was fable ever good? I remember playing 1 or 2 when a long time about on my 360 but I never beat them. I always liked the concept more than the execution
it's really good. but it's short, it's limited, too straightforward. there's no exploration, you walk on trails the whole game. the Lost Chapters is a shitty DLC addon which fricked up several things, ruined the epic finale of the original, nerfed the macguffin sword, made JoB's iconic voice generic.
2 is just bad all up and down, no rerelease required to ruin that.
Also it's far too easy if you have even slight clue on what to do. Still, I keep replaying it occasionally because it's still one of the most fun and comfy games I've played.
it's a dead horse. it's honestly not even that bad looking, sure the original looks good and nostalgia, but Anniversary is all the gay shit Lost Chapters adds, and some more actually useful stuff. you can set the controller to play like Fable 2 even.
>there's no exploration, you walk on trails the whole game
as much as I agree, there's a lot of shit I've missed in the game, from pages to find the non-shit version of the secret weapon, to things to open demon doors, and probbaly several other things I cant remember or just dont know about. granted, I havent put a full playthrough in as an adult
Wouldn't say it was good nor bad. But it was my introduction to the cacophony that is the English accent and "humour". And that great, even in the trashpit that is 3.
The gameplay had issues and combat was hilariously easy to break, and there are some truly baffling decisions like tying aging to levels which resulted in you being older than your own mother when you met her, but the atmosphere and tone was top notch
Fable 1-2 is similar to mass effect's progression.
2 isn't soulless, but 1 is far superior to it in that regard, while 2 does away with a lot of pointless tedium but throws the baby out with the bathwater.
I just finished a replay of Fable Anniversary. It still has nostalgic value to me but overall it's a very shallow and unimmersive game. I'm playing Fable 2 and that game is pretty much what they probably had in mind for the first game. Still, Fable 2 also has its missteps.
I think the reason Fable 4 is taking so long is because the devs realized that Fable 1-3 are overall not so good so they can't just base their new game on what was done before.
Not really. Fable 1 does hold up on charm alone, but 2 and 3 are garbage unless you have really thick nostalgia glasses
pretty sure the only people who played it were 13 year olds. they just have nostalgia over it, fable was never that good.
I feel like people are way too extreme in judging games whether it be to praise or shit on them.
Fable definitely isn't anything great but melee hits feel meaty and spells are broken enough in fun ways to be interesting. Otherwise, you have plenty of keys, demon doors, quests and other shit packed into an otherwise short game to keep you consistently active all the way to the end.
I consider it the same way I consider Hit and Run where, neither are particularly amazing at anything, they are just short solid games that have enough packed into relatively small spaces to be consistently good throughout.
Everything that Fable does is pretty solid, just not outstanding.
The setting and music is peak comfy and oozes SOUL. Even though Peter Molyman is an exaggerating liar, I'd take a thousand half baked dream projects over the corporate cookie cutter slop we get today.
1 was good although not as great as people tend to think
2 was good except for the fricktarded ending. seriously what a moronic "choice" >you can't revive both the workers and your family because.......you just can't okay!
Fable 1, the one that requires you to be evil to open, contains Wellow's Pickhammer. It's easy to satisfy its requirements and the Pickhammer is a decent weapon for a good portion of the game, easily lasting until you get something better.
>max out lightning >get the fully powered frying pan >put in 5 mana augments due to the hidden augment bug >cast lightning for 5 minutes straight
Too bad I had nothing but guards and hobs to use it on by that point.
>Get to the loredump talking heads in TLC >Apparently the old Guild of Heroes leadership did not accept quests like "Lets raid a farm" or "Lets kill all the merchants in this field" >This guy and Maze led a bloody revolution to become the new guild leader, so that murderers were free to enlist the guild's services
but why
what an butthole
>Charge an arrow and hold it >Count to 60 >Hit an enemy >Watch it die and laugh in 50+ Combat Multiplier >OPTIONAL: Use your experience potions before multiplier starts to decay for maximum gains
The last game I heard of that was English was Tails of Iron. Really cute little game with satisfying combat and a great aesthetic. Not the best game ever made but a mostly enjoyable 8 hour romp.
