Re: What Time Period?
Trying to convince people arguing in the F3 announcement thread about the time period to come here. So, I'll reply to them here.
Tomhap;330909 said:
dude, the fable timeline is NOTHING like ours... it's up to PM to decide if their world advances like ours...i mean in the 14th century (500 yrs be4 the date u guys put on fable 2) our world was more advanced then the world in fable 1, so prolly (due to the dumbass citizens of albion) tech discoveries and other stuff might advance slower in albion than on earth... btw it'll be so yay to finally go to the continent described in the fable 1 book 'the other world/land' i just hope they make the game really big, knowing microsoft and LH itll prolly come out much later then the announcement (and the date wasnt announced yet, was it?)
A) We think that Fable II is roughly analogous to the late eighteenth century. 500 years before that was the thirteenth century, the 1200s. Yes, the tech level of our world in certain areas in the 1200s was more advanced than Fable's world. But not many of them, and not by that much.
B) Their world HAS advanced roughly at the same pace as ours, at least in broad strokes and at least so far. Going from Europe in our world, they had roughly 500 years from swords and crossbows to widespread guns and the earliest stirrings of steam power.
C) There hasn't been a specific date, but they have said the holiday season of 2010.
D) Albion is a specific place in the world, not the world. Might as well call it Earth.
Azrael said:
Ok why are people saying III is set in the 1800s when its only a few years after fable II.
necromancer said:
Well, it seemed to me like Fable 2 started in the early 1700's, and by the end of the game, many years had passed, so it was probably around the 1760's or 1770's. Then 50 years pass, and you're into the early 1800's.
Fable II seemed more late 1700s to me. There was a lack of colonialism, but the firearms seemed more 1760-1770 kinda flintlocks and such than early 1700s. Hence, fifty years on is 1800s.