Chris Taylor Recommends Mythos in IGN Interview
In a recent interview, regarding CES2008, Chris Taylor (designer of Dungeon Siege, Total Annihilation, and the upcoming game, Space Siege among others), added a little plug for Flagship Seattle’s little tugboat title, Mythos. It’s a short plug, but if a tiny, still-in-Beta game like this can catch the eye of a rival developer so well, it’s definitely worth noting.
The context, and the plug:
IGN: The PC gaming landscape is obviously changing right now. What are your thoughts on that, where do you think it’s headed?
Chris Taylor:: It’s going online in a lot of way, but it’s absolutely going into an online authentication. It’s kind of going into an online transaction-y kind of a way because we need new ways to monetize it, but that’s not what it really means across the board. What it really means to me is that PC gaming wants to reach more people, not just the hardcore guys, it wants to reach people who have three year old systems. I’d say four but I think three is enough. I personally would like to see gaming reach anybody who would have walked past a Pac-Man game 25 – 30 years ago and said “hey that looks cool.” I think we’ve lost those people. In fact, I’ve been saying that the last couple of years. I read a question from an interview and Nolan Bushnell said something like that, and I went “he’s got it right, that’s exactly right.” We screwed up, because…well in a way we’ve corrected it over the last five or six years with casual gaming, but casual gaming right now is arguably too casual and we need to thicken it up a little bit, we need to hardcore it up a little bit but not too much. But we’re at two extremes. We’re at casual on one end, and hardcore [on the other end].
A game called Mythos from Flagship [developer of Hellgate: London] that’s in beta is an absolutely fantastic game and I would point people towards it. It’s a ton of fun, that feels to me that it’s just right on the money. My wife and I, we can play it together, and we can play it with the kids, it’s great.
Whoo! Mythos is garnering professional attention. Good news!
~Sulfuric
