funny when the remake/remaster came out a bit ago all my complaints from 2006 were suddenly in every review of the game "not aging well" :lol

But I did enjoy the rest but as popcorn games, just nice disposable entertainment the same way Uncharted is (another series where I hate the first game but prefer overall). Gears 4 was fine but forgettable, the new cast sucked outside of the chick so at least they made the right call making her the protag this time. That said I can't say any of this game's marketing inspire's any confidence. What little I saw was "been there, done that" which is how I feel about Halo/Gears and most Sony IP's at this point. But I have gamepass so I'll probably end up playing it cause I'm broke :lol

Isn't it supposed to be up early if you have gamepass? I know it's official release date is the 15th but how early we talking?

Yup new one is up September 4th or 5th with Gamepass ultimate I think
Title: Re: Gears
Post by: thisismyusername on September 01, 2019, 11:32:44 PM
Only reason I'm interested is because it's one of the first MS exclusives on Steam.

Otherwise they should just port Gears 1 off GfWL and onto Steam and be done with it.
Title: Re: Gears
Post by: tiesto on September 02, 2019, 10:14:53 AM
I played the first 2 and couldn't get over the clunky controls and uggo art style.
Title: Re: Gears
Post by: Pissy F Benny on September 02, 2019, 12:13:37 PM
I’ll give a go because it’s on game pass, have they changed it up in any way cuz 4 was dull as shit and dated as fuck.
Title: Re: Gears
Post by: kingv on September 02, 2019, 12:15:14 PM
Kind of felt the same about 4. I’m sure I’ll play through the campaign just to waste a few hours, but the gameplay here really needs to be overhauled.
Title: Re: Gears
Post by: mormapope on September 02, 2019, 05:06:28 PM
Gears 5 is going to be a big dicked return. Most previews have been incredibly positive. Playing the multiplayer tech test on Xbone X, it looked and played phenomenonally. Best looking game visully this gen. Also, campaign is semi open world (think Metro Exodus). I've been a Gears bitch since 06, have very fond memories of Gears 1&3 multiplayer. Love all the campaigns except 4.

I've always felt The Bore collectively does not like multiplayer games, especially any shooters. This isnt shit talk or criticism, just what Ive noticed. Im not saying this applies to everyone here either. Gears of War has always been a franchise where you get most value by playing everything (campaign, horde, multiplayer). Gears of War 1 was a hit because of multiplayer and co-op, even though multiplayer wasnt the main focus.

Guess my point is, Im hyped as fuck, because Geaars 5 being a banger, and CoD Modern Warfare most likely being a banger, Ill be in multiplayer nirvana which hasnt been the case for many years. Unlike most Boreans too I guess, I loved the 360/PS3 gen a fuckton. A lot of that has to do with multiplayer.
Title: Re: Gears
Post by: demi on September 02, 2019, 07:02:43 PM
I prefer a co-operative experience over a competitive experience, yes
Title: Re: Gears
Post by: EightBitNate on September 02, 2019, 09:00:01 PM
Quote from: BlueLithium on September 02, 2019, 12:13:37 PM
I’ll give a go because it’s on game pass, have they changed it up in any way cuz 4 was dull as shit and dated as fuck.

Looks like there’s RPG elements and less linear levels, which is a nice change imo. The first hour of gameplay leaked and it looked 10x more interesting than anything in 4.

Quote from: Dantizzinel on September 02, 2019, 04:12:05 PM
I do find it funny that the entire industry and audience collectively went "third person cover shooters are played out" thus leaving Gears between a rock and a hard place. At least with Halo there's a lot more flexibility in what you can do, and I'm not sure what Gears can do if it needs to have the same cover based shooting, and assume it's sacrilegious to even make a Gears game without cover.

Gears is *the* cover shooter though. Maybe too many games tried to emulate it but Gears is imo peak TPS gameplay and still holds up today.
Title: Re: Gears
Post by: Rahxephon91 on September 02, 2019, 09:55:45 PM
Yeah I've never been too into competitive shooters. I love Battlefield and spent many hours on Halo 2  back in the day. But really just the objective game modes. Never team slayer or whatever. And I like both basicly for the feeling of war games that they have. Big open maps and lots people moving about doing stuff, working as a team, and so on. Small maps and player counts have never been my thing.

So Gear's multi is never anything I've really been into.

I don't know, I think maybe upping the survival horror and survival aspects could reinvent the series. The cover system has always had a gritty feeling of tension. Take it or die and split second and quickly take that risk to shoot at enemies out of cover. Bigger open environments requiring you to explore and scavage weapons, health, and ammo could prove intersting. Having the environment be more destructive and more then training for the mutliplayer as well.I don't know, I think there are things you could do with this series. But my problem with this and Halo is I don't think there's a real interests in really rethinking these games. I've seen Halo fans. They dislike changes.

Title: Re: Gears
Post by: kingv on September 02, 2019, 10:31:55 PM
I never liked competitive gears.

It always feels like you are manipulating the game mechanics and the “right” way to play competitive gears is to play as the antithesis of what the single player game is designed to do.

