January 16, 2023

Ep. 270 - Leisure Suit Locusts, with Cliff Bleszinski

1 hour 25 minutes

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:

From Brandon Sheffield: What makes a good third person shooter? (06:18)

Who has more power, a game director, or a game producer? (14:44)

Design a video game around the Aroma Shooter. (23:27)

Design a sequel to Frank Cifaldi’s Super Sherlock Holmes. (31:25)

Improv Zone: Guess the COG Squadron (37:04)

Seth asks: What is the best sound related to video games that is not from a video game? (43:26)

If you could design a level for an existing video game series, which would it be and what would you do? (49:58)

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

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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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