Fable III wasn't THAT bad... was it?

[tippy2k2]

Maybe there was "Fable: The Extended Cut" that was released for Fable III but no one ever seems to mention the giant slap to the groin that was the end content...

Up until the end, it wasn't a great game but it was alright. Didn't do anything too impressive but it didn't crap the bed either. That is, until the end. Now it's been a while since I vowed to never pick this PoS back up again after this so this might not 100% accurate but here was my end content (spoilers I suppose but you would be better off having this spoiled than going through the genital slap that this ending normally does):

Spoiler

Day 1: I just became King everyone! It sure is awesome but I better buckle down to save my people from shadows!
Day 14: Alright, had my picture painted today. That was fun!
Day 30: I had two choices today; purchase an orphanage to save every child in Fabletown or murder every orphan in the city. Seems to be a bit extreme but whatever...
Day 45: Oh man, over a month has occurred, I better really buckle down cause the bad guys are going to be here soon!
Day 180: Investing in a ton of property. I will be rolling in money and ready for a fight for these shadow dudes!
Day 365: ...wait....what?!?! Did the King black out? What the fuck!?!?! WHY DID WE JUST SKIP HALF THE DAMN YEAR!!!! 3/4 of my population just got slaughtered because the damn game skipped half the freaking year!

So that's why it's a terrible game. Mass Effect 3's ending had nothing on this game...

 

[ColaWarVeteran]

Dammit, it was turn the orphanage into a brothel not burn it down or murder the orphans. There's a huge difference(j/k).

But anyway, Fable 3 is worth playing for one quest: The Game. I found this quest to be pretty hilarious especially playing as a female hero. Once you're done with that then you can stop playing.

 

[ninjaRiv]

I didn't know people hated it. I actually really enjoyed it. Fable 2 was better, obviously, but 3 was still pretty great imo. It was fun and that's all I wanted from it.

 

[piinyouri]

Maybe there was "Fable: The Extended Cut" that was released for Fable III but no one ever seems to mention the giant slap to the groin that was the end content...

Up until the end, it wasn't a great game but it was alright. Didn't do anything too impressive but it didn't crap the bed either. That is, until the end. Now it's been a while since I vowed to never pick this PoS back up again after this so this might not 100% accurate but here was my end content (spoilers I suppose but you would be better off having this spoiled than going through the genital slap that this ending normally does):

Spoiler

Day 1: I just became King everyone! It sure is awesome but I better buckle down to save my people from shadows!
Day 14: Alright, had my picture painted today. That was fun!
Day 30: I had two choices today; purchase an orphanage to save every child in Fabletown or murder every orphan in the city. Seems to be a bit extreme but whatever...
Day 45: Oh man, over a month has occurred, I better really buckle down cause the bad guys are going to be here soon!
Day 180: Investing in a ton of property. I will be rolling in money and ready for a fight for these shadow dudes!
Day 365: ...wait....what?!?! Did the King black out? What the fuck!?!?! WHY DID WE JUST SKIP HALF THE DAMN YEAR!!!! 3/4 of my population just got slaughtered because the damn game skipped half the freaking year!

So that's why it's a terrible game. Mass Effect 3's ending had nothing on this game...

Are you just repeating what Yahtzee used in his review or did you have a similar experience?

If it was yours, is that time skip thing a glitch that happens, or the way the game is supposed to function?

 

[SonOfVoorhees]

I found it enjoyable, though a mediocre game overall. Some great ideas in it, and a great game world. Just wish more effort was put into the story, missions and fighting. Seems they are slowly simplifying everything in it. The king part was good as well as you make choices about what to spend or save money on. Again, could have done more with this part of the game.

I think this is mostly Mollys fault for talking way to much about the game and none of his ideas panned out as he hoped or where left out. Instead of focusing on story, mission structure and combat. He wasted time on things we didnt ask for, stupid dog, that map thing, butler and your home, marriage/having kids and buying a home were pointless. Oh and "holding hands" wow i was so impressed.....no it wasnt. Metermorfing weapons? Rubbish as well.

Now molly is gone i really hope they make a 4th game. I would like to see what that studio can do with it without molly ruining everything by opening his mouth and simplifying everything and not changing core parts of gameplay. Because i really like the game world and art design.

 

[SonOfVoorhees]

Are you just repeating what Yahtzee used in his review or did you have a similar experience?

