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
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