Our latest instalment of Pixel Perfect is the hospital sim Theme Hospital. Developed by Bullfrog during the “Golden Age” of simulation gaming, Theme Hospital was a huge success and sold over 4 million copies worldwide. Its simple design and fast-paced gameplay has allowed it to stand the test of time and it still holds up today.
Yesterday FULLSYNC's Josh had to go to the hospital for a small operation. It wasn’t anything major, just a case of having something removed. But, whilst he was there, it got him thinking about Theme Hospital.
Horror games are the best. The tense, creepy atmosphere that builds over hours of play before reaching its pinnacle is a incredible feeling. I love being scared... but only when I am prepared for it.
When Peter Molyneux – the charismatic designer of Fable, Populous, and Black & White, among other seminal video games – announced a couple of years ago that he was going to stop talking so much, a lot of people didn't believe him. He was the seventh person inducted into the Hall of Fame of the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences, after designers like Nintendo's Shigeru Miyamoto, Civilization creator Sid Meier, Id Software founder John Carmack, and SimCity creator Will Wright. He was given a Lifetime Achievement Award at the Game Developers Choice Awards in 2011. He was even honored with an OBE, the Order of the British Empire, in the 2004 New Year's Honors list. Yet by the point in his career that he was for this particular announcement, Molyneux had became almost as famous for not delivering on grand pronouncements as he was for delivering extraordinary video games.
This is the same jerk that said they will not fix the game because only 1.5% of all gamers get to the end anyway? I still wasted 59 dollars and hours of game play and especially the frustration trying to get around the bug until I heard his reply to it.
Yes this interview is WAY after He said that. I don't forget people that screw me over.
@darthv72:
The example of Rare, one of the few surviving studios - in name only - would disagree.
@Bahamut
Pure speculation based on what? Regardless of what you think Sony is a business trying to remain profitable. FYI in 2014 Sony downsized by over 1,000 employees, Santa Monica Studios (i.e. Wipeout) being part of the casualties. The year before Sony had downsized by 10,000 employees.
Sony shuts down their handhelds too
@bahamut fable isnt dead.. lionhead just sucked and got shut down. FIII was garbage.
Yeah they do, but not nearly like Microsoft or EA. Sony has only done two.
Are you really trying to say that Sony is at the same level as Microsoft or EA? That is madness, little kitten.
I realize you xbots are desperate to lash out at Sony for whumping you this gen, but there's something to be said for losing gracefully.
@USMC_POLICE
How did they let Socom die? They came out with Confrontation and Socom 4. Confrontation was really good only after 6 months of it's release. Then they killed it with the DLC. Socom 4 was Zipper's redemption but failed even worse than Confrontation and with no way to fix because it was just awful. Zipper killed Socom. Zipper also messed up MAG towards the end with the crappy DLC that you couldn't even get into because you couldn't get enough people to play. Also, Zipper made a meh Vita game as well. Zipper had a lot of chances to redeem themselves has developers. I just think Bend Studios didn't want to make another Syphon shooter because they are still around and are now making a new IP.
"Sony wouldn't let a franchise like Fable just die."
But they would kill Motor Storm?
But they've made games before being shut down. Have long running histories of making games, while under Sony's umbrella, before being shut down. Versus being known for making games, being bought my MS, not making game for years or making one game after many years of nothing, only to be shut down before that one game under MS is released. If its released.
Brother man you sound pretty salty about Xbox. Alavrez kingdom king for a reason
Ea and Ms are the black holes of the gaming industry... gamers are finally coming around to their bullshit.
I love his games, but yeah, he promises much more, every time. I remember when Fable used to be called "Project Ego" and the game he described in the years during creation... and then what he delivered. He's a visionary, but it's like he doesn't understand what the game developers are really capable of.
Fable was the game that made me fall in love with the xbox brand so I'll alwayd have a soft spot for him.
I hated him but the more I learned about the business the more I learn that he really might have had not much control over what he was paid to do.
This guy is a disgrace.
He talks BS about his games until launch, then begs for forgiveness afterwards, time and time again.
Just shut up and deliver.
If not, just retire and suck on some Blackpool rock.
I'm sure he feels perfectly fine once gazing upon his sellout bank account, if he even truly regrets it at all anyways. Which I highly doubt he does.
Exactly what i was thinking, didnt complain about all the monies tehy must have paid him
They should really make a remake of this, so long as it doesnt have any of this always-online crap.
I'd just love to see how creative the developers could be with a remake.