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[IbizaPocholo]

We talk to Peter Molyneux & Mark Webley about the development of Black & White and investigate who is responsible for abandoning this PC Gaming classic.

0:00 - Intro
1:57 - Founding Lionhead
4:22 - Building the Team
7:22 - Artificial Intelligence
9:51 - No Interface
11:24 - Singing Sailors
13:36 - Hype
16:45 - Crunch
18:55 - Legacy
21:00 - Who Owns Black & White?
23:48 - Conclusions
26:58 - Credits

 

[Ghost of Caelid]

We have like 0 good god games and that a travesty. The concept of the genre is one of my favorites

 

[poppabk]

We have like 0 good god games and that a travesty. The concept of the genre is one of my favorites

I desperately want a good God game for VR. The sense of scale is so much more dramatic in VR - you don't have the Father Ted small versus far away effect.

 

[pqueue]

i wanted to play as the monkey, poop in my hands, and launch it at mine enemies.

 

[Doom85]

Legit saw the title and thought some deluded Pokémon fan felt Gamefreak should have made a Pokémon Black 3 and White 3.

 

[bender]

Kind of stretching the meaning of the word classic.

 

[dave_d]

We have like 0 good god games and that a travesty. The concept of the genre is one of my favorites

I thought Populous was fun.

 

[TheDreadBaron]

Kind of stretching the meaning of the word classic.

Disagree. To my limited knowledge no one has done it better since.

 

[bender]

Disagree. To my limited knowledge no one has done it better since.

Surprised no one has cleared that low bar.

 

[TheDreadBaron]

Surprised no one has cleared that low bar.

To be fair I’m not sure how well it actually holds up, I remember you could pet a cow and that was novel and fun.