Welcome back, son! I like Fable 3 as a standalone game. It's a nice little hero adventure where you get to turn your brain off and explore a pretty world. (I love Aurora. The people, the culture, the lore, the colorful tattoos..) I really don't like 3 as part of the Fable series. You don't really get many choices, which is a huge part of the Fable appeal. Also, your character is predetermined, and you don't really get much say in how they act/what they do. I hate how they handled Theresa, and Logan. Why bother overthrowing your "evil" brother if you're just going to continue ruling exactly as he did?? Theresa is downright evil in this game, in my opinion. Playing siblings against each other and lying to/manipulating both of them.
It’s not a bad game, it’s got its problems but it’s genuinely a fun game, especially like halfway through once you get through most of the dumb stuff like road to rule because at about halfway through. The dlc is fun, I enjoyed more story. Again this game definitely has a lot of problems. Still do genuinely enjoy it though even with it’s issues.
Unfortunately Fable 3 has Peter Molyneux written all over it. There was a time when his name written on a game could make people excited about the project. However... He has garnered a reputation of talking up the game and under delivering. Ambition is one thing, but devs working with him have gone on record stating that whole features to games were added after Molyneux promised to the press that they'd be in the final product. I would have loved for him to remain someone who occasionally over promises... But because of his most recent activities he has moved on fully to snake oil salesman. But does that make fable a bad game? No, if it was a standalone title from a studio who we've never heard of. Hell it might even be a great game under that context. But as it is, the third Fable game... Let's just say there is a reason only Fable one got a remaster.
Weirdly enough, holding peoples hands was one of the things that make me enjoy this game the most. I love dragging people around on my random missions.
The first time I played Fable 3, I bought any items I really wanted, and then just poured All my money into buying every building, and setting the rent prices to just below average. It kind of made a joke out of the entire major moral quandary of the latter half the game: Everyone loved me for providing them with low rent housing, and yet it Rained money on me to such a degree I could pick every "Good" choice, maintaining all my promises, telling Reaver to stick it, etc. etc., and still cleared the gold requirement with ease. And it kind of left me questioning: How was my brother struggling with this? It felt so Easy to reach the required money, and that was with me actively turning down money.
EXACTLY, the worst part is, you either pick every single evil choice, or you will have to grind the rent system anyway. which is proof enough that this was a bad design. im not against gaming the system in my favor, but f3 clearly was a mess with no clear direction. the choices are also so cartoonily evil its astounishing how this guy can come here and say they "are not cartoonily evil", and then goes to show the NPC FOR THOSE CHOICES WHICH IS CLEARLY EXACTLY THAT. at this point it felt like he was being sarcastic because there's no way someone can be this clearly out of touch. hell he even said it 2x that the npc is a caricature, and then how he didnt like he was the one for the evil choices because he was such a bad character.
If you raise the rent to maximum people will hate you. However if after you hit your money goal and before the final battle you lower the rent, the people love you again and completely forget why they hated you before
My greatest achievement in this game is that I played the Lute for hours. Literal hours to make enough money so I could make all of the good decisions and still protected albion. I luted my country out of debt.
I positively adore Fable 3. It's a warm, comfortable game filled with beautiful locales. It's very easy to sit and play it, even if you haven't played a game in ages. It's exactly the sort of thing I need now that I work full-time, and I wish there were more games like it. But yeah I admit I've become a filthy casual in my middle-age.
You and me two. I love to boot it up, walk around, chill in some towns, and leave. The game even saves for us, it just asks to be played in small chunks.
It hot a lot of hate and I loved the first two, but I honestly really enjoyed this game a lot. I like the concept of a revolution and being royal from the start, I actually liked the sanctuary feature, I liked the humor, side quests, and graphics. And it’s a lot less glitchy than Fable 2 in my opinion. I like it a lot!
It seems retrospectives are becoming popular on RUclips, or at least channels diving deep into games are, so hopefully your channel pops off and you can make more videos and be able to take as much time as you feel you need
"I've been looking forward to this." -Count Dooku From the time I was a child I remember watching my dad play fable on his laptop and making fun of the people together. "Chicken chasah!" Sadly he's been passed for the past few years so I love being able to look back on the good times fondly.
I gotta give props, I loved that initial cutscene of Logan monologuing. The first time you hear it it's like "I'm an evil tyrant drunk on power, if people don't do what I say they will die, I will see Albion destroyed before I surrender it" but then you meet the Crawler and the second watch of that cutscene is like "oh... woah double entendre" I love that, it was well done.
I love the Fable series and Fable 3 is soo easy to go back to multiple times. Also, the intro chicken doesn't die. You actually see it escape the kitchen in the beginning when first go to the castle kitchen.
@@mikewil7571 someone disagreeing with u is not trolling, grow up. And besides there's literally a scene where a black chicken runs out of the kitchen once u play as your character before you give your speech. If our character can survive getting shot at multiple times so can a damn chicken. So sorry, but you're wrong about the chicken being dead even if you're not wrong about the chef carrying him back into the kitchen.
@@existentialhoe7513 it could have been a different chicken/oversight by the developers? in the end of the cutscene it shows the chef holding the chicken (which looked very limp and dead) in his hand and whistling a tune.
@@oldmoney1022 bruh, chicken survives xd Some can argue it's different chicken, but it's not - every single chicken we see in prologue is white - just this one, particular one seen in the opening is black, and in prologue, right when we enter the kitchen with Elise, we can see black (dirty) chicken escape from the kitchen. Chickens in Fable universe are quite... durable animals xD
Peter Molyneux himself is such an interesting character in the scope of game devs. He might be a shameless NFT-peddling grifter now, but I believe back then he was a genuine visionary and truly wanted to bring something new and exciting to the gaming landscape.
@@Almost_Genius Overselling, sure. You could make the argument that he put a little too much salesmanship into his products from Spore onwards. But up to that point he never outright lied about what his aims and goals were, most you could say was that he got overambitious and tried to fly a little too close to the sun. I think in recent years, as nakedly greedy and and shameless as publishers have become in trying to turn every game into a live service experience, it's become a trend and knee-jerk reaction to just hold every developer under a microscope and scrutinize each minute infraction they've ever made. All well and good for the Ubisoft's and EA's of today, but I don't think it's fair to hold a developer from the early 2000's to the same standard as today. The most egregious thing you could accuse Fable 3 of doing would be a slight oversell of the end product and going a little overboard on the $2.99 microtransactions, a far cry from transgressions we pretend to ignore whenever *[cürrent year game publisher]* shits out another annual installment Call of Battlefield's Honor.
Yeah, it's kinda sad how Fable 3 stumbled. The potential was definitely there, but so many things ended being just too short of "very good". I liked the game at the time, and I still have positive memories of it, but, sadly, I can't see myself playing it ever again, considering how many others, better games are out there.
