Be ashamed of your game instead and get your shit together, the best one was your first now go make more of that.
Peter Molyneux Is "Ashamed" Of Fable III's Scores
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Oh god the symptoms are starting again!
Goddammit Molyneux, maybe you should take a break for a while, we'd all be better off for it
Goddammit Molyneux, maybe you should take a break for a while, we'd all be better off for it
Dear Mr. Molyneux. Please take a page out of Notch's game development book and do your next game in the Minecraft style. Get up a basic, bare-bones game and sell it as an alpha. Continue developing your ideas and fleshing things out and move to beta, and finally when *all* of those ideas are fully implemented and fleshed out, release it as normal. NOBODY likes grandly imagined but half-executed ideas. Look at Spore!
That, or someone who just can't paint very well.DeadlyYellow said:
OT: Oh look, its happening again.
The Fable process
Peter: Are game has all these amazing features etc. etc.
Crowd 1: Yeah, sure it does Pete - its not been that long since last time, y'know.
Crowd of gullible idiots: Yeah! Sounds awesome! I guess the last one wasn't that bad!
Reviews: Meh, s'alright
Players: But... this game is made for morons! Even more so than the last (which was pretty crap now we properly think about it)!
Peter: I wish my game gone an' done'd better
Rinse 'n' repeat.
Why doesn't he try making a game that's not for dipshits? Black & White had great potential - and had the benefit of already being good - whereas Fable is a mind-numbingly shallow ball of 'meh'.
"Peter is Ashamed of Fable III"
What, This is news?
Less Sarcasm though, He right the Ruling thing was pretty awesome but it came up short. Why can't I just go back to being a hero, growing up from being a kid to a fucking old badass? That, was Fun.
Then again, I went from 18 to 65 in two weeks, so we should work on that
What, This is news?
Less Sarcasm though, He right the Ruling thing was pretty awesome but it came up short. Why can't I just go back to being a hero, growing up from being a kid to a fucking old badass? That, was Fun.
Then again, I went from 18 to 65 in two weeks, so we should work on that
Yeah, sorry but the trophy for "Lionhead's least impressive game" most definately goes to Fable 2. Fable 3 was definately a step up from that failure... so I'd say Molyneux's already on the rise.vansau said:
There's a good reason for that.Zhukov said:
This guy made Dungeon Keeper. That puts him permanently in my good-books at least, and he also made about half of my other favourite games. Even if people don't particularly like the stuff he's made, they at least have to accept that he tries new things. I personally don't get how anyone can dislike the guy.
Stop making excuses, Molyneux. It was a good game. Just because it didn't hit everyone like the second coming of Jesus, doesn't mean it was such a horrible mess that you need to apologize.
It's perfectly okay to be critical of your work, but you need to calm the fuck down.
I love the Fable series (yes, all the games) and think Molyneux is a smart guy (if a bit overconfident before things are released and a bit under-confident afterwards).
But seriously. He makes games that I like (and enjoy despite the flaws), but he makes me regret liking it with these apologies. I don't want to feel like I enjoyed a game that not even the developers liked. >>
It's perfectly okay to be critical of your work, but you need to calm the fuck down.
I love the Fable series (yes, all the games) and think Molyneux is a smart guy (if a bit overconfident before things are released and a bit under-confident afterwards).
But seriously. He makes games that I like (and enjoy despite the flaws), but he makes me regret liking it with these apologies. I don't want to feel like I enjoyed a game that not even the developers liked. >>
Literally every single time he does this.
It makes me cringe whenever I see a comment saying "Oh wow! Someone who actually admits his mistakes!" Since by now it's just a pattern he uses to hype up the next game without actually doing anything different.
It makes me cringe whenever I see a comment saying "Oh wow! Someone who actually admits his mistakes!" Since by now it's just a pattern he uses to hype up the next game without actually doing anything different.
Peter, look, you're a nice guy n' all, and I really dig your enthusiasm. Few developers have that kind of enthusiasm.
But instead of "making the best damn Fable game, the best damn game in the whole world!" how about you just make a good game? Just, you know, step back, asses it, and just make a game. Not one that tries to revolutionize everything, not one that tries to really "capture" the "fable" experience, not one that you will start touting every "revolutionary" feature and whatnot. Just; a game. Good or bad, doesn't matter, just create something that hopefully everyone will love.
It's really getting sad at this point. Molyneux wants to keep doing better and better and he just can't quite reach it. I know I've been there.
Just....I dunno, take a step back and just create regardless of what others thought. Just create something, I dunno. It's really painful to keep seeing this cycle from Molyneux...
But instead of "making the best damn Fable game, the best damn game in the whole world!" how about you just make a good game? Just, you know, step back, asses it, and just make a game. Not one that tries to revolutionize everything, not one that tries to really "capture" the "fable" experience, not one that you will start touting every "revolutionary" feature and whatnot. Just; a game. Good or bad, doesn't matter, just create something that hopefully everyone will love.
It's really getting sad at this point. Molyneux wants to keep doing better and better and he just can't quite reach it. I know I've been there.
Just....I dunno, take a step back and just create regardless of what others thought. Just create something, I dunno. It's really painful to keep seeing this cycle from Molyneux...
He should be ashamed. When I was a wee little tad I would go to the computer and boot up the windows 98 and play black and white. Around 2003 I got my first xbox first game was fable. Then through the years I eagerly played black and white 2, the movies, and Fable 2. When fable three came out me and my friend where there for the midnight release, a total 2 hour drive form the gamestop back to my home. After staying up playing through the whole game. Seeing the ending credits there was only one thing and my friend could think of "That game was terrible". Peter stop 1. stop promising bullshit you can't deliver 2. Don't ever make another fable game.
The problem is, where do you draw the line between someone who honestly, earnestly, tries their best and fails and someone who really is just all hype, all the time?danpascooch said:
If he were the PR machine many people (justifiably!) think of him as, I'd imagine he'd be quite pleased with the not-terrible reviews. His stance seems to be, "this was good, but we can do better!"
Whether you actually believe that's his aim or not, I will always wholeheartedly support someone who says that in the gaming industry; I think it is what more developers need to hear.