Peter Molyneux teases new project with idea that's "never been seen in a game" before
Legendary game developer - and game development tease - Peter Molyneux has discussed his next project, and talked up it…
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I've seen this one
Theres few people in gaming whose word id believe less than his.
Oh, I believe him. I just seriously doubt that it is a good idea.
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.
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!
Because the sequel removed something that some people complained about. The individualistic behaviour and different patterns of different hero types. Now they are all braindead.
I mean, there's also dwarf fortress with a little bit more scope and behavior complexity
To think about - nearly any city builder.
What's with game designers going "Wouldn't it be cool if you couldn't control- ?"
No, it's never cool. I'm playing a game. Whatever it is, I'm sure it will be better if I can control it.
Even the enemies?
I can use this tool called a "weapon" to stop their movement, it's really handy!
Nah, it’s an incredible idea, the actual execution just won’t turn out even close to the potential or promise.
Don’t discount Ian Bell. He’s up there for sure.
All I want him to do is figure out the rights issues and do re-releases of the Black and White games. Populus, Dungeon Keeper and Magic Carpet games. Remasters would be nice, but just get them working 16:9 on modern windows would do.
Science-based dragon MMO
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?
where can one find these upddates? The steam pages for both *Godus *and Godus Wars haven't been updated since Mach 2016
Have they? On Wikipedia I hilariously see:
Direction yeah, great stuff.
Why he's still producing his own stuff after all this time is beyond me
Magic Carpet, Fable, The Movies, Theme Park...
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.
That's exactly what was happening.
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.
The pieces are all falling into place... The conspiracy has become clearer...
So my first day on the Lenny, guessing there’s a meme here?
Yup, I don't know what prompted it but a few days ago people started a short trend where they kept spamming memes about beans. I think people have had their fill, though.
Likely because beans are so filling
BEANS
Calling GOTY now.
He only got back into it because Commodore mixed his company up with another that had a similar name.
I'm still waiting for Godus to come out of early access with all the great features and promises kept!
Any day now.
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
Oh dear, he's back to his old ways of hyping things 😕
And I'm unironically so excited to see it all fall through, as usual. It'll be like nostalgia bursting into the present through a wall like the Kool Aid man.
HE CAN'T KEEP GETTING AWAY WITH IT
Urgh. He's seriously trying make a comeback after Godus? You'd think he'd have thrown the towel in and retired.
Oh boy, here we go again!
Oh god hes escaped the Public Relations Dungeon again!
Deja vu.
This is his favorite line to regurgitate.
Ah shit, here we go again.
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.
A stable frame rate? Graphics as advertised?
you know what, even though we all know he exaggerates I can't help but feel a deep love for all of his games. I'm excited to see what he's up-to.
Exactly he over promisis but still makes a good game. I would love a new B&W with ray tracing and generative AI for things the villagers do.
A remake of B&W with VR support is my dream.
He should have retired after Black & White.
Always good to hear your old favorites again. He's done some great things, but it feels like investors just cart him out to make unsubstantiated claims in the last 20 years and this is coming from someone that was there for populous and dungeon keeper (I still have the original that I bought).
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?
All of them he was involved in?
I remember the first one apparently had trees that grew in "real time" and it turned out to be one single tree changed depending on your life stage, very revolutionary!
This guy has a good idea, shouts it from the rooftops, and then tells the programmers to do it and they go uhhhhhh not on this memory budget, won't happen!
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.
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
That’s a really interesting article, thank you. I played The Cube but had no idea about the winner. The odd thing is that after 8 years of nothing there’s suddenly been a flurry of updates to Godus … I wonder….
Hmmm, I could swear I've heard this one before.
Sure Peter, whatever you say, Peter... 🙄
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.
Project Milo 2
is it a day/night cycle that corresponds to your irl clock?
This fucking guy
I know, right?
At this point it's in you if you believe this grifter.
From the master of fables.
And thanks to this announcement I now have Fleetwood Mac, Little Lies as an ear wig.
Wow really! Another one??
What year is this? I’m getting a weird sense of deja view.
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