Summary of "What the f*ck is happening..."

Quick recap

This video tears into the new Fable (Playground Games/Xbox) reveal — a nostalgia-fueled roast arguing the franchise has been “updated” in all the wrong ways. The host skewers the trailer, the design choices, and the apparent scrapping of classic Fable systems with quick insults, recurring jokes, and a lot of anger about lost charm.

What the creator complains about

Character design
- The host ridicules the main protagonist reveal as ugly and lifeless, calling out poor face/body work and strange animations (especially an exaggerated hip/”shake my ass” walk).
- Jokes that the devs designed the game to be played as the female trailer character and only added a limited character creator after backlash.
Character creator limitations
- Anger that customization is basically “pick a head” — head, hair, skin, tattoos/scars — and that appearance won’t reflect stats/choices the way classic Fable did (e.g., angelic/evil/strong visual changes as you level).
“Office-style” cutaways
- Strong dislike of the documentary/interview cutaway conceit (NPCs doing sit-down interviews mid-story), called “cringe” and immersion-breaking.
Removal of beloved systems
- Major gripes that classic RPG mechanics were removed: guns, the dog companion, blood, meaningful moral consequences, and stat-driven appearance changes.
- The host is incredulous guns and the dog were cut (jokes about “sending the dog to the pound”).
Combat and tone
- Calls combat “spongey” and derivative (a mix of Assassin’s Creed/Gotham Knights/Witcher), lacking Fable 2’s flow.
- Criticizes the move toward hyper-realistic graphics and a generic modern-RPG feel instead of a unique, stylized Fable identity.
Visuals and animation gags
- Repeated comic bits: McDonald’s ice cream machine analogy for bad scans of pretty people, “floppy” breasts and other exaggerated physics, and a sponge/Pringle-can gag mocking combat feedback.
Morality and consequences
- Snarks at dev quotes like “no objective good, no objective evil,” interpreting it as “choices don’t matter.”
- Running joke about the absence of STDs and other former comedic consequences.
Nostalgia and suggestions
- Praises the old Fable games’ personality and mechanics.
- Recommends older games (e.g., Overlord) as feel-alikes and suggests that if developers can’t honor Fable’s legacy they should make an original game instead.

Tone and memorable lines

The video reads more like a roast than a constructive review: rapid-fire insults, profanity, and recurring punchlines.
Frequent riffs and one-liners:
- “Office cutaways”
- “They removed the RPG mechanics”
- “Where’s the dog/gun/blood?”
Funny asides include fake promo codes, mock “British humour” commentary, and exaggerated disbelief at dev decisions — all used to underline the host’s sense that the game missed what made Fable special.

“No objective good, no objective evil” — quoted dev phrasing turned into a punchline about choices not mattering.

Overall takeaway

The host is skeptical and angrily nostalgic. While he leaves a sliver of hope that the gameplay might surprise him, he’s largely convinced the reveal shows a game that’s lost what made Fable special: charm, meaningful consequence, and a stylized identity replaced by bland realism and modern-RPG tropes.

Personalities and entities referenced

The video’s narrator/host (main commentator)
Playground Games (developer)
Xbox (publisher/marketing)
“The devs” / dev quotes and NPCs in the trailer
Brief references to in-game characters (e.g., “the guy from the watch,” “Hassad”) and the original Fable developers (as part of the nostalgia context)