Peter Molyneux....
08:08:01 - Wilkommen, bienvenue, welcome to the Microsoft / Lionhead press conference.
08:09:16 - We're sitting in a big room in the Koelnmessse. There are medieval style-banners hanging from the walls - blue and red with crowns and fleur de lys on one side of the room, black with bloody eagle symbols on the other.
08:15:15 - Molynoire is on stage.
08:12:20 - Molynoire is talking about the success he's had so far. "I've got a little bit of an announcement about Fable II."
08:13:36 - It's something called "Fable episodic". As of September 29th, episodes 1 - 5 will be released.
08:14:38 - The first chapter will be free - when you get to the end of one you can opt to buy the next one, or buy the rest of the game.
08:14:52 - "Let's move on to talk about something else... FABLE III"
08:15:09 - "Now of course we're developing Fable III. We'd be insane not to." Check the Eurogamer front page RIGHT NOW, Fable fans!
08:15:27 - "The third child is always the problem child," says Peter.
08:15:44 - "The third game in the series tends to be a bit of a lull, you get bored of playing the character and the world..."
08:16:10 - "We want people to expect the unexpected. I want fans to say, 'Oi, you should clean up this from Fable 2" and so on.
08:16:42 - He wants to give us something really "new, fresh and different". In the first game, "We made a really good step forward with the dog" AAA STOP GOING ON ABOUT THE BLOODY DOG.
08:17:21 - "I think there's something fundamentally wrong with RPGs like Fable... It's a mechanic that's been there since the eighties. I'm going to take that foundation stone and throw it away."
08:17:38 - But he won't tell us what the foundation stone is today - he's leaving it as a "puzzle" for us. Thanks. Will it have a cat this time, Peter?
