Peter Molyneux is at it again with hyping up his next game as the greatest thing ever made
Oh christ! Not this fool again
Peter really should just shut the hell up and release his next thing unannounced.
Calling Peter Molyneux a scammer is rather unfair. He does not set out to cheat you out of your money. He’s simply a game designer that once was one of most brilliant talents in the industry, trying to capture the muse again.
It is an undisputed fact that most of his recent projects massively over promised and undelivered. It’s an unfortunate truth that his claims cannot be trusted anymore.
That said, there is no malice behind it. Simply ambition that’s not matched by ability to deliver.
I keep hoping Molyneux will once again succeed in one of his projects. It would be glorious, and it would shift gaming landscape, just like his old works did. At the same time, I’m no longer expecting it to happen, and certainly not getting invested emotionally or financially in any of his promises.
(Molyneux or not, don’t pre-order by the way)
He’s a great developer and a shitty producer. When he’s in charge of his own projects there’s nobody holding him accountable and it just spirals into madness and then halfway through when all the hard and fun work of really designing the game is complete, and all that’s left is the boring business of production and finishing the damn thing, he just ADHDs off into the distance chasing the next cool idea/design challenge
Somehow he’s able to keep funding that arrangement, so it hasn’t changed.
There’s the thing about “'Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence.” But then there’s it’s corollary “any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice.”
I’m other words, Molyneux should know better by now, and the fact that he clearly doesn’t can only come from a willful refusal to.
A professional at his level in his field? That’s sufficiently advanced enough.
Since I’m a person on the Internet, I’m obligated to stick to my opinion and not change it. Or at least I think that’s how it works.
Still I just gotta say I see your point and you are not wrong.
We can definitely debate the merits of the term scammer, but at this point it’s definitely undeniable that Molyneux is a liar. The Project Milo demonstration at E3 2009 is just a series of deliberate falsehoods, from the actor hired to behave as if she’s interacting with Milo improvisationally, to claims that Milo can identify subtle changes in human users’ moods by analyzing their facial expressions to the repeated claim that “this technology works now” even though the entire thing is pre-recorded.
If he wasn’t stating things like “This is true technology that science-fiction hasn’t even written about, and this works today, now,” you could pass it off as him just being enthusiastic about what they can achieve. But he openly and repeatedly stated that they had already achieved all of this, which he knew was not true. Again, we can say E3 or any other PR presentations are all lies on some scale–there’s kind of a line you have to ride in marketing where you present things in the best possible light–but Molyneux consistently steps way over that line by making obviously, verifiably false claims.
It’s easy to say there’s no malice behind it, but the fact is he’s a businessman selling a product, and it benefits him personally if people buy his product. He’s not some innocent childlike imp creature whose motives are always selfless, he’s a human being who likes money and is sometimes willing to say things that aren’t true to secure more of it. Is that “malice”? I don’t know. It’s at least “avarice”.
And he did so for the millionth time nonetheless!
Oh we gonna get to play a NPC.
Just because the idea has never been in a game before doesn’t mean it’s a good idea.
Lol I was about to say the same. If an idea has never been in a game maybe it’s just because it sucks, lol
Mr Molyneux can I please give you money for a new Fable title or Black & White 3?
Mr Molyneux: “weeee innovation fart noises”
A new Fable was announced weeks ago fam.
Guessing an Xbox exclusive again? Fable is the only reason I had an Xbox in the past, not looking forward to buying another.
I mean Gamepass has some serious value.
It’ll be on PC, too, but yeah, Xbox-only if you’re only talking consoles.
years*
They showed the first in-engine footage a couple weeks back, but as is tradition in the gaming world, they announced the thing three years ago.
😂 I had no idea! The trailer with Richard Ayoade looks amazing
Not from Lionhead though.
Oh course he does… It’s kind of his schtick isn’t it?
Iirc the one time he hyped up something it ended up being this weird mobile game.
Yup. Dude is like Todd Howard with 50% of the delivery sometimes. Maybe 75
Yes, yes it is.
Currently working on a new project featuring an idea that has never been seen before
https://twitter.com/PeterMolydeux/status/1676993377991008257
Came here looking for Molydeux, was not disappointed.
(For those unaware, Peter Molydeux is Molyneux’s evil twin, but sometimes it’s really hard to tell the difference. It’s such a great parody account.)
“Every part of me wants to tell you everything about it”
Please don’t Molyneux, please don’t.
It’d be great for him to manage to pull a rabbit out of his trick hat and make another legend again. Some of his older games are absolute gems, but I wasn’t astonished by The Trail: Frontier Challenge which lowered my expectations for his future works. Hopefully his next not-Fable is a fun experience worth playing that brings some solid gameplay to the table.
Hmm… given the current tech fad’s I’m gonna guess something AI related. Maybe AI generated NPCs or something.
Based on the article, they’re not sure if this is the same game he’s had in development since 2019, Legacy, which is some kind of business sim where you have to buy your land as NFTs then create more NFTs to sell to other players.
Realistic pooping, in a game?
So, like, the opposite of Don’t Shit Your Pants?
Holy crap he looks old now. The last picture I saw of him he had a full head of hair.
He makes fun games, but he over-promises beyond his abilities. Ignore the hype, play the game when it’s marked down.
Do this for every game.
He made fun games.
The fact that this dude is still getting coverage is crazy. Remember when he tried that mobile, cube game that was supposed to have some mind blowing reveal once people got to the center?
The thing was so forgettable and a let down that I don’t even remember what it was. Tamper anything this man tries to hype up with a skyscraper sized amount of skepticism.
The winner of the cube game got to be the “god” of Peters next game which was an MMO-like thing. Only after he won his prize the studio kind of forgot about it and just moved on so he never really won anything
There’s a really good piece about it but I don’t recommend reading it, it’s just frustrating and predictablely shitty behaviour
