Future of Gaming, perhaps?

Cliff Bleszinski, design director at Epic Games in charge of big games like Gears of War, Unreal, and helped out with other games like Bulletstorm, and Infinity Blade.

A lot of people on forums or youtube think this guy is a huge jackass, and tend to criticize him for being a douche.

But my opinion, this guy is way ahead of the game, and a damn genius.

Although I'm not a big Gears of War fan myself (sorry CliffyB) I really respect him as a game developer. He really loves what he does, who he speaks to, and thinks about the future more than most developers.

One of the biggest things in my opinion that he talked about during his speech was the change in the way people's minds work from 10-20 years ago and now, and how that will apply to video games.

Personally I have really been thinking about how to mesh together AAA titles with social games in a non-annoying way for a while now.

I really think having a system that will allow you to interact with your AAA title while on the go, is a genius idea.

An example of a first step in the right direction may be B-Spec mode in Gran Turismo 5.
You can actually run races from a web browser anywhere you go to earn EXP and cash for your drivers. This is a great feature, however the lack of appeal and marketing to the feature is really its biggest downfall.

Also the fact that you have to leave your PS3 on as a server, rather than just syncing data when you turn your PS3 on seems like a bad idea...

Nevertheless, it definitely was a good step in the right direction to hook gamers on your title. Making it available at home and on the go, is in my opinion the future of gaming.

Perhaps add side missions as an app on the iOS appstore. Example, play an FF game at home and then have a way to level up your summons (or GFs like FF8) by playing some mini games on your iphone in a battleHeart style.

Some one in the industry, please look at this and take it into consideration (if you are the man like CliffyB I'm sure you are already thinking about it).

Or you could just hire me as a designer ;)


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