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

  • blazera
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    731 year ago

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

    • MxM111
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      251 year ago

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

      • @JustAManOnAToilet
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        131 year ago

        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
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          61 year ago

          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
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            21 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.

          • Phrodo_00
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            11 year ago

            I mean, there’s also dwarf fortress with a little bit more scope and behavior complexity

        • TwilightVulpine
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          41 year ago

          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.

      • @chazwhiz
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        81 year ago

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

    • @tomkatt
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      11 year ago

      Don’t discount Ian Bell. He’s up there for sure.

    • coremeltfx
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      11 year ago

      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.

    • PhobosAnomaly
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      421 year ago

      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.

    • Chaotic Entropy
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      1 year ago

      Molyneux has been a snakeoil salesman for almost two decades at this point. His input is no longer valued.

    • Jaysyn
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      101 year ago

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

      • ripcord
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        21 year 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.

    • @bazus1
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      51 year ago

      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.

      • HeartyBeast
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        21 year ago

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

        • YuzuDrink
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          21 year ago

          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?

        • @bazus1
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          11 year ago

          where can one find these upddates? The steam pages for both *Godus *and Godus Wars haven’t been updated since Mach 2016

        • ripcord
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          Have they? On Wikipedia I hilariously see:

          The most recent update to Godus was 2 April 2015 and the last communication with 22Cans regarding the game and its Steam community was 13 May 2016. Despite many years without update or communication with 22Cans, the game is available for purchase as an early access title on Steam.

          In a December 2021 interview, Molyneux stated that “we are announcing our first new set of features for Godus in almost two years and that should be coming out before Christmas.” It was not released before or after the Christmas timeframe, and nothing has been heard about the update since the interview.

    • flashmedallion
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      21 year ago

      Direction yeah, great stuff.

      Why he’s still producing his own stuff after all this time is beyond me

  • jocose
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    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.

    • @[email protected]
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      51 year ago

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

  • ivanafterall
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    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
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      221 year ago

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

      • @simple
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        91 year ago

        The pieces are all falling into place… The conspiracy has become clearer…

        • @chazwhiz
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          21 year ago

          So my first day on the Lenny, guessing there’s a meme here?

          • @simple
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            31 year ago

            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.

    • chrisOP
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      11 year ago

      He only got back into it because Commodore mixed his company up with another that had a similar name.

    • HeartyBeast
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      21 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

  • chrisOP
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    201 year ago

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

    • @TheManIsInsane
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      71 year ago

      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.

  • ChemicalRascal
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    121 year ago

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

  • @Strangle
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    101 year ago

    Oh boy, here we go again!

  • @FeEngage
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    91 year ago

    Oh god hes escaped the Public Relations Dungeon again!

  • @Poppa_Mo
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    81 year ago

    Deja vu.

    This is his favorite line to regurgitate.