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Fable 2 Unraveling in October?

Peter Molyneux has wanted to tell gamers when they can expect his studio's next ambitious Xbox 360 title for quite some time now. Never one to temper the lavish melodrama surrounding his titles, the celebrity designer has repeatedly hinted that his open-world fantasy role-playing game Fable 2 will be out this holiday season, saying at different times that gamers can expect to be playing it "when the leaves turn brown," or more specifically, "when the evenings draw in, and it gets a little chilly, but not very chilly at night."

That's helpful information to be sure, but not helpful enough, to say the least, for the highly anticipated follow-up to one of the original Xbox's best-selling titles. Now, Molyneux may have dropped one more hint as to when the world of Fable 2 will open for occupancy, this time not the least bit circumlocutory. Spotted by the gaming-obsessed souls that call the NeoGAF message boards home, the opening scene of the sixth Fable 2 developer diary gives a not-so-subtle hint that the game will appear on Microsoft's platform in October.
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Fable 2 Slated for October ... - xbox360.thegamereviews.com | By: Relin
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Published: 554 days 6 hours ago | Rumors | Xbox 360
 
 

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jay2 - 554 days 6 hours ago
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Well Lionhead does want to release it between mid September to late October.
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NO_PUDding - 554 days 6 hours ago
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Why is that?

I was just about to say, it's not official, so they are obviously not sure yet. No press releases, so it can be taken back fairly easily.
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TheHater - 554 days 6 hours ago
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Dam I was hoping this game was going to come out in September. Me sad now
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jay2 - 554 days 5 hours ago
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I've BETA tested the game, and the plan has always been last 2 weeks in Sep to the last week in Oct.
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mintaro - 554 days 3 hours ago
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So how is it?
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Superfragilistic - 553 days 19 hours ago
3.2 - @mintaro
That's why we have NDAs! lol ;)
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green - 553 days 19 hours ago
3.3 - superfragillistic
how can someone become a video game tester?what criteria are you required to fill?
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Superfragilistic - 553 days 18 hours ago
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I'm not in QA but in a separate part of the business (we all have NDAs though!). Check your inbox ;)
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Highwayman - 553 days 17 hours ago
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This interests me because I don't think a BETA tester would know.....perhaps you do. I was under the impression that PM was the only one who knew of the release date and all of that...

Anyways that video I painstakingly read that message and I believe I came up with what it said. There is a chance, of course that I'm wrong, but here goes.

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Build stabilitys
Game fitting on D.V.D [contingency]
planning on size
F2 accepting cliffs
searching $750
4.25 (this is the part that is scratched out.)
Destination in doubt.
October

Anyways this is what I gather from it. None of it makes much sense and probably wasn't meant to either. Except for October.
I knew it would be released in October.
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BIoodmask - 554 days 3 hours ago
4 - I'm really
looking foward to Fable 2. I really like the art style. It kind of reminds me of Lord of the Rings.
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Silogon - 553 days 19 hours ago
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Very interesting game if they can pull of the ambitous nature of it. It is one of those games that you love the art direction more than the graphics. I hope this game comes thru for us cause fable was a bit of a let down in the end.

What I was more interested in than anything was B.C. myself. They should get on that again cause the power of the xbox 360 could really make that game come alive.
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Superfragilistic - 553 days 18 hours ago
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Too Human releases 19th August in US and 29th in Europe giving it plenty of room from other MS titles.

At the moment we have the following estimated schedule

August - Too Human
September - Viva Pinata 2
October - Fable 2
November - Gears 2
December - Banjo 3

I'm happy to speculate that we may see at least two unannounced titles plus Halo Wars also released somewhere in those five months.
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squallsan - 553 days 18 hours ago
7 - Damn
that's a lot of games not including stuff like Infinite Undiscovery, Last Remnant, Halo Wars and Left 4 Dead. Looks like the 360 has some top notch exclusive stuff for the holidays-- seems to be a little there for everyone too.
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Superfragilistic - 553 days 17 hours ago
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Yeah I completely excluded the third party exclusives and there's a couple of 1st party exclusives to surprise everyone at E3. :)
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NO_PUDding - 553 days 17 hours ago
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And they'll be out at the end of the year?

I doubt it, unless it's made very quickly.
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NO_PUDding - 553 days 16 hours ago
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Well, I am a PS3 fanboy somewhat, but I certainly have a bad feeling Sony won't annoucne anything, so the stage is set for MS to steal the show again this year.

LBP can't have it's effect twice. But I certainly think thus far Sony has a better line-up and Microsoft will need to add to be able to steal the show.
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slugg - 553 days 13 hours ago
8 - Not a surprise, really....
Its been listed in Gamestop's computer as an October release for months.
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