Gears Will Continue To Build On Player Choice, Open World, and Branching Stories – The Coalition

“Gears 5 was all about laying the foundation for the franchise,” says campaign design director Matt Searcy.

[SCW1982]

OOF, I cant find the desire to even finish act 3 with how uninteresting the open world elements are. Sucks because act 2 is some of the best single player gears out there. The downhill decline between act 2 and 3 is staggering

[ninsigma]

Exact same with me. I'm on act three and have no motivation to finish. It's just boring and uninteresting.

[Concertoine]

Act 3 is the worst part of the game, because they did it right after the other open world segment in act 2. Act 2 was really good if not a little tiring in the end. Act 4 returns to the traditional linear gears gameplay, its worth seeing act 3 through.

[Bigman4k]

Then why you get it in the first place if you have Xbox gamepass then you can just unstall it and move on

[ninsigma]

@concertoine
Yeah I'll get round to it eventually and I'm sure it'll pick up for the last act it's just such a slog atm.

@Bigman
I got it because it looked good and I enjoyed the previous game. Plus I DID get it on gamepass.

[Sm00thNinja]

Hate to say I have the same problem but I do....

The story itself is just picking up and so interesting but the desire to push forward just isnt there. The desert climate change wasnt for the best and it could get better but .... bleh too many games out rn

[gamer7804]

imo the open world area was one of the worst parts of the new gears game, the was no reason for it. It felt very shoehorned in. I really enjoyed the game , but def not those parts.

[rainslacker]

Open world is one of those things developers feel they have to put in or be criticized for being too linear. Sometimes, it works. Other times, it just distracts from the game itself. Gears has always been pretty good at keeping up the pace through it's campaign, and despite being linear, you didn't really think about that because it was something you always wanted to see what was next. Open world doesn't always make sense in every game, and with the way the other games are set up, it feels more like a distraction to just go off and explore and do things which kill the urgency of the story itself....something I think all open world games are guilty of. It never made sense to me that the world was about to end unless you got to this one place quickly....but lets go get some stuff for this random guy we met because he's in a pickle, so we'll traverse over to the other side of the map, and back, before going to end the imminent threat to mankind, and the universe.

[Nu]

Took me a few days to get through the campaign. The lab part was interesting and had me wanting to see what else lied within.The ending ended on a cliffhanger which I didn't like. Gears 4 is a better game with earnable credits and it's card crafting. I'm done with Gears 5 until they fix progress for multiplayer modes.

[Profchaos]

Given that final decision in 5 I have no idea how they will go about defining a story for 6 when the character interactions will be so dramatically different

[rdgneoz3]

They'll either have to build 2 campaigns for the two different choices, or risk pissing off fans by saying they picked the wrong choice.

[Profchaos]

I was thinking they could just use a save game import as your saves are cloud based. But also they could take the same approach Wolfenstein 2 the new colossus took and let you pick what you did in the last game

[rainslacker]

Infamous did that and it seemed to not cause too much controversy. I think they went off the more common choice of "good" from player data though.

@Chaos

In an ideal world, that works great. But the further you progress with that branching story, the harder it gets to maintain, and on the rare cases where they try to keep that up, they usually come around to a singular, or maybe binary outcome to simplify things going forward.

I think Dot.Hack was the only series which really tried to keep that going in earnest, but they planned the whole first series around that idea.

The Coalition doesn't seem to know where they want to take things, and instead want to base it on player choices. They may have a general idea where they want to take the current story arc, but aren't sure how they're going to get there if they're going to go on player choice. This usually means things can become convoluted, or they'll have to simplify and tell people that one choice was correct, and people that chose wrong will have to deal with the plot holes their own play through may have brought.

[nibblo]

All they have to do is to have Kait and Marcus do most of the heavy lifting until near the end when they find and resurrect whichever person you let die at the end of 4. I mean they killed Kaits mother at the end of 4 and she came back albeit slightly modified lol.

[Kuma]

I completed it twice and loved it. The game blends the cinema and game play seamlessly.

[aaronaton]

GAAS and Micro-transactions

[King_Noctis]

+great single player campaign.

[Spurg]

Act 3 was slow, not bad, let's see if this is tolerated in Death Stranding. It was meant for world-building as it was really effective at that. Typically when a moment with before the story hits you with something big its suppose to be slow. It is called a rising action and act 3 was that....if people got bored of that then boy you better prepare yourself for Death Stranding.

[2ndhandcorn]

Only played chapter 1 went straight to horde mode should finish the story in a year or so .

[ReadyPlayer22]

They kind of forced their hand with that ending, but the open world was the boring aspect of the game. If they stick with it they need actual life in the world. This is a planet that has freaking giant city sinking worms.

[Sciurus_vulgaris]

I personally want the Coalition to give Gears 6 a story that concludes the current trilogy and improve what was laid down in Gears 5. E.g. I want Gears 5 to have more dynamic enemy encounters, wildlife and dangerous fauna.

As an aside the campaign design director didn’t directly state that they wanted to focus on a branching storyline going forward. However, the campaign did mention player choice. But, player choice doesn’t necessarily mean branching storylines.

[masterfox]

Well at least do a badass game this time with badass protagonist like first ones on the 360.

[ScoreBunnie]

I thought all the characters were great, Fauz especially surprised me.

[ScoreBunnie]

Gears 6 should use elements from Death Stranding. That'd be interesting.

[nibblo]

Yes, we should get Marcus with a baby strapped to his chest delivering a George Foreman grill across rugged terrain to chairman Jin.

[ScoreBunnie]

I was thinking more along the lines of terrain challenges to make the open worlds more weighty, and the idea of maybe roaming bandits or swarm? Maybe like stealth encounters? Story elements are something else entirely.