Molyneux Outs First Post-Lionhead Project: 22 Experiments

[RubyT]

Oh dear.

You know, Peter, you might be fed up with highly scripted games by bad novelists, but those have so far been THE BEST GAMES available. Half-Life, Deus Ex, you name it. Even supposed open-world RPGs just give you freedom to level up and explore the world, but everything story-related is choke-pointed and scripted.

It turns out that the technology to build the game of your dreams just isn't there yet. We don't have semi-strong AIs that can just make up a narrative along the way.
And sadly, you haven't really done much to alleviate that. For while you certainly talked a lot about freedom and player choice, your games were usually ... underwhelming.

So understand if I'm not exactly bracing myself.

 

[Andrew_C]

"Why the hell would I want a game about Peter Molyneux?" was was what i thought when I read this article.

For all his choice about player choice, Molyneux has always been one of the worst offenders when it comes to restricting it. And quite frankly if he told me the sky was blue I'd assume he was lying through his teeth and not even bother to check.

As several people have already said in this thread, the man is a hack.

EDIT: speling

 

[Shinsei-J]

Please be awesome
Please be awesome
Please be awesome
Please be awesome
Please be awesome
...
Pretty please? We could use something completely new.

it'll either be awesome or horrible. Peter Molyneux usually goes to one end of an extreme or another.

and on that note....

please be awesome

He's the Nic Cage of gaming I tell you.
...
please be awesome

 

[thespyisdead]

you know... moving away from AAA game production, to indie games might what he needed... after all AAA games tend to not take risk of innovating their game, or introducing new IPs

 

[maninahat]

Hope it'll be at least as good as the Peter Molydeux bash. I can't think of anything better than a game in which Rambo has to hug all the people he's killed.

 

[Seydaman]

I'm glad to see someone really trying for innovation. Rock on Peter :3

 

[RandV80]

Based on Peter's appreciation of Minecraft and it's openness, I have a hunch that he might pull something off this time.

I'm hoping for something like this as well. While there's been a few unoriginal clones of Minecraft to come out of the wood-works, I would still say the fundamental concept behind it of a endless procedurally generated game is still largely untapped.