Why do most people hate this game?

[𝔰𝔦𝔤𝔦𝔫𝔞 ✝]

I've only played Gears of War 1 in stores back in 2006 so I don't know much about the franchise and I've seen a lot of hate towards this one.. What's up with that?

[Tikka Qrow]

Next to no loyalty rewards...

Gears 3 gave out a lot of stuff, with gold weapons only being had thru exclusive codes, or by hitting certain achievements in past games. I had all the gold weps in Gears 2, so 3 just gave them to me, carried over. Certain things had to be earned by playing the previous games.
Gears 5 gave my a week of boosters... Ephemeral at best. the 4,000 coins made unlocking Myrrah easy, but where my boi Kim?

Gears 5 is the 1st gears i didn't pre-order. I liked 4 well enough, but idk.
Just getting into 5 over the holidays. Runs pretty well on my aged 980ti.

Oh, not a fan of the micro transactions. But that's normal these days.

[Tikka Qrow]

Messaggio originale di Fulgore:

Its a pretty game and it runs very well,but its really disappointing for a Gears game.
The campaign was the most disappointing part for me. Barely progresses after Gears 4,there is a terrible big choice you must make for one major character that makes no sense(also for the next Gears game),the ending is a worse type of ''to be continued''. Its really underwhelming especially for a Gears game. As for the multiplayer,i personally got bored pretty quickly. Its almost too obvious that the game was rushed just so it could promote gamepass.
Its an ok game if you buy it on heavy discount or play it through gamepass,but for 69.99 starting price for a gears game,we expected way more.

I am absolutely glad i waited to buy then. 4 was okay, but it was missing a lot of wide content i was used to with the EPIC games versions. Long time Gears fan since the 360 launched, and picked this up for, what, $8 during a midweek madness sale?

[GREEN E]

They strayed too far from what made the multiplayer of the first one unique imo.

First one was golden. Map design, emphasis on round based permadeath, simplicity of it all. It was beautiful. It's not that anymore. Maps can be kind of trash although they look nice. Campaign is shockingly short. It's not close to what made it so interesting 15 years ago.

[Kayudin]

Marcus Fenix Is Not Playable In Campaign Mode = no love no Gears :)

[Shibby]

Messaggio originale di Kayudin:

Marcus Fenix Is Not Playable In Campaign Mode = no love no Gears :):gearstomato:

They tried to trick people into thinking he was playable in campaign by putting him on the original cover too.

[WooF]

The part that sucked for me was the story. I like the story from the 4th gears so jumping into this one wasnt too bad, only upsetting on how short it was. The open world areas where pretty cool but they felt empty for me. Not much exploration for those parts. The actual ending for this game was alright too but left on another cliff hanger.
For everything else its the same gears too me: Multiplayer just running around with shotguns and 1 shoting everyone, if you like that its there just like all the other ones. So are all the flashy skins that put COD up for its money. Horde mode is what i usually play and its good enough to keep you playing. Has about 3 modes for that, classic, frenzy and just a shorter version of the regular horde. Escape mode? Honestly its cool, has replay value but for me i dont really care for it. Just like horde but instead of defending your escaping.
Overall i give this game a 7/10. I didnt hate it at all but then again i only paid $10 for this so why would I lol

[Chosen One]

I love the game to death but it's because of the sponging. Sponging is when you shoot someone point blank ( sometimes multiple times, with say a shotgun) and they don't die. OR you get a 97% hit marker after shooting them sometimes multiple times point blank. Making the gameplay and competitive play extremely frustrating and inconsistent. Then on top of this, you have cocky players who will not admit that the game is not 100% skill. (which is toxic imo because it's basically just gaslighting) There is no other game that has it as bad as Gears. It's always been that way unforunately. Don't get me wrong, being good at the game takes a decent amount of skill and a lot of experience but all the experience and skill in the world cannot outdo bad game mechanics and bad internet/ server connections. That's just my 2 cents as someone who has been playing Gears of War since 2009.

[aliengrey1990]

I've been playing since Gears 1 and I really liked it. The multiplayer is nowhere near as good as 3, but I liked where they took the story.

[kapraru]

Bq most people cant handle Xbox Live
Gears 5 has one of the best coop campaign for 3 players i have ever played

[Alex Jones]

It's not about the hate, it's a new different era, back in the days, people liked to play (as myself lol) , Quake, Unreal Tournament, Duke Nukem, Doom, Half-Life, Command & Conquer... this new era, likes to play different games, like Fortnite, Minecraft, pubg, Hello kitty etc.

