Man... nostalgia done got me all goofed up.

I recall playing this game waaaaaaaay back in the day on the Xbox. At the time, I recall it being quite a unique experience. A game where you can choose to be good guy or a bad guy and pretty much bend the citizens to your will or make them love you with low rent prices.

Well, 20 years goes by and my God... this game hasn't aged well. Somehow, I find myself liking Fable 2 way more than this game and Fable 2 has its own troubles and problems.

But Good God man.... I was forcing myself to play through this game. By the time I got to the end, I was done. I was just like "How much more of this garbage is there?" Between the clunky ass combat, the boring as hell story, the diminishing returns of constantly using magic or dealing with the chunky sword swings, ugh... it got so old.

People like to complain about the second game getting rid of a lot of spells that this game had, and well, I see why they were gotten rid of - there's so much bloat! Like this is Peter Molyneux throwing every single idea he had and just seeing what stook. It feels unfocused.

Graphically, it's okay. This remaster is largely a graphical improvement, but even so, I think they didn't do enough. It still has some remnants of being a game made in 2004. Which is interesting because a game like Metal Gear Solid 3 and Resident Evil 4 (which came out just a year later) still hold up in their remastered versions here on Steam and I would argue the graphical face-lift they received was much less drastic as this one. The OG Fable looks so fugly - and maybe that's the point - like its supposed to look ugly as a joke, but man, kinda hard to get into your character being the super awesome king of the land when he looks like a dork.

I think a lot of the praise for this game comes from people who just enjoyed leveling their character up and experiencing the feeling of becoming an overpowered medieval badass in the OG game and wanted to experience that all over again here. I'm not gonna say its nostalgia goggles because that is grossly overlooking the genuine passion that some people have for this game - but I do think that if you realistically compare this game with other RPGs that have come and gone, this one sits fairly in the pile of mediocre ones.

Personally, I'd prefer playing Fable 2 over this and I'm surprised that game or 3 have not come to Steam yet. I wouldn't say 2 or 3 are great games either (especially not the third one), but at least 2 felt more, well, finished ("finished" used loosely there as these games have so many damn bugs, it would make Bethesda weep). I don't know. I feel the Fable series in general just kinda needed some extra help that Lionhead was incapable of. Always kinda felt like the British Bethesda.

Here's hoping that the new game in the works actually becomes something good (the trailers have me worried, but I am cautiously optimistic for at least a competent RPG if nothing else).

Old and nostalgic. I am guessing you wouldn't like it if you didn't have fond memories of it.

Arseface here