Cliff Bleszinski on Why He Quit Games and Why He Came Back for LawBreakers

Cliff Bleszinski isn’t shy about admitting that he left Epic Games because he was bored.

[2pacalypsenow]

His new game look lame

[DefenderOfDoom2]

Is 'Lawbreakers' PC only?

[wakeNbake]

Confirmed for PS4/Xb1 a while back.

[spicelicka]

It was never confirmed for consoles, where did you hear that?

[ShottyatLaw]

For right now, and Steam only to start.

He has left the idea open for a console port, but he stated that Boss Key is too small, and would need to find a another studio to do the actual port.

[UglyGeezer]

Odious man.

[oof46]

Cliffy and n4g. Man...those were the days.

[ApolloTheBoss]

I know right? There seemed to be an article about him everyday.

[oof46]

Remember this one?
http://n4g.com/news/714559/...

[shadowraiserx]

He should retire again...

[Paytaa]

One of the few that genuinely like Cliffy B. LawBreakers looks awesome in my opinion and it's something I really want to play. Much respect for his work on Unreal and Gears as well. Two of the best shooters ever made. Hopefully he hits it again for a third time.

[Npugz7]

Nobody cares!!

[Knushwood Butt]

Cliffy

[game4funz]

Okay. I understand what he's done for gaming with gears but I don't understand these "famous" developers who've only worked on one successful game this far.

They can keep their opinions until they've been successful multiple times.

I'm including hideo kojima as well.

After reading the replies.
I stand corrected. Still think they talk too much though.

[Paytaa]

Unreal and Gears? Plus he was coding games since he was in his teens. He used to be one cocky dude but he is talented. Same with Kojima with MGS and ZotE.

[porkChop]

Cliff has been working in this industry since he was, what, 17? He created Gears, he designed Unreal, he created Jazz. His games and his design philosophy has inspired and influenced the industry as a whole. Like him or not, he's one of the most important developers around.

[Movefasta1993]

jazz is awesome

[s45gr32]

Besides Metal Gear Hideo Kojima has:

Policenauts (PS One Japan Exclusive 😢)
Zone of the Enders franchise
Another PS One Japanese exclusive I forgot the name of.

[porkChop]

Of course he was bored. Nothing against Gears, but when that was all Epic was doing a guy's gonna get bored eventually. And that goes for any studio that just keeps pumping out games in one series. You need to alternate, even if it's just a smaller digital game in-between the sequels.

Developers get burned out after working on the same games over and over, which is why Ubisoft for example has such a high turnover. They hire up all the fresh graduates every year because their devs get burned out and move to new studios.

[saddlebrown]

To be fair, he was also doing that one mobile game Infinity Blade so at least he got some variety there, but it sounds like everybody else at Epic thought it was dumb or something.

[hahaha]

He is so Eugene.

[hahaha]

Eugene B