Fable: The Lost Chapters

**Alexanderofmacedon** · 11-13-2005, 21:56

If you haven't heard the makers of Fable have created a new game with the first game base, but tons of new content. I went to a friends house who had bought the game to find that it really wasn't worth what they price it as. There is a chicken kicking game which is pretty funny as well as the thing that strikes me as odd the most; the mushroom as drug theme.

Just playing in the first two hours of the game I found as he played at least ten times refrences to people losing their 'shrooms' and people who saw 'the trees with little chocolate legs running around'. A lot of the new quests are finding these people their shrooms. In a rediculous way, it's very good. It's funny and it made us laugh for a long, long time.

Unfortunetly though, if you have the game don't go buy this one. It's NOT worth the money...

Just a heads up

**Fragony** · 11-14-2005, 10:55

Fable was fun while it lasted, it had a great vibe but it was over too soon. Maybe I'll pick up the lost chapters when the price drops, can never have enough of a good thing.

**Syxx_Killer** · 11-14-2005, 16:38

Originally Posted by Alexanderofmacedon

Unfortunetly though, if you have the game don't go buy this one. It's NOT worth the money...

I don't think the first one was worth it to buy. I got suckered into it and preordered it from EBGames. It came with a cheap bonus disc. The game was easy, and to predictable. I never did find anyone I could unload it on.

**Fragony** · 11-14-2005, 18:10

Originally Posted by Syxx_Killer

I don't think the first one was worth it to buy. I got suckered into it and preordered it from EBGames. It came with a cheap bonus disc. The game was easy, and to predictable. I never did find anyone I could unload it on.

Awwww it has it moments, I loved the hero cult thing, boasting and everything, brilliant. All in all it was just not enough, but still a very good game once you realise you weren't given what they promised you. Despite being a HUGE dissapointment, it is a very fun game that is worth every minute of playtime invested.

**Sasaki Kojiro** · 11-27-2005, 01:24

Just played through the main quest, I think the game is awesome.

It isn't long and boring like morrowind or most rpgs. People say it's too short, but the game is easy enough that you don't have to spend mindnumbing hours trying to get your skills high enough to take on the monsters in a certain quest, and since you can teleport most places you don't spend hours walking from place to place. There isn't any of that annoying stuff like running out of arrows or having finite space in your inventory.

The monsters are great. Some of them are HUGE, like monsters are supposed to be. And there's enough variety, some of them will drop from the trees fight and jump back up again, others cast spells at you and summon scorpions to attack you while flying around in the air, the trolls throw rocks at you and bury themselves in the ground.

You don't have to spend much time selling random stuff you picked up in dungeons because usually you only find money, and there are only 4 tiers of weapons so your current ones will last you long enough.

The quests were great fun, there was a distinct lack of "go kill all these creatures in the cave and return to me the small, pointless bit of metal in the innermost chamber, so that you have an excuse to kill enough monsters to level up". Oh, and you can't save your progress during a quest, which definitly added to the tension.

The boss battles were excellent, reminded me a lot of zelda, it's not immediatly obvious how to kill the boss since it is so much more powerful than you.

The spells are cool, the lightening looks awesome and there are interesting spells like "slow time". I didn't put enough points in magic to be effective with it though.

I haven't even looked into the character appearance/npc interaction/side quests part of the game since I was intrigued enough by the main story to play right through...which I was able to do, unlike in say morrowind, where the optional quests weren't actually optional, you had to do them to get your level up high enough.

**Lehesu** · 11-27-2005, 04:12

I am happy because I hedged my bets by not purchasing the original when it came out for x-box. Now, I got the upgrade at a bargain price.

**TinCow** · 12-02-2005, 11:32

It was entertaining for a short while until I realized there wasn't really anything to do. The game prides itself on being totally free and allowing you to live a life where you deside the fate of the hero. This isn't remotely true. Nothing you do every has any impact at all on the game world. It's pretty much just hack and slash with a very customizable character. Once I realized this, I couldn't be bothered to keep playing.

**Syxx_Killer** · 12-02-2005, 17:59

Originally Posted by TinCow

It was entertaining for a short while until I realized there wasn't really anything to do. The game prides itself on being totally free and allowing you to live a life where you deside the fate of the hero. This isn't remotely true. Nothing you do every has any impact at all on the game world. It's pretty much just hack and slash with a very customizable character. Once I realized this, I couldn't be bothered to keep playing.

That's a big gripe of mine, too. It always bothered me to see on the back of the package "For every choice - a consequence." The only consequence, if anything, is a few good or evil points. You can easily reverse the affect, if any, if the points weren't the desired outcome.