Legendary game developer - and game development tease - Peter Molyneux has discussed his next project, and talked up it…

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[–] 80 points 3 years ago*

I've seen this one

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  • [–] 55 points 3 years ago (11 children)

    Theres few people in gaming whose word id believe less than his.

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  • [–] 20 points 3 years ago (9 children)

    Oh, I believe him. I just seriously doubt that it is a good idea.

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  • [–] 11 points 3 years ago (7 children)

    I remember his excitement over his revolutionary idea "you don't have any control over the dog in this one" - which was just worse in every way.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    There is somewhat similar game, where you do not have direct control of your units at all. And it is RTS. It's name is Majesty. And especially the first game is absolutely fantastic!

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    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.

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  • [–] 9 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    You haven't been paying attention to his recent history. He should have retired after Black & White.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago

    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.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    They been working on a lot of updates for Godus recently. Suddenly and out of the blue.

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    [–] 19 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    I'm still waiting for Godus to come out of early access with all the great features and promises kept!

    Any day now.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago

    Actually, I’ve had it installed on my phone for years and in the last year there’s been a steady stream of updates implementing stuff. The dock apparently works now and you can sail places. I’ve just restarted playing it

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  • [–] 17 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 12 points 3 years ago

    Science-based dragon MMO

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  • [–] 11 points 3 years ago* (8 children)

    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."

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    [–] 11 points 3 years ago

    Urgh. He's seriously trying make a comeback after Godus? You'd think he'd have thrown the towel in and retired.

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    Oh god hes escaped the Public Relations Dungeon again!

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    [–] 7 points 3 years ago

    Ah shit, here we go again.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    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?

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    [–] 4 points 3 years ago

    A stable frame rate? Graphics as advertised?

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago

    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.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    I’m quite enjoying Godus on iOS. That’s one of his, right?

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 3 years ago

    Oh dear, he's back to his old ways of hyping things 😕

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago

    Lets give him a chance if its shit dont buy it I would love some fresh games

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago

    He should have retired after Black & White.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago

    He has made great games, but as others have said he is a proffesional bullshitter.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago

    From the master of fables.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago

    At this point it's in you if you believe this grifter.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago

    Project Milo 2

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago

    Sure Peter, whatever you say, Peter... 🙄

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago

    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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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago

    Oh boy, here we go again!

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago

    Deja vu.

    This is his favorite line to regurgitate.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago

    is it a day/night cycle that corresponds to your irl clock?

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    Legendary game developer exaggerator bullshitter

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