Gearbox's smart and bold mid-development change helped usher in an era of more vibrant-looking and colourful sci-fi games ... because I found a ludicrous new gun that fired elemental bullets ...

Wolfwood, a popular character from Yasuhiro Nightow’s sci-fi Western manga Trigun (as well as the 1998 and 2023 anime) known for carrying a huge Gatling gun shaped like a cross on his back.