I do agree. I love the game, completed everything when it was game with gold many years ago, and completed it all again last year. I won’t play this game again because it’s so short and there’s nothing else to do, but that doesn’t make it bad, it’s amazing
@@dingle2987 yup, story was way more interesting, not to mention characters were better written, the biggest flaws 3rd one has is magic system (no more buff spells, conjuring etc) and fact that game is way, way too short and ends too fast the moment it gets really, really interesting. Fable: TLC was short but it was well written story, 3rd one seems to end the moment it gets interesting :/
Dude I've been waiting and wanting to see these kind of videos for Fable for AGES. I never thought someone would make them, and even if someone did I never thought they would be so good as this series you made. You're the best, amazing work!
I love Fable 3. The quests and sense of adventure are great, even if the choices don't always feel the best. I do like the finale where you are the king and need to have enough money. It felt like a sort of moral if you failed, that being that not all good men know all the answers. An empty Albion is kind of sad to think about.
The first time I played this I was SO excited to be queen after all the lead up. Then the game was over in 30 mins and I got the bad ending… 😑 could have used some warning that the game was about to end after making like 5 choices.
I always forget the promise to Sabine is at the end, when in my mind it should have been the first promise kept. So I finish thinking I have saved all the gold needed then his comes up and I lose some to that and end up not saving maybe 20 percent of the kingdom. Doesn't sound bad until you see the bodies after the war and lacking the achievement
When I played Fable 3, on my first playthrough as a morally good character, as early as the game would allow me, I would just work as a blacksmith to earn money in order to purchase all of the properties available at the time. This allowed me to purchase all of the properties in other locations as soon as I discovered them, which I did. I always set the rent lower than normal, but, since I had prioritized buying property early in the game, I kind of set myself up for success by the time I became king and was able to make all of the morally good decisions without putting a dent in the amount of money that I had collected by that time. Then, and I realize that this was cheating, but, I had found a way to carry over my gold from previous playthroughs on new playthroughs, rather than spend all of the time doing the blacksmith minigame at the beginning to earn money. The problem that you run into is that you aren't allowed to have multiple characters in fable 3: if you want to start a new game, you have to destroy your old character. That is, unless you had an old-school xbox 360 as I did, which were the ones where the hard drive was a "snap in" on the side of the console and had 2 memory card slots. So, what I did was simple: I plugged a memory card into my console and moved my old fable 3 game data with the rich character to the memory card. I would then unplug the memory card and start a new game of fable 3. Once I got to the point where I could purchase properties and start working, I would turn off the console, unplug the hard drive with my new character, plug in the memory card with my old, rich character, and then load fable 3 back up. I would go to the same location where I had left my new character, and then I would start talking to any online fable 3 players that I could find in the town. When I got their attention, would then make a proposition: I was going to give them a crap ton of gold, and, if they waited for me in this exact spot for me to logout and log back in, I only wanted them to give me back half the gold I was about to give them. If they agreed, I would give them what probably amounted to 1/4 of my wealth (I don't think you understand how absurdly wealthy I was by this point, and I had to account for people just taking the money and leaving), turn off the console, unplug the memory card, plug my hard drive with my new character data, start fable 3, and find the user I had spoken to in the town. He would then give me half the money that I had given him as my old character. I only got screwed over once using this tactic (something I expected to happen really), but it allowed me to play other playthroughs as Richie Rich as early on in the game as humanly possible. It was pretty fun to abuse the game mechanics to do what shouldn't really be allowed!!!
I remember doing a good playthrough and at the end choosing all the good choices. The game let me know I wouldn't have any gold left for the incoming war, but I didn't take that seriously. So after the main story was done, I was left with a completely dead game. There were basically no NPCs left, couldn't finish any of the side quests, nothing. Sometimes I pray by the bedside for a Fable 2 release for PC. I don't even want a remaster, I just want to be able to play Fable 2 again without having to by an Xbox.
Me too! On my first play through, escaping the Crawler in Aurora was one of the most memorable parts for me, the atmosphere was great and it was a challenge ... ... Better than the final fight with him possessing Walter 😑 that ending was a letdown.
He gets it. The story and the fact that morality wasn't a choice between two thematic rewards, but instead has real weight... the game had such good ideas. Too bad there were so many systems. At least there WERE some boss fights! Can't call it a good game, but it's definitely a guilty pleasure. I truly believe this game was better than 2; broken systems at all. At least I didn't always transform into an over weight pirate that had to collect a human triforce to not get a single boss fight, or experience a morality system that did nothing.
I think some of the issues were very minor. Not being able to pick your emotes was lame, but outside of some mission they all did the same thing in terms of AI interaction anyway.
i completely disagree. it is a thematic shoice, however, they are so completely far from each other that it feels forced. its either madre teresa or hitler. no middle ground. no third option with less good but also not monstruous. the choices dont work because the game is so enamoured with the whole "you can make a good kingdom that will be destroyed or a hell hole that will survive" this is not a real choice, you need so much money, that if you were to do it as intended, you would pretty much have to go 100% in either direction. it also doesnt help the manipulative BS, time skips between choices for no reason besides to force you into make the "hurd docison".
Hey your videos are just as good as salt factories and that's the highest praise I could ever give someone please continue to make more of these videos
I know, it does make sense in context ... but the bit at 3:05, basically amounting to "The last game was about King Arthur and Robin Hood, but THIS one is about monarchs and rebels!" does strike me as unintentionally amusing.
I was so excited for this game. In retrospect, it isn't horrible, but it promised so much more than it could deliver. A perfect example, they had a system to craft a personal weapon that would change based on the actions you perform. I never once got a different weapon, however, as one of the evolution prerequisites is to "kill 100 undead", which is statistically impossible NOT to do because the enemies in the academy are all undead. I tried waiting hours and hours before even buying one upgrade, and still got the same development as if I had upgraded right away. It's an awesome system that is legitimately broken.
There was a playwrite who DID mix comedy with tragedy! His name was Chekhov (from chekhovs gun). It wasn’t quite as depicted in fable 3. More the events in the play are so absolutely tragic/ ridiculous you can’t help but laugh. Stanislavsky didn’t think they were funny so now every one interprets his plays as simple tragedies.
To be honest Son, Fable 2 is my favorite entry of the series. Fable 1 layed out the groundwork and has nostalgia charm as the first in the series. Fable 2 iterated on the formula and expanded on concepts. Fable 3 felt like taking one step forward and two back. I hope the franchise gets a proper fourth entry in the future, because thw world is interesting, charming and quirky in the best sense, there is nothing quite like Fable on the market.
I actually never ran into the money limit cause I just used smithing job for the cash. A couple of hours later and I was swimming in money. I heard that if you use the rent money from your properties, the money accumulated becomes even more. So there is that at least.
