So the plot is about keeping promises? Oh, the irony is delicious Fable!

But Seriously, It's nice to hear them pitching a game with concepts I actually believe they can pull off.

I am really looking forward to Fable 3, it does look like a lot of fun.

you hope they fuck it up?

Should be amusing wonder if they will have a sketch for faulty towers in there

Wow! Now that I'm holding hands with this randomly generated background character, I'm -totally- emotionally invested!

Dammit!! Edit – “Hope they DON'T fuck it up cause he's pretty much my God”
And also hope they use references to either Monty Python or Faulty Towers in the game

So is this on PC as well? If so, I'm getting it.

I also think that this new inventory system looks interesting. it could be either a major sucess or flop in my opinion. the thing is is that i am a old school rpg gamer and enjoy the lists and the busy-body work of fine tuning a charecter but if this inventory system that they displayed is just a cover for a much deeper stratagy then i am all in. but if it turns out to be just a show for “this sword is big and slow but does lots of damage…. and this sword is small and quick but does little damage” then im a tottally against it.

This guy did not sell me at all. Fable 3, NOW WITH HAND HOLDING! If they want to expand the immersion, add dialogue to the main character. Those emoticons are bullshit. Fart 5 five times, now she loves you!

That inventory system is ASS! Naming your weapon is awesome though.

Good interview Noah. Very professional.

Ugh..Fable 3 does not sound appealing at all..

If I want to play The Sims, I'll go and play The Sims,…and I've never had the inclination to play that either.

Way to much focus on stupid gimmicks.

That was a good interview spoony so far nothing about the game seems to be that different from the scent but it still looks like fun i will be looking out for the game.

Also that inventory is weird.

If I go into it during battle am I momentary leaving and my enemies wait for me? Or is all happening in my head, and my mental image of myself somehow transforms my person? If so that would be trippy as shit for the people around me ” My word, he just spawned a top hat!”

I guess the old way of pushing start and selecting the new clothes is weird to. I guess you could argue that the people around him would have seen him remove it from his pocket of near infinite size and pull out a top hat.

One question, can I play my fable crazy hobo again. No property, nothing of value, getting drunk in an alley and farting at guards and pinching maidens bottoms. Aw good times

I heer leetle spiked blue men steeleeng mine golds een zee baground.

Oh, shiny! I never was much of a Fable fan. I couldn't get through the first game, I was bored sick. Looks like I'm going to have to give it another shot. Damn press events and their convincing me to spend money I don't have…

I don't know much of fable, but man that interview felt awkward. Probably because what they showed of fable 3 at E3 looked terrible. Raising family, getting married, patty caking, sounds like they're marketing it as a mature version of the sims.

About the Fable III “menu room” system. Remember in Jurassic Park when the 11 year old Unix girl (haha?) navigated a 3d file system? That was a real demo, called File System Navigator, or FSN. It was never fully developed. The reason? Lists are more efficient than 3D interfaces.

This is not complicated stuff. If I’m in a battle and I need to change my gear (and I can do so in combat), if I pull up a quick menu, see my five gear settings and click one, that pulls me out for a few seconds. In the case of Mass Effect or Gears, weapon swapping is so quick it’s a core part of the gameplay. With this system, if I want to change my gear, I have to go to an entirely different world. Why? Now you’re pulling me out of the game for minutes.

The problem I’ve had with the Fable series is that they don’t understand what is the “meat” of their own franchise. Gameplay doesn’t stop because you’re not controlling a character, it stops when you’re not moving forward towards your objective. Am I going to have fun in a barren room going through trying to find which blue sword of justice I want to equip? No! Am I going to have fun clicking a menu for two seconds? No! But the difference is on is a quick task modern gamers don’t even THINK about while this is another goddamn “innovation” that’s shoved in my face.

The developers of Fable need to ask themselves this: if we gave a gamer the option to not do something, and a strong number say “yes,” is that an indictment of our game design? FPS developers understand this. If nobody is using your new, interesting Needler, maybe that means that you didn’t design it properly. A study came out that said many gamers didn’t “understand” many of Fable II’s features. That’s a mark against Lionhead, not the gamers.

Sometimes their “innovations” are a substitute for better game design in general. Take the glowing trail, which I see is back. If your game had good level design and a proper quest tracker, you wouldn’t need a quest tracker. And hey, I’m all for UI free games, but don’t assume your players are idiots and can’t navigate your linear dungeon.

