Lol I doubt it. This franchise hasn't really been in that discussion since the first entry and I'm not seeing a lot that will make this one any different.
'Gears hasn't been relevant for almost a decade.' Yet it has a horde of fans for Campaign, Horde and Multiplayer. Ms always made sure there are tournaments for those fans. MS always shows appreciation to their fans in trailers. Does Sony host tournaments for Sony FP games like Uncharted and Killzone?
"Yet it has a horde of fans for Campaign, Horde and Multiplayer." So, its going to sell as well as the last game, but not any better. Likely if not certainly not going to sell enough, pick up a massive amount of new fans, to be considered game of the year.
That isn't what I was talking about. Gears 2 really didn't win any GOTY awards and neither did Gears 3. This article is about GOTY and that is what my comment was in reference too. Not about what other games might've copied something they did.
since when was Gears GoTY material? not a single one in the franchise won it EVER and now suddenly with the change to a female lead no one knew or cared about before Gears4, it's GoTY material already?? LOL
It's a well known fact that Uncharted took inspiration from Gears https://www.denofgeek.com/u... while Gears was itself inspired by RE4 and Killswitch.
"One of the cool things about Uncharted 1 is, we had no f***ing idea what we were doing," former Naugty Dog developer Lucas Pope said in a new interview with Ars Technica. "Uncharted 1 was announced, and then Gears came out. And Gears invented the modern third-person shooter. Suddenly, Gears came out and showed them how to do it. So we changed everything, six months before release."
The new Tomb Raider games are all UC inspired.. Uncharted drew inspiration from Indiana Jones and Old TR games .. Game mechanism was inspired from Gears.. Like the cover shooting etc.
LOL Gears was released in 2006 while uncharted was released a year later. so you're saying ND saw Gears and make it into Uncharted and release it all in just a year? WTF are you smoking?
There would be no Gears without Unreal or a little game called Kill.Switch, the whole cover mechanic was pulled from that game.... Im no SONY fanboy but give credit where credit is due. Uncharted borrowed from Tomb Raider and Kill.Switch too....imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
The cover mechanics were revolutionary other games had cover systems from the PS2 era which sort of worked but felt horrible. It's a good point the cover mechanics that gears introduced have become so ingrained in gaming I couldn't imagine life without them
Either way I just picked up 3 months of gamepass time to smash out a campaign
The funny thing is the amount of support Xbox gets without having to do the work of actually releasing a game like everyone else. Are we deciding based on trailers now?
I'm seeing plenty to think it has a good chance of being nominated. From last year's reveal to the stuff from yesterday, it all looks very solid. Remember, Gears 2 and 3 were in the discussion for many of the awards for graphics, story (yes the dude-bro shooter had a good story), and MP. I think it's a safe bet that 5 will likely grab some awards. Going up against GTAIV, MGS4, and then Skyrim was tough for 2 and 3 (great for gamers though).
As for GOTY? Maybe... It's safe to assume that we know who is getting the VGA award, but for the remaining outlets, the best chance it has is a lack of competition this year. I could see the nominees coming down to Sekiro, DMC, RE2, Gears, COD, and Death Stranding. If we're being honest, any or all of those last 3 games have a chance to under deliver.
We'll have to see how and if these fall heavy-hitters come together. It's shaping up to be another 2014 in my mind, butI think it's clearly Death Stranding's to lose.
Regardless, I suspect award time this year will be a fanboy-fueled nightmare.
Looks fine i guess.. And what's ironic is it seems to have a lot of interactive qte type moments like uncharted which until now were disliked by MS fans and were said to be more like movies than game.. Now will be praised like hell..
well now. I guess we can not take vgclturehq as reputable when they do their awards this year. Saying it's a contender is one thing, claiming victory before most of the contenders have even released for the year is quite another.
Gear 5 -Campaign, Solo or 3 player co op. -Horde 4.0 with 5 player co op -Escape with 5 player Co op and map editor -Multiplayer with an array of gamemodes -Multiplayer Arcade mode. Give me a game that has this much content this gen.
The title of the article alone should make it clear that we're talking about 2019 games. Unless Gears 5 can somehow become GOTY for 2020 or 2017 somehow...
@TK He's responding to a comment on an article not on the article itself. It's not complicated. That's the beauty of replys we can have more focused or broad conversations outside of the frame of an article. The comment itself was more asking about "this gen" not "this year."
@Foxtrot - no, I totally got what you were saying. But the mere fact is the game you used that had "this much content" was also a game that went on to win GOTY. So you saying that the Witcher offers as much content strengthens the idea that Gears 5 could be a GOTY contender.
To be fair, I have never viewed any part of Gears as quantity over quality.
The graphics in past Gears are solid to leading edge, the multiplayer in Gears has always been strong, the campaign gameplay has always been strong and they like to mix it up. The only question whether this game will be better then others is around the story. Can they build a story that is both emotional and intensive enough to make this game stand out from the rest of this year's game pile.
The trailer hints that they might be doing that. But, it is still well up in the air.
Lol I doubt it. This franchise hasn't really been in that discussion since the first entry and I'm not seeing a lot that will make this one any different.
Press X for doubt
Gear 5
-Campaign, Solo or 3 player co op.
-Horde 4.0 with 5 player co op
-Escape with 5 player Co op and map editor
-Multiplayer with an array of gamemodes
-Multiplayer Arcade mode.
Give me a game that has this much content this gen.