Why the New Fable Will Be Slop
Toasty Gaming
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The new Fable looks beautiful, but the more Playground Games reveals, the more concerned I become about what’s underneath the surface.
In this video, I break down what we learned from the Gamescom previews and gameplay demonstrations: the lack of lasting consequences, the removal of Fable’s traditional morality system, seemingly out of a fear of ever truly inconveniencing the player, combat that appears so easy it risks becoming little more than boring busywork, and an Albion that looks impressive at first glance but increasingly disconnected from the visual identity of the original games.
The problem is that Fable increasingly looks like a game designed to never inconvenience, challenge, frustrate, or alienate anyone. And in sanding away all of that friction, Playground may also have sanded away much of what made Fable memorable in the first place.
#fable #xbox #FableGamescom
TIMESTAMPS
00:00 – Why I Think the Fable Reboot Will Be “Slop”
03:10 – The Problem With Fable’s Combat
06:35 – Shallow Enemy Design & “Background Gaming”
08:26 – Bowerstone and the Art Direction Problem
14:18 – Final Thoughts on the Fable Reboot
Sources:
TechRadar: “If you kill every Fable NPC, Playground Games says the world will ‘stay empty for some time’ before being repopulated by ‘full NPCs’”
(https://www.techradar.com/gaming/if-y...)
GamesRadar: “Fable’s new morality system is ‘entirely subjective’ and ‘probably representative of how morality exists in the world that we live in today’”
(https://www.gamesradar.com/games/rpg/...)
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In BG3 (although the game is very generous with quicksave scumming) you could do things in the wrong order and lock yourself out of certain endings or get some characters killed.
Really great RPGs are the ones that let you make choices and live with the consequences of those choices.
Also, why did they go for this realistic look? Fable had a stylized design. You can tell this game is soulless.
I Summoned a Raid Boss into my intricately crafted base, without knowing what that fully entailed. Thought that because I out-levelled the boss it would be fine, but it completely obliterated my base, which then took me hours to rebuild. Gave me the opportunity to make the improvements I needed.
From Fable 3 to this new Fable is 17 years, and as a result I don't care about the IP that much anymore.
We thought we were getting good games when that message was no longer in our games. How wrong we were.
Why the New Fable Will Be Slop
Toasty Gaming
32,968 views
The new Fable looks beautiful, but the more Playground Games reveals, the more concerned I become about what’s underneath the surface.
In this video, I break down what we learned from the Gamescom previews and gameplay demonstrations: the lack of lasting consequences, the removal of Fable’s traditional morality system, seemingly out of a fear of ever truly inconveniencing the player, combat that appears so easy it risks becoming little more than boring busywork, and an Albion that looks impressive at first glance but increasingly disconnected from the visual identity of the original games.
The problem is that Fable increasingly looks like a game designed to never inconvenience, challenge, frustrate, or alienate anyone. And in sanding away all of that friction, Playground may also have sanded away much of what made Fable memorable in the first place.
#fable #xbox #FableGamescom
TIMESTAMPS
00:00 – Why I Think the Fable Reboot Will Be “Slop”
03:10 – The Problem With Fable’s Combat
06:35 – Shallow Enemy Design & “Background Gaming”
08:26 – Bowerstone and the Art Direction Problem
14:18 – Final Thoughts on the Fable Reboot
Sources:
TechRadar: “If you kill every Fable NPC, Playground Games says the world will ‘stay empty for some time’ before being repopulated by ‘full NPCs’”
(https://www.techradar.com/gaming/if-y...)
GamesRadar: “Fable’s new morality system is ‘entirely subjective’ and ‘probably representative of how morality exists in the world that we live in today’”
(https://www.gamesradar.com/games/rpg/...)