Lol. Seriously. The game got absolutely great reviews and the user critic is even higher than what media thinks on average.
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"Gears 5 is the Win That Microsoft Needed, The Xbox's Answer to Uncharted" (Forbes Contributor)
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On one hand, I acknowledge that Microsoft had Gears 5 at almost every one of its big presentations since it was announced.
On the other hand, it felt like its presence at a lot of those presentations was being very subdued. When they announced the release date at E3, the marketing gave me (and it felt like many others) that impression that the game couldn't possibly be that close to finished.
I'm glad it turned out well, I just wish this had a lot more pomp leading up to release to kind of deliver a sense of payoff. I was still lingering on my "Gears 4 is only okay and that feels like a bit of a bummer" taste toward the series, so having some sense of confidence about Gears 5 from its publisher leading up to release would've been great.
Can't wait to eventually play the game myself -- sold my X a couple of months ago under pretense that I'll just play Xbox/Microsoft games on PC when I get back to PC gaming. It'll be one of the first games I go to on my return!
Now that I think about it, I was thinking about selling my X and I was like "what would I actually play on this" and it boiled down to Gears and Forza, and my foremost thought about Gears was "well Gears 4 was kinda so-so..." Some more confident Gears 5 marketing may have well swayed my decision to keep the Xbox.
On the other hand, it felt like its presence at a lot of those presentations was being very subdued. When they announced the release date at E3, the marketing gave me (and it felt like many others) that impression that the game couldn't possibly be that close to finished.
I'm glad it turned out well, I just wish this had a lot more pomp leading up to release to kind of deliver a sense of payoff. I was still lingering on my "Gears 4 is only okay and that feels like a bit of a bummer" taste toward the series, so having some sense of confidence about Gears 5 from its publisher leading up to release would've been great.
Can't wait to eventually play the game myself -- sold my X a couple of months ago under pretense that I'll just play Xbox/Microsoft games on PC when I get back to PC gaming. It'll be one of the first games I go to on my return!
Now that I think about it, I was thinking about selling my X and I was like "what would I actually play on this" and it boiled down to Gears and Forza, and my foremost thought about Gears was "well Gears 4 was kinda so-so..." Some more confident Gears 5 marketing may have well swayed my decision to keep the Xbox.
It's like comparing prime Indians Jones to a Micheal Bay movie.
It was a $40 stand alone game that got a retail release. Stop making that an excuse for its quality. Left Behind was a $10 dlc and scored higher than it. Why are you getting so emotional over this and start calling people pathetic? You need to take a deep breath and step away from the forums for a while lol
I'm sick of comparisons. I'm so tired of people in 2019 still trying to force some kind of rivalry in terms of exclusives, or an answer to this or an answer to that.
Why can't we just be happy with the competition internally, that MS are trying to improve on there roster of games and improve there game pass service and such. I don't compare Sony to Nintendo, they both do there own thing, why do we feel this constant need to compare MS to Sony, its apple's and oranges.
Why can't we just be happy with the competition internally, that MS are trying to improve on there roster of games and improve there game pass service and such. I don't compare Sony to Nintendo, they both do there own thing, why do we feel this constant need to compare MS to Sony, its apple's and oranges.
Some people on this board supposedly have PS4 and X1 and still are in "console war"
So what.
A $40 stand alone expansion that took only a year to develop. You also realise The Lost Legacy is sitting at 84 on meta and Gears 5 is sitting at an 85, and that both are sitting at 85 on OpenCritic? There's barely anything between them critically speaking lol. You're really reaching here.
Yeah, this is where I'm at. I gave up halfway through Gears 1, then skipped to 4 and lasted about two levels before I'd had enough. Gears 5 is better than both, but it still feels like a game stuck in the past. Plus, I don't care about the story and I really dislike the characters. It feels like a Gears game, for better or fo worse. It looks lovely, but xbox 'quick start' has been shitty as usual, sometimes leaving whole levels with unloaded textures so the objects look like claymation models.
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Hope you'll be here too. Send me a PM if Gears 5 help X1 in a big way, especially in sales.
Lost and Damned was basically just DLC. Scored 90.
Ballad of Gay Tony was basically just DLC. Sitting at 89.
Witcher 3 expansion is basically just DLC. Sitting at 92.
But let's not talk about Uncharted "dlc" because reasons.
For Somone who loved uncharted 4, LL was quite the let down, its was not bad but the story was dull, the pacing pretty poor and some pretty anoying and tedious sections.
4 and 5 both didn't break 90 which is a decline from their predecessors and something that Uncharted didn't experience, stop with the disingenuous posts and goal post moving.
The developers themselves said it was DLC, wich is right.
