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[Gonzito]

8 pages of looking and analyzing a guy's ass...

 

[MMaRsu]

I played all three, and watched my girlfriend at the time play through them as well. I know exactly what they look like . I completely disagree with you, as I think theyve nailed the tone completely. the 30 minutes you shared is primarily talking to NPCs. I am confused.

Heres some of the comedic talent in the game. I am sure there will be comedy.

• Richard Ayoade: Plays Dave, a gardener-turned-giant. He is best known for The IT Crowd and Garth Marenghi's Darkplace.
• Matt King: Voices Humphry, a retired hero. He is celebrated for playing Super Hans in Peep Show.
• Nathan Foad: Plays a character named Jacob. He is an acclaimed stand-up comedian and writer known for Bloods and Newark, Newark.
• Natasia Demetriou: Plays Jenny. She is famous for What We Do in the Shadows and Stath Lets Flats.
• Susan Wokoma: Voices Arden the Cobbler. She is well known for her roles in Chewing Gum and Truth Seekers.
• Nina Wadia: Voices Grandma. She is a veteran of the sketch show Goodness Gracious Me and EastEnders.

Im not talking about SPECIFIC COMEDIANS.

Just the entire way of talking for every npc. They are boring and bland. Just to be expected from the people behind Forza Horizon.

Just because there are comedians in the game (super hans is fkn awesome) doesnt make it funny if its written bland and boring, like literally every interaction shown in this 30 minutes.

Zero actual British feeling, compared to Fable 2.

 

[MMaRsu]

the 30 minutes you shared is primarily talking to NPCs. I am confused.

Yes I linked it so you can immediately tell the difference in tone and direction, voice acting etc.

 

[DenchDeckard]

Take away Ayoade and you have a list of literal nobodies who aren't funny.

now if you said, Jimmy Carr, Lee Mack, Dara o brien, Dylan Moran, Bill Bailey, Aisling Bea, Sandy toksvig, Ricky Gervais, Joe Wilkenson, Noel Fielding, Bob mortimer and so on and so forth, pretty much any of the actual comedic greats of Britain then you would have a case.

I can't believe you just said Nadja from what we do in the shadows isn't funny.

 

[DenchDeckard]

Im not talking about SPECIFIC COMEDIANS.

Just the entire way of talking for every npc. They are boring and bland. Just to be expected from the people behind Forza Horizon.

Just because there are comedians in the game (super hans is fkn awesome) doesnt make it funny if its written bland and boring, like literally every interaction shown in this 30 minutes.

Zero actual British feeling, compared to Fable 2.

Yes I linked it so you can immediately tell the difference in tone and direction, voice acting etc.

Bro, I'm a Yorkshire man and you are clearly a troll.

They've nailed the vibe.

 

[MMaRsu]

Honestly I dont even care about which actors or comedians are in the game, that doesnt neccesarily make a game funny.

The writing needs to be there

 

[MMaRsu]

Bro, I'm a Yorkshire man and you are clearly a troll.

They've nailed the vibe.

Holy shit bro.

You are the troll

EVERY npc in this new game seems super safe and boring

If you dont think so you must be blind

 

[MMaRsu]

Max the stablehand

"sorry I dont deal with randos"

Yeah perfect encapsulation of a british 1800s fantasy vibe dude

And funny too! Man such writing

 

[MMaRsu]

I loved the part where Megan stood almost perfectly still for minutes with her arms hanging next to her, while the hero makes her his girlfriend. She just utters some voiceline and keeps standing there like a complete idiot.

Not a kiss, not a hug, her arms hanging by her side like a sack of potatoes. Not a single animation

She just says what a lovely couple we'll make

Without ever having touched the main character.

Oh man what a completely immersive experience, rich in animation and realistic npc behaviour!

 

[archangelmorph]

That will be devteams reaction about sales numbers and inevitable layoffs, not us customers, we got plenty other games to buy at launch full price, u did see this years "e3" trailers with us too, no?

Showcase trailer was shit.

Gameplay trailer was great and reinforced that this is a "proper" Fable game, which genuinely got me excited & curious.

Witcher 3 scale
Morrowind depth of world simulation
Fable depth of social simulation & emergent economy

Game looks great. Not gonna cry over uggo NPCs. Witcher 3 had its fair share of those too. Even the DEI NPCs I can ignore (no purple hair at least).

 

[DenchDeckard]

Holy shit bro.

You are the troll

EVERY npc in this new game seems super safe and boring

If you dont think so you must be blind

Max the stablehand

"sorry I dont deal with randos"

Yeah perfect encapsulation of a british 1800s fantasy vibe dude

And funny too! Man such writing

I loved the part where Megan stood almost perfectly still for minutes with her arms hanging next to her, while the hero makes her his girlfriend. She just utters some voiceline and keeps standing there like a complete idiot.

Not a kiss, not a hug, her arms hanging by her side like a sack of potatoes. Not a single animation

She just says what a lovely couple we'll make

Without ever having touched the main character.

Oh man what a completely immersive experience, rich in animation and realistic npc behaviour!

For someone who played a game almost 20 years ago and has this much hatred for it. You are unhinged

 

[PeteBull]

Showcase trailer was shit.

Gameplay trailer was great and reinforced that this is a "proper" Fable game, which genuinely got me excited & curious.

