Soapbox: Gears Of War E-Day Could Be Something Special, If The Coalition Gets It Right

Wish it was being made for the series x only.
Total focus on one console and no other devices.

That’s how Sony and Nintendo get the best from their consoles.
Will be so disappointed if this turns out campaign wise above average and not that top AAA it should be and could be.

I'm 50/50 on this. I Love the other games but this being (another) prequel has me concerned. Don't get me wrong I think the whole E-Day event would be fantastic but how much is it actually going to focus on E-Day? I fear it'll accelerate right past the invasion aspect and it just plays out like Gears 1 again.

@OldGamer999 it has to be scalable in order to be profitable. They want as many people to be able to access it as possible - series s and lower range pc’s are a far larger proportion of that potential player base than series x alone. Although in targeting pc, it will also have features that take advantage of hardware far more powerful than series x, some of which may be present on series x.

@Neither_scene
Yeah I get their intentions, but due to producing for all devices they never produce a TOTK or GOWR for the series x. A must have game of outstanding quality in all areas.

I know I’m late to the scene with this.
But was looking earlier as a friend asked me.

Why have the nutters at Microsoft priced the new white digital series x at £430.
Instead of £380 as per PS5 slim digital.

Have they lost all competitive will to live.

This is the only game i truly want this gen so bad the day’s seem like weeks counting down to its release. I hope the game brings back the competitive pro series the franchise used to have. I hope it moves consoles and does great for the IP. I believe it will cause this developer is top class. This and Doom should have 2025 looking really good for team green. Now if Fable is a hit then wow that’s a huge year for Xbox. But this is the game, it has to be great as a life long Gears fan.

It needs to be good gears 4 was ok but gears 5 was bad the open world ruined the game loved the original games from the 360 even judgement because it was a proper gears game the story can be what it wants really just give me great gears gameplay and like I'm playing an action movie from the 90s same goes for halo and call of duty aswell terrible campaigns!🥺💩🤬😭

I’m sure it’ll be good but it’s hard to be excited at the moment. No gameplay or release year. The setting looks great but I need to see more and I’m worried it won’t come out for another 2 years.

@HonestHick
Played every gears as you know buddy.
I even had friends buy an xbox360 after playing gears of war 1 at my house.
They were wowed by the whole thing and the graphics.

Being honest I have my expectations in check as Xbox studios track record of late is not great.

@OldGamer999 GoW:R is on the PS4 aswell though so ...if you want a game of that quality...then you cant say the power of the s is holding xbox back in that regard lol

This and State of Decay 3 are the beacons of light in the gloom of current Xbox IMO. I'm not the biggest fan of the latest GoW games but I can't help but feel a bit hyped for this one. Let's hope they nail it. 😃

@StylesT
It’s more poor Xbox studios and I mean poor as I feel for them.
Have to deal with not just two consoles but all PC and cloud gaming and soon PS5 as well.

Also if so what you say about the series s, then why haven’t we seen something truly AAA from up there with Nintendos and Sony best TOTK and GOWR?
Apart from FH5 which is up there.
Xbox studios have had many years and produced above average only, Look at last years games.

And I have the same feeling I’m afraid about Indy and Avowed, good above average games only.
Xbox studios have so many devices to develop for and that can’t help any studio.

Whenever an article regarding E-Day comes up, I always think the same thing, finish the bloody trilogy you have going first. I get that many did not enjoy 4 and 5, but then many of us did too. Some of us are heavily invested in the story and want to see how it concludes. Just abandoning it leaves fans exceptionally frustrated.

As for E-Day, I do wonder what they're going to do; are they going to follow just Marcus and Dom, and introduce, then subsequently kill off, perhaps in later games, some new characters? Or are they also going to follow Cole and Baird in their own, separate part of the campaign (bearing in mind that the 4 don't meet up until the original game). Cole actually has an interesting E-Day, insomuch as interesting = his entire family dies! However, will the Coalition want to keep the focus solely on Marcus and Dom, rather than flit between stories. I know I would rather see a close narrative focus on Marcus and Dom, rather than see the Coalition attempt to tell too many stories, and likely leave it unsatisfying as a consequence.

Still, at least there will not be any robots this time around, and I look forward to seeing the likes of Tickers and Corpsers returning, though for continuity reasons I wouldn't expect to see the Torque Bow return, so how the Coalition handle continuity whilst retaining what made the fans fall in love with the original series remains to be seen. It's a proper tightrope for them; retain things that are fun, but go against canon, and the fans will undoubtedly notice, and they will make their voices heard. Conversely, be rigid with canon, and fail to replace that which made the original games fun, with something that is equally fun, and the game will be picked apart by the fans. How the Coalition deals with this is what holds the most interest for me.

Also, what enemies will we actually see? Will there be new ones? We know they won't encounter a Berserker, because until the original game, they hadn't seen one before, but they do need to introduce a similar high threat end-level boss that we can fight and defeat a number of times during the campaign.

I do wonder if we might see Sid, Chairman Prescott and Hoffman make an appearance, maybe even Ukkon too. Each of these characters make sense to appear, although Ukkon, should he appear, cannot die for canon reasons.

Regardless, I just hope the Campaign is good, and the the Horde Mode is better still. I have, and still do, pour hour upon hour into Gears 5 Horde. Currently, I have played Horde for over 35 days (or over 840 hours!), and a further 50 hours playing the Campaign, including soloing it on both Insane and Inconceivable. Thus, what I want above all else, is for the Coalition to give me a compelling reason to want to play E-Day for just as long...