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Weak dudes...

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 16 / 54
Date: September 11, 2004
Author: Amazon User

The game is not even out until at least 9/14 and already it has 17 glowing "reviews". Unbelieveable

False advertising, game doesn't live up to hype AT ALL

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 9 / 19
Date: September 30, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Why this game got so many stars is beyond me. I was looking forward to this game for over a year. The idea that I was going to watch my character grow up sounded so unique. Scars? You mean I would actually see scars from my battles? Wow!

First obvious beef. If this is all about me, my choices, my growing up...why can't I have the choice of being a female? Nope, gotta be a guy. Gee, marriage is gonna be a blast *rolls eyes* I get to marry a woman. That may be fine for some but I am a woman who would like to marry a man thanks. This should be your first hint at the extreme limits of this game.

Well here's how it really goes...childhoood lasted all of 10 minutes, maybe 15 at best. I was a certain age entering the game and I was that specific child age of maybe 9 years old, for the whole 15 minutes...cut scene...you wake up, start training for 10 minutes...cut scene...wake up...you are a teenager of maybe 16. You do training,10, maybe 20 minutes later...cut scene...you are now a young adult and I have a SCAR on your face. Back up Jack...where is the growth I was promised? I thought I would watch my character grow up gradually...not poof into 3 specific age stages in less than an hour. Utterly dissappointed in that. How the heck did I get the scar? I was in training the whole time and never got a notice or visual hint of receiving a wound that would leave such a scar. Talk about cookie cutter production there. There was very little content to do for those way to quick child years. No sense of pride in my so called battle scar because I don't even know how I got it.

I have to ask, what was the point of being a child at all when it barely existed. That was such a main selling point in there advertising. Ooooo scars...gee...thanks for slapping on the face marring that obviously comes standard for everyone and wasn't unique to anything I did. These attributes seemed to be added more like an afterthought so they could really overhype them for the games release.

The rest of my complaints are well voiced in other reviews here. Linear gameplay. Overhyped. Graphics were aweful. I felt like a wooden puppet with a huge head in a wooden puppet world. I could barely stand to look at myself. Pointless gameplay.

I am not even going to finish this game. I can't stand it. I am taking it back so I can at least get some turn in credit. Otherwise I would throw it in the trash.

As a side note. I am 34 years old and have been playing RPGs on both console and PC avidly for at least 10 years...not to mention casual gaming prior.

I can't believe it!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 12 / 22
Date: April 01, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Okay, whether you have high expectations or none at all, this game just doesn't work. For one, the whole "freedom of choice" thing is a huge lie. If you want to be "good", you can rescue the same people over and over; for "evil", you kill them repeatedly. That's it. Second, you CANNOT choose where you want to go and what you want to do there. This game is mission-based, just like every other bland game this year. Oh, sure, you can "choose" which mission you want, but if you choose any but the "right" one, you'll find yourself getting killed in an instant. So no matter what you do, you have to follow a linear path.

The gameplay is a mess as well. The combat system doesn't work half the time (you'll often accidentally target people instead of enemies), and even when it does work, you'll still get killed because your skills aren't powerful enough. How do you get them more powerful? By going to the forest and killing bees until you level up. Hmmm, where have I heard this before? In every single other RPG to hit the market, perhaps? Unlike better games, where you always find yourself at the right level to move forward if you take on all the available enemies, Fable forces you to go back and forth between areas to get the enemies to respawn, watching a long loading screen each and every time you exit and enter an area. What fun.

Even the non-combat interface is completely dilapidated. Menus were a monster to navigate, and it took me a good ten minutes just to get my equipment on. And don't get me started on my attempt to use the controller customization feature.

Finally, there are the things that aren't "broken" exactly, but are still annoying. Like the people, for example. Even when you are just walking through an area, perhaps on your way back to kill more bees, NPCs are constantly chattering away in irritating accents. You can't get a moment's peace. Also, you can call me a prude if you wish, but I can't believe that "burp" and "fart" have their own buttons. This game is rated M for mature, but perhaps it should be rated I for immature.

Overall, Fable is an annoying, clunky, and frustrating game. Far from the promised revoloution, it delivers a package that doesn't even meet mediocre standards.

