Fable 3 will question the foundations on which Fable is built, says Molyneux

by Ben Gilbert on Aug 19th 2009 3:57PM

Hot off the announcement this morning of Fable 3 coming to Xbox 360 in 2010, Microsoft Game Studios of Europe head Peter Molyneux sat down to discuss the franchise a bit with GamesIndustry.biz. Though the acutely over-promising developer kept tight-lipped about details on the upcoming sequel, he did let slip that Fable 3 will question "some of the foundations that Fable [the franchise] is built on."

We're not sure exactly what that means, but we already know that the gesture system has been given a major facelift. The moral choice aims to be a lot deeper than in Fable 2 as well, with Molyneux saying promises you make in your rise to power will affect your position as the people's ruler. We'll be sure to remember these promises when the game releases next year (that's three promises so far, Molyneux!).

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That pic is just too awesome.... fits well with the headline also.

gamers want games to be considered art? this is guy is the Warhol of gaming: paints like shit, but says he is the shit because he believes those around that tell him he is. He always says his next game is going to be so revolutionary the world will stop for a couple seconds. Once you play it, it plays like the same game he made 10 years ago, and none of the revolutionary stuff is what he said it was going to be.

Reminds me of Sander Cohen from Bioshock.

I think we're all thinking the same thing...

I'll believe it when I see it, Peter.

Exactly what I was thinking.

"Rainbows, unicorns, giant storms of pudding..."

Molyneux at the Wendy's drive-thru.

Wow so instead of arm pumping and lute playing to make a women fall in love with me, i can shake her hand and poke her! NOICE!

Poke first, shake later.

A new feature of Fable 3 will be the option to replace every NPC in the game with my likeness.

Also, the game will come with a DNA system that will extract your DNA to make all of your children in the game look like yourself.

finally a good use for the vitality sensor!

Technically speaking, it will be similar to the vitality sensor. However, well let's just say that you'll need to clear it after using it.

For the women players, we have something truly revolutionary as well. Something that will bring the game into your real life and will totally change your life, which will look somewhat like myself if you get my drift.

And my legal department says that I'm not liable for child support, so everyone is a winner. Especially me.

Peter is the king of bullshit, he's like that hot stripper that says she's into you. You know it's crap, but you want to believe it anyways.

But that hot stripper really does like me. She listens!

She said I was cooler than the guys that usually come in...

It sounds to me that they're incorporating some Black & White elements in to Fable 3. Not quite on the level of God-like powers but more on the level of Caligula.

Translation:

you can be GOOD or BAD.

i'm in, so long as it doesn't feature Natal in any remote way, or have a final "boss" that i kill by pushing a random button because i'm not sure if i'm supposed to do anything during their diatribe.

LOL... That final boss battle in fable 2 was such a letdown.

It will probably be a NATAL game though. Lionhead studios is all over that.

I was wondering 'what boss'.. and then the penny dropped.... :S

Ha! I read the headline as Fable 3 with questionable foundations...

goes to show how much faith my brain has in Pete M and his track record

molyneaux means bullshit in french

spelled it wrong :(

I love Fable. The only reason I bought an arcade.

Yeah, we all like it, but we'd love it even more if the games he was talking about actually would exist. Every time I buy a game he's been hyping, don't get me wrong, it's awesome, but I just wonder why I got the lite version of whatever he was talking about.

"Any mountain in the game that you see in the distance, you'll be able to walk up to, and shake it's hand."

Sure Petey, whatever you say.

And that's why, In this game, mountains won't have hands.

Molyneux please do us all a favor and shut the fuck up for once until your game's released. You know how hard it is to sift through all your bullshit and find out how your game really is in previews?

What game company ever hypes its own game after its release? I understand Molyneux gets quite, shall we say, completely incorrect and baseless in some of his claims, but that's mainly because his claims are impossible to realize. Do like the rest of us: take what he says, dilute it with three parts silly fist pumping/heroic posing, and you have the truth.

I hope Fables world feels bigger than just 1 large town and 4 support towns and various other mission areas to complete. I think thats my problem with the series it just isn't grand enough and in most city there isn't anything really interesting to do.

The social interaction is cool but holding entire conversations simply by posing heroically and making various noises makes me feel like a caveman dropping into a future civilized society.

New quote for Molyneux: "My Fables, let me show you them."

I'm getting this even though Peter Molyneux over sells his games, I'll just not watch all his promotional stuff and wait for game play videos.

I'll have to read the cheats earlier for Fable 3. I already had a halo before finding out one Fable 2 door would only open if I was more bad than good. So now to open it I'll have to massacre whole villages on the long walk to the door, or replay from scratch. Neither is high on my To-Do list...

Not only am I downvoting you for your idiotic complaint about the gameplay of Fable 2, I'm also downvoting you cause if I'm not mistaken, that's Chapman as your display pic, and you're a fucking shitbag for putting him in there.

You could at least have put a mario hat on the guy.

who the fuck is chapman?

The guy that shot Lennon.

""who the fuck is chapman?"

The fucking bastard doesn't even deserve to be mentioned anywhere, really. I'm sort of happy you didn't know who he is. I hope in time this fucking waste of space will completely be forgotten by all.

Batman! Why didn't you save Lennon!?

is that the guy who shot lennon?

looks like Newman from Seinfeld

so the Fable 3 hype machine is in full effect now, gee i wonder what types of things PM will hype on about and never actually follow through with, seriously he better keep the Bullshit to a minimum or i won't by this

The time table for when Fable 3 takes place seems a little odd. If it's supposed to be 50 years after Fable 2 and you're supposed to be the offspring of your character from Fable 2 that would start your Fable 3 character off pretty old. Unless they age like Elves or something. So does this whole becoming a ruler bit continue off of you actually getting the title in the expansions and owning the giant mansion in Bowerstone? My character has the title of Queen and I own the mansion in the really rich area behind Bowerstone does my offspring inherit those titles? Will Fable 2 saves have any relevance in Fable 3?

I want to hate him and his lies.... but the man makes good games.

how do i shot kid?

I've stopped listening to Peter Molyneux when he was working on Black and White. He thinks he's such an "artist" of videogames, but the stark reality is that him and his studio have entered the realm of "average" long ago. Microsoft knows that as well, and "sacrificed" him to the masses to announce "something" in the day of the PS3 slim. They knew that peole wouldn't have cared whatever they said (unless they started tyo throw 360's to the crowd for free) because the attention and the hype were too focused on something else.

It's actually been a sound marketing move on their part.

I'm pretty sure after the Fable 1 debacle Molyneux has not been allowed to speak about un-implemented features. Fable 2 was everything he publicly said it would be.
Why do I speak? The internet doesn't know what forgiveness is...

No there was quite a lot of BS, especially that one famous one about being able to walk to any thing i see

But how will it question farting in public?

Why even bother with Fable 3? Just play 1 or 2 again.. they are practically the same game...

This Molyneux guy gets too much credit. I'm tired of his talk of innovations. I am still burnt from all the Project Ego/Fable 1 talk. I dream of that game still to this day... well what the game was said to be.

Peter Molyneux clarified statements that Fable III's ability to cure cancer and end world strife will not make it on the disc when the game is released. "It'll be incorporated into the first DLC pack," added Molyneux.

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