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Fable delayed to 2026

www.gamesindustry.biz Fable delayed to 2026 | News-in-brief

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Very likely will be a launch game for MS's new handheld console.

Hopefully it will launch on Steam ex aequo.

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Just FYI for any curious: this is the same delay that was announced last month, no additional changes since then.
How many years of development has this game had? I wonder if it's another case of Microsoft Mismanagement™ or if it's actually so huge and detailed that it's actually worth all of this time spent in the works.
- Mumblings originally in 2017, job openings at the studio in 2018, officially announced in 2020. October 2022 Andrew Walsh, a senior writer from the Horizon Forbidden West team joined the Fable team. June of 2023 had an in-game trailer.
  
  To be honest, that seems to be a reasonable timeframe, especially given the pandemic in the middle, if you aren't following the "rush it out the door ASAP, fix it after release, if you ever do" approach.
  
  To be fair, I don't think any of the MS releases ever suffered from bugs at launch. At least from my experience, they always worked pretty consistently on release, aside from maybe a few exceptions - I remember ReCore having excruciatingly long respawn times, Redfall suffering from stuttering and inconsistent framerate, and Ori 2 not being as fluid as the predecessor on console when it released, but all these were still perfectly playable at launch.
  
  I feel like their problem is always the quality and quantity of the content. I wonder if the middling reception of Avowed convinced them that the game requires a bit more work to compete in the crowded and very competitive landscape of open world RPGs.
- The studio is pivoting from making Forza, to making Fable, this feels like a perfectly normal development timeline.
  
  Actually there are two studios within Playground Games, I'm sure there's cross pollination but the other studio is still making Forza supposedly.
- Very likely mismanagement. We can look at recent releases like Avowed, 6y in development and extremely simple mechanically and with a very narrow breadth. The world is incredibly static. I truly hope that's not the case for FABLE.
  
  They pivoted after two unsuccessful prototypes, and they're a multi project studio. In that time frame, they put out Grounded and Pentiment while assisting on State of Decay 3. That's about as good as management gets.
That game came out years ago
- 2004
- This is fable 4. It's a new game...
  
  It's a franchise reboot, no? Not a report of the first game.
  
  I've liked all the fable games. I'm excited.
  
  The headline confirms that they're talking about Fable
Fable already came out, and it was a pretty mid game. Why are we doing this again?
- This is the 4th game... Not the OG. It's a reboot with apparently a diff story.
  
  Fable is cool, I welcome this game.
  
  The first game was cool. Vastly over-promised, but still cool. Fable 2 was mid, at best. Then Fable 3 was just pure dogwater.
  
  I don’t have high hopes for a reboot. If it’s actually done properly, it’ll be a nice surprise. But I refuse to get my hopes up.
- Microsofts too lazy to make new IP so they're trying to reboot any game that wasn't a complete flop.
  
  Miceosoft!? Create original IP? Agreed they'll keep regurgitating their IP no matter how many lame halos it makes.
  
  Hell not even dos was theirs.
"Late is just for a little while, suck is forever"

Lord Gabe
- No Man’s Sky and Cyberpunk 2077:
  
  Hold my drink
- Cries at Wonder Woman videogame
- Yeah but this one's going to be late for a little while and then suck forever
  
  I would like to predict the future too but alas I'm quite bad at it
Oh no. Anyway
I look forward to all of the Fable 'fans' coming out of the woodwork to complain that the female characters and designs don't look like porcelain anime supermodels. It's going to be X-Men '97 all over again with a bunch of people that clearly weren't ever fans of the original complaining about their "childhoods being ruined."

I suggest that any and all one handed Gamers™ first take a look at the original character designs before opening their stupid mouths and complaining about the wOkE agENdA making characters uglier.
You see the screenshot.

Now assume your Angry Internet Gamer position....

Get in the comments, and FIGHT!
BEAT THAT PETAR MOLINEXU!

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