MOTM
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Yeah the 2nd team is based on the moon, have no communication with Playground Games and actually don’t even know they exist. Also not using the same tech or processes and nobody on the 2nd team has ever worked on prior PG games.
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Phil Spencer says Fable fans should take confidence from Playground Forza Horizon work
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Leyasu
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How do posts like this even happen??
Lol and look which professional fanboy gave you a thumbs up. Fucking pathetic
Heisenberg007
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Very excited to see what they come up with!
Hitchyhero
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PG are one of the best studios MS has iny my opinion. Even though they've only made racers I trust the fable game will be great.
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Spidey Fan
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Fable, avowed, perfect dark is the games I am looking from Xbox, aside of bethesda games.
For some reason, I can't get in to their current games. Halo, is hard to enjoy due to weapons. Gears, due to cover shooter. Fh4 good racing, not at the level of need for speed. Sea of thieves is nope. I can only handle Eso for online MMO. I might try to enjoy but they are hard, compared to Playstation side. Since most of Playstation games is just 3rd person, which is easy to get. Xbox has alot of different genre, that needs alot of learning.
Flight simulator makes me look like a retard. Hard to fly those planes, without some series studying.
For some reason, I can't get in to their current games. Halo, is hard to enjoy due to weapons. Gears, due to cover shooter. Fh4 good racing, not at the level of need for speed. Sea of thieves is nope. I can only handle Eso for online MMO. I might try to enjoy but they are hard, compared to Playstation side. Since most of Playstation games is just 3rd person, which is easy to get. Xbox has alot of different genre, that needs alot of learning.
Flight simulator makes me look like a retard. Hard to fly those planes, without some series studying.
FlyyGOD
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FH4 not at level of Need For Speed? I would hope not because Horizon is much better than Need For Speed ever was.
SportsFan581
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We know one thing for certain, it will be a looker. I'm sure they'll get the mechanics down too.
BLAUcopter
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CHICKEN CHASER!!!
Werewolfgrandma
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ah Bo's not that bad.well it'sBo_Hazem he is like the leader of the la fanboy on GAF lol
jarrichvdv
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what
Derktron
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CeeJay
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Forza Horizon could really benefit from some RPG elements as well so after Fable PG, get some of that new found knowledge into FH!
It would be awesome if you could have a career where you have to not only drive but also walk around and talk to people, building relationships and making contacts as you go.
It would be awesome if you could have a career where you have to not only drive but also walk around and talk to people, building relationships and making contacts as you go.
Shut0wen
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Didnt realise people werent confident in playground, so far they have a great track record with forza, i think people get cobfused and think if a developer does nothing but car games then they aint capable of doing anything wrong, again its stupid because its been proven wrong so many times
Xbox boss says Fable fans should take confidence from Playground’s Forza Horizon work | VGC
Phil Spencer “can’t wait to get to show more” of the upcoming game…www.videogameschronicle.com
Microsoft’s head of gaming was asked to provide an update on the project during the latest Dropped Frames podcast.
“The only thing I can really say about Fable is, seeing the pedigree of the team and Playground, and where they set the bar for themselves in building a game—I think that showed with the Forza Horizon 5 preview that they had—I think people should just take confidence in that [studio director] Gavin [Raeburn] and the team there have that same level of focus on doing something amazing with an IP that we know is really important to a lot of Xbox fans, so we can’t wait to get to show more, but the team is just amazing.”
Shut0wen
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Forza horizon 2 had a smill tree, havnt played the others yet but i guess that rpg in some way or form lol
Spidey Fan
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I ment in term of racing. It doesn't hold a candle to need for speed. There is a reason why need for speed still going on now. The racing in the city recklessly, and having to avoid cars and buildings is what made need for speed a great racing game for me.
In term of visually, forza horizon 4 wins easily. But in term of gameplay, need for speed is miles better than forza. The street racing, and the
is what makes it stands out. Its gta of racing cars.
CeeJay
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yeah that's about as lite as you can get!
I was thinking along the lines of GTA but focussed on the driving and without all that gangster shit. Maybe start off with some crappy pizza delivery job and work your way up to to some better paying careers that allow you to buy and customise cars for getting into a racing career along with some illegal street racing thrown in for good measure.
Spidey Fan
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Cdpr went from the witcher 3 to cyberpunk2077. Even if that game wasn't cooked very well, it was big transitioning for them, considering all they did was fantasy games.
God of war went from 3d to full 3rd person behind a camera.
And as far we know, open world cars like forza are hard to make. Every details about it is insane, compared to something like the witcher 3. Especially the speed transitioning of open world.
FlyyGOD
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Like I said need for speed doesn't compare gameplay wise or graphically.I ment in term of racing. It doesn't hold a candle to need for speed. There is a reason why need for speed still going on now. The racing in the city recklessly, and having to avoid cars and buildings is what made need for speed a great racing game for me.
