During the course of a very agreeable interview yesterday in which we discussed latest project The Movies (more on that later in the week), Molyneux revealed to C&VG the very first details on Lionhead’s newest outing Project Dimitri.
Nothing has previously been known about the game, other than a mysterious logo which appeared on the official Lionhead site, but wrapping up the interview, Molyneux was clearly in the mood to unburden, much to the horror of his PR staff.
Concluding our talk with: “We’re doing lots of Fable stuff at the moment, lots of Black & White 2 stuff, lots of Movies stuff …and we’ve also got this project called Dimitri, which I can now give you a tiny bit more detail on.”
“I can tell you what the game’s about …would you like to know what the game’s about?” Of course we would…
“It’s a game about [pause for dramatic drum roll] …you. It allows anyone who plays the game to relive their life, their entire individual life. That’s a pretty ambitious concept.” While our jaw dropped to the floor, Lionhead PR hastily intervened with the effect of a virtual gagging order.
You know, I was ruminating on my own “alt disease” in MMOs these days (my tendency to only play to a certain level in any given character/race/profession combination, quit, and start up something entirely different), and I came to a conclusion that it all ties into a regret/alternative fantasy about the beginnings of my own life. What if I had made choice X instead of choice Y? That’s a constant thought in my head, and has been with me for many years now.
If a game could replicate my life to such an extent that I could live out that fantasy…
“It’s a game about [pause for dramatic drum roll] …you. It allows anyone who plays the game to relive their life, their entire individual life. That’s a pretty ambitious concept.” While our jaw dropped to the floor, Lionhead PR hastily intervened with the effect of a virtual gagging order.
For God’s sake Molyneux, would you just shut the hell up.
Seriously, despite Lionhead’s consistently poor “bullshit : actual game content” ratio, I still was willing to give the fella the benefit of the doubt, especially after his post-Fable “maybe I should just shut the hell up” Mea Culpa, but now there’s this and I’m ready to, well, not bother giving him the benefit of the doubt any more. Ha! Take that, you over-hyping limey bastard!
So if my Simitri is playing a video game that would make me sick to my stomach would he get sick to his stomach? Would I get sick to my stomach by watching him? Would Project Dimitri make me sick just from playing it normally. Would that make my Simitri sick?
I’m going to play this just to get myself laid. :(
Lamest game ever? I don’t think so. Imagine doing anything you wanted? Joining the military, becoming a merc. A commercial airline pilot. A ninja, a pirate. A butterfly…err, maybe not. But you get the point.
The deeper question is, what would happen if your in-game character goes out and buys a game which allows them to play out their life on a computer? That would be fractally awesome to the power of infinite recursion.
Lamest game ever? I don’t think so. Imagine doing anything you wanted? Joining the military, becoming a merc. A commercial airline pilot. A ninja, a pirate. A butterfly…err, maybe not. But you get the point.[/quote]
It’s easy to imagine all kinds of things about an imaginary game.
There’s nothing I yearn for more than to be able to play a video game that simulates myself doing things that I would be doing if I weren’t playing a video game. Maybe it’ll be a disc that when you load it up, it just tells you to press the power button on your console.
Lamest game ever? I don’t think so. Imagine doing anything you wanted? Joining the military, becoming a merc. A commercial airline pilot. A ninja, a pirate. A butterfly…err, maybe not. But you get the point.[/quote]
But we can already do those things in games. Not all in the same game, sure, but if you can be both an airline pilot or a ninja in this game, I’ll buy you a copy.
