Complete Guide to Best Parody Account In Gaming Hangs Up Its Hat After 17 Years:...

Peter Molyneux's last game is coming in April, and that means it's time for his social media doppleganger to ride off into the sunset.

Masters of Albion is coming in April, and after that designer Peter Molyneux says he's done: It will be his last game ever. Whether that holds up over the long term remains to be seen, but his promised retirement from the industry has also triggered the end of one of the best and longest-running videogame parody social media accounts: After 17 years, Peter Molydeux is calling it quits.

The Peter Molydeux account was launched on Twitter in 2009 by artist Adam Capone, poking gentle, even affectionate fun at Molyneux by posting short, bizarre ideas for game concepts: "Imagine a game in which you can date and form a deep meaningful relationship with your weapons," for instance, or, "Imagine a game where you can do anything but once you do it you can never do it again."

It didn't take long before the account exploded in popularity, and if you have any doubt about that, be aware that there's an entire, impressively detailed Wikipedia page dedicated to it. Some of the ideas shared by Molydeux were very funny, but it didn't take long before something even funnier happened: People began to notice that some of them were actually kind of interesting, too.

Peter Molydeux inspired the MolyJam in 2012, resulting in 280 games inspired by Molydeux tweets; MolyJam 2, the following year, shifted directly slightly by basing game concepts on actual Molyneux quotes, like, "I still have nightmares about holding German sausages over my head."

I think one of the big reasons the Peter Molydeux account was successful is that it was never mean-spirited. I called Molyneux "the game industry's biggest bullshitter" when the Masters of Albion launch date was announced earlier this week, but I also said it's a term used by most of us with a certain affection, and Peter Molydeux had a similar outlook: Molyneux's overly-excitable ambition may have caused all of us to groan and say "come on, Peter" at least once, but it always seemed genuine, too. He wasn't selling something, like a high-priced executive on stage in a leather jacket or cool t-shirt: He's just a weird dude with impossibly huge ideas.

I think that was most aptly reflected by Molyneux's participation in that 2012 MolyJam, which he kicked off with an impassioned speech about the need for innovation and creativity instead of "the same pap that's being pumped out year after year."

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Source: PC Gamer