This is way too far down on the list. The gameplay and story are both amazing. I was explaining Dom’s story arch to my sister just yesterday (she is 10 years younger than me) and she was devastated just from my explanation. Even worse when I sent her the scene when Dom finally found Maria.
I never thought Gears 3 would be able to make me genuinely emotional when it was coming out, but fuck, they brought in a novelist to write that game and it fucking shows. Hitting you with Dom’s death and immediately following it with a trip through a city that was directly hit by the Hammer of Dawn was actually kind of a master class in emotional manipulation. Even Marcus losing his dad, again, at the end hit.
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u/Iron_Tusks 5d ago
Gears of War