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Very fun Fantasy RPG

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: May 07, 2008
Author: Amazon User

My girlfriend absolutely insisted that I play this game since she loved it and I'm also a huge fan of RPG's as well. It got to the point where she just flat out bought it for me on Xbox so I would play it. I clearly had to put this in line as my next game to play. So after I finished with Doom 3 I started working on this daunting project. Don't get me wrong, daunting is a good thing in an RPG format, it just means it's quite long, negative connotations aside; I just have a lot of games in my que is all.

The initial obvious observations are based on the character. Basically the game provides you with the character; you don't create it like you would find in more diverse Role Playing Games. Considering the fact I enjoyed Planescape: Torment to a high degree, this isn't a huge thing for me as long as the story line is pretty good. The second thing is that you don't have a major overhead world view; rather you have the third person camera similar to what you find with Tomb Raider. Thankfully the camera can be controlled and twirled around so you can see from many different angles. You can also zoom in and out to get a better look at your character, but it's always centered on your character so if you want to zoom in on the person your character is talking to, you can't do that. Frankly I found the zoom control sort of annoying in the long run because I sometimes would accidentally hit the button to zoom, I'm sure someone is now saying it's user error. Either way, it was just very easy to zoom, but it wasn't a major issue and didn't happen constantly. The world your thrust into is actually pretty huge, which is a wonderful aspect of this game, this means it's not a game that takes four hours to beat, you seriously get your moneys worth out of this! Anyway in certain areas they've put transportation locations called "Cullis Gates" that can transport you to another gate instantly. I thought this was an excellent thing because when you leave a territory and return all the enemies will reappear then you have to re-fight your way through if there's no gate nearby. This is also great if you want to build experience pretty quickly, but also annoying if you want to start moving things along once you have a lot of experience already.

The game starts off when you're a little boy living in a town called Oakvale with your father. As in most story lines tragedy strikes and you end up being taken care of by the Hero's Guild and then the story transports you into the future and the main story picks up from there. I have to admit the main story is pretty well done. There's a lot of character intrigue and mystery, and of course lots of things to hack and slash! Yes this is one of those hack and slash RPG's in vein of games like Diablo, only there's a little more to the purpose in some cases for our character in Fable. I tend to prefer this format over the turn based concept that Final Fantasy uses and from what I gather non-turn base is typically the preferred.

The in-game play options are really awesome though and there's a lot you can do with your character when it comes to interacting with the world around them. You sort of build your character towards an alignment, but that alignment doesn't really affect the pre-determined story line. Honestly the game is sort of lacking in that regard. So as you play you grow to either be an evil character, good character, or a neutral character as you get experience points. However, whichever alignment you lean towards does affect the way people in the towns react to you (i.e. being afraid of you or cheering for you). The one bad point when interacting with the other communities is that the script is usually pre-defined as well, so you can't choose what your character says. However, the other things you can do in terms of interaction more than makes up this limitation. For example there's this whole category of items you can get called gifts and you can give them to people. This townspeople interaction opens up a whole new world of options.

Honestly, on some levels I was wondering if this game was targeted toward a junior high demographic, but in retrospect after having played through the game I think it's actually geared towards adults. For example you can do really horrible things to people and do really nice things, the game is very diverse. There are also these things called "Demon Doors" and they open only when you meet certain requirements, like one requires you to be married. Some require you to do a great act of evil and one even requires your character to get fat! Amidst the character interaction you can actually sleep with other characters. You have to get them to like you of course, which you can do by using the "flirt" function. When you go into your character profile and look at the statistics it has a line for orientation. So that leads me to believe that your character can be more than just hetero! A shame that your character is predefined as a male now that I think about it... I assume a lot of people would enjoy that added feature to choose a female. Anyway, there's a demon door that also requires you to sleep around, how convenient that it's also near a bordello... which caters too all spectrums, from tantalizing to...well... disturbing. On top of all this your character can buy houses and even get married. This of course entails wooing the people and giving them gifts most of the time, but you can buy wedding rings from traders to seal the deal. You can go to the level where you have a house in multiple areas and have a spouse in all areas, so multiple wives if you're into that kind of thing.

The way your character gains experience is kind of interesting in my opinion and it's definitely pretty inventive. You can get experience the normal ways: by killing enemies or completing quests. Completing quests, as usual, gives you the most and you get it all at once. But for killing enemies, when you destroy one, these little green globes fall on the ground and then it's up to you to collect them all in order to get all the experience they drop. This adds a little more challenge in the game, because you can't just run off. I think there's a bit of a time limit to collect all the globes as well, but you can also hold down the right trigger and it attracts them to you. However, they are material items so they can get stuck behind other enemies in the way or rocks or whatever is in the way of the terrain. Some you have to go track down if they get stuck! The only problem with this is that you have to return to the guild in order to spend the experience points for leveling up the character. It's not like other Role Playing games where you just go into the character profile and you can spend the points right away. This is kind of annoying on some levels, like if you're nowhere near a Cullis Gate or in a new area where you're just lost and exploring.

