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Chas McGill posted:I feel extremely old because I associate Molyneux with his golden era at Bullfrog. He was involved in some of my favourite games (Populous, Theme Park, Dungeon Keeper, Syndicate) before he started huffing his own farts. If anything his behavior indicates he didn't really have much to do with those titles.
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There's a line in this video about Project Milo where Molyneux says that the rest of Lionhead got mad at him all the time for running his mouth. In hindsight, that's probably less of a joke than it seemed at first. To me he comes off less as a childlike dreamer and more like a salesman, the kind of guy who will tell the customer anything as long as it gets one sale. The problem is that he did this with a lot of customers, and he developed a reputation for this.
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May 10, 2023 22:14
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https://twitter.com/PeterMolydeux/status/1633271754100449280
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May 10, 2023 22:17
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Antigravitas posted:I always took Molyneux as a bullshitter who genuinely believes his own bullshit. He's just so drat excited and when someone mentions some idea and he immediately yes-ands it. Games journalism has definitely had a bad habit of fixating on auteurs. It makes sense for indie games where one person does the brunt of the work but the reputation follows them if they get a bigger studio and inevitably leads to disappointment later on.
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May 10, 2023 22:23
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It reminds me of that time a journo interviewed someone who was talking about how it took a large team of people to create the game, but he was introduced as "person who created X". I can't remember who it was. What I found distasteful is that the gaming press built Molyneux up with utterly uncritical coverage, and they tore him down once it became the fashionable thing to do. I feel like the Molyneux case is as much an indictment of games journalism as it is of some hype man making tall promises all the time. But those people are really common, and they aren't that special either.
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May 10, 2023 22:32
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everything always comes back to videogame journalism being the worst
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May 10, 2023 22:36
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HopperUK posted:I've been enjoying Warriors of the Nile 2 - do the Disgaea games play anything like that? Tactical turnbased thing? I haven't played much of that kind of game before and I already own some Disgaeas from bundles and such. Yeah, that's the format of Strategy RPG popularized by Tactics Ogre and Final Fantasy Tactics, Disgaea is basically in that genre with the caveat that its target audience is People Who Love Postgames With Big Numbers.
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May 10, 2023 22:42
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molyneux was a grifting pissant in an industry already rich with them, it’s good he’s gone and hopefully he stays that way
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May 10, 2023 22:53
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I posted this in the survival megathread but State of Decay 2 has a major update today that completely revamps the plague heart/infestations mechanics. It's a big one they've been working on for like a year.
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May 10, 2023 22:56
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mycot posted:There's a line in this video about Project Milo where Molyneux says that the rest of Lionhead got mad at him all the time for running his mouth. In hindsight, that's probably less of a joke than it seemed at first. Antigravitas posted:I always took Molyneux as a bullshitter who genuinely believes his own bullshit. He's just so drat excited and when someone mentions some idea and he immediately yes-ands it. he very much believes in his own poo poo and has high persuasiveness in terms of communication, which is why he could keep continue making stuff after his rep became very damaged due to not really good games (although B&W2 was still a good game and in hindsight remains unique enough to stand out)
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May 10, 2023 23:04
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zoux posted:I posted this in the survival megathread but State of Decay 2 has a major update today that completely revamps the plague heart/infestations mechanics. It's a big one they've been working on for like a year. Did they ever make the shared loot system in coop not complete garbage? 
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May 10, 2023 23:07
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I saw an ad for a colony sim that I don’t even really remember anything about from the advertisement except that the headlining claim to legitimacy was it was from the team behind a (presumably) popular Rimworld mod. Which obviously there’s nothing wrong with that and it’s cool that there’s stuff like Terra Invicta and the OG Xcom-alike I don’t even remember the name of but it does make me wonder at the weird paths this industry sometimes takes. Old man wonders at cloud.
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May 10, 2023 23:08
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Gorn Myson posted:Fable 2 had it flaws but your main companion was a dog so its a GOAT tier game to me. You must not remember what happens to the dog! I loved Fable 2 but it was loving brutal, repeatedly.
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May 10, 2023 23:13
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Antigravitas posted:It reminds me of that time a journo interviewed someone who was talking about how it took a large team of people to create the game, but he was introduced as "person who created X". I can't remember who it was. 
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May 10, 2023 23:15
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zoux posted:I posted this in the survival megathread but State of Decay 2 has a major update today that completely revamps the plague heart/infestations mechanics. It's a big one they've been working on for like a year. Nice! It’s probably time I started a new community on the Deck.
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May 10, 2023 23:16
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Oxxidation posted:molyneux was a grifting pissant in an industry already rich with them, it’s good he’s gone and hopefully he stays that way lol yeah what's with this weird re-revisionism about how he was just a soft little boy who was taken down by the big evil journalists. dude lied to turn his baked bean company into a software one and it's been a snowball ever since.
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May 10, 2023 23:19
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Ryaomon posted:lol yeah what's with this weird re-revisionism about how he was just a soft little boy who was taken down by the big evil journalists. dude lied to turn his baked bean company into a software one and it's been a snowball ever since. Honestly yeah my main takeaway from this conversation is that Molyneux could still sell a lot of people a bridge.
