Fans have been anticipating a sequel for over a decade. The last main installment of the series, Fable 3 released back on 26th October 2010. The franchise is popular for delivering clever dialogues and an addictive story. Explore a land of fantastical creatures and wondrous places.' We can't say for sure that Fable is getting a new beginning based on an asteroid, but hey, that would be a heck of a way to clear the slate.Fable 4 Release Date: Fable is a legendary action RPG franchise that has marked a deep imprint on the genre. We don't have any confirmation on the rumor itself, but the reveal trailer for Fable gives the description 'Fable returns with a new beginning for the legendary franchise. Talk about a reset. It sounds too ridiculous to be true, but it also sounds like a perfectly fine excuse to wipe the slate clean, which would allow a new studio more creative freedom. You allegedly play a character in the far-flung future, at a point when humanity has managed to reach a medieval-like civilization again.

The original post states that Albion and Aurora were destroyed by an asteroid summoned by the wish of a mad king. Interplanetary travel? Yeah, that sounds completely buckwild.

Time travel and interplanetary travel will feature.

It'll feature first- and third-person perspectives.

You can check out the commentary on the original Reddit thread where the video was shared if you like, but here's the gist: Problem is, it's since been scrubbed from the internet. As of August 2019, Arkham Knight senior scriptwriter Kim MacAskill, Martin Lancaster, and Craig Owens are all apparently on the project.įable 4 setting rumors were drawn from a video leaked from an unverified source, allegedly providing a brief overview of Fable 4's setting and structure.

Several scriptwriters from Batman: Arkham Knight joined Playground Games to work on the rumored Fable 4, as reported by VGC. As Megill said, “Narrative encompasses more than writing.” What Fable 4 rumors are out there? While “lead writer” and “narrative lead” might sound interchangeable, narrative design is a wide-reaching discipline that shapes the player’s interaction with a game’s story. Megill has an extensive history in games narrative, having worked on franchises like Guild Wars and Dishonored, and recently as narrative lead on Control. (Image credit: Playground Games) Fable picked up a new narrative leadĪnna Megill, already the lead writer on the Fable reboot, was promoted in July to Fable’s narrative lead, as Megill confirmed on Twitter. That doesn't tell us a whole lot, but it seems to reinforce that Fable's sense of humor may be one big thing that isn't changing. 'Fable’s clearly always been a little more light-hearted and a little more British, I think I could say, and I think Playground will keep it there,' Phil Spencer said in 2021. Playground beefed up a new Warwickshire studio just for it, so this definitely isn't a small-time Fable spinoff. According to a 2018 Eurogamer report, Playground had been chipping away at Fable 4 for a few years with a team of about 200 on an open-world action RPG. Forza Horizon's Playground Games is developing Fableįorza Horizon developer Playground Games, who'd been previously rumored as the Fable 4 studio, is definitely the team in charge. However, using my keen journalistic instincts, I can derive some insights from the sword-swinging, magic-throwing hero in the 2023 trailer: Fable will probably have swords and magic. So far, aside from a few official descriptions on Xbox websites and devteam job postings describing the game as 'an open world action RPG,' we've got nothing to go on. (Image credit: Playground Games) How will Fable play? Or 'Fable 4,' if you're feeling nostalgic. Whether we hear more about Fable in 2023, or sometime further into the mysterious future, we’ll gather that information here.

Since then, we’ve heard and seen nothing, aside from an unintentionally cruel Twitter bait-and-switch. We’re a little over two years past the reveal of Fable’s return at the 2020 Xbox Games Showcase. We're still waiting on details for how Fable will play, but what we've seen so far is very reassuring. Was Fable 4 still in the works? Would it end up being called something awful like 'F4ble'? Luckily, we can breathe a little easier: the new Fable caretakers at Playground Games brought a fresh look for this year's Xbox festivities. While the Fable reboot was first revealed at the 2020 Xbox Games showcase, the three years of silence left a lot of question marks about the returning folk fantasy.

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