Molyneux Hints at Fable Twitter Integration, Microsoft Quickly Dash Horrible Idea

Details of Fable III are beginning to trickle out. We’ve seen screenshots, received clues as to setting and artistic direction and been promised Basil Fawlty as a wardrobe assistant. In a talk this afternoon at GDC ’10, Peter “bold claims” Molyneux touched upon the previously teased system of “followers”, comparing its implementation in Fable III to Twitter’s spiralling network of sandwich updates.

“I Twitter now and, you know, I’ve got followers on Twitter”, said the Lionhead boss, sparking awful rumours net-wide of ham-fisted automatic updates informing friend lists as to the density and pungency of each Albion crowd-pleasing bum-whistle. Despite Molyneux’s misleading compliments for the social networking site’s “interesting mechanic”, Microsoft themselves were quick to reassure gamers that “Peter meant [...] he was inspired by the ‘followers’ mechanic on Twitter, and its influence can be seen specifically in the ‘Follower’ feature”.

Personally, the further we keep games from extending their meta-tendrils into Twitter and Facebook, the better. This year’s heavenly removal of Mafia Wars and Farmville notifications may just have been unbalanced had Molyneux’s flapping gums really meant that real world, spamming popularity was the key point of innovation in the upcoming iteration of Lionhead’s dog walking simulation.

Via: Joystiq