[Molyneux On]Fable 3 Announced! Fable 2: Episodes Announced!
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Fable 3!
http://www.joystiq.com/2009/08/19/molyneux-announces-fable-iii-at-gamescom/
See link for teaser video.
The entire Fable idea is a fairytale twist on European history and myth. What we've settled on is to go about 50 years on from Fable II. So we've loosely chosen the Napoleonic period, and we've started to pull in a bit of Regency, a tiny bit of Victorian, and we're plugging in an early industrial age to Albion. It's a Napoleonic fairytale. - John McCormack, Artist
Let's imagine you're the leader of a town in Fable, people come to you and say, 'We have this disagreement, what do you think we should do?' and you can say, 'I think this person's right.' But then imagine someone comes and says, 'Oh my God, there's a farmer outside of town and he's doing something horrible.' That's not a situation where you can just decide who's right or wrong. This is actually a guy who's killing people - what do you do? It's about making the tasks you're faced with evolve throughout the game and become more elaborate and demanding. - Josh Atkins, Lead Designer
Preview from Eurogamer: http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/fable-iii-preview?page=1
According to Kotaku, it's slated for 2010.
I will update and make pretty as the info comes.
Also announced is Fable 2: Game Episodes. It's the retail Fable 2 in episodic format, all available through XBL. http://www.joystiq.com/2009/08/19/fable-ii-episodic-adventures-revealed-starts-sept-29/
http://www.joystiq.com/2009/08/19/molyneux-announces-fable-iii-at-gamescom/
See link for teaser video.
- Molyneux teases: "I think there's something fundamentally wrong with role-playing games. Game like Fable ... it's been there since the early '80s." Won't say what he thinks it is yet. Will announce later.
- "The race for the crown has begun." Tagline spoken by Zoe Wanamaker/Narrator.
- Game takes place about 50 years after the first. You play as the child of the hero. Bowerstone has continued moving on and has become quite industrial. The game is not just about Albion this time.
- Half the game will be spent trying to ascend to power. The game will not turn into a micromanagement RTS after that point. Judgment and Touch system will be used to influence the world.
- Focus on story and drama in this iteration. Actors and writers have blocked entire scenes. Video shown of practice sessions.
- Asks what type of kingdom will you have: poverty/greed, tyranny/compassion, progress/tradition?
- On the way to the crown, players will make deals and promises to factions. The question is whether people will keep those promises once they're in power.
- Players are a hero ruler -- Molyneux used the example of Star Trek or Caesar, that players won't just be sitting around once they rule Albion. They will still have adventures.
- New gameplay mechanic: Judgment and Touch. Judgment allows the player to dictate the outcome of a situation. The example used was a girl who steals food is brought in front of the ruler. The player can judge her immediately or investigate. Touch will allow players to grab NPCs. Example used was running into a burning building to grab a child who wouldn't come otherwise. Now you can shake someone's hand or refuse to. Handshake leads to hug, to embrace, a "snog," and as for that last one, Molyneux "won't say where it'll lead." This will replace the expression system.
The entire Fable idea is a fairytale twist on European history and myth. What we've settled on is to go about 50 years on from Fable II. So we've loosely chosen the Napoleonic period, and we've started to pull in a bit of Regency, a tiny bit of Victorian, and we're plugging in an early industrial age to Albion. It's a Napoleonic fairytale. - John McCormack, Artist
Let's imagine you're the leader of a town in Fable, people come to you and say, 'We have this disagreement, what do you think we should do?' and you can say, 'I think this person's right.' But then imagine someone comes and says, 'Oh my God, there's a farmer outside of town and he's doing something horrible.' That's not a situation where you can just decide who's right or wrong. This is actually a guy who's killing people - what do you do? It's about making the tasks you're faced with evolve throughout the game and become more elaborate and demanding. - Josh Atkins, Lead Designer
Preview from Eurogamer: http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/fable-iii-preview?page=1
According to Kotaku, it's slated for 2010.
I will update and make pretty as the info comes.
