„We wanted to craft every one of these NPCs from their name, to their appearance, to their personality traits . to where they work and where they live and what their family unit is“
On Thursday evening, we finally got the chance to take a closer look at Fable and check out lots of gameplay, and it was also revealed that it will be released in the fall (and that it will also be coming to PlayStation 5).
One thing that was mentioned during the presentation was that Albion is populated by approximately 1,000 people, who were described in the video as „handcrafted.“ This caused quite a stir, as it is a staggering number of people to manually create, especially if they are all to have their own personality, clothing style, and so on, particularly when you can cut corners with AI.
IGN wanted to know more about this and asked Playground Games boss Ralph Fulton about it, and he replied that there is actually no cheating involved, which he seems very proud of:
„Yeah, so they are handcrafted. There’s a lot of things about the way we have built the living population, which I think you could be forgiven for saying is just nuts.