What bothers me most about the King sections of the game is that it doesn't give you the option anyone with a brain would make. Oh we have 1 year to raise funds? In that case all my promises are on hold and taxes will go up, but only for one year. Once we defeat the darkness we can start to rebuild and make life better for everyone. All the leader know what is coming, I'm sure they will understand that we have to put a small delay into something for the kingdom to survive. Also that final time skip was bull. No warning that your about to skip the next 100+ and just go straight to the end.
For some reason fable 3 has such a lonely and empty atmosphere for me theres just something weird about its atmosphere for me. Cool game either way not as good as the others but that wouldve been hard to achieve
I will always say, that scene at the end with Walter was VERY well done. The rest of the story had some very Meh moments, and only one or two stand out ones, but that one scene almost makes the whole journey worth it on its own. This man has been with you the whole time, you can interact with him at basically any point, and he survives the typical Mentor Occupational hazards throughout the game, points where he should have died to make you finish the adventure alone. But it never comes to that. He always comes through, sometimes by the skin of his teeth, but he is not going to die quietly. So in the end, they force you to do it. They force you to kill him, the one opponent or hazard that could. And that speech at the end, a call back dozens of hours later is just fantastic, the voice acting capturing it perfectly. I don't know why this video popped into my feed, heck, the previous video I watched was on an SCP thing, but damn glad I chose to watch it, just for the reminder of how good that scene, and overall the game, was. Heck, looking at it, Fable III was Fallout 4 before it came out. it striped the RPG side bare. But where Fallout 4 hooked you solely through exploration, which got dull if you realized how little there was to it. Here? It was seeing what was next in the plot, what locations it would send you to next, what weird and wacky thing would happen. And it never forgot that there was a dramatic core sending you on these adventures, so it kept the tonality it was going for, again, something Fallout 4 forgot to do, given how many people FORGOT who Shaun was before they met him. Oh, and Understone came out before Traitor's Keep, and was a deliberate Homage to Bioshock, by the devs own admission(The loudspeaker announcements being inspired by Andrew Ryans stuff in Bioshock 1). That said, it's not a great thing, but it had the Clockwork body armor, and the Clockwork dog potions, one of 2 dog potions to change the dog's bark sound effect, the other being something yappier, while this was 'tinny' or 'brass' which I enjoyed a lot.
For me the advancement of time is what killed it for me, it was too modern and the magic both figuratively and literally was almost nonexistent. At the time my fear was that fable 4 would do away with it entirely.
For me personally I wasn’t too upset, definitely hated the lack of crossbows and the lack of variety in magical/mythical enemies. I definitely am happy that the new fable game is going back because after 3, the games can’t go further ahead, it wouldn’t work.
Here's how I figured the choice between Elsie and the riot leaders with my morality: By saving Elise, the deaths of those people haunt me and I vow to make up for their deaths by being a great and kind king. By sending Elise to her death, I hate the world and Logan for taking her away from me, and my anger will be unleashed on the kingdom and how I rule
This game left me with despair as a kid. I hyped it up too much in my head and it ended up being…ok. I wouldn’t feel that way about a game until fallout 4 lol.
All your retrospectives are awesome! Great job in them. Especially one 1 and 3 because how you explain your thoughts on it really in the evil plays. Personally 1 is my favorite 3 is second even though it bugged itself out so bad I couldn't progress my save everyone run. But I really didnt like the guns in 2 and 3. The old school, old style just sat better with me. Yeah it was dated but overall I though it was the most interesting. With 3 alone, I also didnt like the gauntlet being why you did magic. Took away from the fantasy albeit only slightly. But still did. The mixing of skills was awesome though. Windstorm and blades was always a sight to behold. People flying up and getting obliterated by swords made me smile everytime.
I didn't like Fable 3 as much as the earlier ones. Starts well, but once you're on the throne you feel rollercoastered into a headlong rush toward the finish. The last third just isn't a joy to play. Didn't have an issue with the combat, but I did find having to charge up magic not as conducive (IMO) to combat that utilised melee and magic, I preferred the immediate magic of fable 1, especially as regards force push.
I remember getting this and playing through the whole game in a night, slept through school the next day but it was worth it! Evolving weapons and mixing magic and sitting in a throne passing laws was great and I could do it all dressed as a giant chicken! Amazing 10 out of 10
I've been waiting for this since the Fable I video, never played the Fable II so that video didn't really click with me but really excited to watch this
I just kept working as a blacksmith and bought property and kept blacksmithing as the rent came in. It was a constant feedback loop until i had more than enough to pay off everything to save people. Then once i had an insane amount of gold i lowered the rent
you could even raise the rent to the max, everyone will hate you, and after you get the amount you could make it free and people will love you, so you know, so much for the "hurd chuices".
In Fable 1, we wanted to focus on myth, and folklore, like King Arthur and Robin Hood. Fable II was all about King Arthur and Robin Hood, and Fable III will be about monarchs (like King Arthur,) and rebels. Like Robin Hood.
Great video. Just finished the game and didn't realize it was an action adventure until you said it. you are absolutely right, and I appreciate the honest review with an open mind.
The part that really rubbed me the wrong way with this game in particular in the series is it keeps building up the entire time that you have 1 year and then with 100+ days left it just ends, I didnt have time the first time to really build up I assumed I would have a decision or two more and be able to quest more but no it just ends.
This caught me off guard playing this game for the first time this year because I work hard to avoid spoilers. Like, they can tell you to fix your affairs before going to aurora for an 8 minute mission but blindside you with the game finale. Can't believe this video didn't mention it.
On my mostly good playthrough I saved the lover person saved them later from orphanage then was petty and turned the place of the guy who tried to take my lover into a whorehouse. Everything looked bright but that one spot. Kinda regretted it.
One of my favorite parts was, funnily enough, the crawler. As little time as he had, I felt like his lines and sequence when you meet him legitimately set him up to be a terrifying enemy. They just botched it by not utilizing him at all in the 2nd part of the game until his bossfight.
As is typical of me in a Fable game, I was the good guy... but I couldn't resist saving the love interest. I knew I was supposed to save the protesters, but I couldn't do it. So~ probably my favorite choice in the game. I like those hard decisions. Makes the choices feel more meaningful, and less black and white.
Son, this Mom is really proud. I wasn't really in agreement with your ME3 and MEA retrospectives but your Fable Content REALLY won me over. And hey, agreeing to disagree is still a thing, isn't it? Great job!!
My first playthrough at launch was as a good hero but I didn't have enough to stop the darkness and they killed most of my people. I also overwrote my saves so there was nothing I could do to salvage the playthrough. I put the game back in the case and didnt pick it back up for another year or so.
i loved this game, but never played the first two, so i went in with few expectations other than knowing it was a legendary series. it's a great game on its own, people were just expecting a third Fable and not Fable 3.
