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Xbox 360 News by Tom Bramwell
Microsoft may not be talking about it and Peter Molyneux may be trying ever so hard not to talk about it, but people just keep talking about Fable III. Now it's the New York Times, in a wedding announcement of all things.
"Amy E. Gilbert and Joshua Samuels Atkins are to be married Sunday in San Francisco. Rabbi Bruce Greenbaum is to officiate in the Penthouse of the Fairmont Hotel," the announcement says (thanks Kotaku). "Mr. Atkins, 34, is the lead game designer for Fable III, a videogame series produced by Lionhead Studios in Guildford, England." Whoops.
Atkins, who appears to have worked largely for Microsoft Game Studios rather than Lionhead itself, is credited on Fable: The Lost Chapters and Fable II among numerous other games.
Previous non-announcement announcements of Fable III include Jonathan Ross famously twittering about it after the BAFTAs, which Lionhead king Peter Molyneux explained away by pointing out that the developers were drunk and "had Jonathan Ross literally pinned up against a wall, going, 'Go on, do a voiceover, do a voiceover, do a voiceover...'"
"He then assumed it was for Fable III, but it could have been a voiceover for any of the Fable things we've got planned," he clarified.
Whether the NYT thing is a misprint or this is more proof, we presumably won't find out until much later in the day. In the meantime, we'll return you to something else from that Peter Molyneux interview at GDC:
"If I was talking about Fable III - I would hope there would be three enormously big things about the Fable III that would surprise and shock you. Not that I am talking about Fable III. Hypothetically speaking."
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I don't think they are trying to keep it a secret, I just get the impression they are waiting until they have something to show before they officially announce it. The DLC makes it clear there will be a third, and I'd be very surprised if that Milo tech-demo isn't in someway already integrated with it.
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thenastypasty
30/06/09 @ 08:09
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I think we will see a big piece of DLC for fable 2 before anything is annouced about fable3,I think it will be 2/3 years before we see the game at retail.
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kangarootoo
30/06/09 @ 08:55
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Fable 3... in our lifetimes.... how extremely unexpected.... well, not really.
Anyway, regardless of whether PM is interesting to listen to or not, Fable 1 and 2 were both rather good games in my book. I enjoyed them a lot, and look forward to the 3rd. People should remember that PM doesn't really do that much these days, and the sucess of Fable 2 is a result of a talented team of devs "behind the scenes". |
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WinterSnowblind
30/06/09 @ 09:58
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Again, people need to stop claiming Fable 2 was over hyped. Unlike the first game, Molyneux didn't talk about it a whole lot and whenever they did announce new features, they were always demonstrated in game. INCLUDING the co-op. If you felt it was disappointing or overhyped, then that's your own fault. There were definitely aspects of the game that could be vastly improved, but none of them were over hyped.
And yes, I'm fairly sure he's already told us Fable 3 is coming. The 'See the Future' DLC directly builds into it. |
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Fable II was good but nothing more; a decent improvement on the original but it was still ultimately a bit of a letdown in many ways and was a lot less revolutionary than I was led to believe. The dog for example was nothing like as fun to have as those early videos suggested it would be nor as useful and the game world still felt like a collection of "rooms" separated by corridors and loading screens much like the original. It didn't quite have the epicness I was expecting from the previews but I enjoyed it while it lasted.
Not so sure I'm that excited about a third game unless it's on new, more powerful hardware that can do the series justice. |
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Slipstream
30/06/09 @ 11:57
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If it was typed as the roman numural III, then it could simply be a typo, or as it's a newspaper, just their general lack of knowledge toward anything gaming.
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kinky_mong
30/06/09 @ 14:54
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@cyacomini: 1250/1350. Everything except Knothole Island's achievements so I think I can fairly judge the game as underwhelming seeing as getting that many points felt like a chore most of the time.
@miiiguel: There's a massive thread in the forum on this very site with anecdotal evidence of Fable 2 breaking 360's. It can't have escaped your attention that the game causes the disc drive and fan to work overtime on the console, which only exacerbates the inherent problems of the machine. |
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superdelphinus
30/06/09 @ 16:47
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i seem to be the only person on the planet that thought that fable 2 was way way too linear and, dare i say it, boring
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metalangel
01/07/09 @ 07:26
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@cyacomini: Suicide Perkies, 1100/1100 (I don't have See The Future). I really gave the game a chance, I even went out and bought a big hard drive specifically so I could play it at its best without loading delays.
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GreatUncleBaal
01/07/09 @ 07:51
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Perhaps Fable III will use Project Natal technology for all the gestures etc - then I'd have a reason to fist pumps and pelvic thrusts towards my TV screen. I've said too much...
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