I Got Fable Last Night ! (spoiler Beware)

[Whizard97]

My EB Games called me at work last night at 7:16pm to confirm I can pick up my already-paid-for copy of Fable !!!

So I played it for 5 hours last night.... and... It's GREAT....

You start off as a boy in Oakvale and your dad says he'll give you a gold piece for every good deed you do.... I see a chicken in front of me so I start kicking it around.... I kicked it near the boy's father and accidently punched him.. (Uh Oh) He says "Don't you DARE hit your father... control your temper... " and lo and behold, my first bad deed... it was an ACCIDENT!! Oh well...

So I go up to a house with closed doors and hear a couple out back talking "sweet" talk, it's a guy cheating on his wife... he gives me a gold piece to 'keep my mouth shut' so I take the gold piece with every intention of turning him in... oh no, another bad deed.... so I go off exploring... wouldn't you know it... a guard comes running up to me shouting "There's the little swine.... " he states I've assualted and been an accessory to lewd behavoir between a man and woman... as I walk off he states "Today juvenile delinquent... tomorrow, bargate prison!" I just laugh to myself...

TO BE CONTINUED.....

[Whizard97]

So there I was in Oakvale... I found the cheating husband's wife... told her about her husband... alas... good deed... I beat up on a bully picking on a smaller kid... another good deed and he gave me a teddy bear which supposedly belongs to his sister... eventually I found the sister and gave her the bear.. another good deed... then walking along I was asked to watch over some barrels... no problem... then a kid comes along and says I should smash them... I just punch the kid in the face... then after I get rewarded with a good deed... he tells me I'm a sissy... ?? Well I punch him in the face again, breaking his nose and he runs home crying to mama... NOBODY calls ME a sissy!

I return to dear old dad who gives me money to buy a gift for my sister... I also find the cheating husband and his wife going at it... quite funny... So I buy the gift from a trader, a box of chocolates... I give to my sister and she says she foretold my giving her chocalate in her dream... hmmmm psychic maybe?

then all hell broke loose and bandits killed everyone in the town including dad and apparently mother and sister as well...

I'll stop here and just say that Fable so far has been a really good experience the sword and bow training is excellent... the combat system IS reminiscent of the N64/Gamecube versions of zelda... but that's not a bad thing... I like that system better than morrowind's... just my taste....

Happy Fabling gamers!

[FB-Gollum]

Good point, there is a definite Zelda influence.

[Whizard97]

Well I actually like the zelda style combat system since it is a third-person perspective like Zelda... So Fable is actually an action-RPG in the same way as Zelda... But unlike Zelda, there are appearance modifications and you can actually be a terrible person unlike Nintendo's cutesy approach.