Microsoft delays Fable to 2026
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Microsoft is looking at the internals of Avowed and going “oh fuck”.
Hopefully (a fools hope, unfortunately) they will realize that the gamers don't want what they're peddling and they start making changes.
it would be tough this late in the game. The product is basically finished and the last bits are tied up with the inevitable "fuck it just get it out the door" code.
That isn't even the real problem. The real reason they couldn't make positive changes is that any developers capable of making those changes haven't worked there in years, and management isn’t competent enough to even diagnose the actual problem.
Yep, most big studios only have ugly women, diversity hires, and mentally ill emasculated men as regular employees. I've heard they contract out programming and work to actually competent developers, but will never keep them as actual employees with decision making power.
Yeah the latest woke games were kicked off during peak clown world era. We'll probably see another 2-3 years of AAA woke flops before they course correct.
Game projects in big studios started today probably still have peak 2024 wokeness baked in every step of the planning.
It will take a long time for studios unshittify themselves or shut down.
There are plenty of smaller studios making good games with no woke, or minimal woke ( stuff most people brush off like women being as strong as men either for ideology of simplicity ).
More likely they'll have a meeting about "internet racists, misogynists and Nazis" and double down on the retardation.
They'll fine some other reason, bugs, graphics, underdeveloped, not enough marketing. Never are they going to discuss about 'woke' content in any meeting they're going to have.
For a moment let's say that actually happens, here's the $CurrentProblem that still exists: These games are taking the better part of a decade to produce so any brand new, fresh creation started this year won't be seen until 2030.
Now maybe these length development times are part of the shitshow, but even if they are not it's still taking forever for many games to come out and so they end up eons behind the cultural curve which is why so many releases now and still DEI infested plagueships finally coming into harbour and with some literally being sunk before they reach ground.
Its more likely the girlboss DEI team isnt able to get the game finished on time.
What even was the story? I only remember the Art Director being a massive faggot and I saw some video making fun of just how mid-tier the game was. Had some really cool 'cover art' though.
I don’t even care about the drama aspects. The game artwork and graphics itself looks like a Skyrim got invaded by a pride parade which was enough to make me pass.
Yeah, a lot of the charm of the previous Fable games came from the cartoony art style. Having it be another bland 'photorealistic' AAA game will ruin a lot of that, and if they keep the cartoony proportions for NPCs but with realistic textures they'll be uncanny nightmares like the dwarves in the upcoming Snow White reboot.
Mud Brown and the 7 CGI abominations.
Apologies for the Verge link.
Anyway, in case you don't remember, Fable is the one that showed the character look like this in the trailer: https://files.catbox.moe/r6zf3e.png
...gonna take a wild, crazy guess I now have a general idea what a member of the development team looks like...
Ugliest video game character ever. Even that Star Wars lady that looks like a human mop looks better in comparison. I can't even tell what gender this person is supposed to be.
OH GOD EWWW.
That's the litteral tranny self-insert from a studio employee.
If they were smart, they would just cancel it but it is typical of western companies to double down on stupid.
eh, they really can't this far into the project, there's too much money tied up in it. they've got to forge ahead and hope they can find a window where it can sell enough copies to at least make some of the money back.
a bad release is better than no release at all.
Concord begs to differ, but that's the utmost 1% of woke retardery.
The cynic in me says that, even there-- the 'right' people drew paychecks from Sony, therefore Concord succeeded as a money laundering operation even while failing as a video game
Sega also did with Hyenas and that was like a few days right before release.
There is a point where canceling your marketing budget to reclaim it can make more than a woke flop will earn... #justsaying
I'm sure the execs were happy to get some of the company's money back on concord, even if it was precious little, lol.
wouldn't shock me. they sure rubbed it in the faces of us evil racist, mysogynist fascists that... <checks notes> didn't actually buy the game....
They didn't get any money back for Concord. They gave a refund to anyone who bought it, just so they could write it off as a complete loss on their taxes.
ah. i've only been half paying attention to woke games.
I rarely buy anything new these days, so yeah.
Concord pushed the Sunken Cost Fallacy for 2 weeks before firing everyone, refunding all player and shutting down the game.
Not releasing it would have saved money.
Believe it or not, they had a dev team for Concord expansions / seasons.
They also released a very underwhelming "pre-alpha" trailer. I'd be surprised if this even comes out next year. This game was announced in 2020 and this is all they have to show!
There's no way in hell this game doesn't flop majestically. It doesn't even bear a slight resemblance to OG Fable so it's not even going to get sales from the OG fans (like me). Xbox's days seem to be numbered.
Fable fans are probably sighing in relief at that news.