What most games do in their introduction is show the player the ropes to the basics of combat, starting with simple tasks like drilling through pink corals in Bioshock 2 or beating the hell out of a smattering of monsters with the basic sword attack in Darksiders. While some games do take their time in this area for the sake of immersion, like for example Mass Effect 2, no game in recent memory has taken a long half an hour for the player to get to try out the combat like Fable III is en route to later this year.

Expressing his concern on Twitter, Lionhead’s Creative Director Peter Molyneux shared the following: “Been playing the opening of Fable III, I am slightly worried that there is no combat for the first 30 mins. Is this too long? Thoughts.”

Naturally, if the first half an hour of a game is filled to the brim with cut scenes, few players would endure through it, so it all boils down to what the player will be doing in that time in Fable III. Since the Molynator revealed that gathering support from fellow residents will be an integral part in the first half of the game, our bet is we’ll be making a lot promises.

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