It has soul, like most genuinely British games(as in made by people of English, Scottish, Welsh or Potato ancestry). Which is rare for any game these days. Again it won't blow your mind but I imagine all of Ganker would enjoy a single playthrough.
Most things people hate about 'Anglos' are usually the crimes of Normans, israelites or Scots. When it comes to slavery or the opium wars or wealthy arseholes sucking regions dry or evil bankers; its never actually the English people themselves.
The only people who are actually justified in hating Anglos are the Spanish, who have to put up with our actually English lower classes puking all over their beaches every summer.
Mods like this can't fix this shit because each area has a VERY different color scheme.
t. seasons Reshade chad, shit is literally impossible to salveage.
>Heroes Guild gone >only 4 left are the CHOSEN ones
Obviously you're the chosen one in the first game, and you don't ever see heroes walking around in the first game despite the heroes guild being a thing, but I was still disappointed that they decided to just take out the guild and heroes altogether.
Graduating the Heroes Guild, having your hooded robes, and doing your first few quests and starting to invest in skills and define your character is what stands out the most to me when replaying Fable. Fable II had several cool things of its own, but I was really hoping they would keep with, or improve upon that aspect.
>buy all a trader's stock of one item >can immediately sell it all back to him for more than you paid
Literally nobody playtested this game and I love it
Investing in guile may have been an overall waste but stealing an item, selling it to the same merchant and then immediately stealing it again was funny.
The trick is to use the clock as a rough guide, and when the follower takes a payment as the actual timing. Every time I remember doing it, doing the sacrifice right after you pay out the follower did the trick.
>Talking to him after the game ends only has him mouth out words without saying anything >every other named character is dead/gone
I honestly liked hearing him talk over the guild seal post game since it was pretty quiet and lonely not hearing >You've received a new quest card >Check the guild for more quests
AURGH
MY EYES ARE BURNING, WHAT FOUL CREATURE CRAWLED UP YOUR BEHIND AND DIED
AURGH
MY EYES ARE BURNING, WHAT FOUL CREATURE CRAWLED UP YOUR BEHIND AND DIED
AURGH
MY EYES ARE BURNING, WHAT FOUL CREATURE CRAWLED UP YOUR BEHIND AND DIED
AURGH
MY EYES ARE BURNING, WHAT FOUL CREATURE CRAWLED UP YOUR BEHIND AND DIED
AURGH
MY EYES ARE BURNING, WHAT FOUL CREATURE CRAWLED UP YOUR BEHIND AND DIED
AURGH
MY EYES ARE BURNING, WHAT FOUL CREATURE CRAWLED UP YOUR BEHIND AND DIED
>hey what if we make the menu the mansion from resident evil and the expressions are tied to your level and you can only have 1 expression at a time and spend 300 million dollars on the voice cast >ship it
Not counting her sister she had killed, there was also a random villager in the rich part of town that would spell out for you what you needed to do for each of Lady Grey's quests. You can talk to her to marry her instead at the end of Lady Grey's questline.
Despite being sparse I really like the background lore of the setting. Mostly. The Journey really fricked it up beyond repair in my opinion. Good thing nobody gives a frick about that game.
i mean, all it would've done would be a thread full of two things >frick da trannies >gahahaha get dunked by trannies
nothing new would've came out of it.
same schizo shit, different day
>Your health is low... *rummaging through your fridge* you have any potions? Or food?
>where are the cheetos
>wheres the mountain dew
>ogres? i've got an ogre slaying knife, its got a +9 against ogres
YOU'RE NOT THERE, YOU'RE AT THE TAVERN GETTING DRUNK
ARE THERE CHICKS THERE?
farmboy
Right! Got you, you little ruffian!
I've heard reports of you making bad posts:
"Not work safe image on work safe board."
"Off-topic posts."
"Spamming/flooding."
"Extremely low quality posts."
That sort of behavior is not acceptable!
If it were American hours, you'd be pruned and banned by the janitors.
You need to decide if behaving like that is worth it, my young friend.
I'll leave it at that for now, but think about what I've said.
Janitors can't ban.
>Yu joz going to stand there loike a leh'mon
Why british people speak like morons?
>OUCH that hurt! AHH wha joz 'it me or?!
