Digital Foundry : Summer Game Fest! Xbox Games Showcase! The Digital Foundry crew has convened to cover both events, reacting to the major game announcements and developments.
Fable is an action-adventure RPG video game series that is one of the top dogs of this genre, that has the world super excited right now.
Yes.
Anticipation for this game is all time high since it will be the first Fable game since Lionhead got shut down by MS and also the first RPG game by Playground which its track record for Forza Horizon series speaks by itself.
I tried it when I got my 360 back in the day. It was alright. I just never seen it as a top dog. Lost odyessy and blue dragon were much better.
It really isn't top dog lolz but fanboys will say otherwise. The first game in the series is probably the best it's ever been. Second game lacked, 3rd was a mess, then a shitty xbox arcade game followed by another shitty kinect spinoff, a card game, don't forget the co-op game that they cancelled and eventually shut the studio down after that. The series was on the decline since 2, and never recovered. I say that as a fan too, cause Fable was the only game I truly cared about from Xbox.
"What did 2 lack? It was better than the first"
Pay no mind to haters trying to sell lies and false narratives.
And yes, Fable 2 is simply the best Fable in the series, the most critically acclaimed and most successful Fable game to date.
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It sold 5 Million copies during PS3/360 era outselling many mainstream RPG games at that time released for consoles like Fallout 3 and New Vegas, Mass Effect, Oblivion, Demon Souls, Dark Souls, The Witcher 2 and more.
Tbh I didn't play the first all the way through but what i did play i liked a lot more than 2. Fable 2 however was my first PS360 gen game and while I did enjoy it, overall i liked the feeling and setting of what I did play of the first. Fable 2's good and evil were more aesthetic and for a game about choices i remember being disappointed with the lack of weight those choices actually had. The ending was also hugely disappointing SPOILERS… You don't get a choice at all on how to deal with the main villain, if you can even call him a villain since he doesn't show up much if at all until the end from what i remember and if you wait too long you aren't even the one that kills him! All that and you're just given a choice of 1 of 3 wishes. 2 just felt ambitious but lacking, which is common for pretty much everything Peter Molyneux did after.
No one cares for this game. It's vaporware at this point and will have abysmal sales. Took way too long to be made. It's core fans have outgrown the whole cartoon fantasy nonsense.
Fable 2 was illmatic! It's combat was more intuitive than ES Oblivion's, plus it was less glitchy and more approachable. The art was really good too and there were many different experiences to be had for multiple playthroughs.
They better figure our a release date because GTA might release late September early October so they better be smart about this.
Matt Booty recently said that they already have internal release dates for many upcoming Xbox games that they just didn´t reveal it to the public to either avoid and release those games so close to a GTA VI release date or cannibalizing XGS itself by setting release dates for two highly anticipated games (like Gears and Fable for example) so close to one another.
Quietly excited for this. It was one of my favourite series I really hope they don't tank it
If it's not pew pew it's not selling on Xbox. Let's face it, these sorts of games are not well received by the current Xbox fanbase.
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl combines survival horror with immersive storytelling, and we can’t wait to experience more when it comes out this Fall.
Played shadow of chernobyl for the first time and it was amazing, it still holds up very well. Such a shame that mods with script changes are not allowed on console, would be so cool to have anomaly available on ps and Xbox, Sony needs to revise their modding policy it's ridiculously outdated
Super hyped. Kinda sad not to see more people talking about this game but when it releases I think it will be talked about a lot. Have a funny feeling the games difficulty is going to push the generic fps crowd away but longtime gamers know this game will be something to treasure for years to come
TechRaptor writes, "We got our hands on Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl at Summer Game Fest, and it brought me into a dreary world filled with intrigue."
I think everyone was really expecting to see the handheld at the showcase. I have a feeling they're not ready to show it because they're waiting on newer chips from AMD. It'll need a beefy mobile GPU/CPU to play these games. If I had to guess, it'll launch alongside Gears of War: E-Day and have a special launch edition.
If they can launch something like the Steam Deck but with the Xbox UI and a lightweight, gaming-focused version of Windows, it could be a real contender in that space. Especially if they can adopt some of the modularity of the Elite controllers. Easily swap sticks, triggers, buttons, custom shells, etc.
Damned if you do. Damned if you don't.
Just to put things into perspective, when Sony put a slim PS5 out there they redesigned the console and made the drive modular. They at least put some effort into it. Finally, a year later Microsoft just pulls the drive out and calls it a day. In that time Sony has readied a PS5 Pro to add insult to injury.
It really comes down to price. The new S is the same but the series X with the extra terabyte is way overpriced.
I guess they justified $599 on the fact if you bought a regular X and upgraded the memory with a Seagate or WD external drive it would be the same or slightly cheaper. But internal memory bought in bulk couldn’t have added that much cost to the box.
Personally I wanted the show to be about games and it delivered! The crazy part is that we still have so many games under development by all companies!
Nintendo has a direct coming (probably more ports though) and an upcoming console early next year with a presumably stellar line up of launch games
Sony has already delivered highly rated third party games
Helldivers 2
FF7 Rebirth
Rise of Ronin
Stellar Blad
with more to come (Astro Bot, Silent Hill 2 Remake etc) in 2024 and many many more in 2025!
Xbox showed many good games and still has many to be revealed or showcased
Contraband
Clockwork Revolution
Everwild
Blade
Outer Worlds 2
OD (Kojima Project)
Project Mara
Project Maverick
Elders Scrolls 6
Fallout 5
We also have dozens of third party games announced this summer so I personally think that we have enough software to carry us throughout 2024-2025.
As for portable hardware, there are numerous options of handheld PCs that play PC/Xbox/Sony games (Steamdeck OLED, Asus Rog Ally X, Lenovo Legion Go etc) and thus It did not bother me that MS did not announce one.
They probably reserve the reveal for a more hardware centric event