Is the gameplay engrossing or captivating? Featuring a stripped-down combat system from even the woefully-inadequate system behind Fable 2… in a word, no. It’s the length of a condensed action game, quick and brutal, with none of the focused trappings of similar titles.Īre the choices that you make worth making? Not when they’re presented in such a good-or-evil way, and the ramifications simply boil down to “can my coffers take this?” Are the characters ones that stay with you? Hardly, though that’s not surprising for any of Lionhead’s titles. Where most games might spend their narratives preparing the player for some world-devastating cataclysm, as was the case with Mass Effect 2 (and that game was content to spread things out, to make the experience last), Fable 3 condenses that story into a little less than half that time. Your choices here lead up to the endgame, which at this point is approaching all too quickly, with little lead up, little preparation, only the promise of a battle that must be won. This world – generic though it may be – is one that you are dedicated to saving. Slowly, the relevance of your actions preceding this point begin to appear. It is here that the real plot of the game begins to take shape. Something that vows to eat both the hero’s soul, and envelope the world. It is in this place that an evil is brewing, something unnerving and foul.
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That feeling of the cliche – of been there, done that a feeling that seems so well suited for the Fable series as a whole – changes about six to eight hours in, when the hero falls into a cave. A standard setup, with this chick or whatever getting killed (or whatever) because you took a silent but moral “stand,” and suddenly you are outcast! wanderer! adventurer! self-proclaimed-and-silent-but-reluctant-savior! It all seems very cliche, right from the beginning, and that doesn’t help much when the game only runs about 12 hours total. It’s actually pretty typical for most Western RPGs. The beginning of Fable 3 is fairly typical for a Fable game. It’s a simple problem, and one that plagues more games than I think most would care to realize: the problem with Fable 3 is that it’s half a game, and things end just when they’re starting to get interesting. That’s peddling to the lowest common denominator in gamers, and that’s the last thing this industry needs right now.) The problem with Fable 3, however, is the reason that it’ll never be a good game, or even a great game. I mean, I’m supposed to laugh at a bird taking a shit right in the opening video. (This is supposed to be British humor? Because I’ve watched BBC shows, and they’re funnier than this ever was. That’s too bad, because I found some really cool stuff contained in Fable 3, once I got past the bad voice acting, even worse writing and piss-poor characterizations. Lionhead’s newest just wasn’t interesting enough to be worth my time. Mostly, though, I had other games to play, and I was in the middle of a prolonged Halo: Reach binge that lasted way too long (and not long enough, if you ask one or two of my friends). “I want to make choices.” So I sought out the game… and didn’t play it for a while, because I thought I had made a huge mistake. But that didn’t stop Fable 3 from coming out, and I’ll be honest, the draw for me was the latter half of the game. The humor was just north of being functionally retarded, the “moral” choices in it seemed insignificant, and by Fable 2 the combat and RPG systems seemed almost non-existent. I’d never been “into” the series in general. Over the summer, I came into possession (through slightly illicit means) of a mostly new copy of Fable 3 (okay, I got it from Goozex).
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