TheDreadLord
Gold Member
I think they could try something like Dead Space but with more action. Some of the chapters in Gears 5 (at least aesthetically) could well belong to Dead Space.
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Gears 6 ideas - things you would like to see changed to revitalize the series
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Papacheeks
Banned
I THINK the first 2 acts in gears 5 is where they need to focus. Tight gameplay with cool set pieces and switch between the enclosed corridor sections with bigger city/area's. No more open world. It sucks they went nowhere with the whole queen story. I thought they should have had it where kait was still on the table in that old lab and she was having a premonition/slash dream on what will happen. So she decides to try and understand how to be a queen for the swarm to control them and stop the attacks.
Then have it change/shift to marcus and JD a father/son duo. You play as either marcus or JD. And learn more about marcus/anya's relationship before JD, learn about uncle DOM, and what it means to be a true gear. Not a poster boy who does what the military always tells him. JD has to live with his decisions as a leader from early events of gears 5 pre kait going to the lab. When he killed carmine's niece by using the hammer against all those swarm.
Through the chapters it jumps back and fourth between marcus/jd and kait/del. Del starts to see as kait learns more and controls the swarm more through gameplay sections of taking control of them she is getting more and more connected and starts to seem less human. I would also bring back that once connected to the swarm/hive you also have access to past memories of the queens before. And you learn about the relationship more of Marcus's father and Myra.
Would love for it to end on kait sacrificing her human side to save the whole gang. And the game ends with them at odds.
Then have it change/shift to marcus and JD a father/son duo. You play as either marcus or JD. And learn more about marcus/anya's relationship before JD, learn about uncle DOM, and what it means to be a true gear. Not a poster boy who does what the military always tells him. JD has to live with his decisions as a leader from early events of gears 5 pre kait going to the lab. When he killed carmine's niece by using the hammer against all those swarm.
Through the chapters it jumps back and fourth between marcus/jd and kait/del. Del starts to see as kait learns more and controls the swarm more through gameplay sections of taking control of them she is getting more and more connected and starts to seem less human. I would also bring back that once connected to the swarm/hive you also have access to past memories of the queens before. And you learn about the relationship more of Marcus's father and Myra.
Would love for it to end on kait sacrificing her human side to save the whole gang. And the game ends with them at odds.
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Allnamestakenlol
Member
What I want from the next Gears game:
- A dark, almost hopeless setting
- More testosterone-fueled badassery
- Less estrogen-laden fee-fee's
Get rid of bulky armor!
The graphics look pretty amazing in Gears 5 but the one thing I feel really makes the game look dated is the bulky armor design! Redesigning that aspect would boost the visual appeal of the game tremendously plus enable them to add better animations.
Besides that major point just stick to great set pieces and possibly take us off earth or introduce entirely new non-locust/non-robot enemies.
The graphics look pretty amazing in Gears 5 but the one thing I feel really makes the game look dated is the bulky armor design! Redesigning that aspect would boost the visual appeal of the game tremendously plus enable them to add better animations.
Besides that major point just stick to great set pieces and possibly take us off earth or introduce entirely new non-locust/non-robot enemies.
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Phobos Base
Member
A.I that actually comes over and revives you when you go DBNO
Tickle My Tendies
Member
Just take full advantage of Unreal Engine 5. Make my eyes bleed. I always enjoy Gears gameplay anyway
If they DO stick with open-world elements, make them way more interesting this time around
If they DO stick with open-world elements, make them way more interesting this time around
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Beer Baelly
Al Pachinko, Konami President
I forgot its a trilogy. The ending and choice option was so bad in Gears 5 lol. I actually dont give a damn about the series anymore.
Sleepwalker
Member
I would like to play as a sexually confused locust grunt
quickwhips
Member
More marcus. Another giant worm and bring back cliffyb.
Diddy X
Member
J-Roderton
Member
Just keep the open world sections out.
The Infectious Paradox
Gold Member
Do something new. Hell make it in the same universe.. do something like dead space. Make it a group of soldiers investigating a lost ship that crashed on an unknown planet. So much potential in this universe. I'd just love to see it shown in a different way.
4 player co op campaign is at the top of my wishlist.
GametimeUK
Member
I'd love for the series to lean into a more horror focused setting, tone and colour selection similar to Gears of War 1. Sometimes I feel less is more. We don't have to reinvent the wheel when it comes to the series.
