Originally Posted by
Gare
So I've been playing some Fable 3. Here's a semi-rant about it.
I can definitely see why people would complain about this, but at the same time, it's not the horrible piece of garbage some gamers make it out to be. In fact, it's sort of been growing on me the more I've been playing it. I also tried some online co-op as well, it's quite fun, although I managed to hook up with a guy from the US, so there was some lag.
HOWEVER. It's a complete fucking mess in terms of game design. All the emotes are nonsensical (make grown adults fall in love with you by tickling them/playing patty cake with them? lolwtf), and so is the whole hand-holding system. Yeah, because a grown man needs to be held by the hand like a pussy while I take him to the quest location. All the money making minigames are time-wasting bullshit, while the larger economy is also kinda lol (I'm actually typing this as the game is running in the background and my properties are automatically generating money for me every 5 or so minutes a la Assassin's Creed 2 and onwards). Exploration isn't rewarded at all because all treasure chests contain bullshit rewards - new hairstyles, new tattoos, dozens of gems that are useless because you're swimming in money anyway, and so on. Nothing you'd actually need. Sometimes you find a weapon, but it's not like you need it due to the piss easy combat. There's just so many pointless features in this that I can't see appealing to anyone other than Sims/Farmville fags. No offense if you're one. :wacko:
On the flip side, combat is very fluid, especially loving the different rifle animations. Also, there were some genuinely amusing moments/quests, like the one that parodied shitty RPGs (yes, I realize the irony), or some of the things the evil gnomes say. And the graphics are lovely on PC in glorious 1080p. :wacko:
So basically, despite all its flaws I don't actually hate this game.
