Epic: Gears Maria scene made players cry

The Gears of War series is known for its blockbuster action and buckets of gore, but developer Epic reckons it spins a decent yarn, too.

Executive Producer of the Gears of War franchise Rod Fergusson pointed towards the Maria scene from Gears of War 2 as evidence that Epic was doing something right when it comes to storytelling.

"We were successful with the Maria scene," Fergusson told Eurogamer. "If you were willing to go along for the ride of why you're playing that game, if you were able to take part in that story and you weren't skipping every cutscene, a lot of people were affected by the Maria scene.

"The YouTube posting of it and the listing of all the people saying they cried, and when we were at Comic-Con I'm like, raise your hand if you cried at the Maria death and a third of the audience raised their hands - I'm like, OK, we've reached some people, clearly.

"Do I think that was the pinnacle of our ability to tell story? No. But it was a good moment."

[kasasensei]

"Epic: Gears Maria scene made players cry"
Really?

[YoungKingDoran]

i dont know whether to agree or disagree to your statement... either way makes sense... really?!

[DelbertGrady]

I laughed at how bad it was. I hope they keep the "emotions" out of Gears 3. The story in Gears 2 was pathetic, especially considering how much they bragged about it pre-release.

[yaz288]

lol, I agree

[The_Ultimate_Guy]

I don't.

I actually really liked the scene and the emotions behind it. It added a new level to Gears which as you can see carries over to Gears 3 with Dom's care to live tarnished.

I hope Gears 3 doesn't just focus on Marcus looking for answers about what his father was up too and his connection with the locus. I also want to see Dom's struggle with himself to find the will to live after what occurred in his life and what he had to do.

Just watch this Gears 3 trailer and you will see Dom just ready to accept his death rather than fighting to stay alive. Almost upset that Marcus saved his ass.

http://www.youtube.com/watc...

[baodeus]

god dammit markus, i lost her again.....yeah...no, definetly not the greatest acting or emotional in video games history. The acting is pretty horrible in a sense. But then again most are pretty short and doesn't interfere w/ the gameplay thank god. The part where he found his wife was ackward and didn't convey any emotion if at all.

I found Halo reach: cutscene, where one of the spartan pick up a gun from another dead spartan, looking at the clock, he looks confuse and showing fatigue, but then he still march onward toward the destruction and despair up ahead by himself. Halo can deliver a much more emotional scene without a single word spoken. You can just see and feel the desparation and the dire situation that Bungie trying to convey in Halo Reach. It is quite emotional and one dam fine story. For Gears, no, i didn't feel anything since the acting kills it for me i guess.

If they want to improve the story and acting, they better do it right this time. Well at least they got another writer instead of a comic writer.

[FailOverHero]

Yes. With laughter

[Rainstorm81]

Funny, i thought in the beginning when Dom was complaing about maria was some one the worst acting in a AAA game. but players crying, wow i think gamers have seen worse. The most a videogame character's death affected me was Aerith in final fantasy 7.

"Damn It" - Dom

http://www.youtube.com/watc...

i miss the good ole days of Squaresoft

[RedDead]

I really doubt it, you can do badass fat space marines alright epic...but your a bit empty in the emotional department. The best was their Gears 1 trailer which I admit was effective.

[Rainstorm81]

yea the Mad World trailer made me soooo amped to play Gears 1, definitely one of the better game trailers ive seen .

But the music helped ALOT

http://www.youtube.com/watc...

[Blad3star]

I have a feeling that Gears 3 is going to have the spot light on Carmine and kill Marcus.

Carmine looks like a total bad a$$ and it wou;d be a shame to kill him.

[sethbalmore]

im willing to bet they kill off Hoffman this time. seeing how he isn't one of the leaders in CTLmode like he was in gears1/2.

[callahan09]

That's shocking to me. I was a huge fan of Gears 1, and I was very excited for Gears 2, and I watched every cutscene with anticipation, but that moment almost ruined the entire campaign for me. I mean, I got over it because the gameplay had so much variety and was a lot of fun, but that cutscene was so cheesy/corny and the acting was so over-the-top awful that I *literally* laughed out loud.

