I've been reading a few of the post here and I've been pondering about this in my head since I've heard about Milo and since I've seen what it might be doing, my question is what exactly is going to happen with Milo?.

I know this as been badgered on by a lot of people but I don't see the great appeal of a expensive micro pet that happens to be a 9 year old, it seems a great little gimmick and a cool toy and it does show off what future A.I can be in video games along with the potential of natal, but that's it.

What I'm about to ask here may fall on death ears or they may be no point to it, mainly because I'm sure Devs don't have permission to discuss future gaming products without permission of who ever is publishing the Game/Toy and I doubt there going to give permission to discuss just to please one of the little forum posters around here, but I'm going to ask it any ways because I have a history of being 100% wrong.

What exactly is going to happen with Milo?, is it actually going to be a game?, with a real story that involves a lot of interactivity or is it just going to be a gimmick, honestly I hope its the first option because I doubt many will pay much for something like this, and I can imagine creating this thing hasn't been cheap.

Also I would like to ask the forum dwellers like my self what kind of interesting game could you make out of Milo, personally I think a detective game would work well with Milo, were you can explore the near by area for clues while telling Milo what to collect and using your pen and paper (Plus the Natal Scanner) to draw up evidence.

One last question, will there be some nods to any other Lionhead games here, I would much like to interact with a Hob in this game, talk to it and try to gather information about its tribe/gang through interaction.

P.S if this has already been done I'm sorry I did search but didn't find much on this specific topic.

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"IrishMorn"
If Adon and Sagat step in....ah, what the hell, I'll get drunk and join in on that one.

Peter did say it was going to be a game. But what actually defines a game, what must make up a game is open to speculation. I think the question is, will this be a sandbox style game or will it be directed? My guess is a mixture of both. Apparently Milo has school work and various other things, so it seems like you'd be helping him through school, and I think I read somewhere you'll be buying new items for him to play with etc.
There are already 'family' games out there that follow a similar formula. They'll probably be mixtures of all kinds of gameplay. I can imagine puzzles that you can interact with your hands, and maybe draw things to help you proceed. You'll be unlocking new 'toys' to play with (like the fishing stuff) by helping Milo out with things (There was the whole goggle sequence, and drawing a fish etc...those will likely be tasks you must perform to continue). It will all be very lovely. Milo might get bullied at school or something, but it will work out in the end. I doubt there will be Magical Spells of Death or Huge Apes in Milo and Kate.
You'll be exploring the garden, jumping up and down on a trampoline with Milo, pretending to push him on a swing, climbing trees. You know, happy family big fun smile stuff.
It's not going to be the kind of game you'll want to admit buying. But it looks bloody brilliant, and I reckon it'll sell well. It might even live up to one or two expectations, but I'm not holding my breath there.

That's all speculation of course, but based on my experience with family games, it seems likely.

It's quite clearly aimed at kids and soccer mums. The gameplay demonstrated is play school stuff. Drawing pictures for an imaginary friend etc. I doubt this will appeal to most hardcore gamers, which is a strange direction for Lionhead I must admit.

People are starting to associate Natal with Milo as if they're interchangeble. You'll be buying Natal separately, and it will be a feature for your Xbox that will allow you to play many other games that require it. Sports games, quiz games, fighting games etc, have all been hinted at. The Milo and Kate software itself will probably be the same price as any other game.

It is highly unlikely you'll be interacting with a Hob.

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The only thing worse than beating a dead horse is betting on one.

Hmm... personally, what I tend to do is, take Dimitri and try to lace it with what we know about MnK (Milo and Kate ) and other stuff that Peter's talked about in the past.

So, basically, it's a game about life, where you get to make decisions that you made yourself some time or another. It's a game that has a story and that story has a beginning and an end, and that end could turn out to be quite emotional, for example in the death of either Milo or Kate. Imagine if (s)he had cancer.

EDIT: This quote just popped in...

I've been making a list of the things they don't teach you at school. They don't teach you how to love somebody. They don't teach you how to be famous. They don't teach you how to be rich or how to be poor. They don't teach you how to walk away from someone you don't love any longer. They don't teach you how to know what's going on in someone else's mind. They don't teach you what to say to someone who's dying. They don't teach you anything worth knowing.

