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The Epic Story of Black and White
Disgruntled Goat writes " The Guardian Gamesblog recently visited Lionhead Studios, and had a chance to talk to Peter Molyneux about the future of the Black and white series. From the article: 'Among lots of other interesting details, Lionhead chief Peter Molyneux reveals that there will be five installments to the series, each game following the progression of the relationship between the citizens in the game and the god, represented by the player.'"
I'd like to believe you about all of the wonderful things you'll be giving us, but after Fable (possibly the most overhyped game I've ever played) I just can't trust you. What you promise today just might not be there tomorrow.
Lionhead should focus on the game at hand instead of projecting 5 total games in the series. It's a bit worrysome that they're already talking about having 5, and the hype machine might get rolling incredibly early on all these games.
Going along that thread, it says that by game 5, the citizens will outclass their god (player), with examples such as throwing rocks vs. cannons and fireballs vs. atomic bombs. They then say that B&W as a series is focusing on letting the players feel all-powerful and do extraordinary things (at least in the early ones). It seems a bit contradictory, and with the last installment of the game, I have to wonder if it'll even be worth playing. I personally like the theory of manpower vs. godpower in the philosophical sense, but I'm not too sure on the gaming sense. The allure and fun of the B&W series is being omnipotent, and if you strip that out, what will be the game's selling point?