Comments on: Playing betas is like saying, “Yeah, I fucked her,” says Bleszinski

By: mortiferus

mortiferus — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 19:08:34 +0000

@tonka, 2 questions. One, how can you have played an unreleased game? Are you an “early buyer”, an authorized reviewer or… a pirate? Two what makes you an expert on judging what art is? Art is an individual form of expression, no one has the right to make that kind of determination.

By: Syrok

Syrok — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 18:06:53 +0000

You might want to have a look at your inbox then, chances are you just got a key.

By: No_PUDding

No_PUDding — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 17:59:58 +0000

That’s not a bad thing at all.

All I want is in on the KZ2 public Beta, I can play GeoW2 at my mates next week, when it’s his brothers birthday.

By: Tonka

Tonka — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 17:52:32 +0000

After playing Gears of War 2 all I can say is that it is definitely not art.

By: No_PUDding

No_PUDding — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 17:50:40 +0000

This comment section has given me so many ‘lol’s.

Thanks.

By: tony412

tony412 — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 17:26:32 +0000

See people were upset with cliff when he didnt put out a beta. ohh well.. you’ll get over it. I dont blame him for not putting out a beta I mean for a game as highly anticipated as this one do you really think people are gonna need a beta to be interested in it? go out spend ur money you greedy sons of bitches and have fun with the game

By: pjmaybe

pjmaybe — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 12:56:55 +0000

There is a man who plays too many betas and doesn’t…ahhh you know where this is going.

Anyway, small town weed dealers usually don’t do that well with the opposite sex.

By: Tonka

Tonka — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 11:58:53 +0000

I just played it for a bit. I don’t remember the first one being this sluggish. It’s like wading through mud.

By: Quiiick

Quiiick — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 11:42:24 +0000

What a stupid analogy!
Ever had sex with a girl, Cliffy?
Oh, I get it, you always pay 60 bucks for it …

By: sickpuppysoftware

sickpuppysoftware — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 10:19:10 +0000

“Speaking to GamePro, Epic dev boss Cliff Bleszinski has reasoned that a Gears of War 2 beta may have put some players off buying the game as getting a taste is the equivalent to having sex with a gruff man.”

Fixed

By: patlike

patlike — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 09:39:45 +0000

You’re married, you filthy man.

By: scratchy69

scratchy69 — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 09:37:48 +0000

I wish I could hook up with girls to say that

By: Psychotext

Psychotext — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 09:04:44 +0000

In the old days, we used to have these things called demos rather than being graced by developers who have us do their load / balancing testing for them.

By: Tonka

Tonka — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 08:12:07 +0000

Good work on making the game industry look …

By: Blerk

Blerk — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 08:11:33 +0000

Step away slowly, morriss. I’ve got the door.

By: morriss

morriss — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 07:57:30 +0000

-_-

By: Esha

Esha — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 07:32:52 +0000

This. Cliffy, this is why I think you’re a bilious dialectic, a man who prefers to spew verbal tripe thahn actually work on his games to make them better.

I played the Red Alert 3 beta, and bought Red Alert 3, and I thought the beta was fantastic. The same is true of LittleBigPlanet, and I’ve enjoyed myself so much in the Resistance 2 beta that I’ll be picking up that, too.

If Gears of War 2 is decent in the beta, then people will like it and pick up the game. However, there’s one Universal truth to consider: A game doesn’t change that much between the beta and the full release, some fixes to a couple of niggling issues, sure, but nothing monumentous.

If people really are saying that Gears of War 2 is so uninspiring (and I don’t even know if they are, other than Cliffy seems to think they are), then they might want to have a good talk with their community about the bad points, then pull the game back into production for a while. This has helped many games in the past become real gems.

But the thing is, this kind of spin-doctoring always makes me think a game is much worse than it actually is. If it wasn’t for the Dog in Fable II, I doubt I would’ve picked it up. And I have absolutely no interest in Gears of War 2, because my interest has been killed by Cliffy doing what he does best.

And the sad part is is that I’m probably the only one who feels that way.

And demos? A demo can also show how good/bad a game is, this I know. Ex: Mirror’s Edge.

By: Smartypants

Smartypants — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 07:30:32 +0000

Letting the full game leak onto teh internet almost an entire month before its release is probably far worse than a beta for ruining that ‘cherry popping’ feeling.

By: morriss

morriss — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 07:24:34 +0000

It’s like he’s intimating that there’s some kind of other way to deal with girls. Strange.