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re: Gears of War E-Day
Posted on 10/8/26 at 3:56 pm to tween the hedges
Posted on 10/8/26 at 3:56 pm to tween the hedges
quote:I mean, if you have only read Xbox player reviews. But they also loved Gears 5
I've seen nothing but praise everywhere else.
Steam has it at 72% PC is at 6.8 on metacritic
Streamers seem pretty damn mixed.
Xbox fanboys are pretty stoked, though. So there's that.
Graphically it is the best it has ever been
On a pie chart of what I need from games, graphics are probably 5% of what drives my interest. Combat is fine.
Annoying cover-bouncing, like from Gears 5 is back.
Gunplay is about the same as 5.
Bosses are practically auto-beatable.
Dom and Marcus are back. . .shame they are essentially background characters in the story.
Let's be very clear.
I am a Gears fan of the highest order. I wanted nothing more than for this to be amazing.
It just wasn't
It also wasn't terrible, though
6/10
Slightly better than Wolverine. About as good as 5.
If you liked 5, you will like this.
I, personally, thought 5 was the worst in the franchise.
Posted on 10/8/26 at 4:51 pm to Roaad
quote:
tween the hedges
Been having fun in horde and versus off and on for a few days.
The entire board has decided to hate it so your mileage may vary.
This post was edited on 10/8/26 at 4:54 pm
Posted on 10/8/26 at 5:04 pm to CornDogCologne
quote:Seems like the board doesn't really care.
The entire board has decided to hate it
Only a few even talking about it. Only 2 people have reviewed it.
You thought it was amazing and a "return to 3"
I didn't.
6/10. Not great, not terrible. Like 5.
that's 50% of 2 people ranked it not terrible
For you that is:
quote:
The entire board has decided to hate it
Posted on 10/8/26 at 5:07 pm to Roaad
The peanut gallery of “woke, gay, and lame” of those people who haven’t played were busy expressing asmongold, Nickmercs, and peanuts opinion of the game.
This place is like inverse Reddit. I always thought of myself as on the right but obvious circle jerk is obvious. Yall enjoy the thread.
This place is like inverse Reddit. I always thought of myself as on the right but obvious circle jerk is obvious. Yall enjoy the thread.
This post was edited on 10/9/26 at 6:48 pm
Posted on 10/8/26 at 5:11 pm to CornDogCologne
quote:
This place is like inverse Reddit.
Either of my reviews would have been banned on Reddit
Your review is still up
Your comparison is. . .flawed at best
Posted on 10/8/26 at 5:39 pm to Roaad
quote:
Xbox fanboys are pretty stoked, though. So there's that.
Not what I'm seeing. Everyone is tired of the woke crap.
Posted on 10/8/26 at 5:50 pm to imjustafatkid
quote:Console fanboys are tribal frickwits
Not what I'm seeing. Everyone is tired of the woke crap.
They are glazing it in the reviews to pwn Sony
Sony fanboys did the same shite with Wolverine
Posted on 10/8/26 at 8:46 pm to Roaad
quote:
Console fanboys are tribal frickwits
They are glazing it in the reviews to pwn Sony
Sony fanboys did the same shite with Wolverine
Most folks around here think I'm a fanboy for XBOX. I don't really read review sites, but folks on Twitter are not happy.
ETA: I'm definitely going to play this game though. Haven't played a Gears I didn't enjoy yet. Hopefully this isn't the first.
This post was edited on 10/8/26 at 8:48 pm
Posted on 10/8/26 at 10:54 pm to imjustafatkid
Combat is fine
Janky cover movement from 5 is back
You will enjoy it if you completely ignore the story
Janky cover movement from 5 is back
You will enjoy it if you completely ignore the story
Posted on 10/9/26 at 7:50 am to Roaad
quote:
You will enjoy it if you completely ignore the story
looking forward to complete cringePosted on 10/9/26 at 1:14 pm to Roaad
Metacritic has it at 8.5 user reviews score. Mostly positive on steam. Some reviewers i trust really digged it.
I didnt play 4 or 5 because it seemed to focus away from Marcus. I think i'll play this with my brother which is tradition and see. I'll post back when done.
I didnt play 4 or 5 because it seemed to focus away from Marcus. I think i'll play this with my brother which is tradition and see. I'll post back when done.
This post was edited on 10/9/26 at 2:54 pm
Posted on 10/9/26 at 4:03 pm to caro81
Be careful.
The official positions on this board on legacy series are either:
A) It doesn't live up to my warped sense of nostalgia so it's dogshit
or
B) A content creator that purportedly aligns with my belief system but is actually grifting said it's woke and gay. I didn't even consume the content, but I'll make a value judgement on 20 second clips out of context. Big Brain time!
Nuanced opinions? Nah. Everything sucks. You enjoy something? Must be stupid, woke, gay...
The official positions on this board on legacy series are either:
A) It doesn't live up to my warped sense of nostalgia so it's dogshit
or
B) A content creator that purportedly aligns with my belief system but is actually grifting said it's woke and gay. I didn't even consume the content, but I'll make a value judgement on 20 second clips out of context. Big Brain time!
