Peter Molyneux Thought the Fable Trailer Was Truly Promising and His Expectations Are High - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 01 July 2023 / 4,753 Views
Publisher Xbox Game Studios and developer Playground Games last month released the first in-game trailer for the 2020 announced Fable game.
Peter Molyneux, Lead Designer on the the original Fable games, speaking with GameReactor said he loved the casting of IT Crowd's Richard Ayoade in the new entry in the series and that he has high hopes for the game.
"I thought the casting of Richard [Ayoade]," said Molyneux. "I thought the casting of him was perfect, making him obsessed about vegetables was very Fable."
He continued, "You know, the thing about Fable is you've got to remember, I can remember sitting when we were designing Fable originally and saying, I think we all agreed that Fable would be funny because of what the players does. It's not funny because it's got lots of jokes. It actually didn't have any jokes really, but it was really funny because we allowed the player to react in ridiculous ways, and that ridiculousness still seemed to be there in the trailer.
"Like you, I would have loved to see more gameplay, but I really loved when the fireball was thrown from the heroine. I loved the feeling of impact it gave. I thought that showed real promise. So, you know, my hopes are high."
Fable is in development for the Xbox Series X|S and PC.
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I think just about everyone shares these sentiments.
I'm not so sure about that
https://gamerant.com/fable-4-trailer-dislikes-why/
Lol @ the negativity almost exclusively related to the look of the main character. It's like people are purposefully ignoring how insane the game looks, how great the animations are, and how they nailed the fable aesthetic. They focus on the main character's looks and completely miss the point that the tomboy looks very much appear to be on purpose for some gags/backstory.
But now that this has backfired I guess they're gonna adjust the character much closer to the related actress to satisfy the masses.
I don't know about that. I don't think the masses care at this point. It's just a tiny group of people that hang out in gaming forums whose primary purpose in life is to whine about dumb shit. I certainly hope they don't make any adjustments based on their reactions to an early teaser.
I don't want to be rude, but do people still care about what Molyneux says? He has overprimised and underdelivered so many times, that you can't really trust him. And besides, has he done anything interesting in the last, I don't know, 10 years?
I didn't assert they were identical situations. In fact, I'm not sure any two situations are exactly the same. But what I was pointing to was their respective experiences in leadership. I don't see why there must be a current ownership stake for a former leader's opinion to be interesting.
It's not about Molyneux's opinion being interesting or not, it's about being meaningful. He is no longer involved with MSoft, the franchise or the studio that's developing the game. He can only talk based on what he saw in the trailer and, just like him, we don't even know how much of what we saw in the trailer will be in the game, making his opinion about it a bit... well, pointless.
If you still find it interesting, congrats to you, but it still doesn't mean a thing.
You asked "...but do people still care about what Molyneux says?"
I believe someone's mere interest in what Molyneux says satisfies your original question. I cared about what Molyneux said because I was interested in his thoughts.
Anything else seems like shifting the goalposts on the original question, IMO.
That trailer was cut so poorly - or deliberately- that we have zero understanding of how the gameplay actually plays.
Still have no interest in that game till I see long form un-interrupted gameplay .
For those that don’t know, Peter Molyneux is notorious for exaggerating so much that a lot of his opinions are untrustworthy.
It plays from the perspective of a tiny character trapped in a big mans land
Essentially it's Jack and the beanstalk
Edactly
Talking of Jack and the beanstalk, I hear the Lilliputians are accusing Jack of identity appropriation in that he used the physical differences between the Giant and himself to portray himself as being tiny when in all other respects Jack was a boy of normal stature. following on from this the Lilliputians are now also calling out Fable saying it is for all intents and purposes just a reversal of the Gulliver and Lilliput situation in Gulliver's travels and since they have a court ruling that they are legally entitled to receive royalties from Jonathan Swift's Estate and it was upheld when the High court decided that the perceived bias stemming from the High in the courts title preclude it from hearing any appeal , we now can expect this to go to court.
