[Spoilers for the end of the 2004 television series Battlestar Galactica, I guess.]
Cliff Bleszinski is one of the strongest arguments for the "game developer" to "rock star" comparison. He's one of the minds behind Jazz Jackrabbit, Unreal Tournament, and the upcoming Lawbreakers, but you most likely know him as the original face of the Gears of War franchise. He's the man wearing the red shirt and holding the Lancer replica.
Bleszinski has since left the Gears of War series in the hands of Microsoft-owned studio The Coalition, headed by Gears lifer Rod Fergusson. Although he got to bring his iconic franchise to some level of closure with Gears of War 3, his original idea for Gears 3's ending would have left the eventual Gears 4 in a very different place.
"I can't remember the specifics, I think the Locust winded up burrowing back underground, and Sera [the planet from Gears of War] exploded. The core of Sera, over many many years, wound up solidifying. And then all of a sudden you see a spaceman boot land on it, and you hear 'That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.' It turns out their moon was Earth, it was always like the Moon and the Earth in the past, and our Moon is the remnants of Sera," Bleszinski said. "And the Locusts in Gears 4 would've been on Earth. It was kind of a really far out there idea, but Rod thought it was too extreme. So I respected his opinion."
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