Looking for a good RPG on the Xbox? Look elsewhere.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 8 / 20
Date: May 12, 2005
Author: Amazon User

There was a lot of hype surrounding this game and how it was going to be a go-anywhere, do-anything, alpha and omega of role playing games.

It wasn't.

It's like they attempted to cross a RPG with The Sims, and came out with something that was not as entertaining as either.

The game play was linear, basically limiting you to choosing from a pool of missions of which you could accept or decline.

The overarching "story" was.... best described as a delusional childhood power fantasy, which might appeal to the type of person that likes TV cartoons like Dragonball Z.

The mini-quests were not too bad, but seemed contrived and without context at times.

The dynamics of interacting with the other denizens of the game were equally lackluster, culminating in how stupid getting married was. You woo a person by giving them gifts and doing stupid showboating stuff like flexing muscles at them. And then if the woo'ed character likes you enough, asks you to marry them. Then you've got to go get a wedding ring and give it to them--by which time they may no longer like you and you have to lavish them with gifts and more muscle flexing. Then you get married. Then you have to buy a house to live in. Then you have to give more gifts and flex. Then there might be a "come to bed" and some "oh" and "ah" noises on a black screen. Then you're back to "more gifts and flexing, please!" It's so aweful it's outright comical.

If you decide to not be an adventurer, you can do all kinds of exciting things to make a living. Like, say, fish in ponds and sell the fish. Or buy a couple houses and rent them out and drop by once in a while to collect the rent manually. Or buy items that are a little cheaper in one town and go to the next town where they fetch a slightly higher price and sell them there. The excitement never starts!

One of the most annoying aspects of the game is the ever-badgering, intrusive narrator-that-is-actually-a-character-at-the-Hero's-Guild voice. Constantly chiming in with such things as "Your health is low!" or "You have a new quest card!", as if he manually monitored all heroes and alerted them to stuff like that through a cell phone. There's a nice health bar on the screen where you can clearly see your health is low (or not). And how hard would it be to have a villager come up and ask for your help, rather than having the disembodied voice alert you that there is a "quest card" for you at the guild. It completely ruins the immersiveness of the game.

All in all, definitely take a pass on this game. If you're looking for a good story in an RPG format, I'd recommend Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic over Fable any day of the week.

Lame

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 7 / 17
Date: September 29, 2004
Author: Amazon User

"Over-Hyped" is not the word I'm thinking of. "Rip-off" is more accurate. This game had so much potential, but falls flat in every way. While the new revolution in third-person point-of-view camera work makes you never want to go back to Baldur's Gate, the blatant false advertising that proceeded the release makes a case for Class Action lawsuit. The trailer that is shown on Cinematech has NOTHING to do with the game. There definitely wasn't any consequence for my actions as the makers would have you believe. Good or evil made no difference except you get a halo or horns. Big Whoop. And don't even get me started about the confining story line and the whole two minutes in took to beat the final boss and take the game back to EB.

Lame, lame, lame. The makers should be ashamed.

Rent it if you must. But resist the urge to snap the disc in half at the end.

Not as Good as everyone says

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 10
Date: February 06, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Simply speaking, this game is a disappointment.
When I first started playing the game I didn't know much about the 'hype' of it. Heck all I knew is that it was supposed to be a 'great' game and that was enough for me.
And Honestly enough... it was a decent game at first, untill I finally beat it 8-9 hours in. When that point came.. I was totally crushed.

That is not to say the game isn't fun. Heck my c-worker is 35 hours into the game and he's not yet 1/2 way done.
The Graphics are Great, the fighting controls are excellent. It was very simple and easy to fight, and the attack modifier was an interesting addition once you got used to it.
You can get married and have women fall in love with you.
You can own houses and shops and earn money from them.
You can be a hero or a villan, become fat, get drunk, have sex, anything.

The problems in this game are bountiful however.
Earning money is Easy, way way too easy. Just play the memory card game in the inn of the first town you come to. 1000 credits for every win.
Within an hour of my start I had the best sword, and the best armor that I could buy, on top of which I owned 1 house and 1 shop. That wouldn't be so bad except the armor and weapon I bought is next to the best in the game, the best is only available approx halfway through, and isn't really that much better than second best.
Another major problem is that the game was VERY easy. The fights and battles were hardly a challenge for me. I 'died' only once the entire game, but with carrying 9 resurection vials that wasn't a problem at all. those things are very easy to obtain and bring you back to life instantly.
Much too easy, too little of a challenge.

