Fable 3 Features John Cleese As Butler

Greg Tito

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Fable 3 Features John Cleese As Butler



Peter Molyneux dropped some details about Fable 3, the biggest reveal of which is that John Cleese will be playing your butler.

At GDC 2010, Peter Molyneux gave a panel called Intuitive Design. He joked that he had to call it that so that GDC would let him talk about Fable 3 [http://www.amazon.com/Fable-III-Xbox-360/dp/B002I0JGDM/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=videogames&qid=1278970462&sr=1-2] during a panel. Molyneaux introduced a lot of details on the new touch system and the emphasis on story and action, but the best tidbit was that John Cleese is providing the voice for your slightly sarcastic butler.

In attempt to move away from 2D lists and menus, Fable 3 has a 3D graphical user interface that you can access at any time. For example, you have a dressing room which you can enter to change your clothes.

"If you find new clothes, they go into your dressing room. And we have a character in here - am I talking about this? Am I making this announcement?" Molyneaux asked lead designer Josh Atkins. "We have a character in here, he is your butler. He is like a cross between Jeeves and Gordon from Batman. We were really inspired by this idea that were making a Monty Python-esque humored game. A lot of people talked about Fable 2 having his crazy Monty Python humor.

"So we went out and got John Cleese as your butler," Molyneaux said to a massive wave of applause from the audience of game designers.

Unfortunately, we were not able to hear any Cleese-isms at the panel as they are still locking down the rights, according to Molyneaux. But Cleese has been recording a massive amount of dialogue and Molyneaux said that he will offer advice on your apparel, somewhat sarcastically.

"Message for you, sir."

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"I come from Molyneux. I know Naaathing!

Actually, making your character look like Andrew Sachs could be amusing for some ultimate payback.
 

Sparrow

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Holy shit.

That's awesome. Seriously, I have no other words. That's just awesome.
 

sunami88

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Everything is better with John Cleese!

Oh wait... [http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0970416/]

But to be fair, there's nothing Molyneaux could say to get me interested in Fable again...
 

Jack and Calumon

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...All of a sudden I want to get a 360. Forget Gears and Halo... Fable 3 has John Cleese!

Calumon: I'm in Fable 4! ^^
 

TheNumber1Zero

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Okay, I may need to get this game for John Cleese alone

He did both Monty Python and Fawlty Towers, and that's just what I know about.
 

Smiles

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well... i guess that might make me buy fable three... although ive been very disappointed so far...
 

Cherry Cola

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"I can do whatever I want. I'm eccentric. Grr! "

Sounds like my kind of Butler!
 

wordsmith

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Please tell me that when you load up a new character- "And now, for something completely different"
 

funksobeefy

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well, ok... I do like the monty python series. But Im more interested in what time period they're going to set the game in
 

Onyx Oblivion

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SOLD!

I was already getting it...Fable 2 exceeded my low expectations.

Sorry for the low content post...but that's all I have to say.
 

reg42

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sunami88 said:
Everything is better with John Cleese!

Oh wait... [http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0970416/]

But to be fair, there's nothing Molyneaux could say to get me interested in Fable again...
To be fair, he did fuck all in that movie.

You know what else John Cleese is in? The movie of this book, which has 2 people from my school playing lead roles. Now, I dunno about you, but I think that's FREAKING AWESOME!
 

Woodsey

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So what?

Try making a good game first. I can just watch some Python if I want to see John Cleese, his voice in a game does not persuade me to part with £45.
 

Sethzard

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If i get that game, it will be in no small part for this
 

ProtoChimp

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Oh, FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK!

I promised myself I would never by anything by Molyneux again but John Cleese can sell anything, even if it will be massively dissapointing and inevitibly shit.
 

Icehearted

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Wouldn't this be funny if it was just Molyneux blowing hot air as usual, and it were say, John Cleats, the Lionhead janitor or something.
 

Proteus214

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Now if they could also get the rest of the Pythons to play bit parts including Graham Chapman's urn as the lovely vase on the mantle...