Despite "generally favorable reviews," there were quite a few people out there who had some serious problems with Fable 2. And to hear Lionhead's Peter Molyneux talk at the Develop Conference in Brighton today, he's one of them.
Molyneux's hour long on-stage presentation of Fable 3 included a veritable smorgasbord of self-deprecating remarks about the problems in the first two Fable games that would be fixed or mitigated in the threequel. For instance, Molyneux lambasted his studio for throwing way too many unnecessary features into Fable 2, even citing a study showing that most people didn't use more than 60% of the available features. Even when a feature was used, Molyneux said, it was often only used once and didn't factor into the larger game enough. For example, "most people did get married, but it didn't mean anything, it was just an excuse to have sex," he said. At one point Molyneux likened Fable 2 to "designing a car with 300 buttons on dashboard when you only need a steering wheel."
DemonWolf Four Star General (Moderator)
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Tbh I think Peter's full of crap. I used almost every feature of Fable II. The only thing I didn't do were the pub games because I'm not a fan of minigames, simple as. But other than that, I did almost everything the game had to offer and my only complaint was that there wasn't MORE of it.
If Fable III has less stuff, I expect that it will be a disappointment. Though I have to admit the whole new controlling Albion feature sounds awesome!
Arbiteris Four Star General (Moderator)
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He is right.I never used the stuff he said.And I did get married to just have sex in fable(what else are the NPC woman good for?).i just hope he makes the NPC's more realistic and make them act more realistic.Fable 2 was like living in a world of robots where they constantly said the same thing over and over and most of em looked the same."oh I love you hero.My finger looks lonely without a ring on it" ohh you wont beleive how annoying listening to 50 people saying that is.Plsu you cant even shu the door in your house so you have 20 NPC's in your house asking you to marry them.Even when you wake up there still standing there!!!
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