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"First impressions of Fable..."

Nice graphics, nice setting, easy combat, lots of farmer accents.

So far I like, it all feels very Terry Pratchet/Harry potter. Mainly because of the accents, still cool game so far.

I got my guy an oriental moustache and everyone keeps calling him ugly. I swear the next person to laugh at him is gonna get my katana sword up their jacksey. Everyone keeps calling me Chicken Chaser for some reason, probably because I keep punting them around everywhere.

I've tried to hold back on killing people for no real reason so far, god knows I came close to killing one guy though as he just wouldn't shut up about fishing. Instead I farted at him and stole his bed for the night, tried flirting with him also but he just laughed at me.

The world's a lot bigger than I expected, haven't actually come across any villages yet as I've been mainly kicking bandits asses in the woods.

Still, I like so far.

But I think that it is that limitation that makes the game so accessible to the average Joe who plays it. A game with less limits, is a lot more daunting to the player, especially if they are new to the genre.

I know it's opinion, but one cannot argue with the sheer limitation the game sticks upon you - but KOTOR did the same, but was truly sublime - and hell, I like beardy RPGs, but I also am not stupid enough to think that these are the benchmarks - read my Fable review for my main argument about it - Zelda is arguably RPG-Lite, with even less stats, (alright, it's an action-adventure), and that has always had far more brilliance than Fable.

Ok, so you don't like it. But you can't go around telling other people not to like it, which is what you seem to be doing.

I don't generally like RPG's, as I'm not some beardy geek who will quite happily spend 100 hours + on Final Fantasy or Morrowind (which you do have to do to be able to kill a rat).

I much prefer the RPG-Lite of Fable. It's down to personal opinion. You can't go around stating "Fable is bad" because, in my view anyway, it's not.

No, the problem with Fable was that aside from the complete lack of anything they said would be in there, the game simply wasn't very good!

It looks great etc, but it's limited, shallow, linear, completely uninspiring and horribly uninvolving. The best thing about it (supposedly) was pressing buttons repeatedly to get people to either love or hate you.

Cycloon wrote:
Fable however, is quite simply bad.


No, it's not. I'm still playing through it, and enjoying it immensely. I think it all depends on what you were expecting from it.

Games never live up to hype. Fact.

No, it's just plain not very good.

Fable is an RPG for people who don't get off on ogres

Morrowind just isn't to everyone's taste, which is fair enough.

Fable however, is quite simply bad.

Yeah I've just noticed that. I'll go with Fable. Thanks.

If you must play Morrorwind, don't get it for a GAD. It's rubbish and you can pick it up for under £20 these days.