It’s like “don’t go into cover, instead of roll around and shotgun people”
Title: Re: Gears
Post by: demi on September 03, 2019, 11:01:29 AM
Bought a 1 month code on Amazon ($15), should be enough to bang out Gears (and maybe try out a couple other games while I'm at it)

Link for anyone interested in giving me kickbacks

https://amzn.to/2ZLDrSv
Title: Re: Gears
Post by: HardcoreRetro on September 03, 2019, 05:36:29 PM
Quote from: kingv on September 02, 2019, 10:31:55 PM
I never liked competitive gears.

It always feels like you are manipulating the game mechanics and the “right” way to play competitive gears is to play as the antithesis of what the single player game is designed to do.

It’s like “don’t go into cover, instead of roll around and shotgun people”

I like the wallbouncing which is literally just glitching the game to make it fun. Why not play a well designed online shooter?
Title: Re: Gears
Post by: mormapope on September 03, 2019, 06:38:02 PM
Quote from: HardcoreRetro on September 03, 2019, 05:36:29 PM
Quote from: kingv on September 02, 2019, 10:31:55 PM
I never liked competitive gears.

It always feels like you are manipulating the game mechanics and the “right” way to play competitive gears is to play as the antithesis of what the single player game is designed to do.

It’s like “don’t go into cover, instead of roll around and shotgun people”

I like the wallbouncing which is literally just glitching the game to make it fun. Why not play a well designed online shooter?

Its totally a gitch that's remained in a franchise for 13 years. Gears multiplayer is horribly designed and wallbouncing is what keeps the community going ::)

Might as well rename this thread "I've heard of Gears, can I shit on it pls?"

Making 80 iq reset bois look like mensa masters itt. There's a arcade multiplayer mode/variant in Gears 5 where gnashers aren't even starting weapons.
Title: Re: Gears
Post by: Nintex on September 03, 2019, 07:14:39 PM
The problem with Gears is that it got stuck in the Microsoft Studios 'hey we can actually develop this' routine for too long.

So you had Gears 1 which was great and Gears 2 which build on that. After which there should've been a hiatus and then a big Gears 3 for next-gen launch.
Kinda how HALO went (Halo 1 > Halo 2 (Xbox) > Halo 3 (360)).

But instead, Microsoft opted for Gears 3 and Gears Judgment on the 360. Which burned the series out.
Then they started next-gen with a lukewarm sequel in the form of Gears 4.

So now that Gears 5 is coming out they already shot their 'next gen' load on this franchise.
The only thing they can do at this point is bring in new players who haven't played all the previous games and thus will experience something 'new'.
And they clearly are doing this by changing up the protagonist, setting etc. but is Microsoft Studios going to produce something that exceeds an 8/10 and a 6 hour campaign?
Doubtful
Title: Re: Gears
Post by: HardcoreRetro on September 04, 2019, 07:00:10 AM
Mormamope, you make me sad with how easily you fall for obvious bait. :'(
Title: Re: Gears
Post by: bork on September 04, 2019, 08:06:20 AM
Quote from: Dantizzinel on September 02, 2019, 04:12:05 PM
I do find it funny that the entire industry and audience collectively went "third person cover shooters are played out" thus leaving Gears between a rock and a hard place.

The more cinematic games with cover shooting, like Uncharted and Tomb Raider, kept on going strong, though. 

Interest in Gears seemed to die out after Epic stopped making the games.
Title: Re: Gears
Post by: bork on September 04, 2019, 08:37:42 AM
https://twitter.com/DaveBautista/status/1168916756100014081
Title: Re: Gears
Post by: EightBitNate on September 04, 2019, 12:01:28 PM
86 Metacritic

Nice
Title: Re: Gears
Post by: MMaRsu on September 05, 2019, 01:18:43 PM
http://www.caniplaythat.com/2019/09/05/deaf-game-review-gears-of-war-5/

this is cool props to MS here
Title: Re: Gears
Post by: demi on September 05, 2019, 02:21:21 PM
wait speech to text? oh boy. now i gotta see how that works
Title: Re: Gears
Post by: EightBitNate on September 05, 2019, 02:51:40 PM
Gonna pick a DeeBee and do text to speech to trash talk
Title: Re: Gears
Post by: Rahxephon91 on September 05, 2019, 03:15:56 PM
Looks pretty amazing on One X.
Title: Re: Gears
Post by: demi on September 06, 2019, 02:01:39 AM
Would love to say how cool the campaign is but the servers are dogshit, apparently coalition didnt expect people to play their game.
Title: Re: Gears
Post by: Ghoul on September 06, 2019, 05:19:51 AM
going to pick this up on PC should be fun :)
Title: Re: Gears
Post by: Nintex on September 06, 2019, 09:16:48 AM
Quote from: demi on September 06, 2019, 02:01:39 AM
Would love to say how cool the campaign is but the servers are dogshit, apparently coalition didnt expect people to play their game.
Imagine if Microsoft Studios was just a subsidized tax evasion scheme  8)
Title: Re: Gears
Post by: kingv on September 06, 2019, 10:32:11 AM
How can the servers be this bad before the game is even officially out?
Title: Re: Gears
Post by: Nuitangg on September 06, 2019, 10:53:07 AM
Server issues last night combined with the stuttering on pc.  :maf
Title: Re: Gears
Post by: Nintex on September 06, 2019, 05:44:24 PM
Welp, this game turned out exactly as I expected.

