Forum Overview :: Peter Molyneux's The Movies :: I played it years ago and this game had a lot of potential.

[quote name="skip"]I really like managerial games and the idea of running your own movie studio is a good one. There are a lot of fun ideas like running your studio in different time periods and being able to write your own scripts. It looks pretty good and the controls are pretty intuitive. The problem is that it gets so bogged down in giving you the ability to customize (Star Creator), it forgets to give you a game. The awards section feels tacked on and there doesn't seem much of a penalty or advantage to winning of them. This isn't even getting into the shitty movie rating system. Then we get to the fucking stars and this is what made me uninstall the game. You have to drag the fuckers around to meet the paparazzi or to chat with other stars to make them happy or whatever the fuck. Give me a goddamn talent agent to tell me "Your stars are bored and need more trailers" or "Your stars went on a coke bender. Pay money to silence the press?" instead of having me cater to their whims individually. This is a tycoon game, not The Sims. I don't care and I don't want to care about their individual happiness when I'm running a goddamn movie studio. Better games like Tropico let you see a sprite's stats or history, but wisely decide that you don't have to do anything with that information if you don't want to and give you Ministers to deal with data on a macro level. Molyneux knew better with Dungeon Keeper and Populous. What happened here?[/quote]