Molyneux calls Oblivion a 20,000 page book that you’re unlikely to finish
When questioned about rival games in an interview with T3, Lionhead’s Peter Molyneux has voiced his opinion on Oblivion, the absolutely huge RPG that was release by Bethesda back in 2006.
“[A]s a designer, if I hear ’sixty or seventy hours’, then in my mind that is the equivalent of giving me a book that is twenty thousand pages long. And if I said to you, here’s a fantastic book, go and read that… Are you likely to finish a twenty thousand page book? No,” he remarks
“So in Fable 2, the story lasts thirteen to fourteen hours and by the end of that story what you are like, what you look like and how the world treats you is completely up to you,” he continued. If you want to be evil or good or kind or cruel, then that’s totally up to you. With Oblivion it was basically all about me killing things”
Fable 2 is out at the end of this week, and according to recent review it seems to be a lot better than a paperback edition.
7 comments ↓
Surrealist
October 21st, 2008
What a massive cop-out. I want 60 or 70 hours from a game that should be huge, that means I can keep coming back to it until I finish it. Urgh.
morriss
October 21st, 2008
Thanks to videogaming247 for cherry picking the quote to make this story…oh wait.
Thomas
October 21st, 2008
It’s not that uncommon for two different people to read an interview and come up with the same kind of news story, which is what happened in this case.
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Faroon
October 21st, 2008
He has a point – I don’t have enough time to play every hour of the day, so a quick game is an attractive option. But having said that, if the game is good enough (and Oblivion was), those 100 hours gameplay are worth every minute!
Nogert
October 21st, 2008
Yes you wouldn’t read a 20 thousand page book, but this is a game, I’ll admit I completed probably about 60 percent of oblivion, 40 percent being the main story.
Now my all my other friends completed about 60 percent but the 20 percent of things that happened that wasn’t main story was different to mine.
I enjoyed chatting about experiences and side quests I’d found in oblivion, and so did they, I don’t think games like oblivion are supposed to be complete fully, it’s so that everyone gets a different experience.
And to PM, in oblivion when you finish, yes, you aren’t left with much but what exactly did Fable offer? after you completed it?
Domstercool
October 21st, 2008
I must be one of the unlikely people then, since I finished all of Oblivion
Monkey Rimmer
October 23rd, 2008
I finished the Main Quest in Oblivion, however do still have some minor quests to finish…. but I loved playing it so much that I was glad it lasted so long! I don’t wanna pay premium for a 10 minute experience! I hope Fable 2 doesn’t disappoint, but then if it does, I’ve always got the Fallout 20,000 page story to start with haven’t I?!