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A fun time-killer, worth your measly $20.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: May 14, 2007
Author: Amazon User

For KC Oaks, the problem lies not in the game but her/his computer. This game works beautifully with my nVidia 3VGA 7600 GT card.

Okay, true that the game is kinda short, but you can't cheat on a god mode, so it's not like you're gonna finish it in a day or 2. & for only $20 you're getting you're money's worth; the game is both fun & highly amusing, nothing seems cliche & many things are unexpected. The environment is beautiful, the soundtrack is beautiful, just like American McGee's Alice's OST. Cheaters will have to rely on the games exploits; many seem to have been almost added to the game on purpose because of their humorous nature. Down the line, all games become tiresome at some point, but you'll end up wanting to play the game at least once a year. I'm already looking forward to Fable 2.

It *used* to work

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 7 / 13
Date: April 13, 2007
Author: Amazon User

When I bought my new PC, I made explicitly sure that it met or exceeded the recommended specs, including making sure I had a compatible nVidia card. I also made sure I had XP Pro as most of the error reports I had found revolved around Vista.

The first day I had it home, it worked! I played several times through the day, sometimes after a cold boot, sometimes after no reboot. However, at the end of the day, it just stopped working. This is the only application that has been installed on this machine. Now, upon starting the game, the entire system freezes. This is even with a bare boot with no extraneous services or applications running. When it first worked, I made sure to create a restore point in case things went bad. Going back to that restore point has had no effect. I'm starting to wonder if there was actual hardware damage to my nVidia card done by the game.

The bottom line is that nVidia, LionHead, and Microsoft have no answers. There are no patches, there are no updates. There is a meager troubleshooting guide that seems to do no good for the vast majority. Nobody is supporting this product without you first purchasing a support plan at a cost that's multiple times the cost of the game.

Some people have had luck switching to Radeon cards, maybe it's a problem with nVidia and this game together. I don't know, nobody knows for certain. Save yourself the trouble and find a different game. Otherwise you're rolling the dice.

Wonderfull, just wonderfull

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: March 10, 2006
Author: Amazon User

The perfect combination of action and RPG. Also the perfect time consumer. REALLY ADDICTIVE! I love how choosing between good and evil affects your appearance and the world around you. Pretty easy game and really easy to cheat so you might need to make up ways to create difficulty for yourself. Unfortunately, there aren't many evil quests and there's no real benefit to being evil unless you like people running away in terror.

More fun than Daggerfall

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: March 14, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I remember many, many years ago, spending a huge chunk of my life playing Daggerfall. If anybody else remembers it, this is even better. It is not related to that old clasic at all but in the amount of fun this takes the lead.

Starting as an infant and growing to age 65 was totally fascinating. Battles leave actual scars if the damage is enough and even though there are only three main areas of skill, there is plenty in each to keep you enthralled with your character.

Only down side I could find (in addition to cutting into my time for playing Dark Age of Camelot) was that when you finish the final bit of the main story/quest, you are finished. Open ended play would have been a tad better. There were folks I wanted to go back and visit . But, that was not enough to keep me from creating another character and doing it all again. The second time I visited them all again before I finished. Ahh, the satisfaction.

Wonderful concept and exellently executed.

Well, I didn't want to continue this game but I had to finish it because it's expensive!

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 5 / 8
Date: January 02, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I agree that this game is short and easy. I didn't finish all the side quests but it seems there're not many of them.
Let's start with good things about this game. The environments, objects, characters are very, very detailed. NPC experssion and vocal voices are well performed. Everyone talks! There're even children running around. Combat is great. Loading and saving are fast, and this game runs very fluent on my computer.
Anyway, the first thing came to my mind for this game was the character design. Some of the character and object designs are way too cute for adult players (stupid for me), such as the Mayor and health potions....I think a first grade or a kindergarden kid would really like that kind of design... When I play a fantasy RPG game, I expect to escape the reality world and fall into the fantasy one; however, some character designs(especially female NPCs)in this game are very modern and reminding me Yuna in Final Fantasy X all the time. It seems weird to me because this game trys to add modern people into an old world and to combine western and eastern taste. The enviroment doesn't creat the haunting mood such as Morrowind or Gothic II. Unlike Morrowind and Gothic II which have color in their atmosphere, plain white shading of atmosphere in this game is boring to look at. Another thing that bothers me is the sky. It's ugly I'd say. Perhaps the producers think no player will pay attention to the sky. Those flat line-art illustration are just not for me. There're really a few objects in this game, even less when I'm walking around and trying to seek more stuffs. There're too many loading scenes but I guess that's why this game runs very fluently. The last biggest issue for this game is way too linear. It's so tight that I can't walk around and explore freely.
I was expecting this game to be better than other RPG in the past but...well, it's not bad but I wouldn't want to play it again. Maybe you might think it's fun if you like combat and killing a lot.