Not that it changes or implies anything, but the chicken shown at the beginning of the game didn't die. On any new game before walking into the kitchen with Elliot/Elise, you can see the soot covered chicken run from the kitchen. Edit: I only know because thanks to your first Fable video, I decided to go back and play them myself. I was enthralled with nostalgia for a game I got to watch my own father play when I was a kid but not so blind as an adult to not notice it's very obvious flaws. A game I'd recommend everyone try for the experience but... One playthrough is enough
I ended up grinding the blacksmith and buying all the houses and then not going into the quest that starts the final stretch of the game. Then left my Xbox on and got my 6million . Not sure if there was an easier way but it felt good to have no one die especially without doing anything bad.
I started with cable 3 when i was a kid an absolutely loved it, after playing some of the 1ts one many years later I understand why some don't like it but I never understood the hate it got. It's a fun game 😂
I both loved and despised Fable III. I loved a lot of what they were going for, and I honestly didn't despair about the loss of RPG mechanics because I really liked building up a company of allies and taking the kingdom for myself. One of the ways I did this was literally buying the entire kingdom out from under Logan while gathering said allies, leaving him with just the castle before the final assult on Bowerstone. What I despised was the "crusade against menus," as you called it. The constant, persistent "in-world interactivity" of it all was grating. Give me a more traditional menu system, please. Refine it and clean it up if you must, but give me menus nonetheless. I also despised the inability to "repair all" your owned properties. Instead, you have to go to each and every one of them individually, which was extraordinarily tedious. A "perfect" Fable, in my mind, would be: 1. Fable III aesthetics, but updated for modern gaming. 2. A refined and paired down Fable I menu system. (It was a bit too much.) 3. A minimalist HUD to clean up the screen and allow the player to see and interact with the world unimpeded. 4. Much more vast, open world spaces to explore, akin to how The Witcher 3's world spaces were done. The Witcher 3's were done much the same as the Fable games' (and many others') were, with different world spaces scattered across a huge and largely unexplorable map. But each world space was large enough in its own right that you could explore each one to your heart's content. 5. Fable I's leveling and experience system. (The best of the three, and arguably the best of any RPG to date, in my opinion.) 6. Enemies dropping different experience orbs as in Fables I and II, but ALL of them being gathered authomatically during combat. 7. A synthesis of the best features of Fable II and III's combat systems. 8. The spells of Fables I and II, but with the ability to combine spells like in Fable III. (No gauntlets.) 9. The real-estate system of Fable III, but accessed via aforementioned refined menu system, and with a "repair all properties" function to address the tedium of having to go to each one individually. 10. New lands introduced and explorable, as Aurora was in Fable III.
You mentioned being a DM, and thus I've got to ask, have you tried out Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous (or Kingmaker)? I would highly recommend them both, especially WotR. And if a video like this could happen some time in the unknown future, I sure as hell wouldn't mind that. In all, very glad to find your channel. I enjoy your approach to these games a lot.
@@YourFavoriteSon1 That "probably" fills me with joy. And although I'm not big on streaming, I might have to stop by if you do decide to stream them. :)
I Gotta say, Aurora was peak fable 3 for me. When i entered the temple i felt dread, when i saw the shadowmen I thought back to The shadowcourt and the cursed snowglobe in Fable 2. Finally uncovering the origins of these spectres and walking thru these temples felt really epic to me
Also.. I found out that you get so much money if you build a brothel that you can uphold all the other promises and have good cash at the final stage… and what good does an orphanage do if you all die? If you built a brothel now and get the funds to fight and win, you can always build an orphanage later! Probably with the money pouring in from the brothel!
Holding court after becoming king was my favorite part of the game. It took me totally off guard on my first playthrough. It was easy enough to make all those promises , then I had to fulfill those promises while maintaining strength of the kingdom.
What's YOUR opinion on Fable III Dad? 🐶
Welcome back, son! I like Fable 3 as a standalone game. It's a nice little hero adventure where you get to turn your brain off and explore a pretty world. (I love Aurora. The people, the culture, the lore, the colorful tattoos..)
I really don't like 3 as part of the Fable series. You don't really get many choices, which is a huge part of the Fable appeal. Also, your character is predetermined, and you don't really get much say in how they act/what they do.
I hate how they handled Theresa, and Logan. Why bother overthrowing your "evil" brother if you're just going to continue ruling exactly as he did?? Theresa is downright evil in this game, in my opinion. Playing siblings against each other and lying to/manipulating both of them.
Lol, one of the towns is named morning wood
It’s not a bad game, it’s got its problems but it’s genuinely a fun game, especially like halfway through once you get through most of the dumb stuff like road to rule because at about halfway through. The dlc is fun, I enjoyed more story. Again this game definitely has a lot of problems. Still do genuinely enjoy it though even with it’s issues.
Unfortunately Fable 3 has Peter Molyneux written all over it. There was a time when his name written on a game could make people excited about the project. However... He has garnered a reputation of talking up the game and under delivering. Ambition is one thing, but devs working with him have gone on record stating that whole features to games were added after Molyneux promised to the press that they'd be in the final product. I would have loved for him to remain someone who occasionally over promises... But because of his most recent activities he has moved on fully to snake oil salesman.
But does that make fable a bad game? No, if it was a standalone title from a studio who we've never heard of. Hell it might even be a great game under that context. But as it is, the third Fable game... Let's just say there is a reason only Fable one got a remaster.
Nice game and fun
Weirdly enough, holding peoples hands was one of the things that make me enjoy this game the most. I love dragging people around on my random missions.
The first time I played Fable 3, I bought any items I really wanted, and then just poured All my money into buying every building, and setting the rent prices to just below average.
It kind of made a joke out of the entire major moral quandary of the latter half the game: Everyone loved me for providing them with low rent housing, and yet it Rained money on me to such a degree I could pick every "Good" choice, maintaining all my promises, telling Reaver to stick it, etc. etc., and still cleared the gold requirement with ease.
And it kind of left me questioning: How was my brother struggling with this? It felt so Easy to reach the required money, and that was with me actively turning down money.
EXACTLY, the worst part is, you either pick every single evil choice, or you will have to grind the rent system anyway. which is proof enough that this was a bad design. im not against gaming the system in my favor, but f3 clearly was a mess with no clear direction. the choices are also so cartoonily evil its astounishing how this guy can come here and say they "are not cartoonily evil", and then goes to show the NPC FOR THOSE CHOICES WHICH IS CLEARLY EXACTLY THAT.
at this point it felt like he was being sarcastic because there's no way someone can be this clearly out of touch. hell he even said it 2x that the npc is a caricature, and then how he didnt like he was the one for the evil choices because he was such a bad character.
