I mean, I have never liked the story of Gears of War. I played these games for the multiplayer. Even as a child I could tell something was off with the writing.
So many plot holes, so much wasted potential, and so much logistically impossible lore.
There’s a lot of potential in the basic premise of the series, but both Epic and TC had/have no idea what to do with it. It’s safe to say neither would know a good, or even just adequate, story if it bit them on the ■■■.
The poor writing is just more obvious now, both because many of us are older, but also because TC has ■■■■ script writers.
Epic games is, and has always been, bad at story-writing, but they do know how to produce some quality dialogue. And they also understand the basic concepts of character development, which is more than I can say for TC. So even though the setting has pretty much always been mishandled, and stupid as Hell, when Epic ran things the characters were “fun” and relatable.
They had defined personalities, personal codes of conduct, their own opinions. This made all the nonsensical buffoonery of the old games easier to ignore.
With these new games though, the story has even more logistical inconsistencies then before, mainly due to it being set 25 years after V-Day, when it should have been set 250 years after.
Only now, we don’t really have a whole lot of lovable characters to make the thumb-sized pill that is the crap story of this franchise easier to swallow. Of all the new characters, only Del, and to a lesser extent Kait, have actual personalities.
Del’s a sweet heart, who loves technology, respects robots, and wants to help others.
Kait is selfish and vengeful and potentially a sociopath, but for all that she’s still admittedly badass, and spiteful as all get out. She was willing to kill herself just to screw over the swarm, until an alternative was presented. Like dang, that’s a whole nother level of spite right there.
But as for the rest?
Fhaz is a generic ■■■■■■■■■.
JD is the son of Marcus, and that’s it, that’s his whole personality.
Lizzie seems like she might have had a personality, but she died so fast after we meet her we’ll never know for sure.
Most of the returning characters are just shadows of who they used to be, a failed attempt by less skilled writers to imitate their original personalities.
Tl:dr
All the problems you might have with the story were always there, but now, instead of a bad story with good characters, you have a bad story, with bad characters.
