Another thing that sucks about them is that they're the Locust reincarnated, making many sacrifices in the previous games meaningless.

Constantly throughout Gears 4 and 5, they always say "Oh, the Swarm is MUCH worse than the Locust ever were" or something along those lines, but the gameplay NEVER reflects that at all.

The Locust also kidnapped humans to turn into slaves, food for their animals, or just to torture them, The fact that they were so brutal but organized made them scary. The Swarm only abducts humans to genetically alter them into the Swarm, they are just mindless beasts that carry baggage from the past games. To be honest while I appreciate new Gears content, the swarm just doesnt feel right.

I remembered Dom's death scene in Gears 3 from when I first saw it as a 7 year old, but I'll probably forget how the Swarm introduction played out tomorrow

The Swarms biggest failure is that during their first appearance they are made to be "A blitz force" meant to destroy entire villages quickly and effectively. Hence "Swarm". However, rather than introducing them as such, they have the leader whose HUGE get his ass kicked by some skinny Mary Sue with a knife. So let that sink in: The main villains first appearance is marked by an ass kicking on a 1v1 with a woman whose several kilos below his weight and height. Compare that to the first time we see RAAM who just strolls around with a bullet proof locust shield and wipes everything out like he's not even trying. Making even the big Steroid-induced heroes worry. THAT was intimidation at its best because you sat there and wondered "How in the hell do I kill that thing?" With this it's the opposite. This skinny chick we never seen before, have no knowledge of, just pulls out a knife and kicks this giant creatures ass and we just sit there like "kek captain hook". Mary Sue storytelling at its very best.

the locust antagonists all had development too. RAAM was a big, menacing, vengeance driven (he even says it when he is downed and revived) boss who served his, at the time, mysterious queen to the death. He had drive and purpose. Skorge was just as vengeance driven and was just as faithful to the queen, gave marcus purpose to kill him and even taunted him when they were dueling. Karn was essentially Bairds RAAM and was hated by him and Paduk for what he did to Paduks country and to Bairds duty station at the time. The Queen had plot development since the first act of Gears 1 and had all the background and purpose any arch nemesis could need to challenge our hero. Even her death carried weight. The Locust foot soldiers, every single one, had reason to be feared and was just as deadly. The Swarm is just a nuisance. A bug infestation with no purpose other than to inconvenience and annoy.

Jin felt like more of a damn villain in gears 4 more than anything. Honestly made me thought JD and the gang really went rogue and had to eventually fight the cog

I remember hearing a theory before the game came out, that the one hand leader was actually Raam. Retuning to exact his vengeance. That would have been so much better. Like imagine Raam without a Queen. A Raam who has been mentally messed up by those crystals. A pure rampage Raam. That would be dope.

They aren't good because they have no reason to fight the COG other than that hey the locust did it and we need to do it. The locust fought for their own survival, and that fight was in part initiated by the humans and how they exploited and polluted the world through imulsion, the locust were an actual society with intelligence and ideals, they tried at first to survive without the extinction of the humans but because a human war took the only thing that could prevent the locust war from happening the locust HAD to. the swarm has none of that, they have no real society, reason and desperation that the locust had to survive

As much as I enjoyed gears 5's story I completely agree with you. The swarm are just disorganized cannon fodder that add little to the story. Even the savage locust in gears 3 had a much greater impact than the swarm

Their overall vibe is indeed boring and forgettable. Would’ve loved an even scarier version of the locust and return back to horror. Imagine JD being scared shitless and having to figure it out on his way to Marcus who has seen the worst and even then having Marcus himself being alarmed by the further mutation of the locust.

