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

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[–] BigVault@kbin.social 81 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I've seen this one

[–] blazera@kbin.social 55 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[–] MxM111@kbin.social 20 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[–] JustAManOnAToilet@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (2 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.

[–] MxM111@kbin.social 5 points 1 year 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!

[–] Colombo@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

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.

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[–] TwilightVulpine@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

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[–] chazwhiz@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Nah, it’s an incredible idea, the actual execution just won’t turn out even close to the potential or promise.

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[–] Mechanize@feddit.it 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

Any day now.

[–] HeartyBeast@kbin.social 2 points 1 year 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

[–] jocose@kbin.social 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 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.

[–] AThing4String@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Love the idea that his secretary/assistant was just babysitting him and stopping him from doing monumentally stupid (corporately speaking) stuff without thinking.

[–] jocose@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

That's exactly what was happening.

[–] lockedcasket@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

Science-based dragon MMO

[–] ivanafterall@kbin.social 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 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."

[–] jon@kbin.social 10 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Oh shit, don't let Lemmy know about that.

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[–] ChemicalRascal@kbin.social 11 points 1 year ago

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

[–] UhBell@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago
[–] Lanusensei@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago

Ah shit, here we go again.

[–] GeekFTW@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago
[–] FeEngage@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Oh god hes escaped the Public Relations Dungeon again!

[–] CIWS-30@kbin.social 4 points 1 year 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.

[–] Eggyhead@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

A stable frame rate? Graphics as advertised?

[–] eroc1990@lemmy.parastor.net 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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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[–] chris@fedia.io 3 points 1 year ago

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

[–] Yewb@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

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

[–] HeartyBeast@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

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[–] Jaysyn@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

He should have retired after Black & White.

[–] Zima@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

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

[–] ivanafterall@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

From the master of fables.

[–] ZickZack@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

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

[–] Caligvla@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago

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

[–] Nelub@vlemmy.net 2 points 1 year ago

Project Milo 2

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.

[–] Strangle@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Oh boy, here we go again!

[–] Poppa_Mo@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Deja vu.

This is his favorite line to regurgitate.

[–] Callie@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

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

[–] valeen@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

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).

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