All I want him to do is figure out the rights issues and do re-releases of the Black and White games. Populus, Dungeon Keeper and Magic Carpet games. Remasters would be nice, but just get them working 16:9 on modern windows would do.
There is somewhat similar game, where you do not have direct control of your units at all. And it is RTS. It's name is Majesty. And especially the first game is absolutely fantastic!
Because the sequel removed something that some people complained about. The individualistic behaviour and different patterns of different hero types. Now they are all braindead.
I met Peter at E3 one year before the release of Black and White two. He offered to give us (then two kids) a pre build copy of the game before it even came out. His secretary ripped it out of our hands on the way out the door and gave us some lame swag instead.
Guy has always had his head in the clouds. Love his games though.
Love the idea that his secretary/assistant was just babysitting him and stopping him from doing monumentally stupid (corporately speaking) stuff without thinking.
Actually, I’ve had it installed on my phone for years and in the last year there’s been a steady stream of updates implementing stuff. The dock apparently works now and you can sail places. I’ve just restarted playing it
I mean, the Fable series were rated pretty well, and The Movies were pretty fun. He had a good decade of pretty good stuff after Black & White, even if they weren't as innovative as the previous decade.
It's the FOLLOWING decade that have been worthless and he should have retired for.
Absolutley. Molyneux was a visionary, a vanguard, a trailblazer.
Problem is, all that is past tense, and his last ten or fifteen years have been spent overpromising and underdelivering.
I thought the then-Project Natal demo that turned out to be largely scripted would have been the killer blow to his reputation, but fair play to him he’s still hanging in there.
What if the thing that hasn’t been seen in gaming before is actually just resurrecting Godus and fulfilling all the promises like a decade later when everyone thought it was dead?
The most recent update to Godus was 2 April 2015 and the last communication with 22Cans regarding the game and its Steam community was 13 May 2016. Despite many years without update or communication with 22Cans, the game is available for purchase as an early access title on Steam.
In a December 2021 interview, Molyneux stated that "we are announcing our first new set of features for Godus in almost two years and that should be coming out before Christmas." It was not released before or after the Christmas timeframe, and nothing has been heard about the update since the interview.
So... blockchain, NFT, Live Service, Microtransaction FPS with MMO style grind, and maybe it's in a fantasy setting for some reason, with unlockable space ships that you can only buy with real life cash, Star Citizen style?
Oh, and there's no gameplay ever released, but you can keep buying skins and other microtransactions.
Then it shuts down with no refunds 5 years later, and all your purchases go poof, and the only "gameplay" released is one slow FPS level with a backwards flying dragon and some generic terrorists.
Yeah, his history of over promising and hype that has led to disappointment more often than not less me to not trust a single thing this legendary developer says.
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