360 Fable: The Journey

[roskelld]

Surprised that there wasn't a thread on this game; I presume it must have just been discussed in the MS conference thread last year.

Anyway, I give you Fable: The Journey and what's wrong with games by Peter Molyneux

http://www.gametrailers.com/video/gameplay-discovery-fable-the/727575

Horse Lover!

[Harsin]

I think we'd collectively tried to block it from our conscious.

[Comrade]

He's pretty fucking tetchy in that interview. At least it looks quite nice technically.

[Wools]

Eurogamer - Fable: The Journey is, without a doubt, the biggest and most ambitious game yet for Kinect. It's no aerobic festival of mini-games but a full-length action-adventure with epic narrative aspirations, played from the comfort of your couch. It has lavish production values: beautiful graphics, superb animation, fine voice-acting and a musical score that tracks the action from moment to moment, like a movie's.

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2012-05-29-kinects-journey

IGN - Fable: The Journey – It Just Works

http://www.ign.com/a...y-it-just-works

OXM - Fable: The Journey - Lionhead's Kinect spin-off does Fable justice

http://www.oxm.co.uk...OXM-General-RSS

[Wools]

A nice write up & Video from Stephen Totilo at Kotaku:

There are 19 million Kinects in the wild and very few good games to play on them. I think most people will say that Dance Central is the best (partially because it seems to work more than 75% of the time). What's second best?

It could be this holiday season's Fable: The Journey.

Keep an open mind and give it a look.

http://kotaku.com/59...est-kinect-game

[Rudderless]

What's second best?

Child of Eden?

[Wools]

New Developer Diary.

[JPickford]

Is it on rails?

[Wools]

It'll be a mixture of different styles, it’s not solely one or the other.

[gizmo1990]

On rails then.

[JPickford]

It's the game nobody wants.

It's a real shame MS have sacrifice both Rare & Lionhead on the kinect altar.

[Meh]

Oh, I was hoping they'd cancelled this.

[EvilBoris]

Those screenshots look lovely

[Mr Do 71]

I did enjoy playing the Fable trilogy, but the constant visitng the same old places gets a bit boring. I always want to be exploring and finding new places

[The Bag]

There is a prerelease demo coming so anyone with kinect can try it before hand. It's the first fable game since the first one I've not been involved in, so it's slightly strange following all this from the outside (although many of my friends are working on it so not truly from the outside).

[JPickford]

It's also the first one without controls. Such a colossal waste of time and money. Smart people are being made to work on this.

[barkbat]

What if it's good?

Kinnect is a collosal waste of time and money. But now that it's here, I salute anyone that can find something enjoyable to do with it.

[JPickford]

If it's good it's good. No evidence of that so far. Great graphics and production values but horrible 'gorilla arms' gameplay and it seems to be essentially on rails.

[hanzo]

Anyone try the demo for this? It's out now on Live.

[JPickford]

I would if I could download a kinect.

[Sabreman]

Kill yourselves.

[Mr. Gerbik]

A strong contender for worst trailer of this entire generation I'd say.

[Meh]

Good lord.

[JPickford]

They're getting worried.

And when it doesn't sell they'll probably blame the studio and shut them down.

[Uncle Nasty]

Jesus.

[Sumire]

I have played the demo of this. It looks nice, sounds nice, could have played ok, but as usual Kinect can't go as fast as you want it to, it just cannot keep up, so ultimately it is frustrating. It is frustrating to me as I really think the game is fun, but the Kinect hardware is lacking.

Another failed kinect game, but only really because of the hardware.

The only one left now that might be ok is Crimson Dragon and after that there is nothing. Kinect will go down as a massive fail for me, and will only be remembered for one great game, Dance Central.

And yes, the advert is terrible lol.

[Orbital2060]

Its probably better than Wonderbook!

[Rudderless]

I didn't have a problem with the demo. Thought it demonstrated some of the best controls of any Kinect title, in fact. And pulling limbs off Hollow Men is properly fun. Trailer's abysmal, obviously - I mean, do they think people are really that stupid? - but the game's actually pretty good.

[angel]

Thats the worst thing ive seen. "im...a core..[rising inflexion]...gamer"

Prediction: less than a million units worldwide.

[The Bag]

I've mentioned to my ex-colleagues The way they've edited the trailer makes it look like they've got something to hide - not showing interaction and screen in the same frame. One of my friends was at comic con with the game when they filmed this and he says they're all real people that came to the booth, I believe him. Don't like the trailer though, but I can see why they're taking this approach - try it, you might like it - given all the negativity surrounding it from people who haven't even tried it. Same reason for the prerelease demo, get it out so people can try it for themselves.

(I've never played it)