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WTF bros ... Microsoft sending in double agents to ruin the GOW franchise? guaranteed the next GOW game will be even more woke and probably have Atreus and Kratos transition into a fem!

lol I was wondering which one was gears and which one god before opening.

Since Xbox bad and Xbox devs not passionate this is bad though right?

It over for SSM.

A lot of people would argue that making him female would probably make it less woke than the last two games.

she'll fit right in

First GoW was absolutely tremendous, one of the GOATs, rest have been mid.

If we're talking geas of war

1 and 2 were masterclass ... 3 was meh

never played judgement.


Gears 4 was ass ..... 5 was actually kinda cool, but I did not like the wide linear sections. As a whole though, Gears 4 and 5 were hugely mismanaged IMO. The new enemies that they hyped were practically reskins of the old ones and the new characters just didn't really grab you the same way that the old crew did.

That said, Gears is still probably the best xbox franchise to me. Patiently waiting for Coailition to melt our eyeballs with UE5.

5 was really good boyo. Have you played them all?

I liked gow5, didn't think I would tbh

I never played the latest GOW ... always was a solid series tho...dunno why I never played it

o well, ragnarok already had kratos suffering sides of quitting steroids cold turkey

gonna be a fine trainwreck to watch

I played 1-3. Really good is about as far as I'd stretch to call 5 based upon reviews, 82-84, which I believe aren't some huge conspiracy theory like some window lickers around here.

Reeeeeeeee reviews only gave it an 84 on meta and 85 on Opencritic because of Xbox tax/bias, it’s a masterpiece


Also reeeeeeeeee game terrible because not a 90


Also reeeeeeeee reviewers gave it mid 80’s because Xbox paid them off and they want to stay in ms’s good graces, it’s really a 5

Jay alt confirmed

Actual dialogue from God of War 2026:
Spoiler!The writing was on the wall with 3 because they were at the end of the 360 era and had to wrap up a trilogy under what became a complacent Microsoft/xbox that was overly reliant on a handful of IPs and adverse to branching out.

Gears 3 was already rocky because they kept pushing the lambent despite them being completely incompatible with what made the core gameplay fun - close quarters combat. Good luck with that when the new main antagonist are basically just neon locust suicide bombers in a game most known for having a gun with a chainsaw bayonet.

4/5 were clearly just a soft reboot reusing poverty versions of the originals that people loved like the locust-->swarm and Marcus-->Mr. Potato Head son. Marcus already being so conveniently connected to the core parts of the plot was contrived, but going off of what I know about the coalition's sorry excuse for a plot, they dialed contrivances up to 11 and made damn sure weknewthat the locust were really just mutated humans* and the main character was of course directly related to the locust queen.

*Personally, what made Gears of War so compelling was the mystery behind a completely unknown, subterranean race launching a surprise assault on humanity. Zero explanation, just pure horror of E-Day and the concept of an advanced species living beneath mankind's very feet plotting its demise. It's like Alien where the original and Aliens were so effective because we never found out too much about the titular Alien, and that was thrown in the trash when Ridley Scott decided that they came about because a flute-fingering robot. Halo had the same problem; seriously,neverover-explain mysteries unless you have a damn good explanation behind them that isbetterthan the mystery itself.I can tell you why in one picture:
Spoiler!