This Week's New 'Fable' Trailer Was Captured On An Xbox Series X

It looks great, the question is was any of that intended to be gameplay? Some of the "fight" with the giant looked "gameplayish"

It looks great, and hopefully representative of what it will actually look like to play. Great that it was captured on Series X though I don't understand why they didn't specify that at the time! I had a concern that the writing might be a problem given that the writing in Forza Horizon is rather cringe-inducing, but thankfully the trailer showed a completely different style of dialogue to that. The addition of Richard Ayoade is inspired!

Not sure why this trailer is getting so much hate. It was one of the best trailers of the showcase and the casting is 10/10. Given its playground games, I have confidence in the developer and I think this going to be one of the must play games coming from Xbox Game Studios in the future. However it is probably still way off. Maybe early or Mid 2025?

Fable Trailer was beautiful, was part game play sneak peaks I feel.
If that's already on a Series X, were in for a treat!
Devs when they have time can get the best out of this machine, it's a beast, just need devs to take their time and get this right.

I thought the trailer was amazing fun! It looks brilliant too!

About time we see the most powerful console do some powerful things. The wait hasn't been easy. But Fable and Hellblade 2 so far are really bringing the heat.

It was cgi so it really doesnt matter

I want to see actual gameplay, I've noticed the trend of "in-game engine" footage for a while and it's kind of irritating.

Game still looks very promising, fwiw.

@Rmg0731 Wasn't CGI for me in game engine, I think it will look that good, it's Playground, they are masters, look how good FH5 looks, that is transferring to Fable for sure!

Look doesn't do anything for me in this game. Fable is dark twisted and full of British humor. If they managed to capture the essence then we're really in for a treat

@FenIsMightier Same. Though it's not necessarily a bad thing (gestures vaguely at Tomb Raider reboot) but it's the sort of thing that needs to be upfront. You can't build years of hype of "Fable 4" and then deliver something different.

@IronMan30 yeah this switcheroo is annoying. Nice that it might be representative of the final product but with basically everyone in the games industry lying about anything at all it's very doubtful whether it will.
So at the end of it all we've only seen a random cutscene, after all of these years lol

It was a fun trailer and I don’t doubt it was in engine but there was maybe 10 seconds of gameplay? At the end of the trailer when she’s sitting there I expected her to fart, that would have been so fable. I want to see more because this trailer did nothing to show what the game actually is.

@IronMan30 exactly all the “you don’t understand what in game engine means” no we do and that’s the issue.

It’s still not gameplay and all showcase we saw very little of what games might actually play like. That’s an issue.

Loved the trailer and certainly hyped the game for me but just got to hope the actual 'game' parts live up to the trailer. I remember Dead Island trailer vs gameplay!
Also bit confused as they said they were showcasing games for the next 12 months. So does that imply they are aiming to have this finished within the next year? And if so (for all of them) why weren't there many gameplay trailers?

@StonyKL They didn't say it was for the upcoming 12 months, they dropped that because of having to delay Starfield to September.

I enjoyed the show, best of the year and I think there are some outstanding games coming to our xbox's, which is great to see. But Fable isn't one of them on that showing for me.
I'm glad the game engine is obviously up to the task, but that's the best thing I could take from the trailer. I thought casting the giant as Richard was a big miss-cast, and the whole vibe and humour seemed much more cheesy American than Dark British.

I am a huge fan of the original vision that Peter had, and was hoping a current gen version could fully achieve all that the original vision had, but sadly it seems this will become generic and not what I wanted to see at all.

I hope it will become something excellent in its own right and entertain us all, but I fear it will be Fable in name only for those of us looking to the original vision of the game.
There is a very valid argument to be made for saying that the game needs to resonate with a new audience, so not appealing to an old man who wanted the original vision is no bad thing.
But if you are that old British Guy who loved the original Fable, that argument, no matter how strong, doesn't help wash away my disappointment.

I am just so stoked Richard what’s his name is in it! Have your firmed it off and on again? He was great doing The Crystal Maze.

@Rmg0731
It was rendered using the in-game engine.

@Zoidpilot4 just rewatched it and it was Big Phil talking about how amazing Fable looks then starts saying a list of games and etc that will be delivered in 2024. It confused me but had assumed it meant Fable was coming in 2024. Sounds like it isn't though.

@StonyKL I think fable is 2025. If they manage to keep those 2024 dates, 2025 may end up having Gears, Fable, perfect dark. Though I think we can expect one red fall for every 3 great games haha

@Titntin I am in that camp but I hold faith that modern audience tropes aside, the fact it is Playground Games should hold well for the gameplay side of things.

That's actually incredible because I thought this was a CGI trailer despite what Aaron said. The fact that it's a real in-game render actually on the XSX is fantastic. Sure it's still just a concept trailer "in engine" and not representative of gameplay, but it's still incredible.

@FenIsMightier I think they're pretty pointedly saying it's a reboot as something else, though we don't really know what it is yet. Though to be fair, what Fable was was entirely the weird mind of Molyneaux, and I don't think even trying to do a Molyneaux-like-thing without Molyneaux is possible. It had to be something new. I'm not sure what to think of it as a "Fable" game without him.

@Titntin It's weird because they keep highlighting how British the humor is, and it kind of is at least from an American perspective, and the lead writer (McGill) is British, but, when I look at the things she's written, most of it is very serious, dry, Hollywood type stuff, without any real comedy background at all. IDK how it's going to have a British humor feel with a writer that, though British, doesn't seem to write comedy, really at all. HOWEVER, that could also imply that dark twisted original vision is present after all, given she was the choice for the writing lead, because she does have a large background of dark, twisted writing.

@Titntin you put my thoughts into words perfectly. This didn't feel like fable to me.

Loved the inclusion of Ayoade. Strongly disliked the protagonist they used. I hope we can customise the main character because that one was an eyesore to look at.

It looks pretty good, definitelly a different take on Fable. Less cartoony and fairy tale like and more mature and serious looking. But I think the trailer could have been better tho. They could have shown some combat and gameplay.

Considering the protagonist was sitting on Ayoade's broken glasses at the end of the trailer, I wonder whether there might be multiple actors popping up in the game and across future trailers - highlighting different folklore character roles. If done well, it could create a lot of additional interest in Fable going forward.