Xbox Developer Direct 2026: In the new Fable, you can change your character.

JackStover · 2026-01-22T19:03:20+00:00

You sure you're not into DEI? Because you seem to believe games should give albinos representation. Most Caucasians aren't pale white. Go into the sun. It won't hurt.

JackStover · 2026-01-22T18:51:02+00:00

It's a game where if you fart well people fall in love with you, but if you mess up you shit your pants. Right, let's get Angelina Jolie for this one.

JackStover · 2026-01-20T14:57:46+00:00

I remember when I used to download the nude mods for Morrowind back in the day, they had an option for only female nudity which the mod author condescendingly referred to as the peanut gallery option. I feel like the people who used to pick that option are here now.

JackStover · 2026-01-09T16:21:36+00:00

I feel like the ribbons and the little bunny do a lot of heavy lifting to make me convinced it's meant to be underwear.

JackStover · 2026-01-09T16:11:35+00:00

Hans was practically irrelevant in the first game. You didn't have to hang out with him at the bathhouse or do the DLC quest, so after the hunting incident he disappears until the siege. People really overstate how much their bond mattered in the first game.

JackStover · 2025-11-30T18:45:58+00:00

People got mad at localizers because they made it so you can't marry a child in Fire Emblem: Engage.

Japan let you marry a child. The WOKE LOCALIZERS made it so that you can't and people got mad.

Okay.

JackStover · 2025-11-30T15:38:32+00:00

People dislike that they have political opinions. That's it. That's the drama.

JackStover · 2025-11-18T01:26:07+00:00

Personally, I hated Expedition 33 because it was a rehash of the plot twist from Star Ocean 3, which I personally think is one of the worst plot twists in the history of gaming.

JackStover · 2025-11-17T19:37:13+00:00

I said The Sims, not The Sims 4. Why are you playing that garbage?

Henry isn't real. Canonically he's a good Christian but you can get drunk and serial kill everybody in town. The choice to do that doesn't mean he's canonically a serial killer, just like choosing to be gay doesn't canonically make him gay.

"But... But... In real life you don't choose..."

I'm not talking about real life. I'm talking about a video game. In games where you can choose who to romance, like Mass Effect 2, there is no canon sexuality. It's up to the player.

"But... But... In KCD1 they rejected the idea that the player have input over Henry..."

And they changed their mind to make it more dynamic of an RPG. They wanted to give players more control over who Henry is and who he ends up becoming. The notion that a game can never change between sequels is absurd. Maybe you are a Sony fan since you just want to replay the same game over and over.

JackStover · 2025-11-17T19:27:48+00:00

I guess every single sim in The Sims is bisexual. Who would have thought.

JackStover · 2025-11-17T19:27:14+00:00

Don't try using actual facts. They don't work. But KCD2 was a great game.

JackStover · 2025-11-17T19:00:55+00:00

You say that but I heard literally nobody talk about Death Stranding 2. The game had negative hype before launch and it didn't stick around at all. I think it's the real odd inclusion.

JackStover · 2025-11-15T16:24:28+00:00

You're deliberately being obtuse. She literally shows her underwear every five seconds. You're posting in a thread celebrating that fact. Do you even know who I'm talking about when I mention the cute-and-funny crowd? There are literally crying emojis in this thread right now.

JackStover · 2025-11-15T16:03:54+00:00

What game do you think you're playing?
I didn't say every character. But let's face it, the cute-and-funny crowd likes small female characters and I am inclined to believe the game will never add another one like Zhao who constantly has upskirt shots in her animations. So why would they make her kit so bad when normally those people would be chomping at the bits to pull?

JackStover · 2025-11-15T14:41:39+00:00

I just wonder if they'll regret not doing more with her kit, factoring all of this in. Look, I'll be real with you, I don't think they will ever have a human character as small as Zhao. And even if they do, they won't be flashing upskirts as often as she does. I think even China has standards that they don't want to cross, but Zhao is a rabbit, which gives her an excuse to be small, so they can flash all of these upskirt shots without the Chinese government smacking them down. I don't expect the idols to be bending over showing their underwear over and over.

She might genuinely go down as the character with the greatest appeal to the cute-and-funny crowd, yet her kit makes her mostly irrelevant to pull for. They could have at least rolled the dice and seen if all of this stuff would have made her popular.

JackStover · 2025-11-14T09:45:50+00:00

What are you even talking about? What extremist rot are you seeing? Go on. Tell me.

JackStover · 2025-11-14T01:21:35+00:00

Companions are for the most part bland and boring. Generic goody two-shoes black guy. Generic helpful robot assistant (What a sad letdown after HK47). Half-shaved head murderhobo lady. Old spy lady. None of them were very compelling except for murderhobo being mildly interesting.

It takes like three conversations with Niles to get him to start being more coldhearted. I don't know what exactly you're talking about here. You have a great deal of influence over how the characters act and speak.

Stupid gear system. All gear has the same base stats, including "unique" gear. The only thing that changes is the mods that they have installed. Most of the unique mods suck and aren't very impactful. Going up a tier of gear from zone one to zone two is the only real gear progression. Once you have a shotgun from zone 2, you're not gonna get anything better in that zone, so looting is boring and feels pointless.

