I have seen the textures are the only last gen looking thing, thy have no shaders and seem a bit blurry and undetailed

 

So, will that change by release ? Or is what we see now the max we will  see in Fable 2 ?

The final polish is yet to be done, so yes they will be better...

Or

No, they've got all these lovely processing power to play with, but thought they'd go with Donkey Kong graphics so they can get to the pub quickly...

You decide...

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Of course they will. Xboz 360 exclusive video games have VERY VERY graphics and speed.

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My friend an I are considered Fable Nerds by our friends because together we have beaten the game including TLC with every weapon possible(including opening all chests and finding all silver keys, AND getting through all demon doors).

nasos_333:

I have seen the textures are the only last gen looking thing, thy have no shaders and seem a bit blurry and undetailed

 

So, will that change by release ? Or is what we see now the max we will  see in Fable 2 ?

I don't think you have anything to worry about. The textured grass in the GDC 07 vid was very nice and that's just a work in progress. Call it a hunch, but I have a feeling the finished product is going to be great! 

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The game looks great, just textures are a bit subpar, that is all, it is still my most favourite next gen title in looks by far

Don't worry so much.  They still have a year to touch up on those things. 

No the textures won't get better. In fact, we are retro fitting them as we try and recreate the original Asteroids in look.

Well noticed nasos, you provide an invaluable service as always.

Totally funny, Gradius.
Asteroids rocks!!

of course the graphics will get better. theres still a year.

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Its this kind of response that made me worry if LH are showing Fable 2 too early. Although we are seeing some great and advanced stuff, some peeps only see the surface. :(

On th other hand, id have gone nuts if we'd had to wait till now (from the E3 trailer) for pics and news!

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Lol. What we see now is just at the testing stage. The final version will be complete and amazing.

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My friend an I are considered Fable Nerds by our friends because together we have beaten the game including TLC with every weapon possible(including opening all chests and finding all silver keys, AND getting through all demon doors).

SmashNbash:

Lol. What we see now is just at the testing stage. The final version will be complete and amazing.

To go just a bit deeper into your post:
yes the final version will be more sleek and beautiful. With the 360's processing power they can use more features like volumetric and dynamic lighting, weather effects and simulations of actual natural behavior (eg. flame, rippling and running water), and a functional physics system rather than the cheezy animation based crap from Fable. BUT if my eyes serve me right then the graphics engine they are using is just a retooled version of the original graphics engine, which by the way is as as it ever needs to be imo.

Something else to keep in mind is that the more beautiful a game gets and the larger the loadable areas get, the lower your framerate drops and the harder your system needs to work to keep that level of graphical detail. The urge is to bring up Oblivion against this statement, but Oblivion actually cheats their graphics engine. I don't understand the whole scope of it, but they use something called billboarding which applies a 2D image as a texture and changes it with the player's PoV. In other words, the swaying tree boughs and tufts of flowers and grass that act so realistically are just layers of 2D images; which goes MILES toward saving RAM btw.

 Games like BioShock (f-ing amazing btw) or Gears of War can keep the fantastic graphics because their maps are small, generally indoors, and controllable. Once you add a night - day cycle with realistic lighting effects that have to dynamically change the environment around you, texture and light anywhere from ten or twenty to fifty or more character models, all of which cast their own shadows on the environment, and drop items and loot which all have their own physics attached to them to name a few of the dozens of things that happen constantly in a game of this size, you're talking about much more processing power. The game will look great, but it's not gonna look too much better than what we've seen up to now. Sometimes you just gotta sacrifice beauty for functionality...

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they deleted it for no reason back in the day...

The game engine definately has room for optimisation. That said you won't see a phenomenal difference between what you see now and what you get post-release.

I'll be very surprised if this game is kept exclusive to the 360. They're creating the game on X86 platform, so i'm quite confident it will become part of the MS "Vista" game line-up. Speaking of which, by the time this game gets out the G92 will have been released and as such I doubt the featureset in Fable 2 would cause any problems even at high resolutions on said card.

It's a totally new engine.

The Bag:

It's a totally new engine.

And whats it called? and what makes it better than vista?

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well, Vista is an operating system not a graphics engine for a start...

ik hope so, otherwise i burn all my lionhead games

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omg, i am posting for a game that isnt developed for pc

ik hope so, otherwise i burn all my lionhead games

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omg, i am posting for a game that isnt developed for pc

Gradius1:

No the textures won't get better. In fact, we are retro fitting them as we try and recreate the original Asteroids in look.

A Dev with a sense of humour...how rare!! :s

Just imagine the young yins nowadays trying to play on 2bit one dimensional graphics.
Of course the textures are going to be imporved. What we are seeing now is still the game in development with still some rough edges. I for one cannot wait to see the graphics. (I have a thing for graphics..some say that is sad and weird.:# )

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TADA!!!

2bit one dimensional graphics.

2D graphics.

I am going to pretend that I did not say 2bit instead of 2D...thank you sooo much for pointing out my mistake! I beleive I was thinking of console speeds as in 8bit sega master system.

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TADA!!!

I think the game is looking pretty seeing how its going thru a year of tuning(btw are they going to fix the whole "when u push i guy into a wall he kinda hovers in midair pretending he hit the wall but he really never tuoches it" thing, and make it easier to throw bottles, and keep bodies from going thru the character)

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My god, you're stupid.

To kill is not enough, you have to enjoy it.

  Obviously the graphics will get better.  To me the graphics for Fable 1 with all the content and custimazation was great and with the 360 being more powerful the graphics to will be too.  Now will they be the best of all games, I doubt it, but very ... yes.

Gradius1:

No the textures won't get better. In fact, we are retro fitting them as we try and recreate the original Asteroids in look.

First of all what is texture and secondly does this mean we'll have the same graphics as Fable one? Because if so, they were really of 2005, but there no Oblivion or Assassin's Creed.

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