Lionhead: Fable criticism 'destroyed' team

Criticism aimed at Fable: The Journey ‘destroyed’ producers Lionhead.

Lionhead creative director Gary Carr said the studio came under fire following an underwhelming demonstration of the game at E3 2011.

Carr told CVG how affected the studio was by the negative comments.

He said: “It destroyed them. You get very excited when something is very embryonic, and when you’re building something at its very early stages.

“In the past we have shown things much more underdeveloped, much cruder, than the Fable: The Journey demonstration at E3 [2011]. But for some reason, it wasn’t resonating with people.”

Carr also spoke of possible reasons for the backlash.

He added: “I think the presentation itself is partly to blame. It looked a bit like some spammy shooter, but actually we were building this big world around it.

“You know, you have about two minutes 45 seconds to demonstrate what you’re doing. I know that a main problem people have is they think we’ve taken the Fable series and trivialised it.”

Fable: The Journey is a Kinect title set to launch 12 October on Xbox 360.