Gears of War - A Great Start

I really loved the darker aspect, the feeling of mysteriousness and even the horror vibes that Gears 1 had going for it.

I never noticed a stamina mechanic

Marcus got that scar on his face at the slab. A guard wanted to kill him so had dogs try to kill him. He would’ve died but got saved by one of the coolest characters in gears. Theres plenty of vids about the comic and its awesome

The bodies at the start hanging up in the prison. They were killed by the psych prisoners. Released by a guard in the hope they would kill Marcus and it would look like a simple dispute between prisoners. Because the guard hated him but was threatened by Hoffman with being drafted into the army if marcus was killed.This was because Marcus father had been kidnapped by them and forced to work for them and he wouldn’t have done so if Marcus was killed. Marcus would have been executed rather than jailed actually if it wasn’t for this arrangement. Good video

Dom saying "We should use the Hammer of Dawn all the time," still works after the 'retcon' because now it seems like Dom's trying to lighten the mood ("imagine if we had it easy all the time"), but Kim misses the joke and spends the next thirty minutes explaining shit the squad already knows. Typical officer, heh. Same with Marcus saying the courthouse was full of "A lot of lies, too." Marcus felt his trial was justified, but he's anti-authoritarian and a student of history. And Kim, who knows Marcus' trial was legal, tells him he doesn't deserve to speak. I guess that says a lot about Susan O'Connor's and Karen Traviss' writing talents. I never really thought about how Anya controls the carts. She must be using JACK to plug into systems. And speaking of bots, you've made me finally go "Wait WTF" about the geobots over a decade after the fact... Weird how they're never seen or written about again, and don't even become a collectible in future games. Never failed the part with the 30-second timer and Brumak, except when Boomers killed me, but I agree that we should've seen the Brumak more clearly. It's also true that the Locust AI lose some accuracy when you're running past them, but I think that's because they're less accurate when they're offscreen (for balancing). And their inaccuracy makes sense here, because it's almost always the Locust doing the charging while Gears play defense. MACV-SOG legend, Lynn Black, won a silver star by having his men charge through a Viet-Cong ambush to escape it. I recommend listening to that saga on the Jocko Willink podcast (ep. 247), the survivors only lived because of insane badassery, endurance, and coincidental luck. (but you're definitely overthinking the Cole and Baird stuff with the mansion; those two are the fastest boys alive, plus they were probably the ones who barricaded some of the back doors on their way out) Gotta say, this is one of the most thought-provoking deep dives into Gears I've ever seen. Good job, dude. Several of your criticisms were fixed in Gears UE, like Baird finding the geobot, the Berserker jumping onto the train (BTW I've never seen that girl get launched so far outside my own footage, perfection), and a timer forcing Delta One to jump on the train. I will say that the friendly health and A.I. scales with difficulty, just like enemy A.I., meaning Dom is tougher and smarter on Insane than he is on Hardcore. Also, the squad command system works if you experiment, but the finicky bugginess makes it not worth it. Well done. I'm really looking forward to your retrospective on the third game. Hopefully, I don't annoy you with these walls of texts, but man, you really get the gears turning in my head like my brother did. And long-form videos like these are hard to pull off, so you earned this level of my attention.

That uv light car part is so hard on insane

Just skimmed over Carmines death like that sniper never sniped!

Underrated channel. Quality content

This was the only one of the Gears games I played that actually felt like a tactical shooter; even on Casual, you were always punished for not staying in cover, there was a (admittedly, not very well implemented) command mechanic to direct your squad and, unlike the other games (with the exception of a much higher difficulty on those games), really made you feel like you were struggling just to get more territory from the Locust rather than an action hero who effortlessly mowed them down, further aided by the much darker and grimier tone of the first game. I still love all of the XBOX360-era Gears games, but I just wished they built more on the squad-based mechanics of Gears1 rather than scrap them almost entirely (although admittedly the introduction of AI squad members reviving you in Gears2 was a brilliant idea). Republic Commando a year prior to Gears1 showed us that a squad-based shooter can be done and done really well. :)

I think the whole “you’d think we’d figure out some kind of goddamn defense by now” line is not talking about weapons to kill grubs when they come out, but rather how to prevent those holes from popping up in the first place. Sure they can kill grubs when they come up, but finding out how to somehow keep those holes and the grubs from coming to the surface whenever they want is the real concern. Prevent the Locust from coming up, prevent any unnecessary fighting as a result. That’s how I view that line anyway.

I am so in love with this story and timeline, everything about it. It’s crazy

new to your channel and i love your commentary. some people you can tell they’re reading a script but your videos feel like someone talking to me. like your my friend telling me bout a game you’re genuinely interested in. and i love the little editors notes you do, like the one when raam dies

How does this guy not have more subs?

I want you to do a retrospective of the second game please 🙏 The only thing I have to ask you is talk about some of the icebergs that these games have on an off side point of the game or community but besides that this was sooolid

Gears 1 will always be one of those beautiful and extraordinary games that I was lucky enough to get to play as a child. This game has stuck with me for years and now that i I'm older I can still find new reasons to come back and new details about the story I happen to miss on my other playthroughs. I really like this video man, it was like a stroke of nostalgia came over seeing that thumbnail and title lol! very well done!

Underrated channel deserving of more subs for sure! And to answer your question Hoffman pardoned everybody but Marcus because of the grudge he had against him which is why Marcus is on his own in the prison

Good video brother I can see your love and passion for the game underneath all that humor and sarcasm 👍

I don't remember much but "Look at all that JUICE!" and "There's shit everywhere!" have been at the back of my mind for years.

Went to watch the 3rd gears video but you let me know you had vids for the first two. So I guess I’ve got a few hours of gears vids to watch. Hell yeah

After watching this, I’m about to replay the entire series. I never played all the way through anything after 3 and Judgement. I started 4 and got bored or uninterested part of the way through. But after watching this series I wanna play them all and start from the top