Fable 2 shifted to "holiday"

By Robert Purchese Published 13 May, 2008

No longer autumn.

Microsoft has sneakily changed the Fable 2 release date to "this holiday", which is probably one of its favourite words.

Lionhead boss Peter Molyneux had previously told us to expect it towards the end of the year "when the leaves have a slight brownish tinge - but are still on the trees, if you see what I mean". Otherwise known as autumn.

He also told us he would rather be able to turn invisible than have lasers for eyes. Wrong.

Fable 2 is a role-playing game that lets you marry computer characters and raise a family, as well as kill rats and make money and save the world and all that.

It also has drop-in/out co-operative play for you and a friend either locally or online. The best bit about this is if the person joining has a saved character, the game detects it and models their henchman around it. It also means you take away any gold or experience earned when going back to your world.

In and around Fable 2's launch we'll also see Live Arcade releases that let you earn in-game cash to use in the full release, which you can spend on houses and all sorts.

Get thee to our Fable 2 gamepage for plenty more.

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About Robert Purchese

Bertie is Eurogamer's Senior Staff Writer. When he's not hunting down news stories he's often found playing with his kids or gabbling about fantasy games and strange online worlds. @Clert on Twitter.

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Comments (27) Latest comment 4 years ago

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  • XAleX360 #1 4 years ago

    Hey, last time I checked there was no official announcement about Live coop. That would make me happy after knowing that Too Human is going to be 2P-only coop.

  • syphaa #2 4 years ago

    Didn't get to deep into the original Fable but it was a fantastic title.
    Looking forward to this for sure, the drop in drop out co-op should work nicely. Only 2 players though?

  • glaeken #3 4 years ago

    Is this actually a change? Holiday season for the Yanks means Thanks Giving which is a month or so before Christmass and that really does not seem very different to Autum to me.

  • thenastypasty #4 4 years ago

    dont be any later peter or ill have to kick your ass

  • Psychotext #5 4 years ago

    I need this game. Along with LBP it's my most wanted this year.

  • Psychotext #6 4 years ago

    Arbiter: Congratulations.

  • Mr_Brown #7 4 years ago

    Shocking, has if it was ever going to come out any earlier. If its delayed again it'll be holiday 2009 release. Not that I'm bothered mind, its just Fable with Dog companion and XBL arcade gambling games attached.

  • M83J01P97 #8 4 years ago

    Delayed again?

    Fable 2 has, up until now, had no kind of release date apart from Pete's less than criptic release date hint last year. So you can't really delay something until they have given it a firm release.

  • sneetch #9 4 years ago

    I always thought the original Fable was so over-hyped it could bend space and time. They (Lionhead) made such a fuss about the "morality" of your actions; "for every action a consequence". Strictly speaking it was true, but in practice it meant that the integer that holds your "morality" counter had a number added to it or subtracted from it for each action. What a load of cack.

    The gameplay itself was actually quite good but nothing amazing and only about 10 hours long, if you took your time, that is. Maybe this one will be different, however after that I have very little faith in Peter Molyneaux.

    Edit: submitted too soon.
    Edited by sneetch at 13/05/08 @ 18:32

  • Razorus #10 4 years ago

    Ok, now I can focus on Too Human in the meantime.

  • TravisTouchdown #11 4 years ago

    What a prick.

  • Crea #12 4 years ago

    Fable, taken on its own merits, was a cool game. Looking forward to the sequel.

  • Stuz359 #13 4 years ago

    Fable 1 was brilliant and I really want this game. The only problem with the original was that it promised too much, if it just said it was a really good action RPG no one would have cared but the overblew the hype and people ended up coming away from it disappointed. Not a patch on Ocarina of Time though

  • smelly #14 4 years ago

    People are slagging off fable?

    WTF is wrong with you people?

  • redgiemental #15 4 years ago

    I am really looking forward to this please don't make me wait too long!!

  • makeamazing #16 4 years ago

    Fable 1 was ok, it was kinda nice in places.. I cant say I got really far into it, but have gone back to it after a while... but it wasn't revolutionary as PM advertised. I would probably get F2, but I guess as its a MS studio now its not going to come out on the PS3, so I guess I'm going to get the PC version (I'm assuming they are doing a PC version?).

  • davisorle #17 4 years ago

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  • Xerx3s #18 4 years ago

    I wonder how the two dogs will interact in coop...

  • mkreku #19 4 years ago

    Fable sucked donkeyballs.. But then Fable was a shadow of itself in terms of what was once promised compared to what was finally delivered. I'm hoping Fable 2 will be closer to the original vision, then it might actually be a good game.

