Please God let us still be able to create our own hero.

I didn't see anyone complain about the trailer "being" or "looking" like CGI. The biggest complaints were that we, again, saw NO ACTUAL GAMEPLAY.

I just want a return to the tone of TLC, The first Fable was my childhood. The narrative had a great mix of an epic story laced with dry and dark humor, the game made me a lifelong lover of RPG's. I'm hopeful this new game will live up to that. I pray to God it doesn't go the way of Saints Row.

This didn't feel like fable. Fable was a dark fantasy with British gallow humour, not a comedy in a dark fantasy setting. Also I know we all joke that fable characters look ugly but this time it's no joke.

At no point did MS suggest that Fable is coming out sometime in 2024, games that are targeting that year were marked as such, and Phil's roundup at the end pointed to this as well. Fable is likely a 2025 game.

The only question I have for this Fable game is, does it have the variety of spells and abilities that fable lost chapters had? If it does then we can build a bit of positive momentum.

The purpose of this trailer appeared to be more about a graphical showing and to tell everyone (I think mainly older fans) that they are sticking with a similar tone rather than making it more "serious". As for what they showed with the protagonist, it's not entirely clear to me if this portrayal was what we should expect or just something that gave the trailer a better flow. I've seen people talking about the main character's gender and I imagine there will be a choice at the beginning in similar manner to Fable 2 and 3. Also I believe the "Jack and the Beanstalk" sequence threw people off because it had moments that looked like a "movie game" but I'm pretty sure Xbox and Playground have referred to it as an RPG and not an Action Adventure game. Having moments like this thrown in the mix with a classic style would probably be awesome.

Personally I would like if every showcase did the Starfield thing where when a game is a few months out they have like a big 30-minute this is what the game is. That would make perfect sense for hell-blade next year and Fable most likely the year after. To have like a 30-minute Deep dive soaking play so you know exactly what you're getting.

The voices for Commander Shepard were top notch in my opinion. So it can be done

Unlike most of the other trailers, where you can tell there are at least some gameplay in it, the Fable trailer feels like a cinematic trailer through and through. It doesn't matter whether it's captured in game engine, you just can't tell how the game is played by watching the trailer.

The biggest issue I had about the Fable teaser is that it *it didn't look like Fable.* They've lost that iconic Fable art style that the game is known for.

I don’t think people truly thought this was just a cinematic, I think people are frustrated that “in engine” cutscenes still don’t completely show us what the game is. Sure there were a couple spots in there that are likely gameplay but it’s not really what we were expecting based on the comments Xbox made leading up to the event. Those Twitter posts made it seem like gameplay would be a lot more prevalent than it was.

He says in 3:44 that it's coming out in 2024 but in the trailer I see no date. Did I miss something?

It looked goofy in a bad way.

The other good example of having your character voiced, would be mass effect trilogy. I couldn't imagine playing those without Shepard being voiced

I think what's far more likely than the main character specifically being the person we saw in the trailer is that it will behave like fable 2 where you can pick a gender and you have minimal voiceless from two actors. Maybe in this game there will simply be more voice lines from the pc than we got in previous titles, at any rate i think it's unfairly conclusive to assume that the trailer depicted every choice about character identity.

The dislike ratio is not because people thought its cgi. Thats not what people complained about. We dont know what that game is.

Even if it's "in-game" it was cut and spliced together to look like a trailer - they need to show some uncut (not stitched together) gameplay longer than 3-5 seconds. I didn't dislike what they showed, it looked good to me, but it wasn't what I wanted to see of the game. Fable is a beloved series that had a ton of features (even if it always falls well short of what's promised). I think it could really use a deep-dive on its own, like a good 20 minute chunk of solid gameplay; show some character creation, some combat, some NPC interaction, leveling, whatever other systems are involved. Obviously, they couldn't get that all in this showcase though.

Ingame footage doesn't always mean gameplay footage.

I feel like the Fable portion was made to give us an idea of the targeted art style for the game, which I like. Now, we just need to see what type of combat and storytelling they are aiming for.

