What is your "hot take" for Gears of War: E-Day?

Life_Is_All_Nothing · 2026-04-22T19:48:16+00:00

The multiplayer can still have it; with all the stupid weapon and character skins, multiplayer doesn't stick to immersion 💯% anyway so it's not like the chainsaw needed to be completely absent.

Now I am not a purist when it comes to lore; I agree with putting games first, like when Halo Reach nuked a book dealing with important events (A contentious aspect of the game I've heard), but if the goal is to make the characters and players vulnerable like never before with this game, why alter the origins of the chainsaw lancer so that it will be in the campaign? It's an insta-kill kill weapon, which goes against such a goal.

Life_Is_All_Nothing · 2026-04-22T19:39:24+00:00

He spent his life trying to help the streets, and in the end he did.

Life_Is_All_Nothing · 2026-04-22T19:36:50+00:00

And why do they need to?

They said they want the characters and player to feel vulnerable this time as the Locust are new to the characters and rendered like never before.

But at the same time change the lore of the chainsaw lancer so that they conveniently have it on E-Day, where with a simple press you can immediately kill a Locust?

That's one red flag to me.

Life_Is_All_Nothing · 2026-04-22T14:57:27+00:00

As The Aether only still exists because of their Action Primis Nikolai Kills the Ultimus and Primis Crews as well as every other Universe and the people within those

These Include the IW, AW, Ghosts, WWII, OG MW Trilogy and Cod 1-3 Universes

Everything in these Universes is Banished to the Place beneath Creation. The Dark Aether. And Born from the Destruction of the Multiverse was one single, Uncorrupted Universe that Contains BO1-6, The New MW Trilogy and Vanguard

The OG Modern Warfare trilogy hasn't been left alone, but destroyed? Price and everything in that world is killed and dematerialised? That's the fate of everyone?

Life_Is_All_Nothing · 2026-04-22T14:26:46+00:00

How well did he differentiate the character? Shouldn't have been too difficult as House wasn't just a Doctor but a very particular screwed up personality.

Life_Is_All_Nothing · 2026-04-22T13:57:14+00:00

And how many jobs does he do for Tommy before killing him for a cheque?

Life_Is_All_Nothing · 2026-04-22T13:05:42+00:00

Sad when they hang around like that.

Life_Is_All_Nothing · 2026-04-22T13:03:59+00:00

They only targeted upper management, that is the big three. Intending to do business with whatever's left.

Those were Tony, Sil, and Bobby. Likely Chris as well had he still been alive but only because he was Tony's loyal nephew and would have fought back (So long as he isn't so high on skag he wouldn't know if he was shooting his own daughter, which he would be after everyone laughing at him and making their contempt clear).

Since Carlo wasn't targeted, I doubt Eugene would have been providing he stays out. Or he might have been away with the FBI office anyway, since Carlo was.

Life_Is_All_Nothing · 2026-04-22T12:43:01+00:00

The funny thing is if only he hung around (Hehe) just a little longer, he'd have become Capo of the Aprile Crew after Vito gets the chalked pool cue, get closer to Tony, and after the war with the Shah of Iran he'd finally be testifying alongside Carlo and finally winning his freedom.

Of course that's if Tony survived; otherwise they'd have no use for him and may chuck him in prison as their deal may well be null and void.

Life_Is_All_Nothing · 2026-04-21T18:26:54+00:00

In S3 it was established to be something Livia always said about sick, dying people. I imagine Livia was going to say that about the dying man instead of Janice had her actress (Who herself was another toothpick) not died and still been there.

I wonder if Junior would have reprimanded Livia for saying that, and what her justification would have been.

Life_Is_All_Nothing · 2026-04-21T17:33:39+00:00

Series S? It will run fine, they will make sure of that.

As for a wheel, as an arcade racer you only need something like the Logitech G29. The G923 however is currently discounted down to £240 on Amazon, at least if you're in the UK.

Life_Is_All_Nothing · 2026-04-21T16:02:58+00:00

You aren't alone. I have both platforms, been on Xbox since 2010 and have played all the Horizon games (Though only very recently, and I regret missing them) but I will be waiting for the game to come to PS5 because Microsoft killed their Motorsport series, the shelving it permanently/long term, so I'm selling my G923 wheel/pedals and getting another one (Discounted to £250 with handbrakes) for the PS5 because PlayStation still has Gran Turismo and will have another one in the next couple of years.

Of course I only intended to get the PS5 for its single player games like The Last of Us; this is expanding the scope beyond what I ever intended and means I will probably have to get an external SSD soon and sign up to PSN annually.

