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[EruditeHobo]

Yeah, pre-alpha would be a bunch of capsules moving in a greybox environment. Dunno why they labeled that way.

Not necessarily... not meeting the milestones you set for your "alpha" means that you are in pre-alpha.

Encouraging footage, either way. I'm sure this is a long time from now, maybe even 2+ years? But I'll be looking forward to it for probably that whole time (whatever it ends up being)

 

[hemo memo]

It looks good, aside from the protagonist's awful design.

 

[Mattyp]

It's going to be interesting how that Engine behaves.

It reminds me of the Frostbite engine. Great for FPS but completely incompetent for RPGs.

Have high hopes for it, always imagined how beautiful it could be when you didn't need to push 4K and barreling through the landscape with 20 other cars destroying shit at 60fps.

Wait and see but. No idea why waste anytime with UE.

 

[Revolutionary]

They're really going forward with that hideous character design...

 

[Magik85]

Yeah, pre-alpha would be a bunch of capsules moving in a greybox environment. Dunno why they labeled that way.

Not really.
I had pleasure to be part of community testers of the first Project CARS game. And i can tell you, that in some ways pre-alpha allready looked better than final release ;-)

 

[RJMacready73]

Graphically that looks incredible, insane visuals but by fuck the main character is just an abomination, completely designed by HR and the 8 Trans in the office, she's completely uninspiring, horribly ugly and a reflection of exactly why western game development is a joke, a poster child for modern gaming..

I can't believe they are going to release this game with that character, i mean come on, haven't they learnt anything from the last load of big releases that have suffered from insane amounts of online negativity and subsequently bombed?? are the fucking mentalists really running the insane asylum??

From that initial gameplay reveal, it looks like they have everything to make not only an incredible fable but a gorgeous (non purply) RPG that i would love to play, so for the love of god, accept that when you came up with the character concept it was a different time when all the women had to look like men in order to not upset all the men who became women and fucking bin it and redo it into something that's easy on the eye. Were not asking for some stupid Asian bimboid character just a main character that looks like a fucking woman.

I bet "she" even has pronouns just so we know its a fucking woman.. christ almighty

 

[GymWolf]

They had hotdogs back then? Hard pass

Those are sausages, not hot dogs.

 

[RJMacready73]

As long as I have the option to play as a male protagonist then I'm good to go.

This so much this, if we're only getting 2 options.. body type A and body type A+, i'll be going with the dude

 

[GymWolf]

I may actually go with the female character this time, she is ugly but kinda endearing in a way.

I want to see how the male model look.

 

[bbeach123]

The real gameplay look jank af .

 

[Angry_Megalodon]

Why?

All that does is pander to weirdos who keep having this weird discussion about how fuck-able video game characters. Its a video game for you to play and enjoy the narrative or game loop, not for you to jerk it . There's plenty of porn and cartoon/cgi/rule34 porn on the web for you to do that to.

Any of you who keeps talking out loud about how bangable what is akin to a cartoon should remember to use your inside voice, cause in the real world telling random people that some anthropomorphize-d computer's depiction of a human being is not being fuckable enough for you; gets you strange looks.

The only weirdos in this matter are the ones who turn women into trans as a sexual fetish and the ones, like you, who pretend not to see it.

 

[pudel]

I want to see how the male model look.

Nah, just kidding. Somehow they leave the male protagonists alone...and make them gigachads as usual. Just "good looking women" seems to be "problematic"...for whatever fcked up reasons.

 

[Kikorin]

It looks good, animations are a bit junkies right now. Anyway I don't understand why release a random gameplay like that that looks more like a leak, instead of a competent edited trailer to show the game under the best possible light.

 

[Sakura]

Looks like you can pick who you want to be

Report on Fable reboot says it features Witcher-like combat, multiple protagonists

The combat of Playground Games' Fable is described as being Witcher-like according to a brand-new report. The title might feature character selection too.

www.neowin.net

If it's anything like the other games, it will have further customization layered on top

"Jez Corden heard..." isn't really enough confirmation for me.
I'm not even convinced playing good or evil, eating lots, etc will change the appearance like in the old games.
I would not be surprised at all if this is the protagonist we get and that is it.

