The Fable III review embargo lifted early this morning – and the reviews, across the board, are a little more mixed than one might expect.
The Outerhaven writes: Being fans of Fable, we decided to do an in-depth retrospective on the Fable franchise, exploring its choices, consequences, tone, and lasting impact on RPG design.
The Outerhaven writes: An in-depth retrospective on the Fable franchise, exploring its choices, consequences, tone, and lasting impact on RPG design.
Fable II launched back in 2008 and remains the best the series has offered. Ahead of the series comeback, it's time to look at the classic.
I'd love to play it again, this time on pc though. Forever waiting on that pc port.
Loved this game, oh and i always saved my dog at the end, hope the new Fable has a animal companion.
Fable 2 was the best inthe series. Peter waaaaaaay over promised with fable 1 and it was good but disappointing. He didn't go crazy eith hype for the second game and it was surprisingly awesome. Then he ran his mouth promoting 3 and it was the worst of the 3.
Funny story: Fable 3 had a funny way of keeping the promises you made in the first half of the game and having enough money to defeat the darkness.
You only had to collect enough money to buy 2 stores in a busy market district. You then raise the prices to maximum and you turn xbox 360 internal clock 99 or more years ahead.
The next time you load the game, all the rents from the 99 years are collected immediately.
But yes I agree that 3 was the weakest of the three.
I only got to play it once 😩 I'm so tempted to buy a Xbox 360 slim but planning on getting the series x soon since I got a PS5 in February Im ready to get saints row 1&2 back, GTA 4, fable 2, but I also want to play infamous 1&2 again Sony screwed us over with the stream only for saints row 2 and other gems smh
"Big" sites usually have a pay-per-review policy. No cash no 9+.
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header: "and the reviews, across the board, are a little more mixed than one might expect."
But I expected them to be very mixed. Like all big releases, especially RPGs, there will be people giving it super-high and people totally hating on it.
Moreover, expect a lot more low scores to come out in a few months. Happens with almost every big release. Remember when everyone was giving FF13 9's out of 10 in the first week? LOL.
A little more mixed than expected? It's pretty much 8's across the board with 1 or 2 exceptions
I am just amazed by the fact that Jim Sterling is still reviewing games.
A few 90s, a bunch of 80s, and then a couple 70s, one 60, one 55(Destructoid, so I'd throw that one out, anyways.) An 80 on the metascore is pretttty decent.
And if you read the reviews, even the bad-ish ones have good things to say. They were just disappointed because some of the great ideas weren't fully realized. Which is what a lot of the reviews are saying. Best Fable yet, but it has issues that bring it down, and it could have been a masterpiece.
Regardless, I want this game.