If you raise the rent to maximum people will hate you. However if after you hit your money goal and before the final battle you lower the rent, the people love you again and completely forget why they hated you before
My greatest achievement in this game is that I played the Lute for hours. Literal hours to make enough money so I could make all of the good decisions and still protected albion.
I luted my country out of debt.
son, i am not disappoint. this was a very well produced, researched and spoken retrospective of the fable franchise.
Thanks Dad!
We are very proud of son
I positively adore Fable 3. It's a warm, comfortable game filled with beautiful locales. It's very easy to sit and play it, even if you haven't played a game in ages. It's exactly the sort of thing I need now that I work full-time, and I wish there were more games like it. But yeah I admit I've become a filthy casual in my middle-age.
You and me two. I love to boot it up, walk around, chill in some towns, and leave. The game even saves for us, it just asks to be played in small chunks.
It hot a lot of hate and I loved the first two, but I honestly really enjoyed this game a lot. I like the concept of a revolution and being royal from the start, I actually liked the sanctuary feature, I liked the humor, side quests, and graphics. And it’s a lot less glitchy than Fable 2 in my opinion. I like it a lot!
That's a very fair point
I feel honored that I found this channel in its early days. I will be able to brag about my son when he becomes a giant later on! Go son GO!
I give you full bragging rights Dad.
The most wholesome thing I've read in years lol
Hipsters still doing this?
boldly assuming this video essayist will climb the ranks of the massive stockpile that are video essayists
It seems retrospectives are becoming popular on RUclips, or at least channels diving deep into games are, so hopefully your channel pops off and you can make more videos and be able to take as much time as you feel you need
Soon Dad
my only memory of this game when i played it years ago was that I single-handedly saved the kingdom by hammering on an anvil for hours.
"I've been looking forward to this." -Count Dooku
From the time I was a child I remember watching my dad play fable on his laptop and making fun of the people together. "Chicken chasah!" Sadly he's been passed for the past few years so I love being able to look back on the good times fondly.
“Well if it isn’t ol’ chicken chaser!”
I gotta give props, I loved that initial cutscene of Logan monologuing. The first time you hear it it's like "I'm an evil tyrant drunk on power, if people don't do what I say they will die, I will see Albion destroyed before I surrender it" but then you meet the Crawler and the second watch of that cutscene is like "oh... woah double entendre" I love that, it was well done.
I love the Fable series and Fable 3 is soo easy to go back to multiple times.
Also, the intro chicken doesn't die. You actually see it escape the kitchen in the beginning when first go to the castle kitchen.
Bs, he was walking with the thing in his hand -_- that chicken dead bruh.
@@mikewil7571 no he's not? He walks back into the kitchen with his gun
@@mikewil7571 someone disagreeing with u is not trolling, grow up. And besides there's literally a scene where a black chicken runs out of the kitchen once u play as your character before you give your speech. If our character can survive getting shot at multiple times so can a damn chicken. So sorry, but you're wrong about the chicken being dead even if you're not wrong about the chef carrying him back into the kitchen.
@@existentialhoe7513 it could have been a different chicken/oversight by the developers? in the end of the cutscene it shows the chef holding the chicken (which looked very limp and dead) in his hand and whistling a tune.
@@oldmoney1022 bruh, chicken survives xd Some can argue it's different chicken, but it's not - every single chicken we see in prologue is white - just this one, particular one seen in the opening is black, and in prologue, right when we enter the kitchen with Elise, we can see black (dirty) chicken escape from the kitchen. Chickens in Fable universe are quite... durable animals xD
Peter Molyneux himself is such an interesting character in the scope of game devs. He might be a shameless NFT-peddling grifter now, but I believe back then he was a genuine visionary and truly wanted to bring something new and exciting to the gaming landscape.
I would agree with that, I think he ended up getting lost somewhere along the way though.
Peter Molyneux didn't even make Fable. He just own the company.
Peter Molyneux has been renowned for over-promising and downright lying since before the OG Xbox years. His grifting isn't new, by any means.
@@YourFavoriteSon1 It was probably all of that corrupting Microsoft money.
@@Almost_Genius
Overselling, sure. You could make the argument that he put a little too much salesmanship into his products from Spore onwards. But up to that point he never outright lied about what his aims and goals were, most you could say was that he got overambitious and tried to fly a little too close to the sun.
I think in recent years, as nakedly greedy and and shameless as publishers have become in trying to turn every game into a live service experience, it's become a trend and knee-jerk reaction to just hold every developer under a microscope and scrutinize each minute infraction they've ever made. All well and good for the Ubisoft's and EA's of today, but I don't think it's fair to hold a developer from the early 2000's to the same standard as today. The most egregious thing you could accuse Fable 3 of doing would be a slight oversell of the end product and going a little overboard on the $2.99 microtransactions, a far cry from transgressions we pretend to ignore whenever *[cürrent year game publisher]* shits out another annual installment Call of Battlefield's Honor.
Honestly when fable 3 came out I loved it and must have replayed it over 10 times
excellent work son. didn't expect this series to be done so quickly when you explained the format. turned out fantastic.
Thanks Dad!
How on earth do you only have 11k followers with this kind of production quality? Dude you're gonna be huge. Get ready for it!
Thanks Dad!
Yeah, it's kinda sad how Fable 3 stumbled. The potential was definitely there, but so many things ended being just too short of "very good". I liked the game at the time, and I still have positive memories of it, but, sadly, I can't see myself playing it ever again, considering how many others, better games are out there.
I actually prefer playing it over 2 because the story IMO was much better.
I do agree. I love the game, completed everything when it was game with gold many years ago, and completed it all again last year. I won’t play this game again because it’s so short and there’s nothing else to do, but that doesn’t make it bad, it’s amazing
@@dingle2987 yup, story was way more interesting, not to mention characters were better written, the biggest flaws 3rd one has is magic system (no more buff spells, conjuring etc) and fact that game is way, way too short and ends too fast the moment it gets really, really interesting. Fable: TLC was short but it was well written story, 3rd one seems to end the moment it gets interesting :/
Dude I've been waiting and wanting to see these kind of videos for Fable for AGES. I never thought someone would make them, and even if someone did I never thought they would be so good as this series you made. You're the best, amazing work!
I love Fable 3. The quests and sense of adventure are great, even if the choices don't always feel the best.
I do like the finale where you are the king and need to have enough money. It felt like a sort of moral if you failed, that being that not all good men know all the answers. An empty Albion is kind of sad to think about.
Not to mention the dead bodies of those you didn't have the money to save lying around after the war
You love this game? Go play Fallout: New Vegas. Don't hurt yourself on the good Game Design.
@@agooddaytorespawn57 Or I can just enjoy both games that I think are good.
@@Mr.Foxhat Fable 3 sucks ass idk how anyone can enjoy it
The first time I played this I was SO excited to be queen after all the lead up. Then the game was over in 30 mins and I got the bad ending… 😑 could have used some warning that the game was about to end after making like 5 choices.
