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Emperor of overpromising Peter Molyneux says he's done with games after Masters of Albion, which is also his 'redemption title'

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Emperor of overpromising Peter Molyneux says he's done with games after Masters of Albion, which is also his 'redemption title'

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Emperor of overpromising Peter Molyneux says he's done with games after Masters of Albion, which is also his 'redemption title'

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Emperor of overpromising Peter Molyneux says he's done with games after Masters of Albion, which is also his 'redemption title'

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Peter Molyneux Studios presents, a Peter Molyneux production: Peter Molyneux’s Masters of Albion, by Peter Molyneux, featuring Peter Molyneux, and special guest Peter Molyneux
- Metal Gear Solid 5 flashbacks
  
  With Kojima it's allowed
Dude hasn't released a proper game since 2010, I thought he was ready done.
- He is done with releasing good games, he is not done releasing trash.
  
  He actually does know how to make good games, but the problems start as soon as he's put in front of a camera.
  Don't have him going on TV and talking about the game. In fact make it a term of his employment that is not allowed to mention the game at all in any environment. Just take his phone off him basically. If he was just left alone to develop a game it would be fine. All common sense goes out the window as soon as he's interviewed.
I loved fable 1. I loved the story telling and atmosphere.
- It wasn't terrible for what it was. I just remember being let down after years of listening to my best friend's other friend telling me all of these promises he had fully subscribed to. It all sounded too good to be true, but both us and the industry itself were too young to have experienced overpromises like that. I thought maybe I just didn't know how far technology had come, and we were about to see it fully manifest in all its glory..
  But what we got was a fuck load of bloom and a few branching choices. And a marriage system that let you be gay. I definitely made my guy gay. Well, not at first. At first I married the barber because I thought I'd get free haircuts. That didn't work. So I made my guy gay.
  
  Yup I recall a friend telling me of all these awesome things, not what the things were anymore but articles he read of Fable, and them not being there. He has a habit of over promising features while still making a decent (sometimes awesome) and fun game but it doesn't help when he talks up about things that aren't in the released version.
  
  Yeah this is why I'm going to make my own game some day with unlimited features.
  
  Fable 1 was a game I had lots of fun with. Being Brazilian, I was more or less immune to the hype buildup around the game, so I had no clue what was promised vs. what was delivered until years later
- Fable 1 was the best one in the series.
Lol, no.
After the Godus debacle, why would anyone believe a single thing this chode says?
- I mean have you SEEN his latest cash grab? It doesn‘t even need his name attached to reek of failure.
Good one
He'll be back in 3 years promising a new game to try and stay relevant
Oh no. Wait. Don't go.
Molyneaux is of course an extreme case, but I do find it remarkable how many of these “legends” of old utterly failed to replicate their success later down the line. Romero, Mitsoda, Roberts, so many more, all in the lamplight for their success in the 90s to very early 2000s, but utterly unable to live up to their reputation for near 3 decades after.
- Add chris roberts to that list.
  
  He already is on that list, right after Mitsoda
- Are you going to lump Shigeru Miyamoto in that same bold claim?
Oh neux.
The fact that he knows that people won't believe him is hilarious. It means he's fully aware that he has a problem and has never taken any steps to fix it.
He wants to rejuvenate his reputation but the time to do that was about 25-30 years ago. If you make one game and you've over promised on it, the very next game has to be your redemption, or you go CDPR route and you fix it, you can't do it decades later.
- A redemption arc this late would've had to have been quietly making a great game, no big announcements in advance until it was done or nearly so and playable, and then letting it speak for itself.
- It's unlikely that Masters of Albion will be his return to form.
  It looks to be largely based on his previous "game", Legacy, which was a crypto/NFT scam.
  
  I watched a video of some of the "gameplay" of that, and... Wow. It is the most by the numbers mundane idle game I've ever seen. Inspired, how uninspired it is.
Funny that Peter Polyneux came up with Dungeon Keeper before he jumped the shark, but the actual “we’re going to model the behaviour of individual digestive system bacteria” version of that concept is Dwarf Fortress.
- The thing is no one ever promised that dwarf fortress would track how much dirt was under your left index finger, it of course does, but no one promised that so when it wasn't present in the first release of the game no one was surprised or upset.
  I don't understand why he can't just make a good game and then if he wants to simulate the spin of individual hydrogen atoms he can add that in later.
  
  He was good at just making a game once, and inspiring the devs around him to realise their ideas fully (though Populous is a bit closer to a tech demo/chore than a game imo). Dunno what happened.
Where is Black and White 3, Peter? Tell me and the curses will stop.
- B&W2 was meh. I liked the erratic nature of creature behavior in 1, even tho it meant that you had to be more involved. Not punishing your creature for bad behavior was interpreted as encouraging it, which turned your buddy into a scheming, little brat and that was funny. The creature in 2 is way too streamlined.
- Is the IP still trapped in legal limbo?
  
  Just call it 'Gray and Dark Gray', pick different animals and call it a day
Now I gotta go watch a Guru Larry video.
Honestly, I would prefer him to cut back on the ambition and just remaster Magic Carpet I & II. IMO, those were his best games.
- Yeah, Magic Carpet rocked. I'd love a game like that with MP.

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