File that one under "oops, my bad".
Fable 2, in my opinion, suffered the unfortunate circumstance of being far too big for the britches it was trying to wear, and while it was decent, it wasn't the groundbreaking blockbuster everyone said it would be. Of course, some of this may be my own personal bias - developer shops with prominent front men making grandiose statements like Molyneux does tend to turn me off moreso than to tune in (for others, see: CliffyB and Mark Jacobs, and dare I say Shigeru Miyamoto is creeping dangerously close).
I guess I'm just a nuts and bolts guy. I like to se proof i the pudding - kind of like Jonathan Ross actually tweeting about Fable 3. Still, it'll be worth a Gamefly rental once it's out.