Where do you want Lionhead to take Fable next?

[Fragged_Templar]

I just hope lionhead take fable 3 away from the horrible 1700 tights and feathers clothing of fable 2 and go back to the platemail goodness that was fable 1. oh, and if they could make your character not be butt ugly that might help too

 

[Boxpopper]

Jack of Blades was all you described and also a tough, badass evil guy that deserved to be feared, not generic in any way. The point is that Fable II betrayed the standards Fable set.

Make a carbon copy of a succesful game, people will hate you.

Take a venture and try something new, people will hate you.

Again my point: Lucien wasn't meant to be some demi-God. Christ, why does everything have to focus on how many explosions, gallons of blood and Dragon Ball Z fights?

"Look past the glass and you'll see more than your own reflection."

Don't you think you're oversimplifying things? I didn't expect them to make a bad guy exactly like Jack of Blades, I just wanted a villain that would be equivalent in coolness and in power, and Lionhead didn't deliver there.

 

[Boxpopper]

A place where the story is actually good. In the words of Yahtzee: "You think a game called 'Fable' would be all about the story."

There wasn't anything wrong with the first Fable's story...

 

[piez13]

I want to see more of the world. Y'know how you'd see stuff like "Bower Lake, 26 miles away, 12 hours"? I don't want to just immediately travel to my destination - I want to walk that path!

So more of Albion, and I want to leave Albion. I want to head off to other lands, goddammit.

 

[TheNumber1Zero]

Your idea is utter Rubbish, I would prefer it retain to the era of Fable 2

 

[Hungry Monkey]

I like the idea of changing up games so that they don't get stale, but you can't completely overhaul a game.

It's like trying to make a Halo game in medieval times.

 

[WolfThomas]

Most of what I want has been mentioned. One other thing I would like is a balance between the two games with scars, in the first game by the end of it I was more scar tissue than flesh, in the second I didn't have a single scar (I played strength/melee initially).

But I liked the idea of my character getting battle scars, taking off my shirt to reveal balverine clawmarks and swords slashes, little badges of honour. Perhaps if bosses and stronger villains had an special attack that caused a scar if you didn't block/dodge or if when your health fell below 50% you had a greater chance of being scarred or something. I don't want being scarred to just be a punishment rather just another consequence of your involvement in their world.

Also don't remove tattoo's if you take the good/smart approach, I really loved my barbarian tattoos on my character's arms, but to find out my investment in westcliff removed the guy who sold them and that my time with lucien erased them. When I was in that prison in the first game, the only symbol of my individuality and heroic nature were the tattoos on my body, that the guards couldn't take those from me I liked.

 

[tkioz]

To the land of a DECENT FREAKING STORY

 

[Dys]

I'd like the next Fable to go away.
I was uninterested with the first one.
Uninterested in the second.
I don't believe the third can be any more interesting, even if you were allowed a Cat!

If you have no interest in the series, why would you comment in a thread about it?

...If you can get a cat (preferably a puma or something) I'm buying it.

As for ideas, the current technology in fable (muskets and basic guns) works really well and is relatatively unique, I'm more than content with the +80 years to the timeline. I don't think a 'modern' version of fable would work, anything after the 1800s wouldn't really work with the general state of anarchy and vigilantism on which fable is so heavily reliant.

 

[Textbook Bobcat]

Don't you think you're oversimplifying things? I didn't expect them to make a bad guy exactly like Jack of Blades, I just wanted a villain that would be equivalent in coolness and in power, and Lionhead didn't deliver there.

Instead we got an ally of equal coolness and in power (Garth) - and I suppose your real boss fight was the Shard (Shard).

I still don't think it's the true ending though.

 

[Daedalus1942]

With Fable III already in production, Lionhead is (hopefully) bound to continue to add to the series, with new time periods and creative elements of a Hero's life (now you can become King).

I've been thinking though... the first game took place in some quasi-medieval setting, and Fable II took it to the late 1700s and early 1800s. I don't know what time period Fable III will imitate, but I hope it will be even further along (or at least different).

I've given it some thought, and I think that a future Fable should take place in the 50s and 60s. Think about it. Witchwood could have a communist revolution, Bowerstone could fall into the clutches of some McCarthy-esque madman, and there could be even a cold war between Albion and the currently unexplored "western lands." There would be political satire abounding, hippies, drugs, even adaptations of the trenchcoat and fedora! Weapons would be mostly ranged, falling into Assault Rifles (including an AK-47 and an M16), Shotguns, Sub-Machine Guns (maybe a Chicago Typewriter unless the time period is too much of a stretch?), and maybe sniper rifles and explosive weapons like the LAW and the RPG.

With that in mind, have you ever had any thoughts about future Fable's and their settings? If so, please share.

I'm thinking into the bin, haha...