Fable director explains what makes the RPG a fairytale rather than a straight fantasy like The Witcher — 'Fairytales are intimate, they’re small stories about regular people... I think that is a brilliant description of what Fable really is'

A man with a sword faces off against a giant rooster monster in Fable.

• Fable game director Ralph Fulton says the game is a fairy tale story, explaining that "fairy tale and fantasy probably exist on opposite ends of a spectrum" for Playground Games
• The game is an open-world game, but Fulton stresses that 'there's no ticking bomb' players have to worry about
• Fable will have stakes, but players can explore the open world, and there's "nothing forcing you" along the main path

Playground Games general manager and Fable game director Ralph Fulton has called the upcoming game an open-world fairy tale rather than a "grand and sweeping" fantasy story that players might be used to.