Molyneux on the Vanity of Gamers

Fable 2 is turning out to be a fantasy game unlike any other, with a new feature announced almost every time Molyneux opens his mouth. At a games industry event in Brighton, he sat down for a chat with Gamasutra to discuss using vanity as an incentive. "Fable 2 will take a similar dramatic approach to the concept. Drained of health points and laid out on the ground, players will have the choice of losing experience points - the game's key method of building up a selection of fearsome fighting moves - and immediately jumping up to regain the action, or letting the enemy close in and work them over with stabs, kicks and punches ... Worse than that, when you eventually get up again to fight another day, the marks of your beating will remain for all to see." These scars will be important, somehow, in Fable 2 online mode, a topic they still aren't discussing in detail.

Comments

Re:Vanity in one game

[Pluvius]

Uh, I do most of those things because they're quicker to type and/or make more sense, not because they make me feel like some awesome smark.

"SKU:" Quicker to type than "version," less ambiguous than "model."
"Squenix:" Quicker to type.
"Shmups:" An abbreviation of "shoot-'em-ups," not "shooters." Shooters make up a totally different genre. I usually type it out, but I have no problem with people who use the abbreviation.
"Roguelike:" OK, genius, tell us how you would describe those RPGs that contain randomized dungeons and a focus on challenging, complex gameplay in just one word. BTW, your petulance about people who haven't played Rogue makes you the elite asshole if anything.
"Shiggy:" Now that's just stupid, and no one I know uses it seriously.

Any other retarded complaints you'd like to make about terms that gamers have agreed on to make communication easier?

Rob

Re:Unlike any other?

[Hatta]

Unlike any other? I dunno, sounding a LOT like Fable 1 so far.

Is that a bad thing? Fable is the best adventure/RPG hybrid I've played since Quest for Glory 4. My only complaint is that it was too short. Seemed like it was just warming up and then it ended. My girlfriend actually got a bit sniffly when we found out there was no more Fable.

Re:Vanity in one game

[bigstrat2003]

Your analogy is flawed. Anyone who continues to invest time into games, no matter how many games they invest time into, no matter how much time they invest, is a gamer. Obviously, someone who plays a game once, and then never touches it again, isn't a gamer, however, someone who just plays Halo is. I'm sorry you don't like Halo, or whatever it is that causes you to use that horribly flawed analogy, but those people ARE gamers.