Cole Train was everyones favorite, because you were a kid. you werent indoctrinated yet into calling everything with diversity "woke". you were playing games to have fun, not complain I promise you if Gears of War 1 released today as a new game, the same "fatigue" and "diversity checkbox" comments would be seen, because its done to games now where it doesnt apply
Don't let anyone gaslight you. Gears of War 1-3 was an incredible show of what diversity SHOULD be. White, Black, Latino, Asian, Male, Female,... all possible kinds of representation, but not there for the OPTICS of representation. Cole Train was everyone's favorite character
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Pathetic lying disingenuous retard Space Marine 2 came out years ago and its more played on Steam TODAY than Gears of War Intentionally trying to misunderstand things doesn't work, just stop, it's embarrassing

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and if space marines 2 released and people didnt like it, middle aged autistic fucks like yourself wouldve been making 30 minute videos ranting about the trans writer on the game your playbooks so generic people like game - representation done right people dont - well its the wokeness of course
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The emperor protects
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He did the post.
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Almost time to break out the meme I used for Highguard and Marathon 😂
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Right!? These people deliberately misunderstanding shit is getting pathetic. Dudes playing Gears of War EDay sit with their legs crossed, and need help starting their electric mowers.
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There are literally twice as many people playing Left 4 Dead 2(2009) right now, and boy oh boy did we hate the diversity.
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I love how these people pretend to not understand what woke, DEI slop is inside of traditional male franchises (Halo, Gears of War, Call of Duty, etc). Here's a checklist for those with a sub 90 IQ: -Does the game have ugly women for no reason yet is a traditionally male franchise and since time immemorial all humans have understood "sex sells"? Check. -Does the game have female leadership consistently berate, insult, and put down the male characters and "keep them in their place" aka "Girl Bossing"? Check. -Does the game constantly have the female characters outsmarting and saving the male characters even though the men are stronger, faster and in many cases more experienced? Check. -Does the game make the male characters cry about feelings and empathy in the most contrived performative methodology? Check -Does the game "preach" to the player about diversity, acceptance, love, or any other feminized language (Remember we're literally killing aliens and shooting people. WTF is this therapy session in the game?) Check. -Last but not least, does the game include a strange overrepresentation of LGBTQ aligned individuals while ALSO having 2 or more of the above? Check. Congrats, your game is woke slop. It ain't going to sell anywhere near as much as it could of. That's assuming it makes back what it cost to produce.
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I'm past fatigue and have arrived at exhaustion. Depriving these people of your money is the only way forward.
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Gears of War 1 didn’t have 20 different gay flags or a lesbian bossing you around that looked like a man and woman at the same time. You cannot reframe it as much as you try. Oh and the game sucks. Controls are not intuitive. There’s no reason to purposefully make them different just like the content of the game. I hope women keep ruining games to drive the point home and beat the dead horse.
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I'm reinstalling Space Marine. It's time to go cleanse the heretics once again.
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Yup, DqRoman's comment is so disingenuous that it made me angry and I am black lol. So tired of these terrible arguments made in bad faith. The reason why people liked Cole Train was because he was a GOOD character. A lot of modern ones suck. I hate these insulting takes.
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Ironically the cast was just as racially diverse too.
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People liked Cole because he was loud, funny, and the only guy in Delta who wasn’t miserable. Not because of a diversity quota that didn’t exist in 2006. Pretending otherwise is just rewriting what actually happened.
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This is how you have to handle Tzeentchers.
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This would require that they even had a level of understanding to begin with. If they think gears 1-3 had any of the nonsense that the new one has, they clearly never played the game or disregarded it entirely
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It's worth pointing out that Space Marine 2 has just as much diversity in its characters, and I don't know if this screenshot is the first time I noticed that a Space Marine is black. Diversity is not the problem. Unnatural implementation by idiots creates the whole aura that gets the "woke shit" label slapped on right away, and then you don't want to play that kind of game.
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That’s the genuine problem. A step aside from the politics, if they wanted to maintain the title in their genre they had to step up to SM2. What makes Gears stand out comparatively? Why would you play Gears over SM2? And the final straw. No real world politics in SM2.
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People don’t like being lectured. They like it even less in a game where eascape from reality is the hook. They like it even less when they have to pay $60+ for the damn game. Simple solution. Two game modes: Guy Mode and Soy Mode. Guy Mode has traditional heterosexual norms, all the mean words, no extra helps, no warm fluffy bunnies, and female characters are hot and embrace being accepted as “one of the guys”. Soy Mode is the slop they already ship. Guess which one real gamers (incl. girl gamers) will pick every time. Problem solved, everyone is happy. Well … except woketards who are perpetually miserable.
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But people also complained about the asian and black space marines but you wouldn't know that because you don't play games or engage with fandoms.
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Gears of war 1-3 (2006-2011) Space marines 2 (2024) Of course space marines is played way more now than gears of war.
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People who know the Warhammer world and its lore know very well how sexuality, gender etc are treated in it You have technically non-binary tech priests. But regardless nothing in this vast lore is pushed as political propaganda reflecting our reality. It's a dark fantasy world
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if its always been like this then theres never been a diversity problem..so theyve all been whining over nothing, thanks for finally admitting it... which means DEI is not only racist but completely redundant as it's tryin to fix something that was never an issue. And they agree
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It's absolutely pathetic how desperate some of these people are to use these strawman arguments why a poorly designed game that's unpopular is poorly designed and unpopular
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I don't know if it's intentional at this point, I genuinely think these people are that retarded. They literally lack the neurons to conduct and interpret comparisons beyond a single step approach and for some reason are intent on not growing more.
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white black and asian space marine, dude even that game has DEI in it
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SM2 and GoW1 also didn't have infinite f-slur flags either. Acting like the game isn't woke when there are more pride flag designs than the world has countries is the most disingenuous part.
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Space Marine 2 is an actual male power fantasy. And you get to play with action figures when you're making your own marine.
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I shouldn’t be the one to talk you practically crap on everything bc your very toxic
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You don't need Steam to play GoW. Anyway, game is old, SM2 is new
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That game got me in the mood for gears. But all we had was 5 and 4 which wasn't gears.
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diverse cast is everywhere if you want to see it:
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