It has been almost two years since Microsoft shut down Lionhead Studios, the creators of Fable. While Lionhead might be gone, it looks like Microsoft isn’t giving up on the Fable franchise, with sources this week reporting that a new game in the series is currently in the works.
This week, Eurogamer published a report citing sources familiar with the new Fable project, stating that a new game is in development. Apparently Microsoft has tasked the UK studio ‘Playground’, with bringing Fable back as a story/character focused RPG. Playground has previously worked on the Forza Horizon games, so this is a step in a new direction for the team.
The new Fable game is being worked on at Playground’s second office, with plans to expand the team to around 200 people. The project is still in early development, so it’s going to be a while before we see the final product.
Microsoft had seemingly given up on Fable after shutting down Lionhead and cancelling Fable Legends. Lionhead’s last installment in the franchise was set to be a multiplayer focused dungeon-crawler based on the ‘games as service’ model. Now, less than two years after shutting the studio down, Microsoft has had a change of heart, and wants to bring Fable back to its roots, as a story focused RPG, though this time it will be a larger open-world experience. According to the report, Microsoft was inspired by Sony’s work with Horizon: Zero Dawn, which was a huge success for the PS4.
Fable: The lost chapters is the best rpg game i have ever played, the aniversary edition was a joke and a let down, and so will this, i can just feel it, because ever since the first fable, none of the other fables have come close, i refuse to get my hopes up again for a new Fable game only to have it ruined by shitty mechanics, and trying to make a PC game controller friendly.
Don’t get me wrong, i would like nothing more than a good fable game, of course i would, it’s because i love fable so much, that i hate the fact that it failed so badly, but this is one of those games i would rather get “free” before deciding to pay for it.
I also couldn’t get into the Fable games. I must still retry the last one but the first one… maybe if I was still in school.
Lol, since I got my wife hooked on gaming, she loves RPG games (but not Fable). Still a mission to get her into Mass Effect though since she doesn’t like space and aliens. If I can only get her past the first 2 hours of Mass Effect 1.
when they say story focused im guessing this is gonna be in the vein of Witcher, Horizon zero dawn, Zenoblade chronicles etc. Games with realtime combat instead of time battle based combat (the classic final fantasy way)
