The Gears of War creator Cliff Bleszinski has previously voiced his interest in returning to the series, but he's recently taken to social reiterate that it's mostly out of his control. Here's what he had to say in his latest post (via social media):
"Please stop asking me to bring back games that I don't have the rights to.
It's exhausting. I've moved on. I wish y'all would too."
Earlier this year, he mentioned how he still had "plenty of ideas about where the franchise could go" and would love "nothing more to have somebody reach out" - reminding everyone how Phil Spencer has his phone number.
Of course, Gears wasn't his only series - and this is what Bleszinski is kind of getting at here, he's technically "moved on" from his past games and hits, quite literally selling off the rights, so there's not much he can do unless he's approached.
Would you like to see Cliff Bleszinski one day return to video game development? Let us know.
[source twitter.com]
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Like he doesn't love the attention 🤣
I wish Gears could return to its 1-3 heyday. But I don’t know if Cliffy B is still the guy who could do it.
He hasn't been involved with GOW for a very long time. Who is asking him at this point? Lol. Move on? Honestly, I forgot this dude exists. Haven't even seen his name in at least 15 years.
Well SOMEBODY'S got to revive Jazz Jackrabbit.
Oh god poor fella has it hard doesn't he I'll pray for him #leavecliffalone enough is enough now people!🥺
Man, it must be soooo exhausting to read comments you can easily ignore.
They should’ve kept the new characters for judgement series and left the main guys for gears to be honest so the story would be more Flexible now there’s no going back with how fast they aged off the face of gears lol imagine Nintendo aging out Mario and putting him in the back for future releases
Gears has absolutely not been the same without CliffyB, putting it mildly.
MS has to know that there are millions and millions of fans like me asking for the Marcus Fenix collection in UE5. All the multiplayer and modes. Not to mention it will pull in new players for the upcoming show. Gears 6 can take its time and we all win.
I don't think that any of this happened Cliff.
I wore a Gears hat at the Borderlands 2 (Gearbox) launch party, and a random man said to me "nice hat". I had no idea who it was at the time, and the next day I saw his picture on a gaming website. I felt like a sucker for not getting him to sign it, or not really saying anything back other than "Thanks!".
Noone asking you Cliff after your last disaster 💣
@HonestHick I sincerely doubt millions are asking for remasters. The games are still avaliable to play. They could remaster them and like the first one when it was remastered, it'll be "dead" online in months just like Halo 2 Remastered was.
@TruestoryYep there’s a least a million players on PC alone that would buy them as they aren’t on there. Plus every Gears Forum i read and it’s most of them cause I’m a Gears fanatic. They are asking for it. Saying 1-3 is the real GOW and the heck with 4 & 5 with many saying what i am and thats they want the collection over Gears 6. As for if the player count would die after the excitement wears off i can’t comment on. Player counts come and go without much notice. But plenty of real gears players want 1-3 on unreal engine 5.
@TruestoryYep I’ll throw in a bonus. If the collection is real and it goes to PS5, that would draw in more than 2 million players on its own. Rumor has it it could go there to expand the player base for the upcoming show. Not saying it would happen, but i have read a lot of PS5 fans say they hope it’s true.
I wonder if the PS5 Grears ports currently being worked on will inspire remasters. We all know X Box struggle to sell new games on console but PlayStation players do buy games and that would make a Gears of war remaster sustainable without the day one Gamepass launch and obviously future x box games are going to Playstation anyway so there is no reason not to do it.
People really should stop using social media as an inbox to harass others. Let it go, move on.
I would glad to see him making another UT game, lawbreaker was good but it wasn't the right time.
Cliff has always been an extremely polarizing person in the industry. He comes off as a total jerk more times than not in all the years I've known about him.
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