Once Fable Legends has released in the next few years, they need to develop a sequel 'Fable IV' but it should either take place in a completely new country/continent with new characters. The game should follow close to how this original Fable represents, maybe Lionhead can use Unreal Engine 4 for the game and it could be full open world. The release date would probably be around 2017-2020, but it gives them enough time to develop and get used to the engine. Lionhead are also working on other projects, some rumoured to be Black and White 3 or The Movies 2, but it may be a brand new IP that could be releasing in 2016. This E3 or GDC will be getting a brand new trailer and some gameplay footage of the new fable legends, the beta will run end of this year and could be released this or next year going by the rumors.
With Fable 4 what they could do:
- Open World (100 larger than Fable 3)
- Full RPG elements with in-depth leveling system
- Character, Armor, Items, Weapons leveling, augmentation and upgrade system.
- Full Economy and Political Impacts to the World.
- 2/4/6/8/10 Player Co-Op
- Online Portion (has it's own lobby and world area)
- Arena for both Single Player experience and Fable Arena for Online co-op/versus or even raids
- 200 different weapons, 8 different rarities (not by color) Legendary, Artifact and Godly being the best types.
- Moralities and full consequences, a much realistic approach than the other games.
- Story paths and impacts change the way the story is presented to you, if you are good and you help people in your quest and choose good decisions you will you go into a completely different story path than you would if you were evil, it's not entitled just to two paths, there are dozens of paths you can go and your play through will be different to someone else, a unique experience tailored to your actions and choices, each character in the game can become a huge part in your storyline, there will be a main enemy though but if you choose to ignore this big threat venture into a new land you could potentially experience completely different quests and characters to come.
- Randomized and Radiant Quest, Characters, Weapons, Difficulty and events.
- Punishment system, you can go to Jail, you can get executed if you do a lot of crime and you can even get kidnapped by bandits if your not careful.
- Clans and Factions - You can join any clan/faction in the game, have you ever wished you wanted to be evil and join the bandits and rise in ranks to become the king and rule them to victory or you can even build your own faction from scratch, you can recruit about anyone (even your online friends) and build a base or settlement together
- Houses - Most houses in the game can be purchased, sold, rented out, used as something else, or even demolished,
- Shops - You can visit stores over the world, you can steal, invest, purchase, heist or if your that evil you can burn the building down to pieces!
- Property Builder - One of the best things you can do is build your own Property, you can build a House, Shop, Fortress, Castle, Settlement or even your own town. With easy tools in realtime you can place down walls, objects, set rules and types, hire guards, butlers, investors, workers and more. You can build your own store even and sell your custom-created wears to all, when you have a store you can sell directly to a Fable Online Auction Houses or Let anyone in the world visit your world and venture around.
- Jobs - You can get normal-pay jobs like any other peasant does, like working at blacksmithing, Selling items in shop, guard duties, prison duties, burglar preventation, killer preventations, thiefs, marketing, investing, gambling, being a trader and more,
- Stats - Strength, Agile, Will, Power. Accuracy, Guile, Jobs, Ruler, Speed and more
- You can get haircuts, tattoos, face paints, scars and more
- Demon doors return, about 50-100 of them.
- Silver Keys and Silver Chest return alongside Gold and Platinum countetypes too.
- At the start of the game you will be able to create your own character with complex character customization, and the story and characters will be tailored to the appearance of your character and the choices/options you pick, if you are a dark skinned character then your family in the game story (your story line) will be dark skinned as well but depending on what you set your characters characteristic attributes the game will make the story interesting to your perspective, an example of this (helped by radiant questing) you want your hero to start as a child (and option will let you choose from Child, Teen, Adult and even Elder) and a age (your character will age according to the game) so if you chose Child and you then chose Birth Town as Bowerstone for example then the game will start your hero story from that point, the main events in the game will still happen as this is an Open World Game, they become global or situational depending on the choices and decisions you make, if you save a trader that trader will always be in the world, once a NPC dies they are gone forever, there wont be clones of same NPC's sprouting around towns and such, the game will create unique and different npc's that will make it a more unique adventure.
- You can get married, have kids (everyone in game will age including your kids, one day you may see you kid become a man, and you can guide him through) if your character dies in game you have a choice to load last checkpoint or save but there will also be an option 'Continue', depending on your story line and main events you can continue the game (even if your main hero is decease) you could play as your son/daughter and your quest could be to seek revenge on who killed your mother/father, and you will be able to grow up, the game will bring in some unique quests that would make sense in that position, if your main character died and you have no relations you can still continue but there will be book icon next to it meaning that it will show the ending to your story line, if you got killed by bandits then it will show a cut scene (realtime) showing your killers, and closes the story saying 'in the end the hero fell towards evil.. all his good/bad deeds, all his friends/enemies, thoughts and memories etc. Though this is optional if you do it, you can still load your game but you unlock your special cut scene in gallery mode etc.
There are loads more things that Lionhead can bring into it, but because of how powerful and capable gaming engines are going to become these things may be possible but it all depends on if Lionhead rely on the semi-experience of Fable Legends than the full rpg experience of Fable.
Underrated, back in the day all those mechanics were acceptable for game in terms of technology and design, if to review now it would just be belatedly compared to a decade of games and technology,
@Metallicwolf29 you comparing small amount of games, what about all the new IP's came out on the PS3/Xbox 360? PS2 was great back in the day but now we have much more games being made.
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