Poll: Your thoughts on Molyneux.
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Frankly, I feel both Fables would have seemed better if he hadn't built up so many unfulfillable promises.
I think his only problem is that his brain thinks ahead of what modern consoles can do. He's fairly creative, its just that technology cant keep up.
I think hes a lying, over rated fool. He promises the world to gamers and then gives us Fable 2. And by the way, Peter, where are those damn plants that grow in real time youve been promising since Fable 1?! I WANT TO WATCH THE GRASS GROW!!!! Is that so much to ask? Apparently its too much for you to promise, seeing as Lionhead still hasnt quite pinned it down yet. Still he goes waltzing around promising the greatest game ever to grace the planet and all we get is an above average RPG with no real distinguishing qualities. To sum up my ranting: /clap at Molyneux's epic phail. (Dont get me wrong, i enjoyed both Fables, but he promised so much more and gave so little.)
I can't help but feel the man chose the wrong industry to work in. In another field, his fevered imagination could have actually had an impact instead of being constantly fettered by technological limitations. Or, he could bring his special brand of over-ambitious promises and hyperbole to politics. The guy has good ideas but he can never seem to apply them with the tools he currently has available.
He's the perfect two-sided coin of gaming.
On one side, he's a visionary, coming up with innovations well before their time and attempting to do something that no-one else would dare to do (let's face it, if Black and White were released for the first time tomorrow on the Wii it'd sell like mad). He's been prepared to break the mould in his own ways to produce games which, criticise them all you like, it's quite hard to justify calling "derivative".
On the other side he's a hype-spouting monster, who is the main reason behind the slating of his own titles, the claims of ground-breaking new features that never materialise in the release have cost Lionhead badly and given many a drastically negative view of the company as a whole.
On one side, he's a visionary, coming up with innovations well before their time and attempting to do something that no-one else would dare to do (let's face it, if Black and White were released for the first time tomorrow on the Wii it'd sell like mad). He's been prepared to break the mould in his own ways to produce games which, criticise them all you like, it's quite hard to justify calling "derivative".
On the other side he's a hype-spouting monster, who is the main reason behind the slating of his own titles, the claims of ground-breaking new features that never materialise in the release have cost Lionhead badly and given many a drastically negative view of the company as a whole.
