Fable Legends Cancelled, Lionhead Studios Closing

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Ian C

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March 08, 2016, 01:06:28 PM

mirth

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March 08, 2016, 01:07:23 PM
That was a really bizarre interview all the way around.
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Ian C

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March 08, 2016, 01:45:08 PM Last Edit: March 08, 2016, 01:47:43 PM by Ian C
The interviewer obviously has an agenda over Godus (he probably paid for it and felt cheated it wasn't finished), but to me it comes across as really unprofessional and venomously vindictive. Then he repeats his frustration over and over. Not satisfied Peter is telling truth, he picks and picks. He sounds like a neurotic girlfriend.

The first question says it all:

QuoteRPS: Do you think that you're a pathological liar?

I know a few people who would be on the point of trading physical blows if that was the first question put to them in an interview.

It achieved nothing, except maybe sending an obviously over-stressed Molyneux into a depression or worse. I imagine him going home feeling like shit; and the interviewer (who remains anonymous) feeling really smug and pleased he'd 'stuck one to The Man'.

Perhaps it was this very interview that triggered a series of events, cascading like some dread catastrophe, that resulted in Microsoft taking the decision to close Lionhead.

Maybe, ultimately, it was all this interviewers fault.

We shall never know.


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Cyrano

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March 08, 2016, 02:20:52 PM
I will not dispute that the interview was confrontational, but Peter Molyneux has a fairly well-documented record of over-promising and under-delivering on games while trading off his unarguably great early achievements.  I cannot describe how excited I was by "Black and White" and heard all the promises made for the original "Fable" only to have the former collapse of its own weight and the latter slowly get hammered into shape in, what, it's third iteration?

"Godus" was only one of the disasters with which he was associated and I need not defend Chris Roberts to think him deranged.

Leaving RPS aside, this is a fun piece as well:  http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/feb/13/peter-molyneux-game-designer-interview-godus

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Ian C

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March 09, 2016, 04:16:38 AM
Quote from: Cyrano on March 08, 2016, 02:20:52 PM
Leaving RPS aside, this is a fun piece as well:  http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/feb/13/peter-molyneux-game-designer-interview-godus

Offhand, I'd say that interview came after the RPS one. Wow, what a drama.
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