Richard Ayoade features in Fable 4 trailer at Xbox Games Showcase

After months of silence, Playground and Xbox finally showed off Fable 4 during the Xbox Games Showcase, though despite mention that you can “play it day one on Xbox Game Pass,” there’s still no hint of a Fable 4 release date.

It’s also not really Fable 4. It’s just Fable. Rumors swirled that the Playground team looked to The Witcher for inspiration, there’s no hint of dark fantasy in the new Fable trailer. British comedian Richard Ayoade narrates the trailer as Dave the Vegetable Enthusiast with a lengthy monologue about the annoying habits of heroes, including high cheekbones and a propensity to mess around with mythical creatures.

While Ayoade’s character goes on about how much he detests heroic behavior, we see a hero herself navigating a colorful, gorgeous world and dealing with a few hecklers along the way. There’s dangerous beasts, ye olde villages, and plenty of Fable’s signature quirky humor – and then it turns out the hero is actually in Ayoade’s house. She’s tiny, or he’s massive, and a Jack and the Beanstalk-style chase ensues, before the trailer ends with our hero sitting on a massive pair of glasses.

What’s going on is anyone’s guess, but hopefully we’ll see more about Fable 4 in the coming months – including a release date.

Written by Josh Broadwell on behalf of GLHF