In term of visually, forza horizon 4 wins easily. But in term of gameplay, need for speed is miles better than forza. The street racing, and the
DmC while not god awful was a step down from most mainline docs. Dmc 5 showed how inferior that game was when it finally came out. Hellblade has worse combat than pretty much and third person sword fighting game I can think of. Pretty with 0 depth.
Demon2blades
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One of my most favourite games was fable 1 on the og Xbox can't wait untill we see more of this .
bender
What time is it?
Fable has always sucked.
Thirty7ven
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I'm not going to blindly trust a racing dev with making a RPG, sorry. They are worlds apart, the only thing that we can assume will be good in Fable are the vistas, the rest remains to be seen.
Heavenly Sword, Enslaved had really weak combat. DMC was extremely medocre because you know, it was crap when compared to other DMC games. Hellblade's combat was simple, and it worked to the game's advantage as combat was not the focus at all.
Doesn't warrant explanation when there's a consensus.
Heavenly Sword, Enslaved had really weak combat. DMC was extremely medocre because you know, it was crap when compared to other DMC games. Hellblade's combat was simple, and it worked to the game's advantage as combat was not the focus at all.
Doesn't warrant explanation when there's a consensus.
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Banjo64
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Banjo64
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Dunno about sucked but it’s jank as fuck. Even on Series S/X there’s some weird as fuck stutter to the movement of the character across all three games.
akaFullmetal
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I hope so, I know Playground do great racing games, I hope that translates to RPG just as well but we will have to see.
He spends more time adding lol's to xbox posts than actually playing games on his beloved playstation. He must be very happy with his life.well it's
ZywyPL
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He only plays Sony's exclusives, so since there are only so few of them and can be finished in like 8-12h, he has all the time in the world. And if HFW gets delayed to 2022 he won't be playing anything more in this year.
FlyyGOD
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This guy has never played Forza.I ment in term of racing. It doesn't hold a candle to need for speed. There is a reason why need for speed still going on now. The racing in the city recklessly, and having to avoid cars and buildings is what made need for speed a great racing game for me.
In term of visually, forza horizon 4 wins easily. But in term of gameplay, need for speed is miles better than forza. The street racing, and the
ZywyPL
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Probably woke up after a 10 year coma and isn't aware NFS doesn't exist anymore, give him some time, he'll catch up.
Imagine spending all that time hating xbox on something productive. Could probably have built hfw on his own by now.
Spidey Fan
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I did. I still prefer need for speed and burnout over forza.
Spidey Fan
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mock me as much as you want to. But forza never let me feel the fun I had in need for speed and burnout series.
Jigsaah
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Ninja Theory made Heavenly Sword. I liked the combat in that game. Hellblade's combat felt a bit indie, but that's probably because it was indie. The combat wasn't terrible though. What are you getting at?
Jigsaah
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SirTerry-T
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Believe it or not Playground games was formed by a team of people who had also worked on games that were not in the racing genre in their previous studios...
...but don't let cold hard facts get in the way of preconceived notions of what talented developers are capable of.
Thirty7ven
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The only cold hard fact here is that Playground games has yet to make a rpg and a racing game can hardly be used to prove why they will make a good one.
SirTerry-T
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Trevor Wiiliams, Playground's COO, former owner of Swordfish Studios when they made Cold Winter, Hostile Waters, Fifty Cent-Blood On The Sand, just to name a few.
He also had an obsession with WOW when it came out and Skyrim. This I know because I worked in the room opposite his office.
Gavin Raeburn was a coder before he became a producer...what I'm trying to make clear is that the people at the top of the Playground "food chain" are well aware of any extra talent they would need to hire to craft an RPG that lives up to the promise of Fable and will th the deep pockets of MS they will be able to afford to hire some of the best talent out there, as well as up and coming artists, designers and coders.
Personally I'm equal parts excited and intrigued by what Playground end up producing but I'm one of those rare breed "the glass is half full" types that are found in threads such as this one.
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Thirty7ven
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That does make me optimistic, although it has nothing to do with their work on Forza Horizon which kind of my point.
My biggest point of contention isn’t even that Playground is known as a racing studio, but rather that Fable itself as a game owed much of its charm to the folks at Lionhead which were spearheaded by Peter Molineux, who was a visionary, regardless of whether or not Fable lived up to the promise.
Heavenly sword came out 2007. Yes I think the combat in hellblade was trash. And DmCs combat came off as ok till dmc 5 came out and made it look like a garbage can.
Jigsaah
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Yea Iiked DMC's combat. I haven't played through enough of DMC5 to really have a educated opinion. What was it about DMC5's combat that was better. It felt much slower to me. Maybe that was a good thing though?
Spidey Fan
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I was trying to respond to someone. It seems i was unable to reply that person.