Playground Games is now a reference studio for racing game enthusiasts, it is at the origin of the Forza Horizonarcade and open-world titles derived from Forza Motorsport of Turn 10. Corn the studio, which belongs to Microsoftis now working on a very different game: Fable.
Eh yes, the studio famous for its racing games is now developing a role-playing gameand even if he excels in the first genre, he has everything to learn in the second, despite the use of the engine Forza Techalready seen in Forza Horizon 5. According to certain hallway noises, Fable would not arrive before 2023, and this seems to be confirmed by Juan Fernandez, former game designer on the game who spoke with Vandal. He states thus:
Playground is very organized and production-oriented. Every two years they release a Forza Horizon that has over 90 on Metacritic, with incredible quality. They’ve taken running games and they’ve dominated them for the past few years. They are very smart and they know what they are doing. They wanted to branch out with something different and they know what they did well was open-world racing games, but they lacked people who know how the gameplay is done. In an open world, the way you control a character and the actions are very different from what you have in a racing game. At the technological level, you have to develop animations, scripts, a quest system. Traveling by car at 300 km/ha is very different from walking through the countryside.
Open-world action role-playing games are incredibly complicated to make, they take a lot of time. At Playground, they have the mentality of doing more with lessthat if Assassin’s Creed is made by 5,000 people, they will be 150 or 200, and if Assassin’s Creed is made in 7 years, they would make Fable in 5. It’s good to be ambitious, but you also have to be realistic and what i saw was that the development was getting longer and longer.
Juan Fernandez does not really criticize the way of doing things at his former studio, he recalls in passing that key recruitments have been made to develop Fablebut it is clear that Playground Games has a lot to learn while creating this roleplaying game, so fans will have to be patient before getting your hands on it. If all of this is correct, there’s a good chance the title won’t make the headlines in 2022… Fable are as a reminder playable via the computer/Xbox Game Passthe subscription costs €29.99 for three months.
| Clint008 Writer – Tester |