Nuanced opinions? Nah. Everything sucks. You enjoy something? Must be stupid, woke, gay...
This post was edited on 10/9/26 at 5:25 pm
Posted on 10/9/26 at 5:48 pm to caro81
quote:The review metrics don’t matter anymore in 2026, particularly with launch window review deletions and measures like ownership requirements
Metacritic has it at 8.5 user reviews score. Mostly positive on steam. Some reviewers i trust really digged it.
Know what’s way worse than a AAA user 8.5? AAA user 8.5s on embarrassingly low review volume
Today we’ve never been better informed about games before we buy them. You build your own internal consensus long before it comes out. So the reviews that would otherwise derail it into the 7s and below never hit because those reviewers never hit the ecosystem to begin with. To be ignored is worse than being mid, because mid still means revenue
We just saw this phenomenon with Marathon. Critic reviews were strong, first month reviews of the die hards excited about it were strong. Then they basically just stopped because it was revealed as a mid shallow game and no one who wasn’t already in the first wave had interest in playing it. Then they had that free week and it got blasted
The best modern predicative datapoint for if a game is good isn’t launch week reviews, it’s sales. They’re mediocre. If it was a good game people would be playing it. Particularly how starved they are for non-slop
This post was edited on 10/9/26 at 5:52 pm
Posted on 10/9/26 at 6:52 pm to RemouladeSawce
Right wing performative figs are just as bad as the left wingers.
Meanwhile Trump and his tech bros are throwing up flock cameras and data centers fricking up component prices and you're somehow copacetic with it?
I have evolved. I hate both teams equally. Continue whining about an optional flag on a character customization screen.
Gamergate was back in 2015 and we are still bitching about the same shite. Keep seething. I'm bored with this bullshite.
Meanwhile Trump and his tech bros are throwing up flock cameras and data centers fricking up component prices and you're somehow copacetic with it?
I have evolved. I hate both teams equally. Continue whining about an optional flag on a character customization screen.
Gamergate was back in 2015 and we are still bitching about the same shite. Keep seething. I'm bored with this bullshite.
This post was edited on 10/9/26 at 6:59 pm
Posted on 10/9/26 at 8:21 pm to CornDogCologne
Kotaku is that way
Posted on 10/9/26 at 8:24 pm to RemouladeSawce
Purity spiral.
What has our society conserved? What have we saved? Seems like the entertainment industry is pretty unilaterally ideologically opposed against you, eh?
What forthright right winger has emerged to save the entertainment industry?
Just make memes. Just type horseshite on message boards. That'll fix it.
Pick better targets. Better yet, create something. Beats saying "shite sucks" on a message board.
What has our society conserved? What have we saved? Seems like the entertainment industry is pretty unilaterally ideologically opposed against you, eh?
What forthright right winger has emerged to save the entertainment industry?
Just make memes. Just type horseshite on message boards. That'll fix it.
Pick better targets. Better yet, create something. Beats saying "shite sucks" on a message board.
This post was edited on 10/9/26 at 9:40 pm
Posted on 10/9/26 at 10:49 pm to CornDogCologne
damn CD, didn’t know you were this emotionally invested in Gears of War. Maaaah bad.
Posted on 10/10/26 at 4:19 am to CornDogCologne
Yeah. This is a gape
Posted on 10/10/26 at 8:03 am to Klark Kent
quote:
damn CD, didn’t know you were this emotionally invested in Gears of War. Maaaah bad.
To be fair, I'll also be pretty disappointed if XBOX let Gears get turned into woke crap.
In potentially related news (from a "mindset at XBOX" perspective):
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RUMOR | Xbox's missing 'Anime Games' may have been the result of a 'One-Man Power Trip' according to Jez Corden
“I've been speaking to a lot of figures, past and present, about why certain games have been banned on Xbox. There's a conspiracy theory among fans of a particular genre of games, notably anime-style dating simulations, because Microsoft has had this almost notorious app gap. PlayStation has these games, Nintendo has them, and Steam has them, but Xbox doesn't.”
“The community has had this conspiracy theory that Microsoft was blocking these games. I actually found out that this probably isn't as conspiratorial as some people might expect. Apparently, there was somebody at Xbox who hated anime-style games and had previously been declining them. This is something I've heard, so I took it with a pinch of salt because it's just industry rumour.”
“But I think times have changed. Leadership has changed hands, and some of those games that were previously blocked have now mysteriously started getting approved. So, yeah, times have definitely changed.”
“And I think you said it was a one-man power trip. It sounds like it was, yeah.”
I'm not into these types of games, and obviously this is just a rumor, but this definitely provides insight into the mindset that was permeating XBOX.
This post was edited on 10/10/26 at 8:35 am
Posted on 10/10/26 at 8:33 am to CornDogCologne
quote:and there it is.
Trump
Left wing reddit brains can only stay contained for so long.
They don't understand that they derive their personality from Trump, just as much as the MAGA cultists.
What a Mary.
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