u/EveningZealousideal6

I've been playing Fable since its release in 2004. And while it changed in, Fable 2, journey, and Fable 3. There was a common string.

After watching the gameplay releases of Fable (4) I'm not at all sold on it as a common ancestor of Fable. It seems to disregard the nature of the game in favour of a more, albeit whimsical, adaptation of modern hack-and-slash games like Kingdom Come, or The Witcher.

The spell system doesn't look great, the lack of morality mutations removes what uniquely separates Fable from similar games.

I presume the humour will be similar, but with what appears to be so much focus on the villagers having their own "lives" and routines, it seems to retract from the actual gameplay. I'm not entertained by character customisation, but should see the decisions made in game reflect that. Though, granted, I'll be happy that my end-game character doesn't look like a knuckle dragging troll with a moral compass.

Granted this is a "reboot" not a continuation of the story. But the darker style of reboots has been seen through absolutely everything in media from the past few years. It seems cliché now.

I'm curious to understand the excitement for this version, what are people looking forward to, what are they not?