Fable Legends Aims for 5-10 Year Lifespan

[Smooth Operator]

Wait what the hell are you even making then?
I thought that on-rails waggle fest was the bottom end of things but we just might be in for a new surprise, because everything he said sound absolutely horrid for a Fable game.

 

[Screamarie]

Ugh what the hell is with every game now have to be multiplayer? Call me misanthropic if you want but...FUCK other people! I don't give a shit about playing with others. And yet it seems like just about every game series I like is saying "Oh you really liked playing your way and not having to deal with those assholes who are the shittest of the shitty? No you don't! So we're just going to make you play with other people, because we know you either have lots of friends that just love to play with you OR you have the greatest internet connection the world has ever seen so you can play online!"

I just...I like playing by myself! Every now and again, sure a party game is nice, some rockband or going adventuring in minecraft....but otherwise NO! gaming industry. I'm a pasty, overwieght, woman with anxiety issues that cannot stand to be around other people for too long, so can I PLEASE have my single-player back?

 

[seditary]

it needs to integrate all the cloud and Xbox One features

But what is cloud gaming?

 

[Diddy_Mao]

So now I have to wait 10 years for the climax of the game where there's no actual conflict and one of my party members just kills the evil overlord when I'm not looking?


Sorry, still a little raw about that.

Edit: smart ass comments aside.

When you say "you could be the villain." Do you actually mean it this time or are you still confusing villainy with just being a selfish dick?

Because I want to build my doom fortress and command an army of hell spawned minions to oppress my people.

What I don't want to do is spend a few hours farting in public and raising taxes.

 

[A Weakgeek]

it needs to integrate all the cloud and Xbox One features

But what is cloud gaming?

Its when the marketing department gets high as fuck and decides to make a new buzzword without telling anyone what it actually means.

 

[Clive Howlitzer]

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.

 

[SonOfMethuselah]

So...
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.

 

[Jessta]

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.

 

[Phoenix8541]

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!

 

[Alfador_VII]

it needs to integrate all the cloud and Xbox One features

But what is cloud gaming?

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.

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.

 

[Daystar Clarion]

Boobplate. Miniskirt.

I'll pass, Lionhead. Thanks for trying.

Has an avatar of the Phantom Assassin, who has a boobplate


Seems legit.


OT: Eh, Fable was always one of those things that looked good on paper, but never really panned out.

 

[Atmos Duality]

it needs to integrate all the cloud and Xbox One features

But what is cloud gaming?

Its when the marketing department gets high as fuck and decides to make a new buzzword without telling anyone what it actually means.

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.

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.

 

[soren7550]

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

Spoiler

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.

 

[ecoho]

Boobplate. Miniskirt.

I'll pass, Lionhead. Thanks for trying.

Thanks for trying what? Why don't you pick on the other heroes for not equipping the highly specific type of armor you had in mind for them?

Boobplate. Miniskirt.

I'll pass, Lionhead. Thanks for trying.

So...all it takes is a sexualized female character for your appetite to be spoiled? That kind of covers most fantasy Western/Japanese RPGs, TV shows, summer blockbusters, and video games in general.

He wasn't talking about her being sexualized. What I saw in that trailer and the word "sexualized" aren't even in the same star system, I've seen a thousand kinds of sexy armor and that wasn't one of them.

It's safe to assume that he simply didn't like that specific armor style and wanted the warrior to be wearing some other style of armor, and the producers were supposed to read his mind. Somehow.

Maiev Shadowsong.

Avatar of the Phantom Assassin (Maiev in Dota 2).

"He."

-_-

OT: I wouldn't call a warrior wearing clothes that actually cover their flesh and protect them from weapons to be "highly specific type of armor." In fact, I'd say wanting a warrior to not be wearing a mini-skirt is pretty mundane. Boobplate is also a great way to get yourself impaled and stabbed in the heart.

You can try to imagine a warrior wearing actual armour and not a mini-skirt to be "highly specific" if you want. You'd just be wrong.

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.
once again sorry for being that guy but yeah your a bit off.

 

[Somebloke]

ill withhold my judgement on the game until more information is out. but guys you gotta admit it was a pretty cool trailer.

ALSO: who is the narrator i like his voice

The voice is very pleasant, that was my first reaction too.

I was going to wager a guess at Tony Jay (EDIT: ...who did the narrator in the Bard's Tale "reimagining"), but apparently he passed away some years ago.

 

[Lazy Kitty]

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.

 

[AzrealMaximillion]

Fable Legends Aims for 5-10 Year Lifespan

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.