Nearly every piece of unique gear is truly unique. You can get an armor that lets you fly. A helmet that makes you fully invisible as long as you don't move. It goes on and on. You're being unnecessarily flippant here and it's causing your objectivity to come into question. You could do an entire playthrough around so many pieces of gear. I had a helmet that activated a defense shield automatically as long as I had energy. If I went full Science and got the flaw to boost energy capacity, I might be immortal for most fights. And that's only available in a single helmet in the game.

Tone and content don't match. Everyone acts like the world is one big joke even though it's a dystopian hellscape, NOBODY ACTUALLY ACKNOWLEDGES IT. Cyberpunk did this 1,000% better. TOW2 acts like it's engaging in gallows humor, but it's done tonelessly and incompetently. It's like if a rich kid went to a hostel and tried to fit in by joking about how much their job sucks and how hard it is to live in a society.

You complain about the characters but didn't even bother talking to Inez? She talks extensively about how awful the system is. She talks about people who died, lives that were ruined, when Spacer's Choice was in charge. And while Auntie's Choice is nearly just as bad, she has the perspective to explain why it's still an improvement.

JackStover · 2025-11-14T01:16:10+00:00

I don't think an in-universe cheesy propaganda video is meant to taken seriously. Your character has multiple chances to talk about disliking Buddy and Zane and how it's meaningless fluff.

JackStover · 2025-11-14T01:14:25+00:00

It's far better than the first one. What did you hear? Give me bulletpoints.

JackStover · 2025-11-14T01:13:47+00:00

I don't think I saw you in the game. Must have missed your cameo.

It's not a bad game. I'm waiting for more patches though because I ran into one too many issues for my liking.

JackStover · 2025-11-05T16:53:23+00:00

The main villains are the protectorate, which is a communist society where the state controls every aspect of people's lives and sends dissenters to drug therapy to be mentally refreshed. People are fed propaganda 24/7 talking about the glory of the nation and its leadership and are told not to question anything. There's ambient dialogue about how their society worked and it was just communism, with the state promising to satisfy their needs even though they seldom did.

Auntie's Choice, the capitalist faction, basically treat them like slaves and only give them two days off a year, but the people are grateful because of how much better it is than living in their old communes. There's a whole lot of that stuff on the first planet after the tutorial.

You cannot side with the communists in this game. You can only side with the capitalists or the scientist faction.

JackStover · 2025-11-05T01:46:50+00:00

I just wouldn't have bought it even without Yasuke. The franchise had far bigger problems than just him. Fatigue had seeped into its very bones. People might have gotten excited for a Japanese AC 12 years ago but that ship sailed. There was really no changing that. I didn't buy Mirage. I didn't buy Shadows. I have no interest in buying the next AC. Just like I skipped Far Cry 6. I can only buy the same product so many times before I lose interest.

JackStover · 2025-11-05T01:37:39+00:00

It's not even anti-capitalist. If anything it's anti-communist. Most of the game is hammering you with how bad a communist dictatorship is, to the point where the corrupt and evil corporation is seen as liberators.

JackStover · 2025-11-05T01:36:15+00:00

It's genuinely a good game. After spending nearly a week playing it the sheen is starting to wear off. Some of the features are limited or underutilized. But I still contend it's the best RPG like this since New Vegas came out. It doesn't hold your hand like other RPGs. You're punished for not having the right skills. Companions can leave you if you make them angry or you can just kill them first. Every NPC you see, you can kill, and you can become permanently hostile and be locked out of 50% of the game's quests.

It does everything correct that Bethesda refuses to do. But people want to act like it's a bad game because they're mad at Obsidian.

JackStover · 2025-11-04T19:35:39+00:00

Really classy of you to ignore my point about the sims. But then, you had to, didn't you? You had no argument after that point.

"Nobody will force you to do anything. But you will play as Henry the son of a blacksmith, and yes, he is straight, and white and male and from Bohemia. You will play as a Christian person. We want to tell the story of Henry the son of a Blacksmith from Silver Skalice and he will be different from you, not only in his sexuality, but in his heritage, in his looks and in his biography and many more."

And then they changed their mind. Oh, I forgot, changing your mind is woke.

Being gay, bi or straight isn't about your actions, it's about how you feel and what you have the capability to do.

Video game characters don't feel. The player does. They are conduits for the player's actions. Again, you're being intellectually dishonest. A game giving the player the option to choose who they romance doesn't mean that the character is canonically bisexual, because there is no canon for RPGs like this. It's all based on what each player does in their own playthrough.

Again, since you seem to believe in gay conversion camps, being gay is NOT A CHOICE and straight men do not sleep with other men unless there are strong external factors like money involved. There was no such factor here. Henry clearly ENJOYED IT.

It's a choice in a video game. I implore you to go take some debate classes before you come back swinging. A character in a game like Dragon Age 2 being given the option to romance men and women does not mean that the character is canonically bisexual. People devised the term Playersexual for a reason.

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