 

[zapper]

doubt that it will come out in 2026, seems very optimistic if you release this kind of footage... there's really nothing to see here.

 

[Black_Stride]

Sorry everyone had to see that.

I offer the below as recompense.

Im going to forget this games name or that it was even announced by the end of next month.

 

[PJX]

Oh look. Another Soul-less Souls-like. Devoid of color, humor, or fun. No worries though, this game can exist also along with Fable.

But it's not a Souls like game though.

 

[ResilientBanana]

But it's not a Souls like game though.

Oh.. well. It definitely does not look... fun

 

[Idleyes]

Souls like & Devil May Cry like games are all about the combat.

Fable's combat?

Fable is an RPG centered around moral choices, where your actions, whether good or evil, shape both your character and the world around you.

 

[saintjules]

It looks good, aside from the protagonist's awful design.

They're really going forward with that hideous character design...

Do you guys not know the lore/parody behind the character design choices to their games?

 

[Topher]

Do you guys not know the lore/parody behind the character design choices to their games?

Where was the "parody" in the past games as far as the protaganist is concerned? I've posted a couple of times now showing the female character of Fable 2 and there isn't any of this "parody" there.

 

[PeteBull]

Pre-alpha?? Does the pre-alpha stage now happen 5 years after the game is formally announced?

They put pre-alpha on the trailer so later they can downgrade it hard and claim its coz previous footage was pre-alpha, known tactic many devs do.

 

[Ozriel]

Graphically that looks incredible, insane visuals but by fuck the main character is just an abomination, completely designed by HR and the 8 Trans in the office, she's completely uninspiring, horribly ugly and a reflection of exactly why western game development is a joke, a poster child for modern gaming..

I can't believe they are going to release this game with that character, i mean come on, haven't they learnt anything from the last load of big releases that have suffered from insane amounts of online negativity and subsequently bombed?? are the fucking mentalists really running the insane asylum??

From that initial gameplay reveal, it looks like they have everything to make not only an incredible fable but a gorgeous (non purply) RPG that i would love to play, so for the love of god, accept that when you came up with the character concept it was a different time when all the women had to look like men in order to not upset all the men who became women and fucking bin it and redo it into something that's easy on the eye. Were not asking for some stupid Asian bimboid character just a main character that looks like a fucking woman.

I bet "she" even has pronouns just so we know its a fucking woman.. christ almighty

This isn't a stable reaction at all to a design that's more plain than 'ugly'.

They probably went with that design to make a tomboyish adventurer character who certainly wouldn't look like a model with makeup on.

The crazy ones are the ones shrieking about the looks of the protagonists instead of relevant stuff like how the game plays, the story etc.

 

[RJMacready73]

This isn't a stable reaction at all to a design that's more plain than 'ugly'.

They probably went with that design to make a tomboyish adventurer character who certainly wouldn't look like a model with makeup on.

The crazy ones are the ones shrieking about the looks of the protagonists instead of relevant stuff like how the game plays, the story etc.

yes my post was a bit hyperbolic i'll give you that but that character is just plain ugly mate, not plain, not tomboyish, just pure bog beast material, you can still have a tomboyish character without making her look like a gremlin, are you afraid of good looking female protagonists? remember you're gonna be stuck playing this serpent of satan for the duration of the game and i don't know about you, id at least like something pleasing on the eyes to control, as i said, i don't want no basement dweller asian dreambot with 8ft legs... and as i said this sorta shit just gets the online narrative off to a bad start and now the discourse around this game will be all about the looks instead of what you rightly pointed out should be about, i.e. gameplay, story etc

 

[Portugeezer]

Nice graphics, big step up from Hogwarts.

 

[Topher]

This isn't a stable reaction at all to a design that's more plain than 'ugly'.

They probably went with that design to make a tomboyish adventurer character who certainly wouldn't look like a model with makeup on.

The crazy ones are the ones shrieking about the looks of the protagonists instead of relevant stuff like how the game plays, the story etc.

Somehow those who are complaining about a character design are "crazy" and "shrieking"? That isn't exactly what I would call a "stable reaction" either.

