Fable 3 finally confirmed 19th May EU

Vanquished007 said:
Only played the first one on PC, back in the day. I am a fan of the genre, so I am definitely going to pick this up, even though it's not rated too highly.
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Lionhead looked at all the negative feedback on the 360 version & changed the PC as much as they could to improve the experience which is why I am willing to give them a chance! It also supports mouse+kb with a PC specific custom UI as well as the 360 gamepads so the controls are sorted.
 
So when is it coming out, has it been pushed to late June just because of competition?

Absolutely pathetic, I've been going on their forums every now and then to try and get an idea when it would be released, the ridiculously long "where the **** is it you morons" thread on there is laughable and shows what PC gamers wanted very clearly. Two things infact, get it out quickly and give us a solid release date. It took months of basically BS then they finally do a date, then push it back further, idiots.

They seemed very proud of adding mouse and keyboard by completely redoing the entire control interface in the game, thats all well and good, but a "good" port of the control system would have taken 1/50th of the time and worked just as well.

I have no care, and most pc gamers don't care if the control system is unique to the PC< just that it works. Assasins Creed control systems work flawlessly on the PC, infact as standard the first game made use of a 5 button mouse in a way most games don't bother trying.

They've made a heck of a lot of work for themselves, for apparently no reason when the key thing the PC guys wanted was the game as quickly as possible. They could have spent 3 days making the controls work and at least added more content in the other 6 months.

Anyway, played Fable 2 first, thought it was really very good, played Fable 1 later and realised Fable 2 was a laughably poor rip off of the first game, basically felt like playing the same game over again with better graphics, all the same jokes, idea's, premise, plot.

THen Fable 3 is basically supposed to do it again.

Its like they've remade the game with better graphics but more linear and crap each time.

So many studio's keep remaking the same game over and over, worse every time, thinking they are doing something great. Move on to a fresh idea already.
 
drunkenmaster said:
So when is it coming out, has it been pushed to late June just because of competition?

Absolutely pathetic, I've been going on their forums every now and then to try and get an idea when it would be released, the ridiculously long "where the **** is it you morons" thread on there is laughable and shows what PC gamers wanted very clearly. Two things infact, get it out quickly and give us a solid release date. It took months of basically BS then they finally do a date, then push it back further, idiots.

They seemed very proud of adding mouse and keyboard by completely redoing the entire control interface in the game, thats all well and good, but a "good" port of the control system would have taken 1/50th of the time and worked just as well.

I have no care, and most pc gamers don't care if the control system is unique to the PC< just that it works. Assasins Creed control systems work flawlessly on the PC, infact as standard the first game made use of a 5 button mouse in a way most games don't bother trying.

They've made a heck of a lot of work for themselves, for apparently no reason when the key thing the PC guys wanted was the game as quickly as possible. They could have spent 3 days making the controls work and at least added more content in the other 6 months.

Anyway, played Fable 2 first, thought it was really very good, played Fable 1 later and realised Fable 2 was a laughably poor rip off of the first game, basically felt like playing the same game over again with better graphics, all the same jokes, idea's, premise, plot.

THen Fable 3 is basically supposed to do it again.

Its like they've remade the game with better graphics but more linear and crap each time.

So many studio's keep remaking the same game over and over, worse every time, thinking they are doing something great. Move on to a fresh idea already.
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UK is Friday 20th May US is today. You can buy on either Steam right now or GFWM.

I agree all they do is remake an earlier game with better gfx not just Lionhead but a lot of other companies nowadays are just as guilty because it costs so much no-one will take a chance on something new so all you get is the same old with different content.

At least Fable3 is a pretty large game & contains the sort of casual gameplay which means all the family can enjoy playing together.
 
Fable I find an awkward series. It's one that tries to be appealing and charming, and yet has become so oversimplified and trite compared to the original goals of 'Project Ego' it's laughable.

One of my console gaming friends was a real fanatical supporter of the series in its PE days, through to loving Fable (despite its lack of promised features) and really enjoying F2, but he was so dissapointed by this third installment he never even completed more than about half way.

It's sad when a series can do that to some of it's strongest fans.
 
I was so excited about this when it was announced, got it cheap on the xbox on release but held out for the pc version. Now it's nearly here I've noticed my xbox copy is still sealed after pants reviews. I want to want it, but I'll wait and see if It's anything special.
 
Common consensus seems not to buy this as the Witcher urinates over it at a height. Will probably hold off on buying it until it comes up in a sale somewhere. Or I get bored.
 
Well i played it on the 360 (and completed it), I wish I hadnt wasted money on it to be honest. Make of that what you will.

lol that escapist review is perfect.
 
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My thoughts exactly, Damien. In fact, there's an awful lot of stuff that I wouldn't buy at full price but take the plunge when the Steam deal inevitably rolls around.

Canny businessmen, Steam ;)
 
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