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Cliffy B: Gears 2 More 'Girlfriend-Friendly'

Speaking to Wired.com at Microsoft's recent media event, the designer says that Epic Games is trying to make their upcoming Xbox 360 shooter more appealing to the casual audience. The game's female characters, he said, won't have "ginormous tits." And the lauded kill-alien-swarms-with-a-buddy cooperative mode will let you adjust the game's difficulty on the fly depending on who's playing.

"If the sequence is overwhelming for your significant other, he or she can just sit behind cover, blind fire a little bit, and you can handle all the shenanigans," Bleszinski says.
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Published: 63 days 16 hours ago | Interview | Xbox 360
 
 

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SeanScythe - 63 days 17 hours ago
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By girlfriend friendly he means it's going to be super short and you won't be spending more time with this game then your GF. That the only way that is possible because most GF's hate when we play games for hours rather then spend time with them.
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fredy - 63 days 16 hours ago
1.1 - You get the "worst" attempt at a Spin of the Day Award
congratulation..
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chaosatom333 - 63 days 16 hours ago
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that was funny tho.
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superman - 63 days 16 hours ago
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Cant there be a story on this website that doesnt have anything to do with Playstation. This is Gears of War, it has nothing to do with Killzone 2 or Resistance 2. mart_is_Apig im talking to you.
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tweaker - 63 days 16 hours ago
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You brought it to the Gamer Zone.
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CRIMS0N_W0LF - 63 days 16 hours ago
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lol thats a funny comment.

kindly give me bubbles because some fanboys reduced my bubbles from 4 to 2 today for saying PC > Consoles
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Icewake - 63 days 16 hours ago
3.1 - You don't even deserve 2
You're a troll, why should you have more than one? Tell me why you think you deserve any at all. Also it's Cliff bleszinski not Cliffy B now ;)

Everyone knows I am a troll with multiple accounts? Wow that's even news to me man. If I had multiple accounts I'd have more than 5 bubbles, kind of proves you wrong right there, troll. Crimson do you purposely try to be so pathetic or does it come naturally to you?
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Timesplitter14 - 63 days 16 hours ago
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Hey if you're at 2 bubbles I doubt you said this without bias or agressivity
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CRIMS0N_W0LF - 63 days 16 hours ago
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icewake everyone knows you are the troll with multiple accounts.

you can check my comments to see.

stupid multiple account users which there are A LOT here and YOU are one of them
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tweaker - 63 days 16 hours ago
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Girlfriend friendly is not good. It only means short story or watered down.
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Icewake - 63 days 16 hours ago
4.1 - How so?
They talk of the difficulty settings, not the game as a whole being dumbed down.
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iamtehpwn - 63 days 16 hours ago
5 - Haayyyyy baby you can sit in my laappppppppppp. Girls of War ftw.
I think it's fine.
Girl friendly is fine, don't panic.
Don't be a hypocrite. we all want girls to get involved,
the number one barrier between The game and the girl is controlling the thing. (you wouldn't believe how many girls I know own a Wii and a DS because those are the only games they can learn how to play. Mobile gaming is also popular with girls).

to us a PS3 and 360 controller are just simple nature to us, but to them, as CliffyB said "It's like telling them. 'Here, learn Spanish before you can fully enjoy this game".
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Xlll - 63 days 13 hours ago
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I'm not so sure about that. My wife was upset at how easy DMC4 was. To this day she doesn't see why people think 3 was too hard. You'd be shocked at how many Female gamers like hardcore games instead of casual games. But they are still out numbered and grouped together. Maybe this is a way of getting more female gamers to try games they normally wouldn't try.
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Fishy Fingers - 63 days 16 hours ago
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"more appealing to the casual audience"...?

I've seen Marcus smash some guys head into the floor, that's not what i define as a casual experience.

Either way, This doesn't sound like Cliffy, he's always banging on about hardcore. I bet this has something to do with MS using him for PR, we know how much they want a piece of that lovely casual pie.

mmmmm.... casual pie.....
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avacadosnorkel - 63 days 16 hours ago
7 - WHOA
this is bad. The casual take-over is hitting the real games sooner than I expected.

Everybody bail!
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avacadosnorkel - 63 days 16 hours ago
8 - even worse
now the little 13 year old kid you're playing on Live can kick your ass because it's dumbed down for him.

and he still won't shut up.
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vloeistof - 63 days 16 hours ago
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can it be there are emo"s in the game
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avacadosnorkel - 63 days 16 hours ago
10 - Really this isn't about girlfriends
Now if you buy Gears of War 2 you are supporting the pansies that don't belong there in the first place.

give the mass market casual gamer the middle finger
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THAMMER1 - 63 days 16 hours ago
11 - This is what Cliffy B. means by girl friendly.
At this point it seems like the Gears of War audience has already bought Xbox 360s. Are you trying to reach a new audience?

We're selling Gears of War 2 to every single guy who bought an Xbox 360 for Grand Theft Auto IV. As well as the guys who like Call of Duty 4 but might not be Halo fans. I still think there's plenty of room to go. I think we're going to make it more girlfriend-friendly, with individual difficulty settings. It's a beautiful game with beautiful vistas, with an actual human story that I think will appeal to a broader audience.

How do you make a game girlfriend-friendly?

You do jump-in, jump-out co-op. You have configurable difficulty settings for the other player. You have very cool and bad-ass main characters that have a very human side. And you make sure that the female characters in your game don't have ginormous tits and aren't bad stereotypes.

You people need to start reading the articles.
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fredy - 63 days 15 hours ago
11.1 - read? what is that?
fanboys don't read..they just troll.

good post
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nutjuice - 63 days 15 hours ago
11.2 - The article is written in secret code you must not be able to crack
because when I read it all I see is the the words SELL OUT in bold everywhere. And it doesn't refer to sales. Even though 11 and 11.1 disagree
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Superfragilistic - 63 days 7 hours ago
11.3 - Good post THAMMER1 bubbles for you!
Whislt entirely different genres you're seeing the same jump in, jump out co-op being encouraged with the Too Human, Saints Row 2, Fable 2 & Viva Pinata 2. It's a move for the better and the independent difficulty settings is a very clever idea, the hardcore can play insane but their gf, mates or younger siblings can jump in on the action as well without feeling ostracized.
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kewlkat007 - 63 days 15 hours ago
12 - Cliffy I know what you mean but this time around,I'm starting on INSANE
that's right INSANE, first time through. Who's with me?

Add Me.

Anyhow go work on the game and suprise with more at E3.
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Icewake - 63 days 15 hours ago
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Stop spamming your filth in the GZ. You know damn well that does not carry over to live. It is for campaign, and it is not a total dumb down for the game. The player can set it to make it easier on them.
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Tyrael - 63 days 12 hours ago
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The nature of this game makes it pretty difficult to be girlfriend friendly, but its nice to see them try
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joe382 - 62 days 21 hours ago
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What is the point of saying that. They would have to change the whole story of the game for it to really be 'girlfriend-friendly'. Why dont they just say it has difficulty settings ?