No Bombing! Bleszinski and the 'Kiddy Pool' in Gears of War 3
Also, no Xbox 720 soon.
Gears of War 3 is around the corner you know. And one of the newish things for the ancient and revered series is casual mode. Game creator Cliff Bleszinski explains some more about it.
"...what we want to do is make it so there's like a kiddy pool," he says in a recent interview. ..."where if you haven't played Gears 1 and 2 or you're just getting online, you have a little bit of a helper and your own zone where you get a little bit more damage, you can take a little bit more damage, just to give you that edge.
"You stay in this – we jokingly call it the kiddy pool – until you get to a certain level and then you graduate into the big leagues, so we know you at least have a certain level of competency. I think it's a great trend and I think Blizzard did it with StarCraft with some of their leagues. I think it's something that online gaming needs to continue to advance in order to encapsulate a wide range of skills and play types. "
Mr B also mentions his take on the next Xbox...
"The thing is, the hardware isn't going to change any time soon, right, the 360 should be around for at least a little while longer I'd imagine, but it's up to us as developers to figure out how to squeeze more water from that stone and figure out how we can have more code tricks and get better at cramming more into memory or on the disc, because that's the nature of game development, right?"
Source: IGN
"...what we want to do is make it so there's like a kiddy pool," he says in a recent interview. ..."where if you haven't played Gears 1 and 2 or you're just getting online, you have a little bit of a helper and your own zone where you get a little bit more damage, you can take a little bit more damage, just to give you that edge.
"You stay in this – we jokingly call it the kiddy pool – until you get to a certain level and then you graduate into the big leagues, so we know you at least have a certain level of competency. I think it's a great trend and I think Blizzard did it with StarCraft with some of their leagues. I think it's something that online gaming needs to continue to advance in order to encapsulate a wide range of skills and play types. "
Mr B also mentions his take on the next Xbox...
"The thing is, the hardware isn't going to change any time soon, right, the 360 should be around for at least a little while longer I'd imagine, but it's up to us as developers to figure out how to squeeze more water from that stone and figure out how we can have more code tricks and get better at cramming more into memory or on the disc, because that's the nature of game development, right?"
Source: IGN
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irritant 5 Sep 2011 12:38
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It might be the nature for some developers, but personally I prefer devs to focus on making games that are fun to play, not tech demos that push the hardware or FMV that takes longer to watch than a movie.