I remember when you made a forza video talking about their engine and how photo realistic it will look. Playground games was making it known that this game was going to look amazing

Gameplay is one thing - but then there's tone. I hope they have some more classical UK comedy rather than the new. Talking Monty Python and Black Adder kinda stuff, ya know? The older comedy troupes. The dry slapstick humour that Fable is more known for. Some of the newer English comedians are just god awful. Richard being an exception. And the voices, some of them are too iconic. Zoe Wanamaker and Stephen fry to name a few. Overall I'm still concerned for Fable in some ways but if there's one thing Playground can guarantee it's fidelity.

hey matty, where did you get the 2024 release date from? i don't recall seeing that anywhere in the trailer or anywhere else.

They can say all they want about this being in-engine or in-game, but it's not actual GAMEPLAY. We still don't know how the game plays. We need raw footage.

it's a weird definition of gameplay, for me, even if it's running in game, showing only cutscene, it's not gameplay. I want to see run around, doing stuff and a UI.

It would be very expensive and time consuming, but it would be great to see voice selection like with older Saints Row games

I’m not expecting Fable until 2025, personally. However, I’m in full agreement, giving each of these big games their own direct is a great idea. They could start this fall with a Hellblade Direct, and give it a release date. Then that could carry us into next year. There are so many games in development, it’s really tough to figure out when some of them will release. I could see next year being Hellblade 2, Towerborne, Avowed, and Forza Horizon 6, for instance.

What's that song In the background?

We need everything that made Fable 2 special, not just "British Humor".

What upsets me is the trailer implies a linear action adventure game, moments look like platforming. What makes Fable to me is your choices changing your character and the world around you. Also in Fable 1 you couldn't play a female character. I was hoping the new game would move towards more character customization, not less. I was initially really upset but i feel like i need to wait and see more.

What's the music btw? From some game I could imagine. Usually recognize them but not this. Thinking about it again. Can someone help, would like to listen to it and maybe play the game too.

Is it coming out in 2024? i didnt see that in the trailer

Nowhere did it say "gameplay". It said very specifically "in-game footage". We got shown cutscenes not gameplay.

I'm just hoping that you can choose male or female lead character. That way there's more replay value. Also I'm sure they will have a morality system, it's what Fable is built upon. I also hope that the gameplay still has that jankiness the originals had. If it's too polished it won't feel like Fable to me. All in all, Im hopeful for this one. It looks great so far.

Every day i'm becoming more convinced that Netherrealm and Gunfire Games are the only studios that actually have a clue as to what their audience expects to see from the marketing of their games. Hell Gunfire took it a step further even flew out Admiral Bahroo for an uninterrupted 2 hour livestream showing off the Remnant 2 and did the same for the first game. Throw in Netherrealms Kombat Kast and yeah, take notes devs. These guys know how to do it

My only issue for both Fable and Senua was that we didn't see untethered footage of gameplay. It was the in game cinematics and a brief, heavily edited vertical slice of what *might* be actual gameplay for Fable. We didn't see how the game will work (like if it'll be similar to God of War or Witcher). We didn't see if that fight will be a sorta on-the-rails section or if you're free to roam around that giant's home, or at least table, while dodging and attacking him, if we're even going to actually meet him at all. For Senua, we didn't see if there's going to be a far deeper expansion on gameplay like the combat or at least puzzles and exploration. Like I'm already expecting the narrative aspects of Senua to be superb so seeing those parts constantly isn't really reassuring when it comes to the rest of the piece.

The problem with this new Fable, or at least the trailer, is that it looks nothing like the original. The original is bright, has its set of lovable characters and a good antagonist, and has a feel to it that this new one fails to capture. The actor with the weird modern glasses in a medieval fantasy doesn't fit. Jack and the beanstalk? Giants? Who remembers that in the original? They deliberately made the female protagonist weirdly masculinized. Why? Who are they trying to appeal to? Where's Jack Of Blades, you know, the original's antagonist? Why wasn't he more of a focus for the trailer? It just seems like the game has all its priorities wrong. I mean, look up a video by the channel PlokTheMasterGamer where he compares the original game's trailer vs the new one. You can clearly tell the old one knew exactly what made it great and the new one has absolutely no idea of its own identity. This just tells me they're just making a game they want to make and slapping the Fable name on it to make sales.

