Molyneux boasts “huge twist” in Fable 3, keeps shtum

Twist and shout

Molyneux boasts “huge twist” in Fable 3, keeps shtum

DESPITE SOMEWHAT spoiling major parts of Fable 3’s story by letting people know they will become King, Peter Molyneux is still not satisfied.

He announced at the Eurogamer Expo that there will be a further twist and miraculously managed to keep himself from blabbing the exact details.

“We’re going to put a huge plot twist when you become King,” he said. “Which I’ve been able to keep my mouth shut about for once. Which has been very hard.”

The developer also talked about new game features, including swords that change over time to reflect the personality of the player (much in the same way that your physical appearance changes in the original). So if you play through as vanilla evil, the sword will become warped and twisted – just like your cold, dead heart.

Molyneux managed to keep the big things under wraps during his talk at the Expo but he was very open about the verbal blunders he has made in the past.

Speaking about the first Fable he said: “I said it was going to be the best role-playing game ever. And rightfully so, you lot came out and said ‘what a load of bullshit he’s talking. He’s over-promising.’

“You can make mistakes in the press. You can’t just stand up and get all enthusiastic like I do with developers.”

Changing the subject to the oak tree feature he once promised (whereby you could plant an acorn and return to see it’s growth as you also age) he said that the reaction was a little bit of a tempest in a teacup.

“It was insane. Such a small feature that I was talking about. You could either have an oak tree or you could have swords. I’d take the swords, personally.”

The talk mostly focused on the influences behind the Fable series. Unsurprisingly, a lot of inspiration came from old legends like Robin Hood and King Arthur but he was most enthusiastic about good, old-fashioned fairytales.

“If you wrote those stories today you wouldn’t get away with it,” he said. “Because they were often about eating children or abusing children… A lot of English fairy tales are about abusing children generally.”

Many people laughed at this.

Brendan Caldwell