After ND got really good as a studio they haven't had a full game below 90 MC.
Multiple times people have explained what LL is yet you keep going back to the same thing.
You mean calling a retail stand alone game "dlc"? Uncharted 4 isn't even required to play it. Multiple wrongs don't make a right.
Being stand alone doesn't mean it's a full game. Infamous First Light is also DLC and stand alone. It's really easy to understand the differences between a DLC and a full game, but I see that pushing your agenda is more important so keep it up.
No they said it was going to be DLC but then it started to grow and become something bigger, loads of games probably start out as DLC but then the development evolves into something more and it becomes a fully fledged game.
And why the twitter is not calling Lost Legacy a DLC but instead a "New Uncharted game"? Explain this.
At the beginning it was supposed to be a DLC, but it grow up and become a bigger game, calling Lost Legacy a DLC is insulting.
Whats a full game? Its a 7-10 hours campaign, about as long as Gears 5 on average.
The marketing of this game is one of the worst i've seen for a high profile project like this. Absolutely awful and I think it is still felt now despite the succes. It could have been a much bigger succes. What a shitshow they did last e3
Ah, the problem is your mindest. The game can be a success critically, it can be a massive win for Microsoft but to you this is only valid if the only metric in the world of success is considered, sales. This is especially funny because your favorite plastic box provider makes tons of money from subscriptions.
Comparing games to one another is pretty dumb and nothing good ever comes from it on a forum like this.
I can't wait for Death Stranding to release so we can have the BoTW v Death Stranding threads.....eughh.
I can't wait for Death Stranding to release so we can have the BoTW v Death Stranding threads.....eughh.
Officially it was "a standalone expansion to Uncharted 4". It was actually free for those who had the Uncharted 4 Deluxe Edition, Explorers Pack, Season Pass or Triple Pass Expansion. But yes, it was also sold retail seperately too.
Of course it does, unless you're saying past Gears titles were scored higher than what they deserve, there is a reason why the highly regarded titles all have high MC.
I dont think it's a return to form at all. The campaign, while mechanically sound and fun to play, was otherwise quite unremarkable. The more open areas dont change that at all. I even think the game could have been better wizhout them, judging from the blast that was the first act.
But then the game might have turned into another Gears 4. I really dont think The Coalition are on the same level as Epic here and probably never will be with this series.
And then we have Uncharted 4, which not only refined its mechanics, but also delivered a very compelling story and experience. It was memorable and felt "whole". Gears has had cliffhangers twice now, stretching its thin story almost to the breaking point. In the good old 360 days you have fucked the Locust in the ass with every game. When they were over you always felt like you had done it, with only a slight teaser at the end to tell you the fight wasnt really over.
The longer I think about it, the more disappointed I am lol
But then the game might have turned into another Gears 4. I really dont think The Coalition are on the same level as Epic here and probably never will be with this series.
And then we have Uncharted 4, which not only refined its mechanics, but also delivered a very compelling story and experience. It was memorable and felt "whole". Gears has had cliffhangers twice now, stretching its thin story almost to the breaking point. In the good old 360 days you have fucked the Locust in the ass with every game. When they were over you always felt like you had done it, with only a slight teaser at the end to tell you the fight wasnt really over.
The longer I think about it, the more disappointed I am lol
I don't think gears even registers on sonys radar or any other ms exclusive. Uncharted reached heights that gears never will.
From ND's own admission it's a standalone game mate. Stop with this agenda nonsense.
Sure but how many DLCs are priced at $40? It grew into something more than that and they had to honor the Uncharted 4 deluxe edition customers. Gears 5 is on Game Pass so I suppose we should compare it to $10 indies?
LL was better than both Gears 5 and Uncharted 4.
It was planned as DLC similar to Left Behind, but it eventually blew up and they decided to also release it as a standalone game. Season Pass buyers got LL with the season pass. It's somewhere in between DLC and full-price game, but in the end, it doesn't matter. LL was a return to form after the poorly paced mess that Uncharted 4 was.
Because apparently it's not a "full game" according to someone here.
LL is actually the 2nd best Uncharted game behind U2 but people are downsizing the game by calling it a "DLC" lol
It's more like comparing Indiana Jones to The Mummy 1999.
Never said it was DLC, but an expansion. Just a comprehensive stand alone one. Though not comprehensive enough to be charged at a full $60 even though it did also come with Uncharted 4's multiplayer built in.
To be fair, it was a great effort for a 1 year development time lower budget project, but it clearly lacked the scope of the mainline title. I think the reviews are fair.
You playing metas or games? Does Your top rated games fall directly inline with Metacritic scores? Lol