#Fable 4 the journey review series
It would be impossible to give players the same amount of autonomy in a story focused series such as Fable, but there are lessons to be had. It’s been almost 3 years since The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild released, and it’s time some open-world games took notes. I’m talking about minimal loading screens rideable mounts secret caves, towns and temples etc.
#Fable 4 the journey review full
If the ideas in the cancelled Fable Legends are any indication though, spell slinging will look beautiful.įable II did offer players some more open environments now it’s time for the series to level up with a full open world. I’d love to see necromancy, time manipulation and blades all come back, but with the Fable universe there’s so much more the game could do. To alleviate this I’d include airborne enemies that require a bow and bring back stealth so quiet, ranged weapons can be useful when sneaking up on an enemy.įinally, the third pillar of Fable’s combat, magic, needs the least adjustment. Ranged weapons weren’t very viable in most situations, especially if the player was focusing on offensive magic. Spears, daggers, whips and a shield would go a long way to adding variety to Fable’s melee combat. Some were slower, some were quicker, but the animation for all of them was exactly the same and there was no strategic advantage for using one weapon over the other apart from stat differences. The Fable trilogy had short swords, hefty axes and clubs that all felt the same. The biggest improvement Playground could make would be to significantly increase weapon variety. This doesn’t mean thatĮverything should be thrown out of the window, just that it needs to be Hold up against other contemporary action RPGs now. However, the narrative implications are what get me excited.įable’s satisfying hack and slash combat, while fun at the time, won’t The gameplay and aesthetic opportunities are abundantĪs players would be able to fully utilise magic and go up against all manner of Players would beĪble to return to the first Fable’s trademark magical, fairytale world, Trilogy and I see no reason why we shouldn’t revisit the era. Important part of Albion’s history that we didn’t get to witness in Lionhead’s If I were writing the next Fable I’d set it in the years leading up to Fable II, on the other hand, was set 500 years later the Hero’s Guild was dead, magic had seeped out of the land and the industrial revolution was underway. The first Fable was set in the golden age of the Hero’s Guild, where heroes and villains with extraordinary abilities roamed Albion freely. While the next game shouldn’t rely on established plot points from the original trilogy, the new game can definitely be set in the same rich timeline. Since then Playground’s Fable has been the worst kept secret in gaming.įable has a surprisingly deep lore pool, so I see no reason to get rid of all that history for no reason. At E3 2018 Playground had joined Xbox as a first party developer and head of Xbox, Phil Spencer himself, teased the game on stage. Following rumours in early 2018, several major sites reported that Playground were, in fact, working on reviving the seminal British series.
Late that year, job listings had stopped referring to the title as a new IP and instead openly referred to it as an open-world, action RPG game. In 2017 fellow British developer, Playground Games, (from the Forza Horizon series) announced that they’d be building a second team to work on an new IP. It was sad that a legendary British studio had to be shut down but the message was clear… Microsoft still cared deeply about Fable.įrom there the plot thickened. No publishers wanted Lionhead without also receiving Fable. Microsoft had been more than open to selling Lionhead and keeping their developers employed, though Microsoft still didn’t even consider parting ways with the beloved IP. Reports began to surface about the cancellation and the termination of Lionhead reports about multiple publishers bidding for the rights to the IP and the developer.
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