Another thing I’d say is that the Locust had was brutality and time to have great achievements. In gears 1-3, every time you move through the destroyed remains of humanity, you are reminded of how powerful the locust were and how far humanity has fallen due to them. You even see them sink Illima city in 2, giving you a first hand view of their power and carnage before the main characters figure out that Jacinto is going to be sank as well. The atmosphere is dark and claustrophobic because the ash, smoke, and the city now being underground, Carmine is horrified by the loss of civilian life and you even see civies get ripped apart in front of you. Compare that to settlement 2, where the characters care more about a riot that happened long ago than the fact that people are dying around them, but you never see anyone die around you. Heck, one third of the people you see die in that entire battle died to friendly fire! The atmosphere is lightly Smokey and lacks the urgency and claustrophobic feeling of gears 2. The swarm ultimately wins the battle, but no one talks about it after that. The feelings of losing settlement 2 is also offset due to the fact that you have over fifteen other settlements full of people. Compare that to Jacinto, the last city held by the COG being threatened with sinking into the ground. Anyway, the first real loss of the swarm war is forgotten and the characters focus on why JD is a dick instead. No more mention of the first and only big swarm offensive at that point. It’s like the swarm just sit there for the rest of the game doing nothing until the end of the game. Another key difference is the fact that the rift worm in 2 sank multiple cities that claimed countless lives vs the gears 5 rift worm that claimed the lives of a dozen gears and a robot…

Atleast the Locust actually had meaning & a reason to fight humanity. Wanting to take the surface and fleeing from an enemy they are basically powerless fighting against *(Lambet btw)* The Swarm is just whats the point of them.

See the locust horde had motivation other than just kill, they had to fight for their survival because of the lambent in the hollow. The swarm have no interesting motivations they no memorable characters other than the queen (and she's underdeveloped as she is at the moment) and as you said the swarm as an army is just forgettable.

I wish that characters would talk about the evolution of the Swarm. For example, Baird could talk about how Snatchers may have evolved from Reavers or why there aren't more Scions than swarm imagos. But I agree, even though the Swarm have a nice visual design, the emotional design/human factor is lackluster.

What I think the Swarm need is a leader to become the face of the faction. Personally, I really liked the idea of a former Locust that is able to speak coherent Tyran within the canon. Where most Locust shout, grunt, and groan, the Speaker could have been a cool villain for the story of Gears 4. Such as explaining they are here to make sure Myrrah returns to full glory. Like, come on. What if during the Swarm Raids on New COG military outposts, the Speaker devised a plan to start to stockpile and further collect weapons. In the confusion for the raids, the Outsiders are blamed by the COG and thus paranoid, the Outsiders and the COG are on the war path. Recognizing the tensions amongst the humans, the Speaker is on a mission to summon all sleeper Locust cells. He ultimately is discovered by the heroes, is hunted down, but was able to awaken all Locust/Swarm. Meaning it showed the Swarm is ready to become a significant threat and have the weapons to supply their numbers. (It still annoys me that the Swarm haven't modified stolen human weapons into serviceable Swarm weapons. Like how the Locust turned the Markza into a Breechshot. Come on, the Swarm would gave a shit ton of Overkills and Enforcers. What kind of weapons would they horribly modify to use against the remaining humans? (Where the Locust essentially ripping off Emperor Palpatine in the Disney trilogy). Where instead of saying the Locust evolved, they developed a contingency plan in case the majority of the remaining Locust would have custom bunkers and were mutated by the doomsday weapon in Gears 3. It is not outside the realm of possibility for the Locust to come up with such a plan. They had a fucking geneticist with Ukkon and not saying he could have solved the Lambent problem. But it would be way fucking cooler if the Locust were shown to be competent enough to carry out a backup plan for their survival. On a side note, it was fucking stupid to throw the Locust bodies and their WEAPONS in the same mine shafts.

Another thing I wanna say lol is that when I first played the original gears of war when I was like 8 the berserker scared the shit out of me and I didn't wanna play at that part

The swarm is just another generic hive mind

Had to skip past the Kait dramatic moment to get to giant robot fighting lol

Also the fact with the Locust, they killed off a character that we believed was gonna stick with us, introducing RAAM and showing how dangerous he is. And after escaping him; you get introduced to the Baserker. Which really depicts how scary and near hopless the Locust War is

I recently played 4 and 5, and I don’t even remember anything notable... It’s been years since I played the original trilogy, and I remember almost everything.

