Fable Rage, Dear god.

[Datsle]

yeah the framerate sometimes, jesus. Anyone tried playing the lute in bowerstone market at daytime? Its like playing guitar hero on insane, with massive irregular lag.

 

[Aphex Demon]

Allright, i admit i like fable 2-3 (Haven't tried the first)
Both games had some sort of magical atmosphere i could only find in older games (Zelda etc)
But while Zelda ends on a high note, both those fable games take a twitchy turn into a brick wall.



//Fable 3 Spoiler//
//Fable 3 Spoiler//



Example 1. I was King, and was doing nicely. Had picked every "good" choice and were gathering lots of gold. I had about 2 million infact, and steadily rising.
I was casually doing the small quests and the main one in between.
Here's the lame part. (Which im sure atleast some of you will recognize)

I had 120(?) days left till the attack, and i finished my verdict on the Dweller camp.
Next i would do some more quests, gather some more gold- while the days count down and finish the game.

Well, that didnt happen.

Suddenly all those hundred days disappered and i get tossed into the last one, without
any warning/oppertunity to change anything, not even your damn sword.

(Now i know, its an "invasion" but seriously, skipping half a year infront without warning, is bad)

And thanks to the "Clever"(god i hate it) Autosave system, im stuck there now, in the invasion.
- And walter yelling "We were not ready"

Damn right i wasnt ready, i wasn't ready for the calendar skipping a hundred days in one button press.


Example 2. Immersion Win/Fail

So, i started dating a poor girl, which i found not as annoying as everyone else. (read cute)
Anyways, she married me, the king, and we' moved into a big mansion, i paid LOADS for the upkeep- to keep her happy and healthy. We then married, and got a child.

After some time, i noticed she still wore those rags, even tho she lived with the king, in a mansion, with a weekly allowence of 10k$ (Random number) - I found that weird.

Secondly, when i entered our home, our child suddenly had grown up.
But it was black. Yes, it was black. And both the parents were white.
Now, im not racist, but i came to the conclusion of she cheating on me, and shouted GTFO /Divorce

-And yes, i wrote that in RP style, to pass on my point of immersion.

(If you somehow played alittle on the cheating husband/wife thing, Lionhead, i would've laughed) This however just seemed like a sloppy RNG'ed baby.


I've got countless of other examples. For example dating a Posh, Nasty cougar from Millfields- Who suddenly wants to go hand-in-hand on a date to Bowerstone Market to see a statue.

A fine' rich, stuck up lady in high heels wants to cross 10 forests packed with wolves / bandits, get maimed by a balverine, cross a couple of mountains and 15 miles of dirt road.

To see a statue, and get a kiss.
And she loved me for it.


I can't make any sense of this game. Seriously.
Just when im about to like it, and get real immersed- it slaps me awake and shows
me half-assed work.

A game with so much potential- but the worst thing is the makers of this Jigsaw-puzzle
didn't BOTHER to put the last 10 pieces in.

Its not that they couldn't, the just didnt.

/rage

So', anyone else frustrated? ;O

The whole 120 days BANG 1 day thing got me too, I had 4.6 freakin mill saved up too. F*ck that annoyed me, now there is fuck all people around albion, so I made a new character, sent my mate about 3 mill to send back to my other character, at least I will be prepared this time.

 

[Nahhnbah]

You only divorced your wife? Man, you've got better self control than I have. I shot mine. she was complaining about not having enough money. 50 gold a day is a perfectly acceptable amount when you live in house with one fucking room! Didn't really matter, I'd got about 6 more anyway. Probably shot a few of them as well. Can't really remember, things got a bit fuzzy after I killed all my castle's servants for booing at me.

This is probably reflecting poorly on me as a person.

Not at all. I shoot anyone who dares speak to me. Even if I talked to them first (read: everyone.)

 

[zombiesinc]

Same thing happened to me. I was hopping along quite nicely, a month or so at a time, then BAM, fast forward to the invasion. I wasn't very impressed.

