Re: What Time Period?
necromancer11;327804 said:
Has it been confirmed that the time period is in fact after fable 2? If not, I think it would be awesome to set Fable 3 in between Fable 1 & 2.
Also, if it is put too far into the future, melee weapons would become obsolete due to the technological advancement of fire arms, and who wants that?
It hasn't been-- we've all kinda been assuming that it'll be in the future. It would be interesting to see the in-between period.
I don't think that they would put it far enough forward to make melee weapons obsolete. And "far enough forward" is debatable, since by all rights the weapons in F2 probably should have done so.
Rheckameohs;327814 said:
If I had to put a date on it, I would place it in the early 1800s.
However, I must admit something: I think they set Fable II too far into the future. They completely bypassed the Renaissance, which would have been amazing, if you ask me. If they had gone that route, Fable III could have easily been placed in the same era that Fable II took place in.
But hey, it's not my game.
TJ Griffin;327819 said:
The uniform from "See the Future" seems to hint at it being around the time of the American Revolutionary war (thats what the uniform looks like to me anyway). But thats a really boring time period for a Fable game in my opinion. Unless they dont keep it too historicly accurate.
It will probably be either just after the time of Fable II, or mabey a few hundred years after that. Personally, I want to see a game take place in the Old Kingdom (a long time befor the events of Fable 1 if you dont know), but its not looking like that so far.
Yeah, the soldier uniform definitely doesn't look like Revolutionary war. I'm pretty sure that Welley's Soldier Uniform or whatever it's called is a reference to (Arthur?) Wellesley, AKA Wellington, AKA the Iron Duke, AKA Napoleon's Big Bad British Opposition and Blucher's Buddy.
On the other hand, I don't think that's so much a hint as it is random-thrown-in-stuff. Like the leather rocker clothes. And C'mon, TJ, are you really worried about historical accuracy? We can see analogies to different time periods, yes, but so far the game hasn't been in even the remotest danger of being historical.
But yeah, I wouldn't say they bypassed the Rennaissance so much as it never really happened. There might have been somethign vaguely analogous... but it's not the real world. There was no cultural phenomenom similiar in Albion's world, or at least it doesn't look like it. And anyway, the Rennaissance was more of a Italian/Dutch deal than a British (or Albionese) one.
But yeah, I don't really think I want to see the Old Kingdom, or at least not really. American Civil War tech levels might be interesting, but for all intents and purposes the game already is at American Revolution levels.
All we can really talk about are tech levels. The game is clearly not going to follow much of our historical track. It might have big things that resemble ours-- like a bit of an Industrial Revolution in the five hundred years between 1 and 2-- but beyond general analogies we can't really compare the two.