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Molyneux's Fabled Fable Finally Close To Release
Rainier Wolfecastle writes "A couple weeks ago, we had the opportunity to visit Peter Molyneux and Simon and Dene Carter in Guildford, UK, for some hands-on time with Fable, their highly anticipated, finally ready for release Xbox action-RPG." Kikizo admits "Fable has been a long time coming, and for better or worse the media has elevated expectations considerably", but likes what it sees, calling the September 14th-due title "huge, gorgeous and a joy to play." Eurogamer also weighs in with impressions, expressing some reservations despite "feeling relatively upbeat" about the title, explaining: "As much as we enjoyed our time with it, it's the sort of game - typical of Peter Molyneux really - that we can't really assess piecemeal."
This is the same clown and same pre-acclaim from Black and White? No thanks, I'll wait a LOONNNGGGGG time and see if it is a game or another exercise in video game masturbation.
"ooh, look at my creature. I taught it not to eat it's own feces."
Whatever happened to his game 'The Movies'?
Jesus was all right but his disciples were thick and ordinary. -John Lennon
Peter Molyneux has a long history of promising the world with his games and then failing the deliver. Black and White was a joke. Remember when Dungeon Seige was supposed to have a Dungeon Master creating a dungeon for adventurers in a multiplayer enivronment? And then it turned out to be Sim Dungeon. They guy's all vision but never produces anything ... well, it will be a cold day in hell when I plonk down $50 to take a look at his incomplete "vision" if there isn't a solid game in there someplace too. What I find even more amazing is the way the gaming press lines up to kiss his ass. If Molyneux farts freaking Gamespy runs an article about it. He's almost as overrated as Richard Garriot, only (as far as I know) Molyneux isn't a nut case who dresses up and plays castle all the time.
So maybe if Fable gets rave reviews AND it cheap AND comes with a hooker I'll look into getting a copy. But I've been duped my PM's mastery of PR one too many times.