I'm finally playing Gears 4, lets talk about it.

[d21lewis]

KiigelHeart said:

Normchacho said:

Don't get me wrong, I'm enjoying the shit out of the campaign, and I actually don't think it's much shorter than the other games. But the characters are really what makes the story in the first game great, and the new characters are bland as hell.

 

I haven't finished the game just yet, and I assume they all survive. But I would be totally fine if they all died and they just used new characters in the next game. I also could not care less if we even find this girl's mom, because they spent zero time developing or filling out these characters in any way.

Yep I do agree they are bland. They're not given much background and they seem too similar to each other. Marcus, Dom, Cole and Baird were perfect for a game and story like this, they were likeable the first time they were introduced. They all had different characteristics too. I'm hoping we'll learn more about these youngsters later, now the old geezers ran the show. Gears 4 as a whole is like a build up for another story and big events imo. Gears 1 threw us in the middle of it all and the universe was then fleshed out by sequels, books and comics.

I agree. We had three "Nathan Drakes" hanging out with Marcus Fenix. No diversity in their personalities, despite looking different physically. Also, no huge baddie to hate. No Locust Queen. No General Raam. No Skorge. Just some random monster at the end.