Comments on: Molyneux lists Fable II imperfections, says he overhyped Fable I

By: pjmaybe

pjmaybe — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 16:17:13 +0000

Prob with PM is that he swings from this sort of self-deprecating bollocks right across to “godlike delusions of grandeur” in the space of a single interview.

Shut the f*ck up you old queen and get on with making decent games again, or at least getting a decent set of minions to do it for you.

By: Psychotext

Psychotext — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 15:55:14 +0000

Hero of Canton: Where do you live?!?

/gets in car

By: Hero of Canton

Hero of Canton — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 15:53:07 +0000

I don’t think he’s expecting poor reviews so much as making sure he doesn’t raise the expectations of others too high. As was the case with Fable, which was generally well-liked but most people rated it as a disappointment bearing in mind what was planned for the game and didn’t actually make it. In other words, it was rated as much for what it wasn’t as what it was.

Coincidentally, I’ll be playing this tonight. I hope it’s as great as it looks.

By: No_PUDding

No_PUDding — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 15:20:28 +0000

Me: *looks at Mark Healy*

Mark Healey: *takes notes*

By: JPickford

JPickford — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 15:16:58 +0000

“I’m not a PR person,”

He’s probably the most successful PR person in the history of the industry.

Is it me or does it sound like he’s expecting poor reviews for this?

By: Psychotext

Psychotext — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 15:16:56 +0000

He didn’t apologise. Just listed some imperfections.

By: Esha

Esha — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 15:05:35 +0000

I don’t mind him listing the problems, but what I dislike is him being apologetic about them and trying to minimise their impact with clever wordplay. What I’d prefer to see is him just hard-listing the problems, stating what they are, and then making a promise to fix as many of those problems post release with patches.

I wonder if this is why some developers are jumping ship from the PC, to be honest. Console users aren’t as accustomed to patches, and in many cases they’ll take what they buy as the final product.

Now if I see promises to patch things and uphold the patching ethos we’ve seen of some of the better PC devs of days past, that I would praise. I honestly would.

I know that this will just be seen as more negativity, but that’s how I feel about it and that’s all there is to it.

Edit: Some will note that I wasn’t as hard on the Media molecule man. But he did state a problem (and a bit of a subjective one at that), he didn’t apologise for it, instead he said that they’re going to work on that problem (patches). So… yeah.

By: DrDamn

DrDamn — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 15:00:12 +0000

Refreshing but dangerous. Plenty of people take the headlines from these sort of articles and run with them without seeing what the person actually said. The LBP controls being another recent example. Look at Peter’s list and see how many you actually care about.

By: patlike

patlike — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 14:47:28 +0000

I actually think it’s really refreshing to hear someone just say exactly what they think about their own output. God knows, few enough people do it.

By: Psychotext

Psychotext — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 14:45:36 +0000

I think any dev would be lying if they said they were 100% happy with anything they’d released. I know I never have been but in the real world you have to deal with budgets, deadlines and limitations.

By: Robo_1

Robo_1 — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 14:42:58 +0000

I honestly don’t know whether to commend the man for his honesty, or laugh at him for his stupidity.

It’s one thing to sell the game as perfection incarnate, but quite another to publicly list the games faults, before it’s even shipped. It seems it’s all or nothing with the man.

By: Tonka

Tonka — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 14:36:12 +0000

“I’m not much of a PR man”