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May 10, 2023 23:23
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smh all of a sudden it’s a team effort when he’s showing off Deus Ex 2
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May 10, 2023 23:31
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mycot posted:Honestly yeah my main takeaway from this conversation is that Molyneux could still sell a lot of people a bridge. lol true
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May 10, 2023 23:43
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i will follow Molyneux into the depths of Hell and we will laugh together at all the evil choices the damned have made
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May 10, 2023 23:47
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But doctor I am Epicurus
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May 11, 2023 00:24
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what do you do when you install dark souls iii and your dark souls iii save file is not there and it's not in your steam cloud profile listing for the cloud, right when you got to the good part after the pontiff. and you're like, i got no dark souls iii.
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May 11, 2023 02:10
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Mescal posted:what do you do when you install dark souls iii and your dark souls iii save file is not there and it's not in your steam cloud profile listing for the cloud, right when you got to the good part after the pontiff. and you're like, i got no dark souls iii. Root around your old install directories by hand? If your old drive or directories are long gone and Steam doesn't have a cloud save, then yea you're outta luck. ----------------- edit: And all this talk about Molyneux being a good salesman... you know you're describing a con-man, right?
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May 11, 2023 02:32
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Mescal posted:what do you do when you install dark souls iii and your dark souls iii save file is not there and it's not in your steam cloud profile listing for the cloud, right when you got to the good part after the pontiff. and you're like, i got no dark souls iii. Sadly none of the older From games have cloud saves iirc, you may be enboneded
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Orv posted:Sadly none of the older From games have cloud saves iirc, you may be enboneded i've un/installed dark souls iii a dozen times on at least two devices without noticing that.
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Ryaomon posted:lol yeah what's with this weird re-revisionism about how he was just a soft little boy who was taken down by the big evil journalists. dude lied to turn his baked bean company into a software one and it's been a snowball ever since. lyin' bout them beans
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May 11, 2023 02:43
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Oh my gosh, that Molyneux interview, he's getting dragged for loving around with a half million british pounds, when we where just discussing Starcitizen sitting at over half a billion. gently caress it, I need to start scamming people, being honest sure as gently caress isn't working for me.
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Tunic update: Thank you everyone for helping me figure out how to level up the game is much more manageable now; beat the second boss and the land seems to have opened up in more fun ways
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pentyne posted:I don't know if the multiplayer is active but until 2018 SpiderMan this game had the absolute best swinging traversal. Rearmed is the remake of the original NES game, which instead ends with violently blowing up Hitler. A truly evergreen ending compared to sad man wife arm Steve Blum betray you. John Murdoch fucked around with this message at 05:33 on May 11, 2023 |
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Mescal posted:i've un/installed dark souls iii a dozen times on at least two devices without noticing that.  Yeah, not seeing Steam Cloud support in the list of features for Dark Souls 3, as opposed to the below screenshot for Borderlands 3: 
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Commander Keene posted:
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I give Molyneux a pass because when I was a young 15 year old who 100% bought into the hype around Fable, I'd never played a fantasy game or RPG game really for that matter. There was still like 9 months before the release of it but I wanted some kind of fix so I was browsing the second hand xbox games at my local shop and saw this weird looking game called "Morrowind" that seemed to fit the bill. Needless to say my mind was loving blown by that game and it's still my favourite game of all time to this day. When Fable finally came out I'd cooled on it a little but I still played it and had a great time.
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Tiny Timbs posted:If anything his behavior indicates he didn't really have much to do with those titles. Park, but Molyneux was hands on with Populous (IIRC he coded the AI and did the DOS port himself among various collaborative design things with the other coder whose name I can’t recall ATM. Might have been Sean Cooper?) and Dungeon Keeper (IIRC EA technically cancelled the game at some point so he moved the entire team out of the office and into his house to keep it going)
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Peter Molyneaux as a creator of both good and bad things is the most difficult and confounding figure for a gamer to understand.
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Expectations for nuanced opinions is Gamer Oppression
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Serephina posted:edit: And all this talk about Molyneux being a good salesman... you know you're describing a con-man, right? They are the same picture
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May 11, 2023 10:42
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The Molyneux interview was unnecessary and did more damage to Walker in the end. He basically burned down all his career bridges just to be a dick in his own personal video games blog.
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Communist Bear posted:The Molyneux interview was unnecessary and did more damage to Walker in the end. He basically burned down all his career bridges just to be a dick in his own personal video games blog. I feel like the gaming community goes through phases of being weirdly aggressive and hyper focused on individual industry personalities, which seemed to really accelerate at some point during the mid-to-late 2000's and continued through the 2010's. Michael Pachter is another you don't hear from so much now who received a.. disproportionate amount of largely negative attention over that period. I mean look, don't get me wrong, these are people with a proven track record for talking complete poo poo - and I think Pachter at some point seemed to lean into the status and actively courted the attention - but in hindsight the amount of time we used to spend talking about these people wasn't really the best look for anybody. Looking back, the Walker interview with Molyneux just feels like an energy channelled bullet point to the era it was written.
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What is Lost Planet 3, and how good is it? I bought the  tier of the Capcom Humble Bundle to pick up, well, mostly MM11 but I have at least a little interest in Bionic Commando, Dragon's Dogma, and Strider, but I don't really know anything about Lost Planet at all. I'm trying to decide what to keep and what to give away.
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