Even the final battle is a short and dull hack-n’-slash section followed by an unimpressive boss fight. You visit only a few places, and fight only a fraction of the types of enemies that Fable is known for. Fable II felt like a real adventure across all of Albion, while Fable III feels incredibly limited. The rest of the game is just Fable II, but far less epic in scale.
It seems Lionhead “fixed” things that didn’t need fixing, and refused to touch anything that was legitimately broken. There was no reason to change it, and the change has only been for the worse. The old system wasn’t very realistic, but it was quicker and far more respectful of one’s time than this. You also need to perform a stupid fetch-and-carry quest for every single person you want to befriend. In Fable III, you can only emote to villagers one at a time, performing the same tedious animations for them until they like you. In previous games, you could emote in various ways and the surrounding NPCs would react to you. Similarly cumbersome changes have been made to the socializing system. Apparently it was too convenient to just hit Start, select the clothing option, and put on the damn hat. If you want to equip a hat, for example, you have to load the Sanctuary, enter the clothing room, walk to the mannequins, find the right mannequin, select the mannequin, select the hat, and then finally wear the hat. Instead of going to a menu screen to equip items, select quests, and check character progress, pressing Start now takes you to a “Sanctuary” full of rooms that you must manually enter in order to do anything.
For a start, there are no real menus in the game. These were very apparent problems in Fable II and the fact that nobody thought to fix them is really unacceptable.Īs if that wasn’t bad enough, Fable III suffers from some unbelievably poor design choices that take the previous game’s ideas and makes them more awkward and tedious. In fact, AI all around is completely worthless, with enemies that provide no challenge and NPCs that will constantly get in your way. Your faithful dog still has zero intelligence whatsoever, and will often jerk around in spastic circles instead of leading you to the treasure it insists is there. The glowing trail one uses to find important locations is still broken, freaking out whenever a player switches direction or just randomly disappearing altogether. Even worse, the game hasn’t bothered to fix any of the previous game’s problems.
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