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Subject: FABLE: What a lame game!
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Between playing Halo 2 I try desperatly to get into Fable, who would'nt after all the great reviews? But the problem is despite the lovely graphics and huge levels I cant shake the feeling that it is utter tripe! The controls, the complicated mess of the controller layout everything seems to ruin it for me. Know what I mean?!

  • 02.03.2005 1:36 AM PDT
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If thats how you feel... quit whinging cos the rest of us enjoyed it...

:P

Tristan ;-)

  • 02.03.2005 1:58 AM PDT
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I'm not whinning, I just wondered what other people opinions where.....?!

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Tell me... is there anything in your first post that isn't whining?

I loved it. The joypad layout is, when you really look at, quite logical. If that is the only thing that is preventing you from enjoying the game, I pity you.

  • 02.03.2005 2:27 AM PDT
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I WAS MERELY EXPRESSING MY PERSONAL DISATISFACTION AT THIS GAME AND WONDERING IF ANYONE ELSE AGREED/DISAGREED. I AM IN NO WAY TRYING TO HAMPER/DESTROY YOUR ENJOYMENT OF THIS GAME. IF THIS WAS A LIONHEAD STUDIO'S FORUM I WOULD NOT POST A QUESTION LIKE THIS FOR OBVIOUS REASONS - IT ANNOYS ME WHEN PEOPLE MOCK HALO 2 ON A BUNGIE SITE - THIS IS WHY I AM POSING A QUESTION LIKE THIS ON AN ALTERNATIVE FORUM SO NOT TO CAUSE OFFENCE. Maybe your right....maybe I should keep at it, you could have said something like that?! Why is everyone so defensive.........but to pity me for not liking a game?! Sorry, did you give birth to this game? Is it your wife? Are you Peter Molenuex's cousin? Sorry for offending you.

  • 02.03.2005 3:21 AM PDT
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Maybe because you haven't provided any justification for your dislike. A control scheme can be gotten used to, it doesn't prevent enjoyment of the game in the slightest.

I apologise for phrasing myself badly. Maybe you could tell us why you don't like the game aside from the control scheme?

  • 02.03.2005 3:30 AM PDT
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I was joking... you didn't need to do 3/4 of a post in caps to get your point across. It is just my opinion that everything you bagged is good and your argument was lacking in substance.

I for one enjoy a game where I can choose my side, and enjoy it all the more when being evil doesn't turn your character into the biggest nerd in the universe (see KOTOR).

TRistan ;-)

  • 02.03.2005 3:37 AM PDT
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I liked Fable, good rental

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Ok. 1/ Controls seem clunky, in say, Zelda OOT combat (which Fable seems to copy) is wonderfully fluid and this was a game released in 1998. It just seems really clunky in Fable? 2/ Just walking is a bit ropey. You walk a bit like Lara in the first Tob Raider crossed with
a drunk driver. 3/ The falseness of reality. Fable is stunning visually but I find it frustrating that you can see so much yet your path is fairly linear. It really is run here to here - fight - buy apple - burp..... Probably what did it for me most is the section where you have to save that kid for his granny? You wade through hordes of goblins and when you get to him all you want him to do is "FOLLOW" and you execute this comand and he stands there.....getting beaten....while you do....repeating "FOLLOW" In all honesty I refer to a post I raised a while back, it was titled something like "DO YOU PLAY HALO MORE THAN ANYTHING...EVER?" I gues that's it really. Halo and 2 play so well I feel cheated by anything even slightly flawed. Seriously, i'll give it another chance!

  • 02.03.2005 3:48 AM PDT
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I love Halo?......

[Edited on 2/3/2005 4:00:08 AM]

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It's kinda sad to play on Halo 1 or 2... If you think running around and buying stuff etc to be linear then you've just thrown about every single computer game out the window... There's plenty to do in the game... Most fun of all is decapitating people and kicking their heads around the map (like chickens but bloody). And as I said, controls I had no problem with, your dude runs about- again no problem... As for the kid in the cave... be evil... kill him... problem solvered.

The only real problem I had with Fable was the fact that people don't like you when you're evil... I ended up killing half of oakvale, buying all the buildings, having the town repopulated and paying me to live there and THEN I got a chick to fall for my dude...

Tristan ;-)

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That is a VERY good point. I am trying to be as good as possible! That's it! From now on i'm going to be EVIL! Should be far better!

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Just keep in mind... if a trader doesn't have what you want... kill him...

If theres a guard, kill him...

If there's chickens... kick them...

