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GDC08: Fable 2 to "touch more of the outside world"

by Richard Mitchell on Feb 22nd 2008 7:25PM

After a slide hinted that a fourth, unnamed feature was set to be revealed by Peter Molyneux during a Fable 2 session at GDC today, we're left high and dry as the feature wasn't mentioned at all during the presentation. When asked about the mysterious fourth feature (more on the first three coming soon), Molyneux said that he wasn't allowed to talk about it. Why was it on the slide then, hmmm? Molyneux did hint that the feature would cause Fable 2 to "touch more of the outside world." Sounds like Xbox Live features. Considering an in-game menu featured a section titled "online," we'd say Live co-op and adversarial modes aren't out of the question. Either that, or the new feature is something entirely different: disappointment.

Tags: fable, fable-2, gdc08, lionhead, lionhead-studios, microsoft-game-studios

Reader Comments (28)

Well obviously this is some sort of confused middle-management issue. It'd help a buttload to be prepared at these things, wouldn't it?

Molyneux did hint that the feature would cause Fable 2 to "touch more of the outside world." = "DEMO" Maybe????????

A demo isn't a feature.

I know it just came to me as somthing they would do.

Ummm...why are we excited with this game again? The first one was terrible, they hype massive and the results dissappointing. I think I will wait and see first what the results are before believing the hype...

To say that Fable was terrible is just plain ridiculous, I'm sure that Fable 2 will not live up to its hype but I'm not sure any games do.

"The first one was terrible"

Have you even played Fable? I bought my Xbox for it- and damn it was worth it. Even if things were promised and did not show- that doesnt automaticlaly make it a bad game. The content was top notch. It is one of the best Xbox exclusives around.

What are you smoking? Fable was a great game, yea, it had it's flaws, but every game does

Nintendo DS interaction.

"Either that, or the new feature is something entirely different: disappointment."

Why does different mean disappointment? That's shallow.

Peter is on G4 right now talking to XPlay about Fable 2. He says there will be several games you can play before the game is released. It looks like little pub games. Apparently, the gold you earn in those games will "magically" show up in your Fable 2 game when you are able to buy it. Is this that fourth feature?

I doubt it. He mentiened it 2 days ago in his speech too. It seems like a cool type of interaction between Arcade games and disc games though.

You doubt it? Did you guys pay attention to the GDC announcments at all?????

It has been stated that there will be an XBLA game before the release of Fable 2 that will feature some sort of mini-games that will allow future owners of Fable 2 to earn gold for use in the final game. Gold will be an important asset for the game.

My god, would help if someone would pay attention around here. Do a tad bit of research (Read: look towards the bottom of the articles page or the previous page) before starting your own little rumor fest.

Dude, Anticrawl, take your own advice and read everything first...

No, that was announced already.

I don't blame Molyneux for being hesitant to reveal features. 10 years ago the man would tell you all about his games and then some, but when all those features didn't make it into a final product (on Fable) the man received death threats.

Can you blame him really?

I understand what you're saying, but this isn't the same situation. Before, he was talking about all the features they wanted to add in Fable or Black & White years before the game shipped and those features were cut. This sounds like a feature that will certainly make it in to the game and he's just dangling it there for publicity. Which is fine if it's something good. Sometimes these announcements fall flat and announce a feature that's been done in other games. Like, for example, if they announced you can make your own items in the game. Well, you could do that in Oblivion, so if that's the fourth feature, it's going to disappoint some people.

Mayyybe if it's raining where you live it's raining in game?

I hope not, it's always fucking raining where I live!

I was thinking maybe this would be the first title to use Zune integration... If they have XBLA titles, it can be assumed XNA was used to develop them. Why not allow players to play pub games on the road and make money when away from home?

wow, that's actually a good idea...and that would definitely sell some more zunes

online co-op got confirmed at GDC.

As he said "touch more of the outside world.", maybe it's more than just 2 player online???

Hate to break it to you guys, but ONLINE CO-OP has not been confirmed. 2 player co-op yes, online not confirmed.

That's not to say it won't happen. To be honest, I think you can guarentee it will happen. However, they only talked about "bringing a friends profile to your house" and hitting the start button on a 2nd controller to jump in.

NO ONLINE CO-OP confirmation yet guys to those who said it's confirmed. Sorry!

It could be that the games time spectrum matches up with the real world one... i may have read somewhere that its a 48 minute day, but i think that might gave been GTA IV

i dunno if i like the thought of that. i work long hours so i'd only get to play it at night time in the game. probably miss out on a fair bit

"adversarial modes aren't out of the question. "

With that said, wouldn't it be cool if Fable 2 had an online mode where the main villain (or hero if you play through evil ) is you buddy (like crackdown should have been). The drunken brawls that would ensue would be classic.

I wonder if this will pull me from WOW for a bit

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