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Molyneux Talks Fable: The Journey, Kinect Problems, and Horse Abuse

Posted on Tuesday, June 21 @ 09:32:30 Eastern by Nicholas Tan

In a candid interview with gamingunion.net, Fable developer and icon Peter Molyneux commented on his upcoming Kinect-inspired title Fable: The Journey, first demystifying the assumption from E3 that it's an on-rails adventure:

It's not on-rails!... he press briefing and these demos have to be so tight that we didn't have time to show how you navigate around. We just set the press briefing demo on-rails.

To a certain extent, we need to convince you that Fable: The Journey is a 90+ [review score] game, and if it was on-rails our chances just go through the floor. It's NOT going to be on-rails.

But developing for the Kinect isn't such a breeze:

I'll admit that Kinect has got some problems. As an input device it has some real problems. Without a thumb stick, navigation is a real problem. You haven't got any buttons, so ordering the player to do something can be somewhat of a problem. But what Kinect does have is a great sense of freedom and emotion. So that's what we've tried to do with Fable: The Journey.

Thankfully, the game's got a ~~dog~~ horse as the player's faithful companion:

We want to make you believe your ~~dog~~ horse is alive. You are going to bond with your ~~dog~~ horse. When you first get your ~~dog~~ horse, it doesn't know you and you don't know it, but after a little while you can teach it things. For example, you can teach it whatever voice commands you want. If you want to say [Makes clicking sound] 'Move on', it will learn that word. If you want to teach it 'Move on you old nag bastard', you are completely free and open to do that.

Absolutely. You can use your own vocabulary. I just know somebody is going to... well, god knows what obscenities they're going to shout at that ~~dog~~ horse, but whatever floats your boat, that's fine with me. There's a lot of drama we're going to put into that.

We haven't heard all that before. Isn't that right, ~~dog~~ old nag bastard?

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Related Games: Fable: The Journey

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MrrClean
Joined: Aug 2010

Posted: Jun 21st, 2011 at 9:43 am
Something tells me that developing this on the Kinect is going to render a 90+ score damn near impossible in the first place. Fable is a great series... but doing this is going to kill it.

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Nick_Tan
Joined: Jul 2006

Posted: Jun 21st, 2011 at 9:47 am
Not if you can have sex with the horse! Right, Molyneux?! ... ... ... *woah, he's actually pondering the question*

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danielrbischoff
Joined: Nov 2009

Posted: Jun 21st, 2011 at 10:03 am
I'd personally like to see the Fable series taken out back and shot anyways. I just don't care about it.... at all.... and it's my job to care.

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MrrClean
Joined: Aug 2010

Posted: Jun 21st, 2011 at 2:02 pm
Come on, Dan, the first one was f*cking awesome, I have played it through at least 10 times. After that is was kinda just more-of-the-same-but-less... and something tells me that being able to f*ck your horse wouldn't save this either. Unless there was a Fable-equivilent of Jerry Springer...

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OniAkuma2126
Joined: Jun 2011

Posted: Jun 21st, 2011 at 3:12 pm
I stopped caring for this series after i played through the 1st game in 5 hours. Let me down....

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acdibble
Joined: Jul 2007

Posted: Jun 21st, 2011 at 2:35 pm
Implying that Fable 2 and 3 didn't already do that.

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Ranim
Joined: Nov 2005

Posted: Jun 21st, 2011 at 10:22 am
Mount and Blade is the only game like this one that felt authentic. Fable should have been a ****ing open world sand box game, that's why it fails.

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moretokes
Joined: Apr 2011

Posted: Jun 21st, 2011 at 10:28 am
Other than lengthening the game the original fable had the best controls and gameplay I still throw it in my pc occasionally... Plus I modded my skin so I looked like tommy vercettit

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Yossarian29
Joined: Jul 2008

Posted: Jun 21st, 2011 at 10:52 am
Lets hear it for Mount and Blade love! Looking mostly at the mount love.... less blade love.....

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Doc_Holliday
Joined: Nov 2005

Posted: Jun 21st, 2011 at 11:44 am
Molyneux just needs to go away. The man talks a lot and delivers little. I don't like why he is constantly referred to as an "icon" or "master designer". Fable 1 was amazing but this guy hasn't achieved half of what that game was since.

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acdibble
Joined: Jul 2007

Posted: Jun 21st, 2011 at 2:37 pm
Every time he overhypes and underdelivers.

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OniAkuma2126
Joined: Jun 2011

Posted: Jun 21st, 2011 at 3:15 pm
Shoot for the stars and jump only two inches. Thats the feeling i get everytime he talks about a new feature he wants in the Fable series.

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TurinAlexander
Joined: Sep 2006

Posted: Jun 21st, 2011 at 4:12 pm
Sounds like it will be completely unplayable without a Kinect. That's just stupid. MS reportedly sold around 40 million 360s and 11 million Kinects. Making a game that only one quarter of your customers can even play is a just, well, stupid.

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Icepick
Joined: Dec 2002

Posted: Jun 21st, 2011 at 9:05 pm
I have absolutely zero interest in investing more money into a franchise that has done nothing but disappoint with each and every installment. I fell for the hype of 1, I mean for it's time, a good game, but no where near what it was claimed to of offered.

The second, god what a waste of money, and the third I found for 15 bucks used 3 weeks after release so I figured I couldn't possibly be let down again with such a bargain, but somehow I still felt cheated out of that trivial amount

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