It's not some weird reasoning at all, gears plays different than any other TPS, the cover system and movement are perfect once you've mastered them, but it takes time and people don't have patience today.
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Gears 5 controls like garbage
- Thread starter Metanoia Prime
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The only problem with Gears is the control scheme isn't the most friendly to mouse and keyboard, hard to pull off more advanced dodge and run techniques. Also hate you still can't slide around corners while maintaining cover.
This is false. It hasnt historically played bad. Its a pure cover shooter. You are not running and gunning like other games and it controls that way. Its also not bad game design. Its game design. Lots of people dont like it and its fair. Its definitely not for everyone.
It doesn't feel like gears 1 at all lol, gears 1 doesn't even have wall cancel and it is way more "tank".
It feels like Gears 2, 3 and 4. They all feel the same.
If you don't like a control system after 5 games into a series, then the series isn't for you.
I have never felt that any of the gears games played bad. All of them feel satisfying to play. If you mean that you don't like the emphasis on cover base military style game, then you choose the wrong game to play. The latest gears feels amazing to play.
I played Gears 5 at a friends house. First time I've played Gears in 9 or 10 years. It felt clunky to me too, but I knew that it was because I'm not used to gears anymore.
"The unique way it feels should just be made to feel like popular games you can get elsewhere instead" the thread.
Agree with you about not being the only one to like it theres plenty around with that opinion.
Agree with you about not being the only one to like it theres plenty around with that opinion.
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It's not my favorite either, but I don't think it's bad, and it's definitely not inconsistent.
Even if I do prefer how Uncharted and The Last of Us feel, I'm still glad Gears doesn't play like them.
Only thing I genuinely dislike is grenades.
Even if I do prefer how Uncharted and The Last of Us feel, I'm still glad Gears doesn't play like them.
Only thing I genuinely dislike is grenades.
I'm assuming this is your first Gears, because the controls/player movement in 5 are perfect for....Gears. The skill ceiling for gears is high, and it's not friendly to casuals or newcomers and never will be honestly.
Except, it doesn't play bad. Neither have previous entries. It does take skill, so I guess keep playing? Or don't.
Gears has always been pretty weighty. Not my cup of tea, but the fans like it so no problem. Not every game needs to play the same way. It's better to have some variety in how games control/feel.
Uncharted 4's shooting is so good it would be a better game without those sessions
Gears has always controlled like you're wadding through sand unless you're doing one of the more "advanced" technique.
Yeah Gears as a whole feels very different than most TPS out there. To me, what separates it from all of the others is that Gears has more of tactical spin to it, or at least it used too. The game doesn't want you running around jumping, sliding, hoping over things like you are a ninja. It's always been a more of slower more deliberate controlling game. Back in the Gears 1 days, when the main multi mode was Warzone and you only had one life per round, and you could die with one good shot, people played slower. The controls were better suited for that style of play. Recent Gears games have sped things up and most modes have respawn now, so you see a lot more ppl trying to play faster with what is basically the same playing controls the series has always had. I imagine for newcomers it can feel really strange to play coming off more nimble controlling games.
It feels like the other gears games so its been that way for years unfortunately
Different games with different goals. Gears is perfect for what it wants to do.
Also, Vanquish must be the most overrated game of all time on this forum, and MGS5 is the shittiest game of the generation (yes it controls very well but who cares if everything else is awful).
Sounds like Gears.
More than that, it sounds like you were expecting a modern FPS. That ain't gears.
Vanquish can't be the most overrated game when BOTW, GOW and RDR2 exist.
MGS5 can't be the shittiest game if the generation when Fallout 76, Anthem and the new Contra exist.
I wouldn`t say that's bad, but it's like, same old stuff? I don't know, when I play Uncharted 4 I can sense that they improved the cover shooter aspect, but I can't feel that with Gears 5.
MGS5 is still better than 80% games this gen. Really don't get the hate this game gets around here lol
Its indeed the best Gears so far.
But I still have some problems with it:
1. They haven't found a good way to deal with collision between teammates. If you roll back and your team mate is there, you just get stuck there and boom, you get shotgunned. I wish they were a bit more considerate, specially when the characters are a huge block of collision.
2. Better communication tools, I can't believe they haven't tried something like Pings or the Overwatch command wheel. I know it has emotes, but it needs something better.
3. Also if your team mates leave, they don't get penalized that badly atm. This always has been a problem with gears.
4. Even at full sensitivity, the game is still slow compared to mouse and keyboard users. They should allow for faster turning even in controls IMO.
5. Also if 2 people are in cover and they bump each other, one of them gets fucked up and you can't really do anything about it.
Besides that its fun, but they need to improve in some more areas IMO. They have done great improvements over 4, but it can still do more.
But I still have some problems with it:
1. They haven't found a good way to deal with collision between teammates. If you roll back and your team mate is there, you just get stuck there and boom, you get shotgunned. I wish they were a bit more considerate, specially when the characters are a huge block of collision.
2. Better communication tools, I can't believe they haven't tried something like Pings or the Overwatch command wheel. I know it has emotes, but it needs something better.
3. Also if your team mates leave, they don't get penalized that badly atm. This always has been a problem with gears.
4. Even at full sensitivity, the game is still slow compared to mouse and keyboard users. They should allow for faster turning even in controls IMO.
5. Also if 2 people are in cover and they bump each other, one of them gets fucked up and you can't really do anything about it.
Besides that its fun, but they need to improve in some more areas IMO. They have done great improvements over 4, but it can still do more.
Well, it's the shittiest game I've played this generation, I was so disappointed by it. As a huge fan of MGS, it was insulting.
RDR2 is amazing tho, I know, controls are clunky as hell, but the world and the story are just breathtaking.
Same guy will be like "God of War controls bad, glad I have PS Now"
Exactly what I was thinking about halfway through the first page. Conversation wasn't the goal for this thread.