Fable 2: Meet the Populous
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IGN: Are you free to kill any NPC in the game?
Carter: You're free to try! Like the first "Fable," we don't allow the player to ruin the story, emotion and game-play experience by killing off all the major NPCs. Imagine one of the rebels killing Darth Vader as soon as he walked through the door of their ship in Episode 4. Something tells me the film would have been an awful lot shorter. And not the 'good' kind of short, you know the 'He didn't make three more films after the damned Ewoks thing'. We're talking the 'Tom Cruise' kind of short. You know. annoying. So, we keep character reactions fairly realistic throughout the game, but there has to be a point where you say: "Hey don't miss this. This is more important than the fact that you want to set light to the guy's pants."
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IGN: Are there some NPCs that only offer quests that are "good" or "evil" or are there shades of grey with everyone and multiple routes to success?
Carter: Our NPCs vary from utterly lovely, kind, gentle people to complete hedonistic despots (and idiots. there are lots of idiots in "Fable 2"). One of our supporting characters is, as far as I know, one of the most evil people in videogame history far more evil than the main baddie. It'll be interesting to see how you deal with his particular challenge.
Since the player can configure the hero and the hero's abilities in a huge any number of ways, we've got to keep the goals clear and understandable, and complete-able by anyone, no matter what they've done with their hero. In general we've tried to ask: "You think you know who you are? Well. what would you do here, in this particular sticky situation?" As an aside, we had a weird bug recently where we realized we'd given all our population firearms by accident. A certain pair of villagers who had been captured went on a revenge spree after I released them. Really wasn't pretty. Sorry. you were asking something?
