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Fable 2 is a big game. And big games take time. But Peter Molyneux has been talking about Fable 2 for a while now, so that probably means it's almost done by now. No, not even close. But it's supposed to be out in 2008, we say. Lionhead Studios community liaison Sam Van Tilburgh reports:
It's nowhere near finished. Think about that for a second. It is not finished. So yes, the game will look at least a gazillion times better than anything you've seen of Fable 2 so far. Anyone doubting that for a split second deserves a kick in the butt. Compared to some other games, Fable 2 is graphically going to be a Masterpiece. We are talking about vast and expansive outdoor locations, with added night and day cycle with realistic lighting effects that dynamically change the environment around you. There will be uber-detailed textures and lighting on up to fifty character models on screen, all of which will cast a dynamic shadow of themselves on that same environment. There is a physics engine, a simulation engine and about a thousand years of knowledge of things that I'm not even trying to understand. According to our water-expert Fran "we are going to kick Bioshock's water!" He gets a little excited sometimes; Italian passion! But the game will look Great.And that's not lower case "great" or lower case "masterpiece," but upper case "Great" and "Masterpiece." There's a difference! New Fable 2 character, like this "pleasure lady," has been released as well. Her flabby ass is Huge — that's not "huge," but "Huge." Like I said, there's a difference. Fable 2 Not Finished [Lionhead]
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Can you say NSFW? Mr. Bill can. ;)
Do Not Want! ...the lady that is.
I'll take the game.
Oh, a game by Molyneux being hyped up. Shock horror.
BBW for all.
I'm really looking forward to Fable 2, and I hope Lionhead delivers. But I doubt we will see it in 2008. I really hope I'm wrong, but I have a feeling it's going to take longer than everyone is expecting. Still, I can't wait to play it when it is released. Even if it's two years away.
Can someone please explain to these companies that there is such a thing as too much hype? Bioshock is a submersed world in which water is so integral as to be EVERYWHERE. Unless you're making a pitstop in Atlantis, I doubt the dynamics of the water are going to turn a lot of heads.
I think I hear an echo emanating from the tortured remnants of post-hype fable one.
So hypehypehype the graphics.....and don't talk about the story?
Bells are ringing............
Spare us the marketing bullshit!
Wait for the humiliating release in 2008.
This Molyneux person obviously has been rubbing too much shoulders with Uwe Boll. (I hope I misspelled that!)
Why is it whenever I read something from Lionhead's hype machine, be it Molyneux or someone who's learned from him, it makes me want their game even less?
For the record, it takes balls to your knees to say you're gonna topple Bioshock's water effects. I would hope they can back that up, but I really don't care. :/
Devs should never say "oh we're gonna do this and that and we'll blow this or that game's gfx out of the water". It might come back and bite them in the ass.
Finally, a game brave enough to tackle the graphical challenges of cellulite. And if the whores in the game are really so detailed as to include the elbow burns from being on her back so much, I might just choose to explore the other ways that "hat" might be used.
@SpookyTanooki
I'm glad someone else noticed the elbow burns too. That's next gen!
So, it's going to look like Oblivion? But with more people.
Would.
Remember when Super Mario 64's water effects were, like "OMGZZ!!!!11"
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Whatever happened to Friday's "Week in Quotes?"
I loved Fable, despite the number of things that didn't make the final game. If even half of what Lionhead has talked about thus far make it into the final build. This will easily earn the title of Masterpiece. Anything after that will be angel kissed gravy.
best concept art ever
@Shiloa: I totally agree.
I am getting really sick and tired of these previews way before any cohesive version of Beta is on the horizon... I know these games in paticular take time to develop example SPORE, but I don't need the conceptual implementation news/hype on a game that is going take 3 or more years to develop.
The games can change so much from then.
I also know this keeps the buzz going but it has become annoying, and stings harder when the game is a letdown "Warhawk" was like that for me.
If anyone watched the DVD on the development of the hit Bioshock you know that the concept and design changed a great deal before beta.
So what I am saying is Peter save the 2 more years out speil for the DVD MS gave U the dough just develop.
@AspergerSyndrome: Agreed - Fable was a wonderful day's gaming.
@0ldb0y:
It'll go up later today. Haven't forgotten!
Black and White was the last Molyneuxuejfeiuboimeeiou game I bought. All that hype, all those glowing reviews for a really boring semi-rts with a braindead pet told me "nope, nothing this guy does is gonna work out." Frankly I hope he keeps making games, cause the hype machines and promises are hilarious to the point of being more entertaining than the games themselves. At least he didn't name this one Project Ego 2.
I'm convinced!
That chic is SOOO HOT!!! I mean ewwwww!