It starts with an unskippable bootcamp in the year of our lord 2019.  :doge

"This is how you look, this is how you walk, this is how you shoot" you shoot a bunch of robots but luckily unlike Gears 4 half the game isn't shooting dumb robots.

The first mission looks great but nothing interesting ever happens. You clear a few rooms, fight a few bad guys, stuff collapses, clear the next rooms, end.
There's a tear jerking moment where Del tries to sacrifice his life to save a fucking robot. The audio mixing is weird. Music is muted and sound effects are super loud.

The title screen pops up and it sends you to go do some socializing in this very restricted area. Guess the COGS always throw a bunch of boxes in front of all their doors.
Baird gives you the latest in robot helper tech and some douche with sunglasses wants to spar with you. The chick makes a 'measuring dicks' joke.

The chick is constantly suffering from headaches while the first two missions are going on. How original  :awesome
What's next made me laugh out loud. Marcus Fenix meets with the First Minister and has this tense scene about fertility and pregnancies of his dead wife and the minister. LMAO  :lol
This series has jumped the shark as much as the Star Wars prequels.

By mission 3, (the 3 conversations and picking up the bot actually counts as a 'mission') I'm already bored. The urban environment looks nice but even at 'Experienced' (the second to last highest difficulty) none of the fights ever get interesting.
Some lady truck driver takes the spotlight in this level, when it has the fucking Cole Train. Who's not really acting like the daring motherfucker he was. Gears 5 at this point feels like a map pack for Gears 4.

This series evolved in all the wrong ways. The sitcom 'drama' does nothing and a world filled with dumb robots just isn't interesting.
They ruin the fights too. In the original Gears, when some 'impossible' challenge popped up they would give you the Hammer of Dawn. You would have to try and aim and get it to lock on.
Only after a couple of hits would the bosses go down. In this game, you get a 'reinforcement' of robots and with the D-Pad you select if you want robot type A or B.
In most fights the enemy doesn't have a chance because you have a team of 4 with admittedly good AI, in most cases a bunch of soldiers or robots helping.

A safe sequel and with these assets and production values a colossal waste of development resources.  :yeshrug
Title: Re: Gears
Post by: Rahxephon91 on September 06, 2019, 05:46:18 PM
You can skip the bootcamp.
Title: Re: Gears
Post by: Trent Dole on September 06, 2019, 05:46:27 PM
Quote from: Nintex on September 06, 2019, 05:44:24 PM
Big name/budget franchise sequel plays it's safe and I find that surprising somehow
:teehee
Title: Re: Gears
Post by: Nintex on September 06, 2019, 05:58:28 PM
Quote from: Trent Dole on September 06, 2019, 05:46:27 PM
Quote from: Nintex on September 06, 2019, 05:44:24 PM
Big name/budget franchise sequel plays it's safe and I find that surprising somehow
:teehee
Many games play it safe but even with the COD's they try to do something/anything to make it more interesting than watching paint dry.
I can't point at anything so far in Gears 5 that impressed or surprised me other than how it looks.

It's a functional video game but it has nothing going for it. The characters aren't particularly interesting, the level design is very basic, the guns are recycled old hat.
In the original Gears you felt like you were part of this big event (emergence day) and the stakes were high. It also felt very gruesome. It was pretty much set-up as a survival horror game in parts.

Fighting for prefab robo-land with bulky dudes and girls just pales in comparison.
Title: Re: Gears
Post by: demi on September 07, 2019, 09:41:50 AM
Its been two days and I havent got to ply beyond the first chapter due to server issues
Title: Re: Gears
Post by: Nintex on September 08, 2019, 05:10:45 PM
I'm seeing people complain on Twitter that this game is open world  ???

Guess I should give it another go to see if anything changes after the first few missions.
Also glitches being reported which prevent progress because Gears doesn't handle open world very well.
Title: Re: Gears
Post by: Lonewulfeus on September 08, 2019, 06:00:29 PM
Just did 50 waves of horde and I got no experience or skill cards or anything :rage

If I was The Coalition I’d be damn ashamed launching a game in a state like this.
Title: Re: Gears
Post by: Nintex on September 08, 2019, 06:18:44 PM
It seems that with each update they break something new.

I get HALO MCC vibes from this  :lol
Title: Re: Gears
Post by: Nintex on September 08, 2019, 06:29:19 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JalWT8oNxhk

Welp, guess this is why it doesn't feel like classic gears.
Seeing the difference like this is crazy.
Title: Re: Gears
Post by: mormapope on September 09, 2019, 02:57:26 AM
Just wanna pop in this thread and say fuck all of you for shitposting this thread to oblivion. Great game, best Gears in the franchise. (It's not really all of you, but Nintex has taken a big enough shit to make the thread unsalvageable)   :'(

Anyways, back to playing.  8)
Title: Re: Gears
Post by: HardcoreRetro on September 09, 2019, 04:50:00 AM
That Gears 5 vs 2 basically just shows that they took out screen shake and the blood effects. If they just add back in the screen shake that should probably deal with the weight issues. I thought the Xbox One controllers also had the feedback triggers or something. If they didn't do something with that already they could use that to great effect as well.
Title: Re: Gears
Post by: demi on September 09, 2019, 09:16:37 AM
Quote from: mormapope on September 09, 2019, 02:57:26 AM
Just wanna pop in this thread and say fuck all of you for shitposting this thread to oblivion. Great game, best Gears in the franchise. (It's not really all of you, but Nintex has taken a big enough shit to make the thread unsalvageable)   :'(