What is the swarm’a motivation? Locust had to go out from earth’s core because of the lambent

Let's all not forgot that the swarm is literally just the locusts with a different look

Something that I felt like was missing for the Swarm is someone to really speak on their behalf or rather behave in leadership. The reason why Gears 4 and 5 focused so much on the N-COG. Is because that amount of screen time should have been on the Swarm. Because every leader in the main games had their methods in fighting the Humans. RAAM works by killing leadership, Skorge focused on a demoralization and defense of against the Lambent, and Queen Myrrah had her best remaining troops attempt to halt their advance. In Gears 4, I felt sorry for the creative artist who spent weeks or months designing various Speaker concept artwork. Only for the character to show that it can be easily harmed by a machete and chuckle menacingly. Because what makes the Locust Generals intimidating, is how they behaved as unstoppable killing machines. Seeing Kim fruitless chainsaw bayonet attack be halted by RAAM's hand on a whim makes him visually imposing. It is the same logic of Cosmic Horror villains from Lovecraft. If the creature is shown to be easy to kill. It makes the effort into killing them feel less rewarding overall. What I wished was the Speaker could have been the Civilian perspective within Locust society. Not so much as the soldiers we see constantly but rather the sacrificed species during the Lambent and later Human wars. I wanted to know if not all of them desired to wage a crusade for the surface because that is not properly acknowledging the problem of Imulsion mutations. I wished the Speaker could have been the voice of the Locust who were caught in the cross fire during the whole ordeal. I guess it was because the voice line "We remember." When the Speaker gets a kill. It stuck out to me to help illustrate the Locust and later Swarm. That their actions and desire to exist is shared motivation.

You need to hide and you need to run How am I gonna run u locked me up in here?

Swarm is just a crummy idea. Furthermore, the naming is awful. The entirety of the Swarm was named by a man child who went AWOL, its absolutly silly.

The swarm are just the locus with a fresh coat of paint. No one in the game talk about the swarm. But the locus are talked about it more.

Man when that first berserker was introduced with that scene I felt horror, horror movie category, absolutely tense and horrified the whole fight. The first time a game made me feel like that

I remember when I first saw them in Gears 4, and just eye rolling because it was just a copy and paste enemy that was worse

I really wanted to like four and five but the swarm is just pointless it’s just basically the same enemy they are just a hive mind they don’t care if they die because there’s always more.

The Coalition's problem is they don't understand how to show vs tell.

I only really felt annoyance with them. They seemed more of an inconvenience than an enemy. A tire on the track, type thing. Plus the design is a bit, meh. Too gooey and shit

I agree Locusts were a more interesting enemy. Swarm are fine, and they do look cool, but they are not creepy and seem less full of hatred than Locusts. Also, Gears 5 said Locusts/Swarm were lab-made with human DNA right? I feel that makes them less interesting, like does that mean Raam is not really a General that fought for years and is actually just a test-tube creature that escaped? IMHO, I think they should have made Locusts a species, not a mutated human. But for all I know this could have been decided in a book or something well before the Coalition devs got involved.

The editing in this video though, 🤣. Great video!

Fucking incredible video. I haven’t found a single other channel that is a long time fan of the series criticizing the new games. It’s refreshing to see an informed video of the swarm. Thank you! You’ve earned a new subscriber!

the worst problem of swarm is that they don't have any memorable boss, no one like Raam or Skorge.

I just feel like the 1st trilogy was made like Horror War Genre...these last 2 have been made like Stranger Things...also at this point all of us are so used to the horrors of the Locust and now Swarm that they don't scare us...i mean at least i played the campaigns (both 4 and 5) with the knowledge of the horrors of the Locust wars. I also understand that the Swarm don't have a human leader they don't have emotions and neither did the Locust so i think one of the biggest errors they made was killing off Reyna. Reyna should've survived and she should've become the real Swarm queen in 4 and in 5 (bound by blood) Reyna could've been trying to get her daughter to join her. That would've been a better story. Reyna was about the only character in 4 that i trusted in the same way i trusted Delta Squad.

The new Gears games suffer from the same problem that the Disney Star Wars films, terrible storytelling and poor direction; only made worse by the fact that you know the talent is.just sitting there. If the Gears sequel games focused on the evil of the Coalition, sure, bring back the Locust as the Swarm, but have them more like the Lambent; secondary antagonists. Highlighting the experiments that created the Locust, the rock and a hard place choice that the Queen was forced into, and how impossible peace would have been; I mean, the Coalition are evil, they're basically constantly hinted at being a Fascist state, Marcus hates them, so it wouldn't be a stretch at all. The Swarm should just be a tragic faction of evil.

