As a British person (well, Scottish, but y'know), what you describe as the 'britishness' of Fable is still a selling point. In a world where just about every game is Americanised - even the games made here like GTA - and our own games heritage is sometimes forgotten* it's a rarity to see something which is so clearly steeped in the culture of Britain.
In the 80s our big systems were the c64 and spectrum. Somehow though you would get the impression that British kids of that era grew up playing the Atari and NES) games American kids did. They didn't, they grew up with British games for weird computers.
