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  • In Fable 2 & 3 you could select the gender of your character, but that was it. Their appearance was then shaped by your karma etc. like in the first game.

    The trailers have used a female hero as the stand in, which, for some reason, people have taken to mean we don’t get to choose the gender or anything.






  • I’m all for the idea of Far Cry: Avatar, but I feel like I’m missing something in the gameplay trailer based on how positive the comments I’ve seen are. I thought the visuals were terrible! Particularly anything involving fire. Every time I saw an explosion, it looked like something I’d expect in a game from 10 years ago. The rest of the visuals were fine, but nothing special. Particularly compared to what was shown for AC: Mirage and the Star Wars game.

    I’m not usually such a stickler for the visual quality of a game (although it’s always nice) because it’s far from the most important aspect. However, the visual effects in the films are phenomenal and their most defining characteristic, so it’s a bit disappointing when the game looks so basic. The story trailer also stood out to me as being very clunky and poorly edited, but I’ll give them the benefit of doubt due to the amount of exposition they had to convey.


  • eman_sdrawkcabtoGaming@beehaw.orgFable Teaser
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    2 years ago

    The main appeal of Fable is the setting and the tongue in cheek (black) humour. The original game’s world is mostly inspired by fairy tales (the darker versions) but also has lots of silly things. The world has a Hero’s Guild, which trains everyone that has the ability to do magic etc, and through which normal people can hire heroes to do quests. Heroes can be good or bad and this is reflected in your appearance (e.g. a halo or devil horns). It also changes based on your combat focus, with melee turning you into The Rock and magic making you look like Saruman.

    The second game is set hundreds of years later after the heroes have mostly died out and is very Dickensian. I don’t think the setting fits the concept quite as well as the original’s, but gameplay is much sleeker, you gain a dog companion, and Stephen Fry’s in it.

    The third game is similar to the second, but attempts to be more epic and cinematic.