If it was yours, is that time skip thing a glitch that happens, or the way the game is supposed to function?

He is right, i cant remember if it did the half year skip. But it does only give you about 8 days in reality. I was glad i knew that in advance as i would have been screwed as well. I think if they had a better management of the king system, it would have been good. Like spending money on little things like walls or ditches to slow the enemy down.

So, yeah it says you have a year, but you dont because of all the jumps in time. Also you have to chose from good which spends money or bad which makes the people hate you but you have money for the war. BUT. I never understood why you couldnt tell the people this so they know why your making the horrible choice.

 

[TheOneGuyInNebraska]

Honestly, i really hate this game, but i admit if i wasn't lied to about this game in reviews i might not have hated it as much. I was told "touch mechanic" would make feel more connection and responsibility for the characters, it ended up just being nothing more than dragging people. I was told the story and characters were engrossing, the story was pretty lame, and i ended up only caring about one character total (Walter), the rest were either annoying or forgettable. I was told NPC interactions were meaningful (i had never played a fable game before this, so i had no idea how much of a crock o' shit this turned out to be), it turns out it ended up being even more scaled back the the previous games, which people have told me it sucked in those just as much. This review also never mentioned the combat, convenient, since fable 3's combat ended up being the absolute WORST I've ever played, you literally just mash one button over and over again until you win (you do get to decide which of 3 buttons you want to mash for the next several hours). The only thing that actually did end up living up to what i was told was being king at the end, you do have to make difficult financial choices (which you can completely undermine by being a land baron). But this one, very short section does not at all make up for the rest of this awful game.


TLDR: I'm still upset over a 10/10 review (from a site I normally agree with) that tricked me into wasting 60 bucks on it

 

[V1rax]

The Fable series as a whole is rather meh... but Fable 3 has one saving grace - The section where your in the desert actually was pretty damn cool. Then it turned into a giant turd

 

[tippy2k2]

Are you just repeating what Yahtzee used in his review or did you ha
If it was yours, is that time skip thing a glitch that happens, or the way the game is supposed to function?

...that might explain why I'm the only one complaining about it. When I googled it back in the day, most said that happened to them so my assumption was that it was supposed to happen.

Still not a great game if that's the case but it goes from 4/10 to a 6/10 if that was a glitch and not the actual end content.

 

[Furioso]

I didn't think it was that bad, not good, but not THAT bad... until the end, where everything I was doing was ruined by the time jumping ahead about 130 days or whatever without notice, screwing my plans to save the land. Seriously, WTF was up with that?!

 

[Furioso]

Snip

Are you just repeating what Yahtzee used in his review or did you have a similar experience?

If it was yours, is that time skip thing a glitch that happens, or the way the game is supposed to function?

That's how the game is supposed to function. There is no warning of any kind, and the only way to not lose is to know about the time skip before hand.

 

[Lady Lucky]

It wasn't the worst game I've ever played... But it was totally forgetable. It was just more of the same stuff from Fable 2. Then Mr. Moly was like "I'm going to give you something to care about, give you an emotional attachment to the characters in the game." I didn't feel it for any of the characters, hell I killed my husband because I got bored. It was like playing The Sims to an extent. I didn't feel anything for the characters and I felt just dissapointment for the game. It gets a big "MEH" in my book.

 

[mechalynx]

I liked Fable III a lot actually. It wasn't much of a challenge combat-wise, true, but the characters, environments and general atmosphere of the game more than made up for that. I understand the ire some people feel towards the game, I've been there with other games. However, I was never a devoted fan of the series and was warned about Molyneux early on, so I didn't have any grand expectations that could be ruined.

I had fun, will replay it and its predecessor at some point.

 

[Fdzzaigl]

I hated it.

*The combat was extremely repetitive and unchallenging, even on the highest difficulty settings.

*Every single character in the game was uninteresting and flat.

*The pacing of the storyline was horrible, putting you on a boring coaster ride along events that I couldn't ever give a damn about because they didn't last long enough to experience the significance of them.

*The inventory system and general controls were extremely irritating, especially because I played the badly ported PC version. But apparently it didn't even work well on consoles, so double fail.

*Minigames and NPC interaction were repetitive and ridiculous. The makers apparently do not get the difference between humor and /facepalm territory.

