Two years have passed since Fable‘s next-generation teaser, and we’ve not seen anything since then. Xbox Game Studios Matt Booty insists that developer Playground Games is making something special.
During a panel at PAX West 2022, Booty briefly touched on why there hasn’t been any information on the next Fable.
“Part of my job is giving air cover to the team,” Booty said via IGN. “They don’t want to show stuff early before it’s ready to go, but if there’s one game where that’s kind of flipped around, where every time I see something I say, ‘We should show this,’ it’s Fable – because there’s a lot of cool stuff. [Playground Games] has made it very clear that I am not going to be able to show anything until it’s ready.”
A pretty reasonable explanation, indeed. There have been several overly-hyped titles that ended up being underwhelming, so not setting expectations too high is probably the right call.
This new Fable is in development at Playground Games, the studio best-known for Forza Horizon, which doesn’t have much experience with wide-open RPGs. Booty reassured fans that Playground Games has (internally) proven that it’s up to the task.
There hasn’t been a mainline entry in this series since Fable 3, which came out for the Xbox 360 back in 2010. Lionhead Studios, the franchise’s original shepherds, closed in April 2016.
Written by Kyle Campbell on behalf of GLHF.
