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2026 | Xbox Developer Direct - 22nd January (10am PT // 1pm ET // 6pm UK)

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Dunno what people are smoking, they are talking a good game, but im not seeing it.

Disappointed.

The animations looked stiff, in particular the walking animation looked like it was placeholder.

The combat looked like it could be ok, but everything else looked like it needed a lot of work.
 
Fable looks fucking great, I didn't expect that. It got me right back into my childhood with Fable 2. I'm glad it looks like an actual game and not vaporware. Very very excited for this one.
 
Eh looks okay, the only thing I can positively say about Fable is you don't have to play as the ugly woman.

They really need to fix the framerate. Stuttering mess.
 
Hmm, kinda underwhelmed with Fable, sadly. They say it will release in autumn this year, I doubt it with they way it looked.

But hey, the final product might be really awesome, I really hope for the best.

Also Beast of Reincarnation looks pretty good, gonna play it for sure.
 
I feel like I watched something completely different to a lot of you with Fable.

That looked average at best. The visuals and animations not great, the combat extremely clunky, even the characters looked like something out of a PS4/XO gen game.
 
I'll try Fable out, although that frame rate looked rough in places and there does seem to be a bit of an overly sanitized feel to the game from what was shown. Fable has always had some humor in there and this felt very dry by comparison.
 
Being varied is fine, my main issue is that it feels like it lacks somehing...Also spells seem to be a bit muted. Maybe higher grade spells will be more showy.
Fable has always had shit combat. Hell Molyneaux prided himself on how shit it was in Fable 2 and 3. And the "life sim" stuff was always undercooked.

Some drone is in here is claiming I am just anti-Xbox when I say Fable was never good, but I said it because Fable was never good. Maybe this one will be but it was funny to hear them talk about the great legacy of this series.
 
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Parts of Fable look unfinished to me like some of the animations but they have some time to polish/adjust (more weight behind hits, smooth some of the animations etc) otherwise it looks... like Fable. Which is what i've wanted since Fable 3. My wife is a massive Fable fan and is insanely stoked after seeing the video.

Now we wait.
 
Fable looked incredibly disappointing, the world looks fantastic, but wheres the humor, charm, i didn't laugh once at an interaction, do they have anything cool other than chicken kicking? The animations are incredibly stiff in combat and the NPC's, ill still buy this to support fable but man, all this time for this.

Also, its just so UE5, we need other engines this is killing my soul.
 
Dev hell. Another mismanaged studio in the AAA gaming space. Burning money for 7 years. I'd fire all of them
Didnt you hear they build the studio for Fable from scratch? New hires and everything? And is the first RPG in their portfolio? Engine adjustments for using it for RPGs? Yea...Burning money....Playground
 
Fable has always had shit combat. Hell Molyneaux prided himself on how shit it was in Fable 2 and 3. And the "life sim" stuff was always undercooked.

Some drone is in here is claiming I am just anti-Xbox when I say Fable was never good, but I said it because Fable was never good. Maybe this one will be but it was funny to hear them talk about the great legacy of this series.
Fable 3 wasn't good. Fable 2 was better than Fable 1, but I did not like Fable 2 controls. Fable TLC was good but people remember it being good not due to mechanics or gameplay, but more for the story and stuff. Quite fond memories.
 
Fable looks fun and I'm glad they confirmed it will have a character creator.
But I worry a bit about the tech, seems a bit janky and like it's running poorly. It's a work in progress and all that, but if you can't even get your cherry picked gameplay clips to run decently I worry about the state of the overall game.
 
Fable looked incredibly disappointing, the world looks fantastic, but wheres the humor, charm, i didn't laugh once at an interaction, do they have anything cool other than chicken kicking? The animations are incredibly stiff in combat and the NPC's, ill still buy this to support fable but man, all this time for this.

Also, its just so UE5, we need other engines this is killing my soul.

Not UE5 but go off.
 
Hmm, kinda underwhelmed with Fable, sadly. They say it will release in autumn this year, I doubt it with they way it looked.
The only real issues I noticed were the animation and frame rate. Nothing that can't be ironed out over the next 7-9 months.
 
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