My memories of the original Fable are of a game that was a victim of its own hype. Not a bad game by any means, but not quite the experience that was promised by an over-enthusiastic Peter Molyneux.

At Gamescom, Polygon had the opportunity to play a 30-minute Fable demo behind closed doors. It was focused solely on combat: An early game quest took me, alongside a dry-witted character named ...

A wise old bard once shut his eyes, entered a trance-like state and advised his audience in a cloud-piercing tenor, “Doooon’t stop…bee-lieeeevin’!” Though his words echo down to the present from tens ...