United Kingdom, Sept. 17 -- Fable developer Playground Games had a decade to work on the reboot because Xbox view the title as "vital" to its DNA.

Ralph Fulton, who has served as the director for the iconic franchise's upcoming reboot, has opened up on its lengthy development cycle, having been announced in 2020, years after work started on the project.

Ralph told The Guardian newspaper: "I genuinely think Fable is an important game.

"What has protected us over a long development cycle is that so many people within Xbox view Fable as vital to the DNA of the platform.

"I would go a step further and say it's important to video games as a whole. It offers a combination of elements that simply doesn't exist anywhere else."

The game is se...