Molyneux boasts about his post-Fable 2 project
Mad scientist extraordinaire Peter Molyneux has made a great discovery! In an interview with GamersGlobal, the Fable 2 designer talked about an AI-focused experiment codenamed Dmitri. The experiment became a game six months ago after "a discovery was made." Said Molyneux, "I think that discovery is so significant... This discovery has lead us to start a game and that game will be on the front cover of Nature magazines and Science magazines." That's assuming the AI project doesn't develop self-awareness and kill us all.
As for a release date, Molyneux said it would come out when "trees still [have] leaves, but with a brownish tint." Though our first thought is September, we've gone ahead and sent to Microsoft a picture of the official Joystiq elm tree spray-painted with the proper color in the hopes of an early review copy.
As for a release date, Molyneux said it would come out when "trees still [have] leaves, but with a brownish tint." Though our first thought is September, we've gone ahead and sent to Microsoft a picture of the official Joystiq elm tree spray-painted with the proper color in the hopes of an early review copy.




















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Fable was supposed to have much more content than it did and I am sure he is exagerating again....
I swear the fish I caught was thiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiis big
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And Transformers? That was crap too! Not liking a bad dramedy doesn't automatically imply that someone will instead like a bad action film HighFiveJesus ;)
So I say awesome reference, have a nice night, and go fuck yourselves San Diego!
c what I did there?
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Why is it that if anyone else spews empty promises they label them BS artists but when it comes to Molyneux... oh, visionary! Got to love his drive, oh, his reach exceeds his grasp! etc.
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I'm the epitome - a public enemy
Used, abused without clues
I refused to blow a fuse
They even had it on the news
Don't believe the hype...
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Global warming solved.
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As far as I'm concerned, Fable sucked massively, and he has not contributed one good thing to gaming.
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At least, only someone who is 12 would not realize that Molyneux invented the God-game genre with titles like Populous, Dungeon Keeper 1 and 2, as well as creating the tycoon genre with the original Theme Park.
Fable, Black and White... I'll give you those, no problem.
Populous, Power Monger, Syndicate, Theme Park, Magic Carpet, Dungeon Keeper... those you cannot deny. Those are pure gaming brilliance. Peter Molyneux has proven himself. Now he's trying to play with some new ideas. Cut him some slack (and take everything he says with a jar full of salt... he's a bit big on the hype...).
Populous
Theme Park
Magic Carpet
Black & White
Fable
The Movies
Fable 2
Each one of these games has had some kind of positive effect on the entire gaming industry. You all should be happy that we have a designer like Molyneux who isn't trying to make you a cookie cutter game like most other game developers have been doing for the past 8 years.
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From a previous Joystiq post on Fable 2:
"He's only talking about half of the co-op..."
"...which makes us wonder if the half of co-op he can't talk about is that it can sometimes be competitive."
"He tells us that he's not, actually, allowed to talk about it, but it has to do with how Fable will touch more of the outside world."
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Dmitri is a project that was in the works before Fable 2. We know that it started, and was mothballed because at the time it was not technically feasible.
If it comes back, it will be worth paying attention to, like anything that comes out of Lionhead. If anything, their greatest fault all along has been the last two months of development, i.e., they typically don't get the last two months of development time that's needed to take their great ideas to final fruition.
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That said, the similarities end there though, as he, all the promises and boasting aside, is actively trying to get his ideas somewhere and make games about feeling connected instead of making yet another sandbox but with next gen graphics and in a slightly different designed setting.
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He also said that this game will be about you being able to live through your own life, in the game.
This may be interesting.
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You sunk my jenga-jearms!
"Jenga-Jearms?" We're playing connect 4!
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