Anyways, back to playing.  8)

Lol, idiot. The game has had terrible server issues since Day -1, there's no shitposting about that.
Title: Re: Gears
Post by: mormapope on September 09, 2019, 10:50:51 AM
Quote from: demi on September 09, 2019, 09:16:37 AM
Quote from: mormapope on September 09, 2019, 02:57:26 AM
Just wanna pop in this thread and say fuck all of you for shitposting this thread to oblivion. Great game, best Gears in the franchise. (It's not really all of you, but Nintex has taken a big enough shit to make the thread unsalvageable)   :'(

Anyways, back to playing.  8)

Lol, idiot. The game has had terrible server issues since Day -1, there's no shitposting about that.

Wow, people that either paid 2 dollars or 15 are crying themselves to sleep. The agony of spending almost no money and not being able to play the game  :'(

If you spent 80 dollars for the Ultimate edition, you would be a huge fucking idiot. Do server issues at launch suck? Of course. Should you write off a game entirely because of that? That's your purgative.

Quote from: Dantizzinel on September 09, 2019, 09:26:35 AM
I tried to play it yesterday but ran into some issues, and this server news makes me want to hold off on it and maybe play Celeste's free expansion today instead.

It's getting a lil less funky, but your plan sounds good. By the time you come back to it, server issues should be ironed out.
Title: Re: Gears
Post by: demi on September 09, 2019, 10:56:31 AM
That or they could have siphoned some of that marketing money for Dave Bautista to more servers
Title: Re: Gears
Post by: Nuitangg on September 09, 2019, 01:11:21 PM
Imagine if Halo has these issues next year.  :lol
Title: Re: Gears
Post by: Nintex on September 09, 2019, 01:12:52 PM
In a corporation like Microsoft it probably takes 10 change requests and a sign off from 6 departments to increase their server capacity by 5%.

There's probably some policy in place that limits server capacity at launch because every one of their releases in the Xbox One era had this server capacity problem at launch.

Quote from: Nuitangg on September 09, 2019, 01:11:21 PM
Imagine if Halo has these issues next year.  :lol
I'd be more surprised if it doesn't.

Halo is a next-gen launch game on new hardware with a new online service and a tight deadline that rebooted development about a month ago.

It's going to be one hell of a mess.  :lol
Title: Re: Gears
Post by: MMaRsu on September 09, 2019, 01:26:02 PM
now now leave poor Nintex be breh
Title: Re: Gears
Post by: demi on September 09, 2019, 05:41:27 PM
Played one match and nope, Gears MP is still terrible. Good thing the campaign wor- wait
Title: Re: Gears
Post by: Pissy F Benny on September 09, 2019, 06:11:59 PM
Had a quick go on the campaign and it has a sort of Tony Hawk HD ‘it sort of feels the same but off’ thing about it.
Title: Re: Gears
Post by: mormapope on September 09, 2019, 06:27:49 PM
Quote from: BlueLithium on September 09, 2019, 06:11:59 PM
Had a quick go on the campaign and it has a sort of Tony Hawk HD ‘it sort of feels the same but off’ thing about it.

Comparing a third person shooter to a extreme sports game is like comparing how your mom fucks me versus how your dad does. Your mom's pussy is still so tight! But your dad's mouth game is wild.

Not really comparable imo.
Title: Re: Gears
Post by: Nintex on September 09, 2019, 06:40:24 PM
Quote from: mormapope on September 09, 2019, 06:27:49 PM
Quote from: BlueLithium on September 09, 2019, 06:11:59 PM
Had a quick go on the campaign and it has a sort of Tony Hawk HD ‘it sort of feels the same but off’ thing about it.

Comparing a third person shooter to a extreme sports game is like comparing how your mom fucks me versus how your dad does. Your mom's pussy is still so tight! But your dad's mouth game is wild.

Not really comparable imo.
I think he means that like Tony Hawk HD didn't feel like a genuine Tony Hawk game, Gears 5 doesn't feel like genuine Gears of War.

You can say a lot about Cliffy B but the man knew how to make exciting video games.
With Gears 4 they fucked it up, with Gears 5 they 'fixed' that (more or less) but that doesn't make it anymore Gears than Gears 4.

I'm just put off by the dumb fisher price robots. Gears always had a doomsday apocalypse 'these fuckers will murder you and end the planet' aesthetic.
That sorta flies out of the window when there's talking police robots to assist you and discussions about the fertility of Marcus Fenix' dead wife.

In the Gears trilogy humanity was hanging by a thread. In this game, we have a bulky dude with a labcoat who can single handily make prefab robot cities for people to live in.
Title: Re: Gears
Post by: mormapope on September 09, 2019, 06:57:12 PM
Before Gears 5: Gears loyalists didn't exist.

One hour after Gears 5 releases: "man, I fucking miss when games had soul. Gears of War was this blue and gray, really gritty game that was fucking epic. Fuck SJWs, bring back Cliffy"

Where the fuck were these Gears of War 2 superfans? Under Cliffy's balls?
Title: Re: Gears
Post by: Bebpo on September 09, 2019, 07:55:11 PM
Installed it on game pass, will give the campaign a shot. I noped out after Gears 3 which I remember not liking much anymore by that point but 1/2 were great.

