My exact thought.Any reason why they weren't able to publish this at the time? NDA?
That's not something to be proud of.A month ago.
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The game was in development for years until, at the Xbox Games Showcase 2024, Microsoft shared the first gameplay video of Perfect Dark, which undoubtedly looked very good.
However, today with the cancellation of Perfect Dark, a Kotaku journalist noted that this video released at the event was in fact a fake, although he didn't go into specific details:
More than Fable, how State of Decay 3 survived all this.At this point i'm surprised how Fable wasn't canceled yet.
What the hell were they doing over the 7 years of development of this game?
posting to era.What are they doing when they clock in? Posting on Neogaf?
i know i want that to die as well.At this point i'm surprised how Fable wasn't canceled yet.
I feel sorry for the laid-off developers,
but how have they earned a salary for 7 (!) years
and not created a single game?!
At this point i'm surprised how Fable wasn't canceled yet.
which undoubtedly looked very good
nah, Fable is save.
playground games is basically Microsoft's only trusted dev team at this point.
I wish I had your level of optimism. Five years of development and a release date supposedly in 2026 and all we've seen is about 2 minutes of heavily curated pre-Alpha footage. Most of which they only showed us 4 months ago.
For one franchise: Forza Horizon. The longer they spend time on Fable, the further out the next Forza Horizon gets pushed. Forza Horizon is an undoubtedly bigger property and money maker than a reboot of a property that hasn't had an entry in 12 years.
I wouldn't be shocked, at all, if Microsoft cancels Fable later on and pushes Playground to get Forza Horizon 6 done and polished ASAP.
the recent PS5 port of Horizon 5 probably was done to extend its lifecycle.
so I don't think Microsoft is super stressed to release a new one.
Looks like a Dr. Pepper slushy. lolThat glass of Dr. Pepper looks fucking delicious to be fair
I don't know, but that main character looks like fucked up version of Caitlyn Clark. lolMany people believe and passionately claim that Fable has shown actual gameplay. Some even say that the first reveal was gameplay, too.
Hilarious.
Some who smell their farts create masterpieces.Smelling their fart.
What the hell were they doing over the 7 years of development of this game?
Phase 0: do nothing for 7 yearsPerfect Dark Developers Diary
Phase 1
Goof off and fake the trailer.
Phase 2
???????
Phase 3
Profit.
Fire whoever pulled this The Division/Watchdogs bullshit.
it was not fake.The gameplay didn't even look good, and even that was faked? Holy shit MS.
Bet you iLL's "gameplay" shown is also fake.
FYI, an Initiative dev has debunked this.
The footage was in-engine but heavily scripted, no different than most game play demos at these trade shows and/or streams.
It's another Kotaku L.
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Well guess it wasn't fake.Only reason I bought into it is because nothing about it really looks that crazy graphically.