October 10, 2008 - 4:00 pm
Here goes the logic:
Peter M. creates a new Fable II and adds in a companion dog
Fans rejoice!
Peter M. gets feedback from gamer that he finds hurting his virtual dog funny
Peter finds this fantastic
“The other bloke standing next to him said, ‘Ah, you’re such a wimp. I just left my dog and he was hurt and he had to crawl around and I found it funny. It just made me laughed he was so injured all of the time.’”
“That was a fantastic moment for me because I realized that’s what I wanted. Some people are going to be fanatical about the dog, but I didn’t want to ram him down your throat. I didn’t want to insist that you had him.”
Why did Peter Molyneux bother putting the dog into the game if he doesn’t want it to be a pivotal part of the game? The only reason I and many other gamers want to pick up Fable II is because of the ability to use the dog to battle and find loot. To me the dog is what sets this apart from the first iteration of Fable on the Xbox, I guess I fall into the category of those people that will be fanatical about it.
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October 8, 2008 - 11:00 am
Looks like review copies of Fable II have been shipped out and in them was a letter from Peter Molyneux to the reviewer that read like this:
I have a favour to ask you — we build this game not only to appeal to gamers like yourself, but to appeal to anybody. So please, please, please, please, pleae find somebody who doesn’t play games, watch them play it and see how their world turns out, because I think it’s only when you see those differences that the unique experiences comes through.
A bit of a strange request but an interesting, almost a challenge to see just how mainstream Fable can be even for those people that are non-gamers. His statement about the game changing their world is a bit over the top, but just shows his level of commitment to his games and craft. Fable does ship a bit incomplete as the online co-op mode is not included and will come later as a downloadable update for the update.
I have yet to get my copy so Peter if your reading this please feel free to send one my way and I and a non-gamer will review it.
[Via Variety]
September 17, 2008 - 10:00 am
We had brought you news a while back about an exploit that many gamers were using with the Fable II Pub Games in order to maximize their earnings without actually betting, well it seems that Peter Molyneux was well aware of the exploit. The exploit was put in the game on purpose by the folks at Lionhead Studios and Peter decided he wanted to leave it in there as a sort of social project. Peter supposedly has something in store for all those players that decided to take the easy rode to riches and sucker the AI in the Pub Games, but has not specified just yet what he will be doing to these players.
I would hope that since Peter knew all about this exploit and people jumped all over it, that he will have to do something to spite them. I would think that marking their characters in some way as a cheater would be pretty funny, perhaps a scarlet letter if you will or a giant penis on their characters head?
Maybe there will be a third moral group created as a result of the exploit, the good, the bad and the cheaters? What do you think will be a fitting punishment for those cheaters that made money quick? Also I have to say that I like the level of spite that Peter Molyneux is showing here and it makes me like him just a bit more, how bout you?
Peter Molyneux has always been outspoken, but this is surprising. In an interview with Kikizo, he says that “most role playing games are shit!” Ummm, right.
He went on to trash Oblivion, one of the highest rated RPG’s of recent past.
Oblivion was a great game, but the combat was rubbish; we all talked about it being rubbish.
Someone needs to slap Peter silly. His idea of great combat for Fable 2 is a single button for all combat moves. He says that consumers actually prefer to mash buttons.
You would think button mashing would be one thing I’d want to get rid of, but I don’t. For some people, it’s what they want to do.
Can I get a double of whatever he’s drinking? For a man who’s so far behind on his game, I don’t think he’s in a place to be calling everyone else out.
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