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Gears of War e day release window leaked by wrestling event
- Thread starter rkofan87
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Cakeboxer
Member
For some reason, WWE is still big and popular and therefore a good advertising platform for Microsoft. Personally, i think the product has been bad for at least 10 years now and Roman Reigns sucks.
StueyDuck
Member
Marketing once i understand but Microsoft have been drawing the connection for a long time now, wrestling and gears are linked in their minds.
Cakeboxer
Member
Good question. I would guess it's because both feature heavily muscular, tough-looking characters and the marketing teams probably assume the target audiences overlap.
DenchDeckard
Moderated wildly
What I think you need to be asking yourself, is how can you NOT see that wrestling and gears go hand in hand.....
Jeez, man come on!
has
mckmas8808
lost it?
considering his avatar is Colin Moriarty I thought it would have more sense than this.
mckmas8808
lost it?considering his avatar is Colin Moriarty I thought it would have more sense than this.
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JohnnyFootball
GerAlt-Right. Ciriously.
When this was first announced I was mildy excited, now I am more and more excited.
MS really needs to get the ball rolling on getting Gears 2 and 3 to current systems.
I think putting Gears Reloaded only kinda hurt them.
MS really needs to get the ball rolling on getting Gears 2 and 3 to current systems.
I think putting Gears Reloaded only kinda hurt them.
not really this game is a prequel to everything
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
xrnzaaas
Member
It's still better than trying a new cast and to reach new modern audiences in Gears 4 and 5.
mckmas8808
Mckmaster uses MasterCard to buy Slave drives
has
considering his avatar is Colin Moriarty I thought it would have more sense than this.
So why have we seen Fable and Halo Remake, but not Gears E-Day?
JohnnyFootball
GerAlt-Right. Ciriously.
I dont know why people dislike them so much. I had an absolute blast playing them. To me they were solid games and some of the best exclusives that MS point out under the Phil Spencer era.
Clearly that is just me and I hope people would explain what they didn't like since I am just confused. They weren't revolutionary, but I felt they were solid fun.
JohnnyFootball
GerAlt-Right. Ciriously.
And....what does that have to do with the fact that Reloaded should have been that Marcus Fenix trilogy. Gears 2 and 3 are literally stuck on Xbox exclusive hardware using BC versions.
I'm not saying it should not have been a release of the three pack from the beginning
I'm saying because this is a prequel to everything they can take their time releasing two through five.
Goalus
Member
As long as they don't forget Judgment.
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Goalus
Member
Gears 5 act 2 is so good. I could literally taste the winter while playing. Warden is a badass new villain. Not as iconic as Raam because there are many of them, but still truly frightening.
Having said that, I really hope that we get to see Sraak in E-day, and his final encounter with Raam, that would be so epic!
(Also, I do sincerely hope that neither Anya nor Myrrah become professional victims with feminist haircuts while lecturing Marcus, Dom, Raam and Sraak about mansplaining.)
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Jinzo Prime
Member
This is specifically a Lucha event, and Mexicans love the OG Gears trilogy.
Miyazaki’s Slave
Gold Member
Should have given it a bit more room imo. Forza this month then they could have used the end of July or start of August for gears. Get it away from cod and halo (that's not multi though…so maybe that one doesn't matter as much).
CentralScrutinizer
Member
Fable is an unproven developer in that area being handed a legacy franchise and Halo Remake is a head scratcher to me, but the franchise itself is in the dumps and 343 has been a dumpster fire so they probably needed the good will / get it out there to build confidence.
The Coalition rarely misses and they have nothing to prove by showing the game repeatedly.
We don't need years of trailers stringing us along. We know what Gears is and we know the developer will nail it.
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NeonGhost
uses 'M$' - What year is it? Not 2002.
I think it has more to do with how big of a Hispanic fan base gears has and this wrestling event was for a Lucha libre event
mckmas8808
Mckmaster uses MasterCard to buy Slave drives
Years would be crazy. But why not 6-9 months? Only 3 months, seems insane.
CentralScrutinizer
Member
They must be transitioning to marketing one big game at a time or something. Maybe they just don't see the need to market long term anymore when they know most 'sales' come from gamepass subscribers anyway?
I am not sure, but I for one prefer shorter marketing cycles.
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
This is the prequel right?
Okay, I'm in.
Yes, prequel set at the start of the Emergence Day, which kicked the franchise off proper.
mckmas8808
Mckmaster uses MasterCard to buy Slave drives
That makes sense.