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I'll try to keep this short. I went through and Played Gears 1-3 about 2 monthsish ago. Fantastic Trilogy. Honestly could've ending it there. Arguably should've. Idk what to place first. It's between Gears 2 and Gears 3. Gears 1 was a great Entry to start the Franchise. I loved the dark tone, serious behavior and The Characters. Mostly Marcus. Gears 2 you can definitely tell the Budget went up. I start getting more attached to Dom and Feel gutted after his wife is revealed to be not herself anymore. I thought it was beautiful that he saw her as he first met her when she came out. Man that was emotional. Chills. Cole grows on me as we go through the story more as well. Gears 3 was another example of a higher budget. Marcus, Cole, Dom and Baird are attached to me by the end of this. Dom sacrificing himself hit me hard but Not as much as his wife's death. That was Beautiful and Depressing. Marcus being emotional over it made it more emotional for me. The ending was great. It was really the perfect ending if not close to perfect. Gears 4 wasn't terrible. Honestly I liked the new crew. Was super excited to get too older Marcus. Reminds me of older Kratos. Jacked and Bearded lol. JD was his best in 4 to me. Kait and Del was best in 5 imo. Specially voice acting. Gears 4 had some cool set Pieces. Like the Motor Bikes and The Tall Robots you can control. The last boss didn't really intimidate me tho. The ending reveal was interesting tho with her necklace. Gears 5 was a huge step for me compared to 4. Budget went up. Cutscenes were fantastic. The Last Boss was much better. Kait finding out about her being related to the Queen was a cool reveal. I did like how she could control them. I wish this was implemented better in the end. Where she could've took the Kraken and tied the Tentacles around them until they exploded or something. Used it against them is what I'm trying to say. The "Open Worldish Parts" were not bad imo. I did all the side activities btw in both Act 2 and 3. Kait and Del have a lot of cemetery in this one. Voice acting was improved and They can be silly around each other. Which in a way is nice in a depressing world. JD. I really was in a way expecting JD to be there on "Business" watching Kait when he got to Act 3. I was wondering if he would be there for them or be there because he changed and Wanted to put her down if she was a threat. I thought it was nice in the end he came through. Specially for Marcus. I choose to save JD. I thought Del's death hit much more for all the characters when he passed. Obviously not Marcus but Overall. Ending was much better then 4's. 4 is my least favorite as you can probably see but not horrible. My biggest complaint about 4 was the Horde/Wave missions. Just felt cheap. Anyways really don't know when we're gonna get an Ending for this modern story. 7 years later and We still don't know if we'll get it. Specially how Xbox is struggling. E-Day is excited tho and Looks fantastic. Here's my little ranking. Imo. I'm gonna do Judgement next. From what I hear it's probably gonna fall to last but I still wanna see for myself.

Some many little teases and Such. Playstation is really doing the most out here besides Strauss. Those 2 have been talking/marketing the game this past week/weeks. With the Messages/Emails on Playstation pushing for Fans to get a PS5 for GTA6 is a very good sign. Specially talking about it in there Investor Call. They wouldn't do this if they didn't have feedback from them. That's a good sign. Specially Strauss talking about the date before. Those are the keys signs it probably won't get delayed again. Now the Playstation store not having any deals is shocking specially since I always check like every time lol. Also Game Informer having history with these people. I'm not gonna expect everything next Tuesday but I wouldn't be surprised if there's at least something. Take-Two's Investor Call is soon. Rockstar has always had something for it. 9-14 days out from it in the past 10+ years. I do think we'll get something before it. Plus some other little teasers here and There. Keep expectations low of course but It would be awesome if we do get everything next week. If there's nothing next week I would genuinely be shocked. Only because they won't have much time to track numbers the week of. Next week makes sense for lots of reason yes but Again don't get your hopes up. I'm excited but I don't wanna be extremely disappointed.

Strauss Zelnick has had Multiple Interviews this year. Far more then the usual amount. Let's start with the key things

Marketing will being this Summer

Pricing of the Game will come Soon

People will be taken off on November 19th

Crunch is not nearly as bad now (This news just came out today I believe) Funny considering the rumors around Crunch being bad from that review. If true seems more of a India issue.

Rockstar has always released something before an earnings call. Anywhere between 9-14 days before since 2013. Something is coming soon. Doesn't make sense to not have big numbers before Q4's call.

Other take aways

Game has been in development for 8+ years

Game has Thousands of Devs working on it

A Thousand+ more then 5 and Hundreds/If not Thousands more then RDR2

Rockstar have Unlimited Financial/Resources

Zelnick is Excited but Terrified of the release

Budget has far exceeded 1B+

Zelnick has had Gameplay shown to him

The list goes on from this Year about the game

If there's nothing before the earnings call I would genuinely be shocked. Rockstar always has something for Q4's. I'd say in the coming days to less then 3 weeks we will have news from Rockstar. I really hope we're right there now and We can finally play it in 6 months. Rockstar has had 2 an a ½ years since Trailer one released to work on it. 1 year since 2. We're 6 an a ½ away months way potentially for extra polish. Now we just wait for Rockstar.