The game's only redeeming factor for me might be the graphical design of some characters. But even the general design felt drab and uninteresting.

Even though it didn't show any significant bugs, I'd only give it a 3/10. I'd rather play a buggy broken mess with at least some vision in it than Fable 3.

 

[Sehnsucht Engel]

It wasn't great and as usual Molyneux probably bragged too much about stuff that doesn't actually exist. However, considering what others had said about it, I had low expectations and thought it would be much worse than it actually was. I think it was an alright game, not great, but still fun to play.

 

[A Shadows Age]

On account of the whole free Fable III on Xbox, I've been seeing a lot of people bashing the game all over the interwebz.

Now, I know that Fable III certainly wasn't the game we were all told to expect and managed to fall short in almost every aspect, but that doesn't make it a horrible game... in my opinion anyways. KotOR II was arguably worse than KotOR, but many people, myself included, would still call it a great game.

I really liked Fable III to be honest (though that's partly because I'm incredibly easy to entertain), obvious political commentary aside, I particularly liked the kingdom management bit. Not to mention the goofy, lighthearted atmosphere of the game. It's not a secret that the game could have used a bit more tweaking and refining, but given that it's, you know, free... I guess I just don't see where all the melodrama being spewed forth from the mouths of some people finds any justification.

you lost me by comparing kotor 2 to this virtual turd... you criminal scum.

 

[Chester Rabbit]

Well for me as a diehard fan of the first game it certainly didn?t measure up to The Lost Chapters. BUT! It to me was most certainly an improvement on Fable 2. When I played Fable 2 it felt like a half finished emptier rehash of Fable the story structure was the same characters weren?t nearly as fleshed out or as interesting as they were in the first one (and hell they weren?t even that fleshed out in the first one so how do you could make the ones in 2 even less amazes me!)

But when I played Fable 3 I was pleasantly surprised. It had a new art style that didn?t just look like a next gen version of the one from the first Fable. Your character actually wasn?t a mute, it did have some really nice characters and brought back the only good one from Fable 2. And unlike Fable 2 it had two intriguing villains. Hell that Crawler bit came right out of nowhere and was a really nice unnerving surprise. And the world was much, muuuch better than the one in Fable 2.

And well I?ll just list the rest of the things they did better than in the second game.

Enemies and the fact that we actually had somewhat real boss fights this time.

Clothing and armour. At least it looked good this time. Still didn?t make a damn difference what you wore in combat though.

And the gameplay seemed much more solid than it did in Fable 2. I refer to Fable 2 as the Beta test version of 3 because after playing the third one that?s genuinely how it feels.
Like the finished version of Fable 2.
So it?s not great but it?s certainly is a step up from 2. Heck if this had of been Fable 2 I might not have minded so much.

 

[RJ 17]

The problem with Fable III is that it was another game that was overhyped way too much. That's pretty much the crux of most people's complaints: the game was just mediocre at best which made it easily forgettable, making it nothing like what we expected it to be. It was hyped up to be some grand tale about leading a rebellion against a tyrannical king......only to find that The Nothingness from Never Ending Story was the actual "enemy" the entire time and as it turns out everything the tyrannical king was doing was to ensure that the kingdom could actually survive the coming onslaught. Add to it the obscenely easy combat (Wind AoE spell + pretty much any other spell (the magic swords seemed to work best for me) = pile of dead badguys) and the heavily implied aspects of bestiality and you get a game that's...well, just not that interesting to play.

 

[Rylot]

Fable 2&3 did a few things really well that I liked. I liked how your actions in the game changed your character. You could get taller, fatter, have scars, be evil enough to turn into a demon (in 2 at least). It's always kinda bugged me that you can customize your character before you start with interesting scars and tattoos from previous adventures but as soon as you start your character can only change outfits and hair cuts. I do wish that you could customize your character a bit more before you start that game. I also liked how you could get married and raise a family in the games. I wish you could do more with them (the touch thing in III was just stupid) but it immersed me more in the games.

Neither game is perfect, the combat is pretty lackluster and the never being able to die mechanic takes any challenge out of it anyway. There's very little reason to care about your family outside of a few quests and achievements.

My perfect RPG would be the pregame character creation from Dragon's Dogma, the in-game character creation from Fable, family dynamics from Sims, the combat system and world from Amalur and melt it all together.