Breakmedia/FileFront's Interview with PM

[Arld]

Breakmedia/FileFront's Interview with PM

I haven't seen it posted here. It was an interesting video interview, but some things were explained before already (e.g. the wings). I'm also quite amazed to hear (which I do for the first time) that your character's muscles will develop depending on whether you use heavier weapons or not. On that note, the picture at 5:47 looks awesome, granted that us heroes can become as nice as that!

I also had to chuckle immensely at PM's comment about French tending to be leaning toward evil, while most Americans (80%) tend to be the good ones. I don't know if it's exactly true, but a hilarious comment of PM. :lol:

Link to video (can't embed): http://news.filefront.com/fable-3-video-interview-with-peter-molyneux/

Date of post: 15th of September, 2010

So, a couple weeks ago we dropped a full Fable 3 hands-on preview article, with lots of new info on the first hour of the game.

And now, the one, the only Peter Molyneux was kind enough to sit down with us and chat about all things Fable 3.

In his lovely English intonation, Molyneux gave us an inside look at what it’s like becoming a king, the new magic system, the revamped menus, and more.

He even gave us some insight into what types of characters (good vs. evil) American Fable gamers play. Think you can guess?

 

[Sephiroxas]

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First off: The whole thing with the "You'll get bigger depending on what weapon you use" and all that jazz, I won't believe a word of it until I see it in game. Because I remember while he was working on Fable 2 "The world will change around you" no..no it really doesn't. It does to a point, but not as much as he said "leaves will change color, and fall around you constantly" nope..didn't see anything like that either.

the man constantly spews things out of his mouth, about all the cool features he's ganna have, then we get..like..Next to nil of them.

I'm looking foward to Fable 3, and the wings look super cool. But I don't believe a word he says, until I see the game in action myself.

NICE find though, was a great and interesting watch +rep!

Edit: I don't know why he thinks americans lean more towards evil. I'm american and the first time I played fable, I was SOO Excited to be evil and have those cool horns :devil: They're so sexy. Being evil is the best, I can be a good guy in ANY game :lol:

 

[Gikoku]

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Thread moved.

Enjoyed the video, haven't been keeping up with Fable info so there was some new stuff for me. However the lack of proper facial customization for the Fable games is my biggest gripe (which we were discussing earlier) and prevents the hero from truly being unique and our own.

 

[onwingsoflead]

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It would be cool if you could have some kind of facial customization for your character, at least that way when people play online they will really look unique. I heard from my friend that you can load your Fable 2 save file, and if you do that you can play as the son/daughter of your previous hero on Fable 2, is this true?

 

[El Mosqueton]

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It would be cool if you could have some kind of facial customization for your character, at least that way when people play online they will really look unique. I heard from my friend that you can load your Fable 2 save file, and if you do that you can play as the son/daughter of your previous hero on Fable 2, is this true?

Yes, that is true.

Oh and if you like like co-op customization you should try Saints Row 2 peasant.
Me and my servants spent countless hours playing like different characters. It was awesome.

 

[onwingsoflead]

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I have Saints Row 2, on PS3. I've finished it many times, but like no one plays it on PSN. It's cheap as now since it's a platinum game, so I might get it for Sexbawx

 

[Sanguinus]

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Hay im new to this forum, but that big dude u mentioned is war of the darksiders game

 

[James009]

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Good interview.

However, this concerns me...

... your character's muscles will develop depending on whether you use heavier weapons or not.

I actually liked the old Fable 2 style skill system and it seems like they are replacing the most relevant skill with this new system. I didn't enjoy getting taller as I became a better shot because that made me a bigger target... kinda dumb. However, getting more muscles as my strength increased did make sense to me. I wonder if I can be built why still using my sword?

I think PM is changing too much that worked in the previous game

I also had to chuckle immensely at PM's comment about French tending to be leaning toward evil, while most Americans (80%) tend to be the good ones. I don't know if it's exactly true, but a hilarious comment of PM. :lol:

hehe, this was hilarious. I'm curious to see where they are getting these statistics and demographics. I'm American and I usually do play the noble "good guy" character, I just can't stand being evil and living with it's consequences. PM did say that they are addressing this by making decisions more gray but he also said the same thing about Fable 2. That being said, Fable 2's morality system was much better then Fable 1's.

