the new generation of gamming? console thread

[Communisto]

okay, my friend has xbox, im more of a PS2 kinda guy, any way he got this game, Fable, im sure some of you've heard of it. This game is absolutely amazing. Anything you can prossibly think of is inputed. You're character's facial and physical apearance changes compared on what you do for example you get scars from battle, bigger muscles from carying large weapons, horns from being evil. Now, you can also get tatoos, haircuts, marriage, clothes. I mean it is amazing.

If this is how console RPG games are going to be heading im all ready to go. What are you thinking of this? Should we head in this direction or stay in linear game universes? would you like to see this in games like civ? cultural devolpment depending on what choices you make as a nation? rememberance days for certain events? Personally i'd love things like that.

 

[Paradigne]

In CIV it wouldn't work, BUT I would LOVE to see that kind of work put into MMORPG's...

 

[Thrawn]

I heard Fable isn't actually that great. It was touted as the greatest rpg ever, and yet it isn't. World's restricts you to certain paths, it's too short, and I've heard complaints about the amount of work you can put into your character, yet you can't show him to anyone else.

Boy am I glad I don't have an xbox.

 

[Silverflame]

Regarding Fable:

Rumor #3: Peter Molyneux has apologized for making promises that his game Fable never quite delivered on.

Source: A message-board posting on Lionhead Studios' official Web site.

The official story: See below.

What we heard: "If I have mentioned any feature in the past which, for whatever reason, didn't make it as I described into Fable, I apologise," reads the post, the first and only one on the boards written under the user name Peter Molyneux. "I have come to realise that I should not talk about features too early so I am considering not talking about games as early as I do. This will mean that the Lionhead games will not be known about as early as they are, but I think this is the more [sic] industry standard."

Lionhead Studios did not return Rumor Control's request for authentication of the post (very likely due to the time difference), but the fact that it remains on the company's official boards, "stickied" and in bold type, would indicate that it is indeed from the keyboard of Molyneux (and because the sentiments contained in today's post are so similar to what Molyneux has told GameSpot previously).

Bogus or not bogus?: Not bogus.

http://www.gamespot.com/news/2004/10/01/news_6109442.html

 

[Dabomb18359]

Whether the game is that short or not, all those features like horns and bigger muscles and those interactive things are heading the video game industry in the right direction.