Hero, your health is running low. Do you have any potions or food?
Morality as pure aesthetics, which is dope
The game I've replayed the most amount of times. Love this, it's too bad the sequels went in a completely different direction.
Enjoyable but nothing crazy.
I could fart on my wife which was the peak of comedy when I was 10 years old
the lost chapters is the essential version of fable. the game isnt perfect and there's much, much better RPGs- but im very nostalgic for it and have enjoyed it immensely when i revisited it.
Fable 1 is just a comfy rpg to play and my favourite game in the series. I love the heroes guild, the combat multiplier, and the villain.
I like the heroes guild, and I like that the Heroes are all just characters that are doing their own shit that you sometimes intersect with. Whisper, Thunder, Briar Rose, Maze, and Scythe are all cool and have dope designs. While Fable 2's heroes (Hammer, Garth, and Reaver) are also pretty cool, I'm kind of just bummed by the Heroes Guild just not being a thing anymore.
The combat in this game is more interesting to me than Fable 2 or 3 mainly for the fact of the combat multiplier. It is a good system, even though you can break it completely with the spell shield and just never lose combo, but that makes it even better to me. The fact that you can ingest XP potions and they multiply with the combo makes it so cool to me.
The villain in this game is just way more interesting than the rest of the series. Jack of Blades feels like a real motherfucker compared to like Lucian, sure he killed your sister, but like "ehhh?". Then compared to the Fable 3 dudes (your brother and the Dark) its like your brother is just a stock dictator, and the Dark doesnt get introduced until the like halfway point and still doesnt have much to it. Jack of Blades just has a awesome design and lore behind him.
God I just hope the Fable is awesome.
I like the heroes guild, and I like that the Heroes are all just characters that are doing their own shit that you sometimes intersect with. Whisper, Thunder, Briar Rose, Maze, and Scythe are all cool and have dope designs. While Fable 2's heroes (Hammer, Garth, and Reaver) are also pretty cool, I'm kind of just bummed by the Heroes Guild just not being a thing anymore.
The combat in this game is more interesting to me than Fable 2 or 3 mainly for the fact of the combat multiplier. It is a good system, even though you can break it completely with the spell shield and just never lose combo, but that makes it even better to me. The fact that you can ingest XP potions and they multiply with the combo makes it so cool to me.
The villain in this game is just way more interesting than the rest of the series. Jack of Blades feels like a real motherfucker compared to like Lucian, sure he killed your sister, but like "ehhh?". Then compared to the Fable 3 dudes (your brother and the Dark) its like your brother is just a stock dictator, and the Dark doesnt get introduced until the like halfway point and still doesnt have much to it. Jack of Blades just has a awesome design and lore behind him.
God I just hope the Fable is awesome.
I have tons of nostalgia for this as its my first ever rpg but ya its mostly just a very okay action rpg, see if you can find that russian pc repackage if you don't wanna spend money for the remake (also this version is the best mostly because jack of blades sounds actually kinda cool in this instead of a weird little british goblin man)
OG Fable but better, I can also wear a purple hat called "The Pimp Hat".
It's a classic fart joke of a game, but that fart's got heart.
Secretly the first Souls game
the fact that it's an rpg that doesnt take 200 hours to finish is reason enough alone to give this one 5 stars
I beat the game as a heroic good guy, so to get all the bad guy weapons I would literally just go town to town murdering everyone, buying their homes, and then renting them out to the NPCs when they respawned. Peter Molyneux turned me into a genocidal fantasy RPG landlord.
Rose-colored glasses (nostalgia bias warning)
This was my first PC game ever, and I LOVED it.
I know I put the nostalgia warning, but honestly I've replayed this game a ton and I still love it to this day.
This is another game I have to stop myself from replaying so that I can actually work through my backlog.
It's got an alignment system that's pretty easy to manipulate once you understand it, but as a kid it was so awesome seeing myself appear lighter and brighter as I did my good deeds. (Spoiler: if you get so benevolent, you even get a beam of light that shines down on you, which I adored).
I've still never done an evil playthrough because being mean to fictional characters makes me sad, but I hear the evil side of things is just as cool and fun.
If you're looking for a classic, tropey RPG experience, this is where you can find it.
And just a reminder that following tropes isn't a bad thing; instead, this game takes inspiration from RPG tropes and perfects them.
The plot is straight forward and easy to follow without being boring, the twists make sense but can be hard to guess without actively trying to, the abilities give you such a broad range of choices that you can do combat nearly however you want, AND you can kick chickens!
You can get married, buy houses, trade goods with wandering traders, act like a bandit, be a feared source of benevolence.
I know there's quite a few options that provide this kind of gameplay that may seem a bit cleaner than this game, but this was one of the originals and the love from the developers truly shows and shines.
My biggest complaint with the game is that as you level up abilities, you get older which, while an interesting and cool detail, means you can never be a mid-20s badass; you'll always get old before you get awesome.
This was my first PC game ever, and I LOVED it.
I know I put the nostalgia warning, but honestly I've replayed this game a ton and I still love it to this day.
This is another game I have to stop myself from replaying so that I can actually work through my backlog.
It's got an alignment system that's pretty easy to manipulate once you understand it, but as a kid it was so awesome seeing myself appear lighter and brighter as I did my good deeds. (Spoiler: if you get so benevolent, you even get a beam of light that shines down on you, which I adored).
