CliffyB Talks Gears, Nintendo, Sony 25
Joystiq sat down with Epic designer Cliff Bleszinski and talked about the much anticipated Gears of War, the news that Epic is in talks with Nintendo to do games for their new console, and his impressions of Sony's showing at E3. From the article: "We're currently talking with Nintendo. It's not really my department to pontificate on other people's system and comments that the wonderful Mark Rein will make occasionally to upset the fans. Again, I reserve judgment of the Wii until I get hands on with it. I was very judgmental about the DS until I actually got to play hands-on with it and I love Trauma Center and stuff like that. You know what, Nintendo is zigging while everyone else is zagging and they'll be just for it. I give them props for doing something different." For more on Gears, MTV Overdrive has the 'Road to E3' special they aired on MTV2 last week available for viewing. IE is the preferred viewer, of course.
Where's the beef...? (Score:2)
Wish I could mod up comments on other sites. (Score:3, Insightful)
"This guy is pretty representative of everything I don't like about video games and gamers."
and direct you to the source [joystiq.com] (scroll down to comment #7.)
Re:Wish I could mod up comments on other sites. (Score:2)
Re:Wish I could mod up comments on other sites. (Score:5, Insightful)
Really? I think Sony's "the next generation starts when we say it does" attitude and EA's "if it's the only NFL game, they'll have to buy it" business practices are pretty representative of what I don't like about video games.
CliffyB's devotion to his work and willingness to stand on stage by himself play his game in front of a roomful of press and Microsoft bigwigs speaks more to his and Epic's confidence in his work than most presentations at E3.
The industry could use more people like him. He started making games on his own, rose through through the ranks at Epic, growing up alongside the Unreal francise and now he gets to launch his own franchise because of his talent and hard work. What's wrong with that?
Re:Wish I could mod up comments on other sites. (Score:1)
Epic has done more for game development and pushing technology than Betheseda *ever* will.
Re:Wish I could mod up comments on other sites. (Score:1)
Re:Duke Nuken Forever (Score:2)
This quote surprised me... (Score:4, Interesting)
I did not and I wanted to. I've been reserving judgment on it completely until I get hands on time with it and I just want to, just control it. My schedule was so jam-packed that there was no way I'd be able to hang out in line like that and I'm not that well connected with Nintendo to be able to skip through the line like Robin Williams is.
Hell, I was able to skip the 4 hour line into the Nintendo booth and get a guided tour and I'm no-one. I can't imagaine for a second the nice girl at corporate relations wouldn't extend the same courtesy to someone like CliffyB. Not only that, but if you were happy to restrict yourself to just one or two titles at a time, most of the major dev houses had Wii's backstage for private demos of their titles. I had a nice uninterrupted 20 minutes with the upcoming Sega games - and again, I'm nothing in this business so if I can get in there anyone can.
Re:This quote surprised me... (Score:2)
Consider it this way, since you're a no-one you also had the luxury of playing it
Atleast he has some class... (Score:2, Insightful)
I'll wait to use it before passing judgement - gasp! What a concept!
"Innovation" (Score:2)
I like the whole tilt controller. I think we could do some cool stuff there. Possibly do some integration with the PSP. And, to be honest, that's all I can think of right now. I haven't put a lot of thought into it. I've been so nose-deep in Gears on the 360. "
Nintendo had integration of the Ga
Re:"Innovation" (Score:2)
Did CliffyB himself say it was gimmicky?
If he did say it, is he allowed to change his mind?
Re:"Innovation" (Score:2)
The reporter asked specifically about the PS3 ... and Cliff pretty clearly had not thought about it before that point. So he pulled some of Sony's press conference out of the recess of his memory.
I'm sure if he were asked the same question but with the Wii instead of PS3, he'd talk about using the controller, but who knows at this point if the finalized graphics chip will be up to the task?
Re:"Innovation" (Score:2)
The only game where that linking was used in a good way was Zelda Four Swords, but even that game would have been possible without it if they simply added some splitscreen. Beside from that I have yet to see a game where the linking was used for more then locking up some features of the game to force users to ge
Re:"Innovation" (Score:2)
huh? what's that? the 100 million users that i have to answer to want that functionality?
okay, okay... stick it in. if our consumers want a nintendo, why dont they just buy one? *grumble
Re:CliffyB??? Stupidests Name Ever... (Score:2)
This clown is the poster child for all that is wrong with slashdot and its desperate anti-Microsoft-at-the-lack-of-any-common-sense readership.
(Let me guess about the replies: ninety percent will be by my old friend "anonymous coward", and fifty percent will reword the sentence above to attack me.)