Fable III...a fitting end to a series!(spoiler alert)

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Judging by the title you would probably assume that this would be a positive post...you would be mistaken. I would like to express 2 things in this.
1. How much excitement I had for each game before it came out.
2. How each time my expectations were shattered in the worst of ways.

The original fable game was supposed to be one where every blade of grass you stepped on changed the game. I remember that almost verbatim. It was far from that. It was a linear story with a minute aspect of free roam.

Fable 2 was said to be what the original fable was supposed to be, just add Dog and Dawg (multiplayer) Well it added a dog, which was alright, but the multiplayer was weak as you couldn't be much other than a henchman.

Fable 3, The revolution. 3rd times a charm. This was supposed to be Return of the JEDI! was it? Let's see lot's of hype, a pretty linear story arch with some side quests here or there. Then the ending ohh the . What can I say about the ending...how about the last sentence was more exciting.


your HERO!

A little history, I play games like Rapala Bass Fishing 2010, and love it. I still have a copy of NCAA 2008 I still play. There are few games I walk away from and dislike. This is definately one of them.

I picked up the collectors edition. I played through the story. I took my time, did quests, got married had children. Only to move them into the castle and have them disappear into the bowels of the castle leaving the whole point of fighting for you family pointless because you lost them along time ago to the castle or Rose Red.


New Bowerstone

Even worse, you make decisions to be a good king or a tyrant. I wanted to be good in fact I had this brilliant plan. You had to get 6.5 million gold to save you kingdom in 365 days. I had a real estate empire. I spend no money, by day 250 I had 2.2 million gold. I was well on my way to saving a good chunk of the kingdom...that's when I helped Sabine. Next think you know 200 days turns into 1, and the 2.4 million I had earned is all you get, even through I had well over a million in my personal stash that I couldn't put into the treasury.


Hollow Men, annoying but have a satisfying bone crunch under a hammer

The end... not great. the worst? all that money I saved I figure hey let's at least go buy all the weapons/clothes/mustaches? NO! All the shop owners did in the last fight, and even if you buy the whole business you have to steal the products then kill guards for your own goods and then everyone thinks the savior of Albion is a monster because you took what was yours.....

A fitting end I'd say.
All the fanfare followed up by little less than a fizzle. I guess it's fitting that everything is dead and there's no point to keep playing.

P.S. I liked making the decisions about the kingdom, and some of the quests while being a bit repetitive were pretty fun.

P.S.S.- would have liked axes in the game

[Dani Oliver]

You'd think after reading what you'd have to say, I'd be discouraged from buying the game. Not so. It must be done. However, I'm not nearly looking as forward to it as I was. But as I said, it must be done. I've generally watched Oz play Fable I/II though, as we just don't have nearly as much time in the day as we'd like for us to both play this, taking turns, sharing hints (yeah I look 'em up half the time), comparing notes, etc. It's like watching an epic movie over which you have some control, although gathering from what you've written, not as much as we were hoping for in Fable III. What does it say about us a a gaming hubby-wife team where one of our biggest laughs out of the game came from watching my husband visit the whorehouse and dress up as a woman to... oh wait.. I don't want to ruin that part of the story for anyone who hasn't yet played. Still, there seemed to be a lot of different paths a person could take in the game that made it worthwhile playing at least a second time around. I don't think we (as in Oz) finished playing Fable II. It got repetitive and at some parts seemed like we were replaying Fable II with different quests, characters, areas thrown in for good measure. The dog was a nice touch but it also added to the anxiety factor in trying to keep him, as well as yourself, alive. The only thing I regret is looking up the locations of some of the chests (just to make sure we didn't miss any) and seeing ahead of time what was stored in them. I prefer the SURPRISE! factor.

Thanks for sharing your opinion on Fable III. Sometimes it's nice to know what to expect, or not to anticipate.