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Fable III Won't Support Kinect At Launch

More time required for additional motion support.

You'll have to wait if you want your physical farts to translate into an action in Fable III, according to Lionhead Studios head honcho Peter Molyneux. The designer has confirmed with Joystiq that the third game in the RPG series will not launch with Kinect support. It will be added in later, perhaps, as the studio polishes up said support.

Molyneux explained that its Kinect component wasn't up to the quality that Lionhead needed it to be at, thus the delay. He yet again didn't specify what we'll be able to do with the hands-free controls, leaving us with no concrete impression on what's actually causing the hold-up.

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You already knew the game wouldn't support Kinect immediately. Fable III ships before the controller does in late October. But, it's sure odd that one of the early and more vocal supporters of Kinect tech won't ship his own game with support out of the box. You'd figure it would.

Joystiq spoke with Microsoft PR on the matter, and it confirmed that it can't talk about the Kinect stuff in the game. For now, we'll have to continue to wonder if physical-to-digital farting is truly possible.  

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lihtster

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How is Molyneux not tired of looking like a twat...

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Oh, awesome. I was worried Kinect might be at least somewhat central to the gameplay.

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lol.... kinect

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Edited By subrandom

Considering how tight lipped they've been about this support its not too shocking. Better this than the rush job that was done on Fable 2 Co-Op.

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wow
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I don't even understand what you'll be able to do with Natal in Fable III.

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Molyneux's lies continue.

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It will be added in "perhaps"? Yeah, that's totally going to happen.

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weird

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It's not going to deter me from buying the game.  I like the Fable series. 

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@Fragstoff said:
" ...and nobody cares if they ever do "
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Could not care less about this ever making it into Fable. Keep the flailing out of my real games.

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@Fjordson said:
" Could not care less about this ever making it into Fable. Keep the flailing out of my real games. "
Exactly. Same goes for any game typically played with a regular controller; why would you even want Kinect support? It would feel completely tacked on.
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3D and motion control is poo... very poo.
 
How about a piece of hardware that forces games pased on movie to be good? I'd buy that...

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That blows...

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Kinect needs to go away, waste of time and resources.

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Im glad! I have a really bad feeling about this Kinect...
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No real farting? :-( bummer

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The first thing I've heard that actually gives me much hope that this game will be worth a damn, other than Molyneux saying all his previous games were shit, which is true.

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With or without Kinect, can't wait for Fable 3.

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Oh, Peter Molyneux. Please leave this Kinect business alone. You already fail to deliver on your grand visions on a fairly regular basis. Please just focus on the actual game rather than all this arm waving frivolity.

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Does not bother me...I am not spending that much money on it...I will wait 12 months

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good, kinect is a gimmick, i'm glad it's not supported for this game.

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Great, I'm not planning on buying Kinect anyway, I've already got a Wii, and I only play Zelda on it every two years.

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Can you say "good?"  Really motion controls need the game to be designed around them from the ground up.  Plus the fact that I don't like the idea of needing a 150 dollar controller or standing up moving around for hours on end after working my job where I stand up and move around for hours on end just to play a game.

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No Kinect4 Fable 3 = awesome! 
Still, I'm bummed out that Fable 3 for the pc is getting delayed. Maybe they are porting Fable 2 and that is the reason for delay? (Probably not, I'm sure the Xbox division doesn't want pc sales (or pc piracy)  cutting into their sales or their piracy.
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who cares we are all going to buy that shit anywayh
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Who cares? Microsoft won't support kinect a few months after its release.

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 So Kinect support will be like Fable II's poor and disregarded gameplay?  

FTFY

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How the fuck can one even play an RPG like Fable with Kinect?

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Molyneux's streak of promising way more than he can deliver continues. Color me surprised.

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I would be the first to say KINECT is AWESOME  and for me DANCE CENTRAL OMG HAWTZ YEEEAH! HUZZAH WEWTZ PEW PEW! STOMP STOMP! That's  the reason I'm buying it, but will it go the way of the kin? As for Fable III does it need kinect support? I would say maybe it does. Peter Molyneux has some great ideas for these fable games. Ideas that may only be conveyed through a motion control system such as kinect. So I feel like it should be delayed and released as a complete package. :)

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Hrm.

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If I can pose my butt and fart and have the character imitate that on-screen, I'm freaking sold!  That is hilarious!

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Good, Kinect isn't going to be good anyway

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Kinda on par with the no coop at launch for Fable 2...

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Funny calling  Kinect a controller really. :)

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This should be pretty much standard for Molyneux.

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Is Microsoft pulling a Nintendo by releasing a new component to their system and not playing to put very many games out that actually take advantage of the new hardware.

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I wish they'd just leave Kinect out ot it. And not ruin it by having Fable 3 almost be like a kinect launch release.
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Really looking forward to this game

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I want to have hope for this game yet I cant trust  Peter Molyneux   for he lies so much...
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I could see me getting angry at kinect even though I have not experienced it. Minor ticks with a control pad piss me off enough, I wouldint let kinect ruin the game for me.

Maybe I'm being to hard on it but I fail to see how it can improve the experience, I hope they prove me wrong.

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Fable 3 with skateboarding would be rad. The dog could pull you like a sleigh!