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Sunday Q&As [March 23, 2008, 5:26 pm ET] - Viewing Comments

Peter Molyneux
Peter Molyneux on next projects and 'democratizing game design' on GamersGlobal is another Q&A with the Lionhead designer, kicking off by saying he's been admonished not to make grandiose promises, following that up by saying: "This discovery has lead to us starting a game, and this game will be on the front cover of nature magazines and scientific magazines. It’s that significant. I think it’s such an incredible thing that we’re doing, I think it is... important."
Dead Island
Dead Island Q&A on IGN.AU chats with Techland's Pawel Kopinski about their upcoming zombie game. In addition to Dead Island they touch upon Call of Juarez and lessons learned from it and other previous projects.

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14.	Re: No subject	Mar 24, 12:50	Jerykk
	I should have said a hit on the PC. Fable fell under most PC gamer's radar from what I've seen. Molyneux has been something of a joke to PC gamers ever since Black & White. However, PC gamers aren't his target audience anymore so I don't think he really cares. As long as the console kiddies keep eating up the crap he puts out, his delusions of greatness will continue to be well-funded and hyped.


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13.	Re: No subject	Mar 24, 10:10	Prez
	Uh, in terms of sales, Fable was a hit. I'm sure Fable 2 will be as well. Molyneux is in no danger of fading into obscurity. I should have said a hit on the PC. Fable fell under most PC gamer's radar from what I've seen. However, on console or PC, it wasn't even close to "The best RPG ever" as Peter went on record claiming it would be. When Fable came out, it was one of a small handful of RPGs for the Xbox. When you release a title in an under-served popular genre like RPG's for the Xbox at the time, it's going to sell pretty well. There's no shortage of good RPGs on the PC, so when they released it so much later than the Xbox version, and didn't give it many improvements to take advantage of PC hardware, it was a dud. Black and White 2 was a huge miss, and Movies was okay. Molyneux is long on talk and empty promises and short on actual good game designs. Me, I kinda wish the guy would fade into obscurity, at least until he quits with the completely baseless hype of mediocre games. Prez on Soundclick http://www.soundclick.com/bands/pagemusic.cfm?bandID=604888 This message was edited at Mar 24, 10:19.


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12.	Re: Go Pete!	Mar 24, 07:43	Overon
	Let Peter speak and let his critics speak as well. Let us all speak. The End.


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11.	Go Pete!	Mar 24, 05:33	Numinar
	I am from ancient amiga stock, that strange, bizzare kind of person that would play games that took 5 minutes to load from the magnetic media. There wern't that many that were worth the wait, but Peter made about 4 or 5 of them. Peter is one of the few survivors of that era whos games of that age still stand the test of time. Powermonger, Syndicate, Populous 1+2. So insaneley awesome. Sure, he has lost cred since his golden boy days, but most of his stuff has yet to be imitated or improved upon in any way. Dungoen Keeper and Magic Carpet still stand out in mind from the golden age of pcs, up there with tie fighter and a little below xcoma and moo. After that there may have been some bad ports, sequals, ideas that someone had trouble budgeting for, and all out badly executed piles of turd (Though usually at least creative in concept). So he is no longer a game god, granted, but what you guys think is verbal diarhea from his mouth has 24 carrat gold corn nuggets in it, and therefore, deserves a little more respect than Ken 'Lets try and do what we did before in a dumber way without anyone realisng!' Levine, bless his soul. Moly knows a lot more about gameplay and innovation than most of the other jerks who get interviews for selling millions of copies of some piece of brainless junk, and if you read his interviews, he seems kind of humble and self depreciating whenever he isn't making crazy claims about curing cancer with his new game. I hope that one day, maybe if Fable 2 makes a boatload of mullah, he will get the money and cred to do something crazy and awesome in the way his 16 bit/early PC classics were. Now, if only powermonger had a decent PC port, I could get drunk whilst my army murders some sheep and cooks them around a big ass fire...


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10.	Re: No subject	Mar 24, 03:34	Dmitri_M
	Molyneux aims quotes like that at non-gamer shareholders.


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9.	Re: No subject	Mar 24, 01:49	Jerykk
	He needs a hit and he needs one quick to stay relevant. Uh, in terms of sales, Fable was a hit. I'm sure Fable 2 will be as well. Molyneux is in no danger of fading into obscurity.


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8.	Re: No subject	Mar 24, 01:13	Prez
	I love Ken Levine. I would have his children! Peter Molyneux? Not so much. He needs a hit and he needs one quick to stay relevant. The Movies was pretty good, but could have been better. Prez on Soundclick http://www.soundclick.com/bands/pagemusic.cfm?bandID=604888


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7.	Re: No subject	Mar 24, 00:07	manic half
	I put Ken Levine in the same boring boat as Molyneux, with the exception that Levine seems to like to hear himself talk even more and has the pretension of being an "intellectual." he headed the company that made bioshock. you didnt. him > you. also the reason you see him 'talk' so much is people want to hear what he has to say. furthormore, the only way you could possibly hear him talk IS IF YOU WENT OUT OF YOUR WAY TO LISTEN TO HIM.


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6.	Re: No subject	Mar 23, 21:44	shinchan0s
	does ne1 believe to see anal in the Yeah, all the time.


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5.	No subject	Mar 23, 19:28	loomy
	does ne1 believe to see anal in the


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4.	Re: No subject	Mar 23, 19:10	A51Abductee
	That's great, Acleacius, maybe in a few years you'll graduate to feeding and dressing yourself. ~


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3.	Re: No subject	Mar 23, 18:47	Acleacius
	Holy crap, did you notice you could just swap out A51Abductee with Ken Levine in that sentence? I put A51Abductee in the same boring boat as Molyneux, with the exception that A51Abductee seems to like to hear himself talk even more and has the pretension of being an "intellectual." That is so cool the way psychology works! Trust me, most of the names I have been called you can't translate in any language...they're not even real words as much as a succession of violent images.


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2.	Re: No subject	Mar 23, 18:14	A51Abductee
	I put Ken Levine in the same boring boat as Molyneux, with the exception that Levine seems to like to hear himself talk even more and has the pretension of being an "intellectual."


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1.	No subject	Mar 23, 17:35	Bone43
	Peter, Peter, Peter when will you actually have something interesting to say?


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