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Theres few people in gaming whose word id believe less than his.
Absolutley. Molyneux was a visionary, a vanguard, a trailblazer.
Problem is, all that is past tense, and his last ten or fifteen years have been spent overpromising and underdelivering.
I thought the then-Project Natal demo that turned out to be largely scripted would have been the killer blow to his reputation, but fair play to him he's still hanging in there.
Molyneux has been a snakeoil salesman for almost two decades at this point. His input is no longer valued.
You haven't been paying attention to his recent history. He should have retired after Black & White.
I mean, the Fable series were rated pretty well, and The Movies were pretty fun. He had a good decade of pretty good stuff after Black & White, even if they weren't as innovative as the previous decade.
It's the FOLLOWING decade that have been worthless and he should have retired for.
If he gives everyone their money back for Godus, I'll fully support him in the same way. Until that happens, he's just a grifter now.
They been working on a lot of updates for Godus recently. Suddenly and out of the blue.
What if the thing that hasn’t been seen in gaming before is actually just resurrecting Godus and fulfilling all the promises like a decade later when everyone thought it was dead?
Direction yeah, great stuff.
Why he's still producing his own stuff after all this time is beyond me
I'm still waiting for Godus to come out of early access with all the great features and promises kept!
Any day now.
I met Peter at E3 one year before the release of Black and White two. He offered to give us (then two kids) a pre build copy of the game before it even came out. His secretary ripped it out of our hands on the way out the door and gave us some lame swag instead.
Guy has always had his head in the clouds. Love his games though.
Love the idea that his secretary/assistant was just babysitting him and stopping him from doing monumentally stupid (corporately speaking) stuff without thinking.
Holy shit. From the Wikipedia entry on Peter Molyneux: Following the failure of his first game, The Entrepreneur:
"...Molyneux retreated from game design, and started Taurus Impex Limited—a company that exported baked beans to the Middle East—with his business partner Les Edgar."
Oh shit, don't let Lemmy know about that.
Urgh. He's seriously trying make a comeback after Godus? You'd think he'd have thrown the towel in and retired.
Haven't we been here before? Which Fable was it that he tried pulling this same thing but it wound up being a whole lot of nothing?
So... blockchain, NFT, Live Service, Microtransaction FPS with MMO style grind, and maybe it's in a fantasy setting for some reason, with unlockable space ships that you can only buy with real life cash, Star Citizen style?
Oh, and there's no gameplay ever released, but you can keep buying skins and other microtransactions.
Then it shuts down with no refunds 5 years later, and all your purchases go poof, and the only "gameplay" released is one slow FPS level with a backwards flying dragon and some generic terrorists.
I’m quite enjoying Godus on iOS. That’s one of his, right?
Yep. And like like all his games it is good, it’s just nowhere close to how hyped up he got everyone before it came out. This article captures that particular fiasco quite well… https://www.eurogamer.net/the-god-who-peter-molyneux-forgot
Lets give him a chance if its shit dont buy it I would love some fresh games
He has made great games, but as others have said he is a proffesional bullshitter.
Yeah, his history of over promising and hype that has led to disappointment more often than not less me to not trust a single thing this legendary developer says.
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