Peter Molyneux, the man behind Black & White and Fable, is up to his old tricks again, claiming that his studio is on the cusp of revolutionizing AI in games, and that a new game from the Black & White team will be announced soon.
Molyneux, who is his own biggest fanboy, was supposed to be talking about Fable 2, but couldn't stop himself bigging up this new mystery game from Lionhead Studios. As is typically Peter's way, he has sprayed the new title with heaps of hype-cream from his excitement-nozzle before we even know its name.
"In the six years since Black & White, [the developers] have been working improving the great things that underpinned that game, and now they are getting pretty close to something that is very significant. It’s a very big thing. A new franchise and as close to something revolutionary as I have ever seen. And we’re close to announcing it.
If you think back to the one thing about Black & White that was most fascinating, you’d have to say it was that creature that learned behavior and seemed, for a certain glimpse, to be alive. Imagine if you could take that and multiply it by a billion…"
Oh Peter, why have you got to keep doing this? It was this kind of undue expectation that made Fable such a crushing disappointment for me. I'm all for a man being excited about his projects, but come on. Times a billion? A billion? I hope he knows just how big that number is, because it's the exact number of Artificial Intelligences that I want this new game to have.
[Via NeoGAF]
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3:24 AM on 02.19.2008
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Perhaps this Amazing AI will include some kind of long term memory? That would be a big step forward for an Habitually shit-throwing Cow!
A BILLION YOU SAY!?
"NO," says the man on a video game blog, "THATS UNPOSSIBLE!"
"NO," says the pissed off Christian lobbyist, "GAMES MAKE YOU KILL PEOPLE!"
"LOL," says the community member of the man on a video game blog, "MAKE SURE YOU TIGHTEN UP THE GRAFFIX ON LEVEL THREE FIRST!"
THE GAME WILL PLAY ITSELF
lololol
We know what must be done!
There's a mod to disable aging beyond mid-twenties, you know. :3 It makes a whole fucking lot more sense, especially since none of the other characters age. My first playthrough, I ended up older than my own mother.
Awkward, rite?
unless he's creating some game that is meant to make crysis-capable PC's its absolute bitch!
I mean seriously, most PC's choke under the presure of a RTS having them control barely a few thousand units and that's nowhere near a million or even a billion, and he wants all those units to also have their own AI? or maybe this is a 'distributed' game that will also spread a mallware so that all their 'zombiepcs' can do the calculations for all those AI's...
i bet the coders behind that AI are now thinking 'Fuck YOU Peter! We can't make that! thanks for ruining our reputation!"
A billion isn't that large a number. I'll start counting now and post a comment when I'm done.
Also Syndicate or dungeon keeper with shit-slinging cows pretty please.
SHUT
THE
HELL
UP
Love,
Chris Jericho.
Hahaha, yeah, if he can ever make a game that's as good as he thinks it is. Too bad we're more likely to see a third party candidate win the presidency of the United States.