I always forget the promise to Sabine is at the end, when in my mind it should have been the first promise kept. So I finish thinking I have saved all the gold needed then his comes up and I lose some to that and end up not saving maybe 20 percent of the kingdom. Doesn't sound bad until you see the bodies after the war and lacking the achievement
The chicken doesn’t die, when you come into the kitchen with the misses the black chicken runs out into the garden.
Interesting, I didn't notice that Dad!
@@YourFavoriteSon1 The chicken lives!🥰🐓
When I played Fable 3, on my first playthrough as a morally good character, as early as the game would allow me, I would just work as a blacksmith to earn money in order to purchase all of the properties available at the time. This allowed me to purchase all of the properties in other locations as soon as I discovered them, which I did. I always set the rent lower than normal, but, since I had prioritized buying property early in the game, I kind of set myself up for success by the time I became king and was able to make all of the morally good decisions without putting a dent in the amount of money that I had collected by that time. Then, and I realize that this was cheating, but, I had found a way to carry over my gold from previous playthroughs on new playthroughs, rather than spend all of the time doing the blacksmith minigame at the beginning to earn money. The problem that you run into is that you aren't allowed to have multiple characters in fable 3: if you want to start a new game, you have to destroy your old character. That is, unless you had an old-school xbox 360 as I did, which were the ones where the hard drive was a "snap in" on the side of the console and had 2 memory card slots. So, what I did was simple: I plugged a memory card into my console and moved my old fable 3 game data with the rich character to the memory card. I would then unplug the memory card and start a new game of fable 3. Once I got to the point where I could purchase properties and start working, I would turn off the console, unplug the hard drive with my new character, plug in the memory card with my old, rich character, and then load fable 3 back up. I would go to the same location where I had left my new character, and then I would start talking to any online fable 3 players that I could find in the town. When I got their attention, would then make a proposition: I was going to give them a crap ton of gold, and, if they waited for me in this exact spot for me to logout and log back in, I only wanted them to give me back half the gold I was about to give them. If they agreed, I would give them what probably amounted to 1/4 of my wealth (I don't think you understand how absurdly wealthy I was by this point, and I had to account for people just taking the money and leaving), turn off the console, unplug the memory card, plug my hard drive with my new character data, start fable 3, and find the user I had spoken to in the town. He would then give me half the money that I had given him as my old character. I only got screwed over once using this tactic (something I expected to happen really), but it allowed me to play other playthroughs as Richie Rich as early on in the game as humanly possible. It was pretty fun to abuse the game mechanics to do what shouldn't really be allowed!!!
I just made new profiles and used cloud saves for other save files. Not to cheat with money, but to collect other weapons.
No, you CAN have different characters and switch between them in the sanctuary.
I was able to have atleast 3 different characters on the same profile without the hard drive thing so what exactly are you talking about?
I remember doing a good playthrough and at the end choosing all the good choices. The game let me know I wouldn't have any gold left for the incoming war, but I didn't take that seriously. So after the main story was done, I was left with a completely dead game. There were basically no NPCs left, couldn't finish any of the side quests, nothing.
Sometimes I pray by the bedside for a Fable 2 release for PC. I don't even want a remaster, I just want to be able to play Fable 2 again without having to by an Xbox.
I actually rather liked the Crawler. Sure, it wasn't as cool as Jack of Blades. But big cosmic horror monsters are good.
Me too! On my first play through, escaping the Crawler in Aurora was one of the most memorable parts for me, the atmosphere was great and it was a challenge ...
... Better than the final fight with him possessing Walter 😑 that ending was a letdown.
I literally just 5 minutes ago finished your fable 2 video this is incredible timing
What a gem of a channel. Love what you’ve done with her son. You’ve made dad proud.
He gets it. The story and the fact that morality wasn't a choice between two thematic rewards, but instead has real weight... the game had such good ideas. Too bad there were so many systems. At least there WERE some boss fights! Can't call it a good game, but it's definitely a guilty pleasure. I truly believe this game was better than 2; broken systems at all. At least I didn't always transform into an over weight pirate that had to collect a human triforce to not get a single boss fight, or experience a morality system that did nothing.
I think some of the issues were very minor. Not being able to pick your emotes was lame, but outside of some mission they all did the same thing in terms of AI interaction anyway.
You lost me at better than 2. Fable 2 is my favorite.
i completely disagree. it is a thematic shoice, however, they are so completely far from each other that it feels forced. its either madre teresa or hitler. no middle ground. no third option with less good but also not monstruous.
the choices dont work because the game is so enamoured with the whole "you can make a good kingdom that will be destroyed or a hell hole that will survive" this is not a real choice, you need so much money, that if you were to do it as intended, you would pretty much have to go 100% in either direction.
it also doesnt help the manipulative BS, time skips between choices for no reason besides to force you into make the "hurd docison".
i wish there would be a fable 2 pc version
This is my favorite Fable game. So great. Wish it was longer.
Hey your videos are just as good as salt factories and that's the highest praise I could ever give someone please continue to make more of these videos
Love this series. Was a huge fan of fable. Really liked fable 3 how you could combine the powers. Love the content man keep it up!
I know, it does make sense in context ... but the bit at 3:05, basically amounting to "The last game was about King Arthur and Robin Hood, but THIS one is about monarchs and rebels!" does strike me as unintentionally amusing.
Thanks for making me want to play all these games again, only to find out Fable 2 and 3 are unplayable on PC without jumpingthrough hoops...
I was so excited for this game. In retrospect, it isn't horrible, but it promised so much more than it could deliver. A perfect example, they had a system to craft a personal weapon that would change based on the actions you perform. I never once got a different weapon, however, as one of the evolution prerequisites is to "kill 100 undead", which is statistically impossible NOT to do because the enemies in the academy are all undead. I tried waiting hours and hours before even buying one upgrade, and still got the same development as if I had upgraded right away. It's an awesome system that is legitimately broken.
Now I can be a proud father without even needing to be married. Good job son
That's what I'm here for.
There was a playwrite who DID mix comedy with tragedy! His name was Chekhov (from chekhovs gun). It wasn’t quite as depicted in fable 3. More the events in the play are so absolutely tragic/ ridiculous you can’t help but laugh.
Stanislavsky didn’t think they were funny so now every one interprets his plays as simple tragedies.
To be honest Son, Fable 2 is my favorite entry of the series. Fable 1 layed out the groundwork and has nostalgia charm as the first in the series. Fable 2 iterated on the formula and expanded on concepts. Fable 3 felt like taking one step forward and two back. I hope the franchise gets a proper fourth entry in the future, because thw world is interesting, charming and quirky in the best sense, there is nothing quite like Fable on the market.
