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Why I’m So Excited About ‘Gears 5’: I Have A Severe Glandular Disorder That Makes It Impossible For Me Not To Feel This Way
The OnionToday 12:04pm
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There’s just something about the Gears Of War series that keeps me coming back. For some fans, it’s the thrill of mowing down enemies with the perfectly designed Lancer; for others, it’s the stickiness of the game’s signature run-and-cover combat mechanics. But what gets me so pumped about the upcoming Gears 5 is that I have a severe glandular disorder that makes it impossible for me to not feel like this.

There’s just no other way to express my abiding love for Gears than this: I have a small tumor on my hypothalamus that physically forces me to feel stoked about the prospect of once again slaughtering the Locust Horde.

Sure, I know the series isn’t known for its killer storyline or character development, but what it does have—in spades—is the ability to turn on a severely broken part of my limbic system that makes me absolutely thrilled if I so much as think about dismembering an enemy with the Buzzkill or a well-placed Bolo Grenade. Even if I just hear the name J.D. Felix, my glands immediately release hormones at such a frantic rate that I begin sweating heavily, I hear ringing in my ears, and my heart races so quickly that I feel as if I might die.

God, I’m amped to finally see this game in action! I wish I could physically stop feeling this way, but I can’t!

While details of Gears 5 are pretty scarce right now, that frankly doesn’t matter to the diseased part of my brain. Pretty much every night of the week, I lie in my bed, unable to sleep because of how nauseatingly manic I am about getting to pick up a controller and uncover the secret of the Locust’s origin. When I close my eyes, all I see is my Buzzkill’s blade dismembering enemy after enemy. I haven’t slept in weeks because of my pathology, and my life has become an absolute nightmare!

Recently, I got so jacked up just thinking about jumping back into Versus mode online that I screamed for 15 minutes in the middle of a local Walmart and had to be escorted out by store security.

Obviously, there are more critically acclaimed shooters out there (the Wolfenstein and Halo franchises come to mind), but there’s something special about Gears in my pathology-ridden mind. In fact, when the 2018 E3 trailer for Gears 5 first revealed that this new entry would star Kait Diaz, I actually vomited on my own shirt out of giddy excitement. It was humiliating and nasty. But rather than go clean myself off in the nearest bathroom, all my deranged brain would let me do was rush back to my hotel room, still covered in my own stomach bile, and watch the rest of the clip on YouTube.

That’s the kind of fan allegiance that Gears Of War and my literal insanity inspires.

I lost my girlfriend because of how pumped-up Gears 5 makes me. My family stopped talking to me after an incident where I kept shaking my frightened grandmother and yelling at her about how much I hope DeeBees appear in multiplayer so I can play as a DR-1 Protector. Really, the only thing I can safely do anymore—the only thing my unhinged mind is capable of doing—is writing articles like this and shaking with a queasy mania as I think about this game’s release.

Well, that’s all I can say about Gears 5 for now. I need to lie down because thinking this much about Cliffy B’s incredible third-person-shooter series for too long is enough to make my heart actually explode inside of my chest. That’s what my doctor told me, at least. God, I hope death finally releases me from this hellish life.

Until then, I’ll keep you updated on all the latest developments of Gears 5 as they come out!
 
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I probably should play 4 again before this comes out, i don't really remember what happened in the campaign at all.
 
There’s a better video I can’t find with Rod talking to Miranda. It’s better because he adds context to what you’re doing and talks about all the options.
 
I'm just gonna be honest now, what the f*** where they thinking yesterday? The trailer last year was superb, TC said it themselves that the campaign goes in a new direction, bigger etc. They said in the past that Gears 4 played things safe, not the case with 5.

Then it finally is E3 time and you show a CG trailer of some new Escape mode? If that's not crazy enough there's still Inside Xbox and a Gears panel but what are they gonna do? They are gonna show a cinematic trailer for the campaign. When do we get gameplay? In September, quite close to when the game releases that same month. How? How did the campaign not get a deep dive yesterday? Like how they covered Forza Horizon 4 last year?

Highly unusual, this is the first time they don't show campaign of a new Gears game and I can't deny that I'm worried. I was so damn excited to see the campaign, ready to be blown away like the trailer last year blew me away. They keep saying 4K/60fps and I'm honestly a little scared they bit off more than they can chew. If Gears 4 on X was 4K/30fps and 1080p/60fps, how can Gears 5 with much bigger worlds actually be 4K/60fps WITH the visuals from last year?

To say that I feel goddamn down after the Xbox show is a understatement. Truly thought Gears 5 campaign coverage was a given.
 
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I really wish they led with Gears 5 campaign.

I mean, I guess it doesn't matter since I'll be buying it day one anyways... but it certainly would've been a lot more interesting to look at than another gametype.
 
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I mean, I guess it doesn't matter since I'll be buying it day one anyways... but it certainly would've been a lot more interesting to look at than another gametype.

I'll be playing it day minus four thanks to GamePass Ultimate. :B->: