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11/04/09
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You can interact with everyone you come across and build relationships and even get married! Translation: *Dance. Dance. Thumbs up. Play lute. Show trophy. Flex arm. Puppet show. Dance. Play lute.* Everyone in the entire town now loves you and will follow you incessantly and adore you for the rest of the game. You can also marry anyone you want in town because of your 30 second dance session. Congrats!
You can even have relations with your wife and start a family, coming home from adventuring to spend time with your family! Translation: You go upstairs with your beautiful wife and lay her down, ready for a night of passion. The screen fades to black...
Wife: "Oh, I love a big, bushy bea-"
Random man from town that wandered into your bedroom: "This finger looks very lonely without a ring on it!"
Female shopkeeper, who also is in love with you for your 30 second dance breakdown: "Why don't we get married?"
You: "Uhh...who the hell are you and why are you, my children, 2 guards, and the jewelry shop owner all watching my wife and I have sex?"
You can be good or evil! And aside from which temple is destroyed, the choice won't make one bit of difference and can be reversed at any time! Murder? No problem... just give us a few gold pieces. If you don't have enough gold, we'll accept you going and shooting beetles in a cellar for a couple minutes.
Your appearance is dynamic based on your actions! If you use nearly any food item, you will get fatter! Just like real life, the only way you will ever lose it is by finding and eating the one piece of celery that spawns per produce stand per day!
And many, many, many other things that were annoying, disappointing, or even outright broken. "Legendary" weapons that were generally terrible. Game-breaking and experience-wrecking glitches (Hello, my lifeless, non-moving, statue of a child that will disappear when I try to save you in that one mission.). Boring, unbalanced growth trees. Disappointing, overpriced DLC. Poorly done co-op, etc.
It was just all a giant letdown of mediocrity in what should have been an amazing game. #fableiii
11/04/09
My god, I'm a genius! No! Think about it.
Igor as a gypsy! Meet him in the velvet cart. Middle age tarot cards. You can fight some unholy cleric using his persona.....to be the Pope.
The Crusades are explained! #fableiii
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11/04/09
It's a good game and all, but it should have been a great game. Disappointment is, unfortunately, the most accurate descriptor for it.
11/04/09
I never had any glitch problems, and the weapons never bothered me. Aside from that, you are correct. A fun game that doesn't live up to what it could--really should--have been. #fableiii
11/04/09
The growth trees and combat were my biggest issues. There comes a point in the game where you max out your abilities far too early and at that point combat is also far too easy. Once you become that powerful you are literally left with what amounts to little more than running around the world map. #fableiii
11/04/09
As for the glitches, I ran into quite a few, and most of them were just really annoying, rather than fully game-breaking like the abbey one or the ones (due to the game's mishandling of quests from guards or the bard singing while running through towns) that left players unable to run, interact, or even access the menu to teleport elsewhere.
The biggest glitch I ran across were two glitches related to my kids. The first of them caused my child to just become a statue pretty much. My kid just stood out in the front yard, unmoving and silent, no matter what. The second was when you're given the Hobbe's Cave quest to save them. My kid didn't follow me out of the cave when we got to the exit. I tried to go back in, but it said if I did, the quest would be exited. Since my kid wasn't with me, walking to my wife wouldn't complete the quest. I couldn't leave the area or do anything without exiting and failing the quest, so I had to. My child died from it. Then I fell through the ground while walking to the next area and had to hard reset my Xbox. #fableiii
11/04/09
11/05/09
I know many did have glitch problems, so it clearly was an issue with the game. For some reason I was just lucky and never had any happen to me. #fableiii
11/05/09
Now with Fable 3, I don't know, it sounds like you get into a management sim somewhere in there (I hope not), is that not maybe them ignoring how they can improve an already winning formula and making it TOO different? #fableiii
11/04/09
Still haven't finished Fable 2 for that matter. #fableiii
11/04/09
How could you not finish Fable 2... it was a nice short story... if you couldn't finish a short story how can you possibly finish any game at all. #fableiii
11/04/09
And I won't get excited yet for the game, sure I enjoyed Fable 2 but concept art changes and ideas change. So I'll wait till we get to see more stuff before I blow a load. #fableiii
11/04/09
@Fyro: way to be judgemental. It wasn't enjoyable around the arena bit. I just couldn't be bothered after that. I mean I complete games long or short if they interest me, if not they just lie there months after. Last year Mirror's Edge, LBP, Resistance 2, GoW2, PoP, Eternal Sonata (PS3) took my time really. This year Brutal Legend looks like something I'll finish at some point slowly besides having got platinum on both Uncharted and Borderlands, about 50% in Tekken 6, and 10 hours into Dragon Age. We all complete games we like, but to those who collect like me, we buy games more than finish them - I'm sure there's plenty above the 25+ age group who do that. #fableiii
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It depends on the season, during summer I go on holiday for a month or two - just in time to be back for Cannes, won't really be gaming as much enjoying the scene.