What you'd be doing is helping Milo with his life, help him make decisions and interact with him in these games that give you money to buy new things, such as the trampoline.
I don't know, it's still too difficult to tell, but I'll be buying it that's for sure.

And yeah, I agree, the whole Natal-Milo-Eyetoy bit is fairly annoying. People need to get their sh*t together.

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Mmm, well I didn't know that, I only know what I've read on the forums and there's a thread which I think is by the Dev's stating that Milo isn't a game, still though this sounds more of the type of game for the Wii crowd, and it sounds a very weird change in direction for Lionhead who's games have more of a Monty python sort of humour to them, games that don't take them selves too seriously, are Lionhead trying to break the mould??.

I'm not stating that this game will be expensive I imagine it will cost (as you said) the same as any other xbox 360 game out there, I was stating that for what I earlier assumed to be an advanced micropet it would be expensive (£40 for a Micropet).

However I would still want to interact with a Hob, come on Lionhead bring back that hob or we'll start chanting "Why are they no Hobs in Milo?".

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"IrishMorn"
If Adon and Sagat step in....ah, what the hell, I'll get drunk and join in on that one.

Sovvolf:

Mmm, well I didn't know that, I only know what I've read on the forums and there's a thread which I think is by the Dev's stating that Milo isn't a game

It's a game. You can't get anymore dev than that.

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One thing that stuck out about Dimitri to me is the whole "this game is about you" thing, the whole reliving your life deal.
I wonder how that has any relevance, if any. I also wonder if originally they were going to have Milo age. I imagine with the direction the project has taken with the level of interaction that wouldn't work so well.
Maybe it's more about reliving your childhood, through Milo.

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The only thing worse than beating a dead horse is betting on one.

Noob question here, what's Project Dimitri??.

Anyways I'd like the whole ageing thing for Milo but the problem would be when Milo hits fifth teen and he starts the whole Teenage rebellion thing, Resenting me,, hanging about with questionable people, Having police at my monitor with arrest warrants for what ever daft thing its done, it would be like my teenage years all over again.

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"IrishMorn"
If Adon and Sagat step in....ah, what the hell, I'll get drunk and join in on that one.

Milo is Project Dimitri.

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deliriousstudios:

One thing that stuck out about Dimitri to me is the whole "this game is about you" thing, the whole reliving your life deal. I wonder how that has any relevance, if any. I also wonder if originally they were going to have Milo age. I imagine with the direction the project has taken with the level of interaction that wouldn't work so well. Maybe it's more about reliving your childhood, through Milo.

I remember really old screenshots of Dimitri which had an old man's head. But PM's said that Milo is about having a positive impact on someone, reflected in the tagline "It's never too late to have a happy childhood."

Yeha, the aging thing is interesting. They've been playing with that for a long time, both in animals and in objects. But, I don't know, the whole thing gets so complex... at this point I tend to think that aging was just a part of Dimitri.

Sovvolf:

Anyways I'd like the whole ageing thing for Milo but the problem would be when Milo hits fifth teen and he starts the whole Teenage rebellion thing, Resenting me,, hanging about with questionable people, Having police at my monitor with arrest warrants for what ever daft thing its done, it would be like my teenage years all over again.

Yep. This is major problem. While teenagers are a pain beyond measure, child behavior in general is also quite problematic. The responses seem to be pre-generated, so someone is writing them, right? So, they better make sure that the writer knows what they're doing. 'Cause most commonly movie/tv writers seem to look at this "Big Book of Child Behavior." Which to my experience if full of sh*te. But I don't want to see Milo being an adult with a kid's face, either. It's even creepier than the "Big Book" version.

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moonfever:

Milo is Project Dimitri.

True and I have to say it looks fun always wanted a nice friend. I think it will sell alot cause alot of people are interested in the idea of talking to there games.

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Mathew 17:20 Have faith the Size of a Mustard seed and a mountain top shall move. But Demo's wont come out.