I actually never ran into the money limit cause I just used smithing job for the cash. A couple of hours later and I was swimming in money. I heard that if you use the rent money from your properties, the money accumulated becomes even more. So there is that at least.
Thank you for these videos it was a great trip down memory lane
Fable is like that 3 headed dragon meme, where the 3rd head looks like it got dropped as a baby.... a lot.
What bothers me most about the King sections of the game is that it doesn't give you the option anyone with a brain would make. Oh we have 1 year to raise funds? In that case all my promises are on hold and taxes will go up, but only for one year. Once we defeat the darkness we can start to rebuild and make life better for everyone. All the leader know what is coming, I'm sure they will understand that we have to put a small delay into something for the kingdom to survive.
Also that final time skip was bull. No warning that your about to skip the next 100+ and just go straight to the end.
Watching Jimmy kiss that guy on stream was a golden moment. Well done, son.
Welcome done son. I'm very proud!
For some reason fable 3 has such a lonely and empty atmosphere for me theres just something weird about its atmosphere for me. Cool game either way not as good as the others but that wouldve been hard to achieve
I will always say, that scene at the end with Walter was VERY well done. The rest of the story had some very Meh moments, and only one or two stand out ones, but that one scene almost makes the whole journey worth it on its own. This man has been with you the whole time, you can interact with him at basically any point, and he survives the typical Mentor Occupational hazards throughout the game, points where he should have died to make you finish the adventure alone.
But it never comes to that. He always comes through, sometimes by the skin of his teeth, but he is not going to die quietly. So in the end, they force you to do it. They force you to kill him, the one opponent or hazard that could. And that speech at the end, a call back dozens of hours later is just fantastic, the voice acting capturing it perfectly. I don't know why this video popped into my feed, heck, the previous video I watched was on an SCP thing, but damn glad I chose to watch it, just for the reminder of how good that scene, and overall the game, was.
Heck, looking at it, Fable III was Fallout 4 before it came out. it striped the RPG side bare. But where Fallout 4 hooked you solely through exploration, which got dull if you realized how little there was to it. Here? It was seeing what was next in the plot, what locations it would send you to next, what weird and wacky thing would happen. And it never forgot that there was a dramatic core sending you on these adventures, so it kept the tonality it was going for, again, something Fallout 4 forgot to do, given how many people FORGOT who Shaun was before they met him.
Oh, and Understone came out before Traitor's Keep, and was a deliberate Homage to Bioshock, by the devs own admission(The loudspeaker announcements being inspired by Andrew Ryans stuff in Bioshock 1). That said, it's not a great thing, but it had the Clockwork body armor, and the Clockwork dog potions, one of 2 dog potions to change the dog's bark sound effect, the other being something yappier, while this was 'tinny' or 'brass' which I enjoyed a lot.
For me the advancement of time is what killed it for me, it was too modern and the magic both figuratively and literally was almost nonexistent. At the time my fear was that fable 4 would do away with it entirely.
That was definitely one of the biggest problems.
For me personally I wasn’t too upset, definitely hated the lack of crossbows and the lack of variety in magical/mythical enemies. I definitely am happy that the new fable game is going back because after 3, the games can’t go further ahead, it wouldn’t work.
What up son!!! Ive been waiting for some new stuff.. Ur dad appreciates it!
Pretty fun seeing game play from the stream in the video. Well done, son
Here's how I figured the choice between Elsie and the riot leaders with my morality: By saving Elise, the deaths of those people haunt me and I vow to make up for their deaths by being a great and kind king. By sending Elise to her death, I hate the world and Logan for taking her away from me, and my anger will be unleashed on the kingdom and how I rule
This game left me with despair as a kid. I hyped it up too much in my head and it ended up being…ok. I wouldn’t feel that way about a game until fallout 4 lol.
All your retrospectives are awesome! Great job in them. Especially one 1 and 3 because how you explain your thoughts on it really in the evil plays.
Personally 1 is my favorite 3 is second even though it bugged itself out so bad I couldn't progress my save everyone run. But I really didnt like the guns in 2 and 3. The old school, old style just sat better with me. Yeah it was dated but overall I though it was the most interesting.
With 3 alone, I also didnt like the gauntlet being why you did magic. Took away from the fantasy albeit only slightly. But still did. The mixing of skills was awesome though. Windstorm and blades was always a sight to behold. People flying up and getting obliterated by swords made me smile everytime.
I didn't like Fable 3 as much as the earlier ones. Starts well, but once you're on the throne you feel rollercoastered into a headlong rush toward the finish. The last third just isn't a joy to play.
Didn't have an issue with the combat, but I did find having to charge up magic not as conducive (IMO) to combat that utilised melee and magic, I preferred the immediate magic of fable 1, especially as regards force push.
I remember getting this and playing through the whole game in a night, slept through school the next day but it was worth it! Evolving weapons and mixing magic and sitting in a throne passing laws was great and I could do it all dressed as a giant chicken! Amazing 10 out of 10
I've been waiting for this since the Fable I video, never played the Fable II so that video didn't really click with me but really excited to watch this
I just kept working as a blacksmith and bought property and kept blacksmithing as the rent came in. It was a constant feedback loop until i had more than enough to pay off everything to save people. Then once i had an insane amount of gold i lowered the rent
you could even raise the rent to the max, everyone will hate you, and after you get the amount you could make it free and people will love you, so you know, so much for the "hurd chuices".
In Fable 1, we wanted to focus on myth, and folklore, like King Arthur and Robin Hood. Fable II was all about King Arthur and Robin Hood, and Fable III will be about monarchs (like King Arthur,) and rebels. Like Robin Hood.
Heck yeaaaa let's gooooooo! Been waiting for this one! Time to get the 🍿!
That chicken cutscene is still one of my favorite intros haha
Great video. Just finished the game and didn't realize it was an action adventure until you said it. you are absolutely right, and I appreciate the honest review with an open mind.
The part that really rubbed me the wrong way with this game in particular in the series is it keeps building up the entire time that you have 1 year and then with 100+ days left it just ends, I didnt have time the first time to really build up I assumed I would have a decision or two more and be able to quest more but no it just ends.
This caught me off guard playing this game for the first time this year because I work hard to avoid spoilers. Like, they can tell you to fix your affairs before going to aurora for an 8 minute mission but blindside you with the game finale. Can't believe this video didn't mention it.
This is such a good channel! I’ve watched your soul reaver vid too many times!
Why do you do this son? I have 3 assignments due by midnight.
Fable is way more important than school.
That's a loss of bandit territory you can buy. It's funny how easy it is to be good after being evil.
On my mostly good playthrough I saved the lover person saved them later from orphanage then was petty and turned the place of the guy who tried to take my lover into a whorehouse.
Everything looked bright but that one spot. Kinda regretted it.
That moment when your son keeps dropping banger videos time after time
You finished the trilogy. Good job son. You are ungrounded.