I've still never done an evil playthrough because being mean to fictional characters makes me sad, but I hear the evil side of things is just as cool and fun.
If you're looking for a classic, tropey RPG experience, this is where you can find it.
And just a reminder that following tropes isn't a bad thing; instead, this game takes inspiration from RPG tropes and perfects them.
The plot is straight forward and easy to follow without being boring, the twists make sense but can be hard to guess without actively trying to, the abilities give you such a broad range of choices that you can do combat nearly however you want, AND you can kick chickens!
You can get married, buy houses, trade goods with wandering traders, act like a bandit, be a feared source of benevolence.
I know there's quite a few options that provide this kind of gameplay that may seem a bit cleaner than this game, but this was one of the originals and the love from the developers truly shows and shines.
My biggest complaint with the game is that as you level up abilities, you get older which, while an interesting and cool detail, means you can never be a mid-20s badass; you'll always get old before you get awesome.
Was surprised with how much time and money was put into this, especially when the credits began rolling for two main studios with at least a hundred employees each. Granted, Lionhead and Microsoft likely weren't doing this stuff with RenderWare or Unity, beyond QA and sound management.
Competent combat that has a good amount of variety, which I mostly bruteforced with fantasy bullettime. Very visible technical/creative limitations that remains from every LOD level pop and cut content that even The Lost Chapters couldn't bring back. While not the easiest for the industry to see at the time, even in 2005 one can feel the friction of increasing demand of 'Triple-A' scale not being able to be matched. The game tries its best to depict an epic struggle with what its world of janky hallways and omnipresent guards(?) announcing day-night times more frequently than the main quest giver. And it's an effort that sucessfully hit with enough people to create multiple sequels including one in development right now.
Can't knock on this game too hard for succeeding in that regard. In retrospect however, Fable 1 really feels like a bellweather for how big budget games would start trending towards.
Competent combat that has a good amount of variety, which I mostly bruteforced with fantasy bullettime. Very visible technical/creative limitations that remains from every LOD level pop and cut content that even The Lost Chapters couldn't bring back. While not the easiest for the industry to see at the time, even in 2005 one can feel the friction of increasing demand of 'Triple-A' scale not being able to be matched. The game tries its best to depict an epic struggle with what its world of janky hallways and omnipresent guards(?) announcing day-night times more frequently than the main quest giver. And it's an effort that sucessfully hit with enough people to create multiple sequels including one in development right now.
Can't knock on this game too hard for succeeding in that regard. In retrospect however, Fable 1 really feels like a bellweather for how big budget games would start trending towards.
Clássico dos Action-RPG modernos, Fable TLCC é uma daquelas experiências que independente de você ser fã ou não do gênero, acaba sendo algo marcante e diferente. Lionhead era uma equipe realmente muito visionária, e apesar de Fable 1 ser mais lembrado hoje em dia pelos "memes" que ele gerou, ele é facilmente uma das melhores coisas que saíram da marca Xbox, e é facilmente minha franquia favorita.
Still a great game but not as good as Fable 2 in my eyes.
Pretty good game from what I remember
I sit and let the credits run for all games now, thanks to this game, damn it.
When this dropped in my country in 2006 I legit lost control of my life for maybe a complete year. A beast of an rpg, absolutely fun if you know nothing of the developer. If not, it's still stupidly fun and kind hearted rpg with lots of barely functioning mechanics waiting for you to exploit them and overpower your character to the next dimension. Just don't play the remake, it's pretty bad.
If you play as a baddie you're a bad person irl tho.
If you play as a baddie you're a bad person irl tho.
my sexual awakening was going to the brothel and paying for the dominatrix
Still my favorite game in the Fable universe. Not sure if I've done everything in this game, but have played it countless times. There is something about the world in this one that makes it stick in my head.
Instant classic.
Best Xbox game no cap 4 real all fax no printer
A bit dated, but worth playing nethertheless. Exudes charm from every pore. Shame we don't get RPGs like this anymore.
One of the first games to popularize a morality system. Unfortunately that system is just as nuanced as they today, in that they are not at all nuanced and are extremely black and White. But if ya like British humor its fun.
janky game with nice ideas, may try again some other time
Como eu me diverti jogando esse jogo na epoca.
Hoje em dia é melhor jogar a versão remaster dele que é o Anniversary. Mas o jogo é bem legal.
Hoje em dia é melhor jogar a versão remaster dele que é o Anniversary. Mas o jogo é bem legal.
I do think farting and belching at people is a solid tactic at courting them
Kinda feel bad for giving it such a low score, it was pretty good when it came out, but also the morality system is so black and white it makes my brain hurt, that’s not really a BAD thing per say but when games that came out before it like fallout and shin megami tensei on older generations it really makes the any depth this game may have look like a puddle
I’m not huge on the aesthetic either it feels kinda ugly almost in a charming way but also not
Gameplay is pretty fun how you can build your character though
The pee pee poo poo humor kinda also isn’t my jam
I’m not huge on the aesthetic either it feels kinda ugly almost in a charming way but also not
Gameplay is pretty fun how you can build your character though
The pee pee poo poo humor kinda also isn’t my jam