Vinterbird
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It's not been officially announced yet, on Monday we will know more.
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Fable: Heroes (XBLA) At Microsoft Showcase
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It's not been officially announced yet, on Monday we will know more.
Deadlight, FEZ, Dust, Mark of a Ninja, The Splatters, Hybrid etc. Plenty of original stuff, a Fable release on XBLA doesn't mean other titles cease to exist.
Just because the whiny nitpickers on gaf don't like it does not mean it is dying; as a matter of fact the last one sold the most of all the fable games.
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I'm not sure what you're suggesting. Are there other games like Fable II and especially Fable III out there? A lot of criticism can be leveled at the franchise, but they are rather unique blends of genres with some interesting features you don't see very often.
Well, you don't know if it's original or not unless you first see it.
3+ million selling games is not exactly a dying franchise
Fable 2-3 are some of the best selling games on 360
FateBreaker
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I really can't imagine them not working on Fable IV, either. It seems like every installment is more successful after the next...in terms of sales.
I am sure they are working on Fable 4 since Fable 3 release
They have multiple teams as confirmed
Garcia el Gringo
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Welp, it's hard to argue those criticisms. It's not like the Fable franchise is anywhere near one of my favorites. I just thought that Fable II was a fun, lighthearted, button mashing romp. And it was nice to get in a little of that terribly implemented co-op with my casual Xbox Live friends. Baldur's Gate 2/Planescape Torment it is not. Not every RPG has to be.
Fable III was pure garbage though. Lionhead burned me there.
Endless
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I made that logo, not official.
My bad.
If 3+ million sales = dying franchise. Then why does Sony keep on kicking Uncharted, Killzone and Resistance? I’m baffled by your logic.
Demoncarnotaur
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Its nice that XBLA is getting some bigger name games, so its definitely a positive move in that regard. I also think it may be a good move for Fable, at least for now until the franchise finds a way to reinvent itself. I enjoy Fable, but they always have a lacking feel to them.. I really wish they would try to do something different with the gameplay and art direction.
Monday is going to be a really fun day for MS games.
Monday is going to be a really fun day for MS games.
Cerebral Assassin
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What was so horrible about the story?
Also it had good VA, & some amusing sidequests & although the combat was easy, it was fun. Add that to the tone of the game & it should be easy to understand why it sold so well.
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How is it dying when each installment sells 3.5+ million copies?
In any case, I played and finished Fable III in January and really enjoyed it, contrary to what most people thought of the game. Co-op was quite fun too. Looking forward to this, especially since it's an XBLA title.
InaudibleWhispa
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I hope not. If Fable has anything, it's an incredibly charming style and world. It was let down technically, not in the art direction. Hopefully a move to the Unreal Engine will do it justice.
i fully agree with you. fable needs a new engine that can do the art/style justice. and peter molyneux needs to be removed from the franchise. i really like him but i think his way of designing games (only focus on 1 big thing like the dog in f2 or the "be a king" stuff in f3) hurts the rest of the game.
note: i liked f2 and i really liked f3 despite the technical issues and some other problems. the games feel unique and different. and it probably helps that i never looked at them as rpg's.
This was my takeaway from the article too
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Molyneux hasn't actually done any design work on the series since the first Fable.
the dog and other stuff wrent his ideas? so, he only is the guy that "sells" the game in interviews, presentations?
StealthGoblin
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Molyneux doesn't actually exist. Its just an actor.
It's a shame Lionhead makes a lot of prototyping that eventually gets cancelled like Milo & Kate. I hope the stuff they learned on that project will find its way into Fable games.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwZcHdbYXCg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GgPBREBQq4g
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwZcHdbYXCg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GgPBREBQq4g
Phonomezer
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I wonder if they're still developing their Mega Meshes tech. I wonder if this game will use it!
Fable II and III look really nice, but the engine is a bit long in the tooth and wasn't all that good to begin with.
Fable II and III look really nice, but the engine is a bit long in the tooth and wasn't all that good to begin with.
InaudibleWhispa
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It is. "A lot of the Milo tech we're not showing off. This is the first outing of this so we're keeping some of our big stuff safe behind. A lot of the stuff you can do in Fable: The Journey is some of the stuff that was originally found in Milo."
Darkmakaimura
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I have mixed feelings about Fable 2. Never played the first, but I found Fable II to be horribly short for an RPG. Also, the fact you couldn't jump in the game was a big deal for me and I felt constricted by the environment (same goes for Brutal Legend). Also, it has some of the worst dungeon designs I've ever experienced in an RPG. They were short and extremely linear. Who thought this was a good idea?
Does Fable 3 improve upon any of those things?
