Molyneux has “learnt lesson about over-promising”

yeaaahhhhh….. No

lets face it, he’s lying again.

He’ll never learn his lesson.
He’s a one man hype machine.

I don’t think Peter ever actually lies about stuff. He just overshoots, talks about his fantastical ideas before it’s actually clear whether they can make it into reality or not. I think it’s kind of sad that people knock him for that when so many other people in the industry just play it safe and deliver the same old bland-o-message time and again.

Cliff Bleszinski (Gears of War) wins.

fine, I agree, I’ll rephrase that:

yeaaahhhhh….. No

lets face it, he’s probably telling a white lie again.

(He’s not gonna change.)

I doubt he’s really reformed.

Last week he was over-promising on how much we’d be pissed off by the revelation there’d be no HUD in Fable III.

Real reaction – tumbleweeds.

(He’s not gonna change.)

He already did though. Poor bastard ended up saying next to nothing about Fable 2 because he’s was scared to death that he’d promise something that didn’t end up being in the game.

Beyond that, people are just criticising him for being excited about his games… which is a little sad really.

‘Dashing through the snow, on a one horse open sledge, oh jingle bells, jingle bells….’

If you listen to this week’s 1Up “4Guys1Up” podcast interview with Peter, he says that that ‘pissed off’ comment was actually made to a single journalist in a taxi queue while they were chatting about games in general. He did seem generally bemused that it had become such a big story.

PM is a legend. And Fable 2 was genuinely brilliant, imho.

I personally still love Peter Molyneux. I have done since before Fable 1 was released. Back when he promised trees would grow in real time during the game.

So what if all the features don’t make it into the game. At least he actually talks about these features and gets people excited. Most other game developers I haven’t even heard, of let alone watched speak or those I have are about as boring as a brick wall.

I say he should keep on talking. Listening to his speeches is almost as much fun as playing many games out there…

I still love Peter, he and Lionhead have made some great games. But saying he said ‘next to nothing’is a rather large over statement…

Compared to what he said about Fable, Black & White et all… no, it really isn’t.

Compared to Fable I suppose it wasn’t so much; but in the end, he has a rep of being a promise breaker. i know a lot of people who don’t get hyped about his games anymore and just wait till about a month after release because they dont want to be let down again…

I remember he said something about Black & white along the lines of that the AI had done things they hadn’t even programmed it to do.

Peter is hard wired to hype he will never change.

Even in management some ex-Bullfrog employee a good while back posted details on how Bullfrog dissolved slowly into the old EA and part of the reason was Peter was a hype machine liaison between the Bullfrog group and EA execs, when he left the EA brass didn’t see eye to eye with Bullfrog anymore & wouldn’t let them make the games they wanted to.

I remember his PR claims about AI as well he’s being doing that one for a long time all the way back to Syndicate.

PM is great, he does overhype his games at times, but that’s just passion. I don’t know why anybody would get upset about the things he promises, he’s just excited to share his games with the world. He’s a credit to the industry.