Ever since the new Fable got its big gameplay reveal in January, fans have been comparing it to the originals, and pointing out some of the beloved features from the Xbox and 360 trilogy that haven’t made the cut.<\/p>\n
One of those beloved features is the morality-based character morphing system, which altered the appearance of your character based on their actions in the world. For example, if you were \u201cgood\u201d you\u2019d spawn a halo over your head, but lace your acts with \u201cevil\u201d intentions and you\u2019d see devil horns sprouting from it.<\/p>\n
IGN spoke to Peter Molyneux, who led Fable developer Lionhead and who has just released his new game, Masters of Albion, into early access on Steam, to get his thoughts on the lack of the fan-favorite feature.<\/p>\n
\u201cYeah, that’s a real shame. I don’t know why they’ve done that,\u201d Molyneux said, before theorising what the reason may be. \u201cI mean, it’s hard to do that because to do it well in today’s incredibly high definition world just makes it more tricky. And to do that and to allow different genders, that doubles and triples your work. But I wonder if there is going to be a little bit of evil alignment and good alignment in there. I hope so.\u201d<\/p>\n
Well, there will<\/em> be a morality system in the new Fable, just one that is nowhere near as binary in its perspective of \u201cgood\u201d and \u201cevil\u201d compared to the original trilogy’s version. Earlier in 2026, IGN sat down with Playground founder Ralph Fulton to learn all about the new Fable. During that interview, he explained the studio\u2019s decision not to include the feature in the reboot.<\/p>\n \u201cThat sort of character morphing feature, obviously a really central part of the original games,\u201d Fulton began. \u201cIt’s not in ours. And I’ll tell you why. There’s probably a couple of reasons. One, I guess it’s about that high level principle I was talking about, that there is no objective good and evil. And the original games were predicated on there being an objective good and an objective evil, and you were somewhere along that scale, and that’s what determined how your appearance changed.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\nThe 100 Best Xbox Games of All Time<\/h3>\n