Excited, but never preorder. Hope performance on PC isn’t garbage.
Fable - Gameplay Teaser
Submitted 2 weeks ago by simple@piefed.social to games@lemmy.world
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4zJJSEm1ag
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iamthetot@piefed.ca 2 weeks ago
termaxima@slrpnk.net 2 weeks ago
Wish we didn’t keep doing the “reuse the original title” thing. Entries should be numbered, or at least subtitled…
tb_@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Don’t buy Microslop products
athatet@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
[deleted]tb_@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
And Playground Games is a subsidiary of microsoft? I’m not sure what you’re trying to prove here.
Pwalabwa@quokk.au 2 weeks ago
Fable on Playstation is just so weird! Seems like this game could deliver on some 22 years old promises 🤔
RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Framerate does not look good. Hopefully that is because of YouTube, and not the game.
Looks like they conveniently chose nearly all shots that do not show character faces. Except Richard Ayoade, who looks I think better than the first trailer. Background NPC faces at 0:17, 0:19, 0:20, and 0:27 all look decent, but one of the kid’s faces and one of the background NPCs on the left at 0:27 look off. Can’t tell if that’s just high motion and upscaler/YouTube artifacting, bad lighting, actual bad model, not enough pixels, or some combination thereof though.
I did see what I think was the original main character face that seems to be unaltered/unchanged from the first trailer, which is a bit of a shame. (Looks like they tried to hide it/obscure it because they put a ridiculous chicken hat/helmet on that model during the character creation part that the face was at (0:09) which wasn’t present on the other face models. Double oof because of the male face model they switched to immediately after being literal Gaston/Prince Charming/Hercules face model.) They really did that model dirty especially considering how good Richard’s face model looks here. Hopefully they can make it look more like the actual model its supposed to be based on, or perhaps they can release another trailer showing the main character face choices under more optimal viewing conditions.
ech@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
PS5 exclusive? Uggghhh.
simple@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
not exclusive, also coming to PC and xbox
ech@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Oh, sick. I guess this is just PS5 cause it’s a Sony vid. Thanks!
Pwalabwa@quokk.au 2 weeks ago
Doesn’t seem so. From what I’ve read, it should also release on PC and Xbox.
Gathorall@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
It’s still a Microsoft property, probably posted a PS5 trailer to press that this one is on Playstation too.
cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Here’s the unbranded trailer that shows all the platforms it’s on.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5qWGaqzk98
Posting the Sony one implies it’s exclusive to PlayStation and derails the conversation to a place it really doesn’t need to go.
Personally I’m cautious. After the way the second one ended, I never touched the third one. They kinda pull this bait-and-switch where if you try to pick the good ending, the game shames you for it. It’s almost as bad as Mass Effect 3 telling you that you have three choices, giving you three paths, and not telling you which one is which. Maybe a bit worse. I mean to go through this whole game and just get shit on for trying to do the right thing. It’s a bit shit.
Then again, Peter Molyneux isn’t involved in this. He’s making a sequel to Black and White set in the Fable universe without using the Fable name (but he is using the Albion name) so it’s kinda confusing. Obvious if you know what you’re looking at, though.
omega_x3@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Look saving the dog is the only choice, you can go get another wife and kids and a million gold is so easy to get by that point in the game. My biggest problem with 2 was that I was so evil by the time I realized that I needed to get to a level of good to get an expression to open the last door and I just didn’t want to do it anymore.
3 is easy bad ending or huge money grind for good ending, that is the whole game.
VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
The money grind in 3 is easy, too. You just need to buy a house, rent it out, use that to buy another house, etc.
Omegamanthethird@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I liked 3 a lot. But it’s way too easy. IIRC you also can’t die. You just revive with a scar. But I never “lost” until I got to that assassin for the DLC.
Also, yeah, the ending was price gouge all of your rental properties or let everyone die. Like, great, what a choice.
Gameplay was fun though. Missions were fun. Everything was good except those two things.
cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Yes, I know about 3’s good ending and how all that works, I don’t want to spoil it for anyone who wants to play it but hasn’t before, but I appreciate how they handled it, as I understand it. And that twist is revealed somewhere in the middle, so you can grind out the good ending or you can take the easy way out. Fable 2 had you go all the way to the end, gave you one wish and 3 options to choose from, then pulls the rug out from under you. Unless you’re evil and you just take the money. Regarding the dog:
spoiler
There’s no option to save the dog. Not sure where you’re getting that. I don’t remember a dog. I know you could get a pet and they could die and you could get another one. But there’s no wish to bring a pet back. The evil wish is money, and lots of it, but it’s the end of the game so it’s purely symbolic. The other two endings are “bring back everyone who was killed by the bad guys” or “bring back your family.” The game pushes the value of family from the very beginning, but apparently choosing your family is a second bad ending and your family basically hate you for putting them before some strangers. Which doesn’t track with the rest of the game.
acosmichippo@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
it has been a long time since i played either but i know i loved 2 and 3 was a let down but still worth playing.
cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Oh yeah, 2 was fun as hell, I just thought the ending was a betrayal.
SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Well to be fair to Molyneux, Albion just means Great Britain. That name is centuries old
cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Someone told me that before. Still, if Peter Molyneux puts out a game and uses the name Albion, we know what he’s referring to.
Fable’s Albion could even be Great Britain in an alternate universe.
It’s like Pandora. It’s been used by a bunch of companies for different reasons. But if Gearbox lost the rights to Borderlands and they set a new game on a planet called Pandora, I would not expect they were talking about the jeweler.
So I suppose it benefits Molyneux that his world and title were so generic he can use them without the Fable license.
yermaw@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
I’m excited for the ride again. The hype about what’s possible, the belief that it’s going to be a genre-defining ground-breaking experience, the disappointment of finding out how shallow it actually is, and the fun of a casual, smooth playing easy game.
cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
There is that — that it will probably be an easy game. There aren’t too many of those around. Or at least getting attention. Last year’s Game of the Year talk was all about three games that are just stupidly hard: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, Hollow Knight Silksong, and Blue Prince. I love Blue Prince, but I caved and looked up how to beat it. I fully accept that I probably never will. And “beating” it really just means beating the tutorial. There’s so much to do after. But it’s fun, even when you lose. The other two are just exceedingly punishing.
And that’s fine — games were hard in the 80s. They eased off a bit in the 90s and 00s, but I think PlayStation was always pushing hard games while Xbox and Nintendo were more casual and “gaming is for everybody” (as opposed to “git gud or GTFO”). Then smartphones came out and easy games pretty much swept the app stores. I respect a good challenge if it’s fun, and I respect a game that pushes you to be your absolute best… I just don’t have the time for that. I like games with Story difficulty where you can do the motions if you want, but you’re basically guaranteed to survive every battle, and falling off a high ledge just returns you to the ledge you fell from.
Final Fantasy VII (both of them: the emulated PS1 version on modern consoles, and the remake) actually come with cheat codes built right in, and from what I can tell, they don’t even disable achievements. (Actually, the last one disables one achievement. The last cheat code maxes the level of your materia, and this disables the achievement for learning about materia. Once you get that achievement, go crazy.) The game even offers a Head Start mode that makes all your characters start powerful with high level gear. Of course, Final Fantasy VII is a special game. It’s often credited as being the first truly cinematic game. I’m not sure it was, but it was definitely one of them and absolutely the most popular of them at the time. The game plays like a movie, so they absolutely do not want to hold you back because you can’t push the right buttons fast enough. They want you to experience that story.