And that dog? That dog is Navi from Zelda, just less annoying. Of course, I was forced into letting my dog get shot in the face in Fable II because of the stupid, dated, poorly written morality system.

I own the first two Fable games and I’ll own this one because, despite the “innovations” of the developers, I can get some fun out of the game.

But I’m not playing patty cake.

Looks good but the one thing i want to know is do the clothes do anything this time? I mean can get stuff to boost your attacks i hated the clothing aspect in Fable 2 was really pointless in my view. But i did like the game overall.

My thoughts on Fable III:

I find it interesting that some people wish the new games would be more like the original. As they say, “there's no pleasing you”. If not enough of the game changes you call it redundant and complain how there's not enough innovation, but if they change a lot and experiment with new paradigms of game play and expanding on what was established before you complain that too much has changed. I'm sure there's a middle ground to be reached somewhere but I think Lionhead is more interested in trying to experiment with new ideas and mixing genres together.

The one thing I kind of miss, ironically (for me) is the stealth feature from the original game. The only thing I hated about it is that they had a part of the game that REQUIRED you to use it. I'm NOT a big fan of Metal Gear, I just don't have the hand-eye coordination to handle being that stealthy-BUT it's cool to have that feature and on occasion I can actually pull of stealth kills and that is AWESOME. Stealth is nice to have as an OPTION, without any little bits in the game requiring you to use it-which seems to run counter to the concept of emergent gameplay where you can customize your character however you want.

As far as having Sims-esque qualities, I see a lot of people are taking the attitude “If you want Sims-type gameplay, play The Sims”. I find that to be a father myopic attitude to take-The Sims has a modern setting and while it has RPG element to it, it isn't really an RPG. If you're like me and like both action RPGs and games like The Sims then Fable III will be a very pleasant experience. On the downside for people who DON'T really like The Sims, it will be a bit detrimental as it appears they plan on making it a bit more integral to the overall gameplay but really that's Lionhead's risk to take-and innovation is really all about taking risks, trying new ideas that people may or may not end up getting into.

Speaking of which-the new “menu system”. I saw a demonstration of it on YouTube and I think it sells the idea a little better than this video did. To me, the way it's all set up actually looks pretty good. I think they've struck a good balance between keeping things small enough that you don't have to do too much running around to get from one thing to another but not so small that it's difficult to navigate around in. Also from the demo, it looks to load up lightning quick, which will give it even more points if that's the way it is in the final game. So to sums things up at first I was a bit skeptical but after seeing it in action it seems a bit promising.

I think that the whole “promises” idea isn't really entirely inspired by “real world events”, or at least not current ones. From what I recall from reading articles and interviews it's more inspired by Kings from the past and such. I'm really interested to see how it plays out but I hope it's won't take away too much from the Action RPG elements of the game and transform everything into some kind of land-ruling simulation.

I'm personally looking forward to Fable III quite a bit-with games like Fallout: New Vegas and such not daring to break too much new ground, I think Fable III will be a refreshingly new experience.

Wow, that menu system sounds pretty annoying.

Spooning with Spoony's next episode will feature lots of Pattycake. Because Spoony's all about the Pattycake.

See, this is what the Fable series has needed, someone NOT Peter Molyneux talking about the game

I thiiiiink Illusion of Gaia had a separate world for your menu. Or Soul Blazer or Terranigma. One of those games, where you entered a… room pretty similar to that with chessboard tiling and curtained doors.

It's intuitive, I guess. I was pretty captivated by hearing that you go around with a political campaign basically at first and then do kingly stuff, that sounds pretty cool. I enjoyed that Wiiware game My Life as a King; Fable 3 looks like it's going to be like that but you actually going around and fighting. The more human element also appealed to me, too.

He kinda lost me at the menu system though. Lists are old, Tim, yes… but that's because they're efficient and useful. It kinda does feel like I'm just gonna get taken out of the game to do menu stuff. Then again, it just seems right now that it involves changing your wardrobe and editing your one weapon, so I doubt you'd need to even go into the menu more than a couple times in the entire game.

Spoony, it would have been hilarious if you actually spoke the video captions just to see the look on that guys face.

“Actually I named my sword Charlene.” …blank stare…

Great work. Cant wait to see day 2 and 3 coverage!

fable 3 ftw

I got douche chills listening to this guy talk. Eeeesh.

