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[Tookay]

The darkest game ever.

 

[Dr_LucienSanchez]

Screenshots

Heheh. Those graphics are to die for.

 

[Balb]

Isn't it just called Gears 4?

 

[Deleted member 80556]

Glad to know there's nothing wrong with my PC screen haha.

 

[Percy]

Yeah, not really impressive from that, but it's probably gonna be a while before release so it could get better.

 

[Majanew]

Whoa the black crush is bad here.

Need to grab the stream MS had on XB1. Didn't have black crush.

 

[TI82]

Gears of War 4: Is there a game within this darkness?

 

[Joe Shlabotnik]

I liked the part where they started playing a video game, sort of, after three or four minutes.

 

[shinobi602]

You mean "Gears 4".

What an awful title lol.

 

[Moonlight]

Travis Willingham and Laura Bailey lol

Best couple in voice acting!

 

[blankempathy]

third scripted shooter gameplay demo ending with an enemy on top of the playable character.

 

[mf.luder]

I was bored. Same chainsaw mechanic to open a locked gate, same hud in the upper right.

I want more gears but come on, set it apart from the previous ones.

 

[Hixx]

Probably 17 months off so understandably light... but, er, it was kind of dull.

 

[XenodudeX]

Anyone else feel like it was kind of..dull? They couldn't show off a more showy part of the game?

 

[Finaj]

I could see the game fine. I was watching the youtube stream. Are you guys blind or....?

 

[Werewolf Jones]

Dark as hell and I mean DARK and the female character has really dumb hair for a war zone apart from that though I have interest.

 

[Stumpokapow]

Not trying to troll. I expect this game will turn out really well, and it's going to be a great game, and I'm sure there's a great team at "The Coalition" working on.

That being said, this was a weak demo. Tearing, shimmering, totally blown out gamma ramp, couldn't see shit, weak animations, iffy textures, and the demo's actual content seemed mostly same-old. No real moments that said "wow, this is the next evolution of the franchise" or even really "this is something that wasn't possible on the last generation of consoles".

Gears 1 really defined the last generation. Drop-in drop-out co-op was revolutionary. The mechanics, including the cover, the roadie run, and the sort of walking tourism stuff really shaped a lot of games that generation. So to see a demo for the rebirth of the franchise and react with "well it looks like a game"... that sort of implies the demo didn't go well.

 

[Faith]

I never played Gears of War 3 but I loved the first 2 games.

Did I miss anything?

 

[Lys Skygge]

Pretty underwhelming. The atmosphere was nice.

Spoiler

DAT POP THOUGH!

 

[CaptainTiptop]

The darkest game ever.

Yeah, couldn't see shit.

 

[Altered Juice]

looks nice. was expecting a gears 4 beta

Screenshots

holy shit lol

 

[Arby 'n' the Chief]

The fact that they're going back a more horror atmosphere has me excited

 

[Prompto]

They really should have just waited till they were able to show off a better demo. Shit was boring.

 

[Dennis]

La Forge of War

 

[GhostWriter24]

Gears of Noir coming to a console near you!

 

[.la1n]

Don't like the new main character or the monsters. Was a little deflated by it to be honest. I do like the darker gothic setting though.

 

[Dr. Kitty Muffins]

They hit all the wrong notes.

And gamers don't want ultra dark games as much as they did 5 years ago.

 

[hawk2025]

Very underwhelming.

Weak, scripted sequences, underwhelming combat.

I don't know what it needed to impress me, but that wasn't it. It had no punch.

Not trying to troll. I expect this game will turn out really well, and it's going to be a great game, and I'm sure there's a great team at "The Coalition" working on.

That being said, this was a weak demo. Tearing, shimmering, totally blown out gamma ramp, couldn't see shit, weak animations, iffy textures, and the demo's actual content seemed mostly same-old. No real moments that said "wow, this is the next evolution of the franchise" or even really "this is something that wasn't possible on the last generation of consoles".

Gears 1 really defined the last generation. Drop-in drop-out co-op was revolutionary. The mechanics, including the cover, the roadie run, and the sort of walking tourism stuff really shaped a lot of games that generation. So to see a demo for the rebirth of the franchise and react with "well it looks like a game"... that sort of implies the demo didn't go well.

A much better way to say what I was thinking.

 

[PLASTICA-MAN]

Am I suppiosed to be impressed? It looks it started as UE3 game and then shifted to UE4 just lately without using the UE4 new features and just keeping the old assets and materials of the old games which look bland. I have seen much betetr and impressive work using UE4 which is a very capable engine. Really expected much much much much much more.

 

[Cmagus]

The demo felt very tired I rather see them work on something new.

 

[Kallor]

Really digging it. Hope they go real dark with this one. Really great showing from MS overall.

 

[Brother Sport]

Was that Ashley Johnson voicing?

It really looked like, well, Gears of War.

 

[Mr.Fletcher]

Loved it. Exactly where I wanted to see Gears of War go. Back in black, new cast, more horror vibes and most importantly, a complete departure from the original trilogy,

 

[BossLackey]

Who thought this was a good idea?

 

[rrc1594]

The fact that they're going back a more horror atmosphere has me excited

This.

 

[Chaos2Frozen]

Could be awesome if it's the same as Gears 1 with horror/action.

 

[Alienous]

You mean "Gears 4".

What an awful title lol.

They should of went with Gears of Four.

 

[Ray Down]

I knew Xbox One had a crush black problem but this is ridiculous.

 

[Eila]

Game seemed to run 15 fps to me. Going to need to improve that.

 

[~Devil Trigger~]

Those were some of the Blackest video gaming I've seen in a while.

 

[fedexpeon]

Frame rate dipping to single digit or is it YT buffering on an already finished loaded video?

 

[CassidyIzABeast]

Should have been watching Geoff's stream. I saw everything.

 

[Ithil]

Watch out for the Gears of War, Ellie!

 

[astonish]

Really had a lot of fun win MP and coop in gears 1-3, but that demo bored me to tears

 

[Majmun]

Bad demo

 

[Raynes]

They went from poo brown to just black. It's like they gave up lol.

 

[8byte]

Super underwhelmed with this. It was just...standard?

 

[LastGamer84]

Why can't they let the series die? The third game ended it, let it be MS. Take the tech and come up with a new IP.

 

[Ballistik]

That gameplay wasn't worth showcasing, makes me wonder why they decided to show it since there was nothing crazy impressive about it. A trailer would have worked fine. Maybe they weren't fully ready to show it off but Microsoft wanted something..

 

[BrikHog]

What happened

I don't know. I couldn't see.

Biggest letdown of e3 so far. at least we have the remaster.