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Seems Like Fable Anniversary's Coming to PC

It'd be nice if this means Microsoft's getting serious about the PC again.

Jun. 2 2014

Posted by: Patrick

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Fable Anniversary

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Microsoft serious about the PC?

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How about fable 2 first...

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Is that Peter Molyneux writing all those messages, asking to get Fable Anniversary to PC?

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Isn't Anniversary a huge bummer? Love the first game but don't remember exactly what scared me off from getting the anniversary game...besides the fact that I haven't played my 360 in 2 years.

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This is cool. Fable is cool.

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sorry about ur blackhawks, Klepek. it was a helluva series.

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@sammo21 said:

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I'm genuinely surprised that this is going to be a Steam release. I feel like Don Matrick wouldn't have gone for that or forced to be a Windows Store game.

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B-but what about Fable 2?

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That was a clever teaser I guess.

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I found this trailer quite humorous

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Whenever I see someone talking about how Microsoft should do more for PC gaming I cringe. Microsoft doing more for PC gaming is what got us GFWL.

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Fable is always pretty okay, but Microsoft serious about PC? I HIGHLY doubt that's going to happen. I wouldn't mind them trying to prove me wrong, I just don't see it happening.

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CHICKEN CHAYSA

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Good news because the 360 version didn't look like it ran very well.

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Meh, Fable was a pretty mediocre game back when it was new.

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Finally without the framerate issues.

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So did everyone else have issues with Fable 3 on the PC? I could never get it to run well on two different machines. Hopefully this will be better optimized.

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How curious.

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I don't care about Fables 1 or 3. Just port Fable 2 to PC.

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@scraz said:

How about fable 2 first...

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What the hell, I thought Microsoft and Steam had beef at the moment.

Also I find it slightly hard to believe that this has come about from heavy demand???

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Good stuff, I will probably play this.

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This was a pretty awesome way to announce a release/port for PC. Maybe that's just me thinking that though. It's also nice to see that Microsoft is obviously pushing it through steam. Hopefully that means we can see more PC stuff from them in the future on the platform that matters for PC.

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Gotta milk that franchise bone dry, till the very last drop. Good job Microsoft.

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Pretty well done teaser. Not sure how the original Fable holds up but I remember enjoying it back when it was released. I've heard mixed things about the anniversary edition but at least being on steam means it'll be on sale at some stage in the future. Might pick it up then.

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They could have been Steam themselves if they gave half a shit. Now that their dream of ruling all living room media through the Xbox is effectively dead they might return to the PC in a stronger way.

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Wait, wrong British thing...

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Yeah, "again".

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Clearly those messages were fake. Not one incorrect spelling on all those messages? Someone was bound to spell anniversary wrong.

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If this leads to a PC port of Fable 2 then I am excited.

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Considering how fucked Fable Anniversary was on the Xbox 360, my expectations are so low that I will be happy if it just runs in a stable manner.

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@jeanluc: Kind of where I'm at. It's the only version I've loved.

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This is pretty cool, I am glad Microsoft is putting games out on Steam and also supporting the PC (yes not all games, but games like Fable, Age of Empire 2 HD, Rise Of Nations etc, this is a step in the right direction from my point of view). Huzzah!

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Microsoft have been putting a whole lot of their older library on Steam recently - Age of Mythology, Rise of Nations and next week we'll be getting Close Combat. So, yeah, looks like someone there has started to realize there's an interest in their back catalog on PC.

Personally I'm hoping for Steam multiplayer capable versions of Hellbender, Starlancer and Freelancer.

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Why the hell would I want the anniversary version..isn't that just Fable 1? I want Fable 2 damn it!

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If this somehow leads to a Fable 2 on PC I'm happy.

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Being serious about the PC is releasing a 6 month old remake of a 10 year old game? Whatever you say Klepek. Fable 1 is better than Fable 2 though.

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I didn't like Fable.

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Make this exact same video for Halo, Microsoft.

Then we'll talk.

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I never played the first Fable, maybe I'll grab this one eventually... Also yeah -- I'd love to replay Fable 2 on the PC.

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WOW I never thought this would happen, yay!

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Good news, original Fable was a sweet game.

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@carg0 said:

sorry about ur blackhawks, Klepek. it was a helluva series.

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Really hopes it plays ok on the PC, it ran really poorly on the Xbox 360 with constant fps dips.

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I love fable the way it looked already I just want fable 2 on PC

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If that trailer is indicative of the kind of comments that they get, then I think PC gamers shouldn't be allowed Fable Anniversary until they can use capital letters in sentences correctly.

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Release Fable 2 as well and we'll be getting somewhere. Still ridiculous that Fable 1 and 3 are on the PC but not 2.