I also watch all the cutscenes of Tactics and I honestly don’t like the story. Ukkon who comes back from the dead through rustlung / imulsion don’t fit in the original lore of Gears of War. And I don’t even talk about him being a Seran scientist…
For the rest of the story = pure fan service by linking Tactics to G4-5. So nothing more interesting either. I mean, the G4-G5 timeline is not worth digging. We all loved G5 for the Act 2 and 4 because of the lore, but the rest is useless.
At the end, Tactics only impressed me through its customization system.
I’d rather see them go full steam ahead and try to make something out of it than cowering back on themselves and watching it collapse like the SW movies. I think it’s interesting enough for me to enjoy it. But the game is about Kait’s father–I don’t see where the “fan service” comes in, Reyna’s not exactly a fan favorite, it just shows us how the two got together before Gears 4.
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Not having a timeline is definitely strange, but seeing that Hoffmans 90 years old and still able to push himself around in a wheelchair with no real problems and steal secret military documents (Bloodlines) seems to me that hes in the “early” stage of old age. So the time between when the lightmass process(end of the Era of Silence), The Gold Rush and the Start of the Pendulum Wars is probably a couple hundred years at least
I guess that’s fair. Assuming Serans live to be 80-120 years old, and the Pendulum Wars only lasted 80 Years, and New Hope was shut down under Monroe’s control–that Niles could’ve been there his whole life if he died around 70-100 years old.
I actually like Reyna a decent amount more cause of Tactics not that there was a lot of her in it, but I feel it fleshed her out just enough for her “death” to mean something in 4 (which is good cause last I checked the game was #2 on steam so maybe this will intrigue people enough to care about at least the campaigns on the main installment.)
Sid and Makayla still have potential to be somewhere in Gears 6 (Makayla the most likely I’d say)
I wish they did a little more with Ukkon though, he was just a big bad who gave us stuff to fight
That’s also true, that’s also the reason I hate playing Swarm (aside from Myrrah) as I find it hard to care (even after reading the comics). Spent too much time investing myself in the COG
Apparently Ukkon is a Sire, but is like a genetic anomaly in the sense he retained his cognitive faculties and basically became a genius or something. Is that the case? It sounds stupid if that’s the case.
I enjoyed that the game felt more like Gears of War than Gears 5. However, I also feel like the game at times would lose aspects of that and revert to the modern, less gritty, adventurous generic romp than a game about giant walking tanks fighting giant monsters in armour
I also don’t like how they doubled down on making the Locust a COG creation. Nothing breaks and destroys the monsters in your story than humanizing them (Ukkon speaking perfect Tyran/English) and making them a human creation.
God I miss when the Locust were alluded to being reptilian, underground monsters that finally erupted to cause war. They were a literal swarm of Locust ( see what I did there? )
I don’t mind the Locust’ origins insomuch in that I preferred it when it was a mystery.
I liked that the older games left subtle hints and never explicitly stated what the Locust truly were. A variety of explanations (some more valid than others) could be had, with no piece of evidence made one true beyond the reason of doubt. And while Joveus’ theory was the most solid, there was enough room for debate.
The lack of certainty made it fun to think about, but the Locust became far less interesting (to me) when we know everything about them. Then again, it was bound to come out sooner or later the moment they decided to make more games after Gears of War 3.
No, turning your entire species of monsters into human creations, cutting their history and potential as a group in half.
Supremely less interesting if your centuries old monsters are actually about 80 years old, aren’t native to the belly of the planet but were created in a lab.
And Myrrah being able to speak perfect English while looking human added to her unique and interesting position back in the day. Now every monster being able to speak perfect just comes off as goofy.
Imagine RAAM and Skorge didn’t speak in their screeching and growls, imagine they both spoke perfect English. That’d have definitely hindered their appearance as badass monsters.
Ah okay you meant literally human. I thought you meant character-wise.
I personally think it’s interesting, and kinda plausible even.
Considering our own world military history, powerful nations developed immense armies and new weapons within just a few years and were able to conquer. I can totally believe that within close to a century that Locust could develop themselves enough resources to colonize and later begin a conquest on the surface, especially after the Humans had fought a near century long war amongst themselves and that Locust pride themselves on not warring amongst eachother; all for one with the Horde and Queen.
I don’t think it’s everyone though, I think the only ones who can speak Tyran fluently are Myrrah, Ukkon, and the Speakers. I might be missing a few.
Myrrah herself raised a lot of questions for me back in the day like “wtf she’s human, or at least humanoid, how did she get accepted to the fold and become Queen”, “is she a sympathizer”, etc.
As much as I love Myrrah, her authority over the Locust always confused me. Mainly with her appearance and fluent Tyran.
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