Fable 2

[Fresh Tendrils]

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Bump.

IGN preview

[Flawless]

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15 minute demo given by Peter Molyneux

http://media.xbox360.ign.com/media/741/741361/vid_2056044.html

[Rainey]

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Thanks for the updates guys

[Cyros]

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15 minute demo given by Peter Molyneux

http://media.xbox360.ign.com/media/741/741361/vid_2056044.html

Combat definately has more depth than it did back in the first game.

[Flawless]

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Video: Inside Lionhead 2

With the release of Episode Two, listen to Molyneux and the rest of the Lionhead team tell comical anecdotes about their "real-life" combat encounters and meet an eclectic "sword" master whom the studio hired to demonstrate how "real sword fighting is done." Strangely enough, several members of the Lionhead team own life-size metal weapons, which allowed for daily parking lot meetings and additional comedic relief. To round out their focus on combat, fellow UK developer's Lionhead and Rare played an intense, yet good-natured game of football (soccer), where there was no shortage of fun and/or combat.

[Flawless]

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This is a great video interview with Peter Molyneux.

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Community Update

My previous community update dates back to April 2007, but in the meantime you have seen two Lionhead Video Diaries focusing on the Fable 2 team (Love and Combat), with a third one coming in October. How are the Fable 2 team faring? Pretty good it seems to me. On the game play side for example, secondary motion is being added to the game, so now the hero's weapons start bouncing around and behave more realistically. Children are also being worked on; they will now start mimicking the hero if the hero's famous enough! The game is really starting to come together nicely, but don’t let this fool you, there is still a way to go for everyone involved.

It’s nowhere near finished. Think about that for a second. It is not finished. So yes, the game will look at least a gazillion times better than anything you’ve seen of Fable 2 so far. Anyone doubting that for a split second deserves a kick in the butt. Compared to some other games, Fable 2 is graphically going to be a Masterpiece. We are talking about vast and expansive outdoor locations, with added night and day cycle with realistic lighting effects that dynamically change the environment around you. There will be uber-detailed textures and lighting on up to fifty character models on screen, all of which will cast a dynamic shadow of themselves on that same environment and the same goes for any object in the world. There is a physics engine, a simulation engine and about a thousand years of knowledge of things that I’m not even trying to understand. According to our water-expert Fran “we are going to kick Bioshock’s water!” He gets a little excited sometimes; Italian passion! But the game will look Great.

There is another very big milestone coming up, this one is one of the bigger ones. The whole design team, Peter included, are now practically fleshing out the final bits left and right. This fine-tuning is obviously a slow process and will go on for some time, as it is now an important part of our development process.

Oh and don’t let our Italian developer fool you; Bioshock is amazing.

[Flawless]

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New video diary - filmed in November of last year

Get up close and personal with the Lionhead art and design team members, who are hard at work on the Xbox 360 exclusive "Fable 2," the highly-anticipated follow up to the best-selling, Xbox exclusive "Fable." Episode Four introduces gamers to additional personalities at Lionhead: Art Director John McCormack, who "hates England," Senior Programmer Guillaume Portes, who describes himself as the modest and sophisticated Frenchman, Senior Designer Ian Wright, Senior Artist Ian Faichnie and JC Taylor, the "Bug Warlord."

Through this video, viewers can meet the colorful characters responsible for marrying art and design, from the large-scale environments and open world of "Fable 2," to the smallest piece of foliage. Additionally, JC Taylor, explains the studio's "bug blitz" process, where the team at Lionhead focuses on ridding the game of bugs and ensuring it meets to quality levels.

As always, Lionhead keeps it light and fun as they offer gamers a sneak peek into the development of "Fable 2," which is slated for a 2008 release.

The restrictions from Fable 1 have been removed. We can actually climb over fences/walls and go anywhere now.

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Looking forward to Molyneux's presentation at next months GDC.

FABLE 2 –The Big Three Features Revealed
Speaker: Peter Molyneux (Head of Studio, Lionhead Studios)
Date/Time: TBD
Track: Game Design
Experience Level: All

Session Description
Peter Molyneux's stated ambition as a designer is to make FABLE 2 a landmark game. In order to achieve this three big design features have been added. The inspiration and rational behind these features will be discussed along with their evolution throughout the development process. The wider context of their impact and influence on the RPG genre with also be examined as the ambition is also to evolve the genre itself. The talk will be supported by retrospective videos as well as live game examples.

[Fresh Tendrils]

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I can't wait for this game.

[Flawless]

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Videos

Walkthrough Part 1
Walkthrough Part 2
Walkthrough Part 3

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[Cyros]

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Videos

Walkthrough Part 1
Walkthrough Part 2
Walkthrough Part 3

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The Molynator!

[mgoblue]

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I'm still watching the movies (loading kinda slow for me for whatever reason), but is the co-op online or just on the same 360?

[Flawless]

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I'm still watching the movies (loading kinda slow for me for whatever reason), but is the co-op online or just on the same 360?

Single console co-op, but somebody asks Monlyneux if it will be online too and he responds by saying, I wish I could tell you the whole story about co-op today.

It will be online. Monlyneux has hinted about it for over a year.

http://xbox360.ign.com/articles/853/853367p1.html

We suspect there will be online functionality with co-op play. However, because Molyneux kept it under wraps, we should assume that online play will have something extra to it aside from what was shown during the GDC demo. The final major feature of Fable 2 will be revealed at E3 2008. And yes, believe it or not, it looks like Fable 2 will come out this year.

[mgoblue]

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Single console co-op, but somebody asks Monlyneux if it will be online too and he responds by saying, I wish I could tell you the whole story about co-op today.

It will be online. Monlyneux has hinted about it for over a year.

http://xbox360.ign.com/articles/853/853367p1.html

I hope so...single console co-op is cool, but not that useful for a lot of us I think...I'm the only one who'd play games seriously on my xbox, you know? I bet he's not announcing it until they know for sure it can handle it all.

[Holic]

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If it has online co-op, I'll be buying it for sure.

[mgoblue]

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If it has online co-op, I'll be buying it for sure.

I'm buying it either way, just prefer online co-op. Molyneux is such a genius, I really like how he designs games and just the things he thinks about in general.