Poll: Fable Or The Witcher?
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The witcher is tedious but fable wont suck you in.
Fable is much more fun though especially if you don't think of it as an RPG but instead as a chance to fart in peoples faces.
Fable is much more fun though especially if you don't think of it as an RPG but instead as a chance to fart in peoples faces.
I did the same thing before I got that sword. Well you can't kill everyone but it was most of them.JakubK666 said:
The great thing about fable is that if one of your friends has it then you can keep on talking about all the crazy stuff you did with your friends.
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Pretty hard to compare..
Fable is a third person action game with some scripted 'moral choice' moments and a variety of options on what weapons and tricks to use. It's pretty and has some interesting dynamic features but the combat is repetitive and the game has the depth of a spoon. It's story is also entirely linear, bar those afore-mentioned moral choice moments.
The Witcher is a well-written and atmospheric adult RPG, best compared to Fallout, or Baldur's Gate 2. It lacks the character customisation of either game, but the story and the motivations behind your quests, along with a wide variety of side-quests that allow a surprising degree of freedom in how you treat them, and a beautiful world.
Think of it like Neverwinter Nights as it should have been, the same small, detailed RPG world with a semi-linear progression between locations, but with fantastic writing, beautiful graphics, a mature setting, elfsex and decapitation.
Fable.. Fable gets tedious when you realise the entire game consists of hitting monsters and your moral choices do nothing but make different cutscenes happen. The fun is in people being scared of you or loving you, and abusing them emotionally and physically because you were sexually abused yourself as a child.
It would get a lot more tedious if you couldn't complete the game within 10 hours.
Two heavy sittings will finish Fable. It's disturbingly small.
The Witcher on the other hand is deeply engrossing but also grows tedious if you get bogged down in combat. My advice would be to keep a good amount of cash savings so you don't end up trapped in an area for a long period hunting and gambling for money when you need it for a quest.
It is, if anything, too long.
So.. Fable? A silly, british action game with character customisation and a sort of dynamic politics system where people will love or hate you, as your actions define your good or evil status, also altering your appearance. When it claims to be an RPG: It is lying =>
The Witcher.. Like reading a cynical and amusing dark fantasy novel, except you get to choose the path, it looks damn pretty and you cut people's heads off. A fine RPG in the old style, only marred by being exceedingly long, and having tedious sections if you find yourself aimless or low on cash. Stick to the main plotline, don't try to draw things out, keep a sensible amount of cash saved and it is truly fantastic =>
Pretty hard to compare..
Fable is a third person action game with some scripted 'moral choice' moments and a variety of options on what weapons and tricks to use. It's pretty and has some interesting dynamic features but the combat is repetitive and the game has the depth of a spoon. It's story is also entirely linear, bar those afore-mentioned moral choice moments.
The Witcher is a well-written and atmospheric adult RPG, best compared to Fallout, or Baldur's Gate 2. It lacks the character customisation of either game, but the story and the motivations behind your quests, along with a wide variety of side-quests that allow a surprising degree of freedom in how you treat them, and a beautiful world.
Think of it like Neverwinter Nights as it should have been, the same small, detailed RPG world with a semi-linear progression between locations, but with fantastic writing, beautiful graphics, a mature setting, elfsex and decapitation.
Fable.. Fable gets tedious when you realise the entire game consists of hitting monsters and your moral choices do nothing but make different cutscenes happen. The fun is in people being scared of you or loving you, and abusing them emotionally and physically because you were sexually abused yourself as a child.
It would get a lot more tedious if you couldn't complete the game within 10 hours.
Two heavy sittings will finish Fable. It's disturbingly small.
The Witcher on the other hand is deeply engrossing but also grows tedious if you get bogged down in combat. My advice would be to keep a good amount of cash savings so you don't end up trapped in an area for a long period hunting and gambling for money when you need it for a quest.
It is, if anything, too long.
So.. Fable? A silly, british action game with character customisation and a sort of dynamic politics system where people will love or hate you, as your actions define your good or evil status, also altering your appearance. When it claims to be an RPG: It is lying =>
The Witcher.. Like reading a cynical and amusing dark fantasy novel, except you get to choose the path, it looks damn pretty and you cut people's heads off. A fine RPG in the old style, only marred by being exceedingly long, and having tedious sections if you find yourself aimless or low on cash. Stick to the main plotline, don't try to draw things out, keep a sensible amount of cash saved and it is truly fantastic =>
Fable is also Cheaper and does not need as many expensive computer parts as the Whitcher.tooktook said:thanks. still undecided but looks like i'll enjoy fable more.
But it really comes down to how much of an RPG fan you are. If you thoroughly enjoyed games such as The Elder Scrolls and Baldurs Gate/Neverwinter nights then you should give The Whitcher a go.
The Witcher strikes me as a very hardcore game, if thats your cup of tea. But Fable offers a fun and accesable fantasy RPG.
Fable sucks you in, but then you're done. I remember playing it and finding a good place to level up; when I'd made myself reasonably powerful I thought, "Okay then, this should see me through the next four hours of game".
The very next battle I was in was the final boss fight.
The game is seriously eight hours long, six hours if you don't care about finding all the hidden stuff.
Of course, since it's probably like $20 nowadays, it's a pretty good deal. The only problem is that I've played longer demos.
The very next battle I was in was the final boss fight.
The game is seriously eight hours long, six hours if you don't care about finding all the hidden stuff.
Of course, since it's probably like $20 nowadays, it's a pretty good deal. The only problem is that I've played longer demos.
I absolutely love the elder scrolls games, but the Witcher didn't really do it for me. Mainly because it isn't really an open world game. Also, at times in The Witcher I felt without direction. Or there was a cave, but I couldn't go in it yet for no reason which was described to me. Later to find out you have to get the quest that lets you enter the cave, because Geralt is, evidently, too dimwitted to open a door unless told so. Anyways, I'll admit it has an incredibly complex system behind it, more so than the elder scrolls (arguably), but I just lost interest.Fire Daemon said:Fable is also Cheaper and does not need as many expensive computer parts as the Whitcher.tooktook said:thanks. still undecided but looks like i'll enjoy fable more.
But it really comes down to how much of an RPG fan you are. If you thoroughly enjoyed games such as The Elder Scrolls and Baldurs Gate/Neverwinter nights then you should give The Whitcher a go.
I think I preferred Fable's off the wall style compared to the Witcher. It's a more... unique game, but much shorter with less depth.
The Witcher was fine, but a lot of my friends had a hard time with it because there is a backstory to the game that nobody outside of Eastern Europe would have had a chance to read up on yet. The storyline and setting were interesting, if a bit linear. It is not, however, an "action" RPG and if that is what you are looking for it is not for you. The style of play is much closer to a Baldur's Gate/Planescape Torment sort of feel.
Definitely The Witcher, don't let the bad first impression fool you, it gets better, don't be like most impatient idiots who don't understand how the game works in the first ten seconds and then says it's crap right away because it isn't a straight forward slaughter everything in your path game.
-but I think you are better off getting the extended edition in May, or just get mass effect for your PC instead.
-but I think you are better off getting the extended edition in May, or just get mass effect for your PC instead.