Lionhead-medarbejderne så ikke studiets lukning komme

En af de største nyheder i de seneste par måneder var at Microsoft først annullerede Fable Legends, og derefter lukkede og slukkede for det traditionsrige udviklerhus, Lionhead Studios, som arbejdede på spillet. Hvad man ikke vidste dengang var dog, at medarbejderne ikke så lukningen komme. Eurogamer kommer i en af deres artikler bag om lukningen af studiet, som i sin tid blev stiftet af Peter Molyneux.

"People were happy that Legends was coming to a close. We never really expected Legends to last a long time, but we never expected them to cancel it. "The biggest shock was the closing of the studio though. It felt as that because Microsoft hadn't had the best year with their games that we took the brunt of the attack, rather than a big studio such as 343.

"The biggest stab in the heart though was that for roughly six years the studio had pretty much been tasked to develop games that Microsoft wanted us to make to show off tech. Very few people wanted to make Fable: The Journey and almost nobody wanted to work on Fable Legends.

"It felt like the time was right to finally make that Lionhead 2.0 claim and build the game everyone wanted to play and we all wanted to make - Fable 4. We had some amazing in-house tech by the end, a foliage system to rival any other engines and a dynamic global illumination system which looked beautiful."

Så internt i Lionhead, havde man en forventning om at Fable Legends bare var en bump på vejen hen i mod Fable 4. Desværre kommer vi nok ikke til at opleve et nyt Fable-spil foreløbigt, men man ved aldrig om Microsoft en dag genopliver den charmerende serie.

Hvad synes i? Kunne det have været fedt at få Fable 4 eller Legends?