Fable III

I love the Fable games, just wish I didn't need an XBox for em...
I also don't intend to use Natal for this game if possible. I like controllers.

Anyways, this is an epic article title.

I don't really care if he doesn't live up to the hype as long as it's still a fun game.

Zoombie said:

That's a good way to look at things, cha.

Now, ahem, what I want is Fable II on the PC.

Like, right now.

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/signed

XBox is too much crap to be lugging around, I want all my games on one game system; kk tyvm.

@Viktor Night; I didn't really notice that, although your right. For me, it was all about the morality system. I had a fun time going evil and watching the cracks break out on my face, I looked like a dark-blue-skinned Diablo by the end. That's the thing in Lionhead studio games, evil is always so much funner than good. That could be considered a bad message, or it may just be me(that says bad things about me). XP

Just saw a little BTS of this game in G4. Gotta say, the more I listen to Peter, the more it is I think that it's not so much he's trying to hype his games, but that technology just has issues keeping up with his vision.

He talked about something called the expression system, which from I what I saw and understood, acts sort of like a fusion of morality indicator and a battle mode. Seemed a bit corny to me, but meh, w/e.

Also, he was discussing a living weapon system, essentially, the manner in which you use a weapon, will cause it to change and develop ever time. You do good things it turns pretty, bad things it starts dripping blood. Not to sure if this'll make it into the game. The mechanics of it are kind of iffy, and they had no footage of it or anything.

I did see that they got some sweet new finisher moves in the game. One I enjoyed was where you would stab someone through the chest, then do a flip over them while simultaneously ripping out your weapon. Also, a very similar one, where you flipped over while simultaneously stabbing them through the back.

Few more things about Fable III I picked up:

There will be no health bar is Molyneux gets his way, instead, health will be presented more like in FPS, with environmental cues.

Also, there will be no experience points, instead your power is determined by your followers and other activities, such as getting married, having kids, etc.

The game is about touching Seriously, you can 'touch' people and then impose different actions on them, such as throwing a kid in the air, holding your girlfriends hand...or selling a bum on the streets into slavery.

Expression system, still not entirely clear on this, but giant wings burst out of your back and will indicate your morality. Not sure what they do besides that though.

Morphing weapons, discussed this above.

In other news, I find that no matter how many times I hear, the games soundtracks still gives me wonderful thrills.

I still love being evil, the one evil decision I really struggled with in Fable I was killing Theresa, I love her personality and backstory, but I also wanted the Sword of Aeons.

I do wish they had a more variable plot, like one for good endings and one for evil endings and so forth, but I can understand that, that would mean near Blizzardian development times.

Sir Ben Kingsley is going to grant us his voice in F3. Along with a few other celebrities who I've never heard of, but I don't know many actors as a rule of thumb so that doesn't mean much.

A combination of Fable and Oblivion would make an epic RPG, just thinking.

Wolf killing video.

Has some dialog at the end that seems completely unrelated to anything with the video itself.
Also, I wonder why they pick up the girl only to set her down again...

Peter Molyneux over the top? Why I never...!

Opening Cinematic Trailer

I thought it was pretty good, could almost make a story out of the trailer alone...

Pamvhv said:

Kenny: I have a hard time believing you 'beta' tested the game. It's not finished and a colleague of mine who works in the office at Fable Lab has the beta sheet and is just now filling up names.

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Ugh, jealous.

Edit: Revisiting the Lionhead Studios, it's been a month or two. Liking the changes so far...

Pamvhv said:

Log: Not really jealous just fact stating. I worked at Yahoo in London and we lost one of our very best developers to the studio I don't like to beta, I want to do it all with as few stops as possible.

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No, I mean I'm jealous.

Interview with Molyneux at Gamecom.
He talks about what we'll see at Fable 3, and the flaws in Fable and Fable 2.

He sees serious flaws in his own games.

Housing system improvements.
In some ways it's changed, in some ways it's quite similar.

Shadow Dragon said:

All I really want with the houses is to keep others from entering. I swear, I usually end up with half the town in my house, while I'm just trying to redecorate or talk to the wife.

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I made all my houses in the dream grotto.