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Molyneux is obviously infamous for over promises and under delivering, but Fable (Fable, Fable The Lost Chapters, etc.) had such a special place in my heart.

An amazing game with raunchy wit, moving story, and great fantasy world building. The music still rattles through my brain and I still occasionally say, "Do you chase chickens, Chicken Chaser?".

I really enjoyed the games, but especially Fable and Fable TLC (which was an extended chapter at the end which changes the ending and takes you to a talked about continent that the base game did not).

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Lionhead made amazing games, and it’s annoying that Molyneux had to hype them until they were certain disappointments.

I liked Fable, and while Black and White committed the sin of being two RTS games without multiplayer it remained really interesting and just a fun experience. But the game that really had me was The Movies. Its story mode was fun, but the movie maker within the game was really something different for a young teenager’s imagination. That is a game I’d really want to see rebuilt with modern tooling and hardware.

I loved The Movies, putting together weird campy films that I was proud of and received poor reviews from the in-game critics, heh.

I can still hear the excellent soundtrack in my head.

Black & White 1 does have multiplayer, only the sequel lacked it.

You had to beat level 1 and start level 2, and most people didn't because the anti-piracy was utterly brutal and would kick in at the transition from level 1 to 2, locking out even people who had legal copies.

(It would count any CD burning software being installed as meaning it was pirated, it also couldn't work properly on Windows 2000, and almost always detected as pirated on ANY NT kernel, most of the cracks didn't work either, since again you had to actually beat level 1 to find out if it thought you were a pirate, and a lot of crack teams didn't test that far)

The Guardian story misses out Louise Murray’s role in rescuing Fable

https://www.eurogamer.net/lionhead-the-inside-story

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