Poll: It's all about the journey.

[eternal-chaplain]

There have been, since its announcement at E3 this year, several negative speculations on the new Fable installment. Most complaints revolve around the fact that the player finds him/herself spending a lot of the game sitting in a carriage or that the game is quite detached from the previous titles.

I dislike detached games as much as the next guy: if the recently announced 4th Sly Cooper game had nothing to do with the series' aforementioned time machine, I'd be really disappointed; but ignorance is bliss and I haven't played any of the Fable games before, so I can't judge it for being detached, and I think that is an approach fans should often take to games like that: treat and judge it like it's a stand alone title.

In terms of gameplay shown in the demo, I really liked what I saw. The use of the kinect was done refreshingly well and I surmise it will feel genuinely immersive, and because your character is physically sitting throughout most of the traveling, that's an invitation to get comfortable in a chair and play.

What does everypony else gather from what we saw at E3? Good, bad, I dunno?

 

[ReservoirAngel]

Horrible. Horrible, horrible, horrible. Just... horrible.

They've ruined Fable. Turning it from an amazing RPG series to an on-rails Kinect-heavy shooter? If I could have, I'd have gotten up on stage and punched Peter Molyneux right in his face. Then kicked him. Then spat on him.

EDIT: I'll give it one thing... the Kinect motions looked cool. I almost want to play it during a thunder-storm with a large fan blowing on me, wearing a big fake Gandalf beard and long billowing robes while reciting incantations.

But in general... Lionhead have massively failed me.

 

[FallenRainbows]

It wont be too detached otherwise they'd make it a new IP.

As for E3, too little too soon for me to make my judgement. I mean it looks okay and kinda fun but Fable games as of late have been... disappointing.

 

[eternal-chaplain]

It wont be too detached otherwise they'd make it a new IP.

As for E3, too little too soon for me to make my judgement. I mean it looks okay and kinda fun but Fable games as of late have been... disappointing.

Granted, you could change a few names and sprites and you would have a completely different game.

It looks horrible.

If it's just a random spin off game, why couldn't they have just made a random new IP for the game. Why did they have to use Fable?

You're an angry little fella...oh yeah, and see above.

 

[blaqknoise]

Horrible. Horrible, horrible, horrible. Just... horrible.

They've ruined Fable. Turning it from an amazing RPG series to an on-rails Kinect-heavy shooter? If I could have, I'd have gotten up on stage and punched Peter Molyneux right in his face. Then kicked him. Then spat on him.

EDIT: I'll give it one thing... the Kinect motions looked cool. I almost want to play it during a thunder-storm with a large fan blowing on me, wearing a big fake Gandalf beard and long billowing robes while reciting incantations.

But in general... Lionhead have massively failed me.

Does it really look that bad?

 

[Kahunaburger]

There has never been a good fable game. The first one was kind of mediocre, and it went downhill from there.

 

[ZeroMachine]

All I can say is this: It looks nowhere near as bad as Star Wars Kinect.

 

[FallenRainbows]

It wont be too detached otherwise they'd make it a new IP.

As for E3, too little too soon for me to make my judgement. I mean it looks okay and kinda fun but Fable games as of late have been... disappointing.

Granted, you could change a few names and sprites and you would have a completely different game.

It looks horrible.

If it's just a random spin off game, why couldn't they have just made a random new IP for the game. Why did they have to use Fable?

You're an angry little fella...oh yeah, and see above.

I mean if it IS just a rail-shooter with the Fable name, I know a good amount of fans that will disown the series for that. It'd be a damn stupid move not to just make it a new IP.

 

[ReservoirAngel]

Horrible. Horrible, horrible, horrible. Just... horrible.

They've ruined Fable. Turning it from an amazing RPG series to an on-rails Kinect-heavy shooter? If I could have, I'd have gotten up on stage and punched Peter Molyneux right in his face. Then kicked him. Then spat on him.

EDIT: I'll give it one thing... the Kinect motions looked cool. I almost want to play it during a thunder-storm with a large fan blowing on me, wearing a big fake Gandalf beard and long billowing robes while reciting incantations.

But in general... Lionhead have massively failed me.

Does it really look that bad?

Okay, not BAD per se. Just... really different from what Fable should be. When I saw "Fable" on the screen, I was hyped. I expected some big wandering journeyman-type story.

Instead I got... Kinect-based on-rails shooting. I'm not knocking that. If it was a different IP I could get on board with it. It's just that they turned Fable into it that bugged me. you need to understand, I'm a massive Fable fan. But I'm not a fan of rail shooters, by any stretch.

So I was just immensely dissapointed. And that manifests itself in anger that Peter would actually approve of such a ridiculous turn for such an amazing series.

But again, the Kinect motions look kinda sweet. That's my sole praise for this thing. Behind Future Soldier's weapon-modding Kinect use, it was the best Kinect interaction of Microsoft's conference, easily.

 

[Valiance]

Enjoy your on-rails auto-aim homing-spells no-character generic fantasy themed shovelware.

 

[ZeroMachine]

It wont be too detached otherwise they'd make it a new IP.

