15 Fan Demands For The Fable Reboot
8. A Modern Open World
Think back to the original Fable, in particular the city of Bowerstone. In the original tests for the game, Bowerstone was a proud city with all districts in a single region of the game. Just under a hundred NPCs roamed that city, from school children to drunks to merchants and nobles and even a few other adventurers. Of course, fans of the series know it didn't end up that way. The realities of the hardware meant that Bowerstone was soon split into four chunks with substantially fewer people wandering around, and this trend continued into the later games of the series.
While this allowed the games to look quite beautiful and carry that darker fairy tale feeling with them in some places, modern games are just as capable of offering the same sorts of beauty within a streaming world filled with things to do. If the Fable reboot wants to be relevant as a next-generation experience it can't just look beautiful. It must offer the same sort of world that gamers have gotten used to in their RPGs, just filled with the classic Fable charm.