Quote from: BlueLithium on September 09, 2019, 06:11:59 PM
Had a quick go on the campaign and it has a sort of Tony Hawk HD ‘it sort of feels the same but off’ thing about it.

 :'(
Title: Re: Gears
Post by: Rahxephon91 on September 09, 2019, 08:34:56 PM
I mean I'm no Gear's "loyalists" and also thought the previous games were pretty stupid. I don't have any strong feelings about the 5 yet, other then the characters are still stupid and annoying to listen to.

But I mean I've been saying the same shit about Gears as I have about Halo. These series went on past the point and feel pretty tired now. Gears 4 was just really lame to me. Fighting robots for half of the game was pretty boring. They had shitty ass weapons and the game was missing the weight and grittiness of the previous games. The Gear's characters were stupid machismo, but that fit with the look and feel of the game. The new character's felt very market tested and sounded like hack writers trying to be witty because Avengers was popular.

They still sound overly witty and obnoxious. Except now Kait is the main character and she sucks too, probably because yeah some SJW agenda shit. I don't care about any of the shit these people talk about in the game. The series attempt at pathos is really lame.

Still 5 plays good and looks good. Which is all you can really ask for.
Title: Re: Gears
Post by: MMaRsu on September 10, 2019, 12:37:40 PM
Quote from: Bebpo on September 09, 2019, 07:55:11 PM
Installed it on game pass, will give the campaign a shot. I noped out after Gears 3 which I remember not liking much anymore by that point but 1/2 were great.

Quote from: BlueLithium on September 09, 2019, 06:11:59 PM
Had a quick go on the campaign and it has a sort of Tony Hawk HD ‘it sort of feels the same but off’ thing about it.

 :'(

I did the same but got bored after the tutorial and the first chapter was up  :larry

what a snoozefest
Title: Re: Gears
Post by: MMaRsu on September 10, 2019, 01:11:30 PM
https://youtu.be/lkxdlS-c6eg

be wary of this fuckers mic quality but he's right tho
Title: Re: Gears
Post by: mormapope on September 10, 2019, 01:24:44 PM
I got into that sweet 1% for Escape on the weekly hive,1:15 for a time. Using my strays on the next difficulty up, and if COG tags spawn, I could easily crack the top 100 or get to number 1 in the world.

(https://i.ibb.co/nCJ3kmC/IMG-d474bc7c-b530-4d26-8772-de0043f50ef4.png)


Quote from: MMaRsu on September 10, 2019, 12:37:40 PM
Quote from: Bebpo on September 09, 2019, 07:55:11 PM
Installed it on game pass, will give the campaign a shot. I noped out after Gears 3 which I remember not liking much anymore by that point but 1/2 were great.

Quote from: BlueLithium on September 09, 2019, 06:11:59 PM
Had a quick go on the campaign and it has a sort of Tony Hawk HD ‘it sort of feels the same but off’ thing about it.

 :'(

I did the same but got bored after the tutorial and the first chapter was up  :larry

what a snoozefest

So you play 15 minutes of Gears 5, but then post a 24 minute video of some annoying, gnarled toothed British fuck nitpicking a digital foundry video.

All this Lil boy dick energy when I'm going for world records and shit. :lol

Edit:admittedly, I skimmed the video. Digital foundry aregnarled toothed fucks themselves, so I dunno. Maybe time to take another break from here.
Title: Re: Gears
Post by: Rufus on September 10, 2019, 01:26:19 PM
Quote from: MMaRsu on September 10, 2019, 01:11:30 PM
youtu. be/lkxdlS-c6eg

be wary of this fuckers mic quality but he's right tho
Didn't watch the entire thing, but "And I'm not bashing Gears 5. Gears 5 is great. I give it a 7 out of 10, go by that shit tomorrow nicca, I don't give a fuck."

...was fucking perfect. Like from a Dunkey video. :lol

Having watched a little more, all I have to say is: this is what "optimization" is.  :idont
Title: Re: Gears
Post by: Nintex on September 10, 2019, 01:54:20 PM
That video is great. The dude should torch more Digital Foundry videos.

"nicca, thats one fucking frame. Get outta here with that bullshit"
Title: Re: Gears
Post by: demi on September 10, 2019, 02:00:30 PM
I still don't understand Escape, the game doesn't do a good job with that.