I like how they introduced speaker its just he didnt have enough meaning in the story

I didn't play Gears 4 but did play 1,2,3 and 5. This new campaigns seem to be less serious and leaving the dark tone a side. In Gears 5 there was not a single moment where i was amaze by the enemies, nothing like fighting Raam, berserker, etc

Brilliant video man, well-explained points and visually excellent as always. 🤙

I kind of like Gears of War 4 but it never should have been made the swarm should have never been a thing Gears 3 was such a perfect ending to a perfect series

The problem with the Swarm is that they are brand new, there's no history to them. So they are the bad guys because the story needs one. Yes they are the Locust 2.0 but you can't just ignore a background by saying that they basically the same bad guys as before. Gow 4 should've started 10 years into a Swarm Invasion so the game can tell us something new about them. Give the players something to hate, fear, like, etc.

While i did like Gears 4's story as an introduction set piece, i disliked the story in Gears 5 and the Swarm was never as intimidating or cool as the locust were

I feel people wouldnt be as upset if coalition just went hey. The locusts not dead

This is the problem with most modern gaming and tv as well nowadays we keep getting reboots or sequels to old games and shows except they are done by new groups and artists who in some cases have no love or connection to the legacy they are taking over or they don't understand what made the original good so they often stray away from the old formula and make it their own game or movie such as 343 did with halo or Disney with star wars sequels which leads to controversy and alot of hate or confusion and often they become forgotten or left with bad memories and leave people unsatisfied and leaving those franchises in the search for something new and better

Ngl, I keep forgetting that they’re the swarm, I just keep calling them locusts

Oscar knew the truth about the swarm that's why he was digging the giant worm of gears 2 to find better antagonists

Locust's primary motivation to emerge was the Lambent, so there's no logic in this reincarnated war since there is no threat for them underground, both Gears 4 and 5 are unnecesary and pointless.

I saw the thumbnail for my Swarm vs. Locust video early on in the video. Love you fam!

Honestly, haven’t watched the video yet, however I will list the things I feel are flaws for the Swarm and what makes them incredibly forgettable. 1) They have no actual motives. The only possible motive I can come up with is them wanting to capture humans and convert them into swarm. However that isn’t really a motive at all as there is no end point. 2) They look way more alien and share almost nothing with their previous incarnations in the locust. The snatcher doesn’t look like anything the locust had in their army. The pouncer doesn’t look like anything the locust have. Honestly this faction would’ve done way better if, instead of being connected to the locust, they are instead a parasite that infected the dead bodies of the locust, and the new special members in the factions are actually just the parasite infector forms. 3) They were fucked from the start. You’re honestly telling me that the cog didn’t notice this new locust rip off in the early stages? The cog literally should’ve been monitoring the burial sites just in case the locust weren’t actually dead. 4) They are less diverse than the locust were. The swarm literally has 8 units: Juvies, drones, grenadiers, Scions, pouncer, snatcher, flock, and Wardens. The locust by the second game had like 14 units: Tickers, wretches, drones, grenadiers, cyclopses, kantuses, kryll, boomers, maulers, grinders, butchers, snipers, Theron guards, berserkers, Reavers, and Corpsers. 5) The fucking health bars annoy me so damn much because it’s given them an excuse to turn most of the enemies into bullet sponges. Just seeing a health bar above an enemy completely destroys my immersion as you can literally see how little your bullets affect them.

