Comments on: Decade Feature – 2001: Black & White

By: Three Moves Ahead Episode 40 – Listeners Write Back

Three Moves Ahead Episode 40 – Listeners Write Back — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 17:25:42 +0000

[...] Geryk on MOO3 Julian on Populous Rob Zacny on Black & White Solium Infernum Live [...]

By: FooManchu

FooManchu — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 01:50:49 +0000

“All my frustration at the broken, boring, and semi-playable game started coming out in an endless series of slaps across my creature’s face. Once it started cringing and cowering, I moved onto the villagers.”

Everything from this paragraph on in your article mirrored exactly what I did with this game. It’s uncanny.

I would also like to add thanks for including this in your decade feature write-up. We don’t need another “top 10 best of…” list.

By: MattR

MattR — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 22:47:59 +0000

Now I feel bad for giving a copy of B&W2 to someone I actually liked. Oops.

By: Cameron Goble

Cameron Goble — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:05:46 +0000

B&W left such a bad taste in my mouth, it forever spoiled Peter Molyneux for me. I had grown to worship him and his team at Bullfrog, especially with Dungeon Keeper — oh Peter, what happened? Now every time he opens his mouth, I feel a dark shadow of cynicism rise up like bile in my throat.

I want to love B&W. I want to love the giant cow. But the reviewer gets it right: the game is so inept at interpreting my godliness that moral fly right out the window. I wonder if something like that is happening on a macrocosmic scale: injustice exists because the universe has a crappy interface.

By: Rob Zacny

Rob Zacny — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:21:49 +0000

Yeah, I realized after posting that MOO3 was the bad MOO. But I never played it because I was too busy having fun with this. Still, I have a hard time imagining it could be worse than B&W.

By: Troy

Troy — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:16:07 +0000

Anyone who would consider MOO3 a happier strategy memory doesn’t remember the game at all.