Fable and Zelda are in entirely different genres. While it has taken a couple decades to come clean most gamers concede that Zelda is in no shape of form a RPG. Basically it was a bad classification, and giving it the honor of being some hybrid class was basically laughable. Zelda is an adventure title, and should be compared to other adventure titles. Otherwise you have to concede that Zelda as a RPG is about as piss poor as it gets.
When you look at it from that perspective Fable is a million miles beyond Zelda. I hope nobody misunderstands me I would love to see Zelda get some real RPG elements. That would add considerable replay to the games.
I doubt anything will kill Zelda anytime soon. Nintendo has played it safe with the series so much so you might say it is stagnant. I really did used to enjoy the series, but I am sick of the repetition at this point. Hell it doesn't look like its going to get any better until a game in the series bombs, and Nintendo is forced to innovate. That just isn't likely to happen, but as far as I am concerned just about anything kills Zelda at this point.







