*****Official Fable 3 Thread*****
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Metacritic score - 81 (based on 47 reviews) and 80 (based on 38 user ratings).
Can't be all that bad methinks.
Mine is waiting for me when I get home from work. Looking forward to it!
Can't be all that bad methinks.
Mine is waiting for me when I get home from work. Looking forward to it!
Well I've been playing my collectors edition for the past 2+ hours and I'm loving every minute of it.
I loved Fable 2, is probably one of (if not the) favourite game of all time, and I was hoping they won't break it in Fable 3 and so far they haven't. It's everything I loved about Fable 2 and more so far, and most importantly it still has that "Fable" feel to it.
If you are thinking of getting this, and loved number 2, I can't urge you enough to get it!
I loved Fable 2, is probably one of (if not the) favourite game of all time, and I was hoping they won't break it in Fable 3 and so far they haven't. It's everything I loved about Fable 2 and more so far, and most importantly it still has that "Fable" feel to it.
If you are thinking of getting this, and loved number 2, I can't urge you enough to get it!
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I ordered this....but I can't remember for the life of me where I ordered it from 
Got my collectors edition this morning.
Few gripes.
Getting loads of slow downs, and I'm talking MASSIVE slow downs, not cuts in FPS, just the entire game slows down to about 1/4 speed when there is a lot going on.
Combat is just annoying at times, melee is really sticky, your blows hold no relevance to when you press X, there is a set swing time and YOU VILL NOT DEVIATE.
Switching between weapons can also be a bit dodgy, most of the time its smooth but sometimes it just refuses to do anything.
Spell "weaving" is garbage and no where near what was expected, basically just changes the particle effects.
Everything else is superb, easily better than 2 as a game.
Except the "road the rule" which is contrived and stupid, they randomly pop it up and seemingly random times, sometimes I have 300 seals, sometimes I have 50, it just seems like a way of telling you the game hasn't ended yet.
On a side note this is however by far the best collectors edition I have ever seen, amazing quality product.
Few gripes.
Getting loads of slow downs, and I'm talking MASSIVE slow downs, not cuts in FPS, just the entire game slows down to about 1/4 speed when there is a lot going on.
Combat is just annoying at times, melee is really sticky, your blows hold no relevance to when you press X, there is a set swing time and YOU VILL NOT DEVIATE.
Switching between weapons can also be a bit dodgy, most of the time its smooth but sometimes it just refuses to do anything.
Spell "weaving" is garbage and no where near what was expected, basically just changes the particle effects.
Everything else is superb, easily better than 2 as a game.
Except the "road the rule" which is contrived and stupid, they randomly pop it up and seemingly random times, sometimes I have 300 seals, sometimes I have 50, it just seems like a way of telling you the game hasn't ended yet.
On a side note this is however by far the best collectors edition I have ever seen, amazing quality product.
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Random times? It pops up when important parts of the story are finished (assuming you mean when the portal opens and you're taken there), and the option to jump there also pops up when you have enough seals to spend on an upgrade or two. Nothing random about it if you're following the story properly
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Enjoying this, much like the 2nd one but a little better in places, hope its going to be a long game, any ideas how long?
Define "important", I could understand if it ONLY popped up after I gained a real follower, however it does it in-between and as far as I can tell for no other reason that to give me access to more pointless crap. Regardless of that however, I still this the entire thing is an awful idea.
i had £20 on my reward card. Just installing the DLC and i cant wait to play!Anyone had theirs from play.com yet? Mine was posted on Tuesday but not arrived yet. No post so far today but I am annoyed as I've been up town and could have got it in a supermarket for the same price play are charging.
COME ON POSTIE FFS
COME ON POSTIE FFS
Well, completed it last night, all but about 4 chests open, probably took me something like 18-22 hours.
Second half of the game is a massive disappointment, for one it's not "half", it's about 2 hours of faffing about and making choices that are either "lovely and nice" or "evil and nasty", keeping your promises or stabbing people in the back, there is no middle ground for the majority of the big choices, you occasionally get a "Leave it like it is" choice but this is only for little things. For two if you make nice choices you have to grind to gain money to avoid massive casualties. I took the "good" path, not only is is boring but it's unrewarding, unless the occasional villager saying you're awesome is enough for you.
The "big nasty" is a let down, you get maybe 2 glimpses of the actual big bad and apart from that it's just some shadow's that die in 1 hit, there is a brilliant intro to it at the start of Aurora (which is an incredibly short part of the story I might add) and then they just shoehorn it in as the big evil you must face. I don't count Logan by the way, complete the road to rule and you will find out why, basically the game lies to you.
Once again the "final boss" is massively uninteresting, however it pips fable 2 in that it actually involves fighting.
All it all my expectations were clearly set too high.
Let me clarify my position here by saying I very much enjoyed my ~20 hours, it is a very good game, however it could (yet again, go Lionhead) have been allot better.
I will make one final point, it is far too easy. You acquire more than enough health potions to deal with the few annoying (not hard) such as the grenade tossing merc's who seem to be basically designed to waste our time and if you get mobbed, chug a summon potion, kick back and snipe the buggers whilst they are kept busy.
The game contains no challenges, moral or otherwise.
Second half of the game is a massive disappointment, for one it's not "half", it's about 2 hours of faffing about and making choices that are either "lovely and nice" or "evil and nasty", keeping your promises or stabbing people in the back, there is no middle ground for the majority of the big choices, you occasionally get a "Leave it like it is" choice but this is only for little things. For two if you make nice choices you have to grind to gain money to avoid massive casualties. I took the "good" path, not only is is boring but it's unrewarding, unless the occasional villager saying you're awesome is enough for you.
The "big nasty" is a let down, you get maybe 2 glimpses of the actual big bad and apart from that it's just some shadow's that die in 1 hit, there is a brilliant intro to it at the start of Aurora (which is an incredibly short part of the story I might add) and then they just shoehorn it in as the big evil you must face. I don't count Logan by the way, complete the road to rule and you will find out why, basically the game lies to you.
Once again the "final boss" is massively uninteresting, however it pips fable 2 in that it actually involves fighting.
All it all my expectations were clearly set too high.
Let me clarify my position here by saying I very much enjoyed my ~20 hours, it is a very good game, however it could (yet again, go Lionhead) have been allot better.
I will make one final point, it is far too easy. You acquire more than enough health potions to deal with the few annoying (not hard) such as the grenade tossing merc's who seem to be basically designed to waste our time and if you get mobbed, chug a summon potion, kick back and snipe the buggers whilst they are kept busy.
The game contains no challenges, moral or otherwise.
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Just finished the story, the last half of the game isn't very good. After 10 minutes i found it alittle boring and the boss battle at the end sucked, it took less than 3 minutes and it never even touched me. I agree with Fenris the game is too easy.
I certainly never noticed. Unless all the references to you're parent change depending on your choice.