Uudesta Fable-pelistä on toistaiseksi nähty vain yksi lyhyt video, joka kuitenkin riitti asettamaan tunnelman kohdilleen. Työtä tekee Playground Games, joka muistetaan muun muassa Forza Horizonista.
Jonkin aikaa Fablen kanssa tekemisissä olleen pelisuunnittelija Juan Fernandezin mukaan kehitys on hidasta siksi, ettei tiimillä ole kokemusta Fablen tyylisen pelin tekemisestä. Asiasta kertoi Vandal, ja raportoi WCCFTech.
"Playground is [...] very organized and production-driven. Every two years they put out a Forza Horizon, which has more than 90 on Metacritic, with incredible quality. They have taken racing games and they've dominated them these last few years. They're very smart and they know what they're doing. They wanted to branch out with something different and they thought that what they do well is open world racing games, [but] they lacked people with the knowledge of how gameplay is done. In an open world, how you control a character and the actions are very different from what you have in a racing game. At the technology level, you have to develop animation, scripting, a quest system. Moving in a car at 300 kmh has very different requirements than walking through the countryside."
Lisäksi Playground Games on halunnut pitää kehitystiiminsä mahdollisimman pieninä. Taktiikka onkin toiminut hyvin, mutta on nyt ongelmissa Fablen kanssa.
"Action RPG open worlds are incredibly complicated to do, they take a lot of time. A lot of people and in Playground they have the mentality of doing more with less, that if Assassin's Creed is done by 5000 people they will have 150 or 200, and if they do [Assassin's Creed] in 7 years, they'd do Fable in 5. It is good to be ambitious but you also have to be realistic and what I saw is that [development] was getting longer and longer."
Ei ole tiedossa, koska seuraava Fable on määrä julkaista.