Great interview. The interviewer was pretty cute too. :lol:

 

[Arld]

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First off: The whole thing with the "You'll get bigger depending on what weapon you use" and all that jazz, I won't believe a word of it until I see it in game. Because I remember while he was working on Fable 2 "The world will change around you" no..no it really doesn't. It does to a point, but not as much as he said "leaves will change color, and fall around you constantly" nope..didn't see anything like that either.

the man constantly spews things out of his mouth, about all the cool features he's ganna have, then we get..like..Next to nil of them.

I'm looking foward to Fable 3, and the wings look super cool. But I don't believe a word he says, until I see the game in action myself.

I disagree with you completely. That is, not believing a single word of what he had said. Granted, Peter Molyneux did make some promises and hasn't fulfilled them. However, many people seem to oversee that nearly everything he promised was in development at the time already. However, in the end it seemed it was too much for the game to handle, and it got cut out.

Again, Peter did make sure it was in development, but discovered that he could not actually make them practical in the end. Unfortunate, but Peter Molyeux has a great mind and fantasy in overall, and it should be respected. To be fair, there are only a few real developers out there who actually are as dedicated, passionate and whatnot for what they do, such as Peter Molyneux.

You have shown a similar mindset about this as Mr.Matt -- someone at FileFront Gaming Forums -- and this is what I thought about it.

Peter promised us a complex moralistic system that would make us think. The only moral decision I can remember making was the choice between either growing old rapidly, or making some random NPC with no backstory, and therefore no emotional connection whatsoever, grow old instead. Given that the random screaming woman probably wasn't going to save the world in your stead, it was a no-brainer.

Yes, this was the case in Fable 2, and it was annoying. However, Peter Molyneux is a developer (and perhaps one of the very few this globe has) who is extremely passionate for what he actually does, and is also one of the few who actually criticizes his own work, regardless of whether people thought it was a great game or not. And as such, he acknowledged that Fable 2 was not nearly as good as Fable 3 will be. A lot has changed, as well as shown that most promised things were implemented into Fable 3 -- unlike Fable 2.

They also promised complex social interactions and the ability to raise a family. I don't know about you, but I've never kept a girlfriend purely by farting and belching at her repeatedly.

Women differ. Perhaps they're in the minority, but there are women who manage to make you think (or say) "disgusting!".

They promised an open world, but it was small, and split into even smaller and disconnected maps.

They might have promised that, but the same story was in Fable/Fable TLC. Yet, nobody really complained. In-fact, that matter isn't really to be complained about. It's open enough to be enjoyable for an action-adventure game with RPG elements.

They promised a complex combat and levelling system, instead we had a button masher with highly simplistic trees of skills.

That's one of the mistakes of Peter Molyneux, and one that he has acknowledged, too. That said, Fable 2's tiresome skill tree and 2D interface has been thrown out, and instead, in-game, instant things will occur instead. Fable 3 also won't work with the tedious experience orbs either; this time, for leveling, you'll have to collect "Guild Seals" which act as the new experience, which you'll obtain by doing more 'immersive' actions. These, being things such as spending time with your family, doing actual vital quests, and more.

They said we could personalise our characters with our choices, which amounted to a halo or horns, and usually a tall fat bloke if we chose to diversify our talents.

That has been completely overhauled in Fable 3. Or rather, expanded. Not you'll only have the repetitive good/evil and corrupt/pure combinations, but you'll also have a lot of others things that affect your appearance from what I've heard. Your weapons will morph as you do your things as well, and thus, making each weapon as unique as possible.

All of the innovative and revolutionary functions we expected, were half-arsed and poorly implemented. They focussed too much on captions for the back of the box, and forgot to make it a fun and involving game.

Completely disagreed with you there, as you might've guessed already.

And don't even get me started on the perpetual generation of gold.

Please, do.