It’s the tone of the game, doesn’t feel like fable. Me and all my buddies who played EVERY SINGLE fable at launch (and still play to this day); none of us liked the trailer. Doesn’t look like fable or have a tone of fable. This CGI trailer sets the tone of what the games tone will be. Graphics look amazing; but the tone is something I worry about. We need gameplay showcase with features, mechanics, settings, quest design, world design, combat infrastructure and art design to really understand what this will be. Glad they kicked a chicken in the trailer, fable classic! Was my favorite part of the trailer. Also the main protagonist looks to be mute and that does help the tone of the original 2 installments. The setting is what I believe I am mainly worried about, Jack and the giant bean stock looks hyper fairytale fantasy. Fable wasn’t hyper fantasy so I hope they bring something to the table that will sell me and put me in complete awe. I hope they keep the moral system and landlord system. 2 of the many main pillars of the game. We also NEED to have good co-op like fable 3. That’s the best part of that game was how brilliant the co-op was.

What is that OST in the BG???

Series x captured or not, it’s a cutscene lol. The vibe was also kinda weird imo. Like, are we taking part in existing fables and stories?

They should take it as compliment it looked that good people thought it was cgi

Hey Matty! Thanks for all the content following the Summer Games Fest. You are my fave content creator for going through all this stuff. Starfield is my number one game that I'm waiting for. Pre ordered the Constellation Edition, never ordered a collectors edition for any game ever but I really feel BGS have knocked it out of the park this time. I'm like you and love everything BGS have done along with Obsidian and F:NV. Plenty of good games that have my interest, Avowed, Star Wars, Clockwork Revolution and a few others. Fables never been my cup of tea but who knows, Gamepass sure does make it easy to try new stuff. Stay awesome!!!!

As a game dev “captured” doesn’t mean anything. They could just be running what essentially amounts to an in-engine cutscene on the hardware. Playground makes great looking cars, no doubt, but those characters and the foliage look miles better than they have in ANY Forza game. I’m pressing X to doubt until we see some actual gameplay.

Given the state of AAA games nowadays, while excited I'm still skeptical. Seemed scripted, the main character broke the 4th wall when the giant picked her up. The giant was breaking the 4 wall speaking to us off screen. I highly doubt that's part of the game 😂. So the real question that needs to be asked is how much of what we saw was actually caught in game?

Bro 2024 title? stop it Matty this is late 2025 release at earliest

I really hope we can create our own character.

A remastered collection would be cool to get to hold us over till this game releases.

Gameplay that we saw looked pretty solid (all like 3 seconds of it with no hud) but overall I'm only burnt because of the dust hints prior to the showcase which made me think that this trailer would be the heavy hitter for the xbox showcase

There's a shot where the protagonist seems to throw a fireball at enemies which might be an indicator of what actual gameplay might look like. Side note: The graphics look great.

I thought Fable looked great, straight up implementing fables into the gameplay and story is freaking awesome! How did people not understand that he’s the giant from Jack and the Bean Stalk.

Wil it be on xbox one or just xbox series x

it looked like in-game cutscenes only the fireball throw was a look into the gameplay

Just because you play a movie on a console doesn't make it not CGI. The anger comes from the fact that ALL has been shown of this game for YEARS is non gameplay.

"We need representation for ugly people" lmao

Hi Matt, have you played the ff16 demo?

Is this set in the 1900s? what's with the Target Optical glasses?

At 72 yrs old,it’s all good😊👍🏿🕺🏿❤

I'm not trying to dunk on your main point here, but in no way did that Fable trailer come off as "game play". And saying the developer doubled down by stating it was captured on an XBox means little as far as that point. You can't tell me they can't script a in-engine scene on a development build to make it flow and look awesome (which the trailer did for sure). But as graphically impressive as it was, it still doesn't come any closer to telling me what this game actually will play like. I was hoping for more in the extended XBox session today, but no joy.