Witcher 3 scale
Morrowind depth of world simulation
Fable depth of social simulation & emergent economy

Game looks great. Not gonna cry over uggo NPCs. Witcher 3 had its fair share of those too. Even the DEI NPCs I can ignore (no purple hair at least).

Hey man, if u can enjoy the game more power to u, gl and have fun, who am i to say otherwise

 

[MMaRsu]

For someone who played a game almost 20 years ago and has this much hatred for it. You are unhinged

Haha whatever man, you're obviously blind.

Hatred?? Lmao

Criticism = hatred

You enjoy the game, noone is saying you cant.

As if I'm the only one who sees all these issues

You havent argued against anything either you're just saying nah man

So

And I played Fable 2 quite recently on Xbox emu at 60fps

The entire opening of Fable 2 has more personality than anything shown here

 

[captainnapalm]

Everything about this screams danger. Looks like a DEI mess made by retards.

 

[Negotiator101]

Yes I linked it so you can immediately tell the difference in tone and direction, voice acting etc.

Games not for you buddy, stop wasting yours and everyone else's time going over the same shit.

 

[WildBoy]

Man the game looks so bland, the conversations are so sanitized and the voice acting is terrible. Besides what is going on with the horrible lip sync?

Sorry its not marvel writing

 

[Slothbeingg]

Combat looks so boring

 

[Gonzito]

Sorry its not marvel writing

?

 

[DenchDeckard]

Haha whatever man, you're obviously blind.

Hatred?? Lmao

Criticism = hatred

You enjoy the game, noone is saying you cant.

As if I'm the only one who sees all these issues

You havent argued against anything either you're just saying nah man

So

And I played Fable 2 quite recently on Xbox emu at 60fps

The entire opening of Fable 2 has more personality than anything shown here

Oh, I'll deffo be playing it. None of your comments are putting me off. Don't worry about that.

I'm more worried about your mental health tbh

Going by your posts in here, you seem obsessed.

 

[Angry_Megalodon]

I loved the part where Megan stood almost perfectly still for minutes with her arms hanging next to her, while the hero makes her his girlfriend. She just utters some voiceline and keeps standing there like a complete idiot.

Not a kiss, not a hug, her arms hanging by her side like a sack of potatoes. Not a single animation

She just says what a lovely couple we'll make

Without ever having touched the main character.

Oh man what a completely immersive experience, rich in animation and realistic npc behaviour!

This screams DEI committee control more than anything else.

It's impossible to make a genuine Fable with "romance" when actual romance is not allowed unless it's the woman taking the initiative or they are not straight.

The cope about this game is reaching Veilguard levels.

 

[GymWolf]

This screams DEI committee control more than anything else.

It's impossible to make a genuine Fable with "romance" when actual romance is not allowed unless it's the woman taking the initiative or they are not straight.

The cope about this game is reaching Veilguard levels.

Yeah attacking MMaRsu for having an opinion shared BY AT LEAST 50% of the topic (and you know im being gentle with that number) is definitely one of the choices of all times

(From a dude who is gonna 120% buy fable at day one).

 

[MMaRsu]

Oh, I'll deffo be playing it. None of your comments are putting me off. Don't worry about that.

I'm more worried about your mental health tbh

Going by your posts in here, you seem obsessed.

Responding to your posts or the video in question = obsessed

You're such a weirdo

I'll probably play it on Gamepass depending on reviews

 

[DenchDeckard]

Responding to your posts = obsessed

You're such a weirdo

I'll probably play it on Gamepass depending on reviews

No, looking at your post history in this thread is what obsession looks like. That's what I was saying.

 

[Steve Holt]

No looking at your post history in this thread is what obsession looks like. That's what I was saying.

Tbh doesn't seem anywhere near the levels of you in Sony threads. He's not trying rally into a boycott for example.

 

[foamdino]

Western media (Polygon, Eurogamer - the usual suspects) will glaze this to high heaven (11/10 world-shattering experience etc. etc.) while ignoring that Crimson Desert is vastly superior on every metric. This looked shallow as hell, absolute trash-tier writing - very first line "randos" ffs.

Nice graphics but that's it.

 

[Loope]

They should add a line when you're trying to romance: " I want to grab you by the pussy", bam problem solved.

 

[Dr. Suchong]

I'll take another look at the Fable thread, should be pretty chill...

 

[adamsapple]

I'll take another look at the Fable thread, should be pretty chill...

 

[Raven77]

Man, people on here are impossible to please. "Walk animation looks gay, lip sync is off, combat is too basic, what do you even do?"

Are we just going to ignore how ambitious this is for side content? This isn't even the main hook of the game! Managing businesses, buying real estate, relationships built on memory... credit where it's due, this looks incredible. Imagine how that memory mechanic scales into the main game. Will enemies remember you, despise you, or admire you based on your choices?

You lot are just chronic whiners. Everything is bad, all the time

By saying this average looking trailer is "incredible" your don't the exact same thing as the people you're complaining about - except being positive instead of negative.


Onto the graphics. Playground Games is actually awful at making natural environments. What they do is create 1-2 versions of specific foliage. They then put that plant all over the place in big sections. The foliage repeats over and over.

My guess is they do it to save time. once you start to notice it though you realize how fake and awful the environments really are. You can countless examples of this in the Horizon games.

Go back and watch this gameplay trailer and you'll see it in the environment parts.

If you've seen 10 ft of any specific environment in the Horizon games, you've seen all of it. It will just repeat over and over.