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Ori Director Criticises “Snake Oil Salesmen” Behind No Man’s Sky, Cyberpunk, And Fable

“From the perspective of a developer, all of this just sucks”.

Thomas Mahler, the Game Director of Ori and the Blind Forest and Ori and the Will of the Wisps, took to gaming forum ResetEra earlier today to get something off his chest. He’s tired of “snake oil salesmen” (as he calls them) getting hyped up by the games press and consumers, and then failing to deliver on their promises.

“It all started with Molyneux,” he says, describing Peter Molyneux, the infamous British designer behind Black & White, Fable, and Curiosity – What’s Inside The Cube? (spoilers: he was inside the cube). You may remember Molyneux from any one of his PR disasters, including that RPS interview where the first question is “do you think you’re a pathological liar?” Woof.

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