I mean, I think it may come from that I’m from Cleveland originally, and I’m a big Cleveland Indians baseball fan and Browns fan. Be it just that you’re gonna go have a nice meal at the end of it or whatever. How do you express optimism in a shooter? Does the timeline help? That we’re in that crucial moment where at least the character can believe that they could prevent this from happening? Is there hope that they find there?ĬF: I always think that no matter what the horrible thing happening to you is, you have some hope. I think of that era of sci-fi as being more optimistic than our current science fiction in a lot of ways, and you’ve said that after the pandemic, you felt like that optimism was needed. It gets weird.īD: Speaking of the ‘70s, I love the game’s aesthetic, which you’ve said is inspired by late ‘60s and early ‘70s sci-fi.
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And that movie just goes full-on in on hipster cool where there are just people hanging out outside his living quarters, who are just like beatniks but zombie beatniks. They can’t be zombies they have to be societal creatures because that’s what it’s about.īD: They’ve made like three or four movies about it, right? They made The Omega Man, and then there was a previous I Am Legend as well before the Will Smith movie?ĬF: And I will argue that Omega Man is the best one just because it’s so crazy ‘70s weird. They’ve never come near making a good movie about it. They’ve never made a good movie about it. And for anybody who’s this, you should actually read the book, I Am Legend. And how are they dealing with it, and what’s going on in the world. It’s way more relatable, and I think it’s funnier to explore that with characters who are just kind of thrown into the mix. I think Will Smith did that in I Am Legend, right? Like, “It’s my virus.” It’s like, Nah, come on, man. I didn’t want to be like we’re going to solve this. But, they were getting overrun, they were standing up, they were saying no more, they were just taking that moment, and having their heroic moment that was just not gonna get caught by time because it was happening before anybody was paying attention to that part of the world or what was going on, right? And they just kind of get washed up in it, and you never hear about them or talk about them.Īnd, when I write for games, I like to talk about not the commander in charge of the space station hurtling off I’m way more interested in the regular people getting caught up in the things and where they end up and how they got there and what they’re thinking about.? It’s not that they weren’t doing it for the glory.
But, there’s always somebody who, at that moment, thought that they were giving their all. What do you find interesting about that moment? The moment before all-out war?ĬF: It so rarely gets covered in movies or books, even. The battles in this game serve a similar function: they’re the first fights between humanity and an alien race before the primary invasion of Earth. As you’ve pointed out in interviews, the anacrusis is the preliminary notes before a piece of music begins. We caught up with Faliszek after the game’s debut at the Microsoft + Bethesda E3 conference to chat about the optimism of ‘70s sci-fi, the bright future of co-op games, and beatnik zombies.īD: The Anacrusis is a fascinating name.
In Stray Bombay’s first game, The Anacrusis, Faliszek takes his flair for systemic gameplay, environmental storytelling, and exposition-light conversations to the stars as a crew of unlikely heroes fight alien hordes aboard the titular starship. Faliszek worked on both entries in the legendary co-op shooter series.
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But, the series that gives the clearest picture of Faliszek’s ambitions for the new project in the works at Stray Bombay, the studio he co-founded with Kimberly Voll, is Left 4 Dead. But that comes with the territory if you spend much time at all working at Valve.įaliszek worked at the Seattle-based hit factory through much of its golden age, writing on Half-Life 2: Episode 1 and Episode 2, Portal, Portal 2, and Counter-Strike: Global Offensive.
Chet Faliszek has worked on some of the most beloved franchises in video game history.
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