Not to mention the bugs I've been dealing with. There's a side quest to find a 'volunteer' for the factory, and after slowly dragging a guy to the designated area (where I was specifically told to go from the legend above) the gold glowing circle would disappear as soon as I was inside... but nothing would happen. >.<

I gave up from there. Sure, there are more quests and achievements to get, but it's far too frustrating to deal with alone.

 

[CrypticAcid]

yo man i have to say i 100% agree i just finished getting out of debt with doing all the good crap than that 120 day thing came messed me up elise devorced my ass after and literally everyone was dead like big ass city come across 1 or 2 people once in awhile was not impressed at all definitely should have given a warning

 

[Shrifes]

The whole 120 days BANG 1 day thing got me too, I had 4.6 freakin mill saved up too. F*ck that annoyed me, now there is fuck all people around albion, so I made a new character, sent my mate about 3 mill to send back to my other character, at least I will be prepared this time.

The time skip caught me totally off guard the first time through but like you I sent over some gold to my hero for my second attempt and it worked to the point where I was 1 million over what the treasury needed. I only needed to send over 160k to buy all the houses and stores.

Note: I needed to wait from time to time for rent to roll in to buy new houses but with doing all the side quests I had more then enough gold for the invasion.

 

[Shoggoth2588]

Finally someone else who is frustrated with that game. I'm only befriending men and lesbians so as to avoid similar 1,000,000 mile walks of love. I've bitched about this game a bunch in other threads mainly because of:

*Slow, unresponsive and, monotonous, job-based mini-games.
*A terrible interaction system
*Major clipping issues
*No more gambling

The Sanctuary is neat and all but, I think it is adding to the clipping issues. It wasn't a bad idea, getting rid of all of the menus but, it made shops seem barren and made getting information about items and, your character unnecessarily arduous. How does the number of times I have sex and, the number of balverines I've kill make it into the online area and not the character information section!? I also see the evolving weapon system as a double-edged sword (no pun intended). It negates the purpose of looking for and, using newer weapons since yours gets better over time. Also, since the weapons evolve based on your actions, I see it as a way to artificially lengthen gameplay through replays. Somewhat like the moral choice system only this lengthening method evolves killing Hollow-Men, drinking potions and, sleeping with whores.

 

[Jukofux]

ya the final time skip sucked, but the most immersion breakingness for me was the fact that SPOILER
Reaver was still im my damn country. a) in fable 2 he repeatedly tried to kill you and sell you out to logain. even if Sparrow didnt execute him he would have been sooooo exiled. b) after you become king why isnt there an option to kill the child labour-enforcing, tried-to-kill-me nutjob? c) why cant i fire reaver and say...hire page to do his job.
also it is kinda a minor issue, but why would Sparrow name one of *his* kids Logan? it just seem really close to Logain, bit to close for my liking

 

[Sleekgiant]

More people need to play the first Fable, it was quite fun and Jack of Blades was a great boss fight.

Fable 2 made me rage the most, it was just so bland and easy.

Lets just say Bowerstone got slaughtered regularly to let my rage out.

 

[VanQ]

Fable 1 was by far and still is by far the BEST of the fable games, and in fact my favorite western RPG of all time, you should absolutely play it, you can find it in your local bargain bin for about $5 these days.

OT: My ONLY gripe with fable 2 and 3, and I mean this is my ONLY gripe, is the anticlimactic final boss fights. I have to admit The Crawler was f***ing badass, only slightly less awesome than Jack of Blades, but alas, Lionhead just didn't do him justice like they could have.

 

[Sonic Doctor]

*Snip*

There is a thing called a search function to find out if threads have been done before.

We need to just put up a single Fable 3 rage thread and determine that it is the only thread to rage in. Maybe then it will stop the new Fable 3 rage thread that has pop up just about one every day since it has released.

Now OT:

Obvious weird day count down is obvious. I noticed it after the first day, looked up on the net when the last day count was before the attack, and didn't forward the story until I had the right amount of money.

So it was a little messed up, so what? It isn't like they were going to make it actually 365 full days before the attack.

