How does Gears of War go from a 9.6 to a 7 in 9 years?

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More a remake than GOW3. Neither one should lose ratings. It's a stupid premise.
They're reviewing the remaster as a new game. Different person, different time etc.

Edit: if the original got a lower score but the remaster got a higher score, people would then accuse journalists of bias because "it's the same game with better graphics!"
 
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More a remake than GOW3. Neither one should lose ratings. It's a stupid premise.
Breh, you have to think of 13 year old Little Jimmy who never played Gears of War before. He owns an Xbox One and visits his favorite videogame website, Gamespot.com, every day. Little Jimmy can't buy a lot of games so he trusts Gamespot.com to help him with their game reviews. So when he sees that the Gears of War: Remaster review, it needs to be honest about how good the game is now.
 

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Breh, you have to think of 13 year old Little Jimmy who never played Gears of War before. He owns an Xbox One and visits his favorite videogame website, Gamespot.com, every day. Little Jimmy can't buy a lot of games so he trusts Gamespot.com to help him with their game reviews. So when he sees that the Gears of War: Remaster review, it needs to be honest about how good the game is now.
The site should provide a link to the original review. The site should responsibly report that the game is old and then proceed to rate the quality of the remaster. Little Timmy is 13. Therefore he can read. Therefore he can clearly see that the game is old as fukk and not a brand new release. There's a million YouTube videos of the original game out there for him to see if he's interested or not. It's just that simple. The game is more geared towards original fans of the series anyway. Everything isn't for everybody. There's too many outlets and ways to figure out if ur interested in a purchase or not. Especially on something that's been out for 9 years.
 
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Just because the game looks better doesn't mean they couldn't fix old problems.

THE BAD
Frustrating AI
Campaign becomes a slog in the late-game chapters

They routinely improve AI and gameplay in remasters such as GTAV, wind waker HD, DmC so Gears shouldn't get a pass because it's gears:camby:
Sounds like stan outrage. I played it and it's gears but it felt dated. Gears 3>>>>>>>>

I dare y'all tell me I'm making this up, PLENTY of remastered games made improvements beyond visuals.
 
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GoW was a 8 at best from its initial launch. The game rates highly among casual low skilled gamers. Graphics were great at the time and multiplayer was addicting. Story was bleh tho with forgettable character pumped up on steroids.

:what: You ever played gears online? Its nothing casual about it

Edit: forgettable characters? :mindblown: i seriously doubt you've played this before. Gears has some of the best characters
 
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I could understand this "outrage" if they went back and changed the original score for the original game, but since they're not........:manny:
 

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Same reason Why Sonic Adventure was critically acclaimed when it first came out on a Dreamcast but was considered garbage once it's arrived on the 360/PS3.

Sonic Adventure for Dreamcast - GameRankings

Certain Aspects about the games that were highlighted 10 + years ago will be dated now after playing hundreds of other games that were released within that time
 

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Gears of War: Ultimate Edition Review
4/10

The campaign has aged pretty poorly and the graphical updates to the campaign side of Gears of War feel half-baked, so unless you're really excited for the competitive part of Gears of War, there's nothing for you here.

Original review
9.6/10
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I guess this remaster is just :flabbynsick:. They should've just remastered all three games and made the online mode based off of Gears 3 MP with the best maps from 1 and 2 as well as all the maps from 3.
 
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