The man behind the Fable franchise, director of Microsoft-owned Lionhead Studios, Peter Molyneux, has been teasing everybody again with Fable 2. The keyword, apparently, is “Death.”
Speaking in a recent interview with fansite, Loinhead , Molyneux said,
Overly simplify it? Oh, no. “Well, it’s even worse than that, you die, and you go back in time twenty minutes to do the same thing over again,” said Molyneux. “That’s fine if I’m playing a platformer, not so fine if you’re doing an RPG game.”
Molyneux also expanded on what he felt went wrong in Black & White 2, saying:
Oh well, Molyneux at least he's still got his knighthood...,
Finally, the recently married Molyneux made more oblique mentions of the date "September 23rd" in relation to Lionhead's Project X or "The Secret Game".
In his interview with SPOnG last August, he explained, "I can tell you the date when I got the idea for the game. It was last year - I think it was September 23."
He's standing by that that, telling Loinhead's Felix, "The clue's there".
Now, unless he's working with local gaming heroes Team17 on a new game, we doubt that The Concordat of Worms (1122) is in the frame. It would be an interesting game if based on Bob Marley's last concert (1980). But we reckon the game will commemorate Mack Sennet's first Keystone Cops movie, Keystone Comedy (1912) - the first major Black and White comedy movie.
Your thoughts in the Forum below.
For more on Fable 2 head over to SPOnG's dedicated game page.
For the full interview head over to Loinhead.net
Speaking in a recent interview with fansite, Loinhead , Molyneux said,
“...this is something that no-one has ever heard, this word, there’s one thing about combat I haven’t spoken about which is a very interesting area ... One word. And it’s death. Death. Think about it. Think about death. Think about what computer games do with death. What have they done with death? What does every game do, what does just about every game do with death?”
Overly simplify it? Oh, no. “Well, it’s even worse than that, you die, and you go back in time twenty minutes to do the same thing over again,” said Molyneux. “That’s fine if I’m playing a platformer, not so fine if you’re doing an RPG game.”
Molyneux also expanded on what he felt went wrong in Black & White 2, saying:
“...one of the tiny decisions that we made in Black and White 2 was to use Black and White 1 as the foundation stone for all the code for Black and White 2, and what we found was you had this massive amount of code and you were putting an even more massive amount of code on top, and underneath it was this quite shaky foundation stone, and that meant we had to rewrite quite a lot of stuff.
Oh well, Molyneux at least he's still got his knighthood...,
Finally, the recently married Molyneux made more oblique mentions of the date "September 23rd" in relation to Lionhead's Project X or "The Secret Game".
In his interview with SPOnG last August, he explained, "I can tell you the date when I got the idea for the game. It was last year - I think it was September 23."
He's standing by that that, telling Loinhead's Felix, "The clue's there".
Now, unless he's working with local gaming heroes Team17 on a new game, we doubt that The Concordat of Worms (1122) is in the frame. It would be an interesting game if based on Bob Marley's last concert (1980). But we reckon the game will commemorate Mack Sennet's first Keystone Cops movie, Keystone Comedy (1912) - the first major Black and White comedy movie.
Your thoughts in the Forum below.
For more on Fable 2 head over to SPOnG's dedicated game page.
For the full interview head over to Loinhead.net
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schnide 21 May 2007 11:44
1/3
Who cares?
GeoWolf 21 May 2007 16:35
2/3
Me!
Modhabobo 22 May 2007 11:59
3/3
I am pretty excited by Fable 2...much as i was with the first one. Sure he never comes good with all his ideas, but at least he is thinking about the bigger picture. I reckon in it, if you die, that is it....unless you have sired a child i reckon it is then game over from there....and you have to start again, a cruel and interesting idea. As for his mystery game, i can't get excited about a date....unless it was with Jessica Biele