'Make your own Gear!' - No.

[Locust BarmyArmy]

It feels like I see this suggestion almost every day on the forum - 'It wud b rlly kewl if we cud make our own gearz'

And to this suggestion, I say, hell no. Why?

I feel that one of the key things that helps set Gears apart from the rest of the shooter market is the use of characters online. You aren't just playing as a nameless shell of a solider, your character has a personality, different phrases, a different voice etc. I know this only really applies to the CoG, but you get the idea.

When I see the suggestion of being able to make your own character, it kind of bugs me. Why are these people so keen to see off the great characters we already have? I feel that the people suggesting this are, more often that not, new to the series, and the characters don't really mean that much to them. It's a bit of a sweeping statement but that's just the impression I get. I think set online characters are a great feature of Gears, and although I don't think Epic would ever introduce a 'create a character' option, I just wanted to explain why this suggestion is a bad one, to me.

Whether you support simple customisation of the characters we already have is personal opinion, but I'm not talking about that now. Peace.

[INSANE RUMBLER]

What about custimozing armor ?

[Gorgon Freeman]

i hate these create a gear threads so let me make a thread about it /sarcasm

[Locust BarmyArmy]

Whether you support simple customisation of the characters we already have is personal opinion, but I'm not talking about that now. Peace.

What about custimozing armor ?

You may have missed my edit

[Locust BarmyArmy]

i hate these create a gear threads so let me make a thread about it /sarcasm

Point taken...

Just wanted to express why this gets on my nips.

[Gorgon Freeman]

i hear you, i just couldn't help myself. those threads pop up 3-4 times a day

[Locust BarmyArmy]

i hear you, i just couldn't help myself. those threads pop up 3-4 times a day

I probably would have made the same comment if I'm honest. Like you said, these threads are so frequent, I felt obliged to explain why to me it's a bad idea.

[Clone Recon]

exactly. I like the characters we have. Thats the reason why I never be the cog gear or the golden gear.

[No KNOTsense]

The idea of custom character customization sounds cool when you first hear of it, but imagine some of the rediculous armor looks people would come up with if they could. I don't want the Gears series to loose any more of its gritty hardcore look than it already has.

[DaRkNeSs]

Agree 100%

[ValeraPitiesDaFool]

The only customization that should go on with characters, are the little things.

Take Anya and Civilian Anya for example. Instead of Anya having her hair down while wearing armor, she could have her hair (yay an alliteration! xD) up while wearing armor.

^I'd be fine with little things like this.

[Dead Cell Raam]

*sees purple armor with rainbow LED's and bad wrestling game hairstyles.....*shudders.....

[Locust BarmyArmy]

You guys have totally seen where I was coming from. If they do add any customisation, they need to use it sparingly.

Like people posted above, I don't want to see every colour of the rainbow and little kids running round with a phallic symbol spread across their Gear.

[Mr shWo]

they shouldnt let you go crazy with designs but creating your own gear would be a huge success and be wildly popular

[Rainbow Dash]

I rather be allowed to change certain parts of the characters that are already in the game

[MartyredMessiah]

When I play multiplayer or at least when I'm playing a survival based game like Horde (we play if you die you've failed) I'd rather not be playing as a major character...but then we'd like to make our own squads.

Nothing major but just the ability to edit a few details basic cog soldier or drone, of course I see where your coming from because I hate bright coloured guns and people would abuse the ability to edit so if it was minor changes in colour etc then I would be against it.

[Locust BarmyArmy]

they shouldnt let you go crazy with designs but creating your own gear would be a huge success and be wildly popular

I think it would be more popular with the more casual Gears players on the whole. At least I get that impression from other threads and the replies here. I really don't think it would be worth sacrificing what has been a feature of Gears for years now.

I rather be allowed to change certain parts of the characters that are already in the game

Nothing major but just the ability to edit a few details basic cog soldier or drone

Minor customisation could work I guess, but like I said, I was referring to the guys that want to create entirely new faces to use in multiplayer. I think it would kill off a big part of Gears, personally.

[rebelboy]

You do realise most of those threads make a point to say they want the characters to stay too, right? Besides, saying custom characters can have no backstory behind them is stupid, I and many others easily imagine things like that with minimal effort because it's fun.

[kboo521]

I wouldn't care much. If it was done similar to UT3 on the ps3 then it could work well. If you don't wanna make use of it then you don't have too.

[FullDiamond]

I agree. Completely making your own gear/drone is a bad idea.

But I'm not against making small adjustments to Characters (Think: and modified Assassin's Creed MP custimization, same character, but you can choose slightly different headgear, torso, arms, pants etc.

[borregoboracho]

I know what you mean. I feel more drawn into the game when I hear my COG breathing heavily or hearing the heartbeat. I wish they would give Dom some Spanish lines seeing as how he is Hispanic and all. Maybe "Come mierda!" (eat ****) or "Muere!" (die).

