His enthousiasm is also his strength, without it we might not have Dungeon Keeper or Fable.

His ideas are his strength. His enthusiasm for them turns potential additions into promises into broken promises and shit we'll never see.
He needs to learn the difference between what would be cool and what is actually going to happen.

Or his publishers should give him time and money to do what he wants.

I think some people did that with a programming group once!

I think it was called "Duke Nukem Forever".

Well, it's actually going to be finished, but by an other group.

Nicely done, you win the internet and all of the kittehs...in it? On it? Behind it?

No matter how much money and time you throw at a project, you will never be able to attain some of the things he promises. He actually did say that in the new Fable you can do anything. He just lets himself get so pumped he starts launching into promises that are literally impossible to fulfill. If he could tone it down his games would be probably be thought of a lot higher than they are now, after he built everyone's expectations up and dashed them with another game that is only 'okay'.

Is it even fair to demand from publishers such a high-risk project? Sandbox games are not easy to make and require a lot of money and manpower. Sure there are some games that took a long time to come out and were finanically successful, but how often do those exceptions come out?

The point is that designers can't just demand any amount of money and time from their publishers to let their full dream be realized. If it is a big flop, then that may be a lot of time and money wasted that they may not earn back so easily.

Besides, is it even possible to add the complexity of DF while having current-gen graphics in current-console disks, let alone letting the game run smoothly?

Sometimes letting your creations be known requires sacrifice. I'm sorry if this is hurtful, but sometimes the artist has to let some things go.

LOLLLLLLLLL!!!

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But but Natal!

Wait. A Full blown ecology, individual personalities...

.. He promised Dungeon Keeper would be Dwarf Fortress?

Essentially, yes, actually. It more closely resembled DF than what we got.

Also, the thumbnail imaged you used for this made me totally nostalgic. Ah, the olden days of Ultima Online, when men were men, Reds were reds, and people were running lottery scams down by the bank...

It was my understanding that he also does this because he does not confer with programmers before announcing a feature. IE he comes up with "trees will grow" and then Xbox 1 coders are like "What the hell we can't do that!" and he's like "Oh, sorry about that then."

All of this is possible, though. And all of this will probably end up in Dwarf Fortress at some point or other. Except the mountain bikes.

Funny, the only version of this I'd seen previously was the first 6 panels, the 5th edited to "you can't do anything"

Which I guess works better for posting on /v/, but this is great

Actually this one was inspired by that one, not the other way around

Dammit Weaver how dare you not have created everything I know

His problem is he promotes games the way a politician runs a campaign; tell people what you think they want to hear with no regard for what promises you intend to keep, what promises you can keep, and what things are even possible.

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On top of all that, most of his ideas would be boring in a game anyhow. I mean, planting a tree? Come on.