Edit: I don't know why he thinks americans lean more towards evil. I'm american and the first time I played fable, I was SOO Excited to be evil and have those cool horns :devil: They're so sexy. Being evil is the best, I can be a good guy in ANY game :lol:

I don't believe he thinks that Americans lean more toward evil generally. I think they looked at some leaderboard statistics or something. I'm not entirely sure on that matter, though.

However the lack of proper facial customization for the Fable games is my biggest gripe (which we were discussing earlier) and prevents the hero from truly being unique and our own.

I can't agree enough to that. As I've told you before, I'd absolutely love an expanded and thoroughly-made general customization for my hero, just like we could in the Mass Effect series and the likes. Would be a true shame if not. Doing so would add yet another extra piece of superb uniqueness to Lionhead and the Fable franchise in general.

Hay im new to this forum, but that big dude u mentioned is war of the darksiders game

I didn't know. Never heard of the game either. Makes me wonder though... why would they feature a character from another game in a Fable interview?...

 

[Sephiroxas]

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I disagree with you completely. That is, not believing a single word of what he had said. Granted, Peter Molyneux did make some promises and hasn't fulfilled them. However, many people seem to oversee that nearly everything he promised was in development at the time already. However, in the end it seemed it was too much for the game to handle, and it got cut out.
Again, Peter did make sure it was in development, but discovered that he could not actually make them practical in the end. Unfortunate, but Peter Molyeux has a great mind and fantasy in overall, and it should be respected. To be fair, there are only a few real developers out there who actually are as dedicated, passionate and whatnot for what they do, such as Peter Molyneux.

Whether it's in Developemnt or not, doesn't matter to me. I still don't get my hopes up for what he says he's ganna include until the game is out and I go (Oh..well okay) Since modding the first fable, I've had a glance at the things he had "In development" that he didn't include. So even if he "was working on it" Doesn't mean it'll be included in the game. He may be dedicated, but that doesn't mean what he wants is going to become a reality.

I can't agree enough to that. As I've told you before, I'd absolutely love an expanded and thoroughly-made general customization for my hero, just like we could in the Mass Effect series and the likes. Would be a true shame if not. Doing so would add yet another extra piece of superb uniqueness to Lionhead and the Fable franchise in general.

Thorough customization? Everything you can do to your character (changing clothes, and getting a hair cut) were all things you could already do in the first fable. Only thing he included was More Hats, Dying of the clothes, and Makeup. Otherwise the "thorough" customization is no where NEAR anything like masseffect. I can't change what the face looks like, the structure OR the eyecolor. Lips..Nose...Eyebrows..cheekbones?....:lol: and I'm not even ganna get STARTED on how intense CityOFVillains customization is.

They might have promised that, but the same story was in Fable/Fable TLC. Yet, nobody really complained. In-fact, that matter isn't really to be complained about. It's open enough to be enjoyable for an action-adventure game with RPG elements.

Actually I find that in the first fable, :'( the world seems bigger and more expansive. But that could just be all the free roaming I do.....:shifty: Now that I think of it though... fable 2 DOES has places like "Bower Lake" Where you can Run, Swim, Jump, and Dive. But...thers's..really no other place that's like that. I'm still cut off by fences, Rocks, bushes, and flowers in some areas. I noticed that more as I'm playing through recently. Places I think I can "Vault" off, I can't. Small little annoyance, but doesn't bother me that much.

That has been completely overhauled in Fable 3. Or rather, expanded. Not you'll only have the repetitive good/evil and corrupt/pure combinations, but you'll also have a lot of others things that affect your appearance from what I've heard. Your weapons will morph as you do your things as well, and thus, making each weapon as unique as possible.

That I'm actually looking foward too. I like the idea of my weapon becoming what I am. But then again there's the whole "what happens if I go from good>Evil>Good" does it have a mix? I'm so looking foward to the wings too!! :wub:

I get your points, and I'm glad you love Fable so much. But I guess on some of these points we'll have to Agree to Disagree.

 

[Rat]

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Uhm. Did anyone pause at 5:47 in the video? Wtf was that? There's no way that's from the game is it? Did filefront throw us a curveball or what??

For anyone that's too lazy to go through the video, here's the pic:

A boss-type enemy, perhaps? This was around the time Peter was talking about gauntlets, too.

