SHOCKER: Cliffy B leaves Epic

Cliffy B and the Bioware doctors leaving is a sign of incline. This combined with Kickstarter RPGs is ushering in a new golden era of videogames! CAN'T STOP WON'T STOP

 

So who's next on the video game Figurehead chopping block? $5 on Peter Molyneux is found dead due to autoerotic asphyxiation

 

Well, at least Epic games can only get better with his departure.

The man was one of the biggest morons in the gaming industry. Pretty much a CoD player developing games.

 

Didn't he donate to the wasteland 2 kickstarter?

 

Digital distribution is like Moses leading the developers to the promise-land.

 

Gears of War has done to shooters what Oblivion did to RPGs. I don't know anything personal about the guy but from a gaming standpoint -- fuck this douche. Hope he never works in gaming again.

 

If I remember correctly, he had little impact on UT3 and instead focused on GoW. Well, if anything GoW may not be the best use for the opposing thumbs but at least it's stupidly fun.

 

AFAIK Halo started the trend. If you have to make shooters for consoles, which is probably a decision that isn't his to make, then you have to make them shit.

 

GoW on its own was a decentish mindless popamole ride. The real crime was that everyone else decided they needed to ape it.

 

The first Halo is actually a pretty good shooter, IMO.

I think what Phantasmal is referring to is cover-shooting -- aka, the worst gameplay mechanic possibly ever.

 

JAZZ JACKRABBIT!

wonder if it even works on modern computers now.

 

I don't think Halo had chest-high walls, GoW started the chest-high wall epidemic of the last half decade.

 

Console FPS from 90 to early 2000 is not the same as the console shotters from today. Even the Decline may Decline.

Also:

 

Really, Cliffy was a huge dumbass? Somehow I don't think so. He was immature, but I think he was a decent designer. He made ambitious projects while very young too.

I think other guys at Epic are to blame for the Gears of War thing, which in and of itself, although severely dumbed down, was well executed. And Cliffy lately said he was sick of how linear and dumb it all had become.

And wasn't the whole cover and shoot third person game thing basically originating from a PS2 game that served as reference for Gears of War?

 

MOBILE GAMING LOOK OUT, HERE COMES ANOTHER ONE!

 

not a chance, he's been there since the start, he worked on Epic's best titles, an integral part of those teams.

And then we got this...

 

Few gimmicks aside Gears of War's "next-gen" gameplay is pretty much cloned from a budget Namco multiplatform shooter Kill switch. kill switch itself didn't invent popamole either.

 

Cliffy B is a pretty cool guy.

My friend emailed him about a UT2k3 mod we made and not only did he try it but he gave us an official 'box quote'.

His games helped put Epic at the top of game engine licensing and he married a young id software employee. He did so while often dressed in a strange manner.

He's like a modern day Conan the Barbarian.

 

Meh, everyone has to decline sometime apparently. I should try and figure out if I can still get Jazz Jackrabbit working.

 

who gives a shit, epic hasn't made a good game since 1999

that won't be changing just because asshat cliffyb is leaving

 

A ton of people loved UT2K4, even if you didn't.

I personally enjoyed Bulletstorm (and when I say enjoyed I mean just that, I don't need a reply about its flaws or lack of competence compared to ex-lovers).