News published on March 31st 2009
Mic-controls were tested for Fable II dog
In a chat with Stephen Totilo of MTV Multiplayer, Peter Molyneux has commented that both he and his team explored mic-control for the dog in Fable II.
“We did test it out,” remarked the Lionhead founder when questioned during GDC. “Whistling to the dog with the microphone was one of the features that we dropped.”
Molyneux went onto say that the reason voice-activation was dropped was because it felt more like a “gimmick” instead of offering true gameplay.
If you still want more Fable II, it was recently revealed that new DLC is just weeks away.
6 comments ↓
Seth
March 31st, 2009
Whistling to call the dog would have felt like a gimmick. Whereas the dog they put in the game felt like…. a gimmick. Whoops!
Steve :(
March 31st, 2009
SPOILERS
I liked the dog, I didn’t see the point in killing him at the END OF THE GAME!!
Thomas
March 31st, 2009
You could have chose to save him though Steve
Seth
March 31st, 2009
Steve is a greedy man.
Steve :(
April 1st, 2009
I honestly thought i’d be given something more worthwhile for choosing to bring back everyone who died.
But no the final decision was pointless as the game had ended.
Nathan W.
April 2nd, 2009
I wasn’t aware that it was possible to use the Xbox 360 headset as control input in games. It’s a shame it isn’t used more often.