here's how i would've reintroduced the Locust. in Gears 4, the story begins the same- the group invades Settlement 5 to claim a Fabricator and all, BUT... inside, they find fliers of a strange new medical facility out near the ruins of Jacinto. then after Jinn attacks the village, the town does get invaded by the Swarm... but they find tracks that lead to the medical facility. Inside, they find COG scientists experimenting with Locust DNA taken from corpses, trying to use it to perfect a Rustlung cure, but some applicants showed signs of mutation- the Scions and Juvies. Or they could've arrived after the Swarm killed everyone inside and took over. Either way, medical facility experimenting with Locust DNA and the experiments get loose and start their rampage. As for the Pouncers and Snatchers- mutated Skitters. and the other beasts... crossbreed experiments? Anyway, as the kids investigate further and further, they find the Swarm are mutating the scientists and guards and abductees with the Pods to make more Scions and Juvies since the experiments were done on humans after all, with Kait's mom being used as their Queen due to her familial ties to Myrrah. but since the Swarm are too many, the kids are forced to flee and find help. Enter the Classic characters, who do a lot more then just show up for fan service. One reconcile with Jinn and massive return raid later and they learn the Swarm had spread across the planet using old Emergence Holes, with Kait's mom still alive and at the helm, mutated into a copy-Myrrah. and that's just Gears 4. now that would've been a better way to bring the Locust back that doesn't destroy Gears 3's perfect ending, and why they need to be stopped. as for Gears 5, it could still be the same- revive the Hammer of Dawn, fight the giant worm, and blah blah blah blah, but with some tweaking to make it less aggravating, like Kait's visions are more known and last all game, with her cut from the Locust/Swarm hivemind and battle with the Matriarch taking place at the end of the game, or at least Act 4.

That opening made me go watch that scene from a Few Good Men and then come back and finish the video

The Locust are Cool SWARM haha no way their gross

The swarm are practically empty both in story telling and tearing through them only to find strawberry jam. Like, how do these things even stand let alone walk?

I loved the part where they were attacked by flying locusts. One the COGs said in a very bad ass way, "They fly now?" The other spat out his cigarette and said, "They fly now!" And it was so bad ass and reminiscent of the first trilogy, but for some reason, it made me want to play the new trilogy. For... some reason. *checks email for message from sponsor again*

Great video man locust > swarm

I might be late to this discussion, but for me, another central problem with the Swarm is their lack of purpose and voluntarism. When you interact with the Locust in Gears of War 2, you can clearly see that they are not very different to humans in various regards: they need to eat, they need to sleep, they build roads, buildings, sacred places, monuments, they know how to write, how to measure time, etc. After visiting New Hope you can connect the dots and realize that the Locust were made after former humans mutated with Imulsion, and that Imulsion was the whole plot point during the original trilogy. Humans accidentally created the Locust while trying to find a cure for Lambency. Then tried to weaponize them during the Pendulum Wars and failed. The Locust then sought shelter in the sub-soil (The Hollow), but humanity went into full time consumption of Imulsion at the end of the Pendulum Wars. Myrrah had no choice but to attack humanity to prevent them from extracting Imulsion at an industrial scale, accelerating the Lambency process. The attack was led by numerous generals: RAAM, Skorge, Ukkon, Karn,...all of them with authentic identities in the horde. On the other hand, the Swarm have literally no past and no future. Their sole purpose is to feed and multiply, like a savage animal. They have literally no identity, no culture, no purpose against humanity.

Gears of war 1 was the pinnacle of the franchise. The sense of dread felt throughout the campaign was exciting. Cant say the same for 4-5.

I will remember the Beserkers intro till the day I die. That shit scared the hell out of me as a child.

the swarm were just a cheap remake of the locust, because nobody could be bothered to create a worthwhile villain i would have much preferred to fight the COG

I think if the COG was made the bad guy of Gears, then you could actually have a interesting discussion of the previous games through the lens of the children of the people/actions of the previous games. I would hate to make it some kind of cringe zoomer vs boomer thing, but maybe the COG could take a drastic approach to squashing the Outsiders could be to take the Locust's corpses now resurrected and their new Dbots to enforce their rule on the humans? Maybe the main cast could try to reconcile the problems of the past. ie. "War is all we know line." We can keep the horror aspect and bring back the same kind of horror with had with Sires from Gears 2. Maybe the Locust zombie horde could combine elements of traditional Locust and Lambent, now warped together as a super weapon. Then the characters with the Outsiders have to destroy the Locust horde and the COG, with the COG trying to race the Outsiders to controlling the horde and sacrificing their own to do this, ie. Kait's mom. Kind of a ramble, but could help?

When he said like a swarm i never rolled my eyes so hard in my life

In the first Gears game Marcus Fenix was an authority on Berserkers but he"d never heard about Kryll before actually encountering them which is pretty frickin ridiculous!

