Why Fable 2 will Fail...

[Professor S]

... in the same ways the original did is because of the lack of open space. Throughout Fable you were able to see these vast areas of Albion... and were made to feel horribly hemmed in by not being able to travel to pretty much any of them.

Looking at vids of Fable 2, it looks like more of the same. The issues I had with Fable have nothing to do with what they are addressing in Fable 2.

The issue is that it was a shallow dungeon crawl that taunted you with images of a vast world you'd never see.