Comment overview of molyneux's career (Score 1) 79
populous is defined as a game in which you play a god, with the ability to sculpt terrain, buildings, or feelings of your minions and thus indirectly affecting the outcome of their actions in some way.
populous - its like sim city 3. youre a god. your actions have indirect results.
populous 23 etc - populous
theme park - populous, except the consequences of your actions become even more obscure. what will happen if i put a hamburger stand here? perhaps in the time it would take to write my masters thesis i could figure which actions create what effect on my park. granted, i can see how someone might possibly enjoy this type of game but then again its the type of people that love to play populous over and over.
syndicate - i'd be inclined to think that this had nothing to do with molyneux. because it was a rad game. specifically, what you want to happen usually happens unless you make a mistake.
magic carpet - i played this demo on a demo cd. even though it isn't memorable to me at all, simply seeing it in action puts me in the 95th percentile of gamers. one thing we can say about this guy in his favor is that he doesn't give up. kind of like an overhyped derek smart.
dungeon keeper - populous indoors. except this time your people have rpgish levels and the job is to kill people rather than just expand. also i remember you had to like pick up gold and creatures with a hand cursor. i vaguely recall liking this game.
black and white - a poorly executed version of populous. what the fuck is happening? why is it happening? the answer is i dont care.
fable - i find it interesting that in the ~5 minutes of my life that i devoted to looking at fable websites, not one told me what the game was about. its a story based rpg or a black and white clone or a totally open ended morality based rpg reality simulator or... fuck it its just another populous
populous - its like sim city 3. youre a god. your actions have indirect results.
populous 23 etc - populous
theme park - populous, except the consequences of your actions become even more obscure. what will happen if i put a hamburger stand here? perhaps in the time it would take to write my masters thesis i could figure which actions create what effect on my park. granted, i can see how someone might possibly enjoy this type of game but then again its the type of people that love to play populous over and over.
syndicate - i'd be inclined to think that this had nothing to do with molyneux. because it was a rad game. specifically, what you want to happen usually happens unless you make a mistake.
magic carpet - i played this demo on a demo cd. even though it isn't memorable to me at all, simply seeing it in action puts me in the 95th percentile of gamers. one thing we can say about this guy in his favor is that he doesn't give up. kind of like an overhyped derek smart.
dungeon keeper - populous indoors. except this time your people have rpgish levels and the job is to kill people rather than just expand. also i remember you had to like pick up gold and creatures with a hand cursor. i vaguely recall liking this game.
black and white - a poorly executed version of populous. what the fuck is happening? why is it happening? the answer is i dont care.
fable - i find it interesting that in the ~5 minutes of my life that i devoted to looking at fable websites, not one told me what the game was about. its a story based rpg or a black and white clone or a totally open ended morality based rpg reality simulator or... fuck it its just another populous
