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Legacy: Peter Molyneux’s newest game I Levels
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Man, I miss this dude so much. He is the worst PR person of all time and instead is a pure game designer, someone who utterly loves the medium and talks to press the very same way he talks to his friends and collegues.
Yeah, he made some of the most important games of the industry and I, personally, absolutely love the Fable series for it's charm and ambition but this is what I respect about him the most. He is endlessly positive and shares his vision completely unfilitered, enthusiastically. Godus didn't work out, at all. That sucks. The fact that the Cube idea didn't work out was directly connected to that, and that sucks, too. The way this community wants to crucify him for that, however - after he has already endured the shitstorm of the century, was abused and harassed to no end & has basically completely stopped talking to the press or otherwise appearing in public for several years - seems incredibly toxic to me.
Y'all want endless creativity and enthusiasm without actually accepting failure. Even though failure is an integral part of the creative process and is absolutely bound to happen. Normally, these failures are hidden behind closed doors. This one happened out there in the open, on Kickstarter. And, seemingly, this means people are not only mad about that in the moment, but want him and his team completely shunned from the industry, forever demonized as a hack fraud who only wants to cheat you out of your money. He talks about this himself in the video, by the way. Not sure anyone watched it, though ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
They made it, it was terrible, people stopped playing it, they tried to fix it, no one cared & the game was so fundamentally ill-advised that it was hard to fix anyway, so they stopped work on it several years ago to work on other projects that could actually make some money and keep them from shutting down.
Yeah, he made some of the most important games of the industry and I, personally, absolutely love the Fable series for it's charm and ambition but this is what I respect about him the most. He is endlessly positive and shares his vision completely unfilitered, enthusiastically. Godus didn't work out, at all. That sucks. The fact that the Cube idea didn't work out was directly connected to that, and that sucks, too. The way this community wants to crucify him for that, however - after he has already endured the shitstorm of the century, was abused and harassed to no end & has basically completely stopped talking to the press or otherwise appearing in public for several years - seems incredibly toxic to me.
Y'all want endless creativity and enthusiasm without actually accepting failure. Even though failure is an integral part of the creative process and is absolutely bound to happen. Normally, these failures are hidden behind closed doors. This one happened out there in the open, on Kickstarter. And, seemingly, this means people are not only mad about that in the moment, but want him and his team completely shunned from the industry, forever demonized as a hack fraud who only wants to cheat you out of your money. He talks about this himself in the video, by the way. Not sure anyone watched it, though ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
They made it, it was terrible, people stopped playing it, they tried to fix it, no one cared & the game was so fundamentally ill-advised that it was hard to fix anyway, so they stopped work on it several years ago to work on other projects that could actually make some money and keep them from shutting down.
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I think it's better for him to remain in this market. He gets to make his games without having to deal with toxic people who will drag him like he shot a dog or something. The mobile audience will enjoy his game for what they are. He can also focus on ideas without adding the unnecessary flourishes that the console game industry demands
The mobile version last got an update in October, so it has been shambling along until then at least. PC version got abandoned years ago. Looking at the Steam page you can still buy it for $14.99. It's still actively getting negative reviews lol.
True to an extent, but especially in video game development no one is too old or past their prime for amazing concepts. And like he said in the video, stop giving yourself excuses and just do it.
I've played Syndicate, Magic Carpet, then Fable II & III. There were good but also really flawed games for me.
I've a feeling this will end up being one of those games where you manage a bunch of sliders and watch some meters go up and down. I'll have a look at the finished product but that little blurb doesn't really sell me on it.