Ep. 270 - Leisure Suit Locusts, with Cliff Bleszinski

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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:

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)

A SMALL SELECTION OF THINGS REFERENCED:

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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meunierd

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

It’s gotta be a dating simulator. What does Shiori Fujisaki’s hair smell like?

gunk_rider

i feel i am being pranked but i like it

穴

The guest was ok. You should try to get CliffyB next time.

yeso

representation matters

veck

Cliff speaks at x2 speed naturally (complimentary)

Lunarchivist

veck somehow i nudged my phone into 1.2x and started trippin’ out cuz cliffyb was clippin’ and everyone else (frank especially) sounded exactly the same. i didn’t actually investigate it until i noticed how off the lightning round track was.

RubySunrise

I love that Brandon loved playing Knuckles so much that he kept it up thru the break. Keep getting those chaos emeralds!

RubySunrise

Get CliffyB on your podcast. Boom step 3 profit.

RubySunrise

Seriously though Cliffy was great. Good club house vibes in this episode.

DavidNoo

I want Jaffe to fill in for all of tim’s SFX sometime. Busted out laughing right away

rootfifthoctave

donkey milk, dude!

Jaffe

rootfifthoctave DONKEY milk.

Salloumi

To everyone looking for the next Peggle: try Peglin! It’s pachinko x Slay The Spire, and oh boy it works. With enough randomness so I don’t feel bad when I do badly. Incredible hangout game.

NoJoTo

frank, i’d like to see your sokoban level. it’d probably suck.

(…i also can’t design good sokoban levels, i just want you to eat your sokoban-disparaging words)

Gaagaagiins

I manifested this episode by bemoaning how underrated Gears of War is yesterday during our stream hangout. You’re welcome to everyone other than Alex Jaffe and Brandon Sheffield

dicegame

Oh my GOD I had to pause the pod and post here because jaffe just announced Improv Zone I am fucking TREMBLING!!!!!!!!!!!! LETS GO

dicegame

Okay frank just mentioned “rubbers” I’m tapping out lmfao

beets

Wow! Cool episode, there was a lot of energy coursing around.

There was a vibe of getting to hang out with the older cousins when I was a kid, lol!

I really liked the discussions on the original fortnite and how cutting features led to strong releases.

The episode also reminded me how cool Knuckles is. 100% my favourite sonic character

Jaffe

beets Our goal on the Insert Credit Show is always to remind you how cool Knuckles is. This week we hit the mark.

superbrainbow

Improv zone is the best segment of the show, why do so many fear it?