I think stories can focus too much on turning the tide of a whole war, but I'd love to see a game where our protagonist is fighting for survival.
I get we need the war element in it, but let's explore different parts of the war and individuals stories. I really need to play Hivebusters, don't I?
I think stories can focus too much on turning the tide of a whole war, but I'd love to see a game where our protagonist is fighting for survival.
I get we need the war element in it, but let's explore different parts of the war and individuals stories. I really need to play Hivebusters, don't I?
Kacho
Gold Member
When you have people on the team publicly stating that they chose to focus on Kait because she was the most interesting character in Gears 4 it’s hard to care. Like, if that’s the bar for what’s considered interesting I’m good.
Modern Gears’ biggest problem is that it has strayed too far from what made the originals great. It’s lost it’s grit. Gears 5 was like a Saturday morning cartoon and all of the dopey humor took me out of the experience.
Modern Gears’ biggest problem is that it has strayed too far from what made the originals great. It’s lost it’s grit. Gears 5 was like a Saturday morning cartoon and all of the dopey humor took me out of the experience.
captainraincoat
Banned
Just Marcus and the Cole train baby
Hayabusabruh
Member
I think adding those Jack abilities made the game even better. GOW5 is the best in the series.
Open the environments up a bit and allow the player to explore more.
Change that stupid "revive me" animation. Make it so you can utilize sort of resource and revive yo damn self at the expense of something. Insert balance. Idk. Lol
Add more traversal and jumps.
Add some cinematic set pieces here and there just to switch things up between just walking around going bla bla bla.
Open the environments up a bit and allow the player to explore more.
Change that stupid "revive me" animation. Make it so you can utilize sort of resource and revive yo damn self at the expense of something. Insert balance. Idk. Lol
Add more traversal and jumps.
Add some cinematic set pieces here and there just to switch things up between just walking around going bla bla bla.
The #1 thing they have to fix in Gears 6 is the tone. Gears is a horribly unpleasant universe. There is no Hulu. There is no DoorDash. Everyone has COVID (rust lung). No one is happy. Why are all of the characters snarking like an MCU superhero? Marcus screaming “FUCK YOU!” after chainsawing a locust is so much funnier than any of the “jokes” in the new games.
I understand that Marvel is very popular, and these game devs are all obsessed. And it is their dream to script lines for Captain America. But they will never get that opportunity, and are stuck in the gaming ghetto for a reason. Stop trying to be clever. Tell a simple story involving a bad ass and his bros doing cool things.
I understand that Marvel is very popular, and these game devs are all obsessed. And it is their dream to script lines for Captain America. But they will never get that opportunity, and are stuck in the gaming ghetto for a reason. Stop trying to be clever. Tell a simple story involving a bad ass and his bros doing cool things.
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YOU PC BRO?!
Member
I'm not sure there's much point in Gears 6. Release a multiplayer only version and periodic multiplayer expansions for Series X/S then focus energy on a new IP. That way at least the hardcore fans are somewhat appeased and the rest of us get something new. Gears can then be rebooted as a launch game for next gen.
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Chukhopops
Member
- Don’t spend too much time on SP campaign;
- Develop multiplayer modes, especially Horde/Escape which are already amazing, add more classes, enemies, strategies and skills;
- Make the SP campaign same as Titanfall where you play different setups of the MP maps with some story between.
It will never happen but that would be amazing.
- Develop multiplayer modes, especially Horde/Escape which are already amazing, add more classes, enemies, strategies and skills;
- Make the SP campaign same as Titanfall where you play different setups of the MP maps with some story between.
It will never happen but that would be amazing.
Marcus Aurelius
Banned
Lol, basically boils down to this.
Stop catering to audiences that don't give a fck about gears, nobody wanted to play as Kait.
kuncol02
Banned
But that's the point. Gears 4 and 5 world is (or rather was) optimistic. There is no rust lung (gone with imulsion), no Locust, no Lambent. People are rebuilding civilization with help of clean technologies they actually had in previous games (there was note in GoW3 about solar power being better than immulsion, but it was blocked by corrupted CoG goverment). For first time in almost 100 years you have people born and raised without war around them.
It's also not that everyone is optimistic. Marcus is mourning for his dead wife living in ruined manor waiting and preparing to his final battle, wanting to die as soldier which could never happen.