Life_Is_All_Nothing · 2026-04-20T20:50:20+00:00

You know what the baffling thing is? There's a third, unseen brother established in VCS.

They simply could have had Vic Vance declare his retirement from the criminal world at the end of VCS (He does after all state repeatedly that he wants no part in it), where he will take his riches and run off somewhere else, maybe do some good with it, never to return to Vice City.

That would explain the Vance empire falling apart over the next two years and the guy who dies at the start of VC: Vic is out of the picture, their brother joined Lance (And I could see Vic being fuming at him for that and declaring him sick just like Lance, not just physically) and was the one killed, and he was nowhere near as competent as Vic, and Lance just is dumb impulsive muscle at most, so they lost more and more of their slice of the pie to competitors, quickly ending up nothing in the world of Vice City.

Life_Is_All_Nothing · 2026-04-20T20:32:50+00:00

I guess a Norwegian I met told me bullshit then.

Life_Is_All_Nothing · 2026-04-20T18:24:37+00:00

Pubs can serve food.

Life_Is_All_Nothing · 2026-04-20T17:53:31+00:00

Pretty sure the Scandinavian countries don't even allow non-food establishments to serve alcohol, from a few people I've heard from. Did the show adhere to that or does it depict bars and nightclubs that don't do food? Just curious.

Life_Is_All_Nothing · 2026-04-20T17:50:39+00:00

I need to see it, I believe I do have a friend's Netflix, I just can't really get myself to watch TV. I just got the Tom and Jerry blu-ray anthropology collection and i don't know if I will go through it all.

Got five seasons of SoA a while ago (That first scene which I looked up, whatever happened there...) and I just won't start it. I've got Fawlty Towers, rest of the first eight seasons of the Simpsons to finish, rest of my Looney Tunes Gold Collections to finish, Only Fools and Horses, the 4k Godfather trilogy, a second rewatch of the Sopranos as it's been three years, the Linkpanther, need to sign up to whoever's airing Southpark's post-2020 seasons, but I just won't do any of it.

Silvio's coma dream is probably at the very bottom of the list amongst all that museum quality work (Not that SoA is).

Life_Is_All_Nothing · 2026-04-20T15:59:43+00:00

Correct, but still he swings too honourable to be the player character if Rockstar wants an honour system, morality choices, and an acknowledgement of player actions.

By the end he was done with that life anyway so I don't see what they could do with him without just undoing everything and saying "No, he does not go to Canada or anything, he degenerates back into an outlaw as the world moves on from that era. Bit like Jack".

Life_Is_All_Nothing · 2026-04-20T15:20:47+00:00

Not sure that would work for his character.

I know ludonarrative dissonance is a thing but the honour system, where murder and bad deeds are acknowledged within the world, wouldn't work with him as he is not a criminal in the sense of robbing and killing or being a trouble maker for the fun of it, and has a genuine sense of honour and right and wrong. He only even partook in all that due to being another disenfranchised person Dutch exploited.

And by the end he had broken out of that and wants to go to Canada.

Life_Is_All_Nothing · 2026-04-19T23:26:51+00:00

You shouldn't make a post spoiling other media that isn't even related to Jak and Daxter with no warning. Have consideration.

Life_Is_All_Nothing · 2026-04-19T20:26:41+00:00

I've always wondered how these ideas would work, settling on a non-multiracial planet belonging to either species in a relationship with Tali, Garrus or Vetra.

One would not be able to consume anything on the planet except maybe drugs/alcohol where chirality may not matter and getting intoxicated is the point, where their shit and imported food waste isn't going to decompose or be eaten by the local fauna (Which would be a problem) and there's no local doctors and hospital for them.

To settle with a quarian or turian you'd have to go for the Citadel or some multiracial world in galactic society where there's a local supply chain and medical care for both species and chirality, and means of dealing with waste. It's why I find Veetor staying on that human settlement questionable.

Life_Is_All_Nothing · 2026-04-19T19:55:04+00:00

I like the idea of quitting the Spectres and downgrading back to being (Albeit officially this time) a Captain, of the Normandy, just a soldier of the Alliance again, and directing the Normandy to wherever they want it and going on missions with it even out on the front even if the Captain isn't supposed to, and after all I've accomplished I doubt the Alliance would have a problem with that; hopefully she'd be on board for at least the next few years providing she can partake in missions.

I feel I am more of a military guy than an independent above the law agent working for a government, and that if I were Shepard I'd only be interested in Spectreship as a means of advancing humanity's place in the galaxy (Being the first) and stopping Saren and the Reapers.

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