Does Peter Molyneux strike you as someone who is trying very hard to be liked.

[Cheesysuitcase]

I noticed that Peter Molyneux (Head Lionhead studios) Has a tendency to ring people up and complain to them if they said something bad about Fable2. see Susan Arendt's and Yahtzee's reviews of Fable 2 where peter apparently contacts them and has a little moan to them because they didn't like his game or said something bad about it. Also there are a massive number of video's floating around with Peter and his hand gestures going on and on about how "you can do this and that in fable 2", to me it sounds like Peter is having a who has the shiniest bike competition with all the other boys in the playground. Peter just strikes me as someone who desperately want's to be liked. What do you think?

 

[DoW Lowen]

He wasn't really moaning, he was more trying to promote the game. But I see what you mean, Fable 2 still ate a donkey dick, it was just the ending though I genuinely enjoyed everything else.

 

[ward.]

I think he's doing his job and trying to promote sales of his game.

Some people do this by making a good product and marketing it, others by silencing the critiques.

 

[SomeBritishDude]

I admire the guy for being so infusiastic. But he should shut his big fat gob.

 

[Svenparty]

His Visions for games are too high I suppose and his claim to try and make a game make you "feel" and failing was embarrassing

He should have took more cues from Bioshock/Half Life 2 etc in that respect.

What he did for Fable 2 is talk about how he has to "keep his mouth shut about awesome Fable 2 features" which obviously created MOAR hype

 

[cuddly_tomato]

I read the title as "someone trying really hard to be killed".

Anyway, this has been happening a lot more lately. Developers going on to forums or contacting people who have commented on their games and throwing tantrums. Look at Dennis Dyacks "social experiment" on NeoGAF or Jeff Morris' rants on Beyond Unreal.

Criticism is an essential part of learning and a huge part of getting any kind of creative work right. Someone telling you that you need to make changes is something that you really should listen too. Some people react differently - by demanding the person change their minds and "accept the truth".

 

[Hippobatman]

I love the man personally (not in that way, of course). I remember watching some interviews before the Fable 2 launch, and he was jabbering on about one thing and then the other and then he'd go "Oh, I've said too much. The people upstairs won't like me now" with a big childish grin on his face, and I would be like "My oh my, Molyneux, you little rascal".

Honestly, he's canned charisma. Can't help it, I like him, in spite of delivering this millenia's biggest disappointment which was Fable 2.

 

[Lord Krunk]

He loves what he does, and he does it well.

While I have a problem with him promising stuff that he never brings into fruition, he is always enthusiastic about his games and loves them like they were his children.

I believe I would be the same if I were to ever make a mainstream game; if you love what you do, you should be proud of it, no matter how many times your ambitions are shot down.

 

[Spectre39]

As someone who paid for Fable 2 and has been disappointed with the purchase, I'd like to say that I will never buy another game that man touches. I doubt the guy even played his own game it was so short and unpolished. And what about that "Plant an acorn, it grows in real time" lie he told about Fable 1? Seriously. The guy is rotten to the core.

 

[Reaperman Wompa]

He is trying to sell his game which makes sense but yes, he does seem a bit desparate to have his games loved.

Which is good as I liked Black and White when my computer can run it, and I have considered a Fable 1/2 related tattoo.

 

[Hellion25]

I already like the guy. He seems to be somebody who always tries to shoot for something that may be out of reach just to see if he can get there. So what if he fails with some of his more ambitious ideas, they are still ahead of their time and may be the ideas that end up shaping gaming in a decade or too. At the very least he is ambitious and willing to experiment and try new things, and you can't fault his enthusiasm or love for what he does.

 

[Woe Is You]

Has Peter Molyneux really gone out of his way to tell his critics that they're wrong... or is it just that he's so enthusiastic about his games that he'll tell anyone and everyone that if you didn't like my previous game, maybe my new game is a whole new bucket of awesome? From what I've seen and heard of the man, it's more a case of the latter than the former.

 

[Ultress]

He has these pie in the sky dreams that seem to get thrown out the window when it comes time to release the game

 

[L33tsauce_Marty]

Cocky is the term.

 

[Skalman]

While Fable 2 was a bit of a disappointment and it failed to live up to it's hype, It's still a pretty decent game and I still like it (like a lot of people, I'm sure).

But I do agree on the fact that they need to tie Molyneux up, gag him and throw him in a hole somewhere for the entire length of the game development process.

 

[Eclectic Dreck]

I don't think he's struggling to be liked. In the case of Fable 2, many of the features we were promised in the first game actually made an appearance in the second. The problem with Fable is quite simply the fact that there is a very strict division between the "main game" and all that "other stuff". The two really never do interact except in a few artifical areas.

 

[Bertruam]

Yes hes trying to be popular. His games never liveup yo his boasting. They are good games, they just dont live up to his promises.