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I never actually played Fable 2 (it never came to PC) but 1 was decent for its time, and yeah, 3 kind of fell apart. (You get to what seems like the halfway point, then the rest of the game plays out in a few minutes, entirely through menus, and is super boring.)
But mostly I'm finding it hard to imagine how a new take on this would stand out in today's market. It's, let's see, a third-person action game with RPG elements tacked on. The setting is...generic western fairytale fantasy. I'm not saying the game couldn't be good, but what would be distinctive about it? Having people call you "chicken chaser"? What is the contribution of the "Fable" pedigree here, apart from Molyneux baggage?