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There is no dog in Lionhead’s upcoming Xbox One title Fable Legends, a fact series creator Peter Molyneux believes to be “a shame”.
“It’s a shame,” he told IGN, speaking about the lack of a dog.
“They’re this emotional driver, this emotional engine. I mean, there was so much more that you could do with the dog, to focus on it being this thing that loved you, loved the player, and would sacrifice itself for you. I think we explored that in Fable II more than it was explored in Fable III, and you could go back to that. It’s a shame it’s not there. It doesn’t surprise me. It’s a huge amount of work, putting the dog in there.”
He added: “But you know, they may just be right. Let’s be clear about it. Doing an emotionally driven game is a very tough thing. We can probably count the games that have nailed that on less than one hand. It’s The Last of Us. It’s Half-Life 2. Maybe Fable touched on it. Doing that makes your life tough. Sometimes making your life tough means that you don’t get the quality in the rest of the stuff.”
Molyneux has always pushed for the emotional development of video games, and says that put back in charge of Fable he would ramp up the emotion.
“Well, I’d double down on emotion. I’d triple down on emotion, actually,” he concluded.
Fable Legends for Xbox One was announced at Gamescom earlier this month, but is still without a firm release date.
Source: IGN
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