The only thing people should be gripping about is the glitches. Everything else was fine and fantastic. If it wasn't for the glitches, I would rate it as one of the best games this year. Seriously, there needs to be some better quality control. They let a game breaking glitch and a half game breaking glitch through. They even had a recent update, did that do anything....NO! It fixed nothing that was worth fixing.

 

[Sonic Doctor]

ya the final time skip sucked, but the most immersion breakingness for me was the fact that SPOILER
Reaver was still im my damn country. a) in fable 2 he repeatedly tried to kill you and sell you out to logain. even if Sparrow didnt execute him he would have been sooooo exiled. b) after you become king why isnt there an option to kill the child labour-enforcing, tried-to-kill-me nutjob? c) why cant i fire reaver and say...hire page to do his job.
also it is kinda a minor issue, but why would Sparrow name one of *his* kids Logan? it just seem really close to Logain, bit to close for my liking

Did you ever stop to think that the ritual that made him eternally youthful maybe also made him immortal. So Reaver can't die.

"Logain" what is that referencing? If it isn't referencing anything, that is really a far stretch to think someone wouldn't name their kid Logan because of that.

 

[Paulie92]

You only divorced your wife? Man, you've got better self control than I have. I shot mine. she was complaining about not having enough money. 50 gold a day is a perfectly acceptable amount when you live in house with one fucking room! Didn't really matter, I'd got about 6 more anyway. Probably shot a few of them as well. Can't really remember, things got a bit fuzzy after I killed all my castle's servants for booing at me.

This is probably reflecting poorly on me as a person.

That is at least 10 times the amount I give my Fable 2 wives, and any who complains gets to come on a lovely hike through Rookridge if you know what I mean

 

[T_ConX]

Secondly, when i entered our home, our child suddenly had grown up.
But it was black. Yes, it was black. And both the parents were white.
Now, im not racist, but i came to the conclusion of she cheating on me, and shouted GTFO /Divorce

I can assure you... there is a perfectly reasonable explanation for this...

She was watching a 3D movie. No, really!

 

[FortheLegion]

More people need to play the first Fable, it was quite fun and Jack of Blades was a great boss fight.

Fable 2 made me rage the most, it was just so bland and easy.

Lets just say Bowerstone got slaughtered regularly to let my rage out.

The first one was great
did you play Lost chapters?
Jack of Blades was a fun fight, both times.

 

[Sleekgiant]

More people need to play the first Fable, it was quite fun and Jack of Blades was a great boss fight.

Fable 2 made me rage the most, it was just so bland and easy.

Lets just say Bowerstone got slaughtered regularly to let my rage out.

The first one was great
did you play Lost chapters?
Jack of Blades was a fun fight, both times.

I had the Lost Chapters and was on my way to that fight, then got distracted by a shiny

 

[Vivaldi]

You only divorced your wife? Man, you've got better self control than I have. I shot mine. she was complaining about not having enough money. 50 gold a day is a perfectly acceptable amount when you live in house with one fucking room! Didn't really matter, I'd got about 6 more anyway. Probably shot a few of them as well. Can't really remember, things got a bit fuzzy after I killed all my castle's servants for booing at me.

This is probably reflecting poorly on me as a person.

Reading this out of the context of Fable has made my week. Thank you, sir

 

[TsunamiWombat]

So wait, explain how this works to me, so i'm ready?

At so many points in the game your prompted to Skip time, and the last one is a 120 day jump?

So I can theoretically sit at the first time skip and just grind like a mofo? or what?

 

[Sonic Doctor]

So wait, explain how this works to me, so i'm ready?

At so many points in the game your prompted to Skip time, and the last one is a 120 day jump?

So I can theoretically sit at the first time skip and just grind like a mofo? or what?

If you don't complete the quests on the "Kingly agenda" you can play as long as you want before the big ending happens.

What surprises me is that all the people that are complaining, apparently didn't notice the giant jumps in days when they completed each list. The jumps got bigger with each list completed.

It was obvious and I did what I thought most people would do, consult the internet before moving forward. By doing so, I got the good character ending and all citizens of Albion lived.....until I got mad because my adopted kid just disappeared so I went on a bloody rampage and killed everybody in Bowerstone Market and Bowerstone Old Quarter.