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Avowed makes me worry about future releases from Xbox.

Idleyes

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I’ll be the first to say it: Fable is shaping up to play the same dead tune as Microsoft’s other mediocre AAA titles. That's where my expectations are right now.
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Kacho

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I’ll be the first to say it: Fable is shaping up to play the same dead tune as Microsoft’s other mediocre AAA titles. That's where my expectations are right now.
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I agree. I think their only safe bets right now are Gears E-Day and Doom Dark Ages.

Edit: I have faith in Perfect Dark too but it’s had a troubled development
 
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I'm surprised anyone has had faith in Xbox after their fable reveal. I still can't get over the Mc and the
Xbox really only has a handful of studios that are even aiming for the top edges of AAA. It has nothing to do with the subscription. The only ones really even capable of that are going to be Playground, Ninja Theory and The Coalition. They aren't like Sony, and they have mostly AA studios. Obsidian is like the dictionary definition of a AA studio. They had multiple Kickstarter games even. Their biggest games prior to Outer World were essentially large mods of KOTOR and Fallout 3. Fable and Gears are going to be the gaming equivalent of Endgame, but that's about it. Indiana Jones was pretty close as well. You guys are making up this narrative in your head honestly. The fact that Obsidian even managed to release a full RPG on Unreal 5 is honestly more than I would have expected from them graphically.
Obsidian did kotor 2, and some devs were from troika if I'm not mistaken (arcanum/bloodlines 2). They also did Neverwinter Nights 2 a full party new 3d engine D&D game. They did alpha protocol, a spy thriller rpg that was the opposite of woke and filled with choice. Pillars of Eternity, was also great. Same with Tyranny. They started going downhill after hiring a ton of woke chicks and firing Chris Avellone after being accused of sexual abuse (not sleeping with 2 ladies at a convention so they made a story up where he won a 6 figure lawsuit. Even so obsidian wouldn't take him back).

Pentiment a smaller game was also good and about history and religion, not woke (as far as got in it).

Pillars 2 I never played but heard it had woke elements. The outer worlds was wokeified to the extreme. They hired reddit /era folks and get reddit /era results.
 

DanielG165

Member
Gears, Halo and everything else will launch on PS5, because it's literally not sustainable to have big budget games (like Gears and Halo) launch into that service.
According to who, exactly? If you think that Microsoft are releasing their premier games onto other platforms because Game Pass can’t support them, rather than it simply not making any logistical nor financial sense to have projects that cost $300 million+ to make tied down to one platform, then… Next gen is going to very interesting for a lot of you lol.
 

Klayzer

Member
According to who, exactly? If you think that Microsoft are releasing their premier games onto other platforms because Game Pass can’t support them, rather than it simply not making any logistical nor financial sense to have projects that cost $300 million+ to make tied down to one platform, then… Next gen is going to very interesting for a lot of you lol.
All the current financials, points to both being true.
 

EverydayBeast

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Exclusives disappearing is disturbing for sure, and Microsoft has to protect their exclusives but putting a game like forza on PlayStation shows a different message.

We will see what happens with halo after infinite, gears e day, fable I think is AAA, I presume Microsoft wants a Spider-Man/horizon open world game of their own.
 

Jesb

Member
Yup that teaser had me super hyped for this. Then they completely lost the plot of that. Not sure how they went from that teaser to the rainbow colours.
 

Mortisfacio

Member
I’ll be the first to say it: Fable is shaping up to play the same dead tune as Microsoft’s other mediocre AAA titles. That's where my expectations are right now.
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That's more or less where I'm at now. I'm optimistic for Fable, but I'm not getting my hopes up. It's amazing how almost nothing has been a "must buy" for me from Microsoft for so long. Doom is the only one I expect to be great, but there's not even timed exclusivity there. Just multiplat to start.
 

Seomel

Member
I p*****d it day 0 and it's pretty good. I've put in some 15h so far and combat gets better with upgrades, story is alright, but world is nice to explore and way you can mix up one hand weapons, like having spell book in one and fucking gun, sword, wand etc in another is exciting, reminds of Skyrim, that's about the only aspect there.
Also don't have newer screenshot to show it, but get redheads to get actually colorful game
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Pandawan

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PROTIP: seek out women in real life. Videogame women aren’t a substitute.
It is not about women it is about terrible story, terrible characters and terrible gameplay. Ugly women is just an indicator all of that will be present.

Take for example Dragon Age Vielguard. Characters there just unsufferable. They behave not like humans. Story is as afwull. And gameplays lacks any depth any variety. And why is that happened? Because the team behind this game was more concerned about inserting their politics more than making a really good game.

