Give us that, and we'll give you something that'll get you your players."įurthermore, former Fable designer and Lionhead co-founder Peter Molyneux says he would be open to the idea of returning to work on a new instalment in the Fable series, following his departure in 2012. They're getting four years and a lot of budget. "I said, 'Look, just give us four years, proper finance, give us the chance Mass Effect has, Skyrim has, the games at the time. "It was like, 'You've reached your cap of players for RPG on Xbox and you need to find a way to double that, and you're not going to do it with an RPG," he says. Despite this, a "certain amount of tension" still existed as Lionhead prepared its Fable 4 pitch, according to Lionhead dev Simon Carter.
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Where Microsoft's other franchises such as Halo were seen as its most lucrative, the Fable series was still described as "highly profitable". Fuck off.' That's what I was annoyed about." According to McCormack, Microsoft said something along the lines of, "'Nah, you've had three shots and you've only tripled the money. McCormack was reportedly "incensed" when his Fable 4 pitch was rejected by Microsoft, which he cites as one of the reasons he ended up departing Lionhead in 2012. I was like, 'Man, this is going to be fucking brilliant,' and everybody was really into it." "And because it was R-rated it would have the prostitutes and the humour.
"And that was going to be Fable 4, and it would be darker and grittier," McCormack goes on. "We wanted to hit the late Victorian proper far out Jules Verne shit," McCormack said, adding that the protoganist would have inhabited "this kind of weird, fucked up London environment". Lionhead's John McCormack conjured up the pitch, which would have been built using Unreal Engine 4, and would have pushed the series into the "technological, industrial age, with tram cars and flying machines." As such, the studio wanted to take Fable into a Victorian London-esque period, with references to iconic British folklore and mythology, like Jack the Ripper and Jekyll & Hyde, all run through with Fable's trademark humour.įable 4's central city would have been huge and densely populated too. Apparently, this more mature take on the Fable series was declined by Microsoft in favour of Fable Legends. It only feels appropriate that its eagerly anticipated announcement should fall into part of the upcoming Xbox Series X games line-up.Īnd if Fable 4 is shown in July as rumoured, then fans can expect its inactive Twitter account to start posting content soon.Fable 4 would have been a "darker and grittier" game carrying an R-rating, but the pitch was rejected by Microsoft, according to an in-depth report on the history of Lionhead Studios by Eurogamer.
The rumoured Fable 4 will almost inevitably be a strong addition to the Xbox Series X lineup and 2021 could well be the year we finally see the game too. The Xbox Series X July showcase is expected to bring news about Halo Infinite - a launch title for the Series X - as well as Microsoft’s other exclusive games.
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Lionhead Studios then announced Fable Legends for the Xbox One in 2013, but the game was canceled, much to the disappointment of its fanbase, as the developer shut down in 2016. The Fable series started with its first game for the Xbox in 2004.
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