I'm glad there's a "Bootcamp" for generic controls but there needs to be a "Bootcamp" for their new flagship mode.
Title: Re: Gears
Post by: EightBitNate on September 10, 2019, 04:09:27 PM
mormapope: I don’t have the time or energy to tell these dopes off with you but I am right next to you in spirit 
:respect
Title: Re: Gears
Post by: demi on September 10, 2019, 05:53:28 PM
Ya man it's the whole world against you. lmao
Title: Re: Gears
Post by: The Sceneman on September 11, 2019, 12:34:32 AM
Idk I played through the tutorial and the game looks and plays great. Don't care for the drama. These games have always been silly story-wise. Just shoot some bad-guys and have fun idk
Title: Re: Gears
Post by: demi on September 11, 2019, 01:03:37 AM
Cool, you played 5 days after Early Access and all the issues are only now beginning to smooth out
Title: Re: Gears
Post by: Sho Nuff on September 11, 2019, 02:38:29 AM
Uhhh should I catch up and play Gears 4 first
Title: Re: Gears
Post by: demi on September 11, 2019, 03:00:20 AM
No, the game literally starts with a "previously on gears" video, and has a recap of gears 1-3 (but not judgment. Because judgment is trash)
Title: Re: Gears
Post by: EightBitNate on September 11, 2019, 07:39:10 AM
Quote from: demi on September 10, 2019, 05:53:28 PM
Ya man it's the whole world against you. lmao

Gears fans are the worlds most oppressed group.
Title: Re: Gears
Post by: Nuitangg on September 11, 2019, 11:40:18 AM
PC stuttering is gone with the latest Nvidia drivers but everyone looks like they're drinking milk and talking.  Kait also looks like she is in blackface.  :lol
Title: Re: Gears
Post by: Rahxephon91 on September 11, 2019, 12:16:49 PM
I mean Kait has always been the ambiguously brown girl character that western developers love.
Title: Re: Gears
Post by: MMaRsu on September 11, 2019, 04:34:16 PM
https://youtu.be/GwRcSyOoBj4
Title: Re: Gears
Post by: Nintex on September 11, 2019, 05:23:43 PM
LMAO
https://twitter.com/VGTomO/status/1171887562471936000 (https://twitter.com/VGTomO/status/1171887562471936000)

https://twitter.com/VGTomO/status/1171888615212965890 (https://twitter.com/VGTomO/status/1171888615212965890)
Title: Re: Gears
Post by: Akala on September 11, 2019, 05:45:18 PM
debating PC or XBX.  :hmm
Title: Re: Gears
Post by: Nuitangg on September 12, 2019, 09:58:37 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2o4X-WdAZo
Title: Re: Gears
Post by: Nintex on September 13, 2019, 07:58:21 PM
Ya'll want some of that roadmap

(https://media.comicbook.com/2019/09/six-months-1187470.jpeg?auto=webp&width=696&height=392&crop=696:392,smart)
Title: Re: Gears
Post by: Rahxephon91 on September 14, 2019, 01:28:38 AM
Not really getting the praise about this game. The story and characters are still awful. Except now the characters are just lame and millennial as fuck. I don't give a shit about any of this game's supposed pathos. Randomly dropping some big revelation tied to an event the characters briefly talked about last game is stupid.

And the gameplay is...kind of shitty. All the new enemies suck and all seem to run counter to to this being a cover shooter. The warden, the swarm, the infected robots and so on are constantly charging you making cover pointless. I feel like I've hardly had cover shooting in this cover based shooter. Also that Swarm enemy dosen't have any real feed back  when shooting it. The Gears games had master the feeling of you shooting enemies. Here I feel like I'm just hitting air sometimes. Also new Jack is annoying.

It looks great though.

Title: Re: Gears
Post by: EightBitNate on September 15, 2019, 01:19:20 AM
If anyone is down for Horde, gamer tag is AdhiMan. Can trust these randos not to leave.
Title: Re: Gears
Post by: Bebpo on September 15, 2019, 07:59:31 PM
My friend said to not play the PC version until it's patched because of something. Is it a big deal for SP? I haven't started it yet but people really praising the campaign lately.
Title: Re: Gears
Post by: EightBitNate on September 15, 2019, 09:07:35 PM
Quote from: Bebpo on September 15, 2019, 07:59:31 PM
My friend said to not play the PC version until it's patched because of something. Is it a big deal for SP? I haven't started it yet but people really praising the campaign lately.

There was an update and an Nvidia patch that was supposed to help. I haven’t played it since installing those 2 but there some hiccups, though nothing drastic.
Title: Re: Gears
Post by: Rahxephon91 on September 15, 2019, 09:09:32 PM
Yeah give Jack the exploding barrel that we have to protect and have his AI think it's good to rush into enemies.
Title: Re: Gears
Post by: El Babua on September 16, 2019, 06:07:00 AM
Played a bit of the first level on PC.

Game looks amazing (I'm glad we're getting one of those first party technical showcases on PC) and it feels enough like Gears. Which is a double edged sword considering that it's a 7th gen cover based shooter, a genre I'm not into that much anymore

Control got me feeling too restricted in this tbh
Title: Re: Gears
Post by: Nuitangg on September 16, 2019, 12:48:23 PM
I had more fun playing Crackdown 3. 
Title: Re: Gears
Post by: kingv on September 16, 2019, 12:59:39 PM
I played the first level or two.

It’s fine, I guess. It’s very gears. Just almost feels like a a game from 2005 with better graphics
Title: Re: Gears
Post by: Nintex on September 16, 2019, 05:57:20 PM
Quote from: El Babua on September 16, 2019, 06:07:00 AM
Control got me feeling too restricted in this tbh
Same problem for me. nothing breaks in this game  :-\

I want to get back to it and try again though and see some of the more open world gameplay that's supposed to be in there.
Title: Re: Gears
Post by: EightBitNate on September 16, 2019, 08:46:41 PM
Quote from: Nintex on September 16, 2019, 05:57:20 PM
Quote from: El Babua on September 16, 2019, 06:07:00 AM
Control got me feeling too restricted in this tbh
Same problem for me. nothing breaks in this game  :-\

I want to get back to it and try again though and see some of the more open world gameplay that's supposed to be in there.

