This is the first in-gameplay trailer for the new Fable

[howlingmosquito (mosquito)]

@Popppi

…Just watched a video on youtube from a former environment artist of fable reacting to the trailer. She hasn’t worked on the game in the recent past but her coments very much reitarte that it’s actually in-game. She also referred to it as the “jack and the beanstock quest”. I’ve seen people being worried about the game being all about the fairy tale’s so it might be calming to some that this seems to be just one quest in the game.

I saw that last night. She was really overwhelmed by her wheelbarrow showing up. IMO it’s ok for Fable to lift fairy tale elements as long as they are satirizing them. Like Shrek 1 and 2 (only with Pythonesque humor)

[RedSparrows]

I genuinely don’t get some responses to this. It’s like people have never encountered a tone trailer for a game.

Of course they satirising things, of course they’re playing with fables, of course there’s more to it, and I’d bet my house you’ll run around woods with a sword smacking up bandits and monsters.

I just don’t get gaming sometimes. Feels like explaining a movie to my mum.

[Daniel]

@RedSparrows

I genuinely don’t get some responses to this. It’s like people have never encountered a tone trailer for a game.

Of course they satirising things, of course they’re playing with fables, of course there’s more to it, and I’d bet my house you’ll run around woods with a sword smacking up bandits and monsters.

I just don’t get gaming sometimes. Feels like explaining a movie to my mum.

It’s hilarious because people have said they want a trailer for fable even if it’s not full gameplay to just get a sense of the game, then complained we got that exactly.

[GraffitiHeart (Jay Johnson)]

@Anecronomicon

…uld influence. Molyneux’s promises were so vast on that front he soon became a meme in & of himself by overpromising. But the intent (& basic accomplishment relating to delivering on at least some of those promises) was there in the first 3 games. Now maybe the new Fable has some of this interactivity but absolutely nothing shown suggests it’s even high on their agenda. And that’s the sad part, i.e. a Fable developed in the 2020’s with the luxury of making a game for the powerful hardware we have now in this industry should have absolutely prioritized finally delivering the game Molyneux wanted 20 years ago. Even in terms of marketing. I don’t ask for platforming or giants or references to Jack & the Beanstalk or whatever, I just want Fable. As it was intended by Peter Molyneux.

I mean you’re also completely wrong. There were very strong hints towards the social and living world aspects to the game. Entering a town and someone calling the hero a wanker, showing off in a tavern to a big group of people with a beer in hand. They are very heavily hinting at what to expect here.

Also Fable is well know for taking fairytales and fables and turning them into parts of the game. There’s a mission about getting a sword in the stone in the OG Fable and I’m pretty sure the sword was called Excalibur. I bet there’s a ton more that I can’t think of now.

[GraffitiHeart (Jay Johnson)]

@euV2

A lot of sad discourse on YouTube comments suggesting the game has gone woke because of the main character.

I’ve seen this, it’s the most ridiculous thing I’ve ever heard. And Fable was woke even before it was a thing. They had same sex marriage in the first game before it was even legalised in the UK.

[no1_codename_47]

@Joe_Sinister1

“Woke” has been stripped of all it’s meaning by a “certain group” and now is basically a catch all term for anything they dislike. It’s really fucking annoying and is ruining discourse in videogames, comics, movies etc

Yeah let’s be honest it’s just a term by certain people that they throw out anytime a game or film or whatever features a non male, person of colour, etc as the main character. I genuinely can’t wrap my head around their line of thinking. Such is their level of ignorance i would not be surprised if there are people online that label the new Perfect Dark as woke because it has a female lead character…

It’s confirmation bias I suppose, if you showed them the most amazing looking trailer that they thought look brilliant but then save the reveal at the end that it has a female lead (or even POC lead designer, etc), then suddenly the same game becomes woke trash.

[windblast]

i reaaaally hope that the case of Fable being the only new game from the 2020 showcase (beside avowed/Forza) that got update yesterday is because Phil thinks the game could release after both Hellblade and Avowed. which are slated for 2024. maaaybe early 2015. oh for the love of god.

[Searsy82]

@windblast

i reaaaally hope that the case of Fable being the only new game from the 2020 showcase that got update yesterday is because Phil thinks the game could release after both Hellblade and Avowed. which are slated for 2024. maaaybe early 2015. oh for the love of god.

Watch the Matt Booty and Phil interview from Giant Bomb.

