This was the big acronym debate of the past. Was GoW Gears of War, or God of War? Well, with Gears 5 it seems that Microsoft has thrown in the towel and given God of War the victory in the acronym wars!
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So, with the new Gears title simply being Gears 5, have they finally conceded the GoW acronym to God of War?
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Animal Crossing, Astral Chain, Assassin's Creed, Ace Combat and Armored Core are still going to have to battle that one out.
God of War was always GoW
I've literally never heard GeoW before this post holy shit lmao
It's been Gears
I've literally never heard GeoW before this post holy shit lmao
It's been Gears
I've heard both IRL. It's only on the Internet that people are this adamant on calling it Gears.
First release: God of War; March 22, 2005
First release: Gears of War; November 7, 2006
There's no debate here.
First release: Gears of War; November 7, 2006
There's no debate here.
GoW was always God of War because it came out first.
Still, it's funny that I used to call previous Gears of War games "Gears"... and now I kinda get the strange urge to call Gears 5 "Gears of War" for some reason.
Still, it's funny that I used to call previous Gears of War games "Gears"... and now I kinda get the strange urge to call Gears 5 "Gears of War" for some reason.
GOW is God of War
GOW is Gears of War
Just like AC is Assassins Creed and Astral Chain and Animal Crossing
Just more platform wars bs that is fucking embarassing.
GOW is Gears of War
Just like AC is Assassins Creed and Astral Chain and Animal Crossing
Just more platform wars bs that is fucking embarassing.
GeoW was never a thing. Pretty much everyone has always called it Gears. Either IRL or on the internet, you say Gears. God of War was always GoW. And IRL everyone just says God of War.
Release date has absolutely no relevancy. There were AC acronyms before Assassin's Creed, and people still assume you mean Assassin's Creed if you say AC while talking about videogame. Unless in a very specific thread about another game.
Yes, GoW means God of War. But it's not because of the release date.
Release date has absolutely no relevancy. There were AC acronyms before Assassin's Creed, and people still assume you mean Assassin's Creed if you say AC while talking about videogame. Unless in a very specific thread about another game.
Yes, GoW means God of War. But it's not because of the release date.
Eh, it wasn't really a debate. GoW got used for both titles, and for some reason, some god of war fans got upset about it. The GeOW stuff was silly and wasn't seriously ever used by anyone. I even saw people write GoOW sometimes for God of War. It was all dumb.
the franchise is Gears of War but depending on the type of release the name changes.
for example Gears 5 is mainline AAA title (Gears of War 4 was actually also revealed simply as Gears 4 before they changed it back), Gears Tactics is a spin off game similar to XCom and Gears Pop! is the mobile game they released last month.
Its just making it cleaner and easily keeps everything under Gears, plus like Rod said everyone called it Gears anyways.
for example Gears 5 is mainline AAA title (Gears of War 4 was actually also revealed simply as Gears 4 before they changed it back), Gears Tactics is a spin off game similar to XCom and Gears Pop! is the mobile game they released last month.
Its just making it cleaner and easily keeps everything under Gears, plus like Rod said everyone called it Gears anyways.
It's always been God of War.
They're just conceding that no one calls it "Gears of War" and just says "Gears."
They're just conceding that no one calls it "Gears of War" and just says "Gears."
When Gears of War 4 was first shown they just called it Gears 4, so I assume they've been fighting for this for a while. I assumed marketing stepped in last time but Rod got what he wanted this time around.
Reminds me kinda of the MW2 change that old IW wanted.
Reminds me kinda of the MW2 change that old IW wanted.
Same. I've def seen both get the GoW treatment, but this GeoW feels pretty revisionist haha
Yep MK still gets me, since I hang out in Nintendo circles but associate it with Mortal Kombat.
To answer OP's question, Gears was always Geow or just Gears to me. GoW is God of War.
I've never seen anyone using GeoW.
I have definitely seen a lot of confusion for years about what GoW meant.
I have definitely seen a lot of confusion for years about what GoW meant.
GeoW was never used. GoW to me meant Gears of War but I never played God of War until this gen. Gears of War has always been shortened to Gears. When you put a message in the group chat you say "Anyone up for Gears?" Not GoW and most definitely not GeoW.
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The series as a whole is still called Gears of War (and things like novels still use the full title), so no.
I have never, ever seen anyone use that before.
Spoken, yes. I've never heard anyone say GoW out loud, lol. On the internet people used GoW for both because it's shorter and both were correct, but it became a weird fanboy thing to get mad about it.
Weird seeing someone mention Death Stranding so many times in this thread!
Weird to see people claim they never seen GeoW. When game first came out, I've seen it everywhere. Like, it was the way people referred to Gears of War for awhile, until just "gears" came about and edged it over.
Like a lot of things in English it's based on context. GoW refers to both and you know which game it's referencing based on the context of the conversation.
Like how you know when bass is talking about the fish, or the instrument, or that thing you drop based on the conversation.
Like how you know when bass is talking about the fish, or the instrument, or that thing you drop based on the conversation.
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