By Alec Meer on May 21st, 2008 at 10:53 pm.
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Clifford Bleszinski Grows Up A Bit
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The designer formerly known as CliffyB?
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Count-down to him saying something else that, erm, doesn’t endear him to PC Gamers?
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It’s gone!
Ooooooh.
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I am genuinely amused by the implication that he’s grown up and doesn’t want to make games with titles like “Unreal Tournament” anymore. Focusing of course, on mature projects like “Gears of War”.
Right.
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Bles – zin – ski. Right.
I can remember that.
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The tag says it all.
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OK then, Clifford it is. Good luck with that.
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I can’t believe he used to use that nickname himself. I always assumed it was something other people called him.
That’s pretty sad, ha ha.
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RIP Catscan.
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I don’t give a fuck what he calls himself as long as he shuts up.
I still have nightmares after the GoW2 trailer. My god, the shirt… THE SHIRT!!!
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Whatever. I still think of him as “that Jazz Jackrabbit guy.”
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Ironic that as he gets more mature, his games get less so.
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I guess his girlfriend turned drinking age, so now he wants to grow up?
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I think RPS forced this upon him by refusing to use his Cliffy B title.
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Isn’t this the same guy dating 18-year olds at 35 to “catch up on list time”?
Not that there’s anything wrong with that, just no reason to be overly impressed by any claims of mental maturity.
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Grow up? Maybe get a clue! Respect -1, putting him on a par with those idiots in the PCworld adverts.
And ironically UT probably has a far /more/ mature audience than Gears.
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He worked on Unreal 1, the best game of the universe, so he mustn’t be that bad!
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“Two rules:
- You don’t get to pick your nickname.
- You don’t get to pick when people stop using your nickname.”
From the MTV Blog comments. Love it.
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It’s immature to have a nickname once you hit your thirties?
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Getting older, changing his name, and cutting his hair is never going to make people forget what an ass he made of himself for so many years.
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That’s his prerogative. I’ve still got no respect for him even before he made those comments about PCs
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drunkymonkey has it nailed.
It seems CliffyB has spent a long time away from the phenomenon known as “real life” where:
1) cliffyb is on the inoffensive end of the nickname spectrum
2) asking people to stop using a certain nickname has the reverse effect
3) deliberately making superficial changes to convey you are more mature makes your old friends think you are wankers and your new friends think you are a cock sucking try hard
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Good thing we’re all mature and not doing something silly like wasting time reading about a throw-away comment some bloke made in passing that was posted on a blog article…
…oh, crap.
P.S. I have many nicknames. Yea, the one I use here is definitely from my younger days, and now I use it…just because. If it was tied into my business life somehow, I’d probably want to change it to. But I never took it that seriously, and I doubt Mr. Bleszinksi did either.
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BliffyC ftw.
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His next move will be telling people to shout “CliffyB sucks” everytime before playing GoW!
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Personally I blame Ann Scantlebury and One Life Left.
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I blame them for everything.
Nowt wrong with retiring pseudonyms. I retired – er – about 6, over the years.
KG
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Clifford Michael Bleszinski Junior the Third it is then.
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You’ll always be BremXJones, Kieron.
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Sorry CliffyB, but you’re in a league with Jif and Opal Fruits and there’s no getting away from it!
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Interesting article at Gamasutra:
In an interview yesterday, Cliff Bleszinski said he wanted to leave behind the intense, testosterone heavy shooters he has become synonymous with, saying ‘[t]hey were based on a limiting interaction grammar necessitated by the technology available in previous cycles which has been rendered obsolete by increasing user sophistication and next generational computational power’.
For his next project he said he would like to do ‘some fag shit like Spore’.
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So…. B-Diddy?
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amazing what grows out of nothing on the internet :)
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You don’t get to pick your own nickname.
Which is why mine is Fathead.
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This is the gentleman who was recently the subject of an interview, wherein he extolled the virtues of a forthcoming sequel title, paying specific attention to a combination chainsaw / gun, explicating how it is now able to be shoved right up the opponents’ jacksies, replete with excruciating animations and viscera effects. Quite how this rates on the grown-up scale in comparison with a rather innocuous pseudonym, I couldn’t possibly comment.
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Opal Fruits are back!
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as long as people stop asking me if I’m him, I’m fine with it.
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Are you him? Are you?
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I think he is. I think he is.
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The ultimate punchline:
“Filed Under: Cliffy B, Gears of War “.
EDIT: Also note, the ultimate comment:
“Cliff is a game developing MASTER! Gears of War 1 ROCKED the world over with truly innovative game play and state of the art graphics industry wide… Now GEARS of WAR 2 is going to shatter minds of gamers EVERYWHERE and resonate through ps3 and wii owners, causing them to mind numbingly disassemble their consoles in a vain attempt to rebuild them into 360’s! A person of Cliff’s stature can call himself whatever he wants, especially if Paul McCartney can simply write a song and then be knighted Sir! Cliff be should be knighted KING of developers! Gears 2 is going to shake the ground out from under ps3 and wii’s feet !!! LOL so funny! Way to go Cliff Bleszinski! You show the world how much more power 360 has over the competition! BOW DOWN!!! sony!!!!! mooo haha hahah aha! lol”
Says a lot. Cliff’s getting it in the jugular here.
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He is in the same league as PDiddy. For better or for worse. Although Piddly Diddly insists on calling himself a mogul in various guestings.
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Nice work Bildo
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