Peter Molyneux talks Godus, how mobile impacted the PC version, Godus vs. Dungeon Keeper, and how you can make money from 22cans.
In his first major interview in over a year, Molyneux opens up about his legacy, his empathy for the 'No Man's Sky' team, and redefining himself.
Bring him to PlayStation and do a spiritual Successor to Fable. PlayStation will fund the game and give full creative control over the game.
only with the exception where he doesn't over sale and not deliver like he did with Fable 1-3
Yea he had part in some neat games, (fable, black and white) but i think all im gonna remember him for was his pre-fable 2 interview.
"You dont control the dog, the dog acts on its own." Feel like that was the most proud hes ever been about a feature in his game. "You dont control the dog" kinda funny
Yeah the time where people got excited about Peter's promises is long long gone. He has to deliver...
Knowing Molyneux, this talk about regrets might be another one of his promises he's not gonna fulfill.
I want a new Populus game for the new generation. Played that game to death on the Genesis. It's too bad that Peter's ambitions always seemed to exceed his final product. He always had big dreams though.
I miss this crazy fool. Microsoft could use a game developer like Molyneux again.
Dude, you really should get a life. No matter what developer comes on board, you'll find some way to make it out as a bad thing. Save some of that surplus of criticism for things that really matter, you know things like Donald Trump.
Whaaa. Im just saying they dont show a lot of movement in terms of first party. If we all sit back and dont say nothing, it will continue to be that way.
No, just need to loosen the reigns - a lot. Realize that not everything needs to be online so as to need a paying sub just to access.
@omega
Actually, thinking on it, maybe you could name one high profile game designer that works for Microsoft?
Without a google search.
There's a reason that high profile game designers become high profile....it's usually because they make some rather iconic, impressive, or innovative games.
MS is literally in the shape they're in because of this guy. Especially regarding Kinect.
So he wasn't in charge of Kinect game development at one point? Never delivered with Milo?
That was Kudo and Don Mattrik. They pushed the motion gimmicks and Molyneux simply believed in the project enough to stage a phony demo as proof of concept.
The only other notable instance of him ruining Xbox was that completely on the rails Fable that he argued and had 50 idiots from gaming media to sign their names stating the game wasn't on the rails.
While I do believe Kate and Milo sold a dream to millions (many of whom still argue the potential for Kinect), at that point in Xbox history the Kinect was entirely optional.
He has zero to do with Forced Kinect, DRM, no used games, and all of that deal from the Xbox launch and he certainly doesn't have anything to do with Phil's mission to gut the Xbox one of all exclusives
@InTheLab:
How as the face of Kinect is the man as if not more culpable? By all counts he had skill and resources in excess to deliver Milo, but instead held up an empty example expecting 3rd parties to do as well if not better? And since, apparent grand tradition of overselling and at some point walking back, shareholders bought something yet to be proven never to actually work as Mattrick only saw the money to be made through watching XB1 owners, how was Molyneux and Milo not responsible for Kinect being mandatory on the next system?
The XB1 was built around Kinect, Kinect never worked as advertised, effectively crippled the XB1, and that's on Molyneux and a proof of concept.
He sure talked big about his games. As for them hitting the mark, at least he has an ambitious imagination. He walked the line of what is barely acceptable to promise to gamers without getting huge backlash. Unlike a certain game publisher with their procedurally generated universe.
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Georgi Trenev writes: "What we are currently seeing could very well be described as a final push aimed at fixing the damage that has already been done, and only time will tell whether Godus Wars ends up being successful. But one thing’s for sure – you know things are bad when people are still giving you a tough time even after releasing a product for free."
I can't think of many other kickstarter that are a bigger disaster than this one.,oooh.
Godus has re-emerged as Godus War on Steam's Early Access, but this article questions whether it's too late for Molyneux to stage a comeback at this point.
It already is too late. He constantly lies and fails to implement all the features he boasts about on his games.
The guy seems to have an issue with failing to deliver on his promise when it comes to software
A visionary. A man of passion. I respect that.
But also the one individual who made too many promises that him and his team could not deliver. I feel bad for him, but he kinda brought it on himself over the years, and did not learn from his mistakes.
I really don't think he even deserves the respect of being called a visionary.
As it turns out, "delusional" is a much better word to describe the man.
Completely disagree.
Nowadays, he is not a visionary, but he pioneered some really cool concepts back in the day and had charm to his words that followed through and delivered on them in pretty great ways. He simply got carried away as time went on with his excitement for concepts he thought would lead the way, and would be conceivable on the budget and time constraints his team were given.
Populous was the only game that could really be considered "visionary," and even then, despite what many people claim, at it's core it was still just an evolution of similar games that came before it.
In fact the more "visionary" the man got in his career, the more ridiculous and completely unrealistic his promises became...hence...delusional.
Either way, though, I don't mean to belittle the quality of his earlier work. I just meant to suggest that even fools get lucky every now and then.
He's sort of like the George Lucas of the video game industry, if you ask me.
This guy over promises and under delivers. I don't care how good his past games were. He hasn't done anything as of late to make me excited even if he did announce a new project.
He constatnly over sells EVERYTHING and ehen the games don't turn out the way he promised, it's everyone else's fault.
Oh Peter....you can't make great games
You can build up great hype for a good game and maybe tell some great lies along the way but nothing more
i am so glad i didn't buy godus. steam reviews saved me from doing it.
Peter talks great but usually ends up creating mediocre games. If he gets any backlash it's because it never STFU. Devs with 10x his talent talks 1/20th the amount that he does. All he is in this industry is a mouth piece / hype machine. Milo, you're not fooling anyone. I see the man behind the mirror.
He reminds me of Adam Sessler. He brings it on himself and than plays the victim role once the backlash is unleashed on them.
So where the fuq is this great game hes talking about? Cause Godus is a piece of sh!t.
Its time to retire bro.
and please, wire your mouth shut.
I've put around 35 hours in Godus, and quite honestly, while there is something very enjoyable about the game, Godus is a great example of great game design with poor execution, it truly is an exercise in frustration.
Two things are really keeping Godus from being a good game. First, the developers have shown over time that they wanted the game to be the same on PC and mobile, which means that mobile restrictions (in terms of horsepower) hamper the PC experience. This can easily be seen with the pathfinding (which manages to be worse than Command and Conquer's pathfinding, a game released close to two decades ago). And to make matters worse, they have stated that they were happy with the current pathfinding and that they would rather focus on other aspects of the game.
And number two, I understand that the mobile version will be free with in app purchases to speed up the timers. On PC, we paid for the game and were told there would not be in app purchases. All is fine so far; until you reach timers that are North of 24 hours. You have nothing to do for days, and there's nothing to do about it. It's even worse than having in app purchases; as I actually had to pay for the damn game, yet I'm still stuck waiting for days.