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Ryuu96 said:

It leans more realistic but Fable always had a weird blend of cartoony/realism, Fable 2/3 moved more towards realism but Fable still has the exaggerated buildings, the colour and the brightness. Same design in Oakvale and Bowerstone as previous titles. Turn the saturation up and add some flowers and it's not drastically different, Lol.

But here is Bowerstone in Fable 2.

Versus Bowerstone in Fable 26

I think the environments/buildings aren't that much different, in fact I prefer Fable 26's Bowerstone to all the others. It does appear as though enemy design has taken a much more realistic approach though. As for character design, I'm fine with the change there, a lot of Fable's NPCs in the past looked fricking awful, Lmao.

To be brutally fair, I was basically an Xbox fan around that time of the 360 gen, and I saw most of the games during that era, all mostly having this washed out/brown or blue tint to the overall colour palette (and you even see this in the old shots of Fable 2 that you're showing).

Peter had Fable 1 as a very cartoony, stylised game, 2 ended up going for a hybrid look, with washed out colours (for some random reason that was a trend at the time). By the time of 3, it's characters had largely taken more humanoid "irl" shapes, colours were even more muted, a ton of bloom was shoved in, and character customisations were more limited in 3 than what you could do in 2 (they even locked you to a "room" where you changed your outfits/dyes, which feels like a setback imo).

The upcoming Fable is taking more of a slightly stylised approach, but with some fantasy realism being thrown into the mix.

I'm still more for the style in what we got with Fable 1. Yeah the humans looked a bit off, but that was the kind of charm I liked about them all looking and acting differently. It's why I love indie games with differing art styles, that don't revolve around high fantasy with irl looking shading (Games like Omensight really pop with their choice of art style, shading and lighting).