Cliffy B: Dildos Hold Saints Row Back

January 27, 2013 - 3:32am

Renowned Gears of War designer, Cliff Bleszinski advised Saints Row design team that they shouldn’t be viewed as "the game with the dildo" if they want to achieve their full potential as a true GTA rival.

"Saints Row. Keep the crazy action and game mechanics. Lose the gimps and dildos and purple suits," he tweeted.

"Game mechanic wise I found SR3 to be more fun than many recent GTA games. Controls, pacing, etc... are all great," he added. "The SR team is one of the few that could actually give GTA a run for their money."

But, "[Battlefield] didn't go after [Call of Duty] by putting d**ks on their guns."

Cliffy B argued that even mature hardcore gamers are alienated by such immature humor. "If your average guy is embarrassed to be playing a sequence in a game when his wife walks in that's a bad sign,"he claimed.

"Once you put a dildo in your game it doesn't matter if your controls, pacing, graphics are all great. You're ‘that game with the dildo.’"

Saints Row series is developed by Volition studio which was acquired by Koch Media earlier this week as part of THQ’s bankruptcy process.

Comments

Cliffy and his crap

So because this queer opens his mouth... everyone needs to stand up and listen. Yeah, no. Fuck Cliffy. I just got done beating Saints Row III and it kicked ass. I liked it better than GTA because I was able to be apart of the game versus some half spoken immigrant.

Games like GTA and SR are all

Games like GTA and SR are all about crime and gangsters. Beating the sh*t outta someone with a big dildo is a pretty ruthless thing to do, therefore, the dildo should stay in the game. Its assholes like this that ruin games (and movies) by taking things too seriously, if you really think that adding things like dildos to SR is immature then you need to stop playing the game, cos you are taking it all too seriously, its only a f*king game!!!

Beating someone with a dildo

Beating someone with a dildo isn't ruthless, it's silly. Adding a dildo weapon to a game IS immature. There's no way around that, the point is, it doesn't matter. It doesn't affect the game as a whole unless you're forced to use it, and one short side mission with bonus weapons available can't be considered forcing you to use it.

dildo shmildo

Who gives a toss really about the melee weapons in a games like this, at the end of the day it is really just a baseball bat with different textures and animation, anyone who gets excited and or embarrased about such a thing is just showing their naiveness and probably shouldn't be playing the game anyway as they probably aren't the correct age. And as for the whole awkwardness if your wife catches you playing it i think that say's far more about you than the game. At the end of the day it is still just a game that is meant to entertain, and it does so with bat shit crazy antics like this and i for one hope they continue with this sort of thing. sorry about that rant over. p.s. Bulletstorm was awesome and deserves a sequal, I really don't want the whole XIII debacle again. Both these games deserve sequals who's with me :)

"i think that say's far more

"i think that say's far more about you than the game" - yes, 1. Why would it be awkward? It's a game, you don't go around with bat sized purple dildos in real life right Cliff? RIGHT? 2. Why are you using the dildo to begin with? I swinged it a few times, bashed a few people with it, laughed at how silly it was then got rid of it for good. It's not a good weapon when bullets are flying in your general direction.

thank you everyone bitching

thank you everyone bitching about this "its immature" "its not immature you are!" "its original let it be" its nothing new its just another sign that SR is a giant rip off of GTA.. granted I've not played 3 but 2 was atrocious... then again GTA 4 was terrible... bottom line both games suck ass and are basically the same get over it

Agreed, I was about to post

Agreed, I was about to post about the dildo in gta:sa, its a melee weapon and you can find one in the showers of a police department. You can dress as a gimp in gta:sa too and you are actually forced to in order to progress through the game. To me gta:sa was the best gta game to date, 4 was horrible to me because they dropped most of the humor and silly things to try and create a more movie-like thing. Saints row 3 was awesome, I hated SR2 but 3 got everything right, well except for bike physics. It's funny, silly, unrealistic and packed full of action, what's there not to like about it? Oh boo hoo there's a dildo, immature, not funny. I agree, but hey, I just got rid of the dildo as soon as I had a replacement weapon and enjoyed the game tremendously. The dildo is there because some people (namely teenagers) may find it humorous, theres no reason to try and take away some of their laughs just because you married a woman who would shame you for being silly.

it's his opinion, you dumbass

@translamchest - Obviously you're showing you're own immaturity by your posting. Perhaps a good psychiatrist and heavy medication would control your anger problems. Cliffy B is a great game designer. He's just giving his opinion on SR3. No need to lash out like a spoiled 5 year old, who was told he had to shut off his playstation and get ready for bed. Grow up.

You mean he's a idiot game

You mean he's a idiot game designer that makes terrible games for Gears franchise? and that everyone on here should be flapping their tails because he said something on his twit account? Theres nothing wrong with how SR is created, its made to be unique and stand out which makes it so great. SR3 was hilarious and had some really bawls out action sequences that made me laugh my ass off. GTA will never have that kind of slap-stick comedy in it ever. Should be more satire comedy games like SR.

"If your average guy is

"If your average guy is embarrassed to be playing a sequence in a game when his wife walks in that's a bad sign," Failed at life choices, then. That's what separates SR3 from gta. SR3 is insane and gta is same old same old.

I guess i depends on the wife

I guess i depends on the wife as well...;) Well a dildo doesn't DO anything for me in a game. Its just silly. To me its like a simple way to get 14-16 year olds to go "OH YEA THERE IS A DILDO IN THIS GAME....HOW COOL IS THAT." I got nothin against dildos. But they only added that to get that childish reaction from you guys....its simple...its stupid....its sad that it works.

fucking bullshit. hes not

fucking bullshit. hes not even in the industry anymore so anything he says is invalid. made piece of shit games anyway. bulletstorm wtf was that. if my wife came in on me playing gears of war i would be more embarrassed than if i was running buck naked in sr3 swinging a dildo around.

He is the one of the best

He is the one of the best game designer out there. His experience matters the most, doesn't matter if he's not even in the industry anymore. Besides, Gears of War series and Bulletstorm aren't all games he created. What you're basically saying is, if Bill Gates told Steve Ballmer that MS is doing it wrong, everything is invalid what Bill just told him because he's no longer in the industry. You need to do more research before writing a non-sensical dog-shit comment that telling us you don't even know what you're talking about.

experience doesn't mean shit.

experience doesn't mean shit. if bill gates made shitty computers all his life ballmer wouldn't listen to him at all. i've read about all the games he was involved in and most are but a piss stain in gaming history. what i dislike most is the attitude, that he thinks he nows anything about anything when he clearly quit the industry because he couldn't design games.

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