When it was announced that Disney was taking over the Star Wars franchise there was a lot of buzz about whether or not they would do the franchise justice with their trilogy. Now that we have a view of a new Fable game, Xbox Games Studios boss Matt Booty is saying that rebooting the series feels like it must have felt to reboot Star Wars.
The Fable series was first launched in 2004 and instantly became a classic for the original Xbox, spawning 3 additional games over the course of the next eight years ending with the Kinect game Fable: The Journey. Before the Xbox Games Showcase event last month, fans of the showcase were being told not to get their hopes up about another Fable game, despite evidence that there would be another one.
A report in GameSpot sheds light on how the studio is looking at their attempts to reboot the franchise and ensure that old-school fans are happy with the end result. Talking to The Guardian, Xbox Games Studios boss Matt Booty said, "It's like the challenge of making a new Star Wars movie--there's stuff that everyone wants you to bring along, but then you've got a responsibility to take that to new places and I trust Playground has a good vision for that."
The trailer that we were treated to at the Xbox Games Showcase event shows that Playground will at least be bringing the humor of Fable back for this new entry into the franchise. Playground, if you don't know, is the studio behind the Forza franchise. Right now, there is no news of a release date or expected timeline for the game to come out, but we can expect it to be on the Xbox Series X.
Fable is a fantastic game that belongs on the Xbox Series X. The humor and the fantasy of the game are so unique that you can't help but be drawn in for hours on end. The fact that we have a new studio working on the reboot does make it feel reminiscent of Disney taking over the Star Wars franchise. This could be a make or break moment for Xbox and Playground. Either this will be a runaway success that helps define a generation, a complete failure that only bears a passing resemblance to a great game, or (worst case scenario) is a mediocre game that has no soul and no magic. Here's hoping that Fable is less divisive than the Star Wars reboot—and better executed.
Up Next: Xbox Free Multiplayer: Does Free Really Mean Free?
Source: GameSpot