When you don't have any light in universe then grim dark become parody of itself. When every situation is terrible, then no situation is terrible.
you understand that souls games are a VERY niche genre that most ppl don't like/ are not interested in ..right ?
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Cyberpunkd
Gold Member
So much this. I remember playing Gears 1 and thinking how great the cover system was, but now it's just clunky and make you dig in.
Phobos Base
Member
Haven't the effectively done this with the iron man mode and inconceivable difficulties?
kuncol02
Banned
Why you want them change Gears into not Gears? They have lots of other games that are not Gear for you? Are you one of these people who feel need to destroy everything they don't like even when other people enjoy it?
Aion002
Member
The Hivebusters dlc is amazing and they should aim at this direction.
Fun characters and stages, maybe add some RPG aspects with skills and stuff... Heck, they could even add some gears customization like armors that give different status allowing different playstyles. It would also be amazing having different playable characters that have unique things, like in the dlc, but even more varied like: agile characters with less health, stealthy ones and even tankier but slower characters...
Also, no open world shit, cool linear stages with multiple paths are the ideal in my opinion, tossing some raids as an extra mode and an horde mode that it is actually new.
Fun characters and stages, maybe add some RPG aspects with skills and stuff... Heck, they could even add some gears customization like armors that give different status allowing different playstyles. It would also be amazing having different playable characters that have unique things, like in the dlc, but even more varied like: agile characters with less health, stealthy ones and even tankier but slower characters...
Also, no open world shit, cool linear stages with multiple paths are the ideal in my opinion, tossing some raids as an extra mode and an horde mode that it is actually new.
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The Hamburglar
Banned
Wasn't 4 supposed to do this? They made an ok attempt but it just didn't compare to the original trilogy. You spend half the game fighting robots.. I still preferred the campaign to 5.
5 first act was good, everything after that was pure trash. I have zero faith for 6. Strictly talking about SP campaign here.
And for whoever mentioned WH40k. It is insane nobody hasn't just got the gears formula and made a game out of it. Would work perfectly with 4 man squads, better weapons, so many enemies to fight.
5 first act was good, everything after that was pure trash. I have zero faith for 6. Strictly talking about SP campaign here.
And for whoever mentioned WH40k. It is insane nobody hasn't just got the gears formula and made a game out of it. Would work perfectly with 4 man squads, better weapons, so many enemies to fight.
ozz ex machina
Member
This.
It's like all the retards who want Halo to just not play like Halo. How about they just fuck off and play other games to play? Gears and Halo are bother super unique shooters with big core followings still. Sure neither are as big as they once were but that doesn't mean they should ditch them. Microsoft I think has the right strategy. Create new studios to maintain the legacy games. Just need to make some new IPs alongside them.
kuncol02
Banned
Few years ago I realized that IPs don't really mater. What matter is games to play fresh. Would new Doom be better as new IP? Or Gears Tactics? Is Star Wars burden for KOTOR and Jedi Academy or Warhammer 40k for Dawn of War? As long as you have space to tell stories then fact that you use existing IP don't matter. That's also why it's really good that GoW story had big timeskip. Another apocaliptic war just after previosu ones? That would be beyond stupid. IMO they could do even bigger timeskip. I understand why they didn't wanted to do it but I still think that would be better.
GoW 4 has one of worst protagonists in modern games (the only one worse i can think now is Aiden Pearce). They were somewhat able to fix him in Gears 5. Also mad doctor self driving fridge.
Warhammer is terrible match for gears formula. Space Marines tactics is totally different. There is no point for them to hide behind cover when most of weapons cannot harm them and their armor gives them better protection than cover anyway.
Sadfaceotter
Neo Member
More gritty war and destroyed cities with random skirmishes.
Less arena type set piece battles.
The start of a firefight should never be a cutscene.
The end of a firefight should never be signaled by an audio queue and another cutscene.
Less arena type set piece battles.
The start of a firefight should never be a cutscene.
The end of a firefight should never be signaled by an audio queue and another cutscene.
driqe
Member
EverydayBeast
thinks Halo Infinite is a new graphical benchmark
I want Gears to say Killer on the cover i want it to stay the FPS bro killing thing it is after multiple years of success turning the corner on more open world growth is great (Gears 5) but let’s put some gears 1 gore level design back in the franchise.
Team Andromeda
Member
Try playing the game?
pr0cs
Member
Make more varied gameplay/scenarios.
