Please help me get excited about CliffyB’s new Game

Posted by: 7/11/2014

This may be mistaken for a rant or disrespect for the former Epic Games Designer Cliff Bleszinski, but it really isn’t and I will explain. I am simply not excited about the prospect of Boss Key’s Project Blue Streak. And I don’t know why.

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I don’t know if it is the old ‘Free to Play’ trope or the fact that the game is an Arena Shooter or simply that we don’t know enough about it yet. Maybe I am just annoyed that it was another announcement to make an announcement about something that will be coming – eventually, in the far distant future.

Blue Streak is as illusive as the teased concept art above featuring military-esque men crouching and standing over the Hollywood sign as the city behind them is illuminated by a blue lightning tornado. One of the game’s maps will undoubtedly be LA.

What will the main feature(s) be? Will  there be some kind of narrative? We know nothing and could speculate endlessly but I don’t feel compelled to. If you make an announcement about a studio and a new game, give us some substance please. Clearly Cliff has an idea and he seems to know where the industry is headed, which is why he choose the publisher he did, but I don’t know if I will care.

A similar situation occurred with Respawn and EA, when they announced to be making a new shooter and after months and months we found out it was Titanfall but the radio silence was deafening. Will this be the same?

Even though I know and understand the reasoning behind game companies needing to push marketing early on these days to  get their pre-order numbers in, it does everything but excite me – it drives me away.

Please tell me why I should be excited for CliffyB’s new game…

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