Some people just do. not. learn.

His current promise honestly sounds like he's over promising. Also, who keeps giving him money to make games?! I know the article says it's self funded, which I guess makes sense, but did he really make so much over the years that he can solo finance this? Seems unlikely, but what do I know?

Seems pathological at this point.

“I do not have the life energy left to do this again.”

Ohh man I felt that quote in my bones. Young people: you cannot relate. This is not about waking up for work feeling drained and demoralized. It’s about having all kinds of passion and desire but hitting hard limits in your body that were never there before, and getting less and less out of yourself all the time even as you feel the blows more and more, and then sensing that decline accelerating.

It would be in his best interest to just shut the fuck up and deliver the game

Reminds me of George RR Martin’s digs at Robert Jordan, and how spectacularly he ended up over-promising himself.

Fucking lol

But what if he and Chris Roberts did a collab?

He's already overpromising on what he wants his game to have:

“I think that line in Fable – ‘for every choice, a consequence’ – wasn’t delivered on well enough,” Molyneux explained. “I think the possession mechanic that we had in Dungeon Keeper wasn’t delivered on enough. The open-world freedom that we had in Black & White, I think it was good at the start, but it didn’t deliver enough at the end. And Masters Of Albion is an opportunity to mix all those together."

And I’ll tell you the amazing thing – it’s going to fucking work. It really is. It’s like nothing you’ve ever played before, but it’s still unbelievably familiar. It is Black & White, it is Dungeon Keeper, and it is Fable, but it’s a completely new genre. And it shouldn’t really work, but it does.

Go back to beans, Pete.

LMAO, that's a good one

I mean... We're all going to play it regardless, right? I am at least. He makes good games. You just have to take his claims with a good, healthy amount of salt.

Ok Pete, but just this once!

I'll be very patient with this one, Pete.

Another overpromise to put previous overpromises to shame.

Godus anyone?

Press X to doubt.

Sounds like wild overpromising

Sounds like a big promise.

Not the Onion material.

lmao he's doing it again

I don't believe him...

I'm not sure that Pete has actually played a game he wasn't directly involved with since like... 2010?

What we've seen of his new game really isn't that interesting in the modern landscape. Maybe a decade ago it would have been fresh and had enough of a hook to compete for gamers' attention, but today? It looks pretty forgettable.

Then when you consider Molyneux's propensity towards feature creep, it's probably safe to assume that even if the game is a 'success' by most conventional metrics, it won't be profitable because the amount of money spent to make the damn thing will have been completely insane.

Oh yeah, falling for Molyneuxs hype again. Take me back to when things made sense. Thats the good stuff.

Carnie promoter says carnie shit, more news at 5

You have to be kidding me lmfao

I ultimately don't think he's a bad guy so I'm rooting for him to show us wrong.

I think he always just believed in his vision too much and didn't realise that he and his team couldn't end up delivering on it. And then he'd be so excited about what he's working on that he just couldn't not share it with others. I don't think he ever intended to mislead.

I know there's the milo thing but with that I feel like he still thought they could do it in the end but Microsoft just needed something right there and then to show. I think that issue ends up more squarely on whoever sold him on what the hardware could do and he had not yet fully hit those walls of limitations enough to realise they weren't coming down at all. (I also think this goes for Sean Murray too when he did the talk show circuit that Sony put him on - although without the hardware stuff and more on whether or not they could deliver on time since they've shown what they wanted was actually possible with future updates)

I actually forgot about this clown. The Elon Musk of gaming.

Peter Molyneux says Masters of Albion will make up for decades of ‘overpromising on things’

When you "make up" for something you've done, it's not up to you to decide when you've "made up" for it. It's up to the people that you crossed. What a presumptuous thing to say.

The best thing that's come from Peter Molyneux is the Peter Molydeux spoof account, that actually has some genuinely interesting ideas amongst all the silliness.

Is he making a promise about promises?

Alexa play Little Lies

Bullshit

The main problem with Peter is that he engages with his fans.

Any developer that does this is always asking for a world of hurt, mostly because you guys are a bunch of actual morons.