You can trust VideoGamer. Our team of gaming experts spend hours testing and reviewing the latest games, to ensure you're reading the most comprehensive guide possible. Rest assured, all imagery and advice is unique and original. Check out how we test and review games here
Cliff Bleszinski has his head firmly set in the future and has no intention of being stuck in the past with the “old guard”, the Gears of War creator has told Gamasutra.
“The whole ‘old guard,’ where you get a Game Informer cover and an E3 reveal, is dead,” he said. “I’ll never make another disc-based game for the rest of my career, and [at E3] they’re trying to woo buyers from Target and Walmart?”
He added that for all the excitement over indie hits such as Rust and Gone Home – games Bleszinski is openly a fan of – his future remains in the shooter genre.
“As a developer myself, I will probably always make shooters. It’s in my DNA,” he explained.
That said, Bleszinski wants his games to change lives.
“Money is one thing,” he added. “It’s nice to get a nice dinner and not sweat it. But I want to get back to the point where I go to PAX, and a couple comes up to us and tells us that they met in a game that my team made. Cosplayers. Kids with tattoos. That sense of camaraderie with developers. That’s where I want to get back to.”
Bleszinski’s thoughts on Gears of War, with which he shot to fame, are telling.
“I don’t want Gears to be my defining legacy,” he said. “At the end of the day, it’s known for being a fun, fantastic franchise. But I’d like to think there’s more to my creativity than that.”
Source: Gamasutra
About the Author