It's a tough balance, as these PR/marketing teams have to showcase games that might not be ready to be effectively demonstrated with gameplay. So they either have to not show anything or show what they have at that point in time, which in some cases, might not be ready for prime time for what gamers are expecting in terms of comprehensive gameplay detail and mechanics.

Is that Trails music i hear in background? 👀

Matty...phil's comment on "collections of games" wasn't about a collection of remakes. He was just saying there are a bunch of games coming. You read to deeply into things sometimes lol.

I think new Fable reminds people of new Saints Row and that's why they are on the fence about it.

I like that they are potentially going back to the sword and magic fantasy style. I much preferred Fable 1 😁

Great video and love the trails music in the Backround

I’ll be very surprised if this game turns out well with the current mainstream mindset

Hey Matty thanks for pumping out all this extra content lately! So much to watch woo!!

Mass effect has a voiced character that you create😏. What I got from the fable trailer, It looks like they're going to use the a similar combat system as old fable games with them showing them going from sword to magic. Also it looks like they're going to lean into using actual fables in the story by showing the beanstalk and giant. Just my observation 🤷🏾‍♂️

Why did the giant have hipster clothes on? He looks like the nerd character from the bad saints row.

Playground is notorious for beautiful visuals, this is their first time creating a game outside of racing games. But I have full faith in them cause this looked fantastic! I hope that we still have the option to grow old and have kids lol

Well... I got Saints Row Reboot vibes from this... Hopefully, and I'm on my knees here, BEGGING! That it will hopefully not be like that giant puddle of bullsh*t. Then again, when you look at the trailer and read about writers vision for the game... Well it doesn't install me with a lot of confidence.

Music in the background of the video around the four minute mark please 🙏

The only Fable I want these days is the Story of William Black. Imagine playing as William, the original Hero and ultimately the first Archon. Seeing those ancient Old Kingdom Ruins from Fable 1 in their glory, defeating The Court, going against Jack of Blades, Knight of Blades, and the Queen of Blades. The fights between those four are canonically, earth shattering. It would be so cool. Even if that portion would be a prequel/on rails first act, followed by you taking the reigns of William Black's first, nameless/faceless direct bloodline descendant. That way we can experience this awesome side of Fable Lore, stay true to the Fable "Be anyone, do anything" style of story telling, developing a whole new story and new Heroes while also going back to the games roots.

The Fable trailer was simply a vibe/theme showing, I believe. Honestly, at this point in time, im not worried about it. I still anticipate humor, fantasy/mystery, create-a-character, a fairly explorable world. Even though it was the most limited, Fable 1 was the most atmospheric and fantasical to me. I hope that capture the feel I got from 1 again.

I am just glad we actually got something. I at the least wished for a glimpse and no CGI, we got exactly that, a glimpse. And the dev confirmed it was all ingame running on XSX. The part in the forest and when she's being chased by the giant are gameplay. Of course I wished they had more, I won't deny that.

Just something to say but I don't think this game suggested 2024 at all. All of the other games that are actually aiming for 2024 were stated to be in the year. I believe in your showcase recap you also mentioned Fable being in 2024. It kind of comes off as misinformation. If it does fantastic but as of now it doesn't have a public window

Sad Fable is a fond memory. I still can hear that music. I never opened all those doors either

I didn't like or dislike what I saw. All I got from it was "We're still getting Fable". I also wouldn't consider what they showed gameplay. I put cutscenes and CGI trailer pretty close together. I don't think we saw a single ounce of real gameplay in that trailer. I think we only saw a mix of CGI and cutscene, which technically makes Phil true to his word, but in a way that makes you roll your eyes. Also, if we're still going to go with the "PlayStation show was bad" narrative, can we at least be more honest. If we are counting the Fable trailer as "gameplay" then we have to count the PlayStation games as gameplay. Sure, some were just CGI, but a lot of them were cutscene+CGI. Alan Wake, for example, showed gameplay, but not real time gameplay, but it was gameplay none the less, because we saw the same gameplay section extended(plus Alan walking is also gameplay). Xbox also didn't only show games exclusive to its platform, so PlayStation can't be knocked points for the same thing. I won't argue the PlayStation Showcase was better because the Xbox one was truly better, but I'm suck of hearing the PlayStation one getting called bad, when in reality it's roughly equal the the Summer Games Fest Showcase(which was also great).