Edit: I loved the setting and the humor, although.
Does Fable 3 improve upon any of those things?
Edit: I loved the setting and the humor, although.
King of the Potato People
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I would have played if it was Lionhead's version of a 2D Zelda game.
BassForever
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The biggest thing Fable has against it is Peter Molyneux, if he didn't open his mouth to mad hype his games they'd be received a lot better.
I notice no one has answered this one..
I enjoy Fable it has a certain charm and play style that i like.
Fable 2 looked great when it was released but yeah the third game was really outdated in 2010 which was kinda weird for a first party game.
Now about Mega Meshes, didn't some recent job listings talk about the use of Unreal Engine? maybe they're scrapping their MM tech for UE.
Also curious to see the new IP that will be unveiled later this year, most possibly at E3.
I get the impression that they are talking about multiple new IP's, could be wrong though.
King of the Potato People
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Fable III has even more restrictions, the 'road to rule' system means even basics such as hair dye, marriage proposals and the farting expression must be learnt from levelling up. It's not significantly bigger than Fable II and there's no overhaul to the style of 'dungeon' design. The main selling point, controlling the monarchy, is only in the last third.
dragonelite
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Mega Meshes isn't for games at least not what the presentation showed.
It was for artist to speed up or make art Creation easier.
Kinda like how you stream in texture parts with Mega Textures.
Artist can stream in level section from HDD in something like ZBrush so they dont have to load in a whole new Level section.
Its easier this way if you have to go back and forth a level without loading sections. Now you can go to the level section you need to go, and the tech will handle the loading and streaming of it.
Darkmakaimura
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Sounds pretty passable then. Don't get me wrong, I still enjoyed Fable II somewhat. I just found some seriously glaring flaws with it. I was actually in disbelief how quickly I finished the game.
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Mega Meshes is not really an engine, it's just a way of organizing and handling geometric data.
EDIT: Beaten.
Hopefully you're right but I wouldn't bet on it as MS seems to be on full force for preparing titles for their next gen system, btw do we know what happened to the "large scale RPG" that was supposed to be developed by Feel+? haven't heard anything about that since 2009 IIRC.
Didn't know that, thanks for clarifying.
Yes, that tech could potentially work great in RPGs and be a nice evolution of the genre.
CamHostage
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The Fable 3 minigame fed into Fable 3, so if they do more of that offline upgrading, I could be cool with that.
Barrel Cannon
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Agreed. As long as the sales keep rising and people are still liking the franchise doesn't mean it's going to die. That's like how people say Call of Duty is a franchise being beat to death when it sells more every release. Fable isn't going away anytime soon
CamHostage
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I disagree, to a point. The shame is that the gaming community has to be so preorder-focused that developers can't show work-in-progress. Lionhead has a couple scrapped projects in the hopper (BC, Milo, the B&W spin-offs) that I'm glad for having known about even though I've never been able to own them. Sure, unveiling material too early can hurt a case (unveiling the plans for Fable long before you had any understanding of what you could actually accomplish in the game design meant that many of us bought it expecting more than we got,) but if there's a way of managing expectations AND allowing a peek into the studio, I want that peek.
And prototyping is so, so crucial to a game company's creative drive. There are companies that prototype every day, just for the exercise. Better in my eye that they take a few prototypes halfway through and then abort but learn from it than to come to your job every day and know that what you'll be working on will be the sequel to the last game that made money and that you won't be changing the proven formula for fear of getting it wrong.
Gorki247
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Sigh, I really should know better by now; I came here looking for some news, but all I found was hatred and negativity.
I'm a huge fan of the Fable franchise and although the games do have their flaws (which game doesn't), it won't stop me from enjoying the world of Albion and all of its charm. More Fable games, be it major releases, spin-offs or arcade games, is good news by me. As long as they keep making them, I'll keep buying them and I won't apologise for
I'm a huge fan of the Fable franchise and although the games do have their flaws (which game doesn't), it won't stop me from enjoying the world of Albion and all of its charm. More Fable games, be it major releases, spin-offs or arcade games, is good news by me. As long as they keep making them, I'll keep buying them and I won't apologise for
Neuromancer
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Interestingly enough they deleted the line about Fable: Heroes from the original article, guess they weren't supposed to post that.
Anyway consider me cautiously interested. Fable 3 was a huge let down but I still like Peter Molyneux.
Anyway consider me cautiously interested. Fable 3 was a huge let down but I still like Peter Molyneux.
As long as the fundamental games is different I don't care if they slap fable in its name to add some sales. If the game is just a slight upgrade of fable 3, I won't buy it. If it is a completely different game that just happens to take place in the same world, and looks appealing, I'll get it.