He’s already overpromising on what he wants his game to have:
“I think that line in Fable – ‘for every choice, a consequence’ – wasn’t delivered on well enough,” Molyneux explained. “I think the possession mechanic that we had in Dungeon Keeper wasn’t delivered on enough. The open-world freedom that we had in Black & White, I think it was good at the start, but it didn’t deliver enough at the end. And Masters Of Albion is an opportunity to mix all those together."
And I’ll tell you the amazing thing – it’s going to fucking work. It really is. It’s like nothing you’ve ever played before, but it’s still unbelievably familiar. It is Black & White, it is Dungeon Keeper, and it is Fable, but it’s a completely new genre. And it shouldn’t really work, but it does.
It’ll be the first Albion-type game
Seems pathological at this point.
“I do not have the life energy left to do this again.”
Ohh man I felt that quote in my bones. Young people: you cannot relate. This is not about waking up for work feeling drained and demoralized. It’s about having all kinds of passion and desire but hitting hard limits in your body that were never there before, and getting less and less out of yourself all the time even as you feel the blows more and more, and then sensing that decline accelerating.
“You should try exercising. Or yoga. Or methamphetamines.”
Ngl all of those things help (as long as the meth is prescribed).
Skip the meth if you have a prescription. Talk to my boy Sketchy Steve behind the 7 eleven. He’s the dude wearing a leather jacket and raver pants with facial tattoos. He’ll hook you up with the real real. Make sure that you inject it directly into your veins at least 8 times a day and don’t stop ever.
Reminds me of George RR Martin’s digs at Robert Jordan, and how spectacularly he ended up over-promising himself.
Fucking lol
His current promise honestly sounds like he’s over promising. Also, who keeps giving him money to make games?! I know the article says it’s self funded, which I guess makes sense, but did he really make so much over the years that he can solo finance this? Seems unlikely, but what do I know?
A lot of people that have made quite some money continue to make quite some money because they invest that money. A steady stream of income allows you to easily take out loans and provide assets as collateral. So it’s not too weird that he has this money. It’s super easy for the rich to get richer.
He has always had the tendency to overhype his games by a lot. But while he just burned money for over a decade now, he has created some pretty good games before that (Dungeon Keeper, Black and White, the Fable series).
If the self funding is true I expect this to be as glorious as megalopolis
Some people just do. not. learn.
Unfortunately, as long as the people buying his games don’t learn, Molyneux never has to.
LMAO, that’s a good one
But what if he and Chris Roberts did a collab?
Why would anyone pay for just a concept?
I mean… We’re all going to play it regardless, right? I am at least. He makes good games. You just have to take his claims with a good, healthy amount of salt.
Gamers showing an ounce of self-control challenge: impossible
Haven’t played anything of his that has been announced or released after 2012. I still need to give Black and White a try, anyday now.
Dungeon Keeper with KeeperFX is definitely worth it too.
I don’t think I’ve played a single one of his games and I’m guessing I’m probably not going to start now :p
What was the last good game he made? I still have an abandoned “Godus” in my steam account, that played like a stupid Facebook game. To progress, you had to click the “mana” bubbles that would appear over your people’s houses every minute or so. This pointless action was your currency to do anything in the game, so you would just sit, wait for bubbles and click until you have enough points to build something.
Go back to beans, Pete.
Ok Pete, but just this once!
