Molyneux’s Dumb Comments

Molyneux is a complete idiot in my opinion.  Okay, so he is lazy and can’t think of an explanation of an innovative Wii game that uses a remote.  It’s already innovative with the remote.

Without specifically taking aim at Nintendo’s Wii, designer Peter Molyneux was critical of motion-sensing control schemes at his Combat in Games speech in Leipzig, Germany. Molyneux, excited at first by the prospect of motion-sensing controls mimicking in-game action, has since seemed to sour on the idea: “I realized, when I looked at myself in the mirror, I actually looked really stupid.” Molyneux continued, concerned with the controls causing fatigue, “Even with nothing in my hand, I get tired very, very quickly.”Still, the Fable 2 architect isn’t dismissing the control scheme: “I think motion-sensitivity is very, very useful, but I think the obvious way of doing it — unless you’re dealing with a 15 to 20 minute experience at most of actually being hugely physical — is not where the opportunity lies here.”

Where does the opportunity rest in motion-sensing controls? Not with obvious implementations, Molyneux maintains. He points at the way the Nintendo DS uses the stylus: “What I’ve found really fascinating is not using it to scribble with, but using it in a very clever, innovational way.” Molyneux suggested that innovation in motion-sensing will have to stretch beyond the replication of sword-swinging motions to break new ground.

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