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Cliff Bleszinski Reveals himself as an Asshole; Lawbreakers was "Too Woke"
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Not exactly sure what is wrong with what he is saying, if he honestly felt he was pushing an agenda instead of a game. It would help if he backed it up with data/articles/events/reviews instead of self reflection, if gamergaters hated it I had no idea.
I don't remember much about playing it other than I thought the game was o.k. but I had no interest in playing more than just trying it out.
I don't remember much about playing it other than I thought the game was o.k. but I had no interest in playing more than just trying it out.
The game wasn't woke, it lacked a distinct identity. I played the game for a good 20 hours and even I had to google the cast to reemember what any of them looked like. They weren't notably diverse, they looked like stock Unreal Engine tech demo characters.
The guy invested in Hadestown, which is very successful and I bet pisses some people off for being "too woke." but nobody cared enough about Lawbreakers to even wring out a bunch of 15 minute rants.
The guy invested in Hadestown, which is very successful and I bet pisses some people off for being "too woke." but nobody cared enough about Lawbreakers to even wring out a bunch of 15 minute rants.
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So, you're saying good gameplay is not enough? Character design and art direction are important? If you settle for generic design your game won't stand out in a crowded field?
No. I refuse to believe it. It was all because Cliffy was too good for this earth and was punished for it.
Cliffy B has always struck me as someone that I would disagree with while he was wearing a shit-eating grin. Like him saying shit like this. But the thread title and initial reaction of him being a Trumper seems just as stupid. He's way off base and not accepting certain responsibilities, but don't see how that "reveals" him as an asshole. He's always had this type of mindset.
Dude just won a Tony for co-producing Hadestown on Broadway. Like him or hate him, but the man is successful as hell in multiple fields.
Remember when Cliff Blezinski campaigned for the death of the second-hand retail market in games? When he was actively supporting the repressive DRM policies the Xbox One was set to launch with?
Yeah, that guy has always been a tremendous tool. Him trying to hand wave away his failures in the game industry with a face-saving, progressive narrative isn't particularly surprising.
Yeah, that guy has always been a tremendous tool. Him trying to hand wave away his failures in the game industry with a face-saving, progressive narrative isn't particularly surprising.
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LawBreakers had gender neutral bathrooms?
Yeah, well I mean... I can see why alt-rights would want to slaughter a game that was so incredibly woke.
Clearly one of the stand-out causes of its failure.
Yeah, well I mean... I can see why alt-rights would want to slaughter a game that was so incredibly woke.
Clearly one of the stand-out causes of its failure.
Say what you want about cliffy, but that's an over generalization much don't you think?
This is hilarious. "Spirit in the Sky plays while they all fight, but this version has a rap in it. Kids still like rap, right?"
He's not wrong, over generalization at best.
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So is being too woke a good thing or a bad thing? lol.
Nah you're thinking of David Cage.
Cliffy B is the guy who blames all his failures on everyone else while coasting on the success of a decade old franchise.
Oof, the desperation.
DOUBLE OOF. Get the fuck outta here Cliffy.
I don't want to hate on Cliffy. He's a talented dude. I just really wish he wouldn't keep going on about Lawbreakers. He should just realise he made a good game that nobody asked for and just take the L.
Wow, I feel like I'm definitely watching Cliffy B go through the spiral down to radicalization.
Except he fell from a much more prominent place and should know goddamn better, but whatever.
Dude put together something he had immense faith in and no on cared, dude probably feels highly isolated after said failure (likely even more harshly than most people would take failure considering his previous visibility in the industry), and now he seems to be drinking that Kool-Aid along the lines of: "I'm a failure but I refuse to acknowledge it and this shitty subculture of other failures seems to be welcoming me but also shouting all this toxic shit but whatever I just wanna belong again."
Well Cliff, sayonara dude. Have fun in your little self-defeating boys club.
Except he fell from a much more prominent place and should know goddamn better, but whatever.
Dude put together something he had immense faith in and no on cared, dude probably feels highly isolated after said failure (likely even more harshly than most people would take failure considering his previous visibility in the industry), and now he seems to be drinking that Kool-Aid along the lines of: "I'm a failure but I refuse to acknowledge it and this shitty subculture of other failures seems to be welcoming me but also shouting all this toxic shit but whatever I just wanna belong again."
Well Cliff, sayonara dude. Have fun in your little self-defeating boys club.
To this day I wonder if making the only white male guy in the lineup the toxic guy named "Caustic" was on purpose.
I heard the game itself was decent. Sometimes things fail regardless of quality. It's harsh, but nothing to be done.
I don't recall any talk back about contentious issues with this title? Just a game that didn't break through to a bigger audience.
I don't recall any talk back about contentious issues with this title? Just a game that didn't break through to a bigger audience.
I don't get the asshole part? Maybe I don't understand it because I am not a native English speaker, but I read the initial post that Cliff doesn't complain about things like "gender neutral bathrooms", but rather advocates for such things? I mean that has nothing to do with why Lawbreakers failed, but he isn't a supporter of right wing politics, right?
It didn't suck. And I don't think some of you realize what he is saying here.
The game didn't advocate for gender neutral bathrooms, Cliff did. Why would you use 'that' against him? Some of you are out for blood.
Edit: Yikes at the tweet above though
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Lawbreakers was a neat game with some interesting, fresh elements...and really bad marketing. They presented it as some kind of Overwatch for adults, with edgy, try hard art design, so lots of people just saw an Overwatch-clone (without having played it) and went on. And there was of course Bleszinski with his arrogant"no bullshit" price of $30-talk.
Him now saying this game failed because it was "too woke" is hilarious, delusional and sad at the same time.
Him now saying this game failed because it was "too woke" is hilarious, delusional and sad at the same time.
I´m not a native English speaker either, but as far as I understand, Bleszinski is twisting the game`s failure into some kind of "people hated the game because I did the right thing"-narrative. He basically says, the game failed because he put his political views in it...which is hilarious because no one complained about the game being political or pushing certain views.
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Bolded is false. Go back and read his mentions during when the game came out or check Youtube comments for the game or the infamous Crowbcat video. The game was hounded for months by the shitty parts of the internet because of Cliffy's tweets about having gender neutral bathrooms among other things. That's obviously not the reason for the game's failure but there definitely was a contingent of people who were pissed off at that and I was there to witness it. The problem is most people who just saw this game and it's failure from afar have no idea any of this even occurred so to them it's like some random excuse out of nowhere.
Cliff, for all his talent, has always been a completely full of himself arrogant manchil, but tripling down on his stupidity seems like a new point even for him.
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Ok, I must have missed that then. Thanks for clarification.
I don't honestly remember Lawbreakers being the target of that kind of criticism though? I mean, I'm sure there's a handful of YouTube comments out there, but this isn't anything like the backlash Battlefield V saw.
