Give me a run down of Gears 1 - 4 story

[Arh]

I only played gears of war 1 and 2 on the xbox 360 back in the day but i decided to give 5 a try. Can you give me a summary of 1-4 and what has happened so I can enjoy 5 from the get go. Ive watched a few videos but its all a little confusing

[The Chubby Dubber]

So basically, the grubs showed up, and then they got Carmine (RIP). That pissed off Dom and Marcus pretty hard, so they go chase after the general. They get trapped in the city where Krill attack anything in the shadow, so they had no choice but to light up Betty's titties. Once they drive Betty out of the city, they get to some weird research facility where the wretches are lambent. They want to be able to map the tunnels so that they can genocide all the grubs. Baird figures out that the little blue tech capsules are actually maps. At this point, the general phones in and sends our boys (Marcus, Dom, et al) down into the tunnels. They try to take a train to the tunnels, and run into the general who killed the commander guy from the first cutscene. After killing him, they send in the bombs. That's Gears 1. In Gears 2, we learn that the queen actually knew that the bomb was coming and it didn't do anything, and the queen is sinking all the cities. The solution that the humans come up with is to launch a massive ground assault. Chairman Richard Prescott gives an epic speech. Dizzy (of Betty) is there again which is a cool cameo. They also meet Tai, who is a real badass. The ground assault is a total failure, but our boys get underground after Tai and Dizzy hold off the chainsaw guy. They just kinda wander the tunnels for a while, and run into a big fish that they have to feed grenades. And then they see the big worm and realize that's what's been sinking all the cities. They go into the worm and carmine gets eaten by gut fauna. Despite this loss, they kill the worm's 3 hearts. They then chainsaw out of the worm and go to a facility because the general tells them to. While going through the facility, they meet the AI of Dr. whatshisface. He releases the sires on them, who are extremely weak to chainsaws. Upon escaping the facility, they go back into the tunnels. They find Tai, who has been tortured so bad he shoots himself. They then find Dom's wife, who has been tortured so bad that Dom shoots her. They hijack a beast barge and find the big lambent pool at the middle of the tunnels which is the perfect spot for the upgraded light mass missile. They fight a big monster and kill it, and then do a big bomb. That's Gears 2. We then timeskip a few years. All of humanity lives on a boat. Chairman Richard Prescott disappeared several years ago, and they wrote a pretty sick song about how lame he is. Then he shows back up, and we learn there are new tentacle guys who are kinda like grubs but mutated and come out of stalks. He gets killed but he gives Baird a CD and says we have to bring it to the general and his white wife with dreadlocks who has the password. They go there and do a big fight, and then leave. Cole and Baird go on a mission to Cole's old hometown, where he relives his glory days. Then, the boat crashes. Anya, Dom, et al and Jace fight their way to a balloon animal barge and take it to a town that we learn the COG nuked back during E-Day. Ice-T is the mayor, and he makes them go fix an elevator before he will help them. While fixing the elevator, they run into humans who have been mutated in the same way that the grubs have, and figure out that it's lambent doing it. Dom suicide rams a gas tank, which explodes everyone except Marcus et al. Then they find a submarine and go to an island where they find out that Marcus's dad isn't dead, but is working with the queen. He has figured out a way to make the lambent infection go away and kill every grub. The queen is not a fan, and the most tedious boss fight of all time ensues. After killing the queen, every grub dies (except not really because there are still 2 more games). That's Gears 3. Marcus and Anya get married and have Chad Harddick, who kills Anya in childbirth or something. He starts dating a woke millennial and has a friend named Del. Humanity begins automating everything with cool robots and living in walled cities, because there are tornadoes that have malicious intent now. Chad and Del get kicked out of COG for being too based or something, and join a group of humans who don't want to live in the city. That's when he starts dating the woke millennial. They go to raid a city with an uncle who is basically George Lopez and Gabriel Iglesias's lovechild. Robots show up and are mad that they're doing a raid, and the president sends a robot doppelganger to yell at Chad. They manage to escape, but when they go back to the village it gets raided by things that look a lot like grubs but for copyright purposes are legally distinct. They capture Uncle Drunk and Kait (woke millennial)'s mom, and they realize they have to ask Marcus for help getting them back. They go and find Marcus, who is living by himself in a big house farming tomatoes. The president sends a bunch of robots to kill them but they escape. They then are searching for the not-grubs when Marcus gets gloomped by a labial snatcher. After getting him back, he reveals that he had a psychic connection and now knows where Kait's mom is, but they're gonna need backup. They go to a radio tower where they call Baird. Baird gives them big robots that they use to fight their way to Kait's mom, who is in a Captain Keyes situation. They do the same thing as is done to Captain Keyes, and then we learn that maybe Kait's grandma was the locust queen or something? Unclear. That's Gears 4. Now you are ready for Gears 5

[Bassturd]

Don't forget about judgement. Some of what you wrote is in that. Judgement is in between 3 and 4

[VinnyTheSavage]

Originally posted by Bassturd:

Don't forget about judgement. Some of what you wrote is in that. Judgement is in between 3 and 4

no one played that it doesnt count

[Arh]

thank you for the lengthy summary. It was Just what I needed + some good jokes in there too. Robots are a little stupid in my opinion. Gears 2 was peak for me. 5 has been fun so far just killing and playing on the hardest difficulty but I don’t think I’ll be playing multiplayer due to the movement being too ridiculous. I’ll report back what I think about it. I’m sure EDay will be sick though

[Bassturd]

Originally posted by Arh:

I’m sure EDay will be sick though

It damn well better be!!!

Originally posted by VinnyTheSavage:

no one played that it doesn't count

If so then a lot of people missed out. It's when Baird get's demoted. Although that side mission "Aftermath" wasn't anything very exciting. Just extra exposition that could have been a little bit longer. Felt more like a demo than anything else. You're not missing anything with that one. The only thing I got from it was what happens to Sofia Hendrik and Paduk after Judgement.

Personally I find the whole "court martial trial" of Kilo Squad during the war a bit ridiculous. I'm sure they could have dealt with the advancing locusts first then conduct the trail later on in a secured safe zone. But I suppose it made the game more action packed and cinematic.

[Bassturd]

If any of this sounds confusing, you should consider playing them in chronological order for things to make more sense.

1: E-Day (not released yet from the time of this post)
2: Gears of War: Judgement
3 Gears Tactics
4: Gears of War 3: RAAM's Shadow
5 :Gears of War
6: Gears of War 2
7: Gears of War 3
8: Gears of War: Judgement (Aftermath campaign. Set just before the last missions of Gears of War 3.)
9: Gears of War 4
10: Gears 5: Hivebusters (This one I'm iffy on. It's kind of set concurrently with Gears 5 but the books based on Gears 4 set it up and I haven't finished it to know exactly when it's set.)
11: Gears 5.

(copy and pasted from reddit)

[Arh]

sadly I dont have a console and im not gonna get gamepass or xbox pc games

[Bassturd]

Originally posted by Arh:

sadly I dont have a console and im not gonna get gamepass or xbox pc games

I would love to drop the forbidden emu***** word but people think I'm a criminal for mentioning it, even though I own all the gears games and hardware.

There is always youtube. You can watch people play the full game through to the end so you can catch up on the story.

I'm sure between now and the next couple years, XGS will drop a complete edition of all the gears games remastered here on Steam. God I wish that were the truth but who knows what the future holds.