Hey Molyneux, please be quiet
Sometimes the man just makes me cringe.
The latest bout of my laughing at Molyneux was brought about by happing upon an article on IGN where Molyneux is claiming Fable III has ‘the greatest cast of any video game’. Now, I know that they’ve got some great actors in their voice cast, including John Cleese and Steven Fry, both very funny, but the best cast ever is just a ridiculous claim. It’s so very childlike that you have to wonder if Molyneux is even aware of how easily and often he’ll find himself ridiculed for such a statement.
Now, if this was a game developer who’d come through on his huge game promises in the past, then perhaps there’d be less of the ridicule, but he isn’t. He’s made huge promises with the Fable franchise and has failed to deliver on many occasions. His ideas of what constitutes a good video game sometimes baffle me, and it’s a little sad to see great actors working on less than great games.
Sometimes it seems, when one is reading or watching an interview with Molyneux, that he genuinely believes that he’s the most amazing game developer out there, but you have to wonder if it’s more of a media ploy; that he’s playing up his bold claims and eccentricities to get more coverage for the upcoming Fable title.
Either way, it’s both mildly irritating and rather funny. Apparently they’ve gone about voice recording in a way never done before. From what Molyneux said it just sounds like they’ve gotten the actors to ad lib a lot of the dialogue, in which case it’s really their great work not his, but anyway.
I’ll still not buy or play the game, but these little boasts of Molyneaux’s are often good for a laugh.
