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Xbox port that's good...

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 4
Date: March 13, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I pretty much knew how this game would be, though I still enjoyed it. Lionhead studios has consistently released games that don't disappoint.

Very nice RPG

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 4
Date: August 13, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Back when it came out on Xbox, I was incredibly angry...I only had a silly gameboy...but when it came out for computer, I just had to have it. I found the game very fun to play, simple controls (use arrows, not wasd) and felt very fufilled as the credits finally rolled after the last battle. It doesn't take long to finish this game, but play is continuous (if you watch the entire credits) and you can always start over and switch to evil/good side for a new version of the game.

Baby's First Elder Scroll game. The most overrated game of its time.

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 5
Date: June 09, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I played and demolished the original Fable so quickly that I felt cheated.

Not a good way to begin what's going to be a fairly derisive review, but it must be said. I could not belive the good to excellent reviews Fable was endowed with; I felt sure that money was changing hands. With almost no replayability (wait for it. I'll explain), and nothing at all new or revolutionary other than customizable tattoos, not to mention a pretty tepid and over used story line, what other explanation is there?

Nonetheless, I got on with my life, vowing never to trust Lionhead Studios again(I broke my own vow. I love 'the Movies'). Skip ahead a year or so...

As a gift from a well meaning friend, I recieve Fable: the Lost Chapters. Allegedly huge amounts of added stuff and a bunch more gameplay. I figured I'd give it a shot.

Still sort of sucks.

Here, in my opinion, is the beef. The entire concept of Fable AS RELEASED is a failed attempt to 'dumb down' the Elder Scrolls formula of 'do what you want, when you want', especially if you read the early blurbs and interviews with studio members when Fable was first announced. The story is even VERY reminiscent of an Elder Scrolls plot. The similarities dont end in basic design, though: they're followed through all the way through execution. From focusing on books you can read as an optional minigame, to the side quests of the Demon Doors (....Or daedric shrines...?), to customizable class and abilities to people reacting to your deeds (it is NOT your appearance, people: your appearance is just a net integer output algorithm for your current good/evil index), to the rather 'flexible' moral structure the game allows you to take, to hardcase guards who fine you for breaking the law, to the fluid nature of quest assignment (Fable's is a bit more structured, but you get the feeling on your second time through that it wasnt SUPPOSED to be... More on that in a sec), to buying and selling stuff to different merchants for fun and profit to the main minor league antagonists being zombies and bandits, to the bigger league guys being legendary demons, to the katana being a european weapon for no reason at all, to werewolves being diseased humans that prey on their own species, to having an Arena for heroes to fight in, to collecting scattered armor sets to ... I could go on, but I encourage anyone who's played both ANY Elder Scrolls game AND fable to think about it and draw their own conclusions.

The most frustrating thing though, bar none, is the way the game feels like its JUST NOT DONE. When I play a re-release of a game that alleges it has 'vastly expanded gameplay', there'd better be more than two hours of extra play in there. Thats not even long enough to advertise, in my opinion. There are weapons and armor bits that are obviously parts of sets, but you cant get the rest of the set because they ran out of time or money or both.

To draw that Elder Scrolls parallel again, look at Bloodmoon, which came out in 2004 as an expansion for Morrowind. Then look at the added stuff for Fable.

I will admit, that even with all the glaring issues, it IS a fun game. But it is a SERIOUSLY derivative, FLAWED game, an unfinished game that fell utterly short of its promise. It took Bethesda four years to put out Oblivion. THATS a finished game. It took sony something on the order of five years to put out GranTurismo 4. THATS a finished game. It took Sony (again) five years to put out Final Fantasy 12. THATS a finished game.

The courtship mini game is fun fo sho, and growing horns and sacrificing people remains as utterly entertaining as ever, but thats it. Seriously.

Essentially, my feeling is that if it were a budget game by a minor studio, it would be worth the moniker 'classic'. As it stands, for four years or more of development and very little in the way of innovation means it had an obviously tortured and unhappy development period.