 

[nemiroff]

The crazy ones are the ones shrieking about the looks of the protagonists instead of relevant stuff like how the game plays, the story etc.

Yeah, I'm looking at all the "why so ugly" comments and I'm genuinely confused by why people seem to just have to fuck every female character they play.

I can't say I ever got a boner from watching Brienne of Tarth in GoT, but she's still one of my favorite female characters in a TV-series.

I for one just basically want my characters to be well written, well acted, well animated, and well modelled.

 

[digoutyoursoul]

The poor chicken…again :-(

 

[PJX]

Oh.. well. It definitely does not look... fun

It definitely look more fun than Fable wth attractive women at that.

 

[HeisenbergFX4]

Somehow those who are complaining about a character design are "crazy" and "shrieking"? That isn't exactly what I would call a "stable reaction" either.

I am just getting old, well we are that is

But stop forcing me to play as a certain character, give me a character creator even if its a simple one

 

[pudel]

Yeah, I'm looking at all the "why so ugly" comments and I'm genuinely confused by why people seem to just have to fuck every female character they play.

I can't say I ever got a boner from watching Brienne of Tarth in GoT, but she's still one of my favorite female characters in a TV-series.

I for one just basically want my characters to be well written, well acted, well animated, and well modelled.

"We eat first with our eyes" - it doesnt mean the food is bad, but you might end up selling just less food because something looks weird in the first place.

 

[HeisenbergFX4]

"We eat first with our eyes" - it doesnt mean the food is bad, but you might end up selling just less food because something looks weird in the first place.

Even way back when I was in high school one of my teachers proved this point by having us try mashed potatoes

As a blind taste test they were all identical but upon seeing what we ate one was regular colored and one was this nasty looking brown poop color and some were repulsed to the point they couldn't eat from that pile again though the taste was the same.

 

[JayK47]

Us gamers are so easily misled. So many here are saying how good it looks. It will not look like that, if it ever gets released. 100% pure bullshot. The main character is ugly. The graphics will get downgraded. The story will be ass. There is no guarantee you get to choose or make your main character. Every bit of media from this game shows the same ugly main character. The combat may be decent. Many here will defend the shit out of it when it comes out.

 

[Topher]

I am just getting old, well we are that is

But stop forcing me to play as a certain character, give me a character creator even if its a simple one

That's usually the best choice in an RPG. But if you are going to make a set character, at least put someone in charge of character design that understands the concept of charisma. Supposedly there is some "haha" joke in all this, but for the life of me......I'm not getting it. Maybe that's part of us being old as well.

 

[Luc2010]

Fable looks good, but still the main character looks like a generic witch from the old black and white movies. lol

 

[j0hnnix]

That looks really good. Excited for this.. just for the comedy aspect of it. Graphically , is just , wow.. the WereWolf.. shheeesh.

 

[Buggy Loop]

Peoples always pull up the first trailer protagonist, but it improved in 2nd trailer

In TV series Lockwood, less flattering than photoshoots

Almost all of her little details on the face is on the digital character. Sans makeup.

Is it a korean sex doll? No. But ugly is stretching it a lot.

Taking a snap at a facial expressions now will basically determine the narrative you want to set, with graphic fidelity upgrading facial animations for the studios that want to try it, you'll be able to find a bad shot of anything you want. Games used to be dolls by graphic limitations with barely just the mouth moving like shit for dialogues and a few eye blinks. The fable 2 "hottie" in this thread is like, completely dated. Uncanny valley is here now more than ever.

They don't have to make her cringe at an NPC dialogue giving her shit, they could always have a rested stoic face, but that's boring imo, especially for Fable with british humour and never taking itself seriously.

I want derp faces in Fable. Its that kind of game. Fuck boring stoic faces.

Same thing for Intergalactic, overly dramatized. The animation of her face is S-tier as is almost everything from Naughty Dog.

Or Aloy, as much as the fat face memes made me chuckle, I don't want this either

Because that's photoshoot / photoshop / AI filter crap that inundates the social networks, its boring as fuck. You ain't waking up next to that after they remove the makeup guys. Why would it have to be like this in games.

