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Joakim Mogren Is Cliff Bleszinski, not Hideo Kojima... We Think

GR: "We took two looks at the photo of Joakim Mogren posted by Geoff Keighley on Instagram today, and immediately thought, "He reminds us of someone currently out of work!""

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Sev4050d ago

I feel like an exclamation point just appeared above my head when I read this.

Holy shit. This makes a LOT of sense. If so, that's one epic tag-team. Get it? Epic. And I mean EPIC.

Nimblest-Assassin4050d ago

Well understandable cliff and kojima are friends... man they are going out of their way to confuse everyone before announcing its a metal gear game

CraigandDayDay4049d ago

Cliff looks like Dane Cook to me. LoL. I've always thought

Freak of Nature4049d ago (Edited 4049d ago )

@Nimblest-Assassin

I think this is a demo of Fox Engine, and that the whole what is real thing will tie directly into MGS5...

Kojima has been pushing photo realism with the fox engine, especially talking about facial renders, and keighley and mogren never in the same frame is another thing to consider.

Either way they have my attention... I'm always interested in what Kojima's got up his sleeve...

InMyOpinion4049d ago

@CraigandDayDay - I agree. He looks like a douchebag lol.

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dbjj120884050d ago

Hahaha, exclamation point. Seriously I think it could be very likely. Cliffy has third person shooter experience to help development of more action oriented Metal Gear games.

zebramocha4050d ago

@dbjj there is a suppose picture of this morgren guy on kotaku and I doubt its cliffy b because the guy eyes are kinda big and blue.

Sev4050d ago

And to think, everyone used to call me a stupid glitch.

Knight_Crawler4050d ago (Edited 4050d ago )

Cliffy B lead developer for Moby Dick studios...picks up phone and orders a supreme meat lover stuff crust pizza from Pizza Hut and puts popcorn in microwave.

omi25p4050d ago (Edited 4050d ago )

I have a feeling this might be right.
Kojima will be the Company Developing it.
OGRE will be the engine its run on.

Cliff Left Epic a few months before Phantom Pain was first shown.

Also why would Kojima go through so much trouble keeping the secrets of this game secrets. Then post a obvious anagram.

Il probably end up being wrong. But its fun to speculate.

Donnieboi4050d ago (Edited 4050d ago )

Nooooooo! Keep that hyper-active, over-muscled, bro-mancing crap away from MGO...and the reason I say MGO is because we all know Kojima is looking for devs in LA to westernize the online franchise. Cliff will add all kinds of crap like regenerative and boring cover systems that slow the action to a crawl. Damnit why do Japanese companies keep westernizing stuff. Don't they see how crappy and cookie-cutter-repeat western games are to one another?

Hopefully Cliff stays the hell away from MGO.

Hayabusa 1174049d ago (Edited 4049d ago )

...Because Japanesse online competitve games are sooooo much fun...

Disclaimer: And yes, Gears of War IS a truck-load-of-dolphins fun online (when it isn't lagging itself to death.)

TVippy4049d ago

Ha, you're horrible. And the guy looks NOTHING like Cliff.

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Root4050d ago (Edited 4050d ago )

No....just no

I don't want to think about Cliffy B having any involvement with Metal Gear

<shudders>

"What if Hideo Kojima and Cliff Bleszinski are working together on Metal Gear related games?"

But then you ask yourself

"Why would Kojima work with someone like Cliffy B, out of all the people in the industry.

Sharingan_no_Kakashi4050d ago

I hope he has absolutely nothing to do with anything Kojima is working on. I'd rather it NOT be metal gear if cliffy is part of it.

NegativeCreepWA4050d ago

Maybe you should ask yourself, whats really so bad about Cliffy B, that's right nothing.

Root4050d ago

He's not a bad person but him and Kojima are two completely differnt people when it comes to games

If Cliffy B partnered up with...oh I don't know, David Jaffe fair enough. Big guns, explosions, lots of gore and shooting. They'd be a perfect fit but him and Kojima...just don't go.

I would of thought if Kojima ever did partner up with someone it would be Shinji Mikami or maybe someone from NaughtyDog.

vallencer4050d ago

In all fairness though cliff and kojima are friends and do know each other. They also have a mutual respect for each other and Cliff has stated that he wants to work on games that are different then Gears.

It isn't too crazy to think that they have teamed up to make something. I think it could be a good collaboration and yeah it could be a bad one too but they are both skilled at what they do and they both want to do different things too.