LIGHTS OUT YEW ORRIBLE LOT
Please don't mess with the goods!
was fable ever good? I remember playing 1 or 2 when a long time about on my 360 but I never beat them. I always liked the concept more than the execution
pretty sure the only people who played it were 13 year olds. they just have nostalgia over it, fable was never that good.
it's really good. but it's short, it's limited, too straightforward. there's no exploration, you walk on trails the whole game. the Lost Chapters is a shitty DLC addon which fricked up several things, ruined the epic finale of the original, nerfed the macguffin sword, made JoB's iconic voice generic.
2 is just bad all up and down, no rerelease required to ruin that.
Also it's far too easy if you have even slight clue on what to do. Still, I keep replaying it occasionally because it's still one of the most fun and comfy games I've played.
Anniversary has a high difficulty mode that filters something fierce. even normally you can self impose no resurrection phials
Yeah but it's the anniversary edition
it's not as bad as it's made out to be. provided you play with a controller and not with kbm.
it's a dead horse. it's honestly not even that bad looking, sure the original looks good and nostalgia, but Anniversary is all the gay shit Lost Chapters adds, and some more actually useful stuff. you can set the controller to play like Fable 2 even.
>there's no exploration, you walk on trails the whole game
as much as I agree, there's a lot of shit I've missed in the game, from pages to find the non-shit version of the secret weapon, to things to open demon doors, and probbaly several other things I cant remember or just dont know about. granted, I havent put a full playthrough in as an adult
It's very fun. 1 & 2 are great to play, even if 2s ending is trash.
Wouldn't say it was good nor bad. But it was my introduction to the cacophony that is the English accent and "humour". And that great, even in the trashpit that is 3.
1 and 2 were comfy.
The gameplay had issues and combat was hilariously easy to break, and there are some truly baffling decisions like tying aging to levels which resulted in you being older than your own mother when you met her, but the atmosphere and tone was top notch
Not really. Fable 1 does hold up on charm alone, but 2 and 3 are garbage unless you have really thick nostalgia glasses
Replayed 2 recently after many years. I think it's still pretty good. I miss the magic from 1 though.
Fable 1-2 is similar to mass effect's progression.
2 isn't soulless, but 1 is far superior to it in that regard, while 2 does away with a lot of pointless tedium but throws the baby out with the bathwater.
They always looked cool as frick from the M rating and the cover art, but the games themselves looked like shit.
I just finished a replay of Fable Anniversary. It still has nostalgic value to me but overall it's a very shallow and unimmersive game. I'm playing Fable 2 and that game is pretty much what they probably had in mind for the first game. Still, Fable 2 also has its missteps.
I think the reason Fable 4 is taking so long is because the devs realized that Fable 1-3 are overall not so good so they can't just base their new game on what was done before.
I feel like people are way too extreme in judging games whether it be to praise or shit on them.
Fable definitely isn't anything great but melee hits feel meaty and spells are broken enough in fun ways to be interesting. Otherwise, you have plenty of keys, demon doors, quests and other shit packed into an otherwise short game to keep you consistently active all the way to the end.
I consider it the same way I consider Hit and Run where, neither are particularly amazing at anything, they are just short solid games that have enough packed into relatively small spaces to be consistently good throughout.
Everything that Fable does is pretty solid, just not outstanding.
fable 1 is a fun game
fable 2 makes 5 steps forward but 6 steps backward, but it's my personal favorite due to nostalgia
fable 3 is shit
The setting and music is peak comfy and oozes SOUL. Even though Peter Molyman is an exaggerating liar, I'd take a thousand half baked dream projects over the corporate cookie cutter slop we get today.
1 was good although not as great as people tend to think
2 was good except for the fricktarded ending. seriously what a moronic "choice"
>you can't revive both the workers and your family because.......you just can't okay!
>revive family
>no, you cant see them, you didnt buy the DLC
Fable 1 was such an awesome game. Dear zoomers reading this, pick it up on steamsale when you can
>you get to kill every annoying c**t in this game
what other games let you do that
What is your favorite demon door in the series?
I never want to go back to that demon door
I like all the weird spooky shit in 2. I haven't played fable 2 in well over a decade and I still remember a lot of it.
my first true jumpscare
tough call, probably inclined to say the one holding Bluetane Cutlass, that was the toughest open
Shit was a cool guy
The one in Brightwood in 2 that makes you act like a moron for a tart skirt.
