Cliff Bleszinski is 'Down to Consult' on Gears of War - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 01 February 2024 / 2,508 Views
Cliff Bleszinski, the creator and director of the original Gears of War trilogy, has released a statement via Twitter about his desire to return to the franchise he created and Microsoft would be "smart" to enlist him from a "PR standpoint alone."
"Look, we've been over this a million times re: Gears," said Bleszinski. "I'm down to consult. Give my two cents. Crickets. I understand that Gears will always be an enormous part of my legacy. I appreciate and respect that.
"That said, MS/Coalition haven’t hit me up. OK. It is what it is. If they were smart, they’d enlist me for my input because just from a PR standpoint alone it would be gold. But nothing. Ah well. It is what it is. So be it."
Bleszinski last worked on the Gears of War franchise in 2011 as a designer on Gears of War 3.
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— Cliff Bleszinski (@therealcliffyb) January 27, 2024
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Does this dude not have ANY other opportunities available to him? I swear a couple times a year or so I see a tweet or article about how he'd love to work on Gears again, lol.
He's mega rich and mostly retired.
Dude begs for this two or three times a year. I guess retirement is boring.
Well, it's kind of hard to argue that the franchise is in a better place now than it was when Gears 1-3 dropped.
Gears 4 and 5 are still great games, even if they aren't as good as the original trilogy. The problem is, most franchises start to lose appeal when they get into the 4,5,6, and more range. They are generally never better than the first 3 games, movies, shows, etc. I doubt Cliff would suddenly make this franchise as popular as it was on the 360. I just want them to make Gears 6 to end this current story and then move on to something new. Maybe do a Gears Collection like MCC.
1st thing on the list: make them go back to 'Gears of War' title. No Gears 6 bullshit.
For example Mass Effect Legendary Edition is estimated to have sold twice as many copies on Steam compared to Gears 5 (Microsoft loves Gears5 because of Xbox sales and Game Pass). Has 50 times as many active users on average versus Gears 5.
What does any of this have to do with Mass Effect?
they use the same engine and same combat and same fantasy sci-fi style
Mass Effect is just a better version of Gears combat
is it really that hard for you to understand? i don't get your comment
They're both 3rd person shooters, yeah? And that's where the similarities end. Do you know how many games use Unreal Engine? It's literally the most used engine for game devs. Gears is a dedicated, linear 3rd person shooter, while Mass Effect is deep, rpg experience, not even the same sci fi style, Mass Effect is high sci fi, much more akin to Star Wars, Gears is more of a dark sci fi settings, you don't see other planets, there are no other alien races besides the Locust and they're just trying to kill you the entire time, you don't see space travel. Is it really that hard for you to understand the differences? I don't get your comment.
100 percent wrong, they are very similar
Gears 5 was practically like playing a mass effect game
Okay, you're just trolling, anybody with a brain cell wouldn't say that.
I have played every Gears game, and every Mass Effect game, and they are THE cover shooters. There were constant hints back in the day talking about how Mass Effect's cover system was inspired by Gears.
"David Silverman, marketing head of BioWare, says that while working on Mass Effect 3, the development team looked at what people liked about previous Mass Effect games, and games from other franchises like Gears (...)
While talking with CVG, he said: “We’ve done a lot of research about what people like about Mass Effect, Mass Effect 2 and other games too; what do they like about Gears Of War? Why does that game do what it does?"
I'm not really sure what this fascination with steam numbers being the end all be all for proving a game is dead or not. Gears 5 stopped receiving new content in 2021 so most people stopped playing around that time. With that said, Gears 5 was never big on Steam. Gears has always had a stronger player base on Xbox consoles. It was always in the top played games when it was still receiving new content. Same with Halo. It's one of the reasons why anyone uses Halo Infinite or Gears 5 Steam numbers, they are completely disregarding Xbox player base which is bigger for those 2 franchises.
Gears of War team are Unreal experts. They should be making a Mass Effect game, use their skills with a stronger IP. The problem is the Gears of War franchise IP has dried out.
Do people want more stories in that Universe? They use the same combat style as Mass Effect, they should make a Mass Effect game imo.
MS doesn't own the Mass Effect IP, so no, the Coalition can't work on that franchise.
doesn't mean they can't license it, as has been done for many other IPs
Would be nice to have a gears of war go back to it's roots.
In what way? The war story concluded and mechanically it's old. Really it just should have stopped with 3.
