I have realised I've got the PR equivalent of Tourette's. I can't help myself. It's the inability to downplay stuff - I have to get excited!

Oh my god, I am so, so stoked. Seriously you guys, have you seen this?! It's Fable 2! You all remember how totally sweet Fable was, yeah? Me too! Cause I made it! Ha ha!

I don't believe in going out and saying: 'we're going to create quite a good game.' I believe that what we're doing, with Fable 2, is thinking, right we've got to address all those things we did slightly wrong on Fable 1; we've got to make a bigger, better story, it's got to be an amazing world.

Okay so anyway this next one is gonna be even better, and like all that stuff that we left out of the first one last-minute because it was complicated or whatever? Totally gonna be in this one. I know, for real!

One of the main things is we've got to make this game jaw-droppingly beautiful. Sometimes darkly beautiful; beauty doesn't only mean green fields, but just stunningly beautiful. I came away from E3 just sick of seeing gunmetal shiny things and sewers.

Like, remember how we made your eyes all big and shiny in Fable, and everyone's faces kinda blocky like a Pink Pearl eraser, and then you could like, buy hair trading cards so you could have a totally badass ponytail? Right, so I had NO clue how we were gonna top that. But one night I totally had this brainstorm, and the security guys went out and got internet superstar Brian Peppers and we totally just scanned him with lasers like, right into the game! I know!

There has to be one big, big thing about Fable 2 that is going to shock and surprise people and that's what we've got, that's the exciting thing. And we're not ready to show it yet. I think it's going to be next year if I'm honest with you. It's a very, very big thing and if I told you about it, it's one word, and if I told you about it then you'd say: 'what are you talking about? It's another one of those Peter Molyneux moments.'

I'm serious, I totally can't tell you! Okay look...I'm just gonna pull a Molyneux here and totally blow off the NDA, because like, whatever, and you guys are totally my peeps, right? Okay, so get ready for this...the word, the ONE word? Is "otterpops".

Eliza Gauger

Interview with Peter Molyneux [Eurogamer, thanks Joooooonas]

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