If you’ve played Gears 5’s excellent campaign you’ll probably have walked through its toilets.
But did you realise just how enormous they are?
About three quarters of the way through Act 1, Chapter 4, you find yourself in the Palace Theatre, which is currently hosting a play called Embry (yes, it’s a Hamilton reference).
Anyway, on the upper lobby are toilets. Very big toilets.
You probably didn’t notice this when you played the campaign as you only realise just how big the toilets are when you’re up close to various objects in the room. There’s an odd scale thing going on here. As the hulking COG soldier, JD, who’s fully kitted out in armour and weapons, you’d expect toilets to be cramped place. But, well, they’re not.
Walk up to any of the mirrors on a wall and you find it’s set above JD’s head. No-one could possibly be tall enough to see into one.
Walk up to a hand dryer and you find it’s set so high it could be used to dry your hair.
The cubicle doors are massive, and make the toilet bowls look tiny. The vase with flower in the corner by the door is almost as tall as the player character. The table with a plant and tissues as tall as the player character.
(You can see this for yourself in the video below.)
Gears 5 and the Ridiculously Big Washroom Watch on YouTube
Of course, this isn’t an issue. It’s not game-breaking, or a bug. Most players won’t have noticed! But after I came across a thread about it on the Gears subreddit, I thought I’d have a closer look. And you really do have to have a closer look. At a distance everything seems to be in the right place. But as you move closer to objects, they appear massive. It’s all a matter of perspective!