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The Reason There Will Never Be A Fable 2 PC Port

Ever since Fable 2 was released for the Xbox 360, fans have been asking for the developer to create a PC version of the successful sequel. In 2010 Fable 3 was released for console systems and the PC version of Fable 3 is due out in 2011. Fans look back to the original game and there was both a console and PC version. That has lead fans to wonder, if there hasn’t been a Fable 2 PC version by now, will there ever be one?

When the first Fable was released on console systems, the original developer realized that they had such a hit game. They decided that they would need to port the game over to the PC due to this fact. They followed up the successful original game with a sequel, Fable 2. This game was originally released on console systems as well. But for an unknown reason, a computer version of the game wasn’t released afterwards. Then in 2010 came Fable 3 and the follow-up computer version in 2011.

To this day, Fable 2 still only has a console version of the game. In 2009, Lionhead Studios stated that the sequel had also been so successful that they would eventually be forced to port the game over to the PC. That never happened though. That same year a Lionhead Studios development team member was quoted as saying that the team was not currently working on a Fable 2 PC port and there were no plans to do so. This was in contradiction to what the ‘official’ developer statement was, but it proved to be true.

If Lionhead Studios never goes back to create a computer version of the sequel, it would not be the first developer to abandon a particular gaming platform in the middle of a game series. The developer of the Gears of War series, Epic, did the same thing as well. When the first Gears of War game came out for consoles they also released a PC version of the game. But when they created the sequel, Gears of War 2, they told the gaming community that they had no intentions of creating a computer version of the game, ever. Read more

2011
04/28
CATEGORY
Gaming
Role Playing
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An Introduction to Forum Role Playing

As children we all played role playing games. Even if you weren’t into the latest rpg on the Nintendo, you still engaged in role playing every time you play dress up or make believe. This playful practice was formalized into an actual game with rules when wizards of the coast introduced Dungeons and Dragons to the market. From there a variety of spin of card games, board games, and video games ensued. One of the most interesting incarnations is the creation of forum role playing games however.

A forum is a place where people can go online to have discussions with other people from around the world. The software lets them post answers and responses to one another in tandem, either using flat or threaded style formatting.

The role playing takes place when members of the forum each take on the identity of a fictional character. They then work together, responding back and forth in order to tell a story, which moves progressively forward as the various members respond to one another’s inquiries.

As the story progresses the players can use either standard literary style to tell the story with quotation marks going around verbal responses from the character, while unenclosed text is used to indicate actions. In other forms, the text will be enclosed in some sort of literary marks, while the actual verbal responses are left unenclosed. The style you play will be determined by the specific site and its community guidelines. Read more

2011
04/25
CATEGORY
Role Playing
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