Fable 1, the one that requires you to be evil to open, contains Wellow's Pickhammer. It's easy to satisfy its requirements and the Pickhammer is a decent weapon for a good portion of the game, easily lasting until you get something better.
The one you have to flirt with, the room inside him is pretty comfy too
The cutlass blutane room is also really cool
The fact that demon doors show glimpses of places and technology the series never shows otherwise is crazy
Are demon doors just illusions or actually showing other realms
I think it must vary. See memory lane in 2.
they were created by the archons from the old kingdom (William Black and his descendants). so I'd assume they're artificial magical spaces
spelled SHIT couple times and realized what I did wrong
the one by the prostitutehouse that makes you sleep with all the broads and tell him about it
>thought lightning was shit as a kid
>it's actually the best spell in the game when maxxed out
>max out lightning
>get the fully powered frying pan
>put in 5 mana augments due to the hidden augment bug
>cast lightning for 5 minutes straight
Too bad I had nothing but guards and hobs to use it on by that point.
>Get to the loredump talking heads in TLC
>Apparently the old Guild of Heroes leadership did not accept quests like "Lets raid a farm" or "Lets kill all the merchants in this field"
>This guy and Maze led a bloody revolution to become the new guild leader, so that murderers were free to enlist the guild's services
but why
what an butthole
to give you even more reason to kill him
Albion Libertarian Hero's Party
Weaver funded it all by selling drugs to kids
>Try to get your combat multiplier even higher
ITS FRICKING HIGH LEAVE ME THE FRICK ALONE REEEEEE
>Charge an arrow and hold it
>Count to 60
>Hit an enemy
>Watch it die and laugh in 50+ Combat Multiplier
>OPTIONAL: Use your experience potions before multiplier starts to decay for maximum gains
The British don't really make games anymore do they?
The last game I heard of that was English was Tails of Iron. Really cute little game with satisfying combat and a great aesthetic. Not the best game ever made but a mostly enjoyable 8 hour romp.
It has soul, like most genuinely British games(as in made by people of English, Scottish, Welsh or Potato ancestry). Which is rare for any game these days. Again it won't blow your mind but I imagine all of Ganker would enjoy a single playthrough.
The Fable games unironically turned me into an Anglophile
GOD SAVE KING GEORGE
Most things people hate about 'Anglos' are usually the crimes of Normans, israelites or Scots. When it comes to slavery or the opium wars or wealthy arseholes sucking regions dry or evil bankers; its never actually the English people themselves.
The only people who are actually justified in hating Anglos are the Spanish, who have to put up with our actually English lower classes puking all over their beaches every summer.
3 was the best game because of the coop
2 has co-op
3 wouldn't be the best game if it came with a 100 dollar bill in the box. that shit was purely painful
*100 dollar bill only redeemable for expression pack 1 and midnight dye
Hero, your willpower is low. What's that?
back when games were fun, straightforward, no bs, just interesting gameplay
https://www.nexusmods.com/fableanniversary/mods/46
Thoughts?
Anniversary looks terrible and no amount of color saturation can fix it
Mods like this can't fix this shit because each area has a VERY different color scheme.
t. seasons Reshade chad, shit is literally impossible to salveage.
I don't even need to look at the image to know it's shit.
>hurr durr more saturation = more gooder
>before and after cuts the image in half
who started this shitty trend
2 had the best setting
More fantasy RPGs need Enlightenment-era aesthetics
I can only think of this and Greedfall
>Heroes Guild gone
>only 4 left are the CHOSEN ones
Obviously you're the chosen one in the first game, and you don't ever see heroes walking around in the first game despite the heroes guild being a thing, but I was still disappointed that they decided to just take out the guild and heroes altogether.
Graduating the Heroes Guild, having your hooded robes, and doing your first few quests and starting to invest in skills and define your character is what stands out the most to me when replaying Fable. Fable II had several cool things of its own, but I was really hoping they would keep with, or improve upon that aspect.
2 was trash. 1 was best because it was a comfy dark fairytale world.
was fable anniversary actually bad? because I only tried it on the 360 and it lagged like hell
it's the exact same game but looks arguably uglier and has menus that are optimized for controllers
some exploits are fixed too
I love becoming completely broken before even completing the first quest to kill the wasp.
