Molyneux: Modern games are all essentially the same
They just use different colour palettes
Populous creator, Peter Molyneux has voiced concerns that modern games are becoming boring and samey.
Molyneux has always been at the forefront of the games industry having brought to life series as varied as Black and White, Syndicate and Fable but now he sees that there is little innovation in today's triple-A titles.
He explained: "I love new ideas and innovation. I'm trying to think of a more diplomatic way of saying this, but I'm just a little bit bored of doing things the same way in games. While I love all the drama of modern games there is this sameness about it. They're essentially the same - one's got a green palette, one's got a grey palette; you're shooting and ducking and diving and it just seems almost on the point of being a little bit like Hollywood where they have got into this rut with their action films."
"I'm not saying we've quite got that yet but we're certainly getting towards that," he condinued. "I think mixing things up with emotional gameplay and mixing things up with the way you play and the feeling of connections and Kinect... it feels a bit more refreshing for me. But I'm obviously going to answer like that because I work in computer games."
Molyneux is currently working on the Kinect-powered Fable: The Journey which is rumoured to use some of the tech from his original and slightly creepy Milo demo that he showed off when Kinect was first announced.
Thanks CVG.
