While many big budget titles take themselves so, so seriously, the assumption being that the more something costs, the more serious it has to be taken, Fable has never been afraid to fill itself with the kind of irreverent humor that Britain is famous for. Since the cancellation of Fable: Legends, a lot of these rumors have gone into overdrive.Ī warning: None of these rumors have been confirmed, so take them all with a big grain of salt, but many of them, like #25 and #19, are no-brainers.įable has always had one major thing setting it apart from other games of its genre: its humor.
What I've put together is a list of the wishes that have been flying around over the last half year. Whether this will officially be Fable 4, a reboot, a remake, or some kind of spin-off, is all unclear. While no official announcement has been made, there are rumblings all over the internet about a new Fable being in development. However, in the last few months, rumors have been swirling about a long-awaited return to form for the oddball, extremely British franchise.
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With the recent closure of Fable developer Lionhead Games, one of the dearly departed studios from the late-period PC market of the 90s and made up of many castoffs from Theme Hospital and Dungeon Keeper Bullfrog, and the even more recent cancellation of the multiplayer-focused Fable: Legends, there seemed to be no hope for a new installment in what was once the most exciting RPG franchise ever. With a nearly-forgotten experiment with the Kinect, Fable: Journeys, and some Xbox Live Arcade games based on the minigames in the franchise, there hasn't been a commitment to a mainline Fable game in nearly a decade. Fable has always been built on British humour, a playful tone, fantastical steampunk, dark characters mixed with an almost-pantomime level of villainy, and a feeling of tragedy that is always, in some way, surrounded by silliness.Whatever happened to Fable? Despite being one of the highest profile, exclusive franchises on the Xbox, after the release of Fable 3, Microsoft didn't seem to know what to do with the franchise. The latest news we have out of Microsoft is that Fable 4 is trying to be "Witcher-like", which doesn't feel like all that definitive an ambition when The Witcher 3 borrows from so many other RPGs itself, nor is it one that fills me ( or many of the Fable fans) with much confidence. Related: The Witcher 3 Makes Even The Most Boring Tasks Exciting
Legends' major flaw was that it didn't understand what Fable was or why people liked it. But I don't think Legends' main problem was any of those things, although they were definitely red flags considering the ginormous red canvas of 75 million smackeroonies being funnelled into it. You might say then that it sounds completely different to Legends, that I'm foolish for holding onto the pain of the past. Fable 4 does not use gimmicky SmartGlass technology, won't be free-to-play, hasn't mentioned anything about cumbersome currencies, and there's no whispers that Microsoft want this to be a ten year, constantly evolving game.
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