My main issue with the trailer is that i was hoping for something that would clarify and answer questions left by the previous trailer but all it did was left me more puzzled than I was before. The graphical fidelity is great but other than that it's just weird to me.

It’s clear that most developers have realized that they gain nothing from showing actual raw gameplay more than a year out from the game. Odds are either the frame rate or visuals won’t be polished that far in advance and there is no reason to get negative reactions from something that isn’t final. There is a reason Sony didn’t show much from God of War Ragnarok or Spider-Man 2 until they were just a few months away from release.

One question that left me confused Is the Vegetable Guy a Giant or is the Hero supposed to be tiny??

The presented hero in the trailer is supposed to be a humorous take on the hero archetype. The trailer says "handsome dashing heroes with high cheek bones" but then they show the hero as an ordinary person, very far from the ideal etc. It's a pun. It's also in spirit with Fable where you were the "hero" yet you kicked chickens, did immoral things etc.

1) The trailer being an in-game engine product is cool, but still would have been nice to see in-game gameplay instead 2) Love that you let people know that they're hiring, a great opportunity for someone to get their start in the industry, and for such a big project. 3) I don't think Fable is coming till after 2024

The fireball spell animation looks a little clumsy. I wonder if that animation changes the higher you level up the spell?

I enjoyed it but I would have loved at the end to see some kind of unedited running around the world gameplay without all the cuts and zooms.

What gameplay ? At most they showed like 3 seconds of "gameplay".

PS fan here, I have to say I do love Fable games. I do hope this game does very well, cause I wanna get it.

I'm taking more note the fact that it wasn't revealed whether it was in engine footage or pre-rendered cutscenes, because there are plenty of games that have pre-rendered cutscenes (even in-game cutscenes) that look nothing like the game. Pretty much all strategy games like Civilization and Tropico coke to mind. Look at the old Halo games. Those "in-game" cutscenes from the MCC collection still look amazing for today's standard, but that's not what the game looks like.

That was cinematic purely not game play. It was a trailer only

Whoever designed the giant, made a weird design choice?

I'm 99.9% sure there was no release window announced (or even hinted at) for Fable. Assuming it's a 2025 game, I don't think there was anyone wrong with what was shown.

I don't think that the trailer being in-engine changes anything (at least not for me), the problem with CG trailers isn't that they are not in-engine, it's that they show you how the game is going to play and look when you actually play it. A cinematic trailer in-engine is still not a reflection of how the game will actually look when you play, and it's definetly not an indication of how it will play.

90% of all trailers we saw that were AAA had zero actual gameplay. No controller in hand someone playing on stage like they used to back during E3.

This would've been a great first announcement trailer. It's high time we finally got some actual footage. :/

I thought Fallout 4 was really good voiced, but I know this is an unpopular opinion

I think games that are releasing beyond this year they're saving what they show until the next developer direct showcase probably beginning of next year. I think Hellblade 2 and Avowed will be part of the next DD early 2024 and Fable at the next summer showcase like you said.

i hope we get to climb a giant bean stalk

I love a voiced protagonist. I go go through the trouble of making the perfect character, I want to see them interact in cutscenes, and to me, voiceless makes less sense. Like when you play GTAO or rdo and your character just awkwardly nods and shrugs, it's super weird. Granted, those are not RPGs and more MMOs than anything else. Maybe I'm just spoiled because I loved inquisition and saints row 2&3 and in those games you could choose your voice, I don't know. Lol

Matty is definitely stepping up, I always come away with new info. Great stuff man.

Lol I love the thumbnail text “This is bad?” 😂

One good thing is that the Forza team knows how to make beautiful environments, so at least it'll look nice...