Fable 3 vs. Fable 2 sales here!

[Shadowblind]

toastboy44562 said:

Shadowblind said:

FireBringer said:

Practically the same sales... Not very good, they were expecting a much bigger increase.

Considering how Fable 3 was in relation to Fable 2, I think they should consider themselves lucky.

Fable 3 had lots of good ideas that just weren't done well enough. If MS gives Lionhead more time with Fable 4, I think it'll be the best of them all though. As it stands now I see Fable 2 >>> Fable > Fable 3.

i think fable 3>>>fable 2
never plated fable 1

i just dont like the health thing in fable 3. but the story and gameplay is a lot better

To each his own, but I'll still give my 2 cents on it.

First off, and probably most important to me personally . . . they took waaaay too much of Fable 2's amazing fairy tale color and look away from the game. I loved how bright and glowing Fable 2 looked, and Fable 3 in comparison just looked too . . . normal.

The story in Fable 3 was great but it's execution wasn't. Cut-scenes lacked emotion, scale, and characterization. By the end of the game half the main characters could have died and I wouldn't have cared. Your character talks probably 15 times throughout the whole game, and the possible romance with Elise/Elliot is seriously lacking in any sense of emotional attachment. Cut scenes feel rushed and don't have enough dialogue. I certainly don't want MGS4's painfully long cut-scenes, but I wouldn't mind them being longer, developing the characters more.

Unlike Fable 2, there really wasn't anything interesting about the new spells. In Fable 2, you could make chains of at least five different spells-- I'd always stop time, raise dead, stop time with level 3, and then create a level 5 lightning that would obliterate everything. You just can't combo like that in Fable 3 with spells when you can only mix, at best, two spells at once. I also found the animations for spells to be less then impressive.

Melee combat has never really been particularly impressive, but I found flourishes less interesting. That said, I barely ever used melee in either games. But only having two distinct types of weapons-- sword and hammer-- got rid of my neurotic desire to try out tons of different weapon types and my desire to hoard great varieties of items.

Gun combat is about the same.

I'll go on if you want, but . . . at least being king was kind of cool. Not a bad game at all- just not as good as Fable 2 and tons of missed opportunities, imo.