Why Do you Love Gears? (If at All)

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#21

I love the multiplayer for how much you can express yourself through gameplay.

Once you get to a certain skill level you learn how to communicate through just gameplay.

You can just stand there, menacingly…

Or if the match has come to a lancer camping stalemate you can do silly things to bait the enemies into doing something. My favorite is to stand there hipfiring lancer, or the “swooping” from cover to cover. (Side-a off a corner into a parallel one)

Or you can wallbounce like a crackhead if you want. Or you can just strafe and still win the game either way.

And finally, that nice little dopamine rush when you fight a long match and win, guiding your lesser teammates by using good teamwork. Its subconscious to me at this point. Just analyze your team and complement their actions.

Even if you have that one guy who just doesnt stop rushing the enemy team trying to 1v3 them. You gotta adapt to that and maybe help him out sometimes.

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#22

I love…
The third person perfection.
The Gnasher and the glorious ballet kills you get with it.
The Lancer. I mean a chainsaw on and machine gun, who doesn’t want it!?
The grit, the monsters, the far away place it can take you.
And most of all, Guardian!!!

Long Live Gears & Guardian!!!

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#23

PVP, Gnasher Duels, the fluidity of the modern movement.

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#24

Bro I assumed you were like 40, no idea why.

I’ve played Gears most of my life. I was 13 when I first played the original one. Me and my brother played it a lot together, and have bonded over the years with the subsequent ones also. There was nothing quite like the grit and the presence of the first game in its time, especially in versus. And beyond that I grew to love the fast, smooth movement of Gears 4 versus as well.

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#25

Maybe because I always introduce myself as the 42 year-old who sounds like a 12 year old.

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#26

Aha that’s probably it

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#27

usually it frustrates me but i for some reason keep coming back to it…maybe i just like self harm?

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#28

Gears is the only good abusive relationship I’ve ever been in.

#29

I was Young when I got Gears of war(OG). It kept me sane while my parents were divorcing and helped me through my depression. I’ve made a lot of buddies and friends through the campaign and PvE. Gears will always hold a special place in my heart, I yell at it and get angry at it, but don’t we do that with most of the things we love?

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#30

It was always more than a meat and gore party

The characters had depth and emotion to them.

The story line was actually quite realistic with the initial resource war. Along with the weapons if mass destruction.

It gave you the real sense of dread and hopelessness of the situation. Paired with a lot of very well times emotional moments (RIP Dom).

To me it actually held a fabric to it unlike a lot of the games today. However I don’t like Gears 4 or 5 story wise because it feels a bit forced down your throat.

However that does not subtract the fact that they are still very fun campaigns to play (albeit kinda lengthy)

However I do have my little bit of salt when it comes to the current more recent games of course.

Overall though I’d say this franchise was one of the best ever created.

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#31

I love the world they’d built and the aesthetic of it all. Game wise, i’m terrible at FPS’s and can’t lead for crap. HERE, i actually have a decent grasp and can do well enough in a group. Over time, i’ve been enjoying the games and the slow evolution (minus the grub to swarm change, as it feels too much like WHY they push new star wars characters over old and popular ones), but the series has always been an enjoyable experience for me.

As a personal note, i’m a nut for character creation and customization, so seeing all of the unique looks and armors, even since gears 2 (where i started), i’ve wanted to build my own characters and their looks. Between the old cog gear, the new Baird Industries equipment, the UIR stuff, the stranded and the lost, everything, it’s always had such a great and fun, cool look to it all. Getting the additions of classes, fortifications, ultimates, and everything, it KILLS me that they don’t let you do that for multiplayer. More so, if they’re running 3 people campains, that fourth character slot would be perfect for our own custom character to silently tag along.

Tactics added a base version of this, but i would love to see a more fleshed out version in gears 6. Unlikely but i would love it. there are just so many great concepts and designs to flesh out the world they’ve made, and i just enjoy the games.

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#32

3rd person perspective
Cover system that no other game really had at the time.
Graphic level
wall bouncing/movement

game has lost me personally at this point. Too much competition that it didn’t have before. But this is still one of the first multiplayer games that I gravitated towards…so i still care for it.
but it is almost dead to me nowadays

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#33

I’m sorry you went through all that dawg, nobody deserves to go through that. We’re all glad that you’re still here though, stay strong man.

I started playing Gears around 2012 when I was 7ish. I fell in love with it because it gave me an escape from my second grade class full of kids that would bully me relentlessly and threaten to seriously hurt me and literally kill me. I was decent at the game too (at least I thought I was at the time, I only played against casual bots so it wasn’t really that impressive), it gave me a big confidence boost that I desperately needed.

If it wasn’t for Gears I don’t think I would be around today, it helped me during a rough time in my life and I only have Epic to thank for that.

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