Submitted by: Nick Rathman at 03/06/07
For some reason, probably due to special request, the Kotaku article is no longer there. It just takes you to the front page, but thankfully, with the help of the digg user danc4498, we were able to retreive the article. Here it is:
I'm sitting in a small room with Peter Molyneux listening to him talk up Fable 2.
There are, he tells me, three big things coming to the sequel to his role-playing game, but he only wants to talk about one of them today: Love.
Love, Molyneux says, comes in three general flavors in the game. There is the appreciation the wide world feels toward your character as he lives and fights in their world. There is the ability to make love and make babies. Yes, you can be both a man or a woman and if you're a woman, you can get pregnant. A first, he believes, for a main character in an RPG.
But the big thing, one of the biggest parts of Fable 2, will be the introduction of a dog to the game. Not just any dog, but your dog. The dog will be faithful to you and will have a deeply nuanced artificial intelligence so you won't actually control your dog at all. Instead your dog will act as a sort of living HUD. The game has no map, no other user interface on screen. Instead you will have to rely on the dog and what he sees and does.
You also will control the dog by your own actions. A great example. You come upon two bad guys and pull our your gun (yes, the game has guns) and the dogs knows automatically attack the closer targets.
Molyneux showed us much more about this amazing dog character, but I'll have to dig into it later in another post. Keep in mind this feature is already 100 percent implemented, meaning it has to be in Fable 2, at least in some sense.
On to Conan. Brian Crecente
Some very cool game elements being revealed, afterall who doesn't want to make virtual love? Time will tell if Peter actually holds up to his promises, unlike some of the features for other Lionhead games (missing features in black and white 2 anyone...).
Until we get a official press release or anouncment or some such thing, im going to have to call this more of a rumor.
Incase it comes back up: http://wwww.kotaku.com/gaming/fable-2/fable-2s-big-thing-a-pet-dog-241952.php
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