StickSkills.com writes, "Lionhead Studios has held quite a following with the Fable franchise, even though the third title in the series didn’t perform as they would have expected. While the series has been enjoyable, quite a few issues have stemmed from over-promising and under-delivering on certain features."
Fable 4's development seems to be well underway, and a look at the original trilogy reveals a few elements the upcoming title needs to reprise.
One of the biggest reveals at this year's Xbox Games Showcase was the latest Fable trailer. After a lengthy stint of silence, Playground Games gave us a look at bits of the title, albeit in a trailer that was mostly made up of CGI nonsense headlined by comedian Richard Ayoade, who is playing a rather frustrated giant.
Molyneux asked about what he thought about the Fable reveal.
he actually was in the news every now and then with a (couple) scam games he made
The exact same thought came to mind when I read the headline. It's been so long since we've heard his lies and over ambitions.
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Well, he's not associated with it. Giving interviews talking about features never at any point mentioned with devs let alone introduced.
It might have a chance.
Think you mean ethics.
Also, whose defending Molyneux? Wasn't his last game a literal ripoff with him offering a prize but not giving it?
The original Fable games were flawed masterpieces. How can the new Fable game keep the best parts of its prequels while avoiding the same issues?
"What The New Fable Needs To Be Better Than The Original Trilogy"
-pfft who wrote that title?
-Anyway if what they mean is "What the new Fable needs to *do better than the original trilogy", then I'd say stop trying to dictate what the new Fable should and shouldn't do or be. All I ask is that it has the spirit of the original but do their own thing and hopefully its good, thats good enough for me.
They're gonna jack it up, they always do, and really, bringing someone on board to pick up where someone left off, especially when Fable had the reputation it did (because the Xbox 360 during it's time put up a fight against the PS3 and really made PlayStation's job a rough one going), and that's a tall order to fill, it really is. Sure, it'll be pretty but it's not gonna be the same. Australian humor is quite different from British humor, it's cons getting dumped on a desert island by the truckload.
I'm sure it'll be okay, but not award winning
A potion created between some ideas
- the first two Fables
- a high fantasy setting
- an open world like the two new 3D Zeldas
Didn't know a Fable 4 was confirmed to be in the making.
Semi-related video
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I hope Fable 4 is a Xbox 720 game, I'd love to see what they can do with next gen tech in the series.
Peter is gone, so I'm going to go ahead and say we wont be getting the typical over-hyped spiel that we'd normally get. I know a lot of people bash Fable 3, and I think some of it is justified, it was obviously rushed, but it wasn't a terrible game by any means, and its been the best selling Fable game to date, pushing out about 5 million copies.
I hope next generation sees a console Fable MMORPG as well.
Fable went from Fable 2 having an 89 metascore to Fable 3 dropping all the way down to an 80 metascore. And with the "magic of Kinect" Fable the Journey will score in the 30s or 40s like 99% of all Kinect games, especially the ones that are supposed to bring the "core" gamers on board like Steel Battalion and Kinect Star Wars. Without Peter M. Fable has got nowhere to go but down which is where it was headed anyway.
I am a big fan of Peter.
BUT! I think Lionhead will be better off without him. New people and ideas need to come forward for Fable to become the game we all know it could be.
Microsoft also needs to butt out if they want fable to be the big franchise they expect it to be. Give the artists and developers the freedom and support to do their thing.
I hope Lionhead and Microsoft gets it right for Fable 4.
Fable went shit when they ended up aiming the game people who don't play these type of games.
I'll always have fond memories of Fable 1 however. Always.