[rebelboy]

I know what you mean. I feel more drawn into the game when I hear my COG breathing heavily or hearing the heartbeat. I wish they would give Dom some Spanish lines seeing as how he is Hispanic and all. Maybe "Come mierda!" (eat ****) or "Muere!" (die).

I agree, especially when playing as generic COG Gear or to an extent, Onyx Guard.

[Hazama]

When it comes to something "generic" like the COG Gear... you still say "hell no"?
I mean, he's so basic that we got a Golden variant. O_o (Not sure why we got a Golden Miner/Hunter though...)

Personally I wouldn't mind the option of tweaking the more basic characters, like the COG Gear and the Locust Drone.

[Spitfire MLG]

I agree 100%! Couldn't have said it better myself.

[Spitfire MLG]

I hate the idea of character customisation to the core. I wouldn't allow any. Weapon skin customisation is the most customisation I'd want to see. The fact that character customisation is even mentioned makes me want to shudder.

[MIST GHILLIE]

If full charachter customsisation was allowed the game would be overrun with bright pink gears with really high pitched voices who sound like chipmunks.
Or really skinny charachters just for hitbox advantage.
So this is why I say no

[BLACKOUT in HDV]

If full charachter customsisation was allowed the game would be overrun with bright pink gears with really high pitched voices who sound like chipmunks.
Or really skinny charachters just for hitbox advantage.
So this is why I say no

I do not think EPIC would ever that **** like that in their game.


I personally would like just a plain COG gear that we could choose whoose voice it had I.E. NONE,MARCUS FENIX, ANYA, ect, ect however there is nothing wrong with wanting to see more customization but at the same time I do like the way gears does it so I wouldn't complain if they gave us more customization options

[Nightmare Fiction]

armor customization im fine with,creat your own cog no!

[Locust BarmyArmy]

You do realise most of those threads make a point to say they want the characters to stay too, right?

I appreciate that, but I doubt you would see them much. Plus given the chance, people will just create ridiculous looking people; I like the odd lighthearted event, but I think it would get really stale after a week.

Besides, saying custom characters can have no backstory behind them is stupid, I and many others easily imagine things like that with minimal effort because it's fun.

I disagree with this, if you just create some random Gear to play as, I don't think you actually create a back story for him/her. Okay, you might think 'I'll give him this helmet because it looks like a sniper', or something along those lines, but they wouldn't have the story that the set characters have, not even close. Thanks for posting though, I see where you're coming from

[Ninjastyler777]

Agree 100% Also no to "female cog gear"

[Locust BarmyArmy]

Agree 100%

Ta

Also no to "female cog gear"

Is this because you dislike the hitbox issue, or just don't like the idea of females fighting? I assume it's the first reason, but there are plenty of other threads discussing that.

[Ninjastyler777]

Is this because you dislike the hitbox issue, or just don't like the idea of females in the war?

I don't care about hitboxes.
In a war of survival most of the females should stay out of the frontlines

[Locust BarmyArmy]

I don't care about hitboxes.
In a war of survival most of the females should stay out of the frontlines

In that case, I disagree completely. When humanity is on the verge of extinction, I don't think they are just going to leave women back home. It makes perfect sense that the females are fighting, because the humans either win or get completely destroyed.

[TEEJAYx611]

They need less customisation, strip the game back to its barebones.

Like gears 1, the gameplay not the customisations.

Epic shouldnt cater to adhd kids who can't enjoy a game and focus on it for more than 10 minutes without being able to change their weapon skin and clothes because they are bored already.

[Fire Kunai]

Though I'm utterly against the idea of creating my own Gear, armour customisation for the COG and Locust would be pretty cool though. I'd put my Drone in some sexy mesh

[Fire Kunai]

In a war of survival most of the females should stay out of the frontlines

I find this mildly amusing, considering you have Sam as a display pic.

[Locust BarmyArmy]

I find this mildly amusing, considering you have Sam as a display pic.

*chuckles*

Epic shouldnt cater to adhd kids who can't enjoy a game and focus on it for more than 10 minutes without being able to change their weapon skin and clothes because they are bored already.

I wish we could turn off weapon skins, so that at least we don't have to look at them if we don't want. Probably not possible though.

[II Orsen II]

I just got a new idea, i'm gonna post it on the thread about somehow uniquely changing your gears armor to your liking! Thank you for your inspiration good sir, may the Allfathers smile upon you today. You deserve some sort of shiny medal!

[A CANADIAN]

I think it would be awesome to make our own Gear with custom stuff. Very cool. Only worry would be if this would add major lag to the game. Likely would. That wouldn't be so awesome.

[Masteralex09]

I wouldn't mind slight customization such as Marcus::
Doo-Rag ON/Off
Classic/Normal/Unarmored
or Baird:
Goggles: On/Off/on forehead
Classic/Judgement/G3/Mechanic/LE

You Know? Slight alterations to the original Characters.

Also If people want, take the already existing helmeted characters and give them the ability to change helmets(Give Anthony Carmine Clayton's helmet to wear) Nothing after helmet Changing Though)