just a reminder

i predict 95 on metacritic for ico collection, i also predict they will unfortunatly cash in, and price it at full price

Preoder is at 40 bucks @amazon

I like it when other developers give other games props. It shows that game developers are an artistic community and it's not just all about the format/platform warz.

Molyneux at his best. 1 respect from me, and I normally can't stand to listen to more than about 30s of what he normally has to say. Still I give him props as a game developer (or at least his game studio). The Fable series is at this moment the only thing making the 360 a potential future purchase for me, so he's doing something right.

Well, I can agree with him on that one.  Ico is one of few 10/10 games for me.

A real masterpiece that exists essentially within it's own class - i.e. it is not clearly of any specific genre nor easy to classify.

Nice to see clear and open discussion from developers, and nice to see Pete just speaking clearly without any hint of hype, self pity or self agrandising.  What's up with him!

"a noble spirit embiggens the smallest man"

Kudos to Mister Molyneux for speaking his mind, even though his Employers may not be too happy about it.

There's something seriously wrong with you people. A guy actually praises a game someone else developed (on a competing system!), and you guys give him shit for it?!

For shame, vgchartz. For shame.

from my viewpoint. as an artist in a different medium. He shouldn't make games like ico.
He should make games how he'd want to make games... and from his hype and descriptions of what his games should be but never come to fruition. They'd be amazing... and probably for me (better than ico).

But everyone has different viewpoints. And maybe he meant he wanted to create a game with the quality of ico. which is a reasonable though. I like radiohead. I don't want to make music like radiohead. But if someone told me my music was of the quality of radiohead I'd be ecstatic... offtopic.

So I'm going to go wtih the controversial viewpoint of he should just make games how he thinks they should be... only follow through completely for the first time.

Fable 1 is okay Fable 2 is good-great. Haven't played fable 3 yet imo.

First of all....How about doing something other than fable already!!

Go back to the drawing board in that head of yours and come up with something unique and creative(as ico)

I know you can do it Molyneux

Well, you can understand his point, too.  If you were a decent painter who had some claim to fame wouldn't you occasionally wish you'd managed to hit - even once - the level of a Picasso or a Matisse?

Despite it's average sales critically Ico in the gaming world seems to be held in that type of regard.

Also, note the context.  He - and the others - were asked in the original article:

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/games-that-define-developers?page=1

to talk about other games that inspired them.  Therefore in context he had to give another title as an example or simply not contribute - so perhaps the OP was a little (unintentionally) misleading in terms of the context of his comments.

Man, Ico gets so much love.  Where's all the love for Out of This World, the game that Fumito Ueda called the direct inspiration for Ico?!?!?

Anyway, it's always nice to see a developer talking about other people's games like this.