  • koji_m #20 4 years ago

    Finished Fable 1 a couple of months ago (xbox live classic thingy) and I liked it...

    so gief Fable 2, wth GIEF WESTERN RPGS!! (Too Human/Fable 2/Fallout)

    me needses the statses!! ;-)

  • captainrentboy #21 4 years ago

    They work in the industry?!!!??
    Holy shit, their opinion must be correct then. :/
    Anyone I know who played the original actually said they thoroughly enjoyed the game, a few have said the next one is at the top of their 'Most Wanted' list.
    BUT, they don't work in the industry, so I'm guessing they're pretty much wrong....

  • kangarootoo #22 4 years ago

    @sneetch

    "I always thought the original Fable was so over-hyped it could bend space and time. They (Lionhead) made such a fuss about the "morality" of your actions; "for every action a consequence". Strictly speaking it was true, but in practice it meant that the integer that holds your "morality" counter had a number added to it or subtracted from it for each action. What a load of cack."

    I completely agree... but, Fable was also a very fun game to play. Don't cut off your nose to spite your face is my opinion.


    @Arbiter
    "Most of them are/were people who (also) work in the industry and all thought Fable was mediocre at best, utter dogshit at worst. "

    LAAAAAME. Jesus dude, where does this rubbish even come from? Are you suggesting that a non-industry gamer who thinks they are having fun playing Fable is in fact NOT having fun, but they are just not skilled enough at game dev to realise what a bad time they are really having? How does that not sound mental to you?

    Working in game development does not qualify someone to say whether they enjoyed a game or not, certainly no more than being a gamer. If a large number of gamers liked Fable, then the devs did a good job.

  • Stuz359 #23 4 years ago

    I dunno, average Fable rating on amazon, 4 stars, on play.com, 5 stars.
    Gamespot = 8.6
    IGN = 9.3
    Eurogamer = 8

    Seems like the critics liked it, as well as the average customer who decided to give it a rating.

    Still, I am not saying that you should like it just that there was an awful lot of people who did

  • kangarootoo #24 4 years ago

    @Arbiter

    I hope that kool-aid comment isn't aimed at me. Of anyone in here, I am the least interested in what platform a particular game is on.

    My comment has nothing whatsoever to do with Fable being on the 360. I don't even care if you like Fable or not. My point was purely about your suggestion that your mates working in the business made their view of Fable more valid. That is what you were implying; if their area employment is not relevant, why mention it?

    I think what you will find (in my case anyway) is that its unconstructive commentary that makes people kick back at you. Your original comment "Damn, people actually liked Fable? Everyone I know thought it was a right pile of shite" was pointless and childish, and then when several people effectively tell you to grow up you start spouting about how your industry friends thought it was rubbish too.

    Blah blah, etc. Rant over.

  • kangarootoo #25 4 years ago

    @Arbiter

    "but honestly you'd have to be deaf, dumb, blind and retarded not to notice that saying anything remotely negative about Xbox or Xbox franchises is a guaranteed way to stir up a shitstorm round here. Its just nutty"

    I agree.

    "From my perspective it seems like I'm being told that I'm not entitled to express my opinion unless I couch it in terms of absolute humility"

    Sounds about right actually, and I apologise, my bad. I can be guilty of shooting from the hip sometimes too (using guns loaded with patronising bullets) as we have seen :)

  • Ceatlan #26 4 years ago

    Arbiter,

    You are perfectly entitled to make whatever comments you like, but if you choose to make them in a 'shoot from the hip manner' then surely you must expect to have similar responses. If you make considered, reasoned, constructive comments then I think you are entitled to take umbridge if you get vitriolic rubbish spouted back at you, but not when you're in the mood to make less well presented comments yourself.

    As far as fan boys go, each and every platform has a similar number of retarded flame baiting idiots who do there best to ruin each and every thread which is not on their platform of choice. As an owner of all the platforms, including handhelds, I read the comments threads for topics relating to all of them, and I know that the retards are not worse on one platform over another. If you find they wind you up then the best thing for your sanity is to not read the forums or comments threads. Me personally I just laugh at them most of the time and ignore them once they are annoying me.

  • ronuds #27 4 years ago

    Don't let Arbiter get you down...he's been making similar comments in every Fable 2 thread, so you have to wonder what he's even doing here to begin with.

    Anyway, Fable wasn't all PM promised it would be, but it was still damn fun. It was one of my most-liked games on the xbox and I suspect Fable 2 will be up there as well.