Molyneux: Fable 3 Kinect features needed more development time

There needs to be a new feature titled: Yep, More Molyneux.

Of course, it couldn't be a weekly or daily feature. Maybe.. bi-hourly?

I hope that there isn't any Kinect anything when it comes to Fable 3....it'll just crap up a perfectly good game w/ some cheesy bullsh*t...

Aw, dang. No doubt Peter was going to throw in some awesome movement controls like "pet your dog", "wave to bystander", or perhaps "hail carriage taxi."

When will the tech finally catch up with all of Molyneux's groundbreaking ideas?

This is the one and only time I will support the "ship now fix later" mentality poisoning the game industry today. Ship the game now and fix motion controls later. I say this mainly because I could care less about motion controls ...well I do like them but they only really enhance certain games, odds are yours isn't one... just get the damn game out and if you never bother with fixing the motion controls, so be it.

When they realise that controller-less gaming is actually a very stupid idea for most games ?

When they admit precision is key for any proper game ...

When they realise buttons are not just some fancy extras on a controller but are actually a necessity ?

When they realise that human beings are pretty useless without tools and its tools that have helped us build our civilisations, not just pretending to hold tools ?

Just some ideas ..

Another reason I won't be buying Kinect.

I'll save up for nintendo 3DS

Gee, that's too bad, Pete. I guess I'll have to pick up Fable III "at some time, it's just not gonna be at launch."

At least this'll make q4 a little easier for me to schedule.

Kinect to Fable III is what co-op is to Fable II?

another massive fail for Kinect!

Kinect is falling apart. Now even the pre-release marketing hype can't hold together.

KS has just put too much on the shoulders of Kinect. Just as Sony has with Move. They both want motion gaming to be seen as revolutionary and to promise amazing things to gamers and to bring huge boosts in sales.

But between problems with the technology and just the ill-suitedness of motion controls to "hardcore" (precision, long-session) gaming.

*Sing to the Stonecutters chant*

Who's the boss at Lionhead?
Who made sure your dog is dead?
Molyneux, Molyneux
Who hypes up all of his games?
Who makes unrealistic claims?
Molyneux, Molyneux
Who lets you fart in some guys face?
Who'd be impossible to, replace?
Molyneux, Molyneux
Who is dropping support for kinect?
Who probably has his own sect?
Molyneux, Molyneux

I know a lot of people like this guy, but he always comes off as a pompous ass to me. Not so much here, but almost everything he says is hot air and he really hasn't made that many great video games. Fable is cool and all, but he always acts like he's the smartest guy in the room and his concepts are sooooooo groundbreaking. (listen to his little rant on leveling up)

Also the things he says are soooooo vague! IF he WAS a betting man....... I THINK the future is PROBABLY bright. How do you go from definitely to "Ehhhhhhhh well we may possibly do it at some point if we feel like it and we can get the god awful tech to do something that is remotely interesting. "

It's funny that he was among the first to get his hands on the tech and is supposed to be "god's gift to gamers" (in his own mind) and even he can't get any interesting implementation of of Kinect!

@yinzjagz - You people really need to find someone else to hate, someone who doesn't contribute a bloody thing to gaming. Molyneux works his arse off, not only coming up with cool new stuff and designing EXCELLENT games, but managing a boatload of studios including Lionhead and Rare.

So he gets enthusiastic, so he sometimes oversells and under delivers, so what? His games are still great, and he owns up to his faults more than any individual developer in the industry. He hardly has an air of thinking he's 'God's gift to gamers.' He comes off as being genuinely in love with what he does, and eager to share his work with the world ... that's a damn good thing for someone in any sort of creative position.

Molyneux deserves to speak his mind, it's not like he's hurting anyone. And I look forward to playing whatever the hell he comes up with, seeing as he's had a hand in some of my absolute favourite games. The guy doesn't need to stop, it's people like you - and seemingly the rest of the Joystiq lot - that need to take a breather.

I'm not here ranting and raving about the developers I'm not terribly fond of every time they make some claptrap statement or develop another underwhelming game (Jaffe, Bleszinski) ... because they work hard, they contribute, they make gaming better, and they deserve their recognition. What have you lot done worth a damn lately?

Keep speaking your mind Molyneux, I find it fascinating.

I like my controller. I could care less about controller-less play, and I don't have any fantasies about playing all of my games either without a controller or with a chuck-like device like the Wii. The main reason I do not own a Wii to this day is that I don't care for the chuck, and the fact that it is forced upon Wii players instead of giving them an option. If I want a workout I can do it without my game console being involved! (And what is really disappointing in the Wii's example is that the Wavebird controller was the best ever made). I am hoping that this supid Kinect thing never takes off so MS won't try and force everyone to play that way.

Here is for them never bothering to add the Kinect controls at all. There are games that this kinda thing is perfect for and this is not one of them.

"if he "were a betting man," Kinect would play some role in Fable "at some time, it's just not gonna be at launch.""

You know, I think something similar...

If I was a betting man, Fable will be great at some time, just not at launch of the current one.

I'm sensing a project 10 dollar...

My interest in Kinect continues to die a grisly death.