Lot of hatred for the guy on n4g. Does he come off as a dooshe sometimes? Yes. But he is right, can you imagine being at Ken Levines board room pitch for Infinite?? Ok people I want to make a game dealing with racism, politics, ad religion! Everything you don't ever discuss at the dinner table!

Agreed, thats why we are seeing less and less innovative games because a lot of devs take the safe route. That's why most games are "CODified" nowadays.

Agree with Cliffy. Too many sequels and not enough innovation. I hope Cliffy develops the survival horror that he was rumoured to be developing.

just because other devs aren't adding chainsaws to their weapons doesn't make that true

More game making and less talking from u Cliffy B!!

he doesnt believe, he knows

I bet he would start to cry if you slapped him once

I remember a generation where developers took risks most of the time.

If the gamers demanded quality, and innovation we would see more of it. But if you can churn out sequels and everybody buys them, then what is the risk / reward of trying something new?

As consumers we say one thing, and do another. As long as that dichotomy exists so will mediocrity.

I agree with what he's saying, but...well, he isn't the guy who should be saying it frankly.

What an hypocrite do something about it before you talk

FFS, it's FEWER, not less! FEWER RISKS.
Go back to school.

He made the same game 3 times this gen and took no risks in either gameplay or narrative. Gears 1 was a big risk but after that, no risk were made.

This man continues to open his mouth. Since he left the industry, he has been an even bigger attention seeker.

This guy only created one good and memorable game that was Gears 1 and the rest of the follow ups were terrible, talking about a fluke. He thinks he can fix other games. He needs to go to school of Kojima's game development and attend mr Kojima's lecture to really appreciate creation of games.

Cliffy b, shut up. You haven't created a good game for years. U keep claiming to be able to fix other franchises but u have failed to fix ur own Gears franchise that has become irrelevant since Gears 2.

Not huge fan of the Gears series, but i really admire Cliff as a developer for his outlook and philosophy on games, not to mention his outspoken nature. I would like to see what he would do if given the freedom to make whatever he wanted.

every time i read a statement from this guy i dislike him even more, since gears 3 didnt take any risks i expect the next game he makes to be a high risk game

Disney doesn't exactly have the best rep when it comes to partaking in gaming. They've built studios just to shut em down, not to mention just how much of an over the shoulder nuisance they are. If Epic wants to see Unreal Engine be dismantled and lose its hold on the industry then by all means. Also say goodbye to Fortnite because they will definitely kill it off with all the horrible decisions they'll force onto Epic.

I'll take worst ideas ever conceived for 500, Alex!

I wouldn’t want them to start injecting their agendas and politics in an already charged / filled environment . If they had a track record of offering quality over politics it wouldn’t have bothered me much . But knowing they could buy any big dev out of the blue is kinda scary .

Nah. Might as well as throw other big corporations while we’re at it. Why not Apple? Why not Netflix? Why not ATT?

The implications of this would be earth shattering for the games industry.

UE5 has replaced pretty much all engines at this point and even custom in house engines have largely disappeared in favour of UE5 imagine if Disney come in and pull a Unity move to change per download and that's just scratching the surface

I want to see a day where Disney no longer exists.

Uhm...no ,they should not

My Spidey sense is tingling.

Have you seen how badly they've messed up all the IPs they own? I don't think they need to buy anymore.

I don’t care about Fortnite but I don’t want Disney neat any more video game companies

I do not support this acquisition. Disney has already tried running a gaming division and they shut down Disney Interactive in 2016. Nothing good will come from them buying Epic games as much of the industry relies on Epic games as they are now.

Disney buys up Epic they will just shut them down after a while. Disney shut down LucasArts their motto is just license the character out and have someone like say EA make a game around lets say Mickey Mouse. Epic is better off on their own.