A look at some dramatic video game character transformation based around the theme of age.
Announced in 2020, Playground Games' open-world action RPG has seen sporadic updates and departures but still no release date.
You could say the same for any number of games that were stupidly announced during pre-production. Elder Scrolls 6 & Perfect Dark are current examples, Blade is another recent one and in the past Mass Effect Andromeda and Cyberpunk 2077 come to mind.
I don't think this game is in any trouble. For a start, Playground Games are one of the few under MS Studios that actually have a track record of delivering on time and with quality. We got a trailer last year and I'd fully expect there to be something more substantial at the next showcase in the summer.
No dramas here - just another victim of Microsoft's incompetence. They simply had to announce several games way too early because they had nothing else to talk about.
The same thing that happens to any project when you announce it far too early. Perfect Dark, Fable, The Elder Scrolls 6, Star Wars KOTOR Remake...you actually have to, I don't know, make the game?
I'm fairly confident this game will see the light of day, as Playground have released 5 Forza games of quality and on schedule. Think it was just revealed too early.
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Kingdom hearts was really sad at the end. The darkness when Jenny dies was shocking and sad
Mine have to be last of us, Joel's daughter. Maybe it hits different when you have kids vs bot. I'll throw ff7 up there to. On the verge of looking like some sort of love triangle then bam, death
I think Dom's wife's death in Gears 2 was sadder then Dom. Dom's death in Gears 3 just felt rushed.
Baldur's Gate 3 producer Ryan Clark, who worked at Larian Studios for four years, has joined Fable developer Playground Games
Xbox is definitely the house of RPGs and it´s getting bigger and better by the day!
Fable will be fantastic!
Still waiting to see what kind of game fable will be. Hope it has gargoyles...probably not.
Hope you can pick between male or female and choose something else to distinguish yourself during character creation.
Super excited for this and perfect dark...excited to see what they make that is. Don't have any high hopes but maybe MS can prove me wrong. Playground has been their studio for a long time and the initiative is their only new studio
This is a good get as Baldur's Gate 3 is highly regarded.
But this has to be a hire for their next game right? Why would Fable need a producer now?
Can't wait to see what their '10 year plan' is for Fable.....just like Halo and now Forza. I'm curious to see just how badly they fuck this up with online focused, drip fed content, design and gameplay. Because I know it's going to be nothing like the previous games and anyone expecting that is in for a nasty surprise.
Good stuff lol still not crazy about the whole aging thing but i suppose everyone goes through it even our favorite heros lol
Snake still looks like a bad ass even with his grey hair and bad back.
Ezio looks like a completely different character from his youth to old man.
Another example of characters aging that I like is Lucas in Mother 3, who goes from cowardly itty-bitty momma's boy to more mature possibly teenager? If forget his age. I think of all the one's listed, I like Snake's aging the most, because the game really reinforces it at every opportunity and just makes you go, "Daaaaaaaaamn."
I think the best way to end a franchise is by showing the main hero die, lets face it we all die... Its the only justice in this world. No one is going to get away with it or from it.
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Even Master Chief should die eventually, hell Six Died
Even Snake should of died in MGS4 imo, hes a killer why would he hesitate to kill himself at the end. People will disagree, but when some one is a killer they aren't afraid of death. I know its not over, but MGS5 could of been without Snake. I'm still anxious to play it like the other guy.
Even Nathan Drake should die, but maybe after uncharted 5 or something :P
I don't know, but this is just my thought. These are all good franchises, but all good things come to an end. Its how the world works, we die but give life and the ones we gave life to die and give life again.