Remedy has always been good about reactivity. It’s one of the first things I notice in a game.
Title: Re: Gears
Post by: kingv on September 16, 2019, 08:55:20 PM
That on dudes video really highlighted how static the world is. Though the graphical quality is high and the  frame rate is pretty smooth.

I did notice upon playing the game that like 80% of that is dudes footage is from the first leve.
Title: Re: Gears
Post by: The Sceneman on September 17, 2019, 03:16:04 AM
I'm really enjoying this, but its been a long time since I've payed a AAA hollywood new release game so yeah. The cinematics are cheesy and fun and it looks and plays well. I'm a massive TPS stan tho
Title: Re: Gears
Post by: Rahxephon91 on October 02, 2019, 04:59:04 PM
Yeah I also don’t understand why this game received the praise it did.

Title: Re: Gears
Post by: mormapope on October 02, 2019, 05:09:21 PM
Quote from: Rahxephon91 on October 02, 2019, 04:59:04 PM
Yeah I also don’t understand why this game received the praise it did.



Have you made an attempt at understanding? Genuine question. There aren't many third person shooters out there anymore.

Whenever platformers or Souls clones come out, I don't understand the appeal either, but I've accepted those games aren't for me.
Title: Re: Gears
Post by: Rahxephon91 on October 02, 2019, 10:57:05 PM
I mean what am I supposed to try and understand? I've played every single other Gears game except I guess mobile spin offs. I play and love 3rd person shooters and agree it sucks that we don't have enough of them.

But that fact doesn't mean I have to like Gears 5.

I did'nt like Gears 4 because the gameplay felt tired and the new story/characters felt so manufactured. That really did'nt change for Gears 5 for me.

Gears to me is best when your going through gritty warzones and have to take solace in cover and have tension from trying to pop those shots off while putting your neck out there. The gameplay feels great because it feels like your shooting weighty guns at meaty meatbags while playing as a weighty and meaty line backer.

Gears 4 thought it was a good idea to spend a good portion of the game fighting robots that left no feedback with guns that felt like nothing.

Gears 5 at least doesn't have that. Instead it has some of the most annoying enemies that instead seem to forget this is a cover based game. Like every enemy the Coliiation has introduced into the series just sucks. Every encounter I'm just wishing for just a simply fight just the Locust section.

The Warden sucks. Maybe it works in co-op where it just doesn't aggro to the player character, but by myself it's just always after me and it's just annoying constantly walking backwards and awkwardly jumping around  just to shoot this dudes head.

The Snatcher sucked in 4 and it sucks here. I feel like most of the encounter I'm just awkwardly knocked down waiting for the stupid ai to react and so many times it's one hit kill move just came out of nowhere.

The Flock is just a tedious enemy. Shoot until something happens. Shoot this weightless enemy with no feedback.

The Pouncer is like thier only new enemy that understands how Gears cover gameplay should work.

That final boss encounter was awful. Oh boy heres a bunch of tongues that you spend most of the time just waiting till they grab the stupid AI to shoot. Or just go off to the side where it seems they can't reach.

Other then that the story was pretty whatever. Kait is boring. Made the protag because women protags are topical and gain cool points and the rest of the new characters suck. JD's arch is just weird anyway. Something bad happen and he's gone for a good portion and comes back and is just like "I CHANGED". ok?

The choice the game asked you was so contrived. The main villain just appears for no reason and makes the most forced and telegraphed "MAKE YOUR CHOICE PLAYER MOMENT" ever.

The open environment section was just "eh games are doing this now so I guess we will".

The game looked pretty, ran well, and technically the shooting was solid. But nowhere did I think this was some GOTY material game.

Title: Re: Gears
Post by: Nintex on October 03, 2019, 05:45:26 PM
Quote from: mormapope on October 02, 2019, 05:09:21 PM
Quote from: Rahxephon91 on October 02, 2019, 04:59:04 PM
Yeah I also don’t understand why this game received the praise it did.



Have you made an attempt at understanding? Genuine question. There aren't many third person shooters out there anymore.

Whenever platformers or Souls clones come out, I don't understand the appeal either, but I've accepted those games aren't for me.
C O N T R O L  :aah

Resident Evil 2  :lawd

We had a great year for third person shooters.
Title: Re: Gears
Post by: Rahxephon91 on October 03, 2019, 10:53:59 PM
Yeah, but there is something to the lack of AAA TPS.

I mean all I could think of is:

The Two Uncharted games.
Control
Quantum Break
Resident Evil 2

Which I liked a lot, but yeah it's genre that's overlooked now. There's open world games if you count and something like Ghost Recon, but the sequel decided to add rpg shit. I want a good "headshots count" game.
Title: Re: Gears
Post by: Nuitangg on October 09, 2019, 12:20:25 PM
I stopped playing into Chapter 3.  What a boring fucking game.
Title: Re: Gears
Post by: Nintex on October 18, 2019, 01:32:53 PM
Anyone still playing Gears ?

