Zero Punctuation: Fable 3

[That's Funny]

I really found the NPC's even more annoying than the last game, I prefer to kill them, but apparently that would be Evil.

And yes it is much better when the 2/3 of them are dead, there is only the matter of bodies that no-one seems to want to clean up, not even in the castle.

 

[duchaked]

and a funny dig at 360s but honestly there are a lot of platform exclusive titles I have no interest in

come to think of it, I would venture to say MOST of them I personally am not interested in (not ALL, mind you) since it's limiting and often times genres (or sub-types of such) I don't bother with

 

[FuktLogik]

You're not the only one. I feel so dirty after buying Fable games.

 

[Jaebird]

I knew well ahead of time before playing the game about the ill-concieved "faux-Cthulhu entity", and I still couldn't believe the developers went to such a common denominator for story. And Fable 3 further compounds my hatred for "'evil' decisions give better, and more sensible rewards than 'good'" games.

I've said it before, and I'll say it again; if Molyneux wanted to make a sim, he should just make a f*cking sim. Quit jerking around with mediocre action/adventure/RPGs.

Edit: If I were to give the game any merit, it does go about the NPC interactions much better than in the second game. I could do without holding the button to open the door, though. Seriously, why?

 

[True Nero]

tried playing this while thinking "ok, they have had two games before this to iron out the kinks". 2 hours later i started my 3rd playthrough of Mass Effect 2 cause i wanted more choice. when a game convinces me to play another game, thats usually not a point in its favor.

but at least this one shows signs of Peter learning the value of a plot twist.

 

[FuktLogik]

You're not the only one. I feel so dirty after buying Fable games.

 

[Katamake]

Not sure if its just me but Fable 3 Felt more restrictive than Fable 2, and the bloody weapon upgrade requirements were just absurd. Did feel like the story just ended rather abruptly though, as much as I was unimpressed with Fable 3, it did still feel too short, very much like the rest I suppose.
Trouble is now that Yahtzee mentioned that Mark Heap was in it ill have to play it again to find his voice, one of the most underrated actors in the uk along with Kevin Eldon in my opinion.

 

[Snowden's Secret]

I tried the exact same approach to raising the money I needed (I tried blacksmithing at first, then realised that it actually makes less money and was more difficult to get multipliers than lute playing) for the final battle. And I too, got caught out in exactly the same way. The only way my case was any different was the fact that no one was celebrating at all. And yeah, from the ending was kinda rubbish too. A sound review indeed.

 

[sansai]

I am surprised he didn't bring up the tedious and rather silly hand holding system in the review that Lionhead tried to make all the rave back in E3.

And the extremely limp wristed ending that is akin to the ending of Fable 1, little difference or meaning between the two.

EDIT: Oh and the horrible f#$%ing housing system where I have to individually repair each and every home, help my inept guards capture criminals (I am royalty dammit!), and get asked to go on missions when I sit, blink and wonder where the command for "unleash my Sardaukar troopers" is. Oh yeah...and why oh why can I not kill, arrest or banish Reaver?? WHY?!?!

 

[Julian Daniel]

Exactly the Same I thought about the Game.

 

[NullMode]

Funny review right up until you started with the liberal and conservative crap. Please please don't fall in with the characterizations so common in the US. Liberals would not say lets all get drunk and have fun till the apocalypse and conservatives would not become evil overlords to save us all. They'd just try to negotiate a better price for them selves to be saved..screw the rest of us. But seriously I am so tired of those two terms.

 

[The Deadpool]

Even though the description for the achievement was written by someone that expected only evil asses to get it. I had all but the lakefront homes on Low rent and most shops on low, too. I never had any on high, so I was a shining beacon of sunshine and happiness as far as anyone cared.

Apparently, keeping your promises to the people while paying for EVERYTHING out of your own pocket is SUCH a good thing to do that you can buy every property in the game, make every evil decision possible up to that point and still end up with Angelic Wings and perfect, happy, peppy people.

 

[supermariner]

i notice he mentions Mark Heap at the end
THATS WHO THAT IS!
Brain the gnome lover's voice sounded so familiar to me but i couldn't put my finger on it

if nothing else yahtzee, you've taught me that today

 

[ckam]

Yahtzee should just find Excalibur and become King of England so he could make political decisions similar to Fable 3 all day.

 

[Madara XIII]

The worst instalment in the fable series by far.

It's just fable II with less freedom and more toss.

The weapon evolution sounded good on the surface until I realised you basically had the option of SWORD or HAMMER.

Big. Stinking . Let down!

Don't tell that to the X-BOX fanboys. I barely survived being mauled after I told them Halo Reach was sub-par.

I still have nightmares....so many fanboys...

 

[Garfy]

Yes it good to see Mark Heap getting work

 

[Azmael Silverlance]

I love it when Yahtzee makes some uber strong and valid points about the games he is reviewing.
Seriously how is getting money to LIVE an act of EVIL???? :O
IF the population knew what was gona happen they`d freaking throw their money at him....
Anyway this was one of my favorite episodes ) seems to me yahtzee is going back on track

 

[Green Ninja]

Once again I find myself aggreing with you almost completly. Quite frightening to be honest.

 

[drivel]

Definitely agree that performing fetch quests to make friends is asinine.
Also, I managed to pull off the real-estate magnate plan to save everyone. On the real-estate note, having to go around and individually repair your properties was a giant PITA. It was just too much trouble to have a "Repair all" button? Even if you did it zone by zone, it would have saved me TONS of time. I like how he didn't even mention all of the little glitches. Screw you, randomly shifting golden trail!
I still enjoyed the game, though not as much as Fable II.

 

[rayen020]

They really need to come up with moral choice systems that don't use the words GOOD and EVIL or any of the synonyms. Good/Bad, rightous/evil, paragon/renegade, sunshine-flowers/darkness-sins of the flesh. i don't think these cover all the bases... Wait let me restate; We know these do not cover all the bases. Moral choice meters and moral choices are a good thing to have but i think they need to more than binary. i think there are many way to implement a system i think game developers are being lazy.

example
Respect
|
|
Rightous----|----Evil
|
|
Fear

See? came up with that in less than five minutes. as a king or ruler or leader or whatever this should be your meter... in fact this should be your meter as any famous adventurer person with access to guns, swords, area of offense spells, biotics, or massed forces of destruction. And even more so you add a Z axis and/or an alpha axis (i think thats what a four dimensional axis is called, honestly idk). I don't know i'm no game designer but i feel that by simply adding another axis to a moral choice meter would make stuff more deep open and less idiotic.