Cliff Bleszinski Comeback? [Aug 15, 2019, 10:35 am ET] – Share – Viewing Comments
A couple of
tweets
from Cliff Bleszinski suggest the Unreal, Gears of War, and
Lawbreakers designer may be rethinking his retirement from the game
industry. After the failure of Lawbreakers and Radical Heights led to the
closure of Boss Key Studios, Cliff
stated he is
"NEVER making another game." In subsequent exchanges in the twitter thread he
seems to agree with suggestions that if he returns to development he start
small, rather than build a studio. But the conversation started with a
pair of
new tweets that call the permanence of his retirement into
question:
UGH guys I kinda have a game idea and it won't get out of my head.
I thought I was truly done.
But then, stupid brain shows up.
UGH.
…
AND IT'S NOT A F*CKING BATTLE ROYALE
Someday, I hope to live in a world where nothing Cliff Bleszinski says or does is ever considered newsworthy to anyone.
jdreyer wrote on Aug 15, 2019, 19:55:Tipsy McStagger wrote on Aug 15, 2019, 16:28:Hey, man. Lawbreakers was teh awesome.
He's like the Ewe Boll of video game developers. Just seems so out of touch...
"In LawBreakers, players take on the roles of specialized fighters who inhabit low gravity arenas. Competing against Blizzard’s Overwatch, the game failed to attract a sustainable audience. Although it lacks the charm and polish of Overwatch, it is a tightly designed shooting game with well balanced units." source
He entered FPS MOBA too late.
I think Cliff could benefit from two things:
1. ORIGINALITY. Find an original idea. The latest example of this is the MOBA-Chess like hybrids of TFT and DOTA Underlords. It was there all this time. But someone thought, "Hey, what if we take MOBA and mix it with something like Chess." It's not my thing, but there is a market for it.
2. LET THE WORK SPEAK FOR ITSELF. Meaning, gather talent on a small scale, create a fun prototype, find a buyer or an investor, and then flesh it out, launch. If it finds an audience, Cliff is back. If not, no big deal.
"Listen, Peter... with great horsepower comes... the sickest drifts..." - source
Tipsy McStagger wrote on Aug 15, 2019, 16:28:Hey, man. Lawbreakers was teh awesome.
He's like the Ewe Boll of video game developers. Just seems so out of touch...
If Russia stops fighting, the war ends. If Ukraine stops fighting, Ukraine ends. Slava Ukraini!
Steele Johnson wrote on Aug 15, 2019, 15:37:
Why all the hate? Do some of you guys know him personally? I suppose some people who frequent Blue's could be ex-employees or something.
I don't think hate so much as people just have zero respect for the guy. He's got a seriously overinflated view of himself, especially in respect to games he's made. And he tends to externalize blame when they fail, it's everyone else's fault, or pirates, or what have you.
"Van Gogh painted alone and in despair and in madness and sold one picture in his entire life. Millions struggled alone, unrecognized, and struggled as heroically as any famous hero. Was it worthless? I knew it wasn't."
Tipsy McStagger wrote on Aug 15, 2019, 16:28:
He's like the Ewe Boll of video game developers. Just seems so out of touch...
Most studio heads are. Have you heard the jazz from Tim Sweeney?
"Listen, Peter... with great horsepower comes... the sickest drifts..." - source
He's like the Ewe Boll of video game developers. Just seems so out of touch...
Kxmode wrote on Aug 15, 2019, 15:50:Yeah, he's a total diva.Steele Johnson wrote on Aug 15, 2019, 15:37:
Why all the hate? Do some of you guys know him personally? I suppose some people who frequent Blue's could be ex-employees or something.
Nobody hates on him (at least as far as I know). We're just joshing him because he's such a pretentious person and projects under his creative direction/studio tend to fail spectacularly. If he wants to return, then return quietly. Make a game that'll blow people away. Then he will have earned praise.
Who?
“Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.” -- Carl Sagan
Steele Johnson wrote on Aug 15, 2019, 15:37:
Why all the hate? Do some of you guys know him personally? I suppose some people who frequent Blue's could be ex-employees or something.
Nobody hates on him (at least as far as I know). We're just joshing him because he's such a pretentious person and projects under his creative direction/studio tend to fail spectacularly. If he wants to return, then return quietly. Make a game that'll blow people away. Then he will have earned praise.
"Listen, Peter... with great horsepower comes... the sickest drifts..." - source
Why all the hate? Do some of you guys know him personally? I suppose some people who frequent Blue's could be ex-employees or something.
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Never have I seen Bluesers so unified...
If Russia stops fighting, the war ends. If Ukraine stops fighting, Ukraine ends. Slava Ukraini!
"Just when I thought I was out, they I pulled me back in."
If Russia stops fighting, the war ends. If Ukraine stops fighting, Ukraine ends. Slava Ukraini!
Shhh... There, there, Cliffy. Take a deep breath and quietly iterate. We all have ideas. Does not mean you have to act on every one or that it's good.
Is Cliff hoping his return will bring him to Radical Heights because if so that would be Unreal?
"Listen, Peter... with great horsepower comes... the sickest drifts..." - source
No no no, this can't be happening first drumpf, then a recession because of his idiocy and now this!! Fick ut! 
Scorpio Slasher: ... What about you boy, what do hate?
Marcus: ... Bullies. Tiny d*ck egotists who hurt people for no reason, make people lock their doors at night. People who make general existence worse, people like you.
Marcus: ... Bullies. Tiny d*ck egotists who hurt people for no reason, make people lock their doors at night. People who make general existence worse, people like you.
It's ok Cliffy, you can stay retired. We won't mind, promise.
I am gonna guess it's going to be a survival rogue lite.
Such a shocker, attention whore cliffyb can't do without the attention.
Don't call it a comeback
I've been here for years
I'm rocking my peers
Puttin' suckers in fear
"Van Gogh painted alone and in despair and in madness and sold one picture in his entire life. Millions struggled alone, unrecognized, and struggled as heroically as any famous hero. Was it worthless? I knew it wasn't."
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