Fable was the highlight of yesterday's Xbox Developer Direct, finally showing off what Playground Games has been working on for all these years. It was enough to put a lot of doubts to rest, especially for fans of the original trilogy, as it's clear that this is coming from a place of love for those classics.
Despite this, it doesn't seem that anyone from the originals has been brought back to consult. At the very least, Peter Molyneux hasn't, as Playground founder Ralph Fulton says that he hasn't seen the game.
Speaking to IGN, Fulton was asked whether or not Lionhead's co-founder had seen Fable yet.
"To my knowledge, he has not," says Fulton. "We as a team, I think, wear the responsibility of carrying on the franchise really heavily. I think it's something we're all conscious of."
He expands on this, saying that many of the devs actually joined Playground specifically to work on Fable. "Everybody who's on this team, and this isn't PR, we've built a team from scratch for this project," he explains. "The thing that unites every single person is that they came here to make Fable. They didn't come here to work for Playground...
