Floex wrote:Oh wow, such a fall from grace this franchise.
And considering Fable III and Fable the Journey were its predecessors that's saying something.
I have mixed feelings about this.
This news is pretty late in the day which makes it probable that it was a recent decision - which likely means there was a change of plans and things were not going well. I got the feeling that they were not shouting about it as much as they could have and
I think it wasn't mentioned at one of last year's E3 or Gamescom? February EDGE says they are effectively trying to make a MOBA game and the public were expecting Fable IV. And when the game was revealed they should have perhaps said,
"a different kind of game set in the world of Fable." Maybe if it was sold full price it would have failed to have legs and multiplayer would have died out.
On the other hand it does look like a full game that has had some big investment in it. Being free then it will have the whole XBO community potentially playing it (although I rarely see anybody playing DC Superheroes on PS3/PS4). As long as the push to buy gold is not full-on like locking you out before you can play again, then free is always good and it works as part of a long game for the Xbox platform.
Those screenshots look lovely and I'm hoping this could mean the reveal of Fable IV...