As for E3, too little too soon for me to make my judgement. I mean it looks okay and kinda fun but Fable games as of late have been... disappointing.

Granted, you could change a few names and sprites and you would have a completely different game.

It looks horrible.

If it's just a random spin off game, why couldn't they have just made a random new IP for the game. Why did they have to use Fable?

You're an angry little fella...oh yeah, and see above.

I mean if it IS just a rail-shooter with the Fable name, I know a good amount of fans that will disown the series for that. It'd be a damn stupid move not to just make it a new IP.

Why disown an entire series for one bad game? There's no logic in that. Disown that game, and hope that they learn. Disown the entire series if they release more than one piece of shit.

 

[eternal-chaplain]

All I can say is this: It looks nowhere near as bad as Star Wars Kinect.

Oh hecks yeah!

 

[eternal-chaplain]

Enjoy your on-rails auto-aim homing-spells no-character generic fantasy themed shovelware.

I must admit, the lack of steering with the horse is quite unappealing...

 

[FallenRainbows]

It wont be too detached otherwise they'd make it a new IP.

As for E3, too little too soon for me to make my judgement. I mean it looks okay and kinda fun but Fable games as of late have been... disappointing.

Granted, you could change a few names and sprites and you would have a completely different game.

It looks horrible.

If it's just a random spin off game, why couldn't they have just made a random new IP for the game. Why did they have to use Fable?

You're an angry little fella...oh yeah, and see above.

I mean if it IS just a rail-shooter with the Fable name, I know a good amount of fans that will disown the series for that. It'd be a damn stupid move not to just make it a new IP.

Why disown an entire series for one bad game? There's no logic in that. Disown that game, and hope that they learn. Disown the entire series if they release more than one piece of shit.

Don't shoot the messenger. I wouldn't but I know people who will. I know it's stupid logic... else I'd not have played Undercover for the massive deviation of 'legal racing' that was present in SHIFT.

[small]I miss Underground II...[/small]

 

[Bobbity]

The first Fable was actually quite a lot of fun, imo. In no way anywhere even near perfect, but still a lot of fun.

Unfortunately, I thought that the series kind of went to hell from there. Who the fuck wants to run around a dark, dreary and grey version of the world that they came to love? Why the fuck did we need guns? What the fuck is with that music box?

I'm not even going to look at this game, nor even Fable 4. The third instalment was enough to crush my hopes for this IP, thank you very much.

 

[ZeroMachine]

It wont be too detached otherwise they'd make it a new IP.

As for E3, too little too soon for me to make my judgement. I mean it looks okay and kinda fun but Fable games as of late have been... disappointing.

Granted, you could change a few names and sprites and you would have a completely different game.

It looks horrible.

If it's just a random spin off game, why couldn't they have just made a random new IP for the game. Why did they have to use Fable?

You're an angry little fella...oh yeah, and see above.

I mean if it IS just a rail-shooter with the Fable name, I know a good amount of fans that will disown the series for that. It'd be a damn stupid move not to just make it a new IP.

Why disown an entire series for one bad game? There's no logic in that. Disown that game, and hope that they learn. Disown the entire series if they release more than one piece of shit.

Don't shoot the messenger. I wouldn't but I know people who will. I know it's stupid logic... else I'd not have played Undercover for the massive deviation of 'legal racing' that was present in SHIFT.

[small]I miss Underground II...[/small]

... Oh... Well, then we are in agreement

 

[FallenRainbows]

It wont be too detached otherwise they'd make it a new IP.

As for E3, too little too soon for me to make my judgement. I mean it looks okay and kinda fun but Fable games as of late have been... disappointing.

Granted, you could change a few names and sprites and you would have a completely different game.

It looks horrible.

If it's just a random spin off game, why couldn't they have just made a random new IP for the game. Why did they have to use Fable?

You're an angry little fella...oh yeah, and see above.

I mean if it IS just a rail-shooter with the Fable name, I know a good amount of fans that will disown the series for that. It'd be a damn stupid move not to just make it a new IP.

Why disown an entire series for one bad game? There's no logic in that. Disown that game, and hope that they learn. Disown the entire series if they release more than one piece of shit.

Don't shoot the messenger. I wouldn't but I know people who will. I know it's stupid logic... else I'd not have played Undercover for the massive deviation of 'legal racing' that was present in SHIFT.

[small]I miss Underground II...[/small]

... Oh... Well, then we are in agreement

Yay! Co-existence!

Anyway to avoid a warning of low-content...

Yeah, in summary. New IP > Ruining a loved series

 

[Pingieking]

Enjoy your on-rails auto-aim homing-spells no-character generic fantasy themed shovelware.

Pretty much this.
It looked almost as bad as Star Wars Kinect. New Fable looked atrocious.

 

[Goofguy]

I would really like to take the middle road here and say "oh it's too early to tell, I'll give it the benefit of the doubt for now" but damn, it looks pretty brutal right from the start.

 

[Javarock]

I already gave up on the series after 2.

From what I heard 2's even worse then 1 and 3 is worse then two...

Its a never-ending vicous cycle?