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Details of Fable III are beginning to trickle out. We’ve seen screenshots, received clues as to setting and artistic direction and been promised Basil Fawlty as a wardrobe assistant. In a talk this afternoon at GDC ‘10, Peter “bold claims” Molyneux touched upon the previously teased system of “followers”, comparing its implementation in Fable III to Twitter’s spiralling network of sandwich updates.
“I Twitter now and, you know, I’ve got followers on Twitter”, said the Lionhead boss, sparking awful rumours net-wide of ham-fisted automatic updates informing friend lists as to the density and pungency of each Albion crowd-pleasing bum-whistle. Despite Molyneux’s misleading compliments for the social networking site’s “interesting mechanic”, Microsoft themselves were quick to reassure gamers that “Peter meant [...] he was inspired by the ‘followers’ mechanic on Twitter, and its influence can be seen specifically in the ‘Follower’ feature”.
Personally, the further we keep games from extending their meta-tendrils into Twitter and Facebook, the better. This year’s heavenly removal of Mafia Wars and Farmville notifications may just have been unbalanced had Molyneux’s flapping gums really meant that real world, spamming popularity was the key point of innovation in the upcoming iteration of Lionhead’s dog walking simulation.
Via: Joystiq
Speaking with Computer and Video Games Peter Molyneux said that it will be “[a]lmost impossible to form an inappropriate relationship” with Milo in his Natal project unveiled in the Microsoft press conference.
Oh Peter, you really do underestimate humanity. People are going to be showing that poor boy pictures of penises from day one, not to mention trying to do all manner of other inappropriate things. I would have thought such a master of “innovation” as Peter Molyneux would understand that if people can do something they will, just because they can.
I’m sure they have built in a hilarious response to swearing, but just how far can they go to make sure people aren’t doing inappropriate things to Milo without breaking the immersion or limiting the actual interactions you have with him? As many of you know I’m not really sold on the whole ‘Project Natal’ thing yet, and won’t be until I get my grubby mitts on the tech. But even I will have to see how far the technology can be pushed once it finally does arrive.
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