During winter I'm not very sociable because well there's not much to do if I'm not at work or there's no real event.
As for Dragon Age, a friend got a copy Sunday (he's more busy with deskwork, so we swapped copies - will give him mine which arrived yesterday), so been playing that on the laptop during the long waits in the rain, believe me when it's raining unless they tell you go home you're just gonna wait and do whatever after 30 minutes. #fableiii
11/04/09
I don't the guys thinking I play too much realize that you can easily get platinum in these games with minimal effort. I put more effort into MegaDrive games than these. I wouldn't even say I'm great at gaming, just I play what I like, finish them to the max and the rest sit collecting dust. #fableiii
11/04/09
10/22/09
10/21/09
How I wish I could go back to the days when I was blissfully ignorant to the game industry, when I'd simply buy a game without the knowledge of which publisher/developer is scheming new ways to bleed us dry.
Sometimes it's hard to accept the fact that gaming is a thriving industry and the majority of developers are just out to make a "quick" buck.
Ah, now where did I leave my rose-tinted glasses?
10/21/09
10/21/09
Every single microtransaction is useless in my opinion anyways. Aesthetic things like costumes should be in the game as unlockables for free (as we have always had until this generation) as well as cheats you pay money for (which have also been free except restricted to sometimes complicated button sequences). This is highly subjective, but in my opinion the only DLC that's every worth it is major expansion pack material like Shivering Isles or Broken Steel. 3-map packs or a couple of costumes always just seem to me like a cheap cash grab. #fableiii
10/21/09
10/21/09
However you get the concept of a ripoff so kudos to you on that. #fableiii
10/21/09
Kudos to you for being so gosh darn condescending :/ #fableiii
10/21/09
10/21/09
Read people! READ!
The in-game micro-transactions is a way to get item's easier instead of going on some quest or finding it in some random treasure chest.
It's paying to cheat. Tales of Vesperia did it and now Fable 3 is doing it. Nothing new. #fableiii
10/21/09
I can't believe people are shouting that they'll not buy the game if something like this is included although it would affect them in NO way if they chose not to partake of it. #fableiii
10/21/09
Everyone open notepad and take these down:
Worthwhile Natal Support
In-game Microtransction shops
If we keep a list, we'll be able to effectively measure how much shit peter molyneux spews
Then when they make Fable 4 and 5(He wants to make that many), we can do it again, and actually use SCIENCE to determine what percentage, on average, of things he says are utter lies! :D #fableiii
10/21/09
It's like he promised you a kidney and didn't show up on the big day or something. It's a fucking game, chill out! We get that he talks a lot of shit, seriously we do, but must you remind us in every. single. fucking. article featuring the man? Stop pushing your agenda, it's getting old.
10/21/09
If Kotaku insists on reporting every little piece of shit that falls out of his mouth(3 articles today a lone? I can imagine they'll do it), then I insist on reminding everyone every single time not to listen to the moron.
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Not to mention the game will undoubtedly be better if nobody hears any of his crap. #fableiii
10/21/09
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10/21/09
Kotaku is a 360 blog first and foremost. I come here to get my daily helping of 360-slanted news. That's why they are one of the few "approved" websites at Microsoft Game Studios.
10/21/09
The only people that think McWhertor or Bash has an agenda are those who are seriously misinformed, illiterate or a fanboy. They take shots at all of the consoles. If you think they have slighted your console (which they very well have the right to do, since it's a blog) it's only because you haven't read the rest of their body of work. The only ones that are truly impartial here are the ones that able to recognize the flaws and the merits of each bit of news and it's source and to comment on it accordingly. Whether one post rubs you the wrong way, comments more on you than them.
And in any case, "Of course, who knows how much of this will come to be, given Peter's track record" hardly sounds as the most positive endorsement of Moly, a MS employee for all intents and purposes. #fableiii
10/21/09
Microtransactions already suck. Microtransactions being hardcoded into a game from the beginning are even worse. Ugh, Molyneux... #fableiii
10/21/09
I would imagine if you are trying to successfully swindle the consumer through microtransactions, it might be a good idea to keep it a secret for a bit.
10/21/09
"Oh, it'll have Natal", "Oh, it might have microtransactions built in"...is he TRYING to drive people away now? #fableiii
10/21/09
I'm sure deep down he's always disappointed when the realized product falls short of his dreams.
Kinda tragic when you think of it that way. #fableiii
10/21/09
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