• bionicjoey@lemmy.ca
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      2 months ago

      I’m curious why people assume PM is incapable of delivering on promises. Like, I know he has a history of overhyping games, but surely he must also have some games where he actually delivered an awesome and complete game, right? Like the first 2 Fable games were pretty amazing.

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          2 months ago

          Fair enough. I certainly won’t pre order this, but if it comes out and it gets good reviews, I may give it a shot

      • Wrufieotnak@feddit.org
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        Because his reputation from acclaimed products (Populous, Black & White, Fable 1) are all long in the past and his latest games were nearly 90% cons.

        And even his great games are not what he promised. Even there he promised more than he could deliver.

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        Even Fable 1 and 2 were plagued by his lies, despite still being good games, but people tend to forget that.

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      2 months ago

      “I don’t think I’ve ever knowingly lied”

      And this is how you immediately tell everybody you’re a liar.

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    2 months ago

    I wonder if he is trying to target younger and more casual gamers; people who don’t know that he is a liar and a scammer.

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      2 months ago

      So, as someone who got hyped because he is the man behind Black & White and Fable. What am I missing?

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        Back then, I think he has someone telling him “no” and filling out the rest of the game with sensible stuff.

        Now, he just throws ideas at the wall (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curiosity:_What’s_Inside_the_Cube%3F ) and sees what sticks. Since he went on his own, he hasn’t fully delivered a single game, and the ideas are wacky at best and horrible at worst.

        And unlike Hello Games, when Molyneux overpromises, he doesn’t spend years implementing every promised feature.

        BTW, the exaggeration goes all the way back to Fable, the launch of which was plagued by lies that Molyneux and his team told about the state of the game and the features it would have. That doesn’t mean it wasn’t a great game, just that it wasn’t what he promised.

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          I mean already Black And White wasn’t up to what he promised. And for Populous I don’t know, because I wasn’t following gaming news then, but needed to learn to read first =D