So if I see a DIE character, I immediately think of DA V, Avowed and assume that if the DIE team is behind this game, then it will have all of that (terrible gameplay, terrible story, terrible characters) in it.

You so badly want to devaluate my opinion by framing me as clown but in the end it is you will get an awfull game, not only me.

I speak about the quality of the games and your answer: "DAAAA, HMMM, I HAVE NO BRAINS, I SEE CLOWS, I AM DELUSIONAL, SEEK WOMAN, EEEEHHHH"

How many times do you have to step on the same rake to finally notice a pattern? If one game after another comes out - a terrible game with common features, how small a brain do you have to still have not to notice it? How many Concords, Dragon Age Veilguards and Avoweds has to come out for people like see to finally get it.

Just learn to think. Damn it.

In modern days i feel like a protagonist from the movie "Idiocracy". I am trying to expain basic things about quaility of actualy good characters and story to people who almost reached a point where they enjoy watching a farting asses for 3 hours.
 
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Loope

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Buggy, the the way you've been behaving lately...yeah, I don't think this forum is for you anymore, maybe you should go take a look at Resetera or something...

Fucking Christ with that "homophobia" card again, you people are literally insufferable and yet again, you just show that you're absolutely not in the "middle"/unbiased like you've been trying to make us all believe, in fact, you absolutely lean towards a very specific side/demographic.
"Both sides are equally bad" my arse, I could smell the bullshit from a mile away man...

This is a gaming forum, leave all the bullshit politics out of the convo
Are you joking. The other flower was the one bringing up colours as proof the game is gay or some weird shit. That's is a normal reply according to you? I personally think FF looks more like a gay fantasy than a game with colours.
 

Three

Member
Look I'm just started exploring the 2nd map of the game. Here are a few examples of what is in the game so far

There is a mission where you need to retrieve a shipment for a brothel. The shipment ends up being provalactives/abortion medicine. You then have this debate with the madam about whether abortion should be legal or illegal

At least 2 instances of homosexuality just kinda thrown in there for no reason. The npc doesn't even give you a quest.

It teeters dangerous on the line of woke....and mind you, I'm just on the 2nd map.
Got to love Buggy Loop Buggy Loop now defending this shit.
 
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Look I'm just started exploring the 2nd map of the game. Here are a few examples of what is in the game so far

There is a mission where you need to retrieve a shipment for a brothel. The shipment ends up being provalactives/abortion medicine. You then have this debate with the madam about whether abortion should be legal or illegal
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BlackTron

Member
What year is this?
People really begging for gears of war, MGS 4, gritty, real, brown games again. 🫤

I didn't like the era when everything was drab. Even some N games got brown and dank looking. Terrible.

But the style of today's "normal games" can get kinda gaudy and ugly with their color palettes so it's obvious why people are asking for this. I think it just reached oversaturation (heh) and the trend is swinging like fashion.

I thought BOTW was too bright and had no moodiness anywhere. Twilight Princess was too dark dank and ugly. OOT knew when to be both. I want to return to that. Sure TOTK added caves but that's just an overly dark expanse of nothing. The Royal Family Tomb and Under the Well were more valuable additions. There are no dungeons to create contrasts against the bright world which even a Game Boy remake can deliver...
 

GHG

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Look I'm just started exploring the 2nd map of the game. Here are a few examples of what is in the game so far

There is a mission where you need to retrieve a shipment for a brothel. The shipment ends up being provalactives/abortion medicine. You then have this debate with the madam about whether abortion should be legal or illegal

At least 2 instances of homosexuality just kinda thrown in there for no reason. The npc doesn't even give you a quest.

It teeters dangerous on the line of woke....and mind you, I'm just on the 2nd map.

So basically the people who have attempted to gaslight everyone over the last several days by saying "I don't see anything woke" or words to that effect have just outed themselves as being... Woke.

Fantastic.
 
I’ll be the first to say it: Fable is shaping up to play the same dead tune as Microsoft’s other mediocre AAA titles. That's where my expectations are right now.
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It's Playground, i expect an Forza Horizon like experience, a casual cinematic adventure with great graphics and light RPG details, if i had to bet i'd say it will get close to 9 or higher on MC, tho it won't be any special thing we'll remember over the years. Popcorn gaming, nothing compared to stuff like KCD2
 

Jigsaah

Gold Member
So basically the people who have attempted to gaslight everyone over the last several days by saying "I don't see anything woke" or words to that effect have just outed themselves as being... Woke.

