Is the heavily rumored return of Fable the flagship exclusive title that Microsoft should be focusing on this year?
Microsoft's Activision subsidiary announced today that it is opening a new game development studio to take advantage of the huge talent pool growing in Poland. It'll be the second Activision studio based in the region, joining Infinity Ward Krakow, although this studio is, in fact, not working on Call of Duty.
Ubisoft says they are focusing on two "core verticals," and that's to return as a leader in the open world genre, and live service games.
Calling Ubisoft a leader in open world gaming at any point in time would be like calling Dollar General a leader in retail.
Well, to be fair, they did pump out good open world games before. It was used as a template so much that people now know what it means when you say it's like an Ubi open world collectahon.
What though? I can't think of one game they had where I liked anything about it. Atleast since the ps3/360 Gen
If they have never been the leader in open world gaming, then explain me this: why does almost every open world game follow the same tired old Ubisoft open world formula?
Follow the Leader.
I don't think they were ever the leader tbh. I've never really cared for any of their open world games. I do wanna try watch dogs 2 because it looks like it's set in San Fran. Looked interesting
Xbox and EA have recently made baffling moves that define how bleak the future of the gaming industry is with major companies at the helm. Ryan Bates from "Last Word on Gaming" posits in this op-ed that maybe it's not ineptitude, but intention.
Name someone that isn't trying to look us these days maybe cdpr.
Take two, ubi and yes even PlayStation are pushing us to own nothing and be happy with our live service ad injected games on a sub so they can raise prices at will and take access away when they see fit.
If it keeps up I'll be a full time retro gamer and this industry will be crashing hard
As rediculas as it sounds we need government reforms to defend consumer rights
Fable wasn’t that big a franchise to begin with
@FallenAngel1984
According to your fanboy logic no Xbox exclusive is big.
ive played all of the fable games ... honestly nothing truly remarkable about them IMO :/ i mean decently fun games and its a big name i cant deny that its a big xbox "exclusive" but even as a main xbox player im not looking forward to any of the og xbox franchises ever returning at this point honestly :/ they are in desperate need of a hard reboot of all their franchises or to just come up with some new IPs that stick because im so sick to death of halo, gears, forza... every time i hear one im just not even close to being excited ... sure they are solid enough for the most part but they are just stale and boring, and somewhat safe and the repetition is beyond real :(
Yes, Fable is the game that M$ should be creating. However, there is one caveat, that being that it should be a re-boot. Thereafter, the next installment should only advance a few years rather than the ridiculous leaps into the future Molyneux allowed.
I hope to see a Fable reboot at some point. Open world Fable in the vein of recent Zelda, but one where you create your character, or at least pick from a fairly large group of presets. I'd like for it to keep the humor, but make it a little darker and more realistic looking. Could be amazing.