Seriously. (New Side Quest! #8)

Game Played: Gears of War: Reloaded (Multiplayer) (2025)

I was quite fortunate that my copy of the game arrived on the Saturday before the official Tuesday launch day so I spent my weekend working my way through the game and quite enjoying it. During that time, I was going back and forth on whether or not I was going to attempt the Multiplayer for the game and its associated trophies. I settled on yes, so upon launch day, I intended to put in roughly an hour a day into the Multiplayer and see how far I get towards ‘Seriously’.

“Here’s the daily diary” is what I would say but one half an hour session on launch day proved to be one of the most miserable gaming experiences I’d ever had and I’ve cut my losses already. There’s reasons for this of course – I’m 26 now, way past my multiplayer gaming prime of Overwatch in my early 20’s. I can’t compete with the brainrot 12 year olds anymore, especially since I don’t want to dedicate every waking moment to playing the game. Gears is also a legacy title with Crossplay, I reckon there’s people who have not played anything but Gears in the 20 odd years since it released.

Gears Multiplayer is also just not that fun (to me). The game revolves around power weapons and movement, much like Halo, but Halo feels more… accessible to me? My time playing Gears was four or five matches of getting dog walked in spawn by players who clearly had a lot more knowledge than me and frankly its put me off playing any more.

This sentiment was shared by a few people I saw on the Gears subreddit, which doesn’t bode well for E-Day. Modern Gears has definitely improved over the 20 years so giving players access and time to get used to a very old version of the Multiplayer formula is certainly a choice. Even worse, if people are put off by more complicated harsher Gears 1, they’ll not give easier, more well refined E-Day Multiplayer a try.

I suppose it’s my fault for not checking, I knew Beast wasn’t in the original game as it was introduced in Gears 3 but I didn’t realise that Horde wasn’t introduced until the second game. I’d have happily put 100 hours into Horde if it was available here, but it’s not so the campaign is all I get to do. Dreams of getting a Platinum are also out the window thanks to the originally mentioned Multiplayer trophies.

I guess having Gears on Playstation is a big deal and it’s a nice set up for E-Day. I just hope E-Day is a little more forgiving for new starters, otherwise it’s going to be hard to justify the cost of entry purely on a campaign (No multiplayer trophies would be a start though).