Ep. 270 - Leisure Suit Locusts, with Cliff Bleszinski

Game Designer and Broadway Producer Cliff “CliffyB” Bleszinski joins a very sensual episode to cover what makes good third person shooters, Avatar 2, and disrespecting Hitman. Hosted by Alex Jaffe, with Frank Cifaldi, Tim Rogers, Brandon Sheffield, and Cliff Bleszinski. Edited by Esper Quinn, original music by Kurt Feldman.

Questions this week:

1. From Brandon Sheffield: What makes a good third person shooter? (06:18)
2. Who has more power, a game director, or a game producer? (14:44)
3. Design a video game around the Aroma Shooter. (23:27)
4. Design a sequel to Frank Cifaldi’s Super Sherlock Holmes. (31:25)
5. Improv Zone: Guess the COG Squadron (37:04)
6. Seth asks: What is the best sound related to video games that is not from a video game? (43:26)
7. If you could design a level for an existing video game series, which would it be and what would you do? (49:58)
8. What was Fortnite supposed to be? (55:03)

LIGHTNING ROUND: Name Design – Gears of War Achievements (01:00:53)

Recommendations and Outro (01:07:14)

Discuss this episode in the Insert Credit Forums

A SMALL SELECTION OF THINGS REFERENCED:

• Time.is
• The Menu (2022)
• Jazz Jackrabbit series
• NFL 2K
• Assault
• Street Fighter series
• Unreal Tournament series
• Gears of War series
• Hadestown
• Robotron: 2084
• Tokyo Wars
• Phoenix
• Mindjack
• Resident Evil 4
• Lunar: The Silver Star
• Control
• Alan Wake
• High on Life
• Ori and the Blind Forest
• Donkey Kong Country
• Shigeru Miyamoto
• Hideo Kojima
• Rod Fergusson
• BioShock Infinite
• 3D Realms
• Jaws (1975)
• Duke Nukem 3D
• DOOM
• John Carmack
• John Romero
• Masters of Doom
• Quake
• Contra
• Aroma Shooter®
• Elden Ring
• The Last of Us series
• Journey
• Flower
• Super Mario Odyssey
• Hidetaka Suehiro
• Ep. 218 - Donkey Milk, with Kris Graft
• VA-11 HALL-A: Cyberpunk Bartender Action
• Guitar Hero series
• Rock Band series
• Sixaxis
• Kinect
• Peter Molyneux
• Ratatouille (2007)
• Dactyl Nightmare
• Avatar: The Way of Water (2022)
• Being John Malkovich (1999)
• Public Domain Day 2023
• Sherlock Holmes
• Final Fantasy series
• Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century
• Fictional character: Sherlock Holmes
• Batman: The Video Game
• PlatinumGames
• Knives Out (2019)
• Batman: Arkham Asylum
• Lost Viking series
• Heavy Rain
• Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons
• Knuckles the Echidna
• Leisure Suit Larry
• Kratos (God of War)
• Alex Kidd series
• Leisure Suit Larry series
• Dragon’s Lair
• Dreamcast Startup (60fps)
• Degaussing
• NES Zapper
• Time Crisis series
• The House of the Dead series
• Casio Loopy
• Nintendo DS
• Yes, Nintendo Switch cartridges taste terrible
• Celeste
• Hitman series
• Assassin’s Creed: Unity
• Thief series
• Mission: Impossible
• Superman Returns
• Ridge Racer series
• Forza Horizon series
• Mario Kart series
• Sōkoban series
• Fortnite series
• Plants vs. Zombies series
• PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds
• LawBreakers
• Overwatch series
• League of Legends

Recommendations:
Cliff: Neon White, Vampire Survivors, NORCO
Tim: Interview with the Vampire, follow MiSTerAddons on twitter, get a 4K 48-inch OLED computer monitor
Brandon: Hit “publish” on your patches submitted to Nintendo, The Equalizer, please leave a review for Hyper Gunsport on Steam if you’ve purchased it
Frank: Squeeze an airhorn at Frank Cifaldi every time he mentions the MiSTer if you know him in real life

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