{"id":427425,"date":"2026-02-15T18:44:17","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T18:44:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/427425\/"},"modified":"2026-02-15T18:44:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T18:44:17","slug":"i-felt-incredibly-emotional-peter-molyneux-shares-his-reaction-to-xboxs-fable-reveal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/427425\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;I Felt Incredibly Emotional&#8217; &#8211; Peter Molyneux Shares His Reaction To Xbox&#8217;s Fable Reveal"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.purexbox.com\/games\/xbox-series-x\/fable\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fable<\/a> has a historical place in Xbox&#8217;s history, particularly the first game with Peter Molyneux and Lionhead Studios at the helm back on the OG Xbox. Of course, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.purexbox.com\/games\/xbox-series-x\/forza_horizon_6\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Forza Horizon<\/a> developer Playground Games is making this year&#8217;s reboot &#8211; and following the team&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.purexbox.com\/news\/2026\/01\/fable-showcases-stunning-gameplay-deep-dive-arrives-on-xbox-pc-and-ps5-later-this-year\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">big reveal at Developer Direct<\/a>, Molyneux has shared his &#8220;emotional&#8221; response to last month&#8217;s gameplay.<\/p>\n<p>Talking with <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/f-me-this-thing-that-we-created-its-going-to-live-peter-molyneux-cried-watching-xboxs-new-fable-gameplay-reveal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">IGN<\/a>, Fable&#8217;s creator mentioned how &#8220;when I was watching the Fable trailer, I just felt myself tearing up [&#8230;] I know that I could probably be slaughtered for saying that, but I am someone who cries frequently, and I felt incredibly emotional&#8221;. Molyneux went on to talk about the things he loved during January&#8217;s gameplay deep dive:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This thing that we created, it&#8217;s going to live, it\u2019s going to carry on. This world, which we loved creating so much, and other people loved, has a life. [&#8230;] I thought it was really smart of them to retell Fable 1 rather than have the burden of continuing the Fable story. I loved seeing some of those references. I thought it was super smart to have the kid\u2019s family turn to stone. I thought that was really smart. And so those were all the plus points.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Despite such a positive, emotional response to seeing Fable back in action, the series&#8217; creator did mention a few pet peeves that cropped up during Playground&#8217;s showing. If Molyneux was being &#8220;critical&#8221;, he&#8217;d like to see &#8220;a little bit more of that character&#8221; that was present in the Lionhead games, but the legendary developer did go on to say that &#8220;they&#8217;ve got months and months to build in that character&#8221;; hinting how he&#8217;s hopeful that&#8217;ll be present in the final product.<\/p>\n<p>Molyneux isn&#8217;t involved with Fable anymore despite his connection to the series &#8211; instead, he&#8217;s working on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.purexbox.com\/news\/2026\/01\/fable-creators-masters-of-albion-gets-official-release-date-but-its-pc-only-at-launch\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Masters of Albion<\/a> with his own studio 22cans. It&#8217;ll be curious to see how both Fable and Masters of Albion sit with players when they release in the coming months!<\/p>\n<p>How do you feel about Peter&#8217;s response here? Talk to us about Fable in the comments section down below.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text source\">[source <a class=\"external\" title=\"External Link: https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/f-me-this-thing-that-we-created-its-going-to-live-peter-molyneux-cried-watching-xboxs-new-fable-gameplay-reveal\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/f-me-this-thing-that-we-created-its-going-to-live-peter-molyneux-cried-watching-xboxs-new-fable-gameplay-reveal\" target=\"_blank\">ign.com<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>\tRelated Games<\/p>\n<p class=\"avatar\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"img lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/1752511563_944_avatar.jpg\" width=\"80\" height=\"80\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Ben Kerry\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Ben is a News Writer at Pure Xbox, and is a fan of action, racing and straight-up shootin&#8217; in any Xbox game he can get his hands on. When he&#8217;s not clutching an Xbox controller like his life depends on it, Ben spends his time listening to music that&#8217;s far too old for him, watching football on the telly and probably eating somewhere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fable has a historical place in Xbox&#8217;s history, particularly the first game with Peter Molyneux and Lionhead Studios&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":427426,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[20886,59,156737,81393,144114,86,56,54,55,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-427425","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-fable","9":"tag-gb","10":"tag-lionhead","11":"tag-peter-molyneux","12":"tag-playground-games","13":"tag-technology","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-unitedkingdom","17":"tag-xbox"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=427425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427425\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/427426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=427425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=427425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=427425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}