The zestful and occasionally loose-lipped Peter Molyneux secretly became Microsoft Game Studio’s European creative director in March. Whoa.
The former Lionhead Studios executive will now, according to Develop, direct Perfect Dark and Avatar developer Rare as well as “other European external projects.” Whatever those will turn out to be.
Molyneux won’t have to hire moving vans or buy cardboard boxes in the near future. Apparently, he will continue to work out of his home base at Lionhead HQ from a throne made of gold, children’s tears, and empty Fable promises.
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2:15 AM on 06.05.2009
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*shudders* To this day I still lose sleep about that... :(
Natal is WII w/out a remote and looks incredibly boring and stupid. I don't want to flail around like an idiot. It's fun for people who like Wii and have an unnatural fear or controllers. It'll probably be good for games like XBox Yoga or XBox karate tutorial.
But if Natal can deliver an immersive gaming experience like the one being shown in Milo I think will collapse from joy. I will be willing to pay a lot of good money for that. Having a world populated w/ characters like Milo and a game and story revolving around them? amazing. I think at that point video games would surpass movies and all other mediums of entertainment. Truly revolutionary. But....I think Milo is total BS...and if it's not even remotely possible, I'm a little angry that Microsoft would have the audacity to even pretend even for a little bit that that was something remotely possible in the semi-close future.
He means well, bless 'im.
Good luck Pete, personally I don't think you had the right stuff to manage individual projects lie Fable 2. Remember what happened when you put Lionhead to task of developing 3 games (Black and White 2, The Movies, Fable) at once?
That's right, none of them were amazing. Good luck Rare.
I eagerly await news of what he's going to do with his position.
I'd rather have an enthusiastic deliverer rather than someone who dreams of it, honestly. There are a lot of people who are delivering on new concepts and technology, as proven by more than few showings at E3.
Molyneux puts his head way above the clouds, where he can't deliver on what he talks about.
And hell, Fable II may not have lived up to his hype, but it was still fun for a rental.
The Peter Molyneux of the nineties was creative with a definite flair for fun. Since then he has become more of a dreamer which result in shallow execution. I'm sure he can recognize talent as this has always been his strength, but what will he demand of it and will his influence be detrimental.
Congrats, though!