I don't know I'm optimistic about it. Then again I love anything Kojima puts his hands on hes a genius.

doctorstrange4050d ago

The amount of anagrams that could be made out of Cliff Bleszinski...

Sev4050d ago

My favs:

Biz Slick Sniffle
Fib Zincs Elf Silk

And then there is this:

Biz Cell Skiff Sin

Cell? As in cell processor? PS3 confirmed!!!!

...I'm kidding.

ftwrthtx4050d ago

Is this where he was hiding?

JamieL4049d ago

You want to know something funny, I had the Lonely Island Boy playing as I was reading these comments, and their "in a box" song was playing when I read this. LOL, I thought it was funny enough to post.

BigStef714050d ago

This is very interesting.We'll see tonight in the interview if Joakim Mogren is really CliffyB

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The 7 Best Hideo Kojima Games Beyond Metal Gear Solid

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New Shark Tank Inspired Wolves’ Den Game Contest With Spatial, Youtube, and Gaming Legends

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N4GTG37d ago

This could be great for some indie developers

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Gears of War Creator CliffyB Offers His Thoughts on Xbox Exclusives Going Multiplatform

During a recent Game Rant interview, Gears of War creator CliffyB comments on Xbox-exclusive games possibly adopting multiplatform models.

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S2Killinit37d ago

Im sure he would love it. More money for him.

OtterX37d ago

Yea, I remember seeing him and his Lamborghini at one point in history. Lol, I think that kind of gives it away.

rippermcrip37d ago

Doubtful he gets any residuals from anything Gears related.

rippermcrip37d ago

Bunch of clowns down voting without any explanation of how exactly he is getting money off Gears. You think Notch still gets Minecraft money too?

jznrpg36d ago (Edited 36d ago )

Depends on the contract. Some contracts have residuals some don’t

Whitey2k37d ago

Sometimes I don't get what he says half the times. He could of put gears on the playstation from the start but he's fanboyness for xbox got in the way

Notellin37d ago

I imagine this is exactly how fanboys feel how this went down. Microsoft paid for all the development and took all the risk off Epic games for a new IP.

It has nothing to do with anyone being a fanboy. Well other than yourself who oversimplified this entire franchises history.

LoveSpuds37d ago

I agree Notellin, however, once he was in bed with MS he did become pretty 'anti Sony' ans was such a shill for MS.

Hofstaderman37d ago

This. And Sony also does this with titles these days.

shinoff218337d ago

I thought it was said cliffs shopped it around hence rumors of a ps3 demo being out there. If ms took on all the cost, why is there a ps3 demo?

Rude-ro37d ago

Not true at all.
Microsoft had to buy the ip because the contract ran out on keeping it exclusive.
Microsoft took no risk, they just marketed the game and payed for a contract.
Not hard to find out.

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Ironmike37d ago (Edited 37d ago )

Your the the fanboy

Sciurus_vulgaris37d ago

No, Epic signed a development and publishing contract with Xbox for Gears of War. After Judgement Microsoft still had the Gears of War publishing rights. Epic then sold the Gears of War IP to Microsoft in 2014. Cliffy B never owned Gears of War, he was just a lead designer of the series.

rippermcrip37d ago

Ya I don't know what people are saying about CliffyB making money of Gears sales nowadays. He was never the owner and Epic no longer owns it either.

ChasterMies37d ago

“He could of put gears on the playstation from the start but he's fanboyness for xbox got in the way”

It has nothing to do with fondness for the Xbox platform. Microsoft paid for exclusivity.

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Travesty37d ago (Edited 37d ago )

Well when you look at the sales perspective of ps5. It has a big audience selling over a 2 to 1 ratio. It makes money sense.
Fanboy era was at its prime during the ps3-360 generation. It’s not as toxic as it once was, thankfully. People grow out of it eventually. I have my preference just as the next person. That being said it’s coming to be more about expanding availability instead of standing behind a brand. Much more Microsoft than Sony. But Sony will probably move up its time of PC release for increase revenue.
We will see, it’s just speculation.

Psychonaut8537d ago

CliffyB is like David Jaffe at this point, always quick with the opinions but haven’t made a successful game in over a decade at this point. Do any of us really care what they think about anything? I certainly don’t.

shinoff218337d ago

I never liked the guy tbh but he's got more relevance in gaming then we do.

Skuletor37d ago

CliffyB, I haven't heard that name since Lawbreakers flopped.

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