Molyneux: Fable 3 is My Least Gimmicky Game

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Molyneux: Fable 3 is My Least Gimmicky Game

Molyneux: Fable 3 is My Least Gimmicky Game​

Admits he never really knows how good the game he's made is until he goes and buys a copy in store.

Fable III is shaping up rather nicely, but what does its creator Peter Molyneux think of his latest piece of work? Asked by VideoGamer.com at gamescom last week if he believed Fable's third outing to be his best game, Molyneux jokingly replied: "Just before it's launched. Of course."

He added: "The actual truth of the matter is I never know the game that I've truly made until the very end. Really, this is the way all games are developed.

"When you go into the bug fixing stage, which we are in now. Fable III went in to the bug fixing stage with 35,000 bugs. Now, that's an impossible number of bugs to fix. That means you have to cull some of those bugs and some of the things that you love you have to lose. At the moment it's got 43 bugs. Few, but we've got to add in all the multiplayer bugs now.

"I'm playing it every single day. I've played it a thousand times, but I've never really played it. It's not until that I walk into a shop and buy a copy and come back home that I really understand what the game is that I've made."

"I mean it is the funniest, the most dramatic, the most crafted, the least confusing, the least gimmicky game I've ever worked on for sure," he concluded before laughing and adding, "but I'll probably be slagging it off in two years time."

Fable III is scheduled for release on October 29, 2010 for Xbox 360. A PC version is also in development.​

 

[GrimWhim]

Re: Molyneux: Fable 3 is My Least Gimmicky Game

That's rather interesting to hear but also it worries me. What exactly did they cull that they have yet to tell us? I do like that PM plays his own game, he might be the only one who does, haha.

 

[tjbyrum1]

Re: Molyneux: Fable 3 is My Least Gimmicky Game

Well I mean, Fable is going to have bugs regardless anyway (as if it applies to this topic).

I think Molyneux simply tries his best to make us a great game, and he really loves the players and wants to add in stuff that we want.

 

[POOP]

Re: Molyneux: Fable 3 is My Least Gimmicky Game

but I'll probably be slagging it off in two years time.

I was right! I knew it!

So they've got about 2 months to get all the bugs axe-murdered then? I don't know much about video game developing, but that doesn't seem like a lot of time, as I expect multiplayer to be a much more complicated debugging than single player. Hopefully they'll be able to release a patch, should any bugs survive the purge.

Also, a kind of weird thing: Grim has 250 posts and 64 rep, tjbyrum has 251 posts and 65 rep. I just thought that was weird.

 

[GrimWhim]

Re: Molyneux: Fable 3 is My Least Gimmicky Game

I was right! I knew it!

So they've got about 2 months to get all the bugs axe-murdered then? I don't know much about video game developing, but that doesn't seem like a lot of time, as I expect multiplayer to be a much more complicated debugging than single player. Hopefully they'll be able to release a patch, should any bugs survive the purge.

Also, a kind of weird thing: Grim has 250 posts and 64 rep, tjbyrum has 251 posts and 65 rep. I just thought that was weird.

I'm not too sure on game development either but two months should be plenty of time to kill off those few bugs. Unless multiplayer adds a whole bunch more in which case... we may get henchmen again. But yes, patches are always there in case some make it past. I just wish they would release a patch for Fable II so Lady Grey will stop disappearing.

Haha, that is odd.

 

[Hillbilly88]

Re: Molyneux: Fable 3 is My Least Gimmicky Game

god i hope we dont get henchmen again
and most games have bugs in them it just is how bad they are, there were some baaaad ones in fable 2, i lost a couple games because i got stuck in a rock or something equally stupid the worst one was half the time i was unable to deselect a villager and everytime i pushed 'y' to shoot it brought up the villagers stats, annyoying as hell, but minor bugs are ok its the bigs ones like that that can ruin a good game because of somthing stupid