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.
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)
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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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Hosted by Alex Jaffe, with Frank Cifaldi, Tim Rogers, Brandon Sheffield, and Cliff Bleszinski.. Edited by Esper Quinn. Original Music by Kurt Feldman.