Fable III wasn't THAT bad... was it?

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TheYellowCellPhone said:
I liked the combat, it was a mix between action and a slow realistic approach (sort of like Arkham Asylum but less show-offy). But it was, as everyone said, horribly easy.

Minigames and sidequests and NPC interactions were incredibly unnecessary and unfun. You never want to do them, unless you want to progress the game because of the 'you need x amount of points to continue'.

Environments were small and empty, they were jokes in liveliness compared to most other RPGs. NPCs are especially horribly forgettable.

Customization was a joke, because clothing has no purpose besides look -- nothing changes armor rating -- and because clothing and weapons are expensive as balls anyway, you never go use anything but your default "Hero" weapon that levels up with you, and you look the same the entire time. (Want that hat? Costs you 30,000 gold, or roughly 35 minutes of doing a minigame perfectly. No, I'm not joking.)

There's more, but I forgot it. I stopped the game around the time you usurp your brother and learn of the evil force, I stopped entirely.
I find it incredibly hilarious that you complain the game was too easy, yet you couldn't figure out how to get money. It's entirely possibly to get millions without ever touching the minigames in 3.
 

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piinyouri said:
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tippy2k2 said:
Are you just repeating what Yahtzee used in his review or did you have a similar experience?

If it was yours, is that time skip thing a glitch that happens, or the way the game is supposed to function?
That's how the game is supposed to function. There is no warning of any kind, and the only way to not lose is to know about the time skip before hand.
That then, is fucking terrible and certainly would have soured my thoughts a bit toward the game had I got to that point.
The worst part is that despite the time-jump the system is still broken and abusable. Rent is payed based on out of game time, rather than how the days at the end proceed, and there is no real downside to just jacking your rent prices all the way up. Within a couple hours of play I essentially owned a city, put my feet up and made money hand over fist to just donate to the cause while still making every disgustingly saccharine moral choice.

Apparently me, Yahtzee and most of the internet managed to figure that one out independently, so you can imagine how obvious it was at the endgame.

There were still some decent parts of the game, there is a part where you wander through desert caverns and the desert itself in the darkness and while going blind while shadow monsters try to murder your ass. Of course wind gauntlet + fire gauntlet AoE threw so much light and fucked so much shit there was never any sense of gravity or danger to the situation.
 

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Adeptus Aspartem said:
I've not played it. Fable 1 was brilliant, Fable 2 was meh... so was #3 worse or better than #2?
Only you can answer that, as it's definitely down to personal opinion.