But they've already made Harry Potter games, unfortunately they're based on the movies and not very good.
Molyneux: "Greatest Story Ever" Will be in a Game
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The compulsion to tell stories is killing video games.
It's precisely the push to make games into interactive movies that is causing developers and publishers to tank. They need to stop spending millions on cut scenes that everybody skips over.
It's precisely the push to make games into interactive movies that is causing developers and publishers to tank. They need to stop spending millions on cut scenes that everybody skips over.
Out of the two figures in the photo below, which one has the biggest head?
If you said the statue, you were wrong.
Actually, I don't mind Peter Molyneux too much, he does have a bit of an ego and a runaway mouth, but at least he's passionate about the industry and has visions which don't revolve around gratuitous violence and paint-by-numbers FPS's.
I've enjoyed all his games, and while I acknowledge he doesn't deliver everything he promises, I don't take it as a personal affront and enjoy his games for what they do deliver.
If you said the statue, you were wrong.
Actually, I don't mind Peter Molyneux too much, he does have a bit of an ego and a runaway mouth, but at least he's passionate about the industry and has visions which don't revolve around gratuitous violence and paint-by-numbers FPS's.
I've enjoyed all his games, and while I acknowledge he doesn't deliver everything he promises, I don't take it as a personal affront and enjoy his games for what they do deliver.
Riiiiiight. Sure. Says the man who makes lofty promises before he releases every game.
And I think we already have that "Greatest Story Ever": Metal Gear.
And I think we already have that "Greatest Story Ever": Metal Gear.
I wonder what painkillers he was on when he made MGS3, because that is the greatest video game story.CantFaketheFunk said:
Ever.
Agreeded. Maybe one day.Nova Tendril said:
Though anyone who says a video game has the greatest story ever told as of now needs to read a book or see a movie more often. Spread your horizons a little.
Umm...Yeah great books, but seriously, read more.GonzoGamer said:
Though really what one considers to be the "greatest story ever" is a matter of their own opinion.SomeBritishDude said:
My thoughts on Molyneux: He talks big and he's a visionary. His grandiose ideas may not always translate perfectly to his games but at least he really seems to care about what's he's making or designing. And Lionhead sure isn't releasing straightforward FPS games over and over; I love a good FPS as much as the next guy but it's nice to see a company that makes different things.
As for the "greatest story ever told", I have reason to believe him, if only because we've seen some really great stories in videogames. Videogames work differently than movies---I'm sure BioShock wouldn't have had as much of an impact if it were a big-screen endeavor instead of a game. The developmental process for movies and games can be similar but the way they play out is not similar at all.
Speaking of videogame/movie similarity, war games such as Call of Duty feel closest to movies in my opinion. Here's why: you could simply place an actor (one more NPC) where the player's character is performing actions, and have a decent set-up for an action movie.
As for the "greatest story ever told", I have reason to believe him, if only because we've seen some really great stories in videogames. Videogames work differently than movies---I'm sure BioShock wouldn't have had as much of an impact if it were a big-screen endeavor instead of a game. The developmental process for movies and games can be similar but the way they play out is not similar at all.
Speaking of videogame/movie similarity, war games such as Call of Duty feel closest to movies in my opinion. Here's why: you could simply place an actor (one more NPC) where the player's character is performing actions, and have a decent set-up for an action movie.
Couldn't have put it better.tendo82 said:
If there's one thing he can do perfectly, it's get the message out that games aren't all bloody shoot-em-ups (as people like Jack Thompson would have you believe) but are actually capable of being just as sophisticated as movies. Getting that message out to non-gamers? So much the better, I say.
Peter talking big?! No way!
I think games have great stories, I loved the story of KOTOR and I look forward to the continuation of Mass Effect's story (I like Bioware's stories). But I doubt Lionhead will have the best story ever; their current ones have been sub-par if you ask me.
I think games have great stories, I loved the story of KOTOR and I look forward to the continuation of Mass Effect's story (I like Bioware's stories). But I doubt Lionhead will have the best story ever; their current ones have been sub-par if you ask me.
ZING! My first though too! Nice getting the first shot in. I love his games - he really does create some good stuff, it just can't live up to the hype he creates behind it. I really believe he could create a game that is so much more impressive than he has in the past - if you gave him a crazy amount of development time and the staff to do it. I wonder if his ideas are just so broad that it limits what they can actually do in the games because they're so busy cutting stuff out.PedroSteckecilo said:
Will the greatest story ever told be in a game? I'm not sure. I think for each person, playing a game like Morrowind or Fallout 3, where you are creating your own story - those stories are memorable. Who knows what will come in the next decade.
The Greatest Story ever told will be a game...CantFaketheFunk said:Molyneux: "Greatest Story Ever" Will be in a Game
Lionhead Studios boss Peter Molyneux thinks that one day, videogames will tell the greatest story in the world.
Lionhead's Molyneux - perhaps best known for games like Fable and Black and White - has a bit of an odd relationship with stories in videogames. Oh, there's no doubt that he's for them, and the man clearly thinks there's potential there ... it's just that he keeps revising what he believes that potential is.
First, he said he thought that games would have come from a computer game [http://www.vg247.com/2009/03/20/molyneux-games-to-have-godfather-quality-storytelling-by-2016/]. That's right, the greatest ever. Of all time. Period.
"And I think that if I play the greatest story ever told in the same game as you play it, your greatest story is going to be different to my greatest story ... and that is power," Molyneux told VG247.
Molyneux is a man who has a reputation for thinking big - perhaps thinking too big, if you ask some people. In Peter Molyneux's perfect world, the game with the greatest story ever told would be one of Lionhead's: "That ambition to do that, to write that story, or to write that game that allows you to experience that story, is definitely something Lionhead Studios wants to do."
Big words, Peter. Big words. But I suppose we'll just have to wait and see - I wonder what Shakespeare would have come up with had he been playing as a Bard in EverQuest back in the day?
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Jesus simulator anyone?
If Molyneux and Tim Shaffer ever got together on a project, that would be the most epic game ever spawned....