What is wrong with Fable? I tried playing Fable but I haven't finished it yet. Basicially I stopped playing it. Then again, I basiciallly stopped playing lots of video games New Vegas included. I thought Fable 2 was a good game and Fable III was suppose to be good as well. Now seeing how review companies get reviews wrong, (aka they get bribed to give a good review) I don't trust them anymore. I keep reading lately people say Fable was bad. Well I thought people like Fable 2.

So where does all this negativitiy come from now? What is so wrong with Fable III? I will not get it because it has guns. For me, that doesn't appeal to me at all. But why do you not like Fable II or III?

You seem to be confused about hate. (Lady Gaga thread)

Not played Fable 3. Fable 2 however, was too short, too easy, and not what PM had promised (big surprise).

Fable 3 was ok, the graphics looked great but the game suffered from bugs and I think people want to have a challenge when they play a game. When you play Fable 3 you don't have any type of difficulty because you can't die.

Basically the main flaw people see is that they get hyped up beforehand and disappointed afterwards. I personally don't like reading too much into games before buying them, so I cannot possibly be disappointed unless it's a sequel. Having played and enjoyed II, I expected the same from III which is exactly what I got.

I like the game for what it is.. It's not exactly Game of the Year material, but a good game nonetheless. People who don't like it just have had their standards set far too high. The person to blame is Peter Molyneux.

I enjoy the Fable series, but to me Fable 3 just wasn't as good as 2 was... It felt like they removed stuff rather than added more...

They've also been SERIOUSLY neglecting the mythical narrative from the first and second one. Usually a Fable is supposed to have some kind of lesson learned, but at the end of Fable 3 I felt like I didn't have to think about the story. :shrug:

And whatever happened to Avo?

Search "32 reasons why Fable 3 svcks" on YouTube, uploader is "AngryJoeShow"

Fable was short but awesome I played it through twice and then bought the lost chapters and replayed through that. Fable 2 and 3 were also short but they svcked because Peter M has this problem where he has to over hype and make too many promises then not deliver them. He needs to take the series back to Fable 1 roots and stop dumbing everything down.

People always enjoy a good fable. M'aiq has yet to find one, though. Perhaps one day.

This.

Fable(tlc) is a damn good game imo. 2 and 3 are not. Fabe tlc had a charm, it had more spells allowing unique gameplay, more challenge, better customisation, better everything. If you like fable 2 and 3 finish fable one, preferabley the lost chapters.

Fable died becase of several things.

Casal gamers. Not to sound like an elitist but thats one of the problems. PM made fable easy to make it "accesible" to do that he removed mana, now we have no health bar, combat is easy and interactionwith NPCs = hold A to be nice X to be an ass. Fable is watered down because of that.

Peter molyneux. Ignoring the hype becuase we all know about that, the dde is insane. He wants to make an amazing rpg, but is too focused on gimmicks (family, dog, etc) and making it a simulator (jobs, family,etc) he eeps yammering on about love, which is made pointless when he want syou to love, a random, non unique nps, who says the same dialouge and looks the same as that npce down the road, he wants you to feel connected to a damn clone. PMs enthusiasm is great he cares about games > money but that enthusiasm has turned into insanity, at this point I dont think he realises just how much he has killed fable, I knewloads of people who liked 1, then less who liked 2, no one liked 3. He just dosent know what he is doing anymore.

The testers. They (lionhead) had an idea, when you die you become your child, testers just farmed children, LH changed it, you got scarred and mugged and lsot EXP. Testers hated it. Now there is no death system, becase they didnt like dying.

Devs didnt listen to community, after was released, on the forums lots of people didnt like it was watered down, fable 3, even more watered down. Still breadcrumb trail, still got the dog, all we got was armour... Yay...

I really enjoyed the first Fable, sure it was pretty easy and not an insanely deep rpg, but I thought it was a refreshing change from the other games I was playing. It still is one of my favorite games of all time. Fable II was pretty good, but I was a bit disappointed with all of the hype pm gave it, and how little of what he said actually was put in. In my opinion it was still a pretty good game, although I preferred the original. Fable III I thought was just horrible and I didn't even follow the hype for it. Lame story, way too easy, extremely short, awkward feeling gameplay, lack of customization, etc.

I think I've just grown out of it. I haven't played the first one in years, and I liked it at the time, but maybe if I went back it would just be nostalgia. I liked the second one too, but this one just felt... flat. When the game starts with that first big choice, I was really excited - it seemed like a great way to kick off the game.



However everything after that just seemed to lack depth and nuance, I thought. I didn't read anything about the game before getting it (like I said, I liked past games but I was never what you would call a dedicated fan), so I had no expectations built up because of the hype. I didn't like the new pause system where you go to a sanctuary, and the NPC "friend" quests were annoying and unsatisfying. And the choices you have to make just seemed so ridiculous to me. The game could have benefitted from more shades of grey, I think.
But saying that, I think it's just not a game designed for players like me. My little sister (12 years old) loves it, as I'm sure many other kids around her age do. It's kind of nice that she's got this as a "starter RPG" until she's old enough for more in depth or challenging games.

