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)
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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