Cliff Bleszinski wants Epic to return to their roots; wants to produce less linear/scripted games

DSOGaming writes: "You know what? Today feels really like an April’s fools day. I mean, take a look at Romero’s statements that we’ve posted a couple of hours ago. Sounded awesome, right? Well, here comes and Cliff Bleszinski to jump on the ‘less-linear games’ band-wagon. No, I’m not kidding. That Cliff, the same one that was responsible for slow paced and scripted games like GoW – and my God GoW 3 has lots of scripted events – has revealed that he wants to produce less linear games. Who would have thought."

[DigitalRaptor]

The dude needs to make a mature game and by mature I don't mean in the graphically violent sense.

How about less dudebro and generic super soldiers with stereotypical dialogue too? I like the games but I'd like them more if the characters weren't so blatantly uninspired.

[Grap]

so cod is very mature?

[RedDead]

He has no qualms with GTA. Suppose GTA is extremely mature right?

Basically DR, you could say that about almost every ****ing game this gen. Is Uncharted 'mature'? God of War? GTA? Killzone? COd? Halo?

No. They are all uninspired and unoriginal. Quality is what it is though

[BldyShdw]

@ Grap why did you jump to assume he thinks cod is mature? he said NOTHING about cod. He also said nothing about Dora the Explorer so can I assume he thinks that is mature?

[Baka-akaB]

yeah unless he has some kind of post history with cod , i'm not getting it

[Grap]

I am just asking why the disagree !diottts? or did i just troll my self to think that a real pregunta?

[spicelicka]

well gears 3 was definately less linear then previous gears games, specially with the 4 player co-op.

Gears doesn't get enough credit for its replayability while extremely linear and scripted games get praised since most people only do one playthrough.

[Series_IIa]

That's like getting thatgamecompany to making a game without a hint of pretentiousness in it.

[MySwordIsHeavenly]

Art does not have to be pretentious. Sure, some fans of flOw, Flower, and Journey are pretentious, but thatgamecompany is a very humble group of developers.

[vortis]

Sounds interesting. I don't mind linear games when done right (Limbo) but I hate blockbuster, mind-numbingly trite linear games that many AAA studios churn out.

[Pekolie]

depends on how fun and linear a game is tbh. A game could be boring as hell and not be linear and it will be considered a bad game.

I am Alive had alleyways which led to nowhere. This was more annoying and i wish they werent there. Being linear can be good in some cases...

[Ahasverus]

And the gaming Gods are listening to our plegaries

[typikal82]

Yeah less story, because Gears 3 story was terrible

[tigertron]

Gears of War 4 next-gen plz, kthx.

[Baka-akaB]

At the very least resurrect back properly unreal tournament , and Unreal . For both series the previous games were mediocre

[FlashXIII]

Just resurrect the deathmatch shooter please and make an Unreal Tournament game worthy of the name.

[LX-General-Kaos]

well said

[shackdaddy]

+1 I miss those games so much.

[john2]

Man, I really miss those 'Quake 3' and 'UT' days :(

[Somebody]

"Cliff Bleszinski wants Epic to return to their roots..."

I thought he's going to give the PC a little bit more love.Since its part of their roots and all. Then....

"...wants to produce less linear/scripted games."

Ohhh....

[urwifeminder]

Unreal was sweet so was gears linear rocks i still havnt left the first town in red dead to much crap to do i think open word games are overwhelming cant be botherd.

[Spenok]

Isnt that the type of game they normally produce? Im ligitiately confused. Correct me if i am wrong here.

Edit: Looks like i read it wrong lol. As I was xD.

[catfrog]

i could never take gears seriously. lots of enormous people walking around with huge chainsaw guns (i can only imagine him thinking of a gunblade and thinking, 'gunblade, PSHWA, GUNCHAINSAW') and tiny little peanut shaped heads.

cool shooter, but any story that was attached to it would have made me laugh just as much, the character design was the story, bunch of peanuts grew bodies and were fighting things, funny story