Peter Molyneux Insists His New Game Isn’t Set in the World of Fable, Despite Being Called Masters of Albion | gamescom 2024
Peter Molyneux is back, this time with a new god game called Masters of Albion that he’s talking up at gamescom 2024. Sound familiar? Anyone who’s played Fable, one of the many games from Molyneux’s much-loved back catalog, will know Albion well.
Albion is the setting for the Fable series, originally developed by legendary UK studio Lionhead before Microsoft shut it down in 2016. Microsoft is currently working on a brand new Fable game, in development at Forza Horizon maker Playground. So, is Masters of Albion a Fable game?
In a new interview with IGN, Molyneux explained his thought process:
“So Albion is the old English name for England and Wales and Cornwall. And I think it's a really interesting world. It's an interesting universe that Fable touched upon and really I think Albion in Masters of Albion, it extends and expands that, but it's not actually Fable 5 or anything like that.
“But if you've played Fable, then definitely Masters of Albion will be familiar to you. One of the things that we have got and we absolutely wanted a nail was the humor and a lot of what the humor is. I think in the Fable games, it's not so much about telling jokes, it's more about giving you the ability, the player, to do ridiculous and funny things. And we've got that in Masters of Albion in absolute spades really. I think we're really nail that.
“So there's a lot you can do with your hero, which is very funny. Some of it can be very cruel, some of it can be very kind. There's a lot you can do with your hand that can be kind and cruel. And I really love the detail that we can go into.”
IGN followed up to ask, directly, whether the Albion in Masters of Albion is the Albion players have explored in the Fable games.
Molyneux replied:
“Yes, yes. Fable was set in Albion, Masters of Albion is set in Albion.”
But how? Surely Microsoft might have something to say if Masters of Albion is set in the Albion from Fable?
Molyneux said Albion as a setting doesn’t belong to anyone.
“Albion is like saying if
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