All the above wasn't too bad, and I didn't mind it as much.. untill I reached the end. The end was the shortest and most disappointing of any game I have ever played. The worst part is that whatever you do throughout the game is pointless at the end.
Getting Married, drunk, buying shops or houses, having money, anything is all just a filler to make you go 'cool' or 'wow' or 'interesting'.
what you do throughout the game does not tie into the ending in any way, and I didn't like that because what point was there in me marrying 3 women and owning several shops and being a complete alacholic? none. Just a waste of time.

A couple other gripes about the game:
I don't like how you can kill most anyone anywhere, however the first town you come to you can't kill anyone.
I didn't like the fact that the game is so linear. Weather you are good or bad.. you do the same quests and same things time and again. Kill someone? leave them alive? it doesn't matter the same thing happens later on anyways because of the result of your decision.
I didn't like the fact, that if you choose to be evil, and kill everyone in a town, that the town guards come nonestop.
At one point I must've had 100 guard bodies on the ground in front of me... very very sad indeed. Hopefully there is a point where they stop coming, but I never got to it.

Basically if you like linear games where you can do a lot of different and unique things, and don't care about how easy, or short, or simple it might be then You might enjoy this game.
If you're unsure, rent it. It can easially be beat within a renting time period, and it might save you 30 bucks in case you hate it.
If you want a better, non-linear RPG, at the expence of graphics get morrowind.

IF they make a second fable I'd hope that whatever you did came back to bite you in the end, or they used it to ... make the end interesting.(show a video of your 3 wives duking it out) (maybe a video of you raising a family in one of your homes) or being a lush in a bar... something that makes you want to go through it over and over to see every ending, every possibiality.. every outcome.
Just my thoughts

Almost as bad as Halo 2, or Halo for that matter!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 32
Date: November 15, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Sucky game, I've even heard some people comparing it to The Legend of Zelda, that's a laugh! HA HA! Zelda is in a class that Fable will never be a part of, no way, no how, not in a million years. Save your money on this title, if you want a good RPG get Zelda!

Huge disappointment

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 11
Date: December 29, 2005
Author: Amazon User

It was clear to me after about two hours of gameplay that I had wasted my money. I will admit that I am biased toward a more nonlinear plot but honestly that is what Fable was supposed to offer. It does not count as a choice if you can merely do the menial task of killing something one of two ways.
The only other opportunities for one to stray from the very basic plot line was to woo some lucky (or unlucky, I suppose) lady or lad. This engine was definitely somewhat creative. However, it becomes apparent that the sole purpose of this is to draw in teens via sex appeal. Not only is this in bad taste, it really isn't that interesting.
In short: the game boils down to killing pirates in a plethora of ways and then seeking out someone to get intimate with. It says something about a game when its most exciting moment is when the screen goes dark and a you hear some sort of moaning. At least that drowned out the groaning I am doing because of my wasted money. I should have bought a frisbee and went and played some frolf instead.

Not for the Motion Sensitive!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 13
Date: March 16, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I was so excited to get this game - but couldn't play it for more then 5 minutes because the character's movement made me feel so ill. If you tend to be the type who gets motion sickness from certain games - you'll want to skip this one.

Serious problems with Microsoft games on Xbox

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 10
Date: February 23, 2007
Author: Amazon User

The one star rating has nothing to do with the Fable game itself; it has to do with the makers: Microsoft. My sister bought this game, brand new, and it played fine for a short time, but after a while, it started freezing. We thought it must have gotten scratched, so we used a cleaner; even worse. Then, we used someone else's Xbox, and the same thing happened.
It really bites when you're getting into a game and it stops. We got another, thinking maybe it was a problem with the store it came from. The next game, seemingly free of scratches, brand new packaging, never been opened, did the EXACT SAME THING.
I know it's not a problem with the Xbox. There are several other games we own: Fatal Frame and others that never presented a problem. We also have another brand new Microsoft game: Malice, unplayed that freezes after about five minutes game-time.

My question for the Microsoft guys: why make products that don't work? Think a bunch of suckers are going to buy your faulty products??? Think again.

I won't be buying or renting anymore from that company.

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