Gamersmint : Microsoft just released some brand new shots for their upcoming RPG, Fable 3 at their TGS booth. These showcase some amazing sorcery aswell as various classes – warriors, mages, etc
Progressive concepts in games can come from some truly unexpected places if you look a little deeper past what's directly on the surface. It's unlikely for instance that anyone would ever bestow the Grand Theft Auto series with the title “culturally progressive.” With over the top portrayals of drug-slinging, car-stealing, sex-crazed criminals who can beat up hookers for fun, GTA seems like the opposite of a diverse game with progressive ideals. If you take the time to scroll through the radio stations in the game's fourth major title however, you'll find satirical renditions of both ultra-conservative and public access radio stations, skewering the absurd things said on the extreme fringe of both the political right and left in a way that's funny but still clearly making actual social commentary. These six titles from throughout gaming history show a changing landscape where video games can be just as progressive as anything television has to offer.
I haven't played Tomb Raider, and I probably never will because I have zero interest in it and games like it, but my impression of that game is that it was sort of vicious. Lara was the oppressed woman, and her foes were the lecherous, sexist, misogynistic crowd (symbolically, metaphorically speaking), and her solution is to brutally kill them (symbolic of oppression) which hardly makes her better than her oppressors. Makes her the same as them, and if it's okay for her to do it, so to speak, why isn't it okay for them to do it? Really, it's not okay for either side to do it. She seems like a poster-girl for vengeful, power-reversal feminism to me, which isn't progressive.
Again though, I haven't played the game, so I won't try to assert any of this as necessarily valid, but it's just my impression of the game. I'd imagine there are parts in the game that challenge my cursory interpretation.
Screw "progressive" games, IDGAF about "progression", I care about a good game, and last time I checked, how "progressive" a game was didn't factor into quality at all. Chrono Trigger wasn't a masterpiece because Crono was a half black half indian transgendered lesbian midget who sexually identifies as an attack helicopter, you know.
How is Fallout 2 progressive? I assumed this would be another article discussing Gone Home, lol
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Women are already equal. Now they just want men to suffer for being men. We're not allowed to fantasize anymore.
Yet women are allowed to look at shirtless perfect male models and then complain when their SO isn't ripped like the dude whose JOB is to stay fit.
Hate to break it to you SJWs but people are attracted to attractive people.
As for the progressiveness in games. Grow up. They're catered to a demographic. That demographic usually being teenage boys. Guess why they like. Titties and violence.
Ted Timmins, who has been with Lionhead Studios since 2004, has decided to call it quits.
I hope MS finds someone to breathe new life into the series.
Fable legends looks interesting atm but the series has been going downhill since fable2.
Phil Harrsion and Ken lobb need to find the right person to fill timmins vacant position asap... fans need fable legends to be great.
Remember Black & White? Black & White 2? The Movies? The first Fable?
Several members of Lionhead left after all those games and formed Media Molecule. That's why everything since has been pretty meh.
Good let it die the fable series got worse everytime they released a new one... the first was the best!
Peter Molyneux releases a few interesting details about his upcoming game, 'Curiosity'. We also go a bit into Molyneux's history with hyperbole to see if his patterns leading up to this new game tell us anything about his new life as an independent developer.
What are the odds that someone will crack the "system" and steal all the "fun". Im taking bets
awesome :D. Fable 3, after Reach, seems another of the MS Killer titles!
Fable III is revolutionizing something allright. The word "Beatiful". Never has it meant so little!
No, this looks good. But we must remember that words like "beatiful" and "realistic" has been used when commenting GT5 and should therefore not be tossed around to so many other games.
well, beauty certainly is in the eye of the beholder here!
I'm afraid they are as cartoony & goofy as ever - Fable games would be right at home on the Wii.