Just FYI for any curious: this is the same delay that was announced last month, no additional changes since then.
"Late is just for a little while, suck is forever"
No Man’s Sky and Cyberpunk 2077:
Hold my drink
Yeah but this one's going to be late for a little while and then suck forever
I would like to predict the future too but alas I'm quite bad at it
I'm just talking crap. My most recent impression of the series was Fable: The Journey and that sucked shit through a fat old boba tea straw.
Cries at Wonder Woman videogame
MS handheld, so we get all the bloat and spyware of Windows on limited hardware.
It's like having an EEEPC running XP rather than Linux
How many years of development has this game had? I wonder if it's another case of Microsoft Mismanagement™ or if it's actually so huge and detailed that it's actually worth all of this time spent in the works.
Mumblings originally in 2017, job openings at the studio in 2018, officially announced in 2020. October 2022 Andrew Walsh, a senior writer from the Horizon Forbidden West team joined the Fable team. June of 2023 had an in-game trailer.
To be honest, that seems to be a reasonable timeframe, especially given the pandemic in the middle, if you aren't following the "rush it out the door ASAP, fix it after release, if you ever do" approach.
To be fair, I don't think any of the MS releases ever suffered from bugs at launch. At least from my experience, they always worked pretty consistently on release, aside from maybe a few exceptions - I remember ReCore having excruciatingly long respawn times, Redfall suffering from stuttering and inconsistent framerate, and Ori 2 not being as fluid as the predecessor on console when it released, but all these were still perfectly playable at launch.
I feel like their problem is always the quality and quantity of the content. I wonder if the middling reception of Avowed convinced them that the game requires a bit more work to compete in the crowded and very competitive landscape of open world RPGs.
I would say Forza Motorsport reboot had its issues, Flight Simulator 2024 had issues with cloud infra and Red Fall had various bugs and T poses.
They were playable so I agree with you on that, except FS24
The Master Chief Collection launch was infamous.
The studio is pivoting from making Forza, to making Fable, this feels like a perfectly normal development timeline.
Actually there are two studios within Playground Games, I'm sure there's cross pollination but the other studio is still making Forza supposedly.
Fair point, but in that case it means they're not just pivoting, but building a whole new studio from the ground up for this game.
Yeah you're right. It is quite a lot, especially with this kind of an IP and expectations to deal with
Oh no. Anyway
I look forward to all of the Fable 'fans' coming out of the woodwork to complain that the female characters and designs don't look like porcelain anime supermodels. It's going to be X-Men '97 all over again with a bunch of people that clearly weren't ever fans of the original complaining about their "childhoods being ruined."
I suggest that any and all one handed Gamers™ first take a look at the original character designs before opening their stupid mouths and complaining about the wOkE agENdA making characters uglier.
You see the screenshot.
Now assume your Angry Internet Gamer position....
Get in the comments, and FIGHT!
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