Peter Molyneux Calls Microsoft a "Creative Padded Cell"
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Aww, poor Molyneux. 
I'ld definately put the Fable series up there as one of the best series of all time. So what #3 was just more #2. #2 was great! So i saw no real problem :/
Really hope he makes the breakthrough game he wants to.
Also nice name xD It's the antithesis of mine. i'ld have taken that if i thought of it.
I'ld definately put the Fable series up there as one of the best series of all time. So what #3 was just more #2. #2 was great! So i saw no real problem :/Really hope he makes the breakthrough game he wants to.
This statement is perfectly worded. *claps*Thunderous Cacophony said:
Also nice name xD It's the antithesis of mine. i'ld have taken that if i thought of it.
I know, right? He's like...ReservoirAngel said:I know I do. Microsoft's lunacy is just run-of-the-mill "what the fuck is wrong with you people" lunacy. Peter's lunacy is just oddly charming, I can never find it in me to dislike the guy.MartianWarMachine said:They're both looney, but we love Molyneux for it more than we do Microsoft... right?
...I spent over an hour trying to think of a way to describe him, and failed ._.
As much I hated Fable 3, and as much I don't like the way The Journey looks, I just can't not like Molyneux. The guy is an oddball, but his enthusiasm for making weird and oddball games is incredibly infectious. He sometimes is way too imaginative for his own good, and that does geet in the way of making a completely coherent game, but I love that he isn't as cynical as other developers or other industry types. What needs, on top of a new studio like 22 Cans, is someone to reign him in every now and then before he hurts himself. Not like what Microsoft was doing, obviously, but someone to give him a reality check before his stomach gets bigger than his eyes.
I always say he's kind of like a video game character in and of himself.MartianWarMachine said:I know, right? He's like...ReservoirAngel said:I know I do. Microsoft's lunacy is just run-of-the-mill "what the fuck is wrong with you people" lunacy. Peter's lunacy is just oddly charming, I can never find it in me to dislike the guy.MartianWarMachine said:They're both looney, but we love Molyneux for it more than we do Microsoft... right?
...I spent over an hour trying to think of a way to describe him, and failed ._.
Yeah, I can get behind that.
Wait, but... calling them a "Creative Padded Cell" is leaving on good terms?
0.o
I really do admire Molyneux.
Sure his latest games have been disapointing, his ambition with Fable far outstretching his actual reach. But say what you like about him, the man can admit when he's done wrong. Anyone can make promises and not deliver but it takes real integrity to acknowledge the fact.
Good on you Peter, keep on striving to make the best damn game ever. I'll always be waiting here to play it.
Sure his latest games have been disapointing, his ambition with Fable far outstretching his actual reach. But say what you like about him, the man can admit when he's done wrong. Anyone can make promises and not deliver but it takes real integrity to acknowledge the fact.
Good on you Peter, keep on striving to make the best damn game ever. I'll always be waiting here to play it.
Chair adjustment personnel?
That is bonkers, literally bonkers. I cannot blame this man for running away to a new studio called 22 cans. The craziness is just too much. I heard jokes that Microsoft were a bunch of robots but dear god, I never expected them to actually be robots.
"BEEP BOOP! IS YOUR CHAIR IN THE OPTIMUM POSITION FOR PEAK PERFORMANCE?"
"ERROR 404! CHAIR NOT FOUND! MEDICINE BALL PRESENT INSTEAD!"
Seriously, what company would want this?
Calumon: A silly company.
That is bonkers, literally bonkers. I cannot blame this man for running away to a new studio called 22 cans. The craziness is just too much. I heard jokes that Microsoft were a bunch of robots but dear god, I never expected them to actually be robots.
"BEEP BOOP! IS YOUR CHAIR IN THE OPTIMUM POSITION FOR PEAK PERFORMANCE?"
"ERROR 404! CHAIR NOT FOUND! MEDICINE BALL PRESENT INSTEAD!"
Seriously, what company would want this?
Calumon: A silly company.
i hope that he makes his dream game... i certainly hope, that with microsoft gone, he can open his imagination box once again
You don't want to know...Doclector said:
And I agree, the fact that Microsoft hires "professional chair adjustment personnel" steals the show in this article.
I love how he says: "I felt like I was being suffocated creatively a little bit." To use such a powerful word as suffocated clearly indicates that he couldn't take it anymore. But then he throws in "a little bit" in order not to hurt Microsoft's feelings. X'D
On a graver note, does anyone else get a bit of a "it's-Microsoft's-fault-that-my-games-haven't-been-amazing" vibe?
On a graver note, does anyone else get a bit of a "it's-Microsoft's-fault-that-my-games-haven't-been-amazing" vibe?
OK Peter I forgive you for convincing me to waste my money on Fable 2, I see now that this is the sort of environment you were in. Where your company is a babysitter.
Anyway the optimistic person in me hopes that something great will come of this.
Anyway the optimistic person in me hopes that something great will come of this.
That'd be like if I was cruising down the road, and suddenly my car's hood popped-up, only to pull over, check it out, and realize that my mechanic just randomly started to work on my car while I was driving it. It's like, thanks, I appreciate the work, but at least let me know you're gonna get started.