I ultimately don’t think he’s a bad guy so I’m rooting for him to show us wrong.
I think he always just believed in his vision too much and didn’t realise that he and his team couldn’t end up delivering on it. And then he’d be so excited about what he’s working on that he just couldn’t not share it with others. I don’t think he ever intended to mislead.
I know there’s the milo thing but with that I feel like he still thought they could do it in the end but Microsoft just needed something right there and then to show. I think that issue ends up more squarely on whoever sold him on what the hardware could do and he had not yet fully hit those walls of limitations enough to realise they weren’t coming down at all. (I also think this goes for Sean Murray too when he did the talk show circuit that Sony put him on - although without the hardware stuff and more on whether or not they could deliver on time since they’ve shown what they wanted was actually possible with future updates)
I’m taking the bait again for old times sake if nothing else. I hope he proves everyone wrong, it will be a fantastic end to his saga, and we’ll get something great.
When we’re let down again, we’ll still have something fun to play with and getting tricked by Molyneuxs big ideas will be like opening a time capsule from a more civilised age.
The funniest thing he ever tried to sell was Milo.
Basically an AI character game before even shitty LLM generative AI existed. You had to have been the dumbest, most gullible rube to have believed anything about that shit.
It’s obvious that demo was 99% fake and the eventual end product would have been way more scripted and simple than what he hyped it to be (I mean, it’s Molyneux). But he’s also been backstabbed by Microsoft on that one.
The Kinect prototype he was working with was not the Kinect that was eventually released. At one point Microsoft cut corners and removed the internal processor that was suposed to make Kinect work, leaving the console to deal with all the extra computation. It was barely possible to make a simple Kinect game not run like shit, making something relatively smart and responsive would have been a pipe dream.
I was fairly young at the time and wondered how they would try to pull this off. To the surprise of no one who was a little older than me they simply didn‘t. The only thing that was pulled was the project itself.
Peter Molyneux says Masters of Albion will make up for decades of ‘overpromising on things’
When you “make up” for something you’ve done, it’s not up to you to decide when you’ve “made up” for it. It’s up to the people that you crossed. What a presumptuous thing to say.
The best thing that’s come from Peter Molyneux is the Peter Molydeux spoof account, that actually has some genuinely interesting ideas amongst all the silliness.
Yeah that one was made into a real game in the molyjam, or whatever the game jam based on that twitter was.
You play as the road, and the cars racing on it have ever shifting emotional states depending on how they’re doing.
I’ll see if I can dig up a link
I’m not sure that Pete has actually played a game he wasn’t directly involved with since like… 2010?
What we’ve seen of his new game really isn’t that interesting in the modern landscape. Maybe a decade ago it would have been fresh and had enough of a hook to compete for gamers’ attention, but today? It looks pretty forgettable.
Then when you consider Molyneux’s propensity towards feature creep, it’s probably safe to assume that even if the game is a ‘success’ by most conventional metrics, it won’t be profitable because the amount of money spent to make the damn thing will have been completely insane.
Arguably the issue isn’t so much in the gaming landscape as the history behind the game.
His previous “game” was a crypto/NFT scam where they sold land (as NFTs) to people who were speculating they could make IRL money from renting out this “land” to plebs.
It was a complete failure. I played it for an hour on a free sever (or something similar). The gameplay was complete shit, it was tedious and grindy (like mobile titles), a repetitive and uninspired experience, graphics were ugly, the multiplayer elements didn’t really make much sense.
All the NFT buyers got destroyed while Molyneux collected tens of millions.
Allegedly that money was used to “invest” in Masters of Albion.
But the real kicker is that Masters of Albion seems to be based on that NFT scam game engine (which IMO is beyond saving).
I wouldn’t be surprised if this a managed exit from his previous crypto/NFT scam “game”.
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I ultimately don’t think he’s a bad guy so I’m rooting for him to show us wrong.
I think he always just believed in his vision too much and didn’t realise that he and his team couldn’t end up delivering on it. And then he’d be so excited about what he’s working on that he just couldn’t not share it with others. I don’t think he ever intended to mislead.
