Zero Punctuation: Fable 3

[Aptspire]

Glad someone video-discussed the Shoggoth
and yes, it is a shame Molyneux decided to go have a drink at a Morality Bar

 

[DarkhoIlow]

Glad to see this one reviewed finally!

I'm wondering if we PC owners will get a chance to play Fable 3 this year.

 

[Krythe]

Ugh... soooo much Yahtzee fan-wank ITT.

I think the ideology during your time as king was to give a feel for the pressures of ruling a kingdom. And the whole good/evil thing is explained as how the world percieves you rather than what you actually are, I just wish your character appearance didn't change accordingly.

That said, the non-Crawler-related quests are kinda slapdash. Fetch-quest missions are just retarded, and who the hell thought the Sanctuary was a good idea?

As for the explain-crawler-attack strategy - it's kinda farfetched that they'd believe that (Also, if Albion's anything like Europe, it's probably full of leftist nuts who'd want to try and negociate with it.)

 

[Ruptuk]

Mark Heap is an amzing actor! /Doffs caps

Though his choice of 'Lark Rise to Candleford' confuses me, awful show.

 

[Nixzilla]

he expressed everything i felt

 

[emusega]

I dont't own any xbox, so I couldn't care less if the fable games are good. But since they enabled another awesome zp rant I'm glad they exist, no matter if they wook pwetty

 

[Warachia]

They really need to come up with moral choice systems that don't use the words GOOD and EVIL or any of the synonyms. Good/Bad, rightous/evil, paragon/renegade, sunshine-flowers/darkness-sins of the flesh. i don't think these cover all the bases... Wait let me restate; We know these do not cover all the bases. Moral choice meters and moral choices are a good thing to have but i think they need to more than binary. i think there are many way to implement a system i think game developers are being lazy.

example
Respect
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Rightous----|----Evil
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|
Fear

See? came up with that in less than five minutes. as a king or ruler or leader or whatever this should be your meter... in fact this should be your meter as any famous adventurer person with access to guns, swords, area of offense spells, biotics, or massed forces of destruction. And even more so you add a Z axis and/or an alpha axis (i think thats what a four dimensional axis is called, honestly idk). I don't know i'm no game designer but i feel that by simply adding another axis to a moral choice meter would make stuff more deep open and less idiotic.

Hey, that's pretty good, mind if I start a discussion based around your idea?

 

[hutchy27]

I disliked the new shop interface, seriously now shops only have about two or three items each with they show on a cushion? 0_0

 

[Cyanide Christ]

I've been waiting for this since... November! Thought this day would never come, funny review as always by the way (one of the best for a while imo).

Well, considering the current situation in Australia I can see why Yahtzee holds a grudge against large bodies of water.

 

[zHellas]

Awh man... thats EXACTLY how I felt while playing it. NO ONE UNDERSTANDS the reasons for you making your 'evil' decisions..

Well when there are normal everyday citizens that honestly would probably be not very well educated, they'll most likely think you're lying or not understand when you try to explain that there's this evil black demon/monster thingy that'll kill us unless I get 6 million in Gold.

Or they'll believe you since they might be superstitious, but since magic has pretty much disappeared from the world they might not believe it either.

 

[Warachia]

My name is Marty McFly and that was a great review.

A comment to a 5 minute review within 1 minute of it being posted?
Why not just write 1st?

Anyway, must be china, they don't care about human losses that much. ( ≖‿&#8790

Marty McFly, Back To The Future, time travelling? jesus christ you must be like 13 or so

some references are clever, and some aren't, I would ask why marty mcfly got in the delorian, flew to the future, then came back, to post a comment when all of the above would've taken half an hour of his time.

 

[JSkunk22]

It's strange, he harps on Final Fantasy XIII for "horrible" choices like walking TOO LOUDLY or the battle system, yet for this game he doesn't mention the atrocious Sanctuary bullshit or how you pretty much have to use magic or guns to not make even combat into a total chore.

 

[Sniper Team 4]

I enjoyed this game up until the final battle. I actually did what he said. Played the lute till I had enough money, bought a store, used the profits to buy another store, and so and and so on. I ended up owning every single building in the entire world. 13 million in the treasury, 7 million in my own pocket. I was set. Then the final boss came. I was expecting some epic battle, and instead I fight just another bandit. Yes, I know it wasn't an actual bandit, but he moved the same and used the same attacks. It was such a let down that I haven't picked the game up sense. From what I understand, Fable II's boss battle could be won by not doing anything. If true, Fable The Lost Chapters is the only game that apparently knows what a final battle should be like. Epic.

 

[JUMBO PALACE]

Yeah the sudden jump to the ending was just baffling. I was on board until that. Then I just got pissed off.

 

[Cousin_IT]

Doesn't sound like I'm missing much, then. Will probably pick it up if/when I can find it for £20 or less, as I found the previous Fable games okay for at least one playthrough when playing with a budget game mentality, & having forgotten every promise Molyneux made about it (I'm convinced he is gamings George Lucas)

 

[Cid Silverwing]

Thank fuck you got that outta the way. I was hoping it would get the beating it so richly deserved and Peter Molyneux is a big fat liar.