Mind you, the woman talking to Peter didn't seem to really know anything about Fable, so maybe filefront just shoved that pic there to make us go "omfg! look at that!"

Any thoughts?

 

[Sanguinus]

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if u look that's WAR of the darksiders game

 

[Rat]

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if u look that's WAR of the darksiders game

I never played Darksiders.

Wait....



Why the frock are they showing us that?!?!?!?!??!

BTW, at the end of the video on the TV it looks like we have to fight that cigar-chompin' guy we've all been wondering about. Dunno if he dies, but that hammer smashes into his skull pretty damn hard.

 

[Arld]

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Whether it's in Developemnt or not, doesn't matter to me. I still don't get my hopes up for what he says he's ganna include until the game is out and I go (Oh..well okay) Since modding the first fable, I've had a glance at the things he had "In development" that he didn't include. So even if he "was working on it" Doesn't mean it'll be included in the game. He may be dedicated, but that doesn't mean what he wants is going to become a reality.

Of course. I didn't say all of his promises were ever made true; some were. But then again, look at the game-industry and tell me: how many developers have promised a load of features, yet many did not become reality? The answer to that will be a lot, I'm sure. My point to this is, Peter Molyneux might not fulfill some of his promises in Fable 3 (which is most likely as it's inevitable), but his imagination and previous work, IMO, does live up to what he cannot fulfill.

Thorough customization? Everything you can do to your character (changing clothes, and getting a hair cut) were all things you could already do in the first fable. Only thing he included was More Hats, Dying of the clothes, and Makeup. Otherwise the "thorough" customization is no where NEAR anything like masseffect. I can't change what the face looks like, the structure OR the eyecolor. Lips..Nose...Eyebrows..cheekbones?....:lol: and I'm not even ganna get STARTED on how intense CityOFVillains customization is.

I'm not sure whether or not I understand this correctly, but this was the exact point. We didn't have the ability to have as thorough customization in Fable as in the Mass Effect series, as to give you an example (or even CoV). That's exactly what I was hoping for, in Fable 3. Scotty does, too, and I'm sure a lot of other people as well. It would be a shame if Lionhead would focus on customization even more, yet not include some extras if it comes to being able to customize more to your character's face, or whatsoever. But then again, would they be able to use a canon character's appearance if that were true? I believe that'd be their main concern.

Don't get me wrong, I do like what Fable 3 will be like. But I am really hoping for some extras they haven't mentioned, such as the things said above.

Actually I find that in the first fable, :'( the world seems bigger and more expansive. But that could just be all the free roaming I do.....:shifty: Now that I think of it though... fable 2 DOES has places like "Bower Lake" Where you can Run, Swim, Jump, and Dive. But...thers's..really no other place that's like that. I'm still cut off by fences, Rocks, bushes, and flowers in some areas. I noticed that more as I'm playing through recently. Places I think I can "Vault" off, I can't. Small little annoyance, but doesn't bother me that much.

Same here. Fable 2 didn't give me as much of an expanded feeling as Fable TLC did, but it does suffice to me.

That I'm actually looking foward too. I like the idea of my weapon becoming what I am. But then again there's the whole "what happens if I go from good>Evil>Good" does it have a mix? I'm so looking foward to the wings too!! :wub:

I believe it'd change accordingly. Thus, if you're becoming good, it changes. If you change moral all the sudden, it'd change accordingly, but take your previous good behaviour into account. And if good again, then both. At least, I hope it's something like that, instead of 'forsaking' the previous morals you held yourself to.

I get your points, and I'm glad you love Fable so much. But I guess on some of these points we'll have to Agree to Disagree.

Agreed to that (lol, pun!) :lol:

Why the frock are they showing us that?!?!?!?!??!

BTW, at the end of the video on the TV it looks like we have to fight that cigar-chompin' guy we've all been wondering about. Dunno if he dies, but that hammer smashes into his skull pretty damn hard.

I wondered the same: why would they show us if it's not an appearing character (or yourself) of Fable 3? Perhaps to give an idea of what your hero would look like with the available things?