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Text Issues

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: August 23, 2007
Author: Amazon User

For some reason in my copy the text did not always appear on screen. This made it difficult to learn some things. Also the combat can get somewhat repetitious.

Lots of Fun

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: February 24, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I had a lot of fun playing this. Little slow to begin with. By the late beginning of the game it was addicting. 2 paths to take light or dark, I chose the light. I would say about 40 hours of game play. I am hoping for a add-on soon.

fable the lost chapters

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: March 26, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This game was really really fun. The variety of weapons and armor is good. There are things that make you seem good or bad. For example the Dark Plate Armor gives you a bad reputation and the Bright Plate Armor gives you a good rep. You could go killing town people or bandits. The best part of the game is the fact that you can continue after the final boss and all the different choices you can make. But like almost every game it has a falt in it and that is much to short. For me it was about 15 hours of play with all the side quests that you get paid for. And the graphics are good but unless you have the recommended hardware it can get somewhat jumpy in towns. Also the load time is o.k. at best but i hear the X-box load time is really bad. Over all the game is a 8.5 to 9 out of 10. Graphics good load time bad overall woot.

One-note game

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: December 28, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I bought this game expecting to be able to have more flexibility than I'd ever had before. Now, I just wonder where I got those expectations. Your character? You have to be male and human, and while you can get haircuts and tattoos, gain weight, and, of course, age, that is the full extent of your ability to customize him. He always starts out as a dark-haired, blue eyed, pale little boy... and stays pretty close to that. Though you can get married, don't expect much from that; you won't get the level of character interaction you would get out of the Sims, much less the kind of romance offered in RPGs like Baldur's Gate. Gameplay? You hack/slash/cast/shoot your way through a linear plot and, if you so choose, a handful of side quests. Hardly an embarassment of choices there. It's acceptable for a shooter... but I didn't buy a shooter. As for the moral choices? The clothes my character wore had more effect on his "attractiveness/scariness" than his moral choices. Besides, most of the choices are simply shallow: kill a few bandits here to get some good points; kill a couple merchants there to get some bad points. Crime will get you bad points, whatever your intent. And so on and so forth.
This is not an RPG, unless every shooter where you "play the role" of a spy or marine counts as an RPG. This is "run around and kill stuff" with a few weakly executed RPG trappings. If that sounds like your kind of game, don't let me stop you. If you like RPGs... don't bother.

The problem with zero accountability programming

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 6
Date: January 05, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This game looks alright, the graphics are nothing special but not terrible either. The interface is unoriginal, easy enough to adjust but fairly limited. The story is very linear and very simple, even the alternate morality is weak, far too simple for some of the more, mature tidbits scattered through the game. There is combat but nothing particularly challenging in that venue. It seems to have something for the violent player and the complex role player, but not really enough for either.

The biggest problem, there seem to be a lot of fairly serious bugs and there does not seem to be any intention to patch them any time soon. Considering the very limited save options, these crashes can cost a lot of time as you replay fairly long periods with numerous cut scenes only to have a bad pointer hang up your entire machine at the same final boss as it did last time.

A comparison can be made to Morrowind, considering the corporate design this may be a valid comparison though the games themselves are highly dissimilar they have some of the same technical problems. Though Morrowind suffered mostly from sheer size, this game boasts no such excuse, it is a very small and limited game with few options and few degrees of freedom. Perhaps a future Xbox version will be more polished, after all, Morrowind was almost stable when it finally got to Xbox, as long as you did not get wrapped up in any of the expansion packs. Then again, another Xbox Fable might wind up with a few add-ons that undo any potential polishing.

There has to be a more efficient way than this to ruin your computer.

Enjoyable Game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: December 30, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This is one of the best games I've played all year. I highly enjoyed it. Granted, I didn't play the original Fable, so it didn't seem like just an add-on to me. But I can see where if you had played the original, it might seem like that.

This game had a decent storyline, interesting quests, great graphics, and fun gameplay, as well as the opportunity to play it more than once. The only thing I would've liked was the option to play as a female because I am female. But I enjoyed it.

Fun Game but I expected more

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: December 18, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I had pretty high hopes for this game as one of the selling points is how your every choice decides your character's fate and all that. It just does the typical point scale of good vs. evil. The other selling point is how your guide your character through his life from a child to manhood well that is not true you spend about 10 minutes as a kid, 10 minutes as a adolescent and the rest of the game having finished puberty and aging as you level. The game was also pretty quick/short as the side quests were usually short and I thought there were far too few of them.

Besides those drawbacks the game was fun and I enjoyed playing it the world has some interesting interactions like stealing and other activities but it just seemed too short to me. I would definitely recommend it since it is a fun RPG and very cheap now.

Fable: The Lost Chapters -- More Fun Than Expected

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: January 12, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Aside from all the hype and gorgeous screen shots of this game, I hadn't really made up my mind whether or not I would fork over the cash for it when it was finally released for the PC -- it seems the console version left a lot of room for improvement.

I can happily say I am pleased to have purchased the game and am really enjoying playing it -- sure, it's somewhat simple in nature; yes, the combat system is really just hack and slash (but can be more if you bother to use its features like flourish and block); sure there could be improvements, but overall, it's a really solid and highly enjoyable game.

The look and feel of the game is enjoyably immersive ... not quite what I'd call 'realistic' by any means, but definitely beautiful and enthralling (particularly the lighting effects and ambient appearance). The music is very well done, the story (and the player's control over it) are very entertaining, and the numerous side quests make up for a relatively moderate number of main quests.

I am most pleased my character can choose to be [...] or straight -- this type of flexibility is a real rareity in the highly homophobic and bigoted gaming community. Granted, there are plenty of buxom female beauties throughout the game, but your character is not required to wed or bed them to complete quests. I know some people are offended by that sort of thing, but if they would all just be realists for a moment they'd get that whether they like it or not, [...] people DO in fact exist and make up a larger part of the gaming community than they realize. It's nice for a player to have real-life flexibility in an RPG, and my hat is off to Lionhead for being brave enough to allow such freedom.

Oh, and if what you just read offends you, then you are exactly the kind of ______ I'm talking about and you can just go jump in the lake. No, I don't care if you vote my review 'not helpful.' I'll still be here, and you'll still have to get used to it.

If you've been sitting on the fence about buying 'Fable: The Lost Chapters' but love a really good RPG, take the leap and buy it -- it's not 'Oblivion,' but it will definitely tide you over until that one is released.

This game is not for PC users

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 31
Date: August 06, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I gave it one star because there was no way to give it less.

This game when played on the X Box was great. So when it came out for PC I bought it. BIG MISTAKE! The control are too hard to learn. And when you are in a battle you can't stop to think which keys when used together work. There are too many keys that you need to push together to do even the simplest thing.

I wasted my money on this game. I deleted it and will never play it. Don't waste your money!

Completely unstable

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 12
Date: December 09, 2005
Author: Amazon User

The game runs great, unless it decides to randomly crash to desktop. Furthermore, the inability to save when ever you want combined with the random crashes makes the game difficult to penetrate. Inquiries to microsoft about tech support results in their suggestion that you reinstall windows. Even though every other piece of software runs fine and the only problem is with Fable. Save your money.

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