[QUOTE="x-2tha-z"]I picked Blue Dragon. I think a lot of people will be surprised how good this game will be. A definite sleeper hit.
I have no doubts about Mass Effect. It will be awesome.
I just can't get excited about Fable 2. Don't you all remember the first Fable? All the promised content that wasn't there? The whole game was one huge disappointment. Peter Molyneux is a liar. Don't believe anything he says about Fable 2.
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I never followed all the hype about the first Fable and then this Summer I bought it for 99 cents on eBay and I really enjoyed it I thought it was a fun action RPG.
I didn't follow the hype either. I made the decision it was a bad game all by myself. I learned about Molyneux's lies after I played the game.
There's a reason you got it for 99 cents. Even Molyneux appologised on some forum. He said in future he would keep some things to himself until he's certain they would make it into the game. Guess he hasn't learned his lesson.
Here's his full post in case you missed it-
Text from the Lionhead Studios Post - A message from Peter Molyneux.
There is something I have to say. And I have to say it because I love making games. When a game is in development, myself and the development teams I work with constantly encourage each other to think of the best features and the most ground-breaking design possible.
However, what happens is that we strive to include absolutely everything we've ever dreamt of and, in my enthusiasm, I talk about it to anyone who'll listen, mainly in press interviews. When I tell people about what we're planning, I'm telling the truth, and people, of course, expect to see all the features I've mentioned. And when some of the most ambitious ideas get altered, redesigned or even dropped, people rightly want to know what happened to them.
If I have mentioned any feature in the past which, for whatever reason, didn't make it as I described into Fable, I apologise. Every feature I have ever talked about WAS in development, but not all made it. Often the reason is that the feature did not make sense. For example, three years ago I talked about trees growing as time past. The team did code this but it took so much processor time (15%) that the feature was not worth leaving in. That 15 % was much better spent on effects and combat. So nothing I said was groundless hype, but people expecting specific features which couldn't be included were of course disappointed. If that's you, I apologise. All I can say is that Fable is the best game we could possibly make, and that people really seem to love it.
I have come to realise that I should not talk about features too early so I am considering not talking about games as early as I do. This will mean that the Lionhead games will not be known about as early as they are, but I think this is the more industry standard.
Our job as the Lionhead family of studios is to be as ambitious as we possibly can. But although we jump up and down in glee about the fabulous concepts and features we're working on, I will not mention them to the outside world until we've implemented and tested them, and they are a reality.
Thank you for reading.
Peter.
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