Finally
One of my favorite parts was, funnily enough, the crawler. As little time as he had, I felt like his lines and sequence when you meet him legitimately set him up to be a terrifying enemy. They just botched it by not utilizing him at all in the 2nd part of the game until his bossfight.
As is typical of me in a Fable game, I was the good guy... but I couldn't resist saving the love interest. I knew I was supposed to save the protesters, but I couldn't do it. So~ probably my favorite choice in the game. I like those hard decisions. Makes the choices feel more meaningful, and less black and white.
the worst part is, saving her is the right thing to do gameplay wise since she is probably the only unique marriable female npc in the game...
Son, this Mom is really proud. I wasn't really in agreement with your ME3 and MEA retrospectives but your Fable Content REALLY won me over. And hey, agreeing to disagree is still a thing, isn't it? Great job!!
My first playthrough at launch was as a good hero but I didn't have enough to stop the darkness and they killed most of my people. I also overwrote my saves so there was nothing I could do to salvage the playthrough. I put the game back in the case and didnt pick it back up for another year or so.
This was one of my favorite games because of its 2 player. I got to play it with my best friend and it meant the world to me.
Im proud of you son keep up the good work and keep doing what you're doing
ooh nice, the new year gift I was looking for.
man i laughed hard at 34:50 little did he know that touching viritual girlfriends would become an all time high demand
That chicken lived and I happen to love that opening lol
YAS anothet longform game analysis channel. Thank you gor making my week, gune be binging
I know nothing of Molyneuxs politics but I desperately wanted Nigel Ferret to be a mickey take of Nigel Farrage
I might be biased as it was the first Fable game I played, but I fricking LOVE Fable III. One of my favorite games ever
I love the fable series growing up
Quite the timing! I was looking for some good background noise
You're welcome Dad!
I’ve watched all these!! I love ur content bro.
i loved this game, but never played the first two, so i went in with few expectations other than knowing it was a legendary series. it's a great game on its own, people were just expecting a third Fable and not Fable 3.
this is the best way to put it
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Fable 3 is my favorite of all the Fables. I love the Industrial aesthetics, and how the story unfolds.
I love the fable series but the first fable is my favourite. Btw keep up the good work 😎
Not that it changes or implies anything, but the chicken shown at the beginning of the game didn't die. On any new game before walking into the kitchen with Elliot/Elise, you can see the soot covered chicken run from the kitchen.
Edit: I only know because thanks to your first Fable video, I decided to go back and play them myself. I was enthralled with nostalgia for a game I got to watch my own father play when I was a kid but not so blind as an adult to not notice it's very obvious flaws. A game I'd recommend everyone try for the experience but... One playthrough is enough
Hey, Son!
You dropped another one; let's go!
You prude, nothing better than holding hands with the homies.
i loved this game & the other 2 as well, i hope they actually make another one
My boy! You didn't disappoint! #3 hear.. We.. Go.
Oh boy, my favorite RUclips son
i still cry laughing when Walter screams balls, that alone made this one of my favorites
I ended up grinding the blacksmith and buying all the houses and then not going into the quest that starts the final stretch of the game. Then left my Xbox on and got my 6million . Not sure if there was an easier way but it felt good to have no one die especially without doing anything bad.
I started with cable 3 when i was a kid an absolutely loved it, after playing some of the 1ts one many years later I understand why some don't like it but I never understood the hate it got. It's a fun game 😂
There are a few things that annoyed me. Like how things like dying your clothes were locked behind both guild seals, AND dlc.
Another brilliant video, my dude! Thanks!
I love Fable, 1 and 2 especially. 3 was a bit weird and bit confused about itself, but I still enjoyed it for what it was.
I both loved and despised Fable III. I loved a lot of what they were going for, and I honestly didn't despair about the loss of RPG mechanics because I really liked building up a company of allies and taking the kingdom for myself. One of the ways I did this was literally buying the entire kingdom out from under Logan while gathering said allies, leaving him with just the castle before the final assult on Bowerstone.
What I despised was the "crusade against menus," as you called it. The constant, persistent "in-world interactivity" of it all was grating. Give me a more traditional menu system, please. Refine it and clean it up if you must, but give me menus nonetheless. I also despised the inability to "repair all" your owned properties. Instead, you have to go to each and every one of them individually, which was extraordinarily tedious.
A "perfect" Fable, in my mind, would be:
1. Fable III aesthetics, but updated for modern gaming.
2. A refined and paired down Fable I menu system. (It was a bit too much.)
3. A minimalist HUD to clean up the screen and allow the player to see and interact with the world unimpeded.
4. Much more vast, open world spaces to explore, akin to how The Witcher 3's world spaces were done. The Witcher 3's were done much the same as the Fable games' (and many others') were, with different world spaces scattered across a huge and largely unexplorable map. But each world space was large enough in its own right that you could explore each one to your heart's content.
5. Fable I's leveling and experience system. (The best of the three, and arguably the best of any RPG to date, in my opinion.)
6. Enemies dropping different experience orbs as in Fables I and II, but ALL of them being gathered authomatically during combat.
7. A synthesis of the best features of Fable II and III's combat systems.
8. The spells of Fables I and II, but with the ability to combine spells like in Fable III. (No gauntlets.)
9. The real-estate system of Fable III, but accessed via aforementioned refined menu system, and with a "repair all properties" function to address the tedium of having to go to each one individually.
10. New lands introduced and explorable, as Aurora was in Fable III.
You mentioned being a DM, and thus I've got to ask, have you tried out Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous (or Kingmaker)?
I would highly recommend them both, especially WotR. And if a video like this could happen some time in the unknown future, I sure as hell wouldn't mind that.
In all, very glad to find your channel. I enjoy your approach to these games a lot.
Love Kingmaker, havent played Wrath yet. I'll probably make videos on them in the future, or at least play them on stream.
@@YourFavoriteSon1 That "probably" fills me with joy. And although I'm not big on streaming, I might have to stop by if you do decide to stream them. :)
I Gotta say, Aurora was peak fable 3 for me. When i entered the temple i felt dread, when i saw the shadowmen I thought back to The shadowcourt and the cursed snowglobe in Fable 2. Finally uncovering the origins of these spectres and walking thru these temples felt really epic to me
Iv only recently found your channel, but it is a goldmine. Keep up the good work my son !
Also.. I found out that you get so much money if you build a brothel that you can uphold all the other promises and have good cash at the final stage… and what good does an orphanage do if you all die? If you built a brothel now and get the funds to fight and win, you can always build an orphanage later! Probably with the money pouring in from the brothel!
Holding court after becoming king was my favorite part of the game. It took me totally off guard on my first playthrough. It was easy enough to make all those promises , then I had to fulfill those promises while maintaining strength of the kingdom.
22:16 This is an Evil Dead reference