[UserNotFound]

Personally, I like all the 3 PC game versions of the series, best being the original Gears of War. I've replayed the games again because I'd updated my GPU and it's awesome to run the games at full bore @ 3840x1080 and still see >100fps most of the time. Now playing Gears 5 and so loving it.....btw, I'm basically SP campaign player, as long as I get the action fix I need, don't really care for much else. Story's okay I guess....

[Kool Shade]

If it would ever let me Play I might find Out :( Only have two places to click and both say error when I click them,

Well actually is one that works "Quit to desk Top"

[Gallows]

it's a miracle to be able to play a horde game without the whole team leaving. game is such ass now. campaign is bearable. but with horde having no penalties for people leaving it's just as big a joke as the versus is. crazy how these morons at coalition acknowledge these issues and just say ♥♥♥♥ you.

hilarious that the game is so dead they had to bring it to pc as part of microsofts "incentive to pc players". how about going back to the roots that made the game special and listening to the community that plays your ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ games.

[Bender]

boring game stuck in 2006. no new mechanics or gameplay. caters to mountain dew smooth brains who cry that rifles do any damage so their shotgun can be the only gun in the game. Clunkiest movement and people argue that it's unique. Uniquely bad of course. When you don't provide the necessary animations to smoothly transition or relay to the player the information needed to make a balanced game, you know they're cutting corners.

The major issue with this game since Gears 2 is the wall bounce and/or slide cancel. The issue may not necessarily stem from the mechanic itself, but they have not refined it at all. It still looks as stupid as it did in Gears 2, because they did not provide the animations or transitions necessary to make the system work. Plus, they have never fixed their latency, and part of the issue is when people cancel movements, that gets pinged to the server, and the 9 other players need to be updated on what the other players are doing.

The clunky movement, plus the cancelling without any animations to inform players logically (characters are doing impossible movements in this game, breaking immersion and realism, yes realism, no, big guns and aliens doesn't mean you can forget about realism, that is a lazy excuse, characters are undergoing huge amounts of G force to perform these moves), and the inability to make decent server connections to fit 10 players (now 8) makes this game just awful and unrewarding for the intelligent and decent human beings of society to play, hence the reviews and the playerbase.

never seen a game struggle so hard to tune one shotgun. never had issues with shotguns in Battlefield or DOOM or any other game.

Can you imagine if this game tried to have gun customization like Gears Tactics? God help them. They can barely manage the stock weapons.

Awful PvE balancing, the mark of a bad studio and lazy developers is when their version of increased difficulty is more HP, and more DMG for the enemies.

TC comes off as incredibly lazy here. Their solutions to things is to placate and cater to the worst part of their fanbase and they are killing this game. The majority of players do not know what they want, game devs ought to change things and shake the system. TC is playing it far far too safe. I.E. the new God of War. or the birth of games such as Street Fighter II (There were no games prior to inform Capcom how to even make 2D fighting games, and no shmuck could have told them how to).

The consumer is not right because the consumer doesn't even know what it wanted in the first place.

Amateur game dev reviving a dead game franchise for MS to make quick cash. TC is a place game devs go to retire in their career, when they are dispassionate about game dev, and just want easy pay.

[Terry]

Messaggio originale di Tikka Qrow:

Next to no loyalty rewards...

Gears 3 gave out a lot of stuff, with gold weapons only being had thru exclusive codes, or by hitting certain achievements in past games. I had all the gold weps in Gears 2, so 3 just gave them to me, carried over. Certain things had to be earned by playing the previous games.
Gears 5 gave my a week of boosters... Ephemeral at best. the 4,000 coins made unlocking Myrrah easy, but where my boi Kim?

Gears 5 is the 1st gears i didn't pre-order. I liked 4 well enough, but idk.
Just getting into 5 over the holidays. Runs pretty well on my aged 980ti.

Oh, not a fan of the micro transactions. But that's normal these days.

They DID give loyalty rewards. The issue was you HAD to be active the year following Gears 5. There was a set of challenges called "The Road to Gears 5", and those challenges included stuff such as having an achievement in every gears game to get certain skins in Gears 5, but quite a few of the challenges were focused around Gears 4 challenges + achievements and included weapon skins such as Gilded (Golden Skins)