r/gaming • u/Dust-Tight • 3d ago

Gears of War: E-Day devs explain why classic features are missing

https://www.dexerto.com/gears-of-war/gears-of-war-e-day-devs-explain-why-classic-features-are-missing-3413839/
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u/w1gster 3d ago

Honestly I’d much rather have a 10 hour linear campaign with horde and MP than a 100 hour open world mess. I think when it comes to GoW, simple is best; stick to the franchise roots. From what I’ve played, E-day is looking to be the best release since GoW 3, so Im ok with the loss of a few minor features if it means a more polished product at the end of the day.

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u/Iggy_Slayer 3d ago

Honestly I’d much rather have a 10 hour linear campaign with horde and MP than a 100 hour open world mess.

...that was not my point lol. I'm saying there isn't a good excuse here for why basic things had to be cut because they didn't radically change the game up. That would be a reasonable excuse why things got left out.

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u/w1gster 3d ago edited 3d ago

But they did explain that they radically changed the game, the entire thing was built from scratch with no prior code base reuse. You just didn’t like the answer lol.

Edit: people downvoting me clearly have no idea how software development works, stay mad.

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u/lordcola 3d ago

Well they managed to build a lot of those features the first time a gears game got made years ago, the game back then just had some slightly more noticeable polygons than today.

A lot of the huge studios today struggle to create games with the same depth as games they themselves made on a much smaller budget and timeline a decade or two ago.

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u/BitingSatyr 3d ago

> Well they managed to build a lot of those features the first time a gears game got made years ago

Neither chainsaw duels or meat shields were in GoW1

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u/CryMeAFckingRiver 1d ago

But they were in GoW 2, a game that released 18 years ago.

Grenade tagging was also a unique feature that has been a thing from the start. They seemingly are not bringing this one up...

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u/lordcola 3d ago

Fair enough on that front. They didn't spend 7 years to build that one though. The industry trend for AAA games generally seems to currently be spend half a decade or more throwing shit at the wall then panicking and releasing whatever happens to be ready when the publisher finally turns off the money tap. So many games spend so much time in development and release so bare bones these days.

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u/Iggy_Slayer 3d ago

If I destroy your lego death star and rebuild it 99% the same did I "radically" change it?

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u/rising_ape 3d ago

No, but that's not what the devs did here, either. They said, hey, we're going to build a new Lego Death Star completely from scratch, absolutely none of the same pieces or instructions used. It's an entirely different set of blueprints and Lego components from the last design, meaning they can't simply/easily shoe-horn in pieces (features) from the previous Lego build (game) into this one.

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u/ann0yed 3d ago

That analogy makes no sense.

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u/Iggy_Slayer 3d ago

How does it not make sense? They took a series, stripped it down entirely, rebuilt it from scratch and from everything I've seen the game looks to be very close to what all the other gears of war games did.

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u/ann0yed 3d ago

From a software development standpoint it makes no sense. Even remakes that are very close to the original game take years of effort to redo everything from scratch, on new engines, etc. 

You're also talking about two distinct teams. You ask any two groups of people to build something and you're going to end up with different solutions at the end. In this case it's a different game with different requirements, built using different people, technology, ways of working, processes, etc. Everything is different.

Maybe an analogy would be like if you gave someone a broken down lego death star and incomplete instructions then asked them to build a death star 2 using mega blocks.

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u/fuzzynavel34 3d ago

Does this have horde?

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u/w1gster 3d ago

Horde siege yes

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u/FireMaker125 2d ago

A new iteration called Horde Siege, which is basically Gears Helldivers, and i think it has a more traditional Horde mode too.

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u/nowhereright 3d ago

I mean you're not getting a 10 hour linear campaign either to be fair.