It seems like some people thought that just b/c the game was adding some bigger spaces and a vehicle you can control freely that guaranteed it a 90+ rating. Kind of silly.
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Gears 5 Review Thread
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Well I loved Gears (1 to 3) but I was still expecting a better return to form for Gears 5 after all the hype. I still think the serie needs a fresh start.
I'll give this a shot on game pass but eh, I'm not sure I want a "more of the same" episode after how mediocre Gears 4 was.
I will wait until I play it to see I agree with the overall reception. Not gonna lie' I was expecting way higher scores than these.
I just finished Gears 4 yesterday, and all of the material for this game makes it look far more ambitious in terms of story and campaign. If it was scoring worse I would completely understand (what they did add sucked and detracted from the core of series) or somewhat/significantly better than 4 (what they added is great).
Being like "Nah it all just pretty much evens out" is a surprise to me.
I see people disappointed about the score and honestly I think y'all should divert that energy to playing the game instead. What really matters is if you enjoy it. Hours of posting on a video game forum over a score are hours of your life wasted.
Scores in the mid-80s is "disappointing"? You need to reset your expectations :-P
Over 90% recommended and scoring in the top 10% of all games, these are very good reviews.
ACG gave it a "Buy" but definitely a muted recommendation. While he praised the game play and multiplayer, points were deducted for story and open world areas (which seems to be a common theme among the reviews).
I think expectations and thereby standards for reviews are constantly rising. A lot has changed and shifted perspectives since Gear 4 released.
I'm sure Gear 5 is a better game, as most reviews state, but doesn't mean it will score higher.
The only unexpected thing about this thread is people discounting Forza Horizon for some reason
You can innovate without changing the core identity of something. Also "bitch" is gross.
Lower than my 91 prediction, but it seems to be a great game nonetheless. Excited for the campaign and Horde mode. Is it released on GP tomorrow night or Friday?
I wish Gears would have turned into a horror-ish series like what we got a taste of in 1. That would surely bring in the 90+ scores.
As someone who is only casually following the discussion here, people were excited about the new direction the series was taken and expected it to review better.
Why?
People love it in uncharted.
What is good is good.
And UC stly controls allow for more gameplay variety.
The fact that we had some over 90 games doesn't change what i said. It's very very hard to reach that goal and only some of the best team in the world were able to do it. Nintendo , ND , Kojima productions , Capcom , Santa Monica , R* are ( part of ) the excellence of this industry.
Not gonna disagree, but it was different from the other Gears games. They tried and people didn't like it, so go back to the previous formula and evolve from there.
From what I saw it seemed like step up in each pillar of the experience, and Gears 4 was a 84 Metacritic game.
I was expecting 90+ from the perspective of it being as good as a reviewer would expect/want a Gears game to be.
thats one way to spin it...by that logic its only "a bit worse" than Gears 3.
Game is sitting at an 85 on OpenCritic which is 6 points behind this image of Gears 3 and 6 points ahead of Judgment.
but then again at that point we are counting points so who the fuck cares
People won't bitch around if is well made. God of War and BotW are good examples. A lot of things changed, but the core didn't. Point is how to change your game while maintaning the essence. Not a easy thing to do, but not impossible.
Reading a couple of impressions, I'm a bit dissapointed that the new direction harkens so much to the old.
I was hoping for a bit more of a drastic jump, but ah well.
I was hoping for a bit more of a drastic jump, but ah well.
Yeah, it became obvious that the open world areas weren't going to be popular with reviewers after watching some extended footage. There's precious little to do, the navigation requires you to explore (sometimes hitting dead ends) and there's just a sense that you're skiffing around aimlessly.
I'm excited to try it, but I can see why some didn't like it.
Gears 4 were highly overrated on meta so comparing them is kinda pointless. Gears 5 probably gonna settle on 85 and be a leap from the mediocre 4
The gun game has never been enjoyable in uncharted games and that factors into the controls for me. I rather have gears weighted movement and gun control than Uncharted movement and gun control.
This actually is a good point, because while Gears 4 wasn't rated nearly as high as Uncharted 4, a lot of fans feel like it got way too generous scores. I think that's part of the reason behind some people feeling disappointed. They're comparing the scores to Gears 4's scores, and thinking "if THAT game is 84, and this is even worse...", but it may be a lot better and still score lower.
It was actually meant as an aside to the reviewers that expected the game to reinvent the whee...er, cog. But I can see why people didn't appreciate the cheekiness.
MC is already back up to 85, fyi. And as someone who really liked Gears 4 it sounds like I'll probably love this one.
This is an accurate statement.
I'd like to see that too, I think there's so much talent id be interesting to see what they can come up with.
True when viewed in vacuum, but I'd say changing tastes and trends in the game industry are likely a bigger culprit to Gears 5's lower score than the actual comparative quality of the game.
So one of the big things The Coalition were pushing with this game to differentiate it from the earlier entries was the open arenas. However, this was also one of the main problems reviewers had with the game.
That's a shame honestly. Introducing new elements into long-standing franchises to freshen it up is always a risk, shame it didn't pay off.
That's a shame honestly. Introducing new elements into long-standing franchises to freshen it up is always a risk, shame it didn't pay off.
The score is great, many were simply expecting more since it'd been a while since the last game of this scope from MS and it got really good previews.
I was not the one who said Gears controlled like ass though?
And to absolutely no surprise, this thread is already an embarrassment. Console warring everywhere. Calling it a flop. Since when was a game rated in the 80s a flop? Maybe play the game for yourself before calling it a flop. It's like all people do in today's world is read reviews and call it without ever bothering to actually experience it for themselves.