Okay, on to the parts that I actually hated about this game. I have to preface this by saying I love taking my character on quests in any Role Playing game, it's a serious part of the genre and without quests it just wouldn't be as fun! Now in any game of this nature there are main quests, quests that are necessary for your character to complete, and side quests, quests given to you at random by townspeople. Now you get your main quests from the Guild Hall and you can choose which ones to accept. This is all well and good and that design didn't bother me at all. What was bothersome is that when you enter the area where you're about to embark on a main quest you cannot leave it! You cannot save your game mid-quest. You are seriously stuck doing it until you finish. There were a couple nights where I got stuck staying up way too late because I didn't want to repeat a two hour quest when I restarted the game. Yes, I had fun playing it, but being locked into a sequence was bothersome to me. With a game that had so many functional options, I was surprised at this limitation. Yes, it's more challenging, but there are some serious misgivings, especially when a single quest takes quite a long time.

Personally I wasn't big on the menu options. I love the fact that you had a ton of options. You can wear tons of different clothes, you can get all kinds of fun and crazy items, and you can make your character do all kinds of silly things like flirt or fart with people. The menus to scroll through these took so much time to go through that sometimes the people would walk away while I was choosing then I'd have to go find them again. I love the options, but I think this was a case of there being just way too many. I'm seriously torn though, because I do want to do even more! I just wasn't big on the menu controls and I think other games have done it better, like the Baldur's Gates games, for example.

With the "Lost Chapters" installment the game doesn't end after you beat the final boss are through most of the game. No you get to keep going and enjoy more fun quests! Honestly, the game is actually long enough without the extra aspect, but hey I'm certainly not going to complain about having more great game play to occupy my time. Honestly, I can see why this game is quite popular and gaining serious notoriety. The fun aspect of this game more than makes up for the failings. The game certainly has a degree of silliness and absurdity in it, but that's what makes it playful and fun. It's more of a light hearted Role Playing game when you think about it and kind of a nice break from all the extremely serious games that are currently in the market. I quite enjoy the serious RPG, but it was just nice to play something with a generally different approach, not to mention quite creative. I would seriously recommend this game to anyone who enjoys those kinds of games or similar Fantasy genre based games.

Fable review on the 360

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: April 29, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Game is great except on the 360 it does not save very well. Not sure what the issue is, but expect to go back about 20min prior when you save. Have tried several ways to save and each time it rolls me back 20 min. So if you complete a quest keep playing otherwise you will have to do it all over again if you save right after and shut off the system

Fable:

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: April 29, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I *really* liked this game, a lot.
I beat it in about 2/3 days. I played no stop. I was addicted.
I sold my copy, but I really want to buy another copy of this game. Its a great game.

Awesome Game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: April 26, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I owned Fable a few years ago with my original XBox, and now i bought it again for my 360. Awesome game, through and through, pretty high replay value, and fun everytime you turn it on. Great game.

Best RPG Ever

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: April 15, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I was not too much into video games when Peter Molyoneux hyped this game so much thus I was not expecting much from Fable. Perhaps that is why I love this game so much and consider it the best RPG I've played to date (beats Mass Effect and Oblivion). It is incredibly fun and one of the best games that came out for the original xbox. Only thing I disliked were the loading screens, but then again it is an RPG and I've had to endure longer ones (Mass Effect elevator).

Very good but short

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: April 10, 2008
Author: Amazon User

It was an extremely good game except it was a bit short even with the lost chapters added. I had finished the game in about 24 hours. After beating Jack of Blades you had nothing left to do.

very fun and exciting game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: April 06, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Great,enjoyable game,its long so you wont finish it quickly and you will have fun.

PS:On Xbox 360 it freezes a lot but not on Xbox .

The best game ever for the XBox console.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: August 29, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This game is at the top of the list, there is no better game for overall game play and re-play value, the original was a classic, but the Lost Chapters and all the additional content makes this the best game for the console.

Fable

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: August 29, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This game was very fun. It gives you a lot of options and choices which affect you later on. There are different skills and upgrades to aquire. I would recommend purchasing this game.

Makes me want to buy an XBox 360 just to play the sequel

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: August 17, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I love this game. It's great for those like me, who don't have super coordination, and the ability to remember all of these complex multi-button actions. It is also really enjoyable for experienced game players as well. The only qualm I had was that I wasn't allowed to to play as my own gender, a girl. Which they have now fixed in the sequel! I would definitely recommend it. I haven't play the original Fable, so I can't tell you if this one is better. All I can say is that I've definitely found it worth the price.

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