Also, as far as I could tell, there's no way to repair all of your houses at once, and it was really annoying to have to find each one on the awkward map and repair it so that people kept paying their rent. Maybe I missed a trick and there was somewhere that gave you a "repair/maintain all" option.

So did Fable 2...? :huh:

I love the humour of the Fable series, the world, the visual style, etc. I think it has some really original ideas, which may not always work well but pursuing them is a good thing. I still liked these things in Fable 3, but they ditched so many good features in the pursuit of accessibility that the series just doesn't feel like an RPG anymore. There's far too much combat considering how dull it is, and there are barely any other activities to replace it. Like other people have said, the '32 reasons Fable 3 svcks' video pretty much sums up what I think, except I still like the series despite these huge flaws. Even stuff like the Sanctuary, although really badly executed, still has potential.

True but fable 2 had crossbows. I think he meant that he could use a crossbow in 2, but only guns in 3. If not dont see is point.

Its a linear adventure game? It doesn't compare to older PM games like Dungeon Masters and Black & White? PM should of stuck with simple but fun strategy games. Hes out of his depth when it comes to RPGs(or whatever you want to call the Fable series).

I remember playing Fable at a friend's house when I was 7 or 8 (he had Xbox) and I always thought it was amazing but I've played Fable 3 this past month at another's friend house and IMO it's not that great...graphics are average at best and the characters look terrible, animations are slightly better than average but gameplay is boring and story is meh...fact that you can't create your character also svcks big time (I know your character morphs along the game but I just don't like it).

What are you talking about? The graphics are great - the visuals have come a long way from 2 with some of the best water I've ever seen in a game and fantastic effects, like the heat hazy thing in the desert. The characters look good as well, the semi-cartoony visual style fits the universe nicely, with fairly detailed character models.The story is fairly good, certainly much more interesting than the standard save the world fare you get in most traditional fantasy RPGs. I agree with you on not being able to create your character, although there's still a fair amount of customisation available with dyes. The combat the biggest downfall and even that isn't terrible, considering the spell weaving and weapon morphing.

Sorry, but I'm not a big fan of "cartoonish" graphics. They're just an excuse for game devs to be lazy with their models and create worlds that ruin immersion. And what are you talking about? The mission is the standard "save the world" fare. That's exactly what it is. The worst part is there's no context, no background to the enemy that threatens to destroy the world.

Customisation was poor. Combat was pathetic.

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Woops, typos.

I admit the world itself is pretty but the characters and facial animations just kill it for me...IMO they don't look good at all, OBs are better (and that OBs faces weren't that amazing to begin with...). Story is quite boring IMO, most say DA O had a cliche save the world plot but from some reason I love it, Fable III on the other hand...not so much :thumbsdown: .

Look at all the detail in the environments and models of Fable, it's hardly lazy, just a different art style. I'm glad they didn't aim for realism, since it wouldn't have worked in this kind of world. And while the story's not amazing compared to books or movies, this is videogames we're talking about, where the fact that the enemy was introduced less than 50% of the way through the story makes it better than most videogame writing. Anyway, I know you like Fable, so shut up


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Wut.

But we have no idea where the enemy came from. Usually that's a big part of a game, at least we could somehow empathise with it or something, but no. There's just no context to the enemy, no reason why it's trying to kill everything, no reason why it chose Albion.

"Different Art Style" bleh, it's rubbish is what it is.

Also, just because it's a videogame doesn't give it any excuse to have a [censored]e storyline. That's like saying "Oh, that's a movie, I expect it to be crap because it's not a book". Fable 3 didn't have any writing, all side quests appear seemingly at random and don't really tie into the main plot at all, they're all really silly and not realistic. Kinda like the graphics.

Far to stripped down for my tastes. Simple as that : )

I don't hate Fable. I like the first one, and LOVED the second one. The third, however, I didn't like. It was too short, and too oversimplified. When they take away the ability to even choose which expression to use, it detracts from the fun. I had no problems with Fable 2's list menus, but Molyneaux acted like it was a pandemic. I know he can learn from his mistakes, but it seems like he makes more mistakes than he amends.

I dont like fable 3. But for visuals it was amazing, colourful, and unique, Aurora looked very nice, as did mistpeak. Oblivion had worse graphics, and the thing is fable looked better because it was varied, oblivion was dull, always the same much worse visuals. And Oblivions story was far worse, atleast fable had good moral choices. I on ly had an issue and it was choices had a work around. They should have had some misc resources availibe you cant obtain, instead of gold, that would have made it much more interesting. Only issue with plot was it ended to soon.
Also I at efable 3, but oblivions gameplay was not exactly great, everywhere was copy pasted, so exploration felt bad, sword fighting wasnt that interesting, stealth was a damn joke. And magic was pretty boring.

@Teehee got to agree with that, it was annoying we ad no idea where the darkness came from, the most likely thing is they are going to release more info in future dlc :meh:

Artstyle was great, everything being realistic can get boring, and would totally ruin your console, crysis 2 is the closest we will get, maybe farcry 2. But at the moment its just better to use cartoony graphics. Besidedes they can be more interesting, mirrors edge, fable 3 and XIII arent realistic, but I liked each of the looks because they stood out.

I repeat, OBs are better. In game that guy from Fable looks terrible, even in the screenshot he looks way to cartoonish IMO...