GDC: New Fable II DLC within weeks

By Robert Purchese Published 27 March, 2009

Molyneux spent "more time" on this one.

Lionhead boss Peter Molyneux has said that more Fable II downloadable content will be released within weeks.

"The next DLC comes out in the spring. We're in the spring now so don't think months, think more like weeks," Molyneux told Kotaku at GDC. "It's called See the Future."

"[Knothole Island] was done very close to Fable II and the team was tired and we sort of pushed ourselves to get something out early for the fans. This time we've taken a little bit more time on it, it's a little bit more story driven.

"It answers some of the questions if you're a real fan of Fable," he added. "It's going to test you a little bit emotionally as well. But I think the real unique thing here is it starts to tease and hint at what it starting to happen in the world of Albion and what is happening in the future."

And that future, Molyneux hinted, may extend past Fable II, which is hardly a surprise, after funny-man Jonathan Ross blurted that he had been offered a voice role in Fable III.

Peter Molyneux returns to the GDC stage this evening at 9.30pm GMT to deliver his talk on "Lionhead Experiments Reveal". We won't be reporting live from this session, but will cover any important news such as more details on See the Future.

Molyneux, however, has already announced that he won't be talking about the "unbelievably ambitious" project in development at Lionhead.

GDC had once been poised as the time and place for the reveal, although Molyneux said Microsoft wants sufficient "shock and awe" when the wraps finally do come off.

Fable II expanded back in January with the Knothole Island DLC. There's no set price for See the Future yet, but a copycat price of 800 MSP (GBP 6.80 / EUR 9.60) makes sense.

Head over to our Fable II: Knothole Island review for an idea of what Lionhead can do with DLC.

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Comments (29) Latest comment 3 years ago

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  • DutchDemons #1 3 years ago

    cool, but i'll wait for the inevitable 'gold edition' with all the DLC.

  • menage #2 3 years ago

    Sold.

    I accidentally erased all my saves the last time so time to start again.

  • muscleblade #3 3 years ago

    Getting this no matter the price. I actually enjoyed Knothole Island.

  • thenastypasty #4 3 years ago

    muscleblade +1

  • ChuffyPI #5 3 years ago

    muscleblade +2

    I think it helped to play it along with the main game, rather than tacked on at the end.

  • Britesparc Verified Creative, ITV #6 3 years ago

    muscleblade +3

    Loved Fable, liked Knothole, can't wait for more. And to think, a month after completing it (it was an Xmas game) I was going to retire it from the disc tray... now I might as well leave it in till I've seen the future :-)

  • BartonFink #7 3 years ago

    Cool but it damned well better be a bit longer than Knothole Island. That was way too short.

  • kinky_mong #8 3 years ago

    Oooh more chances to hit some switches about!

  • hiddenranbir #9 3 years ago

    Woo Fable 2!!!

    British, fun and provided a real meaningful choice(so rare in RPGs) that led people to whine it was a "bug". Ahaha brilliant!

  • Petulant_Radish #10 3 years ago

    Fable 2 I loved, Knothole Island was…okay. I enjoyed it, but it was too short and way too easy. I’d like to see some much longer stuff now, a good five hours or so and I’d be happy, more of a high quality and I’d be ecstatic.

  • metalangel #11 3 years ago

    @Britesparc: DISC TRAY??! The game is practically unplayable (and noisy as hell) unless it's installed to the hard drive. Not to mention the horrific lag when you go into the terribly designed menu.

    Knothole was a waste of time and money. Unless you really like flit switches. The biker costume and Halo rifle were cool, but certainly not worth 800 points.

    I think the big question everyone wants to ask about Fable 2 is 'is that it??'. Seriously, there is not that much to it. There's lots of stats and ratings but they're largely meaningless, marriage and children are pointless, impressing villagers is pointless, the dog is especially pointless (it does nothing except point to treasure and get hurt, I regretted levelling it up as now it goes mental in every new area, barking incessantly for me to dig up more worthless junk) and the dialogue is hateful.

    The second question (often asked) is 'isn't the dog like 30 years old by now?' Really. And for a labrador, that's three times its lifespan.

  • kangarootoo #12 3 years ago

    "isn't the dog like 30 years old by now?"

    If that is the most worrying mystery Fable 2 has to answer for, I don't think any of us will be losing too much sleep.

    Lets just pretend the dog is magic. There is loads of magic in Fable 2, so its not a big ask. Problem solved.

  • Britesparc Verified Creative, ITV #13 3 years ago

    @ metalangel

    Erm, actually I do have it installed, as it's quicker and quieter, but you still need the disc in the tray to play it. Otherwise, y'know, it won't work.

    And yeah, the dog being decades old never bothered me. I just figured it was a "Hero Dog", like you're a Hero Human.

