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A Dutch gamer website had an interesting interview with Cliff Bleszinski, design director at Epic Games and creator of Gears of War (among other titles). And Adrian Chmielarz, founder of People Can Fly, a company that was recently acquired by Epic Games. In this interview, he gave his vision on Kinect and talks about Gears of War Exile and asks hardcore gamers why they feel threatened by Kinect? Checkout the interesting Kinect part of the interview after the break! And yes, we translated it for you, enjoy!

Kinect Interview Pieces

At first Bleszinski and Chmielarz talk about the change happening in the gaming industry, with a fragmentation between platforms and the fact that everyone is playing games these days. “Take my mom for example, who played Wii Fit for years until I bought her Kinect. Now she’s playingDance Central. A whole generation of older people is going to be playing games, as these games are no longer the monster behind the door. We have reached a point where just about everyone played a game in their lives.”

Then they go on discussion that gaming is changing in terms of hardcore and casual as well. Bleszinski makes a parallel between the gaming industry and movies, that you have some people that know everything about movies but enjoy the same movies as the others that are not that passionate about them. Chmielarz extends his argument in saying that gaming is not as special as it used to be, as millions of people buy hardcore games these days and get the hard to getachievements as well. Then they move on to the topic of Kinect and Gears of War.

Hardcore Kinect Games and Gears of War

Bleszinski: Did you ever notice how hardcore gamers feel insecure and threatened by Kinect? Kinect is a good thing, you get people gaming that usually never did that. In the meanwhile I here those with controllers shouting: “Oh my God, this is where it’s all going!” Then I think, no dude, this is a great introduction in the world of games, where people that play Dance Central now for instance, may one day pick up a first person shooter.

Gears of War: Exile, which supposedly works with Kinect, is the next step, right?

Bleszinski: Well, that is a rumor. I have talked to Microsoft and am definitely a fan of Kinect – more so than Move. This is not because we have a great relationship with Microsoft. I just like the fact that Kinect helps me in achieving one less f-ing controller on the coffee table. In the future I’m expecting to be betting on a hybrid model, a game with a controller where Kinect can be used for speech or hand movement recognition.

So we may be expecting a violent hardcore game for Kinect?

Bleszinski: Well, if you look at the market in that way, then you see that Microsoft is serving the traditional gamer with games like Halo, Call of Duty and Gears of War. Then they are moving toward the Wii-audience and ask: “How can we get those on board?” Well, with the Wii, but than cooler and without a controller. So, then, Microsoft brings Kinect, Kinectimals and Sports games. But – I’m assuming here – later on more hardcore games will emerge. But, you know, in my head I’ve got about 8 million Kinect ideas. Let me first focus on making Bulletstorm and Gears of War 3.

That’s all they had to say about Xbox Kinect in this interview. Sure, he’s not confirming theKinect Gears of War game, but he’s not denying it either. Furthermore, it seems as though he feels Kinect actually bring something new compared to Playstation’s Move and all-in-all it’s great to hear he’s this open to the whole Kinect experience! Unlike some gamers…

http://123kinect.com/bleszinski-dance-central-kinect-gears/

probabily he not denying it because he  could be waiting to annouce it at e3 who knows , but i do think when the next xbox comes out xbox3 or whatever they call it , will have kinect 2.0 maybe built in into the console or something

Did Cliff ever speak good about the Wii before? Or did he just jump on to the casual expansion thing when Kinect came around. I am just curious.

jump on the casual expansion thing when kinect came

He seems like a 360 fanboy, he has trolled the users on N4g several times by his own twitters admission

well you go to remember cliffy before creating gears of war he created unreal tournament for the pc which is microsoft windows so he been partner with them quite a long time but their relationship wasnt strong as it is now because of their partnership with gears of war franchise

yeah I doubt Ms had ANYTHING to do with the UT franchise being on the PC. 

"In the future I’m expecting to be betting on a hybrid model, a game with a controller where Kinect can be used for speech or hand movement recognition."

hmmmmm, this reminds me of something, let me think, a system that combines a camera and a controller...hmmmm....somehow seems familiar.....oh, wait the future is now! CliffyB you need to get yourself a PS3 and its Move controller, because that is exactly what you are expecting from the future!!

Advice to CliffyB, think first, then talk.

Move controller is not the same thing as a traditional controller. WIthout the move controller, move can't work like Kinect and thats the point. You can't grab your 6 axix controller can you? stick your arm in the air to throw a grenade or whatever,no you can't . SO what where you saying. If the ball on move goes behind you or the eye can't see it, it stops connection with the controller.  So a hand in the air won't work now will it, NO IT WON'T!  The thing is also that everyone wants kinect but not so much move. Stop being biased you know damn well kinect could pull that off better.

I could go on why your statements are just a joke but I will go onto what I was on here to say.

ADVICE TO YOU, THINK FIRST, THEN TALK.

I agree with cliffy B. thats what I was going to say before I had to make a point. It brings in people who would never think about playing a shooter but after playing kinect, they realize," hey this is not so bad playing games."  Goes out and buys gears or tries there kids game or whatever.

It opens the door to new potential players and buyers. So it is actually win, win. Wii is not so hardcore and the 360 is, is more reason they might get hooked on the shooters, fighters and horror games that they might have never tried before.