If there's a tavern, buy all the booze you can and use it on other people... it's hilarious.

Tristan ;-)

  • 02.03.2005 4:07 AM PDT

Posted by: ferret
Posted by: halodev1
Ha ha stanman has been foiled by the great ferret. Soon he shall start a ferret army and take down the legions of the dark forces. ferret will be the leader and he will use his 1337 ferret skillz to end the fight once and for all.

or he just went home to sit on his ass watching conan and eating cheesy poofs.

flood control
got my AK!!

hey here in the Flood we dont flam each other....much.....people flam alot in NM although they should have forums just for flamming to get it out of there system

  • 02.03.2005 4:10 AM PDT
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Who's flaming?

Besides... nobody flames in NM anymore... they just threaten me with criminal charges instead.

Tristan ;-)

  • 02.03.2005 4:19 AM PDT
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Fable, The Beast has never played.

  • 02.03.2005 5:10 AM PDT
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Actually the controller layout wasn't bad. The game was great, too many boundries though, and too easy/short. If it was longer, it being easy wouldn't matter as much. And if it was harder, I definitly would've played it more than one week. Still I'm satisfied, cause my gf loves the game. So anytime she calls me a Halo dork for not paying attention on the phone... I only have to say FABLE... then she's quiet.

  • 02.03.2005 7:43 AM PDT
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that game is uber-fun. I love smashing people into walls with force-push.

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Posted by: Iwannarealhog
That is a VERY good point. I am trying to be as good as possible! That's it! From now on i'm going to be EVIL! Should be far better!


i thought bein good was great fun. but i spose not evry1 likes da same ting

  • 02.03.2005 9:23 AM PDT
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Yeah KOTOR and KOTOR 2 are better than eating shopping carts. But they just arent as good as Timesplitters 2 or when it comes out numero 3!!! its gonna rock your socks, major docks. i have a pet fox.

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Fable was fantastic! It was really easy, great controls, awesome graphics!

  • 02.03.2005 10:45 AM PDT

HALO 2 will rule 4ever. It is Halo and it is enougth. Thanks Bungie, our life will never be the same.

even bungie likes it

  • 02.03.2005 10:53 AM PDT

Fable was a decent game. All of the empty promises that were spewed out to create hype (that some people still believe in) are what really let me down. The game was as shell of what it was promised to be, and some of you are still looking at the hype when you should be looking at the game. Honestly, what made Fable unique? The entire idea of "creating your own destiny" was a hoax. I didn't create a damn thing, it was all scripted. Use the sword, and you become stronger, right? Use the Will and you age faster, right? Wrong. The system of creating your character was tied into what upgrades you purchased. All the game did was attempt to trick you into thinking that it was original, when it was really just another RPG.

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Posted by: Jascw
Fable was fantastic! It was really easy, great controls, awesome graphics!


Great controls? You call randomly aiming a bow into the dirt (EDIT- Why the hell did I put an "is" here before? Banshee Barron, you need some more coffee...) great controls? And since when is being an easy game a good thing?



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  • 02.03.2005 11:10 AM PDT
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Posted by: Iwannarealhog
Ok. 1/ Controls seem clunky, in say, Zelda OOT combat (which Fable seems to copy) is wonderfully fluid and this was a game released in 1998. It just seems really clunky in Fable? 2/ Just walking is a bit ropey. You walk a bit like Lara in the first Tob Raider crossed with
a drunk driver. 3/ The falseness of reality. Fable is stunning visually but I find it frustrating that you can see so much yet your path is fairly linear. It really is run here to here - fight - buy apple - burp..... Probably what did it for me most is the section where you have to save that kid for his granny? You wade through hordes of goblins and when you get to him all you want him to do is "FOLLOW" and you execute this comand and he stands there.....getting beaten....while you do....repeating "FOLLOW" In all honesty I refer to a post I raised a while back, it was titled something like "DO YOU PLAY HALO MORE THAN ANYTHING...EVER?" I gues that's it really. Halo and 2 play so well I feel cheated by anything even slightly flawed. Seriously, i'll give it another chance!


With the Hobbe Cave quest you don't need to tell the kid to follow. He follows automatically. And instead of telling him to follow maybe you should be killing the Hobbes? ((not being ignorant just trying to help)

  • 02.03.2005 11:22 AM PDT
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the game sucks alright. get over it. better yet do something about it. I sold it a week after i bought it and got 30 bucks. which i payed for Burnout 3 with.

i am samrt!

  • 02.03.2005 12:24 PM PDT

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