I thought 1 and 3 were better. Too much of Gears 2 is spent underground and there were to many on rail sequences. And Dom's story was a jarring shift in the story that not everyone liked

... Vanquish, Uncharted, The Last of Us and Tomb Raider are incredibly different from Gears aren't even as good as Gears in terms of what people like about Gears.... Ya know, the shooting. The Last of Us, Uncharted and Tomb Raider are more concerned about trying to tell some half baked stories(... Well, the Last of Us was actually good, but that's aside the point) and wrestling control from you so they can show off big set pieces(dear lord, the first like hour of Tomb Raider is Lara falling) rather than having interesting combat scenarios.

I can understand if you don't like the 80s stupid action movie aesthetive but NONE of those games do what Gears did but better, they just did similar things but differently.

Although Vanquish WAS actually a good third person shooter unlike Tomb Raider and Naughty Dog's cinematic games. But it was hypercharged and acted more like Platinums other Action games. The pacing was so different that it's still a totally different experience from Gears.

I doubt it. Gears never been as varied, competitive or had the mass market appeal of Halo. The only thing Gears has ever had over Halo was graphics and by Halo 4 that wasn't the case anymore.

Not to mention even after the less well received multiplayer for Reach and 4 and the botched MCC I just generally see more enthusiasm from Halo than Gears. By Judgement everyone I knew was pretty done with Gears. The Gear universe just has less potential than Halo.

Gears has a very defined identity and there's not a lot you can do with it. It's a gorey shooter where you shoot a bunch of monsters. The locust are tired out (so prequels or inbetweenquels wouldn't be too appealing), they had less culture than the covenant, so you can't do as much with them. Having the Cog fight a new faction of monsters or aliens(especially aliens) would feel contrived. Not to mention, humanity was in NO SHAPE to be fighting anymore by the end of Gears 3 so to feasibly continue the series it'd have to be much later.

And fighting humans....? That's not Gear at all.

After this year I just don't even care about Gamespot reviews and staff. They're on level with Kotaku in my eyes.

It's not like Monolith hasn't made good games before.

Where were the PS4 high profile exclusive like ALL of 2014? Cuz all I saw was Infamous?

I'm not going to disagree with you on the PS4 selling better but the no games argument isn't going to fly. The Xbox One easily had a better 2014 game line up. Just because Sony would prefer to stack the first part of the year instead of the back half(the most important of the year when most purchases happening) doesn't mean the xbox one has no games.

And Microsoft has on many occasions only announced release date and ENTIRE games mere months before their releases as is often the case with the Forza series and Halo Combat Evolved Anniversary and Halo: The Master Chief Collection.

I haven't purchased a toy since I was 13. Locking game features behind over priced figures is more despicable than day one dlc btw.

Well, I agree with him but I sort of think it's obvious.

But why do people care what he has to say again?

I'd argue that the mainline Halo shooter have defintely seen more change that the 3d Mario platformers. It's pretty unfair to expect more change of Halo than Mario within the same span of time(how much has Mario changed from Sunshine to Galaxy 2?). And the radical change from 2d to 3d was more to the change from the change in hardware and necessity of 3d games back than the actual ambitions of Mario.

Halo's not going to see that huge paradime shift. Not without radical change in hardware and at this point time there will probably never be another radical change like 2d to 3d.

Having all these Mario spin offs that could be entirely different ips really drive home the point that Mario is milked. Why not have Mario Kart, Mario Tennis, Mario Striker etc be new ips? Milk.

Quality over quantity