It needs to be around for a long time and be relevant to everyone's interests. Therefore, we are making it exclusive to one console that has everyone's ire at the moment.
Fable Legends Aims for 5-10 Year Lifespan
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Basically, by trying to make this game relevant for the entirety of the next console generation (assuming there's another one that follows it), you've pretty much given this game a six month lifespan. I'd be willing to bet that a huge chunk of this game's audience moves on within the space of a year. You're hanging this game before it even hits shelves.
Basically, by trying to make this game relevant for the entirety of the next console generation (assuming there's another one that follows it), you've pretty much given this game a six month lifespan. I'd be willing to bet that a huge chunk of this game's audience moves on within the space of a year. You're hanging this game before it even hits shelves.
I don't believe any console exclusive has really remained relevant more than three years later so this feels a bit overtly ambitious. Don't get me wrong I love seeing big studios doing big over the top ambitious projects, pushing the boundaries and all, but from the sounds of it they are just aiming to make it so it has more content and not necessarily a continuously evolving amount of better content like with borderlands etc. which means it's probably not going to be all that successful.
It may not have shown any actual gameplay yet I have to say one of the most best looking trailers visually I have seen in a long time. Props to studio fro a visually stunning short! It got my attention!
It's a pointless buzzword for a rather old concept. All it means is the game is hosted on an online server rather than your local machine. Nothing new or revolutionary about that.seditary said:
Every MMO is technically a cloud-based game, and so are games like World of Tanks,or War Thunder, or pretty much any online game with no dedicated or locally hosted servers.
Has an avatar of the Phantom Assassin, who has a boobplateMaiev Shadowsong said:
Seems legit.
OT: Eh, Fable was always one of those things that looked good on paper, but never really panned out.
And when marketing isn't being shifty as hell, it's a "feature" that offers a LITTLE extra processing power for people with GOOD internet connections, and absolutely nothing for mediocre or poor internet.A Weakgeek said:
Cloud Computing isn't just a buzzword, it is useful, but just not to gaming.
It's useful to science, but partly because the model is reversed (small processor clients support one large processing hub, not one large cloud supporting many small clients) and mostly because it's NOT being used in programs with positively tiny "timeliness windows".
In video games, the really heavy processing is being calculated on a per-frame basis.
That's MILLISECONDS of time to send a large chunk of data to be processed through the cloud and receive a solution.
Considering that significant network lag starts at the same scale, that's a problem.
Something like, say, League of Legends can support an "acceptable" ping tolerance up to about 250ms which I find to be a good benchmark for most "action" games.
For a Cloud-Powered Game that's enhancing processing that actually matters (per frame basis @ 60FPS), shrink that lag tolerance from 250ms down to ~16ms. Fail to meet that mark, and you get to suffer desynch or slowdown. Take your pick.
If anyone tells you how cloud processing can offer seamless enhancement to things like Visuals and AI (for non-turn based games); they're either working under the assumption that you have some FUCKING AWESOME internet, or they're full of shit.
They're not planing another Fable game for the next 5-10 years? Shit.
You just gotta keep me suspended, eh? What with having Fable: Edge of the World end with
While there is a chance that they'll make a sequel book to that, it doesn't seem all too likely.
You just gotta keep me suspended, eh? What with having Fable: Edge of the World end with
Reaver taking control of the Sanctuary and becoming the puppet master over the Queen of Albion, while the King is held captive in a Darkness controlled Samarkand.
While there is a chance that they'll make a sequel book to that, it doesn't seem all too likely.
ok got to correct you here and it hurts me to do this because I hate that style of armor myself; warriors wore plate skirts until articulated plate was created, and the armor was always made to shape the warriors chest and well rest of their body so freedom of movement was allowed.Maiev Shadowsong said:
once again sorry for being that guy but yeah your a bit off.
Well, I want to play that as much as I wanted to play every other Fable, but I don't want to get an Xbone and a Kinnect.
My room's way too small for the Kinnect.
My room's way too small for the Kinnect.
Cognimancer said:
5-10 years? They could barely make a Fable game that has a 10 hour lifespan past the first one. And now that Molyneux is no longer with Lionhead, the hopes for Fable Legends are even lower.
You're wrong, boob plate was never used because the shape would deflect blows into the center of the chest where the armour was weaker due to the shape. If that didn't happen the blow would deflect upwards into the neck/bottom of the helmet, which wasn't as well protected.ecoho said:
You can google it if you want. Actual smiths will make boobplates if people want it, but they don't recommend it due to how dangerous it is to wear one if you're going to be doing any form of combat in it.
I really don't mind how long it will be till another fable game. If we are about to get another fable game at all that is good news to my ears. Unabashed fan here, and I must say I QUITE liked that trailer 
Correction YOU have not seen the details they HAVE released. Namely an IGN video that detailed the type of gameplay in the early press screening and stuff.lucky_sharm said:
Ask where I get my information from before you tell me to reserve judgement because there is no information. Especially with a Lionhead studio title that basically guarantees underwhelming sensations and lackluster realization of unique ideas because sadly Lionhead studios is convinced gamers are all morons and want maximum reward for minimal engagment.
A D&D style COOP RPG? AWESOME!
Oh it's a mission based structure, without an open world, without character creation but rather these 4 bland doofuses. Skip!
Maiev Shadowsong said:
I never said "boobplate" existed I said most armors were designed to the shape of the warriors chest, as women were not allowed to fight while plate armor was being used "boobplate" never existed. Also fable takes place in several timelines not just the industrial age, in fact this looks to be in between the first two games in time period which means no guns.Dogstile said:
As to the plate skirts yes they usually had greaves on their lower legs but thighs were very rarely covered due to the loss of mobility. That's what the shield was for
Pff, yeah fuckin' right! The previous Fable games haven't lasted me more than maybe 20 hours. Considering they haven't made it to a single day of playtime, jumping to years seems a bit ambitious.
And here I was lamenting that I'd be missing out on future games of my beloved Fable series by not buying an XB1. More fool me apparently ¬_¬
Multiplayer? No thank you. Sounds about as appealing as that Kinect atrocity.
Great. Now I has a sad :'(
Multiplayer? No thank you. Sounds about as appealing as that Kinect atrocity.
Great. Now I has a sad :'(