The new Fable, this time rebooted by Forza Horizon maker Playground Games, is surprisingly faithful to Lionhead Studios' original classics despite coming more than a decade after the last mainline game, right down to the fact that you can become a property hoarder and buy every single building in the open world of Albion. But the studio's general manager says the feature was basically one of the "requirements" the devs held on to from the first trilogy. "So that detail needs to persist outside the house and inside the house as well," Fulton continued. "You can buy that house, you can live in it. That was, again, like one of those kinds of requirements that we took from the original games, that's something that people will really want to do. So again, that kind of forms the approach we've taken to world building, to environment building, and this process." How Fable's open world fantasy lets you meddle in the lives of over 1000 living NPCs New Fable developer Playground "got a treasure trove of documents" from original creator Lionhead "in storage" Fable's open world has over 1000 NPCs, much to the horror of the RPG's art team who had to make a bed for all of them Playground Games is staying faithful to Lionhead's OG vision in a bunch of other ways too. There's loads of chickens to chase and kick, obviously, plus you can romance, marry, build a family with, and then divorce nearly all of its 1,000 NPCs - it helps that the studio had a "treasure trove" of design documents leftover from the classic Xbox games. Sorry, the Fable reboot doesn't feature a dog companion, Playground lead confirms: "I was hoping that nobody would ask that question"