I never could get into the first Fable I hope this one can grab my attention.
"Compared to some other games, Fable 2 is graphically going to be a Masterpiece."
What does that even mean? I'm pretty sure that next to, say, Destruction Derby or Virtua Cop that this game is going to look like a Masterpiece, but the ambiguity suggests that might be it - whereas you might want to mean it looks better than Gears of War.
BBW FTW!! She looks like my fiancee, except less pretty.
Petey boy overhypes his games, plain and simple. I thought Fable was a good game. Not great, not bad. But he made it sound like it'd be amazing.
I just hope he doesn't condemn Fable 2 to the same fate. I mean, there is no shame in releasing an 85 metacritic type game with some mass appeal. Most devs can't even do that.
But when you try to make it sound like a AA game is AAA, it ruins the game and makes you look like ass.
I dont know why everyone is going nuts over the water effects in bioshock. Yes they were good, but nothing really special.
Even 6 year old MGS2 had better water drops on the screen(you know after you resurface from under the water)...A 4 year old MGS3 has better water splashes, bubbles and few other water things.
p.s.
Have replayed MGS2+3 this week, so i could not to notice this, since i beat the bioshock before that ^^
@sand0789: Well, at leaast he had the decency to not say it was going to be better than bioshock.
We'll just have to wait.
When, oh when are they going to stop setting themselves up for an upper case Mighty Kick In The Nuts when the game disappoints the few poor sods who are biting into the hype bullshit?
I might actually develop some interest in the game if the devs and PR people just SHUT UP instead of promoting the game as the second coming of Christ.
Or third, since I suppose Molyneux was the second.
I hope this is a promise that is to be kept this time. If not, consider my heart broken and to never purchase another Molyneux work ever again.
Aw dammit, I was eating breakfast when I saw that picture. Now I can't finish my bagel :(
I think I just threw up in my throat... and I haven't eaten in 16 hours.
mmmm...cute!
This guy sounds like a 10 year old talking about how his dad will beat up your dad. Let's let your crappy game do the talking when and if it comes out.
Fable 1 was nowhere near finished either and they released it. So maybe this means Fable 2 wil lbe out by next month.
What a pleasant image to start my day with. Thanks Kotaku!
I never heard the hype before Fable 1 came out and thoroughly enjoyed it.
They guy love's his work, what can you say?
man, they have uber detailed textures! how can i go wrong!!
That image has left me profoundly disturbed, hoping that I never see another prostitute as long as I live.
having not played the first, but hearing great things about it, i may just look into getting this
ohh man..... i hope it can all fit in one dvd-dl
i love this game and kinda wish they dont lose everything they're doing cuz the game wont fit.
A game's concept art has never ever made me puke before. Until I clicked on this story that is.
So... they took Lucy from Quake 3 and gave her a pointy hat? Those two character designs are mighty similar.
From all I heard maybe they should be talking more about gameplay. From the one button to rule them all to the 'maybe/if/but' bullet lists -- it's not very reassuring.
I read the title in my RSS feed and still clicked on the link. Why? WHY?!
@cyhborg: Technically, they just said that it was going to 'kick Bioshocks water' so I'm taking from that that the game can cross connect with Bioshock and then a booted (or perhaps bootless) foot (with massive shadowness) will kick Bioshocks water, HARD
I liked the first game, not a great game but a decent one. Looking forward to the second one.
Classic Peter Molyneux quote:
"(Insert statement). Think about that for a second. (repeat statement)".
@belo: I'll take the milk maid.
Fable will also cure your acne and make you loose weight while you sleep. Inside the engine, a similar program like Folding Home will calculate the schematics of the Universal Vaccine and the Philosopher Stone. Think about that for a second.
PS: You can have sex with fat chicks.
honestly everything i have seen in fable 2 so far has looked like crap, and every new and proposed feature has scared me. I loved the first one, and I still have faith that this one will turn out ok, but so far im worried.
DO NOT WANT! x{
I thought the first one was a decent game, but that's it. Decent. It wasn't helped by Molyneux's huge fucking mouth, and this one won't be either. I mean, you can pimp your game. You can even pimp your game too much. But to pimp your game too much, get fucking critically hammered (hammered by critics) for it, and then DO IT AGAIN? Jesus, I tire of this man. I hope it's good. The dog thing looked really cool. But the man needs to shut the fuck up already.
They coulda at least given her a prettier face
either way im sure she will get paid
I'd Hit that.. just to say i did..lol & Ohh and they need to hurry this game up.
@SpuddOner: Technically, she would hit you, what with her being a dominatrix 'n all... Either way, you're sick. :D