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Molyneux: Motion Controllers Making “Designers Sweat”
Lionhead boss Peter Molyneux believes that “poor old designers” are having a tough time getting to grips with new motion control technology.
“All of this stuff is making all the designers sweat,” he told Eurogamer. “I've met lots of designers at GDC and we're all very bleary eyed at the moment because every rule we've got, we're having to throw away. We haven't got buttons any more - we've got motions and arms legs and faces, and that really is tough.
“I don't think the first wave of these motion control titles will be what you expect,” Molyneux added. “Just as with every hardware chain, it's the second wave where they usually come up with stuff that's interesting. So the second wave could be really cool… Whether we utilise that hardware in a real way or whether we just take shortcuts, that's really going to be where we succeed or not.”
Warren Spector also spoke this week about the new design rules required to work with motion controllers, which he views as a threat to traditional gaming. According to the famed designer, who’s currently at work on Disney’s Epic Mickey, the motion control bandwagon runs the risk of "throwing away our entire history".
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Has he just said the first games with the controller will be pants?
If the first wave are pants nobody will buy it. If nobody buys it, it won't be worth the investment of developers to produce good games cos the install base will be too low.
I want motion control to work and have great content but it sounds like he's already trying to manage our expectations.
It's that smug look on his face...and the thought of all the EDGE staff fawning around him, licking his arse...utterly risible.
Tomorrow in Edge Online: Molyneux takes a dump.....'Major Nelson' wipes his arse.
God knows where we would be without our regular updates from this cool cat.
Pipe & slippers, anyone?.
Sounds like a good time to be a developer that just gets on with making good games and leave the gimiky rubbish to everyone else.
Motion controllers make players sweat.
You'd think that the "first wave" of motion control games would have been stuff on the Wii, but it hasn't really taken off for core titles. As a result, I agree with him, the first wave might be all kinds of nonsense..
The "first wave" never arrived on the Wii because the vast majority of its motion-controlled games *were* shovelware crap. Nintendo knowingly and willingly pandered to the most common-denominator crap to sell boxes to moms, kids, and grandparents. That demographic, for the most part, wasn't interested in the deep, detailed, and HD games that the hardcore demographic was looking for. Thus, the Wii audience was fairly polarized from the PS360 audience from the get-go.
Your mommy shouldn't let you troll.
Whatever gave you that impression? Was it the calm and objective analysis, or the mature username?