Comments on: Bleszinski: “The future of shooters is RPGs”

By: Spiral

Spiral — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 09:10:20 +0000

Cliff reminds me of the comedy sidekicks you get in action films.

By: theevilaires

theevilaires — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 23:28:41 +0000

I really hate this guy. Someone put a price on his head please!

By: The Benny

The Benny — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 21:56:51 +0000

Taylis, in the full interview he actually corrects the interviewer for saying Gears “was the originator of the cover-based shooter”, pointing out that WinBack was.

http://www.develop-online.net/features/529/Bleszinski-Looking-ahead

By: Talyis

Talyis — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 21:45:34 +0000

God cliff is a D-Bag someone needs to knock him off his high horse seriously. Next year hes gonna make an RPG Shooter then say he revolutionized the industry with his new game just like he did with Gear of Wars! P.S. others games had a cover system before Gears of War or were in development before Gears of War!

By: fearmonkey

fearmonkey — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 15:48:13 +0000

I would welcome more Deus Ex – system shock 2 like games, I wish there were more right now.

By: Hunam

Hunam — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 15:32:59 +0000

The single players is an absolute abortion. For the 360 chaps like yourself it’s just a waste of disc space with all the HD FMV’s chucked into it where they could have dumped that was of time and kept all the base maps etc.

By: G1GAHURTZ

G1GAHURTZ — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 15:30:19 +0000

Yeah, I bought it for the 360 and thought that I would have played it a lot more, but didn’t.

Actually, I still intend to go through the SP ‘campaign’ at some point… I sometimes just give it a quick 5-10 minute game online though. It’s OK, just a bit old school IYAM.

By: Hunam

Hunam — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 15:24:18 +0000

I’ve been a long time UT fan, bought them all as soon as they came out, and UT3 is by far the worst of the lot. The focus shift to vehicles and gimmicks has ruined the series.

By: G1GAHURTZ

G1GAHURTZ — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 15:14:33 +0000

Oh right.

I thought the PC version did better than that.

I think that I can remember Mark Rein talking up how well it was selling on PS3 at one point too, but that was way back when the install base wasn’t doing too well anyway, so the sales can’t have been that good.

By: Hunam

Hunam — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 14:58:32 +0000

“What failure?

Sold pretty well didn’t it?”

Can’t say about PS3, but the 360 version sunk without a trace and the PC version didn’t do so well, despite it’s mini come back when they gave it away basically. I think for most games it might have done OK, but for a high end Epic shooter, it’s done pretty badly for them. Before the steam sale, the online on the PC was basically dead, less than 15 servers at one point.

By: DrDamn

DrDamn — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 14:54:57 +0000

@scratchy69
He also has a T-Short with “Yes it is me!” written on it. He often pictures “tool”. Still they make fine games, so who’s to complain.

By: G1GAHURTZ

G1GAHURTZ — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 14:53:53 +0000

What failure?

Sold pretty well didn’t it?

By: Hunam

Hunam — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 14:34:20 +0000

I think they’ve had a bit of a shake-up considering the failure of UT3.

By: scratchy69

scratchy69 — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 14:32:27 +0000

That picture just screams “I’m a tool.”

By: Lutz

Lutz — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 14:31:14 +0000

Not surprised. It’s not hard to pencil in some RPG elements in Gears of War.

By: DrDamn

DrDamn — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 14:30:33 +0000

I think he was talking Rocket Propelled Grenades … bigger, better and MORE BAD ASS!

Seriously the past and present of shooters is RPGs too. At least elements of. It’s been here a while CliffyB where have you been?

By: Hunam

Hunam — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 14:25:20 +0000

Dunno about future, but so far most of them have been pretty special

System Shock 2, Bloodlines, Deus Ex and Invisible War are all great games.

By: anasui

anasui — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 13:48:12 +0000

another massively irritating picture of him…

By: ultrabrilliant

ultrabrilliant — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 13:46:56 +0000

‘LOCUST drops Shoulder Pads of Might +1′
‘DOM earns 18,002 Macho Points’