It’s important to say right from the get-go that I didn’t love Fable 3. I liked it in a lot of ways, and boy was I happy to hear Stephen Fry’s dashingly dapper Reaver lambast everyone in his immediate vicinity with insults that were dour and spirited in equal measure. But it was a real departure from the sheer debauchery that Fable 2 paraded around.

For some reason, Genshin has me constantly wondering about the new Fable game that Playground Games is working on. We know barely anything about this, mind. All of the good stuff appears to be locked behind a big fat Demon Door. One thing we do know, though, is that loads of people reckoned it was going to be an MMO. This was quickly debunked by Xbox insider Klobrille back in July, which is fair enough. New Fable’s not an MMO. We get the pict

Getting to Sunset House is actually a lot harder than opening the Demon Door that resides there. Players first need to spawn in Mourningwood and head to the right of its Demon Door through the water. Eventually, they'll get to an area with wooden walls, keep following it to arrive at a huge tree. Then go right again, and there should be a gate; that is the entrance to the Sunset House a

It's located in the snowy area just up from the lake. Players have to either marry their friend there (requires the Lover Expression pack) or go through all of the different positive expressions with them until the door opens. It can be fiddly, so if going for the expression method, the Joker expression pack might be nee

One of the more visually stimulating western RPGs from the sixth generation consoles, Jade Empire is still a fascinating RPG to jump into, albeit a bit dated. Still, the game is a lot of fun and uses Ancient Chinese mythology to build a compelling world filled with interesting charact

I’ve been a diehard Fable head for years. I even wrote an ode to the much-loathed but actually-very-interesting Fable 3 a couple of weeks ago. I know Fable 3 was weak in loads of ways, but it experimented with some weird shit, and I can respect that. Plus we’ve always got Fable Death Stranding 2 as a bonafide Perfect Game, so I don’t mind if Fable 3 isn’t the most replayable experience ever designed. Anyway, I digress — Fable 2 co-op was brilliant, wasn’t

I don’t reckon this option should be everywhere, either. It would be great for some areas to be exclusively single-player. Maybe we could have a designated PvP arena off in the shithole known as Aurora. The main thing here is that it’s a game designed to be experienced as a single-player narrative that takes partial credence from MMO design, where even when you’re on your own you can feel as if you’re playing something with an active and tangible community. This is nice with Genshin, but it would be particularly brilliant for something like Fable, where everything is just — forgive me for using this usually lazy but in this case especially accurate word — _ fun

The Demon Door in Mourningwood is situated next to a small village. Before approaching it, players need to make sure they have the level 5 melee or level 5 ranged skill. Once they do, they need to stand in front of the door and get either their melee or ranged weapon out (depending on which level 5 skill they have), and it should open. It can take a few tr

There have been plenty of rumors saying that Elden Ring will be appearing, albeit there have been rumors saying that about nearly every major industry showcase since the game's 2019 announcement. While just about everyone would love to get a glimpse at it, fans should keep their expectations in check regarding Elden Ring at E3 2021 as well as everything else on this list (below, in no particular ord

The quickest way to achieve that is to use the kingdom treasury — only accessible to Kings and Queens. Put a bunch of money into it, and the purity slider will move to the good side, whereas taking money from the treasury will have the exact opposite effect. Regardless of how they do it, as long as players are on one end of the scale, the door will open once they approach

I have been playing Genshin Impact for over a month and have yet to grow bored of the world it has to offer. It’s worth noting that this doesn’t mean I spend five hours a day wandering around Teyvat — often, I log in for 20 minutes or so just to box off my daily commissions and tackle a sidequest or two. I firmly believe that this is Genshin Impact’s greatest stren

Maybe it’s just me. I enjoy playing Final Fantasy 14 the odd time and liked Runescape when I was a kid, but aside from that I’m not a big MMO guy. Fable, though... Fable’s different. I remember spending entire days with friends just traipsing around Albion in split-screen, causing as mighty a ruckus as humanly possible. It’s probably the most enthusiastic I’ve ever been about playing a game, at least in terms of actively responding to it — laughing, shouting at the screen, calling NPCs names befitting their animated and imbecilic selves. I think having at least some online elements — preferably the exact ones I assigned to Genshin above — would allow us to really tap into that same experiential nostalgia that made Fable what it was. I don’t want loads of fetch quests tied to MMO grinding — which Genshin has lots of, but fortunately doesn’t force you into — or to have some leech come up and steal my loot after taking down a massive dragon lad or whatever. But I do want to be able to share the experience of playing Fable with other people, because that’s always what made Fable special, and different from other games. It just gave you and whoever you were playing with this mutual, magical sense of joy. Regardless of what Playground does with Albion, gnomes, and Reaver — _ please _ bring Reaver back — I reckon I’ll be delighted with the new Fable game once it lets me play through the story like the previous ones without locking me out of its unique form of co-op delinquency and debauch