Just my opinion. If you want a game that truly lets you grab your destiny by the short hairs, play Morrowind or Oblivion. If you want fantastic leveling options and player control, play Disgaea. If you wanna be a good or bad boy, play Knights of the Old Republic or Jade Empire.

Lets hope Fable II, due out for Xbox 360 sometime before the Rapture, is better.

What Might Have Been

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 27
Date: February 02, 2006
Author: Amazon User

First, you might ask, why rate this game 5 stars...and then give it an overall rating of 1 star? Well, in theory, the game is awesome: breathtaking graphics, nice combat (from what I saw of it), and completely being able to customize your character (even his sexuality).
I was going along, thinking this was one of the best games I had ever played, when 20 minutes into game play, it froze (when trying to fight Maze to graduate from The Academy). I started over...same freeze occured. Uninstalled/Re-installed game. Same story.
Went to Best Buy (where I had purchased the game) and exchanged the defective copy for a new one. Started playing with high hopes...and once again, twenty minutes in, the game froze and wouldn't allow me to progress any further.
The game is fundamentally flawed. Sure, it might have been awesome...had I been able to get more than 20 minutes of game play out of it.

doesnt work

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 38
Date: February 17, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This game is a waste of money. Almost any new pc games are a waste! You have to have a fantastic hight tech computer to play this dumb game. I got my computer a year ago and this game still dident work. What a joke computer games are today! I suggest getting knights of the old republic 1 or 2 or age of empires 2 or 3.

I won!

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 6
Date: November 25, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Like someone posted before me, Fable may not work on you're computer. I have no clue why it dosen't work on mine. I have a X800 XT, 3.2 Pent, 2 gigs of ram, and have no problems with any other games. I bought F.E.A.R, Age of Empires III, Quake 4, X-Men Legends II, and Fable at the same time. Fable is the only one that won't start. I turn on max detail on every game and they work fine, so it's not a preformance issue. I don't want to install old drivers to check if thats the problem, because it will create more issues.... I guess I have to awit for the patch. I give it a 3star cause all I've heard were good things. If you have a way to make it work e-mail me at [...]thank you.

NOT WORTH IT!!!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 37
Date: February 26, 2006
Author: Amazon User

We bought a used x-box and were able to play all types of games on it. When we tried to load this game (also used) on there, the only thing it did was replay the loading screen over and over again. In so thinking that it was the used game, we went out and BOUGHT a brand new one from a different store, hoping to return the old one. This, however, turned out to not be the case. The new one did the same thing as the old one and when we tried to return it, we were told that they would trade it for the same game. We already had two defective games, why would we want a third? When I called Microsoft for a refund, they told me that I would have to talk to the retailer. Alotta good that does me since that's where I had just come from. Overall, don't get this game, it certainly isn't worth the hassle to try to get it to work.

So lame I cut my losses and just gave it away

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 8
Date: March 30, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I gave this game to a friend after only one day.

Pretty as the game is, the interface is simply unplayable for an old gamer like me. Remember turning left or right using the arrow keys? Forget it. You can reassign most of the interface controls EXCEPT the ability to turn left or right. Yikes. Sure, you can move forward or back, or slide left/right, but in combat, having to swing the mouse to turn was totally counterintuitive for me. I also hated the third person view. I kept wanting to shout "Dude! Get out of the way!".

Dungeon Siege I & II were so much more fun. I have had fun. This game wasn't fun to play , and that's the bottom line.

Save your money

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 8
Date: March 30, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Even though I made sure my computer met all the system requirements before opening the game, I could not get it to run for more than 15 minutes. I ended up playing the same scene over and over again (the majority of which was cutscenes) because I couldn't save. After numerous crashes, I gave up.

Fabulous beginning; weak ending

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: November 20, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Single-hero fantasy game with a wonderful built-into-the-game tutorial, easy to use interface, well designed play flow, and fun behavior options. Lost 2-stars are from the "mandatory" quests, which are poorly designed and get increasingly annoying and/or icky. Earns "Mature" rating via adult and/or immoral action choices beyond simple violence.

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