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Disappointment

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 13
Date: December 26, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Don't be fooled - Fable: the Lost Chapters is nothing more than an expansion pack (and a pretty limited one at that). I got this for my husband because we both enjoyed the original Fable, despite its shortcomings. From the way this one was marketed, you'd suppose that it was the same world, same character, with some new adventures. Instead, it's the same game with just a few added missions tacked on at the end. You have to play the entire game over again (can't import an old game from the first Fable) and in the end, for all that work you've done, you get just a few new missions. Not worth it at all.

So - if you haven't played the first, go ahead and get this one - it'll be fun. But if you have played the first, don't believe the ambiguous packaging promising something new - if you want new adventures, just get a new game.

Needs major patches, glitchy, doesn't run well.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 14
Date: December 10, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I have three computers, will not run at all on my AMD 1.8ghz, 1g ram / 64bit Radeon. Will run, lo res, still glitches on my Dell, 1.6 ghz Celeron M with 512 ram and Intel extreme graphics.

Should run great on my Zeus custom P4 @ 3.3 ghz, 2g ram & 512 All in wonder card, but still is glitchy as hell. Looks like crap below 1024 x 768 resolution. Runs slow, control is unresponsive and slow (you press a button during a fight sequence and several seconds later the command occurs.) This gets worse the more people / graphics are involved in the fight. So one - one is okay, but add two or three enemies and the thing starts freezing.

This was originally developed for PC, not X-Box, so why it's so damned glitchy I don't know.

I love this game, wish it worked on my notebook and I don't have / can't afford an x-box! It's a great game with tons to do and is really involving. Graphics are great and the good or evil or in-between option is cool (and the heart of the game.)

I have a gaming computer built by a gaming computer company (Zeus) and it still doesn't work well. The key defaults are horrible, the control is crap and why (why?!!!) can't I use my sidewinder controller (or any other controller for that matter?) This is a great game but it's like a VHS copy, it works for crap on PC and wasn't ready for release. There are no patches (yet) I can't wait until there are and it actually works.

Should also note that they recommend you turn off all other programs, including anti-virus! Being on a cable modem and home network turning off my anti-virus is like inviting the grim reaper in! How incredibly irresponsible for Microsoft to recommend that!

Wait until patches or play on x-box.

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!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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