I personally feel that the two rappers in Gears 4 weren’t the best choices for guest characters. However, I still feel that Gears 5 should include guest characters from other Microsoft games . Having guests characters from other Xbox series would be cool in my opionion. Here are my suggestions for the guest characters:
To be serious I think we should have it limited with Master Chief (Halo 3 design), Commander Shepard, and Joanna Dark (PDX design) on COG. Then a Brute, Elite and tho he’s not an antagonist he would fit in with the beast like tone of the Swarm/Locust. Brutus could join them and hopefully if he gets popularity see Brute Force come back.
I actually really like this idea! I think that it’d be cool for TC to implement at least two characters from other franchises (one for COG, one for Swarm). An example being, like you stated, Master Chief for COG and Arbiter on the Swarm. Obviously, there’s more choices than Halo, but these are some great examples that you’ve given
I don’t think Guest characters need to be a thing. I think having Grey and Tasha in Judgement was cool, but that’s it. They were EPIC characters after all. RTJ is fine because they support the game, just like Ice T, except his character was actually in the story.
I don’t see how the idea of guest characters is a entirely a bad idea. The two rappers in Gears 4 were technically guest as they only appeared in the mp. I just feel that guest characters from other Microsoft franchises could work for Gears of War as its mp has no canonical weight. Also as an FYI, I didn’t suggest ridiculous guest characters like Rainbow Dash.