When I play Fable I see it as a parody of a CRPG. Kind of like the video game version of my old parody fantasy short story I ritually burned called "Reign of Phallyn Downe." It had every single fantasy cliche ever made in the course of 20 pages. It was the most terrible POS that it was funny in a cringing, quickly runaway funny. Fable is in that same catagory.

 

Man, I expected an F on that story in my creative writing class but the professor gave me an A+. It seemed that my short POS story didn't have a single vampire in it and everyone else did.

Ah, public education.

"look at the cheeks on im , arse face really suits im".

 

Most memeorable bit of fable which is kind of sad if you think about it. I still think TLC is worth

^I'd be inclined to buy it if it went below

Ah, public education.

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Nah, Iowa State University.

I played fable with an open mind, but gave it up after a few hours as it...sucked badly

 

"Chicken kicker?" *yawn

Was thinking of buying Fable TLC for PC but the 49.99 price tag made me cringe and back down. I don't think its worth a 50 dollar price tag.

Thanks Hades, now I'm mildly surprised in a negative way.

I wonder what people were expecting from this game? It's a very standard story about a family of heroes. It wasn't epic like BG or Torment, but I wouldn't say it was boring. It was a fun bit of storytelling and character development.

 

The sad thing is, it's a creative project, and if it doesn't sell, we'll just see less creative projects out there. I would really like someone to take all the mechanics and concepts of this game and make an epic story for it.

take all the mechanics and concepts of this game and make an epic story for it.

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Good story is enough for me. No need for epic.

I actually liked Fable

I wonder what people were expecting from this game?  It's a very standard story about a family of heroes.  It wasn't epic like BG or Torment, but I wouldn't say it was boring.  It was a fun bit of storytelling and character development. 

 

The sad thing is, it's a creative project, and if it doesn't sell, we'll just see less creative projects out there.  I would really like someone to take all the mechanics and concepts of this game and make an epic story for it.

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When I buy an RPG, I expect roleplaying and atleast a decent story.

 

 

And I cant say Fable was very creative, it was actually very bland but with the trademark Lionhead "features" that they throw in to make a boring game concept interesting but always fails. Like how they failed to hide that B&W was just a plain old repetitive RTS with some fancy thrown in for good measure.

 

 

Now, nowadays you make games after tried&tested concepts and put the originality in the features because thats what fans want (and publishers sadly dont want to take any risks with new and inventive ideas). But youre supposed to work on the CORE features like story, gameplay, art design etc. and NOT on silly little peripheral details like being able to grow sideburns.