[Silky]

@Daniel

If they did that then people would be saying the exact same thing but in reverse, this is one of the biggest things that’s getting on my nerves with the gaming community, 30fps being ok one moment to not being ok in the next, show us X game give us something and when they do it, people ask where is the gameplay, but if they’re quiet they gotta show us the games.

Not sure what that has to do with me prefering a stylized visual direction over the realism. I’m fine with a lot of things.

[SheepDip]

@Anecronomicon

…uld influence. Molyneux’s promises were so vast on that front he soon became a meme in & of himself by overpromising. But the intent (& basic accomplishment relating to delivering on at least some of those promises) was there in the first 3 games. Now maybe the new Fable has some of this interactivity but absolutely nothing shown suggests it’s even high on their agenda. And that’s the sad part, i.e. a Fable developed in the 2020’s with the luxury of making a game for the powerful hardware we have now in this industry should have absolutely prioritized finally delivering the game Molyneux wanted 20 years ago. Even in terms of marketing. I don’t ask for platforming or giants or references to Jack & the Beanstalk or whatever, I just want Fable. As it was intended by Peter Molyneux.

There’s a lot more to see and I’m not making any assumptions yet about what the game is or is not… But I strongly agree with your overall point. Really hoping that they retain and expand that aspect of Fable. Let you interact with the world and its inhabitants in ambitious, unexpected, and silly ways.

[Staffy]

It’s probably way too early to say, but for some reason this trailer did give me the idea that it might be SP only after all. Or it does have optional co-op, but then I wonder who the other character is gonna be.

I’d be surprised if it won’t have any online elements.

[Sparda3g]

Stumbled upon this:

abstract concept

I got to watch the interview.

[Joe_Sinister1 (Joe_Sinister)]

People keep confirming it was real time gameplay but certain people on certain forums still think they know better than the developers.

[windblast]

i think what’s more impressive is the npc reactions in the trailer. my favourite is the one when the MC get shouted ‘wanker’. the bald guy and the lady on left side’s reaction was kind of funny.

[Staffy]

@windblast

i think what’s more impressive is the npc reactions in the trailer. my favourite is the one when the MC get shouted ‘wanker’. the bald guy and the lady on left side’s reaction was kind of funny.

I loved that part too. Makes you wonder why she was called wanker, lmao. Reminds me of how NPCs react to Trevor in GTA V and of course RDR2 but less comical.

We’ve seen too little but I can see this protagonist being someone that clowns around and what not, someone that is hard to take seriously and maybe that sets some folks off in that game world, hahaha.

[CallMeCraig]

@Staffy

I loved that part too. Makes you wonder why she was called wanker, lmao. Reminds me of how NPCs react to Trevor in GTA V and of course RDR2 but less comical.

We’ve seen too little but I can see this protagonist being someone that clowns around and what not, someone that is hard to take seriously and maybe that sets some folks off in that game world, hahaha.

I mean you can be an absolute ass and wanker in previous Fable games if you wish. Was it in Fable II or III where you could drag villagers to torture and death in a death cult fortress?

[Sparda3g]

@windblast

i think what’s more impressive is the npc reactions in the trailer. my favourite is the one when the MC get shouted ‘wanker’. the bald guy and the lady on left side’s reaction was kind of funny.

It also looks like whatever you do in front of normal NPCs like kicking a chicken, they will react to it.

[Staffy]

@CallMeCraig

I mean you can be an absolute ass and wanker in previous Fable games if you wish. Was it in Fable II or III where you could drag villagers to torture and death in a death cult fortress?

Oh shit, i forgot about that last one. Yeah, there are several things they really should stick to. I don’t necessarily need fart and burp buttons, but some emotions you can trigger yourself and see how people react…that IS Fable.

@Sparda3g

It also looks like whatever you do in front of normal NPCs like kicking a chicken, they will react to it.

The reaction by the dude with the wheelbarrow (I think?) is hilarious.

[CallMeCraig]

Oh, now i remember. In Fable 2 you could sacrifice your spouse in the Temple of Shadows for a shiny new weapon. Their last words were probably: you wanker!

[dehnus]

@REDDEADANDGTACLUB

I hope the “cinematic feeling” stuff doesn’t end up making this game another Witcher 3… Because Fable is not that.

I don’t know… A witch with a lot of jokes? Isn’t that Bard’s tale? Which MS owns… soooooooooo. I’d sign up for a new “The Bard’s tale” XD.