Molyneux: Fable 3 Will Upset Some People
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Nope. They're pretty boring. They offer a lot of choices that have little to no impact on actually playing the game just for the sake of having them. The stories have no emotional engagement and are about as generic as they come, and the gameplay is... competent at best and broken at worst. The actual combat and interaction in the first game flows fairly well on a technical level; the controls are solid; but the advancement system wasn't thought out terribly well and promotes the "Spellsword" playstyle as the most blatantly obvious optimal playstyle in the game. From start to finish you'll cast the time stop spell, berserk, and speed, then go to town on everything without touching any of the other options for tackling problems--which gets boring, fast. When you complete the game with everything maxed out, you'll briefly think about doing a second playthrough to try something else, then ask yourself what the point is and promptly put the game on the shelf and never play it again. The moral choice system at the heart of the game is also broken, allowing you to flip-flop between good and evil at a whim in order to keep you from being excluded from any alignment-exclusive content. I guess some folks don't have a problem with that, but it also means there's no reason to replay for the sake of trying a new alignment either. To top it all off, though, it's genuinely REALLY HARD to be evil, no matter how many townspeople you slap and maim, just because advancing the game's story involves killing monsters, which automatically gives you goodie-two-shoes points.JakBandit2208 said:
I can't speak much for the second game since I never played it, but I hear it's exactly the same, just on a bigger scale. Overall thoughts on the Fable series: it can't decide if it wants to be a medieval "The Sims" or an action-RPG and fails to be engaging as either. It also treats sex with the same attitude as a lurchy thirteen-year-old, so there's that too.
As for Mr. Molyneux's news flash... I don't see how a game I'm completely apathetic about could possibly upset me.
Couldn't have said it better myself, I really hope project Natale fails, I hate motion control, takes the fun out of the game, I can't immerse my self in a game while flailling my arms around.Benjeezy said:
Truly happy endings from that show.Caradinist said:
OT: I was super pissed at Fable 2. I thought it was an epic fail. So I'm highly doubtful I will buy 3.
The only thing that could piss people off about Fable is another overhyped mediocre experience from the best promoter in the business, Peter Molyneux
maybe they are going to bring in more people with the same horrible accent...
seriously fable 2 made me long for the bland boring american accent that crops up in most games
seriously fable 2 made me long for the bland boring american accent that crops up in most games
I kinda took it to mean, with the dual themes of leading a rebellion then later leading for yourself, it would upset people for political reasons. Not hard to see where being a rebel against an established regime could upset conservatives. Also not hard seeing the King portions involving using torture, colonization, or the like to keep your kingdom safe and running, which would piss of liberals. as just my take on his words...