I know there’s the milo thing but with that I feel like he still thought they could do it in the end but Microsoft just needed something right there and then to show. I think that issue ends up more squarely on whoever sold him on what the hardware could do and he had not yet fully hit those walls of limitations enough to realise they weren’t coming down at all. (I also think this goes for Sean Murray too when he did the talk show circuit that Sony put him on - although without the hardware stuff and more on whether or not they could deliver on time since they’ve shown what they wanted was actually possible with future updates)
I’m taking the bait again for old times sake if nothing else. I hope he proves everyone wrong, it will be a fantastic end to his saga, and we’ll get something great.
When we’re let down again, we’ll still have something fun to play with and getting tricked by Molyneuxs big ideas will be like opening a time capsule from a more civilised age.
lmao he’s doing it again
Sounds like wild overpromising
Another overpromise to put previous overpromises to shame.
Godus anyone?
The funniest thing he ever tried to sell was Milo.
Basically an AI character game before even shitty LLM generative AI existed. You had to have been the dumbest, most gullible rube to have believed anything about that shit.
It’s obvious that demo was 99% fake and the eventual end product would have been way more scripted and simple than what he hyped it to be (I mean, it’s Molyneux). But he’s also been backstabbed by Microsoft on that one.
The Kinect prototype he was working with was not the Kinect that was eventually released. At one point Microsoft cut corners and removed the internal processor that was suposed to make Kinect work, leaving the console to deal with all the extra computation. It was barely possible to make a simple Kinect game not run like shit, making something relatively smart and responsive would have been a pipe dream.
I was fairly young at the time and wondered how they would try to pull this off. To the surprise of no one who was a little older than me they simply didn‘t. The only thing that was pulled was the project itself.
I’m 1000% sure Molyneaux is gonna try to use AI to develop as much of this new game as possible.
I detest this son of a bitch because he is just such a lying sack of shit.
And I loved Godus. Such engaging gameplay
Press X to doubt.
Sounds like a big promise.
Not the Onion material.
I actually forgot about this clown. The Elon Musk of gaming.
BURN
lol
When you “make up” for something you’ve done, it’s not up to you to decide when you’ve “made up” for it. It’s up to the people that you crossed. What a presumptuous thing to say.
Oh yeah, falling for Molyneuxs hype again. Take me back to when things made sense. Thats the good stuff.
The best thing that’s come from Peter Molyneux is the Peter Molydeux spoof account, that actually has some genuinely interesting ideas amongst all the silliness.
Sadly it’s on Twitter.
X Cancelled link.
It’s pretty funny and it’s been around for many years. I remember seeing it in the early to mid 2010s.
There was a really funny one that went something along the lines of “Imagine if your played as the asphalt in a racing game.”
Yeah that one was made into a real game in the molyjam, or whatever the game jam based on that twitter was. You play as the road, and the cars racing on it have ever shifting emotional states depending on how they’re doing. I’ll see if I can dig up a link
I’m not sure that Pete has actually played a game he wasn’t directly involved with since like… 2010?
What we’ve seen of his new game really isn’t that interesting in the modern landscape. Maybe a decade ago it would have been fresh and had enough of a hook to compete for gamers’ attention, but today? It looks pretty forgettable.
Then when you consider Molyneux’s propensity towards feature creep, it’s probably safe to assume that even if the game is a ‘success’ by most conventional metrics, it won’t be profitable because the amount of money spent to make the damn thing will have been completely insane.
Arguably the issue isn’t so much in the gaming landscape as the history behind the game.
His previous “game” was a crypto/NFT scam where they sold land (as NFTs) to people who were speculating they could make IRL money from renting out this “land” to plebs.
It was a complete failure. I played it for an hour on a free sever (or something similar). The gameplay was complete shit, it was tedious and grindy (like mobile titles), a repetitive and uninspired experience, graphics were ugly, the multiplayer elements didn’t really make much sense.
All the NFT buyers got destroyed while Molyneux collected tens of millions.
Allegedly that money was used to “invest” in Masters of Albion.
But the real kicker is that Masters of Albion seems to be based on that NFT scam game engine (which IMO is beyond saving).
I wouldn’t be surprised if this a managed exit from his previous crypto/NFT scam “game”.
I don’t believe him…
You have to be kidding me lmfao
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He’s like that shitty husband that keeps cheating and getting caught, and keeps saying he has changed.