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Cliff Bleszinski and Kudo Tsunoda Comments by Ellie Gibson

14 May, 2008

Gears' designer and MS' games biz manager in text and on video, with gameplay footage.

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Lexx87
14/05/08 @ 11:11
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Gears rocks the house!
squarejawhero
14/05/08 @ 11:13
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OK, so they got a comic book writer... not a... script writer... or did they get a script writer after the comic book writer fleshed everything out?

Game developers worry me, sometimes.
squarejawhero
14/05/08 @ 11:15
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HAHAAA.... the emo comment... ok, now I'm on his side. "If they were all skinny, 150 pound white guys".

Got to seperate the hype machine from the person, funny when the hype machine fades away sometimes it's better just to be yourself.

And that concludes todays lesson.
krudster [mod]
14/05/08 @ 11:20
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A mid 1980s disaster-based urban shooter called Panic, starring cardigan-wearing indie fans would be pretty fucking cool in my book. Soundtrack including The Smiths, The House of Love, The Sugarcubes, The Wedding Present, Billy Bragg, The Cure, My Bloody Valentine, Dinosaur Jr, The Woodentops, Jesus and Mary Chain, and James.

Anyone?
Lexx87
14/05/08 @ 11:21
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No Ali_i'ma_cock yet? I'm amazed.

I actually like CliffyB, I don't get all you Cliffy haters...he's all kinds of awesome.
Lexx87
14/05/08 @ 11:23
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krudster all that made me think is what new radio station GTAIV needs.
Putty Man
14/05/08 @ 11:35
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I may be a fully grown man (quiet at the back) but I'm still really excited about this particular computer game.
Bertie [staff]
14/05/08 @ 11:48
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Cliffy B with short hair looks a little bit like a chipmunk. I still love him, though.
Grayvern
14/05/08 @ 11:49
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This guys arrogance annoys me. Besides that the greatest hero in a videogame of all time was a skinny white guy with a beard, Mr Gordon Freeman.
Skeletor
14/05/08 @ 12:02
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Hehe, some "badass" questions asked here. Nice interview.
Though I wouldn't exactlly call them "over-the-top macho"...more like "over-the-top parody".
Lexx87
14/05/08 @ 12:12
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Nick D7 sucks
L42yB
14/05/08 @ 12:15
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Gordan Freeman rocks! Half life has been consistently excellent.

Of course, his point was that a bigger character is easier to see on the screen, and since Half Life is first person and Gears is in the third, pointing out that Gordan Freeman worked as a skinny character isn't really relevant to his comment...
Yossarian
14/05/08 @ 12:24
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Cliffy is so earnest and exciteable. How could you not be charmed?
penhalion
14/05/08 @ 12:26
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While he's busy filling in back stories. I would like to know what the frak the main character's story is! How the frak did he end up in jail. What was his heroic deed that the troops love him for but, the top brass pretty much shoved him in a cell to rot because of. Surely that's more interesting and relevant than a hunt for a lost/not lost wife.

@Yossarian

It's pretty easy to be not charmed by Cliffy if you meet him personally. The words arrogant prick spring to mind.
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BradlayLaw
14/05/08 @ 12:28
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I don't suppose anyone asked if they've got rid of those tedious talky/slow walking bits after checkpoints but before a big hard battle...

"Look at all that juice" /stabs ears out
Yossarian
14/05/08 @ 12:31
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You can skip dialogue now I believe.
r3n
14/05/08 @ 12:39
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Is it just me or are missions that involve helping other people in games really really boring or irritating (depending on how bad the AI is)? Personally, I couldn't give less of a crap about finding Dom's wife. Id much rather go somewhere to destroy something. I think the only time I've enjoyed missions involving helping others is in HL2 & expansions, because they fleshed out the characters so much that I didn't want them to die
Skooch
14/05/08 @ 13:04
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I can't wait for the online MP details. The MP in Gears was solid and a great base to start with but with Gears 2 I hope they ramp it up even more - and create proper TEAM achievements like "Your whole team must survive the entire round 10 times" etc. rather than the weapon achievements from last time.

Gears still looks sick; the character models are ridiculously detailed and I can't really think of a better looking 360 game. Although I accept that there are other great looking games that play over much larger environments with many more opponents on screen at once.
Azazel
14/05/08 @ 13:16
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Soundtrack including The Smiths, The House of Love, The Sugarcubes, The Wedding Present, Billy Bragg, The Cure, My Bloody Valentine, Dinosaur Jr, The Woodentops, Jesus and Mary Chain, and James.

Went to see DJ last night!

I am now hungover.
stoopidgreg
14/05/08 @ 13:48
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so there's a watercooler level? neat
stoopidgreg
14/05/08 @ 13:55
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i love his reasoning behind the 400lb beefcake characters. apparently people have a hard time seeing pretty much any other videogame character because they're not muscly enough. methinks he is compensating for a lack of a certain something?
symmetry
14/05/08 @ 14:41
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I think he means that the characters are grey, the textures are grey and the background is grey. So grey beef-cakes are easier to spot.
DiamondIce
14/05/08 @ 15:47
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@Grayvern

"This guys arrogance annoys me. Besides that the greatest hero in a videogame of all time was a skinny white guy with a beard, Mr Gordon Freeman. "

No not at all. Alfred Chicken wins that one.

These over-sized steroid munching stereotypes are there to keep the yanks happy; they love all that gung-ho rubbish.
HonestJoe
14/05/08 @ 16:14
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Has Cliffy B been working out, or have the PR people been at him? He looks buffer and cooler than before...
Cloudane
14/05/08 @ 17:22
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I laughed at this part because it is kind of true:

"For instance, a lot of gamers were somehow expecting Gears 2 to suddenly come out and have big bright purple flowers and rainbows and unicorns coming out of my ass or something like that. It's just not that game."
BrokenSymmetry
14/05/08 @ 19:26
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Caption: "Perhaps the Brumak is Marcus's dad."

I laughed, yes.
Quint2020
15/05/08 @ 09:42
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I've got a lot of respect for this guy, he doesn't do the whole marketing bullshit, i thought Gears was a fantastic game, a little short but i've played the campaign sooo many times it's a testament to just how fun it really is.

Roll on Gears 2 i say!
Weezer
15/05/08 @ 13:29
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When you're actually playing GOW, does anyone really care what the character looks like? All I look at is the objectives and the enemies. All this talk of homoeroticism and machismo... I just couldn't care less. If I did, maybe I'd stop playing games where my main character is an Italian midget with the gayest costume of all time (red dungarees, ffs), plus a big bushy moustache and high-pitched voice who hangs around with a pink princess.
hahayou
15/05/08 @ 18:24
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"You start getting into a beltsander attached to a moped..."

That sounds brilliant! Someone please mod this into UT...

edit: or put it in krudster's game.
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