Fun game with little changes

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 6 / 11
Date: September 27, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I started playing Fable yesterday after waiting forever, and nearly buying an XBox just for the title. So far the game has been pretty fun, although the controls are a little quirky, and when you are leading NPC's around, they don't really listen well. Having to purchase your appearance is also an interesting twist. So far it is very fun, with great graphics, and a new look on RPGs.

Slightly Above Average

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 4 / 6
Date: December 19, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I was disapointed.

So where the gamers. The developer screwed up again, its not the first time, he went on a public forum to apologize.

we where promised a much more open ended game, this game, its really not open ended at all. You follow a set of quests, you can do them on your own time, but they are needed to further the story. The story was lacking, uninvolving and uninteresting if you ask me. I played the whole game and I'm still not quite sure what its about besides being a hero, save the world and all that Jazz, (or destroy it.) you can make a few choices that affect the game play, but not in any big way. Basically, these choices change what people shout at you as you walk through town.

you can ofcourse chose to be good or evil as is trendy in games now. The armour and weapon selection I found unimpressive. I am a huge Final Fantasy fan, they are big shoes to fill in that department I suppose, but honsetly you get most of your weapons from a shop, you can augment them with fire or lightening etc but eh... so what?

The game was over before I knew it, it was only 20 hours or so long for me. the final boss came around before I knew it. It was fun while it lasted, entertaining enough and there was a bit of openededness as far as effecting what your character page said and what people said about you, also what bards sang about you... so that aspect was mildly enjoyable. I wouldn't say its a BAD game, but its not a great one. Slightly above average, its pretty, the spells are fun to look at, there is some adult content, so I dont recomend for children. There is a brothel in the game for example, and you can have sex with your wife, (or husband if your character swings that way) it doesn't show anything but there are noises, disturbing noises...

Its alright. I say if you have the cash to spare and your that curious, go for it, otherwise save your money and get something a little more original. ^^

Crash, Crash, Crash

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 6 / 12
Date: February 10, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I wish I had listened to the people who said this game was buggy. It played OK the first few days, but the longer I play it, the worse my problems are getting. My two-year-old Dell computer exceeds the minimum system requirements. One thing I don't like about the game play is that some sequences take an hour to complete and you can't save in the middle. Now that the game crashes during saves, I probably will not be able to finish it. I tried reloading the game, but it didn't fix anything.

People complain to much

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 9
Date: December 02, 2005
Author: Amazon User

A lot of people complain about little stupid things, like how the trees are the exact wrong shade of gray on their computer. I have an XP pro that has a basic intel driver in it. On my PC Fable runs slower then usual and there is no grass and the water is a bright shade of yellow! I got past this and was able to realize that this game is amazing. Yes its short but the replay factor is so high it really doesnt matter. Add that to huge worlds you can discover and you will see that fable is a game definitly worth getting.

OMG way better than the first

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: January 30, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This game is great on any console (pc or Xbox) it added so much more depth to the game. The original fable didn't really have much of an ending it more or less just made the story stay in the middle of no where but the lost chapters has made up for it. Here are a few highlights:
1. the game has new weapons and armor....that's always good :)
2. The game has new spells in particular 2 new ones that are beyond powerful and awesome they allow you to basically attack every enemy in a limited but large radius from you ...and well...wow!!!
3. the story was beyond awesome i mean in the first fable you could not condemn lady grey for what she had done to her sister even if you found evidence...here you can...the games story makes allot more sense as to what happens to the hero depending on your choice of good or evil it also makes more sense as to why the sword of aeons would be good to have at your side...in the reg fable you would get this powerful almighty sword you hear everyone talking about and yet once you had it u didn't have any real enemies to use it on because the game was over and your already to strong for the enemies you can fight, in the lost chapters...the new enemies in the new area/town and final boss make it all to clear why it would come in handy.

Overall the lost chapters is in my opinion what fable should have been from the start. If you loved the original fable these ones for you. And if you haven't tried it yet...skip the reg and get the lost chapters it has everything the original game had and more. More side quest. More mini games. More story. More fun!!!

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