>buy all a trader's stock of one item
>can immediately sell it all back to him for more than you paid
Literally nobody playtested this game and I love it
Investing in guile may have been an overall waste but stealing an item, selling it to the same merchant and then immediately stealing it again was funny.
Can you emulate 2nd game already?
kinda
your mileage may vary. it was broken until last year I think.
>trying to use the janky clock graphic to sacrifice a follower at exactly midnight to get skorm's bow
The trick is to use the clock as a rough guide, and when the follower takes a payment as the actual timing. Every time I remember doing it, doing the sacrifice right after you pay out the follower did the trick.
now that you mention it, i remember coming to that realization when i was younger but i'd forgotten all about it until I read your post
>if you skip the credits in TLC you start from your last save
>have to sit through them to play in a post-jack world
Cheeky.
>Talking to him after the game ends only has him mouth out words without saying anything
>every other named character is dead/gone
I honestly liked hearing him talk over the guild seal post game since it was pretty quiet and lonely not hearing
>You've received a new quest card
>Check the guild for more quests
After game is tough.... Makes you remember you are by yourself...
AURGH
MY EYES ARE BURNING, WHAT FOUL CREATURE CRAWLED UP YOUR BEHIND AND DIED
AURGH
MY EYES ARE BURNING, WHAT FOUL CREATURE CRAWLED UP YOUR BEHIND AND DIED
AURGH
MY EYES ARE BURNING, WHAT FOUL CREATURE CRAWLED UP YOUR BEHIND AND DIED
AURGH
MY EYES ARE BURNING, WHAT FOUL CREATURE CRAWLED UP YOUR BEHIND AND DIED
AURGH
MY EYES ARE BURNING, WHAT FOUL CREATURE CRAWLED UP YOUR BEHIND AND DIED
AURGH
MY EYES ARE BURNING, WHAT FOUL CREATURE CRAWLED UP YOUR BEHIND AND DIED
>INTRUDER! CLOSE THE GATE!
>hey what if we make the menu the mansion from resident evil and the expressions are tied to your level and you can only have 1 expression at a time and spend 300 million dollars on the voice cast
>ship it
wtf is this post?
he's talking about the shitty inventory and upgrade system from fable 3
Fable 3
>be a giant brick shithouse of a man
>put on a wig to convince brothel owner that I'm a woman so I can frick him and steal his deed to the brothel
You fricked my daughter without a condom... watch that!
They don't make em like they used to, thats for damn sure.
forgot image
the design of her dress in the concept art is pure fricking sex
>the exposed hips
>the ring around her navel
>the obvious absense of panties
Who was her foil again? Like the 'not prestigious but is actually a loving wife' character? Or was there not one of those?
Not counting her sister she had killed, there was also a random villager in the rich part of town that would spell out for you what you needed to do for each of Lady Grey's quests. You can talk to her to marry her instead at the end of Lady Grey's questline.
>manly shoulders
>big ass hands
>big ass chin
>choker hiding the adams apple
you a gay
you need to stop thinking about trannies so much, bro
another mindbroken shellshocked moron... god help you.
>permavirgin resurrects her in fable 2 so she can be his wife
>you can cuck him and take her for yourself
Too bad she's the buggiest (lol) wife in the game.
>cast max level blades on her
>she does an animation and starts howling but otherwise does nothing
What a weird easter egg that was.
Despite being sparse I really like the background lore of the setting. Mostly. The Journey really fricked it up beyond repair in my opinion. Good thing nobody gives a frick about that game.
GIVE ME FABLE 2 & 3 ON PC AGAIN!
why? they're both horrible.
b/c i want to play it on my PC, what other reason do i need
fair enough
are repeating 0's still allowed, or has that been changed too now?
I didn't realize so many people disliked 2. Weird.
yeah I dunno why. I think it's better than 1 except for the main story but that's not very good in either game.
>Mods just delete a GET instead of a public banning and mocking the stupid troony.
Holy shit no fun allowed.
i mean, all it would've done would be a thread full of two things
>frick da trannies
>gahahaha get dunked by trannies
nothing new would've came out of it.
same schizo shit, different day
Her review will be so bad it gets sent to the shadow realm confirmed
CHICKEN CHASER!