Project GODUS, the ultimate Peter Molyneux fiasco

[DraQ]

"I exported canned beans towards the Middle East. And you know, it's surprising, they need a lot of things in Middle East. But not canned beans, apparently."

A typo, I think.
Should have been "cannabis".

(At least that's the only way to make some sense out of Moly.)

 

[mindless]

Here is what they really think...

 

[Makabb]

Godus is on steam for -75%, 4,99$ still in early access since 2012 haha.

 

[Burning Bridges]

If that is supposed to present a team I'd say they come off as completely disfunctional. The guy in the middle looks like Peter has only hired him to agree with him all the time, so that it's easier to hold his monologues. He also looks like he is afraid to never get another job once this is over. The guy on the left looks he is only playing along. Peter, he seems like he would do anything so that people look up to him as God. I was waiting for the moment when he would finally say "EVEN I make mistakes".

 

[Astral Rag]

He also looks like he is afraid to never get another job once this is over.

http://www.theguardian.com/technolo...dus-co-designer-jack-attridge-leaving-22-cans

 

[Burning Bridges]

Poor Peter needs someone else to hold his microphon.

“If you asked any one of us, I think we would say that we’d rather risk facing tough times than to feel nothing at all.”

Deep

 

[Immortal]

I came into this thread late.. that video was fucking gold. I was cracking up at the e-cigarette stuff..

Loved the hit piece too..

"That's when they made us play Godus for three hours straight. It was our choice when to get up and stop playing, but I didn't want to seem rude."

They were talking amongst themselves and didn't pay attention to me. For some reason they had their backs to me and my friend for the start of the evening.

A signed poster and T-shirt followed him up to Edinburgh soon afterwards.

For Bryan, it was downhill from there.

 

[Scruffy]

wtf happened to molyneux, he used to have great ideas

 

[Lucky]

Great ideas are useless if you can't properly execute them. I remember reading about Molyneux hyping Fable as this amazing life-simulator that would change the way you looked at games forever and not being able to take it seriously. The guy just seems to have no idea of what he's actually capable of delivering. Although I didn't get into the Bullfrog games until much later, so I didn't have those to give me false hope.

That said, RPS are cowards for going hard after Molyneux, but not laying a hand on Levine. Also trying to do some stupid 'well, there's downsides and upsides' at first when Valve tried to commercialise mods, then quickly scooting over to the winning team. They only ever pick easy targets and only when their own interests aren't at stake. The only improvement I've seen is Grayson leaving, since that guy is a blatantly incompetent interviewer.

 

[Wilian]

wtf happened to molyneux, he used to have great ideas

All the competent people around him got fed up with his antics and left I presume

 

[Metro]

Behold the final fate of Godus:

http://www.bundlestars.com/all-bundles/killer-bundle-4/

Bundle fodder.

 

[Agesilaus]

There hasn't been a good populous since populous 2. The decline is strong in god games

 

[Astral Rag]

I have a FREE Godus key for the Codexer who thinks he / she / it is mad man enough to do a LP of this game. Let me know if you are willing to for the greater good of humanity.

 

[Hobo Elf]

There is nothing to LP though.

 

[Destroid]

There hasn't been a good populous since populous 2. The decline is strong in god games

Fuck you pop 3 is good.

 

[Agesilaus]

Fuck you pop 3 is good.

 

[Blaine]

I hope 22cans and their families are living out on the street or surviving by virtue of their relatives' charity.

If you're willing to put your stamp on this kind of crap, you should be working in an entirely different industry. I have not one iota of pity for the "gotta put bread on the table" mentality in creative entertainment industries.

 

[Menckenstein]

22shitcans

 

[Perkel]

I have a FREE Godus key for the Codexer who thinks he / she / it is mad man enough to do a LP of this game. Let me know if you are willing to for the greater good of humanity.

Gimme. I played ealier version so i can compare what they fixed and what they didn't

 

[Astral Rag]

Oh 22scams talked about that pc-centric sprint thingy last year so the game must be amazing by now.

 

[Perkel]

Oh 22scams talked about that pc-centric sprint thingy last year so the game must be amazing by now.

I still can't fucking hold myself when i know that there is someone there poor dude who got rekt by PM. YOU WILL BE GOD OF A WORLD !!!
That is like ultimate PM troll move.

There should be new TV show "Britans got fucked" and that dude would be winner in that show.

 

[Perkel]

Thanks to Astral Rag generosity humor i will give you my impressions.


For SCIENCE. Played 4h so far.
When i first played it it was at 65% stage of completion or something like that and it was alpha.
Now i is at 54% going by splash screen (lel)

Jokes aside.

What changed in Beta (yes this is now beta at 53% again lel):

- They fixed fullscreen.
- Gameworld takes whole screenspace instead of like earlier square size with noticeable cutoffs.
- Music ! At least at beginning.
- They completely changed how settlements system works. Earlier settlements where kind of monument that you placed. This was fucking annoying because if you build quickly you could run out of space for farms. Now settlements are kind of circle where you place on world. You take as many as you can houses in that circle and they become connected or just one big building. Space after earlier building can be used for farms or new houses.
- They finally fixed fucking belief collecting. No longer you need to click on those shitty houses. You build monument and it collects belief for you.
- They introduced gem mechanic where you can sacrefice your peaple for them or you can find them in chests ir get them from journeys. Those gems are used to upgrade your settlements, monumets etc.
- happines mechanic. Earlier there wasn't any. Certain things like fires, sacrefice, enemy attack etc generate unhappines.
- enemy villages. So far i saw one. And i can't get there yet. They launch attacks here and there. Happines mechanic is used as sort of compete mechanic where if you have higher happiness than them you will get their fallowers, if not they will get yours. Event ocurs something like half hours or so.
- Military settlment. Yes you can no recruit archers. I just build my first one.
- Leash mechanic expanded. Earlier you couldn't select which plot you want to use. Now you can.
- For first enemy village i think you can win with them by culture or simply by power.
- They changed how journey system works. Missions are the same but yoo get score at end of mission and that score is summed up and progressively you get new rewards like gems or tokens.
- They changed aesthetics of buildings.

As for general gameplay. They changed a lot speed of things. Looks like they are removing mobile grinding from the game. Earlier to have 3-4 settlements i had to play something like 12-15 hours and manage that fucking bubbles. Now i mostly build and sculpt occasionally using powers and i have 5 settlements.

Game starts to look like slower brother of populus. Looks like they did something in the end. Though i don't know how fast they update game.

Screenshots:

 

[Astral Rag]

Thank you for your sacrifice.

 

[Burning Bridges]

My niece digs the artstyle (she's 4).

 

[Night Goat]

Populous II (1991). Buildings are beautiful and distinct.

Godus (2014). Buildings are shapeless blobs.

23 years. 23 fucking years of exponential technological advancement, and you end up with something that looks much worse.