Fantastic.
So I think the timing of this game...with the election and all and the backlash from Veilguard really kinda coerced the devs to make put some bandaids on what would have been a superbly woke game. Examples like giving the option to not include pronouns...which I appreciate. I'm not too far into the game, so I'm not sure how pervasive the game is in terms of wokeness. The interactable npc talking about her girlfriend when she has literally nothing to do with the game's story feels like another bandaid. It's like yea she's there, but hey...a lotta folks might just miss this person altogether.

I'm not racist ok...I'm black. But even I notice this game is like 90% minority npcs. My character is black so I'm not really complaining as much as just making an observation. It feels intentional. Which is not the way I imagined representation in video games would go. I think Spiderman did a better job honestly.
 

Bojanglez

The Amiga Brotherhood
It leads me to believe that I can't really trust what I see from some Xbox first party games as they are announced. Instead always thinking things are going to have a paradigm shift mid-development that ruins the vision that garnered players' attention in the first place.
To be fair there are few publishers/studios where you can probably trust what they show you. The only ones I would probably trust to buy day 1 are From Software, Sony (mostly Naughty Dog, Insomniac,) Rockstar & Nintendo (core franchises).

Xbox as a whole have no consistent quality development culture, they are a random collection of studios with varying pedigree so maybe you can trust the odd studio (id is probably the only I think of as near that level) more than others, but they have a long way to go before people will trust the whole brand to be a sign of quality.
 

GHG

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So I think the timing of this game...with the election and all and the backlash from Veilguard really kinda coerced the devs to make put some bandaids on what would have been a superbly woke game. Examples like giving the option to not include pronouns...which I appreciate. I'm not too far into the game, so I'm not sure how pervasive the game is in terms of wokeness. The interactable npc talking about her girlfriend when she has literally nothing to do with the game's story feels like another bandaid. It's like yea she's there, but hey...a lotta folks might just miss this person altogether.

I'm not racist ok...I'm black. But even I notice this game is like 90% minority npcs. My character is black so I'm not really complaining as much as just making an observation. It feels intentional. Which is not the way I imagined representation in video games would go. I think Spiderman did a better job honestly.

Just had a quick look and it seems there's also a quest about refugees which is pretty on the nose.


I'm black as well and can't stand this degree of pandering, I never asked for any of this and nobody else who is black that I know does either. It's done more harm than good.
 
So basically the people who have attempted to gaslight everyone over the last several days by saying "I don't see anything woke" or words to that effect have just outed themselves as being... Woke.

Fantastic.

They're being having a pop at Yakuza In Hawaii next... What with it's outlandish use of colour and heavy use of purple.
 

Idleyes

Gold Member
Can’t wait for Elder Scrolls 6 to drop, just to watch the anti-woke crowd lose their minds when they realize the only ones who actually beat the Thalmor were the Redguards. Suddenly, established lore will be ‘woke propaganda.’

Meanwhile, future me, busy fighting off both the Empire and the Aldmeri Dominion, has a message for you: 'Forget about The Elder Scrolls entirely. You’ll be long dead before Tamriel is, by your pathetic standards, great again.
 

Idleyes

Gold Member
So, I’m playing The Elder Scrolls 6 right now (yes, this is future me), and while it's amazing, there’s one thing that bugs me. They wanted Sentinel to feel massive, but to pull it off, they took some serious shortcuts.

Instead of fully fleshed out NPCs, the city is packed with a mix of Elder Scrolls and Starfield-style NPCs. Some are fully interactive, but most? They just vanish into thin air if they move too far or if combat breaks out. You’ll see NPCs sprinting away, only to disappear over time like they never existed. And the best part? Some get stuck in an infinite running animation, smacking into walls and objects until, poof, they’re gone.
 

DeepEnigma

Gold Member
Purple and a pirate. How more Gay do you want it ;)
Yakuza has always been eccentric/overly kabuki dramatic especially with some "hard gay" elements or characters. That's part of their charm where one moment it takes itself serious as it should, and another moment it goes over the top, but western NuMarxist retard ideology it is not.
 
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Nah...KCD does their own unique thing. A realistic medieval sim RPG. No magic, no dragons, no monsters. I really cant compare KCD to anything else. There just isnt anything...which is great for a game! :messenger_winking_tongue:
Maybe not you but I see a lot and I mean a lot of reviewers saying it. It's not the magic, dragons, and monsters that made people fall in love with Skyrim which is why those things missing from KCD don't stop the comparisons.
 
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