My complaint about them was that it doesn't make sense to have an emulsion based life form exist without emulsion

I was a hardcore GoW fan and I don't even remember any memorable scenes from 4, and 5. They dont even feel canon, like the writers were given 1 hour to play each previous game and make something up. Also the protagonists are already to familiar to war that it seems irrelevant what you go up against, what I mean is Marcus was a battle hardened pendulum war vet and Prisoner so hes going to come off as very disgruntled and know how to fight. but these new guys shake everything off likes its just Tuesday. The coalition should have started GoW4 with a thriving society and introduced the swarm and making out protagonists realize the Horrors of war, make them lose their wits, and humanity, unglorify being a Gear. but instead we got a wash rinse repeat, and goofy skins. Thanks Epic Games for the fun times but This franchise is now a waste of time

Swarm: basically Locust with new skin

(How to deal with prisoners) Locusts: Chain them up by hooks and chains that dig into their frail skin, constantly attack them with blades and sharp objects until their mind begins to break and shatter before their own body. Do not grant them death as it is a luxury they do not deserve Swarm: *Vore em*

I think the thing I hate the most about the swarm is how they’re an absolute ducking insult to all the sacrifices and deaths that occurred because of the locust. Dom, the carmines, Tai and Adam Fenix. Everyone died for literally no reason because apparently the weapon and experiments Adam had been working on for 20+ years is WORTHLESS They turned an extremely sad and hard hitting death into nothing. It pissed me off. They didn’t need to bring the swarm back, they could’ve kept the DB’s as the enemies, made them react much better and even made them disconnect themselves from whatever system they’re plugged into (as cliche as that would be. But it would be fine considering both Marcus and Baird opposed it in the first place) but no they pissed all over adams corpse and then took a continuous shit on the rest of the memorable corpses. Fuck the swarm.

The swarm was supposed to be better all around but they really aren't. The locust and the lambent were tougher enemies

something that in my mind could have made the swarm make a bit more sense would have been if the swarm was actually a minority of the reborn locusts, with most of them instead returning to the hollows to clear out the water as much as possible, with the intent of both avenging and honoring their fallen queen by surving and rebuilding, to become stronger than before once again. the swarm and the hive mind could be explained away in this scenario as a byproduct of a deathrattle from myrrahs telepathic connection with the locust (if i am interperting the way she gives RAAM orders correctly in RAAMs shaodw) which sent out both her hatred of humanity. this created the swarm, feral locust with only the anniahlation of humanity in mind. the kindapping and transformation could also be explained that the swarm searched for a human that posses simmilari genetic qualities as myrrah so that they could recreate their old queen and unify the swarm and the locust. the locust would be all for the idea, "getting back our queen and makeing the humans suffer while those feral morons do all the work and get all the blame... perfect", thus would supply them with wepons and armaments. the abduction of reyina gave the swarm a good enough template to begin the reconstruction process, sending her genetic blueprint to the location of the new "body" (which is in the main stronghold of the locust) which then gets the mental blueprint based on the hive mind and remants of the connection left in their entire species imprinted on it. the "rescue" of kaits mother stopped the process and caused the new queen to awaken, who posses both the originals connection to the locust and her affection to them but was a bit lacking in the hatred for humans part. all of this was enough for the locusts but not the swarm who imprinted their hive mind into a super berserker with their own new queen went to war with the locusts. this could result in a three way war or a human-locust allince with both parties possesing a nonexistant ammount of trust for the other (but could give one the chance to play as a locust for a bit in the campaign). but that is just me... and we could have gotten something like this... but instead we got a bunch of nothingburgers.

Your 100 % right about everything you just said props man 👏

HEY, COALITION... hire this man as your lead director NOW

Old vid i know but i think if they would have stuck with JD as the protaganist but still put kaits story into gears 5, when jd found out what she was connected to, it would have made a way bigger impact. I kinda liked the story a litte bit, but there was a lot missing as the video stated.

They have to focus more towards the Swarms hive and give them characters and directions in Gears 6

We need a better perspective of how the swarm hive mind works. Is it one acting as many, can they think for themselves at all. They are made from people, do they have peoples memories. We also need swarm characters other than Rayna and a random giant monster.

10:19 omg that was so cringy Gears of war lost the essence, no more locusts, no wars, no Big guys vs giant monsters... Now it's all about a little girl and his mother

as a soldier in gears one has more emotion and the human factor

I'm a bit late, but I kind of adore the Swarm, I just want more to be done with them, and they're definitely better than the concept arts I saw Epic had for Gears of War 4 when they still y'know owned gears.

