Gears of War's hidden messege? story of facsism, colonialism, self destructiveness, and genocide.

[phereck]

I've heard oothers talk about this, but really? who are the real villans in Gears Of War? Is this idea something the creators were aware of?

 

[Daystar Clarion]

Hidden message?

It's about as hidden as a fluorescent pink penguin tethered to a cage of drunken ferrets in the middle of an expo, centered around the idea of finding said fluorescent pink penguin and run by ferret enthusiasts who's favourite kind of ferret is that of the intoxicated variety.

 

[Zen Toombs]

Hidden? You do know that this gam-

Hidden message?

It's about as hidden as a fluorescent pink penguin tethered to a cage of drunken ferrets in the middle of an expo, centered around the idea of finding said fluorescent pink penguin and run by ferret enthusiasts who's favourite kind of ferret is that of the intoxicated variety.

That was a lot funnier than what I was going to say.

Let's pretend I said that instead.

 

[worldruler8]

Hidden message?

It's about as hidden as a fluorescent pink penguin tethered to a cage of drunken ferrets in the middle of an expo, centered around the idea of finding said fluorescent pink penguin and run by ferret enthusiasts who's favourite kind of ferret is that of the intoxicated variety.

so pretty hidden

OP: I'm one of the few people who actually likes the back story of Gears of War. As far as I know, Sera (the planet that GoW is based on, and is also "ares", the greek god of war spelled backwards) is most likely a planet colonized by the huhmens. Then the huhmens found this yellow oil shit that caused people to mutate, and found it made good fuel. War happened over said yellow oil shit. Then, shit hit the fan, and E-day happened. The Locust, who were mad that the huhmens were mining their precious yellow oil shit, came out of the ground and attacked the huhmens. Since the huhmens were war-like, and had weapons of mass destruction, and the Locust just burned everything, the huhmens decided to use giant laser beams from space and fried 95% of Sera. Anyone who had the misfortune of not living in the 5% that wasn't fried were, well, fried. The rest of the history is where the player plays, with COG (Coalition of Ordered Governments) being the "facsist pigs" while the Stranded (the 5%) were the people who had to witness the horrors of not getting fried, but seeing everyone else fried. There isn't any hidden messages, minus the fact that the above is not exactly visible, you have to do a bit of digging.

 

[Total LOLige]

The Gears of War series story made me want to kill Paul McCartney. I almost did it, then I played Skyrim. I always got a the COG are evil vibe but the Locust are just as if not more evil. Especially after the whole Adam Fenix bit, I found myself thinking the COG are total bastards.

 

[w9496]

Thre is no hidden message. You can get the gist of the backstory if you play the games, and the books cover most everything else.

 

[Soviet Heavy]

The Gears of War series story made me want to kill Paul McCartney. I almost did it, then I played Skyrim. I always got a the COG are evil vibe but the Locust are just as if not more evil. Especially after the whole Adam Fenix bit, I found myself thinking the COG are total bastards.

It doesn't help that the vast majority of the human race was not destroyed by the Locust, but by the Hammer of Dawn. Then, of the perhaps 10% that survived the death lasers, another 9% was eaten by the Kryll. Really, the Locust have done far less to humanity than humanity did to itself, and the only reason the Locust attacked at all was because the humans careless immulsion dumping had forced them out of their territory by the lambent.

 

[endtherapture]

The not-so-hidden message is that war is pointless and horrifying and the environment is good.

 

[ResonanceSD]

These are the games that the creator of dead space said had the worst writing in games. No one yelled at him for a reason.

 

[Muspelheim]

It's "Beefy Cavemen Good, Evul Underground Goblin-Aliens Bad", pretty much... It's about as sophisticated as it gets, it seems.

Although I do like that they paint the COG-faction in less than a bright light sometime, with their abandonment of civilians and whatnot. But that's about as "deep" as it seems to get.

Furthermore on the subject, when I played through Gears of War 2, I loved how they tried to hush my "Marcus & Dom go spelunking when noone's looking"-theories by giving Dom a missus he could whine about. Suppose they didn't want no gayness de-manlifying their pex-a-thon rampage-game.

These are the games that the creator of dead space said had the worst writing in games. No one yelled at him for a reason.

Oh, dear. I'd be rather worried if that happened to me, I must say. Well, both Dead Space and GoW2 share the theme of going after baddies to get your rather faceless wife back (with predictable results). Although Dom did at least speak (even when I told him not to).

