i already thought square came up with the most evil character ever. Kefka ring a bell for anyone

smuckersisgood

I know this will be a great game, but please try to lay off the hyperbole this time. Saying statements like "one of the most evil people in video game history" is not a good road to go down. Everyone knows it'll be decent at worst, so just give us the facts!

Crabfeast

Meh, if they want to let you have complete control over the universe then why not let you kill important characters... but when you do have a message pop up that states how important they were. Then to make things better, they could give you an optional quest to revive said important character?

Akanubon

Oh gosh, that sounds awfully childish. Last time, I just watched my little sister play Fable, and I'm pretty sure that's where I'm headed now too..

Swift_

How Evil? Javier Bardem in "No Country for Old Men" evil? If Lionhead Studios can pull that off, then I'll put some serious thought into borrowing my friend's 360.

I loved that guy!

AntiZERØ

"one of the most evil people in video game history,"...huh, I didn't know Jacko was set to make a return to video games.

Ty4Cy

Arfur! I fart in your general direction! Repeatedly! As I giggle and call my girlfriend in and say "Look Boobie, I can make my character FART!"

robinandtami

@kaish: "This is gonna be awesome no more reading long ass texts but games now always have voice acting."

It's not so great when the voice acting is BAD. I'm not saying this will be, I have some faith in Lionhead, but there's been more than one game where I turned off the voices and turned on the subtitles because reading was a much better experience.

In Theif: Deadly Shadows I muted the sound altogether before going into a store as the fake cockney accents were so horrible. Otherwise I thought it was a pretty decent Thief game, but the voice acting would jerk me out of the world completely.

Zazu_Yen

I loved Populous! But like, I'm so not going to succumb to the hypemachines again like I did for the first Fable. Most evilest character in the history of video games? Kay.

Aethyr

Gotta give Lionhead credit; they know when and how to let tidbits of info out to keep people interested, or pissed off because fall is so far away, whichever comes first.

mphz

@LittleBigPlaneteer:

I should clarify, that it was done intentionally because of Molyneux's past work.

LittleBigPlaneteer

Hope there's a Leprechaun so I can hear his 20 mins of him telling me I will never find his Lucky Charms or him telling me I have to go on a quest to find them.

This is gonna be awesome no more reading long ass texts but games now always have voice acting.

kaish

@Yuki: oh yuki... fail

populous is a game that peter developed.

eunoia

@LittleBigPlaneteer:

Research*

LittleBigPlaneteer

@Yuki:

You fail actually. The name populous was created by Peter Molyneux. Try doing some researching by calling out IGN for no reason.

LittleBigPlaneteer

Oh IGN.

Populous: densely populated; with many people

Populace: group of people forming the total population of a certain place.

Fail.

Yuki

"...you won't be able to kill anyone where doing so will remove huge chunks of the story..."

Why?

If you're aiming for a huge, open-ended world, then make it all available, make it all included. Look at Fallout 1 and 2; you could do pretty much anything, and it still worked beautifully. I see no reason this couldn't happen again, except that the developers are skittish. They don't want to move too far from their tried-and-true action RPG formula.

Maybe Fable 2 is the wrong place for an experiment, but I see no reason such an experiment wouldn't work.

I'd certainly buy it.

Cogito

50 Hours *licks lips* This is good to hear :3

okenny :)

@Crabfeast:
I agree, just like Morrowind did.
When you killed an important character you had a message stating how important they were.
Why can't Lionhead do the same? Oh i know, cause the villain is your younger brother and it will be easy for you to kill him, wile he was sleeping.
(I hope not)

MadSystem

I continue to remain ambivalent about Fable 2, simply because the first one turned out to be so much less than what it was talked up to be while it was in development. Am I the only one who remembers Molyneux describing how incredibly open ended the gameplay would be in Fable, saying you could use literally anything as a weapon, do virtually anything you wanted, etc? Then, closer to release, he admitted that they were basically unable to do anything remotely like that due to 'technical restraints.' As a fairly standard RPG title, the game had its charms, but it wasn't the revolutionary game they claimed for ages they were developing.

Trym

hmm most evil in game history....... I think genocide has been committed in some form in games before so i don't think the most evil is possible.

deathtastic

Wha? Fable 2? sorry, I lost interest in that when M kept talking about that STUPID DOG. He said he took out the MINI-MAP so you will HAVE TO USE THE DOG! thats right, NO MINI MAP, just hope your anoy.er...pet knows where its going. I will wait and see what he focuses on at this years E3.

Oh, side question. Whatever happened to that other game in development. Dimitri?

Azriel77

When it comes to Fable 2's voice acting, there are only two things I'm concerned with...

Number 1: More than just a couple of voice actors need to be used. A lack of variety can seriously hinder the experience of a game that has hours upon hours of great voice acting (I'm looking at you, Oblivion!).

Number 2: Under no circumstances should they record anyone saying, "Chicken Chaser."

Caseus

And though Lionhead is aiming for an open-ended world, you won't be able to kill anyone where doing so will remove huge chunks of the story - wouldn't want to waste all that hard work, right?

Why not? It worked for Fallout.

@smuckersisgood:

How about Bowser?

TechnoDestructo

@MadSystem:
Sorry guys, in my last comment i intend to reply @Akanubon:

MadSystem

One of the most evil villains in video game history? I'm calling it right now: the dog dies.

Silent Predator

@Silent Predator: Nooo! How will I know where to go?

Aethyr

Why not have main characters that can die?

It would seriously limit the story that the game developer can write if you could just kill anyone. Each person dead means an alternative version of the events have to be written.

I suppose that story would not matter in a game like Fable, but it is important for many games.

mcderek3000

Is it just me or does that picture look like Tommy Lee?

Vandermint

I cant believe you all seriously want to be able to kill all characters,if you truly think that's a viable option go give gothic 3 a try,i cant even tell you how many times i've had to redo hours of gameplay because i killed a plotline member too early.

vig0r

One of Fable 2's villains will be "one of the most evil people in video game history," Lionhead creative director Dene Carter told IGN recently.

Did Carter catch something from Molyneux?

NighTrekr

The interviewer wasn't paying all that much attention, apparently.

"
IGN: How closely will we interact with these characters? Oftentimes in RPGs we see NPCs as nothing more than points for a single interaction or a place to find a quest. Will Fable 2 be different? If so, how?

Dene Carter: Even though Barnum, Arfur and Giles are not core NPCs, in that their actions don't alter the overall 'big' fate of the world, we consider folk like them to have a really important function as morality signposts."

IGN: Will dealing with Arfur, Barnum or Giles change the Fable 2 world drastically depending on your decisions? What sorts of changes to the game can we expect from a single character interaction?

/End of Quote.

Good read.

IGN: You say Arfur is a "seedy" character. If I plant an Arfur, will it grow into an Arfur tree?

Carter: What's that? An acorn joke? To a "Fable" developer? You really are evil!

^Found that to be amusing..

I don't expect much from Fable 2, but I'll buy it anyways. I'd say if nothing else it will be another decent game.

--Core--

I really hope this comes out on PC.

artofwar420