Lionhead boss Peter Molyneux, who has recently talked about being "ashamed" of Fable III's reviews, has now turned his attention to the industry at large, noting that perhaps game makers have fallen into a trap of making the same kinds of games over and over again.
"I love new ideas and innovation. I'm trying to think of a more diplomatic way of saying this, but I'm just a little bit bored of doing things the same way in games. While I love all the drama of modern games there is this sameness about it," he told CVG. "They're essentially the same - one's got a green palette, one's got a grey palette; you're shooting and ducking and diving and it just seems almost on the point of being a little bit like Hollywood where they have got into this rut with their action films."
Molyneux continued, "I'm not saying we've quite got that yet but we're certainly getting towards that. I think mixing things up with emotional gameplay and mixing things up with the way you play and the feeling of connections and Kinect... it feels a bit more refreshing for me. But I'm obviously going to answer like that because I work in computer games."
We're not so sure Kinect is the answer, but then again it's Molyneux's job as a member of Microsoft to promote it. There definitely is a lot of "sameness" happening in this industry, however.
