Comments on: Retro: Fable

By: Heliocentric

Heliocentric — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 09:54:55 +0000

I finished it. Last time i found myself caught desperately trying to buy decent armour and weapons. Best tip i can give you? Enflame spell kicks ass. Not only is it fairly deadly, it knocks everyone in a circle over, and if they are lying down they can’t break you combo meaning you get xp faster. You’ll need to buy every mana potion you see but its okay as you don’t need to buy anything else, no bows no swords and most importantly, no armour. With your crazy wealth i suggest you buy all the red meat fish and carrots you see. Assign them to 567 and them spam those 3 keys after fights. I had gotten my combat multiplier to over 50 in some of the less hospitable areas. Thats 150 xp per food item. Meaning you can try every spell and skill in the game in one play through.

I finished the game, glad i did won’t be replaying it but i will be encouraging my girlfriend to play. Now i’ve just got to resist telling her how to play.

By: Daniel Rutter

Daniel Rutter — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 03:42:20 +0000

I reached much the same conclusion about Lost Chapters. I liked it quite a lot. You just have to develop the ability to turn anything Peter Molyneux says into a faint mosquito-like whining sound, and then disappointment is reliably avoided.

By: Ross

Ross — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 12:49:26 +0000

@Homunculus

By the end of the game, all I was doing was just looking for books to take to the school.

By: Caiman

Caiman — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 01:10:27 +0000

I never played the first one, but the second was one of the most enjoyable games for a long time. I agree the UI could have been better, but I’ve been playing games since the mid ’70s and I’ve put up with a lot more annoying shit than this in the past. I’m probably immune to it! Also, I’m one of these weird people who prefers to find my own way around and use my memory than refer to a map all the time, so the Fable 2 maps actually hit that sweet spot of being just useful enough to figure out where you are, but not too spoilery. Combined with the awesome melee combat, best in any game I’ve played, the game delivered. The most annoying thing I found was that it was difficult to play a middle of the road character – when the townsfolk surround you every bloody minute twittering away, I’d cast a few lightning bolts to piss them off, but they’d soon be back, twittering. I wanted more of a strong, silent type of hero, keeping under the radar, a quiet achiever, but the game didn’t let me do this.

By: Ian

Ian — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 09:57:43 +0000

“It’s how it depicts the restrictions that sours the deal: all flimsy wooden fences and tiny stone walls. In asking to accept that those, of all things, are impenetrable barriers in a world of might and magic, it’s insulting.”

This is similar to something that bugged me about GTA… eh… San Andreas I think. I had rapidly got bored of the gangstas (yo) and resorted to what I’ve done when I’ve played any GTA game since GTA 2. Farted around hijacking cars and maiming folks. But I reached a toll booth that I thought would give me access to the wider world and it was apparently made of impenetrable adamantium, or perhaps was protected by advanced forcefield technology. I much prefer Just Cause’s method of letting you go anywhere (or to the extent that I tried to) right from the off.

By: phil

phil — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 09:44:48 +0000

@Lobsterjohnson

The only ‘cute one?’ You missed the murderous posho supermodel Lady Grey? You get a mansion if you actually married her.

By: lobsterjohnson

lobsterjohnson — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 05:55:16 +0000

This game was super easy, only two challenges:

1- Escort missions were a bitch

2- Marrying the only cute girl was a bitch, she ran the charity shop in the snow area, but you could only talk to her as a regular person as she was walking home, so it took some effort, but she was so cute! Well worth getting the only cute one in the whole game.

(Oh and your guyeses post-preview thing is pinging gravatar every time I make a keystroke…..seems not right?)

By: thefanciestofpants

thefanciestofpants — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 05:37:54 +0000

I’m with roBurky. I thought Black and White’s interface was bloody brilliant, as was the game. Shame Black and white 2 was such a cop out.

On topic; Have fond memories of Fable, really had a very convicing world as you say, in it’s own style. But yeah, the interface could have been better.

Nice Retro peice :>

By: roBurky

roBurky — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 01:51:20 +0000

I liked Black and White’s interface.

By: Diogo Ribeiro

Diogo Ribeiro — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 00:23:38 +0000

Fable was pretty disappointing, even if it managed to allure with potential. It also reminds me of an unstable ex, which does make me dislike it even more.

Oh well, farthing in someone’s general direction, dogs scavenging for condoms and Aryan representations of goodness will probably keep on enthraling the Xbox crowd for years so hey, why not.

By: nickski

nickski — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 23:43:48 +0000

have to agree on the map, am playing fable 2 at the moment on my toy box, and while loving the world and the simplicity of the combat finding your way around without endless piddling and an elephantine memory is more than a chore. also took me about 4 hours to figure out the bloody spell system. Though on a brighter note i have commited bigamy and sired many wee mees and married ‘Lisa the whore’, so not all bad! If it comes to PC i’d say buy!

By: Ginger Yellow

Ginger Yellow — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 23:33:06 +0000

Worst UI decision in Fable 2? A map that is bafflingly, absolutely, utterly useless. It literally might as well not be there at all.