Really liked what they showed from this game. The story already looks much more interesting than 4

Yes... because whiny, over emotional female characters are what we were all clamoring for over the last decade. Good lord man... this thing is going to end up the worst selling Gears of War ever. 

Im downloading gears 4 to give it another run, loved the first 2 play throughs.

I am into the story, love the characters, the look and smooth feel of the game. So Gears 5 without a doubt will be on my to buy list, I have an idea where this is going and I want to wee and know more.

Sorry you feel that way.

My view, is that during Gears 4, all the characters were pretty much indistinguishable from each other, and the game suffered for it. Here it looks like they're really trying to take them in different directions, flesh them out, and actually utilize them to tell an interesting story. Rather than just having them be a bunch of people along for a standard Gears ride. I'm into it.

Can you tone that rhetoric down please?
Seeing a female character and automagically chalking them up to be "Whiny" and "Emotional" isn't really accurate considering the level of information we have on the game.

BOOOOOOOOM

such great memories more please

Looks fun

I’m in half agreement there  

While I think the characters in 4 were too similar and too jokey (basically a platoon of four Bairds, which can get grating), I don’t want to see TOO much storytelling. The weakest parts of 4 occurred at the beginning, with all the world-building and scene-setting. I’m not saying I want the new installment to be story-less, but I don’t want the story to distract from actual hands-on gameplay, as it does so often in Uncharted.

Oh and @AlfredoTurkey, I’m sorry a woman with agency kills your boner.

I'd take playing a videogame as a whiny, over emotional female than having to sit and look at comments from whiny, over emotional "men" on videogame forums.

Funny how things work.

My crystal ball is out for loan if you're interested! (Three posts above the one you quoted).

As far as I recall from the two first Gears games, the "characters" were mostly ludicrously muscled stereotypes who made manly noises and shot huge guns at aliens, they seemed about as deep as puddles gathered from two minutes of soft drizzle. Recent years have shown that actual focus on characters and interaction can impact a game's value (and review scores), this is doubly true in a market where 3rd person cover shooters and gray-mottled fps games are at least thirteen on the dozen.