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CliffyB Talks After Finishing Gears
Next Generation is carrying an interview with Epic Designer Cliffy Bleszinksi, where he discusses shooters in the next-gen era, what it's like to work with Microsoft, and how it feels to wrap up Gears of War. From the article: "As a designer I don't know if it's ever possible to be fully satisfied but my gut tells me, 'yes'. I sit down and I play the game and I have a blast with it, whether it be single player versus or co-op. I mean, co-op's especially bad. I feel like I'm seeing the whole experience completely new. It's like, if you ever see a cool movie and you bring a friend to see it who hadn't seen the movie yet, right? It's that shared experience, that makes co-op so great."
So, is it "great" or is it "bad"? WTF?
As being independent of each other when running around the level (i.e., Quake) since each user is on a different PC? Or the rubber-band effect because there's only one screen (i.e., Lego Star Wars)?
Either way, my fellow players insist that I be in front. Apparently, they don't like being shot in the back. It's not my fault they're in my way!
That is clear from the article.
If you go to the website, you can't enter the date because it's Flash and it crashes Firefox. Do you need IE7 to view the website?
CliffyB wants you to be his bitch... doesn't quite ring right. I don't think anyone can top John Romero in the PR department.
remake of tourney '99 on wii
remake of tourney '99 on wii
remake of tourney '99 on wii
Hey, I can dream, can't I?
"I think an etch-a-sketch with an ethernet port would beat IE7 in web standards compliance."
No one can, and that's why he's John Romero.
Cliify B does talk up a good game, but from the videos I've seen of his game he's hitting the marks. The AI in the game in intense. The cover is well done (something many games seem to screw up... Perfect Dark Zero).
Let's not go sling mud around about how crappy the game is until you actually play the game. Daikatana looked like a great game until we actually played it and saw the frogs of death, the water of doom, and the bees of mildly annoyance.
I know it's not recommended to feed the trolls, but I can't help myself.
I just wanted to say that your comments about CliffyB are entirely inaccurate. He's the nicest guy I have ever met at any show ever; I met him at E3 (he was dressed in a pimptabulous red suit) and he actually took half an hour of his time to talk to me. Please note that I am a complete dork and had nothing to offer him - I do not work in the games industry and am not a media persion. Cliff just took the time to talk to me as a human being and fellow fan. The man is a gamer's gamer who enjoys just about every genre and is totally enthusiastic about making games. He's worked hard, made his own 2d platformer, been a level designer, and clawed his way up to a lead design position. All without any stupid smack talk or any of the other bombastic crap that "gaming celebrities" engage in.
I think CliffyB is pretty cool and if his game is good (and I don't see why it shouldn't be; the man "gets" games) then I hope it meets with a lot of success.
There is one reason and one reason alone that gears of war is getting any attention. Microsoft has absolutely nothing else going into the big holiday sales months. If there were AAA titles coming out for Microsoft the game would be getting 6 or 7 out of ten reviews and quickly forgotten.
Epic really fucked themselves with the absurdly bogus and now infamous marketing shots for the game. I believe most of them were rendered out with high poly models at some 5000x5000 rez with 16xAA. Not smart for a game that runs on an engine that has problems supporting decent AA on the 360. People are going to be shocked, in a bad way, when they see how the game looks nothing like the bogus marketing shots. Not only that but it sounds like the game still is having framerate problems.
I don't know if that's something you want to say.... The first time I watched Pirates of the Carribean 2, my friend (who saw it once before watching it with me) almost fell asleep. A month or two later I saw it again with a friend that never saw the movie and I nearly fell asleep.
Don't get me wrong, Pirates 2 is a great movie, but I would've tried to use another analogy, like eating a meal you really liked a second time.
Another talentless hack looking for self promotion with the lamest nick ever in gaming.Considering he clawed his way up from level designer to game designer, he's got some serious talent seeing as level designer is typically a dead-end career. (Not that its a bad career, you just don't see level designers become game designers/public speaker for the company.
It looks like they're giving away an xBox 360 and the Gears of War game every week until 12/15. Pretty cool game. http://www.servermechanic.com/