Which choice you made in Gears 5 should be canon in Gears 6 (SPOILERS)

[batman14]

I feel JD make more sense to live cause he story isnt over yet he need to get his redemption

[LucasTaves]

@zedox

Kill JD. Fuck JD. JD ain’t deserve to live.

Del was your friend, believed in you, helped you find out your past, whole game was with Del and he always had your back.

Fuck JD. Bitch ass bitch fucker.

I chose Del to live as it should be.

Del is just not a good character and despite spending the whole game around him he is still completely useless. So on that not I would have killed him a thousand times before JD.

However, the main char of the game is Marcus and considering that having his son killed and perhaps even turned by the queen and having to fight him makes for a much more interesting story arc so I ended up choosing him for that.

[LucasTaves]

@BananaBox39

That is exactly why choose Del, couldn’t handle papa Fenix taking another hit, although I prefered Del, especially from the Kait point of view, he was far more loyal to her than anybody else. Nonsense indeed. Anyways, seems that neither of them are cannon to Gears 6.

I think from Kait’s point of view, she would have chosen JD without even blinking.

Del is that friend that is just there as a shoulder to cry but she clearly has way stronger feelings for JD, even if at the moment they weren’t at the best terms.

Perhaps if she was given time to think and ponder she would have chose Del, but on the heat of the choice, specially not having much to think the other one would be killed there’s no way she would have chosen Del over JD imo.

[TavishHill]

JD has a WAY more interesting character arc than Del does. Del’s arc seems like it would only get around to hooking up with Kait but as a personality he is really kinda flat/boring to me. Plus, how can ya’ll advocate Marcus losing his boy?! /smh

[DasKoop (TenaciousC)]

I saved Del. He was loyal to Kait right through whereas JD was a jerk.

Wouldn’t even want to have a beer with that guy.

[BRiT]

@TavishHill

Plus, how can ya’ll advocate Marcus losing his boy?! /smh

Maybe JD wasn’t really Marcus’s boy…

[TavishHill]

@BRiT

Maybe JD wasn’t really Marcus’s boy…

If there is even more to his story arc to explain who his real father is then all the more reason for him to stay alive!

[BRiT]

@TavishHill

If there is even more to his story arc to explain who his real father is then all the more reason for him to stay alive!

Not if everything can be done in flashbacks, set during the time between Gears 3 and 4, with Anya as a main character.

Maybe they want to make Marcus a real tragedy. Where eventually everyone he knows dies and then just after that he somehow becomes a Locust King and wipes out all humanity.

[Ironfistchinmi]

I chose Del, but think TC will carry either forward. It’ll most likely be handled the way Wolfenstein did it, but if they decide to go more in-depth with it for Gears 6, I’ll be happy.

[TavishHill]

@Ironfistchinmi

I chose Del, but think TC will carry either forward. It’ll most likely be handled the way Wolfenstein did it, but if they decide to go more in-depth with it for Gears 6, I’ll be happy.

Was just thinking earlier it’d be good to see more franchises do this sorta thing.

[zedox]

@LucasTaves

Del is just not a good character and despite spending the whole game around him he is still completely useless. So on that not I would have killed him a thousand times before JD.

However, the main char of the game is Marcus and considering that having his son killed and perhaps even turned by the queen and having to fight him makes for a much more interesting story arc so I ended up choosing him for that.

I disagree. I also look at it from Kait’s point of view and Kait being an unloyal friend is really fucked up. Saying he is useless is you looking at the character in the eyes of a player of the game and not Kait. JD is just a damn dick who ain’t care about you or your family until Act 3. Let’s not forget JD, the fucker, said fuck your mom we all going to go after my dad (Gears 4) and then we’ll figure out shit for your mom. Fuck JD.

[SEGApostle]

Del and J.D. are both boring, but Marcus losing another family member is just a little too much, IMO. I feel Del is the right one to kill.

[Fiendflag]

@zedox

I disagree. I also look at it from Kait’s point of view and Kait being an unloyal friend is really fucked up. Saying he is useless is you looking at the character in the eyes of a player of the game and not Kait. JD is just a damn dick who ain’t care about you or your family until Act 3. Let’s not forget JD, the fucker, said fuck your mom we all going to go after my dad (Gears 4) and then we’ll figure out shit for your mom. Fuck JD.

Yep JD is a giant douchebag. Add to the pile of shit he did: disobeying his father’s orders 2 times at Gears 5 (with the one time end up being a colossal fuck up), the “orders” he gave at the Settlement 2 protests and of course choosing to not help Kait when she was freaked out by the visions. In fact Del might be the most important character of Gears 5, he was responsible for Kait not completely freakin’ out…he kept her sane with his friendship.

[zedox]

@Fiendflag

Yep JD is a giant douchebag. Add to the pile of shit he did: disobeying his father’s orders 2 times at Gears 5 (with the one time end up being a colossal fuck up), the “orders” he gave at the Settlement 2 protests and of course choosing to not help Kait when she was freaked out by the visions. In fact Del might be the most important character of Gears 5, he was responsible for Kait not completely freakin’ out…he kept her sane with his friendship.

Exactly! I just can’t see why Kait would choose JD over Del. I feel that people that choose to save JD are just doing it because they like the Fenix name…not because Kait would feel that way.

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[LucasTaves]

@Fiendflag

Yep JD is a giant douchebag. Add to the pile of shit he did: disobeying his father’s orders 2 times at Gears 5 (with the one time end up being a colossal fuck up), the “orders” he gave at the Settlement 2 protests and of course choosing to not help Kait when she was freaked out by the visions. In fact Del might be the most important character of Gears 5, he was responsible for Kait not completely freakin’ out…he kept her sane with his friendship.

I don’t agree, you are basically bashing him twice for disobeying orders and for obeying then.

He was a bit reckless and acted on his own. That caused some fuck ups specially the one in act 1. After that he learns how not to disrespect orders anymore.

He still lets her go and assign Del to go with her because neither him or Marcus could. He didn’t “distrust her” or thought what she was going through was not worth it. He just couldn’t go it himself because he was following orders.

He becoming a dick in Kait’s eyes is solely because he was no longer rebelling against the cog and acting on his own as he often would. But after all the damage he has done by doing so it’s perfectly reasonable.

[Space_nut]

I don’t think it’s really gonna matter cause I feel like somehow whoever you chose to die will come back alive someway lol I think the locust or something will revive either one and then rejoin you with some remember who you are type of moment in Gears 6

[anon15396042]

I would say that JD is a more interesting character than Del, at this point.

JD grew up in his dad, the living legend’s, shadow. He made mistakes, trying to measure up to his dad’s image. At the beginning of Gears 5 he tried to do right & save people, by putting himself in harm’s way, but even that went wrong. By the end, he was just trying his best to make things right & be better. He has stuff going on, basically.

Del doesn’t have much of a character, really. He’s good with tech & stayed loyal to Kait in 5. He has no obvious flaws though & it’s our flaws that make us human. I’d like to get to know him a bit better in the next game. Learn a bit more about him.

This is another reason why I think the choice works both ways. I feel like each of those guys would be deeply affected by losing the other. I think each of them can have a very good character arc in the next game, largely because of the other’s death. JD’s driven by guilt, Del’s driven more by sadness.