Fable: It's Out!

[child of Thor]

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Well i got it as an xmas pressie, i found it for £19.99 - and for that price i'd say its a good game purchase.

Its very beutifull - you can tell alot of effort went into making it, the way trees and plants and light filter is applied.
Its a shame its pretty liniar(in the same way KOTOR is), as a greater selection of quests to follow aside from the main one(ala Morrowind), would have made this a much deeper game world experience.

I've had an issue with probably the worst slow-down i've yet seen on the xbox. And it wasn't when in a big fight as you might think.

But it resolved itself when i left the area and came back in.

My gf stopped playing it, as she was dissapointed she couldn't play as a real woman, and was getting frustrated with the targeting/magic use controls - still i think its reasonable that if your shooting at stuff with a bow, then someone walking into your arrows should take some heat, being 'good' doesnt stop a bullet i'd wager?

I agree with people saying the story is good - its as good as the one in KOTOR so far, and i'm still not able to quite see where myself, my sister and 'evil powers' pan out.

I've played about 13 hours so far, just finished the Arena this afternoon. I hardly use it, but even with mostly limiting myself to my lightning(lv3) bolts, magic combined with ranged weapons seem too powerfull.

I'm not sure that i like resurection vials either, especialy considering the ammount of health potions/food you can also collect. Without the resurection vials i would have atleast died about 3 times in this game.

sadly, i didnt get married until i was 41 years old, and you know what that also means!!!!
considering this, i'm surprised my character isn't more of a pshyco man-mountain than he is, or atleast very mixed up

oh and there is something disturbingly 'Sim'ish about the towns people and interaction/emotions etc.

And apart for one litte side quest - i've yet to find a real reason why they went to all the trouble to make me able to 'fart' my character?

[child of Thor]

i'm being carefull now - i think i'm near the end of the main quest, so have decided to just wander around and explore every nook and cranny.
I Ate myself Obese - it took about 50 meals of meat to do it, to get through one of those portals. I'm going to give trading a go. Try to find out where the profit margins are.

You can see that a whole lot more was planned for this game, the detail in everything tells me it was pretty much a labour of love.
Could have been a classic if it just had many more side missions to do, or a way to stop a player just running through the main quest, some kind of time delay between the stages? That would encourage people to go find other things to do.

At the momment i'm also trying to find all the ripples to fish, and all the properties to buy.
I tried to marry the lady next door to my house(and current wife!), got her a fake wedding ring - but i think you can only marry one women in each village/town, as they want a house and you only ever seem to get one property for sale in each.
Not that i'm complaining about my wife - she gets quite erm......frisky a lot of the time! i literaly have gone from 'zero to hero' in a very short space of time

I think Fable2(there's bound to be a sequel right?) will be special if you go on what is already in Fable, and if Fable2 is given the time it will need to finish all the design team set out to do.

EDIT: 15/01/05

I've been playing this for just over 26 hrs now - i find it hard to believe that anyone could have completed everything in less than 20hrs? I've got 11 silver keys, but i know there are atleast 20 - as the chest at the Guild needs 20 before it will open. And i've still got a good few Demon Gates to open. If i dont just follow the main quest i can see atleast another 10hrs for all th other little side quests and all. So its not that bad in terms of how many hours you can get out of it..............especialy in comparison with many games of today?

[child of Thor]

I'm now at 39hrs playing time - i must admit the last 10 have been a deliberate attempt to try to complete all the little side quests etc.

I've got three wives(Oakvale/Bowerstone(posh one!)/Knothole glade), and have now found 21 keys and opened the chest at the guild.
I can't explain how painfull it was to finish all the 'fishing ripples' that i've found so far, and i mean all of them. Its so sensitive now that on average it takes me between 10-15mins real time to succeed, having to re-attempt many times due to my fishing line breaking!!

I feel this game received way too harsh a critic from many people, atleast that was the impression i got when it first came out.
If i hadn't got it for xmas i probably would have not bothered, which in hindsight now would have been to my loss.

Its not the ultimate world beating rpg that was hyped about, but it has more to it than meets the eye and its up there with the KOTOR's of the xbox rpg scene imho.

Now then......do i really feel good about taking out(killing) a few villagers, just so i can then buy up their vacant houses/shops? tricky one.
The property buisness is a tough one in Albion........murderous