As to why I said Fable could of been a Zelda-Killer in my eyes:
Fable, like Zelda, has a great easy-to-get combat mechanism. Both are over-the-head adventure games with RPG elements - Zelda has HP in the form of hearts, and so on. Fable is more RPG than Zelda, but I feel that Fable is the RPG simplified (as Zelda is the casual RPG perfected). Thats merely the way I viewed them.
Having said that, Fable wasn't nearly as good as what I hoped, because the length of the game was poor (for what it could of been), and the story was very weak. It's a bad game when you have non-gaming friends doing Fable Speedruns on their second playthrough.
Will Fable 2 sell well? Yes. It's going to sell very well. Go look at the "top 5" list - Mass Effect was the last game to have that high of dominance, and we know how that went. Fallout 3, on the X360, should sell atleast 2m copies worldwide (if not more), and Fable 2 is beating it by about 1.5:1 at the moment.
I don't "get" the Fable hype, as Fable was the biggest letdown of last-gen for me. F2 looks promising, and I will GLADLY agree that it looks very promising. But after failing on F1...I won't build anticipation for it. I'd say, of the 9 RPGs coming out this year, it *might* be #5 on a good day.
Back from the dead, I'm afraid.
