See Games Differently
See Games Differently
Kotaku Longreads
Alex Walker
Peter Molyneux is crying. I’m not sure how to react to this. Legendary game designers don’t often get emotional with the press. But here’s Molyneux, who has made so many games and done so many interviews over the past two decades, openly weeping into my voice recorder.
Metal Gear wants the player to fail. The game’s rough edges are part of the growing pains of an early genre, but taken in the context of the entire Metal Gear series, these challenges also feel like horrifying defence mechanisms. As Solid Snake infiltrates Outer Heaven, the player intrudes upon the game’s world. Neither are welcome, and if they’re caught, they will be destroyed.
The year was 1999. The studio: Melbourne House. The dream: simple. Make a Mad Max game. Make a Mad Max game in Australia. Make the kind of Mad Max game Australians could be proud of. That dream never came to pass. But for three short months a small team of Australian developers gave it their best shot. This is the story of the Mad Max that never was.
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