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Microsoft officially closed down Lionhead Studios over the last few weeks and while the company did consider some offers from buyers, it didn't want to give up the rights to Fable, which is arguably the most well-known series to come out of Lionhead in years. This means that Microsoft may well be open to revisiting Fable later down the line and it turns out, the series' original creator, Peter Molyneux would also be open to working on it.
Speaking with Eurogamer in a recent post on the rise and eventual fall of Lionhead, Molyneux said: “When I finish what I'm working on now, if someone comes to me and asks, hey, do you want to do Fable 4, I'd totally be up for it. I would get Dene back. I would get Simon back. And I would remake this world. It's such a rich world and there are so many avenues we didn't explore. That would be really good fun to do.”
Obviously, right now nobody knows what Microsoft's future plans are for the Fable IP but we do know that Fable Legends was cancelled so the idea of more Fable might be put on ice for a while.
KitGuru Says: While Peter Molyneux might be fairly well-known for making promises that he perhaps shouldn't when working on games, Fable 1 and Fable 2 still turned out to be successes, so having him work on another game in the series might not be a bad idea. Would you guys like to see Fable 4 happen? Do you think Microsoft should take a break from the franchise for a while? It does seem to have lost its way a bit over the years.
Fable was a massive disappointment when you look at the promises made; the series hasn’t lost its way, it was never on a good path to begin with. Sure, I enjoyed the game, but it doesn’t rank among the great RPGs and in my opinion it is seriously overrated by reviewers (Eurogamer among them). Looking at everything he made since Bullfrog, I can only conclude that Molyneux is not good at either (a) getting a team to put his ideas into practice, and/or (b) estimating what is feasible.
How many times does Mr Molyneux have to balls a project up before people stop getting excited about his name?
A great team with a great idea leads to great success
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FABLE 4: Godus Legends
Nayyy, I think Microsoft would only be willing to hire him as a janitor.
Fix Godus before you make anything else, No one is going to bother with any more of your game promises.
I wouldn’t be surprised if Microsoft sold the studio so they could get rid of the awful link to Peter molyneux as the guy is now just infamous for being useless.
What’s even to fix? It’s a dead end.