Also a little fun tidbit for those who played Fable II, on left is the Fable II (2008) Fairfax castle and right is the new one.

 

[TheThreadsThatBindUs]

The game has a character creator just make someone else

Source?

I don't know that they'd go to the trouble of modelling the in-game model after a real actress if this was true (I guess Mass Effect did for Male Shep, so it's possible). What is your source on this though?

 

[DeepEnigma]

As long as I have the option to play as a male protagonist then I'm good to go.

He'll probably be like Joxer from Xena.

 

[GymWolf]

Im going to forget this games name or that it was even announced by the end of next month.

I heard magnesium pills can help.

 

[adamsapple]

Also a little fun tidbit for those who played Fable II, on left is the Fable II (2008) Fairfax castle and right is the new one.

Good catch.

Looks like we're still in Albion, but probably greatly expanded in scale and scope over the previous games.

 

[TheThreadsThatBindUs]

Or Aloy, as much as the fat face memes made me chuckle, I don't want this either

Because that's photoshoot / photoshop / AI filter crap that inundates the social networks, its boring as fuck. You ain't waking up next to that after they remove the makeup guys. Why would it have to be like this in games.

Lol, wut!!?

You're on your own there. Hot Aloy is a bajillion times better than mascul-loy who looks like my mate Frank from o'er the estate.

I fucking want this so bad, it pisses me off that we didn't get it.

Even of they just made Aloy actually look like the actress, Hannah Hoekstra (who is sexy AF), it would have been soooo much better:

 

[GymWolf]

yes my post was a bit hyperbolic i'll give you that but that character is just plain ugly mate, not plain, not tomboyish, just pure bog beast material, you can still have a tomboyish character without making her look like a gremlin, are you afraid of good looking female protagonists? remember you're gonna be stuck playing this serpent of satan for the duration of the game and i don't know about you, id at least like something pleasing on the eyes to control, as i said, i don't want no basement dweller asian dreambot with 8ft legs... and as i said this sorta shit just gets the online narrative off to a bad start and now the discourse around this game will be all about the looks instead of what you rightly pointed out should be about, i.e. gameplay, story etc

Ok the serpent of satan bit got a chuckle out of me

 

[DenchDeckard]

I think i'm lucky that my Girlfriend is hot as fuck so I don't have to worry about this stuff lol

Yes, it is a stealth brag.

 

[Buggy Loop]

Lol, wut!!?

You're on your own there. Hot Aloy is a bajillion times better than mascul-loy who looks like my mate Frank from o'er the estate.

I fucking want this so bad, it pisses me off that we didn't get it.

Even of they just made Aloy actually look like the actress, Hannah Hoekstra (who is sexy AF), it would have been soooo much better:

I really don't think I'm on my own here. That makeup Aloy face is cringe as fuck. Like a 12 years old's wet dream. Not even porn stars are that caked up.

 

[nemiroff]

Fable looks good, but still the main character looks like a generic witch from the old black and white movies. lol

Outside the typical beauty standards, yes, but "generic" is the last label I'd use. Easily recognizable.

 

[RJMacready73]

I think i'm lucky that my Girlfriend is hot as fuck so I don't have to worry about this stuff lol

Yes, it is a stealth brag.

bet her tits aren't as big as my wifes... also a stealth brag..

Anyways nobody wants to fuck a videogame character jesus, well not those over 30 at least (id hope) we're just asking that our characters err on the good looking side like DenchDeckards g/f than the random dude from school who liked to scratch his ass and sniff it

 

[TheThreadsThatBindUs]

I really don't think I'm on my own here. That makeup Aloy face is cringe as fuck. Like a 12 years old's wet dream. Not even porn stars are that caked up.

What?!?!

There is nothing cringe or excessive about that AI touch-up of Aloy. It's not even that much make-up. I personally know women who look like that and barely wear any make-up.

And your comment about pornstars is fucking bizarre. You're saying this:

Looks more cringe and fake than this:

 

[Black_Stride]

I heard magnesium pills can help.

Will those work to make a forgettable game memorable?

 

[GymWolf]

Will those work to make a forgettable game memorable?

It was a joke