[Headquarters11]

LMFAO no it didn't. I just laughed at that fat fuck dom. And at Epics attempt to make an 'emotional' scene

[conjurdevil]

made me laugh! :D

[mcmmaster]

LMAO, no it didn't, it made me feel like EPIC are twisted and fu**ed in the head, was a terrible scene and overrated

[Ace_1975]

This Rod Fergusson needs to lay off the cocaine. First he says console gamers are ignorant. Then he says this piece of shit lame story in Gears of War has the power to make people cry. If you cried while playing Gears you are a pussy end of story. And Rod is also a giant pussy.

[Shanks]

What? I thought that scene was hilarious.

[gravemaker]

they know nothing of drama

[Vegetom]

MARIAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!

[yaz288]

lmao

[Buho]

I never knew Xbox gamers were so sensitive.. LOL man up kiddies!

[WitWolfy]

I just cried some manly tears at the end of Lost Odyssey... Man I love that game

[yaz288]

the story of gears 2 have made the series a joke !

[humbleopinion]

Cried? Hell no.
Shocked? Absolutely.

One of the most surprising moments of gaming this generation. I never saw THAT coming, and I believe no other person foresaw exactly was coming either. Very well constructed scene (unfortunately downplayed by lame voice acting).

[Liamario]

You need to get out more. It was obvious as hell that she was going to be dead or zombified.

[PirateThom]

This.

It was too obvious, there was still game left, no way they were going to have you dragging Dom's wife about. There was really no character building there, it's not like we got to know her to any great degree, it was a case of "this is Dom's wife" and trying to drag emotion out of that, which has never worked in any medium.

It was also really, really cheesy. "Oh, she's fine... fade... oh, she's not looking too good"

[humbleopinion]

Dead? Yes. That's what I put my money on. No point in her living and then dragging along - doesn't make sense. I agree with PirateThom on this

"Zombified"? You need to be a bit twisted to think that this is going to happen (considering the fact that there are no zombies in the game), but let's give this possibility a nod since so many games nowadays revert to zombies.

But coming out of a tomb - looking like a holocaust survivor - and then being shot in the head by her own husband who just snapped out of his delusion that everything it fine with her?
No. I didn't see exactly that coming, and I bet that neither did you.

[Vinushka]

Gears 2 made me cry -- mostly for being crap.

[GusBricker]

I was more upset when Tai died.

[Liamario]

That scene made me laugh if anything. Crying from a scene in Gears is like crying when someone dies in Predator.
BIILLLYYYY!!!!! *weeps*

[ThanatosDMC]

He could have slowly chainsawed her with the lancer while crying and calling her name and it'd still be both ironic and funny.

[Acquiescence]

that features characters with abnormally large feet, 10 times bigger than their own head.

[jrbeerman11]

Considering they didn't even introduce the character in the first game and only had a brief flashback scene where she does pretty much nothing to build her character.

How are we supposed to cry about a character we know as "dom's wife" and not maria?

Above poster used Aeris (Aerith?) as good example. People were emotional about the scene because she was a full fleshed out character. Not only was she useable (im sure people cried over losing best healer), but there was depth in story about her background and personality.

we didnt know jack **** about maria other than black hair, married to dom, likes to laugh, and looks like crap as a zombie apparently.

[Lamarthedancer]

"Considering they didn't even introduce the character in the first game and only had a brief flashback scene where she does pretty much nothing to build her character."

I was thinking the same thing. Fair enough if she was fighting by his side and she died in the third game but she wasn't really important enough for me to care.

However I always liked Raines death in FF8 even though it was never shown or we didn't know Raine enough like Marias case. Still sad when you see Laguna stadning over her grave with her ring.

[Jacobster]

Cliché comes to mind!

I cried when Carmine died! Poor little bloke :(

[Moentjers]

so Bambi's mother died again ?

[Lamarthedancer]

ADAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

Oh wait....wrong game

[midgard227]

??????????????????????

wtf what little BI*** cried at that horribly executed scene?

i actually cracked up when she died. heck carmines death was sadder because it was goku's voice actor lmao, and i still cracked up.

gears story is horrible, stop acting like it affects ur emotions u pansy's

[Lirky]

I just watched it i thought he would crush her fragile head in since how BIG the characters look like they are filled with helium. That scene scared me more than the dried looking maria.

[Lionalliance]

Hell no lol

[maniactadpole]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA XD

[RadientFlux]

I usually find emotional/sad scenes funny, Gears 2 scene joined a long list of other emotional scenes I found funny.

Final Fantasy 7
Metal Gear Solid 4
Fable 2