"Mom can we please have Locust?" No we have Locust at home. Locust at home....^^^^

The entire story of Gears 5 seems to be actually more centered on the main character than it is on the swarm. Maybe if they had focused less on what the swarm's plans were rather than what Cait and her family history had to do with it they probably would've had a better story

My BIGGEST BEEF with The Swarm, is that they feel THROWN IN. There's no build up to the Swarm like the Lambent had in all 3 games.

I will say the lambent are my favorite and that if they were brought back (although lore wise would make no sense) I would love it

I grew up playing gears games but never really understood the stories for I wasn’t even 6 at the time but when gears 4 came out I got it with my Xbox and enjoyed the story and thought it was great, I liked how since the swarm isn’t found out about until partially through the story, we play as the characters who find the swarm and make new discoveries about the swarm as we go on. I thought this was great, however maybe if most of gears 4 was a dlc to gears 5 or 6 and gears 4 took a more gears 1 intro approach, say you play as jd and Marcus and maybe dell at the start and you see Marcus get taken and jd’s reaction just like the cutscene in gears 4 maybe that would be better, just a thought though

What i hated the most is how they took away everything unique about locusts. they werent experiments, they were creatures with art, culture, beliefs and a society in general. they werent mindless drones, they were individuals with their own will capable of slacking off and disobeying order, hell, e-day wouldnt have happened if raam hadnt disobeyed orders. They were a genuine threat. they keep saying the swar is better but they have absolutely no feats to back it up. they dont have strategists, they dont have named characters, no proper tech or anything while the locusts wiped out 1/4 of humanity in a single day. and most important, they were fucking diabolical; the torture, the emergence holes, and their treatment to the human race, jesus the therons hiss "sodomize" as an order, what other race does that?

Gears 1-3 had a good consistent story to follow and be invested in. Gears 4 was okay, and gears 5 was all over the place and a huge shift with a main protagonist. How are people expecting gears 6 to magically wrap up this story.

I do wish there was more of a big bad to rally against. Like Raam in gears 1 and Skorge in gears 2. They kinda made that one hand guy a boss. But he didn't feel like Raam or Skorge.

I always felt like the swarm was just a "generic villian for action videogame 8276" type of deal.

Can we all agree that the Coalition ruined Gears of War just as much as 343 did to Halo?!

I thought Karn sucked but at least I felt his presence in Judgement. The Speaker was like “who’s this now?”. I never played Gears 5 but I honestly don’t care about the story moving forward after Gears 3 anymore.

Its sad but....true.this was my favorite series and still is but the knew ones are just a disappointment no lore thats memorable and its just sad.😔

Simple, have a really boring and noncompelling boss fights, make the characters feel shallow, make twists super lame, need I say more?

17:23 JD and his friends calling what are clearly Locusts the "Swarm" is so nonsensical. Imagine if you will,a a story in witch a portal opens up in our world and an army of N@zi Soilders in full N@zi regalia attacks and destroys modern day cities...and the main characters are like "WhO CoULd ThEse GuYs Be? They have this wierd cross on their arm,they are THE CROSSED!" That nonsensical.

Right when i saw kim i was like NOO!! 😭😫😢

Swarm introduction section of the video made me wonder how gears would be if Gears 4 was outsider vs cog then final cutscene we see a swarm raid about to begin. and then little dlc mission where we could play as Marcus when the swarm revealed themselves to him. maybe even have them Snatch Anya. or another Locust Pov during a raid with their new surprise crusade being something along the lines of hate and revenge

I agree with you in this vid and everything thing u said for the most part however I do appreciate the swarm still In a way for what they are. They definitely aren’t better than locust but I still appreciate them

Wish you used the ultimate edition version of first seeing General RAAM. That scene looked way more badass in 4K with a slight redesign on how the scene played out

I did played the game and im gonna say I perfer the locust over the swarm

I haven't played a gears game since gears 4 relaesed and honeslty i completely forgot the swarm existed and though you fought locusts in gears 4. I only remembered the swarm when I bought gear's 5 just this month.

I'm hearing and enjoying the Gears of War 3 menu theme