 

[ResonanceSD]

It's "Beefy Cavemen Good, Evul Underground Goblin-Aliens Bad", pretty much... It's about as sophisticated as it gets, it seems.

Although I do like that they paint the COG-faction in less than a bright light sometime, with their abandonment of civilians and whatnot. But that's about as "deep" as it seems to get.

Furthermore on the subject, when I played through Gears of War 2, I loved how they tried to hush my "Marcus & Dom go spelunking when noone's looking"-theories by giving Dom a missus he could whine about. Suppose they didn't want no gayness de-manlifying their pex-a-thon rampage-game.

These are the games that the creator of dead space said had the worst writing in games. No one yelled at him for a reason.

Oh, dear. I'd be rather worried if that happened to me, I must say. Well, both Dead Space and GoW2 share the theme of going after baddies to get your rather faceless wife back (with predictable results). Although Dom did at least speak (even when I told him not to).

Yeah when DEAD SPACE can look down it's nose at your terrible storyline, it's time to reconsider..everything.

 

[Don Savik]

You're trying to look for deep in a man who calls himself Cliffyb.

You should stop before you hurt yourself.

 

[Muspelheim]

Yeah when DEAD SPACE can look down it's nose at your terrible storyline, it's time to reconsider..everything.

Indeed, or join perhaps join the Unitologists.

You're trying to look for deep in a man who calls himself Cliffyb.

You should stop before you hurt yourself.

A void is certainly one type of depth. It's just that there's nothing in there, nothing, and it'd probably hurt your eyes to stare into the emptiness for longer periods of time.

 

[jw1410]

The huhmens found this yellow oil shit that caused people to mutate, and found it made good fuel. War happened over said yellow oil shit. Then, shit hit the fan, and E-day happened. The Locust, who were mad that the huhmens were mining their precious yellow oil shit, came out of the ground and attacked the huhmens. Since the huhmens were war-like, and had weapons of mass destruction, and the Locust just burned everything, the huhmens decided to use giant laser beams from space and fried 95% of Sera. Anyone who had the misfortune of not living in the 5% that wasn't fried were, well, fried. The rest of the history is where the player plays, with COG (Coalition of Ordered Governments) being the "facsist pigs" while the Stranded (the 5%) were the people who had to witness the horrors of not getting fried, but seeing everyone else fried. There isn't any hidden messages, minus the fact that the above is not exactly visible, you have to do a bit of digging.

This more or less sums it up. No hidden message, the message is kinda right there. Bearing in mind that the people of Sera knew nothing but war for several generations it draws on the follies of a facist state, but the perceived benefits of one also. Throw in the 'horrors of war' carried out for the greater good and that's pretty much it. At the end of the day Gears of War is a bit of a 'why can't we all just get along' story. With chainsaws.

 

[Nomanslander]

Hidden message?

It's about as hidden as a fluorescent pink penguin tethered to a cage of drunken ferrets in the middle of an expo, centered around the idea of finding said fluorescent pink penguin and run by ferret enthusiasts who's favourite kind of ferret is that of the intoxicated variety.

ditto

Plus my favorite part was how the guys at epic were too dumb to even follow through said message by finishing the Locust Queen's dialogue at the end of Gears3.

If you want to talk about dumb shooters where you play the real badguys, Killzone was at least a bit more discreet about it.

 

[Terminate421]

The Gears of War series story made me want to kill Paul McCartney. I almost did it, then I played Skyrim. I always got a the COG are evil vibe but the Locust are just as if not more evil. Especially after the whole Adam Fenix bit, I found myself thinking the COG are total bastards.

At least they did what they could to survive. The Space Marines just said "for the glory of battle" and made a negative stereotype

 

[Terminate421]

Wow, I am appalled at the amount of hate for gears's story here, even dead spaces? What's wrong with you?

Seriously, it's got more imagination than whatever elves or zombies are in nowadays

Edit: it's not a deep game like bioshock, but it's not shallow like...Mario.

 

[Something Amyss]

Hidden message?

It's about as hidden as a fluorescent pink penguin tethered to a cage of drunken ferrets in the middle of an expo, centered around the idea of finding said fluorescent pink penguin and run by ferret enthusiasts who's favourite kind of ferret is that of the intoxicated variety.

Daystar basically covered my opinion. This is subtle like a brick to the head.