The annual Electronic Entertainment Expo is once again upon us and this year is shaping up to be a strange one. First and foremost, Sony isn’t showing up. Even though it has what is arguably the biggest game of the year set for release this fall, it’s sitting this one out. That’s a huge void to fill, but with a new console generation on the horizon and Nintendo Switch in full swing, I imagine there won’t be a shortage of excellent reveals and news coming out of this year’s show.
Of course, part of the buildup to E3 is fan speculation. Which titles would we like to see announced at the show? We’re always down for what’s unknown, but there is always a part of us that wants to see a new entry in a franchise we love. For the past two years of this feature, I’ve mostly focused on Nintendo. In 2019, I want to see big things out of Microsoft. Specifically, I want to see Fable 4.
Now, when I originally wrote this lede, Fable 4 hadn’t been potentially leaked by Mixer on Xbox One. So things are looking good. But the reason I choose a new entry in the Fable franchise for my 2019 wish and not, say, The Wonderful 102 is Microsoft has been making all the right moves behind the scenes over the past year or so. It’s bought up some of the biggest names in AA game development, including Obsidian Entertainment, inXile Entertainment, and Ninja Theory. Now, the rumor for Fable 4 is it’s being developed by Playground Games, another fresh Microsoft acquisition, but I can only hope the RPG masters at Obsidian and inXile are lending a hand creating it and the studio is working with the same tech Ninja Theory used to make the spectacular looking Hellblade.
I’ve never owned an Xbox but one of my roommates in college had a 360. I was blown away by the potential of Fable and maybe now, with its creator out of the way and so many wonderful developers working under the same umbrella, we might actually get a game that meets that potential.
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