Bring in the Pesanga and implement a guerrilla / stealth type game mechanic
Lose the robots, they simply aren't fun... at all
Go back to prequels, maybe pendulum wars where Marcus and Dom finally cut their teeth as soldiers, prior to emergence day.
Bring in the Pesanga and implement a guerrilla / stealth type game mechanic
Lose the robots, they simply aren't fun... at all
Go back to prequels, maybe pendulum wars where Marcus and Dom finally cut their teeth as soldiers, prior to emergence day.
balls of snow
Member
Copy Vanquish but make it have Gears impact and momentum combat. Go beyond Sera.
Lionel Richie
Member
Not sure we have other games that scratch that itch. Gears was top shooter when it came out but IMO those mechanics are a bit outdated and we've gone a full generation without any TPS that was able to touch Max Payne 3 and Vanquish. I didn't mean to sound disrespectful to the fanbase, I just gave my opinion on what I would like to see. Gears was the standard of shooting games when it came out. The path to being that again, IMO, goes through what I suggested. You're free to disagree though.
IbizaPocholo
NeoGAFs Kent Brockman
oldergamer
Member
If i were them i wouldn't listen to people on this forum for feedback. There are some seriously bad suggestions.
But if they do need to add something made up on forums, i would add on top of the core gameplay.
The open world sections should have a lot of enemy encounters. You should team up with more Ai that follow you into combat and take on more enemies at once (ala halo).
Right down to keeping them alive and they continue following you throughout the game. It includes more vehicles, more exploration, more thi gs to find.
Introduce space exploration into the backstory ( combat while in orbit on a space station) zero G combat, and some new enemies from the stars (picturing life forms that are not standard bipeds). Bring back more of the horror aspects. That is where i would start.
But if they do need to add something made up on forums, i would add on top of the core gameplay.
The open world sections should have a lot of enemy encounters. You should team up with more Ai that follow you into combat and take on more enemies at once (ala halo).
Right down to keeping them alive and they continue following you throughout the game. It includes more vehicles, more exploration, more thi gs to find.
Introduce space exploration into the backstory ( combat while in orbit on a space station) zero G combat, and some new enemies from the stars (picturing life forms that are not standard bipeds). Bring back more of the horror aspects. That is where i would start.
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LaughingStock
Member
That's what I keep saying. Microsoft should be looking for the next halo or gears instead of trying to revive these franchises.
These two are already in Gears 5. But honestly, it feels like filler. Like the Madagascar section in uncharted 4.
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SafeOrAlone
Banned
I find Gears to be one of the most dull "AAA" blockbuster franchises.
Actually, I loved it around the time of Gears 2 release. Then I went without an Xbox for about a decade, finally tried Gears 5, and was disappointed to find that it felt exactly like Gears 2. The shooting isn't impactful, the aesthetic is ugly (everything looks like it was made out of metal legos), and the movement is clunky.
I'm not trying to be a hater, I just don't think the series has aged gracefully at all. The IP is, of course, still valuable, so with that in mind, I'd like to see the series turned completely on it's head. Someone, maybe here, once suggested a survival horror turn, and while we don't need a Resident Evil clone, I like that idea much more than a standard "Gears 6".
If they want to remain closer to the original formula, I'd investigate some type of innovative online mechanic that could maybe spice up the gameplay. Maybe something like the Resistance multiplayer that pitted a large amount of players against enemy a.i. Use current tech to make this game actually feel like a war, instead of skirmish after skirmish.
Actually, I loved it around the time of Gears 2 release. Then I went without an Xbox for about a decade, finally tried Gears 5, and was disappointed to find that it felt exactly like Gears 2. The shooting isn't impactful, the aesthetic is ugly (everything looks like it was made out of metal legos), and the movement is clunky.
I'm not trying to be a hater, I just don't think the series has aged gracefully at all. The IP is, of course, still valuable, so with that in mind, I'd like to see the series turned completely on it's head. Someone, maybe here, once suggested a survival horror turn, and while we don't need a Resident Evil clone, I like that idea much more than a standard "Gears 6".
If they want to remain closer to the original formula, I'd investigate some type of innovative online mechanic that could maybe spice up the gameplay. Maybe something like the Resistance multiplayer that pitted a large amount of players against enemy a.i. Use current tech to make this game actually feel like a war, instead of skirmish after skirmish.