[Kay]

I'm glad I didn't buy it and only "rented" it. I played about ten hours of it before I decided to play Fallout New Vegas instead and still haven't had the urge to try it again. I will probably get around to finishing it, since I already started, but I certainly won't be purchasing it.

[treelo]

Xani, on 29 October 2010 - 04:41 PM, said:

You can wear 2 gauntlets, and therefore have 2 spells...
There never really was any character customisation in the first place >.>
Obviously. It's the game's third episode... They wouldn't get rid of the mobs that made it so famous in the first place. Anyway, there are Sand Furies and those Darkness creatures.
Or do what everone else with a brain does and farm a bit of gold and buy real estate and make a crap-tonne of gold that way, every 5 minutes.
Fable has always been that way. Stop whining.

As far as I'm aware, you can only cast one spell at any time, the two gauntlets combine each spell to form another.
There is plenty of customisation. Alignment, clothing, weapons, hair, etc, etc.
Agreed.
Or do what the genuinely intelligent people do and open the demon door with a million gold in rather than waste time playing dull, laggy minigames.
It's called progress, you should be whining more.

All that aside, I enjoyed it. I'm rather disappointed to be done with practically all the content on my first playthrough though. Barely ten hours on the clock and I'm Queen, own every house/store/stall, have most the demon doors open, and a handful of quests left to do. Having taken almost every positive choice offered to me as regent I'll have more than enough cash to fund the army myself and still have maxed out evil alignment. The only thing I can see taking any great deal of time is finding and upgrading all of the weapons.

Speaking of weapons, I was rather miffed to find the evolving weapon system to be a huge mystery. The hammer I haven't touched has altered itself based on a variety of seemingly random criteria. With only 112 magic kills (I've barely cast a spell since gaining access to the weapons) I find my sword to have been mutated by my skill in combat magic despite having nearly ten times more melee kills and five times more ranged kills. Not to mention it randomly selected wolves to decide the colour of the weapon itself. Meanwhile, both ranged weapons are largely untouched by my gameplay, only the grip has changed and both of those are hollowman-related. It doesn't really make a lot of sense. The legendary weapons are a lot better, actually giving you set targets to achieve (regardless of how ridiculous some of them are.)

Being forced to play with other people to buy everything is a pain as well.

Generally the game is good, but there is still a lot of room for improvement. If any other RPG ended in ten hours I'd be raging uncontrollably, but I never really expected it to last that long.

[Varizen]

Admittedly, that is a much better plan. The minigames in Fable were always lame and not practical. In 2, I'd just get rank 5 smith, and then start buying houses. Plus if you don't mind being corrupt, you can cake money faster still.

[treelo]

Your alignment doesn't really mean shit in Fable 3. After slaughtering practically an entire village to upgrade a weapon, my vast property empire meant I could comfortably afford to make every improvement to the kingdom, not to mention the inescapable positive alignment gains donating to the treasury gives you. While the entire nation despised me for ramping their prices and rent up to full, I was still considered a just ruler when the end came around, this was swiftly rectified when I found even more weapons that required my moral standing to take a sudden nosedive.

I was rather upset when I found that nobody would dare retaliate as I charged around the castle slaughtering guards. While the servants were quick to realise their number was up and ran for cover, the unshakably loyal soldiers would cheerfully salute and mumble imperialist slogans as I waved my pistol in their face charging up yet another flourish. I understand that I'm the Queen and all, but no doubt if the Queen ran around Buckingham Palace mortally wounding people someone would do something.

All that is left for me to do is complete some of the lengthier upgrades, and watch my wealth accumulate. In case you hadn't noticed yet, take a close look at the recess above your pile of cash in the sanctuary. Won't be too long before I can get up there.

The "freedom" granted to you in co-op is somewhat misleading as well. My plans to randomly join games and buy up every weapon were swiftly scuppered when it became obvious you're limited to operating in the same zone as your partner, and are essentially rendered unable to act should they need to visit their sanctuary for any reason. A far cry from the functionality good ol' Pete boasted about.

Still, it's been entertaining enough to see me slaughter nearly 3,000 hollow men amongst other things.

[Varizen]

I haven't actually played 3 yet

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. I understand that I'm the Queen and all, but no doubt if the Queen ran around Buckingham Palace mortally wounding people someone would do something.

I dunno... She's so pleasant and polite, I could forgive her for anything. You do paint a beautiful image to imagine, however.