Rumour – Milo and Kate cancelled at Lionhead [Update]

Not really suprising, but a shame anyway. I was very interested in this project, especially Milo learning from the cloud.

HAHA

That Peter Molyneux is such a bull shitter!!!
Gotta love him for it though.

If this story teaches you anything about devolopers such as him its that they;d tell the fans what ever they wanna hear until reality kicks in.

Shame really because even though i probably wouldnt have bought this Kinect bollox i was really interested in this Milo thing at first

I find myself neither surprised nor particularly bothered. It was an interesting tech demo but I never could quite imagine how it would ever have become anything more than that.

well pete the liar is on fire again..

Understandable really, this isnt the type of game MS would have any interest in. I bet Lionhead arent happy, you could tell Molyneux wanted to release the game as much as you could tell MS didnt…

Id like to think that its just the fact your talking to a child and thats why its be canned, however the gamer in me feels like the tech didnt really work and was all bs and a lie (enhance they have sacked some of the team)

@4: I don’t see how he is a liar. Development is a pretty complex business, more games/projects than you can possibly imagine get very long in development only to have the plug pulled. Pretty sad really.

Molyneux should probably have learnt by now to keep his cards closer to his chest since when these things happen it makes him look bad. I love his enthusiasm though and I can relate to his eagerness to share his ideas with people.

I don’t really understand the animosity that a lot of ‘gamers’ display though. At the end of the day he’s trying to further a medium that we all love, why anyone would want to stick the boot in when things don’t work out is beyond me.

Molyneux deserves the death penalty

As a general rule of thumb…i’ve never taken anything Molyneux has had to say seriiusly….ever!

That’s sad… Milo was the only interesting thing about Kinect for me. Now there’s nothing left but Wii-clones and on-rails games.

how can someone be such an asshole to put himself into a game…his ego is big, his balls small

Microsoft’s responded. No comment.

Wich is the same as a conformation when a cancelation is the rumor.

Indeed. As Sony proved yesterday with the LBP story, “no comment == yes, that’s completely true”.

@6 : Honestly, the project wouldn’t be canceled if it was “just” for the “child part” : they could easily have replaced Milo by an alien or an animal or whatever.

It was admitted before by the guys at Lionhead that the demos showed were just “tricks” and that Milo wasn’t “responsive and comprehensive” as they made it appear to be, as the demos were staged.

I honestly think they just couldn’t make it really work, and that it was just a fake product/demo (for the major part). There was quite some work in it, but in the end, it is just like the “Kinect Star Wars” fake demo we saw a few months ago : they couldn’t bring it to something that could be played

How’s that? Peter’s the head of the European Division, but they still can’t comment! LOL! I wonder if Mr. Software Houdini can make other things, besides those made by Lionhead, vanish before people’s very eyes, too?

I can see the Daily Mail headline now: “Sick kiddie soliciting game now banned”

Have to admit that Milo & Kate was the highlight of last year’s E3 for me, so I really wish this isn’t entirely true; however my realistic side agrees with Blerk on not being able to imagine the complexity of it becoming anything more than a tech demo.

just cancel it already i’m sick of hearing that its on and off again.

Everyone said i was crazy when i told you all this would never be released, who’s laughing now? MUHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!

I tell you it was never real! That was a huge lie.

So we’re just a few hours away from a new story were Aaron Greenberg assures everyone that the Milo and Kate game (game/thing/experience/grooming simulator) is coming after all.

Just like last time!

Of course its cancelled. The Kinect itself can only recognize 3 languages at launch, the E3 ’09 showing was more or less fake, and personally, I have yet to see anything showcasing the speech functionality in-game. All that, plus the chip removal more than likely put this game to bed.

Even considering Molyneux’s track record (I don’t follow it, honestly), as educated gamers, we all should have known this was more fantasy than anything.

Told you it was fake, just a damn tech demo. All the lies about Natal are being revealed before its launch.