Fable Reveal Made Peter Molyneux Emotional, Feels Game's World Has "Antiseptic" Feel To It

Peter Molyneux, who created the Fable series and is known for hyperbole, has reacted to the recent Fable reveal, saying it made him “incredibly emotional” and that is he proud to know his creation is living on. He also said the game’s world, in its current state, has a “slight antiseptic” feel that lacks character and grime.

Speaking to IGN, Molyneux said he is a person who cries frequently, and he felt himself “tearing up” when he saw the new trailer in January.

“I felt incredibly emotional, and the reason I felt emotional was: ‘F*** me. This thing that we created, it’s going to live, it’s going to carry on. This world, which we loved creating so much, and other people loved, has a life,'” he said.

Molyneux said the “saddest thing” for him to see would be for games like Fable to fall by the wayside, so he was excited to see the franchise continue. He also praised developer Playground for rebooting Fable instead of trying to continue the existing story from the games Lionhead made. Molyneux also appreciated the callbacks to what he and his team made with the original Fable trilogy.

“I loved seeing some of those references. I thought it was super smart to have the kid’s family turn to stone. I thought that was really smart. And so those were all the plus points,” he said.

Molyneux also had some criticisms of what he saw in the Fable reveal. He said, “There was a slight antiseptic feel about it,” going on to say he hopes the team will spend more time and resources on building more “character” and “dirtiness” to the world.

“I never thought Fable as being clean and all the angles being sharp and defined. It’s more chaotic. It’s more what Old England probably used to be, which was not straight lines, the place, it’s more crinkling, and all the buckle belts on people are ridiculously large, and the boots and the hands ridiculously large because that is part of the character,” he said. “So there’s a little bit more of that character, which I would probably foolishly and ridiculously ask for.”

The new Fable releases this fall on PS5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC. It is one of two new games from Playground coming this year, following Forza Horizon 6 in May.

As for Molyneux, he oversaw Lionhead and the Fable series for more than a decade, before getting promoted to a higher role at Microsoft Game Studios in Europe. He left the company in March 2012 and started his own studio, 22Cans. The company’s next game is Masters of Albion, which is coming this year to console and PC.

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