Very likely will be a launch game for MS’s new handheld console.
Hopefully it will launch on Steam ex aequo.
Fable already came out, and it was a pretty mid game. Why are we doing this again?
Fable delayed to 2026
Submitted 5 days ago by Viri4thus@feddit.org to games@lemmy.world
https://www.gamesindustry.biz/fable-delayed-to-2026-news-in-brief
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p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 days ago
oxideseven@lemmy.ca 4 days ago
This is the 4th game… Not the OG.
mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 days ago
The first game was cool. Vastly over-promised, but still cool. Fable 2 was mid, at best. Then Fable 3 was just pure dogwater.
I don’t have high hopes for a reboot. If it’s actually done properly, it’ll be a nice surprise. But I refuse to get my hopes up.
Not_mikey@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 days ago
Microsofts too lazy to make new IP so they’re trying to reboot any game that wasn’t a complete flop.
scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 4 days ago
Miceosoft!? Create original IP? Agreed they’ll keep regurgitating their IP no matter how many lame halos it makes.
Hell not even dos was theirs.
Aielman15@lemmy.world 5 days ago
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.
halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world 5 days ago
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.
Aielman15@lemmy.world 5 days ago
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 ling 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.
Viri4thus@feddit.org 5 days ago
Very likely mismanagement. We can look at recent releases like Avowed, 6y in development and extremely simple mechanically and with a very narrow breadth. The world is incredibly static. I truly hope that’s not the case for FABLE.
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 5 days ago
They pivoted after two unsuccessful prototypes, and they’re a multi project studio. In that time frame, they put out Grounded and Pentiment while assisting on State of Decay 3. That’s about as good as management gets.
jordanlund@lemmy.world 5 days ago
The writing was kind of on the wall for Avowed when they announced they were dumping it after the holidays.
I was like “Oh, like Forspoken? Good luck!”
masterspace@lemmy.ca 4 days ago
The studio is pivoting from making Forza, to making Fable, this feels like a perfectly normal development timeline.
lustyargonian@lemm.ee 4 days ago
Actually there are two studios within Playground Games, I’m sure there’s cross pollination but the other studio is still making Forza supposedly.
SplashJackson@lemmy.ca 5 days ago
That game came out years ago
Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 5 days ago
2004
oxideseven@lemmy.ca 4 days ago
This is fable 4. It’s a new game…
SplashJackson@lemmy.ca 4 days ago
The headline confirms that they’re talking about Fable
lustyargonian@lemm.ee 4 days ago
*Late is just for a little while, suck is forever" - Lord Gabe
Romkslrqusz@lemm.ee 3 days ago
No Man’s Sky and Cyberpunk 2077:
Hold my drink
Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Yeah but this one’s going to be late for a little while and then suck forever
lustyargonian@lemm.ee 3 days ago
I would like to predict the future too but alas I’m quite bad at it
southernbeaver@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Cries at Wonder Woman videogame
Zero22xx@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 days ago
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.
Elkot@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Is it to fix that ugly ass main character, that’s the first time I’ve seen that…face?
Duke_Nukem_1990@feddit.org 3 days ago
Gamer moment
turnip@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
MS handheld, so we get all the bloat and spyware of Windows on limited hardware.
Droechai@lemm.ee 4 days ago
It’s like having an EEEPC running XP rather than Linux
TargaryenTKE@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Oh no. Anyway
RxBrad@infosec.pub 3 days ago
You see the screenshot.
Now assume your Angry Internet Gamer position…
Get in the comments, and FIGHT!
cyphear@lemm.ee 3 days ago
[deleted]RageAgainstTheRich@lemmy.world 3 days ago
That is not what Sweetbaby Inc. does… You should get your women hating dumb ass back to the sewer communities on reddit. Where you can collectively rage at the imaginary boogyman that is coming for your games.
loutr@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
Nah, you want bimbos.
UpperBroccoli@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 days ago
Stovetop@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Just FYI for any curious: this is the same delay that was announced last month, no additional changes since then.