  • Vanmunt #14 3 years ago

    @metalangel

    Don't knock Fable2, I did it once and was nearly hung by the goolies. The Fable defence force are a vocal bunch, personally I thought it was the biggest let down (gaming wise!) of last year.. closely followed by fallout! Boring repetitive and the worse ending to a game ever, I think PM should play Resi 5 thats how to end a game!

  • Petulant_Radish #15 3 years ago

    The quality of the ending is subjective though, as anything it’s merely a matter of taste. I thought the ending fitted the game well, it’s a simple choice, why should everything have to end on a massive boss battle? You’re confronting your enemy when he is at his most vulnerable, and as such an easy kill (or watching him die quickly) so lends itself to the situation in hand. The man isn’t immortal, he isn’t a hero, so why shouldn’t he die from one shot to the head?

  • Vanmunt #16 3 years ago

    I think you'll find you got hung for being a trolling cunt. Now fuck off back to your blueray player, this is a game discussion thread.

    Do you know, I actually felt a bit sorry for you with all the stick you were taking the last couple of days. To be honest that last comment from you is completely out of order and I think you should say sorry.

  • Monkey_Puncher #17 3 years ago

    I love Fable 2 and had absoloutly no problem with the ending. Instead of going with the predictable all powerful final boss, they changed up the formula. It wouldn't have made any sense to have an incredibly powerful Lucien, it wouldn't have suited his character.

    It wasn't a perfect game, but it was a damn enjoyable one.

    I look forward to any new content they put out, gives me an excuse to go back to Albion and get immersed once again.

  • Vanmunt #18 3 years ago

    whatever loser, I pity you... you need to get a life and maybe get laid, it might do you good.

  • angerisagift #19 3 years ago

    "An apology? You can shove it up your arse and fuck off while you're doing it"

    LOL, now THATS an apology!
    Edited by 1 at 27/03/09 @ 12:51

  • miiiguel #20 3 years ago

    muscleblade +4

    I hope no one a Lionhead read this, but they can actually put any price. I'm in.

  • mega7ech #21 3 years ago

    I bought, played and enjoyed Fable and so bought, played and indeed enjoyed Fable 2. I will look forward to any new dlc for the game. But if I worked at Lionhead I would, from time to time, find it necessary to give Peter Molyneux a real good hard smack in the face!

  • ronuds #22 3 years ago

    "To be honest: I grow tired of all these DLCs. Some years ago we got a whole game for our money's worth. There was a beginning and an end to a game. Then there was a glistening hope of a follow up in the distant future where everything in the game would be bigger and better. Those were the days!"

    Maybe for console games, but certainly not PC. DLC, add-ons, expansions have been around long before this generation of consoles.

  • sneetch #23 3 years ago

    @mega7ech
    I bought, played and enjoyed Fable and so bought, played and indeed enjoyed Fable 2. I will look forward to any new dlc for the game. But if I worked at Lionhead I would, from time to time, find it necessary to give Peter Molyneux a real good hard smack in the face!

    Heh! That'd be one hell of a perk! I can imagine the acceptance interview.
    "You have a choice, free healthcare, a company car and an extra 10% contribution to your pension or... you get to smack Peter in the face every now and then."

    Tough choice. :)

    I can't wait for this, excellent game.

  • kangarootoo #24 3 years ago

    ""An apology? You can shove it up your arse and fuck off while you're doing it"

    LOL, now THATS an apology!"

    Well it might have been, if it hadn't been plagurised from Withnail and I O-o

  • Spekingur #25 3 years ago

    People that don't like Fable 2 and Fallout 3 must have something wrong with their brains. Like them missing or something.

  • RedSparrows #26 3 years ago

    Brombeer, I fear you are generalising for the sake of a point.

    Shivering Isles for Oblivion comes to mind as a large expansion. DLC generally forms an expansion sized chunk by the end. Nor has it really, ultimately, precluded excellent games that, upon release, stand up as complete and excellent.

  • metalangel #27 3 years ago

    @spekingur: I love Fallout 3, I tend to love games like this in general, I have wasted hours just messing around in GTA4 (and I mean just wandering exploring, not kill rampages). But in Fable there's no point. The smug, desperately wants to be Ben Elton/Monty Python dialogue makes me want to murder everyone. The combat is tedious and unfulfilling. The story is gibberish ("magical dog" aside, the way it just throws years passing around in the Spire is rubbish) and the characters one dimensional. There are loads of cute amusements but they are all boring and repetitive, the world is tiny and not worth exploring... I really wanted to like it as I love the idea behind it, but you're really forced to make up your own reasons for caring about any of it as the game certainly does nothing to involve you.

  • Inigo #28 3 years ago

    I played Fable 2 so much that it broke my 360 :(

    I was going to stick with my PS3 but this is making it really hard. Why can't they release it on the PC.

  • MAX99 #29 3 years ago

    does Molyneux ever shut up?