Masters of Albion - New God Game by Peter Molyneux

[Drakortha]

 

[Ryzer]

Looks like Black and white ++

 

[Gilius Thunderhead]

Where are the cat people?

 

[covr]

Peter definitely likes strong bloom in his games. And mobile looks. And mobile UI. Generally - what a fucking mess. I bet it is more like a tower defense game with a little drop of Bullfrog game ideas.

 

[Chuck Norris]

The game will be shit, but I'm happy for my nigga Molyneux to be back in action.

 

[RobotSquirrel]

The sandwich can grow old and moldy, the sandwich can die man. Depending on the type of sandwich you make will determine the fate of the entire world man. You can marry the sandwich. The sandwich can play DVDs. The sandwich can be planted into the ground to make a sandwich tree which grows in realtime. You can molest the sandwich QUIET DOWN THERE MILO DON'T MAKE ME HIT YOU AGAIN. Its not on rails man. The sandwich is also an NFT and there's a prize when you get to the middle of it a life time supply of baked beans - but they're expired. Its cool man. Schoolboy Errors man. I sold my sister into slavery for some sea shells man. This is why I don't do interviews man, you want me out of the industry man. I mean Kinect was a real disaster man we had no idea what we were doing.

 

[Tyranicon]

I like how they didn't even attempt to make the gameplay not seem fake.

 

[Alfgart]

The scammer and con man is back. And he is still working with his studio 22cans, same people that abandoned Godus. Their last game was an NFT grift called 'Legacy' that was obviously terrible, and this new shit seems to borrow that same 'assemble shit from different parts' mechanic from that game, mixed with Black & White and possession from Dungeon Keeper. Either way, looks fake and gay, and it will be shit because Molyneux is involved. If you are excited, you are a massive retard

Here is gameplay of Legacy, so you can see this is the same crap

 

[RobotSquirrel]

He's also not the only developer making this type of game, ex-Bullfrog in an interview today said he's got other ex-bullfrog people working on a spiritual successor to populous.

That said his last game was Cities Skylines 2..... so yeaaah.

 

[Hellraiser]

That said his last game was Cities Skylines 2..... so yeaaah.

How many times a game "from the brilliant minds behind [classic 90s innovative game]" delivered something considered good and not merely "good for what it is" in recent years?

Whatever made those guys make those classics is long gone. I'm not sure if it's them getting old, the lead-contamination finally leading to it's ugly brain damage consequences after decades, changes in their lives/priorities, them falling to stupid modern influences and trends (whether in design, management style, pop-culture or otherwise), the lack of the same style/kind of oversight/teamwork/brainstorming that would whip them up to capture lightning in a bottle or what exactly. But it's just gone with the wind.

I mean they're free to try, it's likely they enjoy what they do, but I have been around long enough to see that after over 20 and often 30 years since their last great work it is unlikely they can put out anything good still.

 

[RobotSquirrel]

Gonna say, its the existential crisis. For 8 years he was in the industry, and those 8 years were the greatest time of his life to the point where the next 2 decades were spent trying to recapture that feeling and failing miserably. And they just won't let go or give up because to do so is to embrace the dread of that existential crisis which is... you're old, and those good times are never coming back. And a part of it is also that sense of being relevant. He mentions the "Buzz" of Bullfrog - that's what they're all fighting over and what they all want, they want to be the talk of the town but they don't understand that the industry has changed and changed for very much the worse.

They also fail to recall that the reason they could be so successful back then was that there weren't these institutional companies that had 30+ year heritages - now there are and now all the attention is on them not you, so all your reputation and past successes and accomplishments mean jackshit you're back to 0 - the ones that survive are the ones that knew how to plan accordingly to start from nothing and end up with something. Molyeneux is not one of those people, he was so comfortable being Bullfrog and Lionhead that everything he's done since has been an utter shitshow.

 

[Burning Bridges]

He thinks he is Tina Turner when in reality he is Madonna. Doesn't he have enough money to go into space or something that makes sense? Game development again, seriously? Why does he think this time he will do better than the last 3 attempts?

They also fail to recall that the reason they could be so successful back then was that there weren't these institutional companies that had 30+ year heritages - now there are and now all the attention is on them not you, so all your reputation and past successes and accomplishments mean jackshit you're back to 0 - the ones that survive are the ones that knew how to plan accordingly to start from nothing and end up with something. Molyeneux is not one of those people, he was so comfortable being Bullfrog and Lionhead that everything he's done since has been an utter shitshow.

Back in the Amiga days I bought a game by Peter Molyneux (Powermonger) and didn't understand what was supposed to be so great about it. I thought it was pointless, more like something you would be glad to do in a plane, when you are forced to kill time.

I think some people have success purely by accident and they can never repeat it. Does anyone remember Babylon Zoo? I believe in 1996 he had his one hit with Spaceman and talked like he would have hundreds more. Then his album was a complete embarassment and it seems he had just hit that one tune by chance.

 

[Cyberarmy]

LOL, ROFLMAO EVEN!

 

[Abu Antar]

 

[Dark Souls II]

I thought it looks fun from the trailer, but then I scrolled down to read that this nigga dabbled in NFTs (Niggers' Favorite Tokens). Then it's a hopeless cause, anyone who touches anything "Web3" related gets irrevocably contaminated. Anyway, no matter how good a new citybuilder looks like the main thought I have while seeing it is always "damn, I'd love to play some Settlers II right now".

 

[NwNgger]

I want to like this. But Godus happened.

 

[Baron Tahn]

Well the God game genre is a barren wasteland so Id like it to be good. Its one of my favorite genres. Black and White had its problems at the time but looking back noone ever really got that close again. Could do another Populous too.

 

[Data4]

Inb4 Creature DLC.

 

[KeighnMcDeath]

The scammer and con man is back. And he is still working with his studio 22cans, same people that abandoned Godus. Their last game was an NFT grift called 'Legacy' that was obviously terrible, and this new shit seems to borrow that same 'assemble shit from different parts' mechanic from that game, mixed with Black & White and possession from Dungeon Keeper. Either way, looks fake and gay, and it will be shit because Molyneux is involved. If you are excited, you are a massive retard

Here is gameplay of Legacy, so you can see this is the same crap

You can even feed them rats. Does he peruse the codex or something?

You know, I look at part of the beginning moving through the wilderness and I ponder if I could draw the areas I hiked with that same builder? Probably some sort of unity thing eh? I dunno. Fuck if I could program but I could mess around in a construction set.

 

[Taxnomore]

Is this game still alive ?

 

[KeighnMcDeath]

Go to steam and uh..... nada.

 

[Inec0rn]

I would be willing to give Molyneux a chance despite his track record, but this game just seems like a hodge podge of random idea's from his previous games. There doesn't seem to a be a clear direction to this.. it looks on course to derail again.

is it tower defense? is it a sim? is it a god game? what's my goal in the game?

 

[RobotSquirrel]

I would be willing to give Molyneux a chance despite his track record

How about no. Molyneux post-Black and White 1 has been pulling shit after shit. Don't be an apologist for him, listen to what a lot of Ex-bullfrog say about him because its pretty telling he was always a bit of a ego bloated lying prick. He's well past his expiration date. I even knew someone that worked at lionhead and I asked him about Molyeneux, and he pretty much confirmed that Molyeneux tends to lock himself in an office with his yes men and doesn't engage at all with anyone else, he had a reputation for being extremely smug to those who weren't in his inner circle.