Official Microsoft E3 2010 Press Conference Thread

[themanwithnoname]

JPL78 said:

themanwithnoname said:

JPL78 said:

@themanwithnoname, I'm a Fable fan, it didn't excite me.  Just my opinion but I'm glad at least some people found promise in it.

The thing they screwed up with Fable 2 was that before you even reached the end game you could have already leveled up completely.  So there was no such thing as a mage, or a fighter.  Every character became skilled in every aspect.

Typical RPGs at least make it where if you specialize in something you suck very much at the things you don't specialize in, Fable 1 followed that formula and hense forth was replayable at least.  I was more excited about the kingdom governing features of Fable 3 and the possible Kinect use and neither of those were shown.

I just found the way they tried to pitch the last one to be a little...well, weird for my liking.

Fable II is only behind the Mass Effects as my favorite 360 game. I'm excited to see the stuff you mentioned as well, but I will say that I've always found WRPGs to be at a complete disadvantage when it comes to showing a demo compared to FPS's or JRPG's where you can just show off the battle system. They just don't demo well imo.

Well I respect your opinion.  I did enjoy Fable 2, but more as an action game than an RPG.  I got the full 1,000 gamerscore so obviously I liked it, but if they had made the change I suggested I would have played through it potentially 3 times.

I can kind of see what you mean about WRPG demos but their have been successful ones.  Fallout 3 comes to mind a few years back.  And as far as JRPGs, I find that they are the games that usually just show cutscenes and CGI instead of actual gameplay.

Chances are I will love Fable 3, but in this case I would have rather seen a gameplay demo. I do like the supposed story of the two brothers though and the dark looking Albion.

Thanks for responding to me by the way, now I know at least one person in this entire thread read anything I said :)

Oh I agree, I'm not saying I wouldn't have liked or wasn't expecting them to show a demo, I'm just speculating why they didn't. I'm sure we'll see some videos of a demo shown throughout E3 though.

As for the rest of the conference, just about everything in the first half excited me, and I have enough games to play as it is. Also, ESPN looks cool as do some of the Kinect features, so I'm not as upset with this conference as some people are. The Crytek game intrigues me as well.