Also announced is Fable 2: Game Episodes. It's the retail Fable 2 in episodic format, all available through XBL. http://www.joystiq.com/2009/08/19/fable-ii-episodic-adventures-revealed-starts-sept-29/
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like one a them RTSes, but with like, more hand shaking and saving a baby from a fire
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Of course, my the son of my Fable II character was born in Fairfax castle to a horned fatass with two million gold and an undead chick in torn stockings. The gap between games was 500 years between one and two. I wonder how they'll handle a gap of just 50 years, with such profound consequences?
i certainly saw no reason to interact with the villagers in fable 2, as it was really just a distraction to my mayhem and questing and purchasing of all towns and then jacking up rent prices.
now, maybe we get to see how our actions play out in a grander scheme then 'olol good or bad, man?'
i can see some really interesting things coming into play.
say, you put a tax on one town's imports to improve the local businesses. this causes more money to be made in the town, but other, more diverse items can only be found elsewhere. this might cause towns to 'industrialize' at different rates, affecting the items most used by your kingdom later in the game.
this is all wild, crazy, angry speculation that i will continue to build my hopes up for at a retarded rate.
"He stole my bread." You'd expect the king to divide the bread in half, but I on the hand, would divide both men in half with a large axe.
winner has to eat his firstborn son
SO IT IS WRITTEN
I bought the game for £6 the other week. Looking at the games on demand thing, it is obviously going to cost more than that.
Where, pray tell, was it for sale at £6?
The great thing is this will likely possible.
Interesting this announced so soon for Autumn 2010, though. This makes me slightly more confident about Microsoft in 2010. If they're willing to announce Fable III now and Reach at E3, that means two of their big Christmas 2010 games are already on the table. Possibly Crackdown 2 also if that's out that soon.
If they're willing to show this hand so soon, it must mean they've got some stuff (Rare?) lined up for at least E3 next year.
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When I chatted to Molyneux at E3 this came up and he knows that the interface was horrible. He knows it. The chances of it being that bad again are slim.
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The magic interface was terrible, I'd take a selection wheel over that. See as always the Fable games are filled with promise but everything is so hollow, you cant talk to most people just dance around like a prat until they sleep with you and most missions are just as hollow and we all knew what would happen to the dog the second he introduced it because hes so obvious in trying to evoke 'emotion'. I'd rather he made a good game because there are lesser games where I care about characters while for all his grandstanding I don't care about anyone in Fable except my dog and thats because its a dog. I kinda cared for the sister but that was it.
I liked fable 1 for what it was, a light hearted fantasy romp. It's too bad that magicks borked the game towards the end with that FUCK YOU AOE spell that impaled people with a big magic dick
However, it is a very playable game too. It's like an RPG that is nothing but grind and fairly fun combat, bit the grinding is very streamlined.
The biggest thing that pissed me off about it:
There is a bit where you walk up to a treasure chest, in a fantasy RPG, and it is not a locked one (some are locked, and you need keys for, the rest you can just open) and I go to open it, and a dialogue box pops up and says "If you want to know how to open this chest, go to fable2.com"
What the fuck?
Go to the site and answer the questions to get free stuff.
It's the 'bonus' chest, it's the only one in the game like it. There's a mini story you can play on Fable.com that gives some backstory to Fable 2. Doing so (you sign into your live account first) awards you an item based on the choices you make in the story.
Also if you had any preorder or special edition bonuses like the Halo sword or whatever, they appear in there. It's better than them just appearing in your inventory, I think.
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My point isn't "I want the stuff in the box"
My point is "that is utterly horrible game design"
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Haha so true.
An awful lot.
This game is going to play for me like an old D&D campaign I played when I was young. I was a mostly just king... but was rather sadistic towards my court jesters. I hope to god I have an unlimited supply of jesters.
Sorry to make such a fuss about it, but basically I felt Fable 2 was much more simplistic, shallow, and boring than it could have been, and I think Molyneaux needs to learn about developing and polishing ideas, rather than constantly adding shiny new things to his games.
So...is Sparrow the Tyrant King or has he been overthrown and a new king taken his place?
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I don't get it, really.
Me either, I got it initially to ensure 360 sales but now its just 'what?'.
And the whole "touch" thing hes trying to get at. Yeah. You can do that in many games. Its called a Grab button. And in some games you can even just grab their arm and move em around. Its been around since Ico buddy.
That See The Future thing was to show you as king in Fable 3. The guy you play as in 3 being King. Hes your son/daughter and thus looks like you.