Twitch

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Gears 5
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 :crowdlaff :girlaff




Title: Re: Gears
Post by: HardcoreRetro on October 19, 2019, 03:58:57 AM
I finished it on monday. Felt better to play than 4. The Coalition tonally just doesn't seem to get Gears. I like how it makes Dominic's emotional scenes in 2 and 3 look better in retrospect.

If Gears 4 was a 6/10 this'd maybe be like a 7/10. I wonder if the open world was something they had in mind from the start or if they just made random maps and then had to figure out a way to fit them together.
Title: Re: Gears
Post by: The Sceneman on October 28, 2019, 02:41:27 AM
Got up to act II chapter 5. This is game is pretty boring, huh. Its not a bad game, just short of any innovation whatsoever. Its the same 2006 gameplay reheated. I second what someone said above that the "flock" enemy is lame AF. Just a not-scary bullet sponge that zips around. No satisfaction from killing it. At least blowing heads off baddies is still good.

The multi was zzz, gave it a go and knicked out some objectives but its pretty repetitive and I was getting schooled by better players. Horde mode is where its at tough, had a round of that and it was very enjoyable. Will probably keep this installed for awhile for Horde purposes
Title: Re: Gears
Post by: The Sceneman on October 30, 2019, 07:43:58 PM
So I've been putting a bit of time into this, all of the multi tickers, XP gauges and shit are good at making you come back.

Been playing various modes -
Campaign: the graphics are great but goddamn is the game broken. I'm playing on 'experienced' and I've had so many cheap as fuck deaths from bullshit hit-bot bosses and gibs from some rocket splash damage. This is the most infuriating gears campaign I've played and Ive beaten 1&2 on Insane. I cant imagine how controller-gnawingly bad this game would be on Insane.

Escape: now this is cool. Great idea and has kinda a survival bent due to ammo being so scarce. Into it.

Horde: yeah its good

Versus: pretty bad, but maybe its because I suck? Who knows
Title: Re: Gears
Post by: demi on November 19, 2019, 08:50:23 AM
I finally beat Gears - on Insane.

The "open world" bits have potential but clearly sequel-bait when it's fleshed out more. Otherwise they were pretty useless.

I also got hit with a game-breaking bug that is apparently pretty well documented at this point (https://www.google.com/search?source=hp&ei=KfHTXa_mD4je5gL1oq7wCA&q=gears+5+cosmonaut+bug&oq=gears+5+cosmonaut+bug&gs_l=psy-ab.3..0j0i22i30.195.3760..3919...0.0..1.311.2090.15j5j0j1......0....1..gws-wiz.......0i131.zkmnvO4vdrM&ved=0ahUKEwjvns_Us_blAhUIr1kKHXWRC44Q4dUDCAg&uact=5)

Unfortunately there is no "fix" and your only option is to load up the chapter where all your progression is reset (or at least looks reset?) and you have to replay an entire section you already did which got you into this mess in the first place (tldr: don't do the cosmonaut facility first, don't even touch that bitch until required to by story). Not sure how this isn't even fixed lmao

The inclusion of Jack's abilities are a good addition and are extremely helpful when you get the upgrades going.

It all comes to a head in the final act

spoiler (click to show/hide)
(https://i.imgur.com/cguFRpw.jpg)

Yup, you are given a choice to kill the token black character, or the bitch ass white boy who has a change of heart randomly (spoiler: i killed the white boy)

Neither choice really makes sense and it feels like this was added last minute. Once you make the choice, the other dies and... everyone just kind of ignores it and you're immediately thrust into more shit and fight the final boss (with another random death thrown in for good measure) and you get your cliffhanger cutscene and wait for Gears 6 I guess
[close]

All in all, I feel bad for those who paid full price for this and god bless gamepass
Title: Re: Gears
Post by: Bebpo on January 11, 2020, 01:16:26 AM
Quote from: The Sceneman on October 28, 2019, 02:41:27 AM
Got up to act II chapter 5. This is game is pretty boring, huh. Its not a bad game, just short of any innovation whatsoever. Its the same 2006 gameplay reheated. I second what someone said above that the "flock" enemy is lame AF. Just a not-scary bullet sponge that zips around. No satisfaction from killing it. At least blowing heads off baddies is still good.

The multi was zzz, gave it a go and knicked out some objectives but its pretty repetitive and I was getting schooled by better players. Horde mode is where its at tough, had a round of that and it was very enjoyable. Will probably keep this installed for awhile for Horde purposes

I just got to the ice planet after the intro levels, does the game get any better? It was fun for a few chapters, but started to fall asleep at the end before the timeskip. The graphics are awesome and shooting feels good, but the level design just seems boring af. Just same old waves -> waves -> talky bit -> waves -> waves -> talky bit and a little walking. I just don't feel compelled to keep playing at this point unless it changes things up once the open world stuff is introduced.

For a second I thought I was just bored/over TPS cover shooters, but I'm still enjoying Binary Domain a lot while this is putting me to sleep.
Title: Re: Gears
Post by: The Sceneman on January 12, 2020, 12:55:23 AM
I got up the desert level (act 3?) and nah the game doesn't change or get better, it's the same shit over and over. I gave up due to being continuously fragged by cheesy bazooka enemies with splash damage. The game is infuriating with its cheap deaths.