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In 2017 fellow British developer, Playground Games, (from the Forza Horizon series) announced that they’d be building a second team to work on an new IP. It was sad that a legendary British studio had to be shut down but the message was clear… Microsoft still cared deeply about Fable.įrom there the plot thickened. No publishers wanted Lionhead without also receiving Fable.

Microsoft had been more than open to selling Lionhead and keeping their developers employed, though Microsoft still didn’t even consider parting ways with the beloved IP. Although I am still hopeful for both the Fable and Silent Hill franchises, having written a novel based on the latter, something ominous this way comes.Reports began to surface about the cancellation and the termination of Lionhead reports about multiple publishers bidding for the rights to the IP and the developer. Let’s face it when Silent Hills was cancelled, and Konami said that the franchise would live on and they still saw a future for it, that future was presented in the hands (pun intended) of pachinko machines. That could mean a film, novel or boardgame direction.

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Spencer went to Twitter to indicate that he believes the series still has ‘a lot of places it could go’, when someone asked if we’d ever see a Fable 4. Phil Spencer, the current head of Xbox, seems to be promising us more Fables in time to come. Lionhead Studios might still have closed down, but then at least we’d have the next instalment in hand already.Īll hope doesn’t seem lost yet. It is my honest opinion that any losses by The Journey or Legends could have been made up by income from Fable 4. While Lionhead Studios was making The Journey, another team should have been making Fable 4. They should have done the same with the Fable series. Assassin’s Creed teams were also split, making sure that while one installment was released, another was being made. Need for Speed had different teams working on track racing and street racing, presenting us with Undercover, Shift, Hot Pursuit and Shift 2 after each other. As much as my attention was not captured enough by The Journey and I never got to try Legends, I believe other options were available that other studios were publicly doing at the time. However, Molyneux goes on to explain that he feels that the normal gameplay and series should have continued into Fable 4 instead of the Lionhead Studios product. Pretty clearly, Fable: Legends wasn't going to cover those expenses then. How much it cost to develop something, versus how much it is going to make.' In an interview that IGN did with Peter Molyneux, the creator of the Fables series, on 18 April 2017 about the closure of Lionhead Studios by Microsoft, Molyneux expresses why he believes Fable: Legends failed and Lionhead Studios was closed: 'At the end of the day, whether you are an internal first party studio or an external third party studio, you gotta look at the bottom line. And then Lionhead Studios was closed and Fable Legends was canceled It felt like they spent more time trying to show off what they could do with the Connect that actually focussing on the game's quality. Let it be told that I felt somewhat like a moron flailing around while trying to maintain a grasp on the story. Or that oft-times my aim would not hit the target as intended. Perhaps it was the act of swinging my arms around to summon invisible powers. I felt like I was playing a juvenile’s game. The taste it left in my mouth was terrible. I was quite excited by the prospect of playing a Fable game on the Xbox Connect until I actually tried it. Those are the types of tales I would love writing as an author and could imagine writing for the games themselves.Īnd then Fable: The Journey hit us in 2012. It provided the sort of gameplay and story that other games in that genre was hard to compare with, and I mean this in a good way. However, from what he described, I was eager to get Fable 2 for the Xbox 360, and then Fable 3, which are still living legends in my mind.

I hadn’t gotten around to playing it myself, as I was (and still am) an avid console gamer.

FABLE 4 THE JOURNEY REVIEW PC

I was first introduced to the Fable scene when my brother told me about Fable 1 on the PC in 2004.

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