Yeah, at least its looking like they're making up for fable 2's co-op henchman bullcrap tacked-on feature with actualy having you able to put your hero in a friends world and take him out while keeping his or her gathered xp and items or whatever you get over there and being able to marry each others characters sounds cool but we'll have to see how that turns out when its released.

Who's charlene? I'll show you who charlene is! the simpsons. I no its from FMJ

I am now really excited for Fable III.

Fable III will be a must-buy for me. I really enjoyed the gravity of the choices in the first, and throughout I've liked watching the way the world changes over the years. Fable II had lots of problems, including being too easy and that ending, yet I still enjoyed it. I've never actually had any technical problems with the series, unlike Fallout 3.

I hope I get to kill Reaver though.

Damn… Another game that is making me wish I had an Xbox lol.

It looks incredibly deep, probably a huge time sucker though since there's always so much to do, not that that's a bad thing though.

Looking forward to Fable 3, Nice shirt by the way, I see you support Bishop. ^_^

Will there be a PC release or will it be an xbox exclusive like the second one ?

I thought the Obama reference was a cheap way trying to be trendy and hook the “things must CHANGE” element of the game into an American audience (Ted Timmins is English and the game was made in the UK.) I would not be suprised if the game representatives were given scripts to work from (I've seen them do that at other expoconfests.)

is this guy actually totally not listening to you right:P

Hopefully. Recently, PC gamers have been getting the shaft from titles like Dead Space 2 and Allan Wake. I was really looking forward to Allan Wake, too.

Fable 2 was a bit slow starting out but I loved it overall.
Glad to see they're putting a lot of effort into 3. The Fable franchise has always been about shotgunning all the effort they can blindly into different areas before their budget runs out and hoping its well received.

Why is Fable so… strange? The guy seems obsessed with marriage and 3D bull instead of lists is never practical (see Microsoft Bob and others).

It struck me more like “anything to sell this game” but if it is as cool as Tetris was back in 1987* than the weird cajoling and scripted nonsense is worth it.

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* People played that game until their thumbs and eyes bled, then went back for more. Made the Gameboy what it was.

I assume you will be able to do everything, possibly more even, that you can do in the one player game. like in Fable 2 but better because you can bring your own character and dog to their game

There is something else I hope they've taken out from the 2nd game. The jobs. They were the most boring and useless part of the 2nd game. It was busy work that artificially lengthened the game. They didn't even TRY to make them fun either, just watch the damn meter and hit your A button at the right time. What sucked was that early in the game you basically were forced to work to get more money until you were able to rent out houses, then you could give a shit.

“Fable III: The Rise of Obama!”

xD Nice

I just hope it isn't overly simple like Fable 2 was, you could do some work and get the best sword in the game in a matter of 10 minutes.

Also the options for doing things were so simplistic that it was confusing, Fable 2 didn't have enough lists and now there wont be any… oh dear.

I own both fable 1 and 2 and love both, i dont play #1 lost chapters bcause i got everything… i have been waiting for fable 3 to come out for months…
btw in fable 2 i wear a hywaymens outfit dyed in black

P.S.if fable 3 is as epic as it looks and the game proceeds to mature at the rate it has been going… will fable 4 have you be a minor god? of taking over universe? in not being sarcastic i lovde the series and the sequals are going to be epic… but the #1 story was better than fable 2 though…

Anyone else thinks poor Ted's interview was wrong on so many different levels?

No disrespect to Ted, but maybe he should do a different role in Lionhead. I don't know… something less public? When he yammered on about how you can get married, have children, share bank accounts, file taxes and whatnot a cold chill went down my spine.

I was like; is Ted serious or is he having us all on with that British humor? Hats down to Spoony for keeping straight face throughout. Top notch work Spoony. Top notch. Because I was literally laughing my ass off from that point onwards.

“What do we show? It's so much!” CUT TO: character dressed up in a chicken suit. CUT TO: character in an x-ray suit. CUT TO: character in white underpants.

I hope Molyneux didn't throw this dude in his dungeon for dropping info that he has yet to. Unless I missed any interviews I can't remember him detailing a lot of this stuff though I could be wrong. I have to admit while this guy was extremely informative I still kinda wish Molyneux was talking here. His descriptions are a big part of the fun when it comes to Lionhead releases. I seriously can't wait for this game to drop!

Fable 3 is a steampunk game!?

*squees in delight*

FINALLY A FUCKING STEAMPUNK GAME! I’M A VERY HAPPY PANDA!

Holy Industrial Revolution Batman! This game looks swell!