It is up to you to decide if you can cope with the onslaught of those incidents that are called Destiny. In a third-person role-playing game, we have to face a world in which the main character grows up in a real fairy tale, and the word "grows" is the most appropriate one. This is a simulator, RPG, action game in which you will develop in accordance with the perfect deeds.
For example, if you agree to kill several monsters, but before that you ate heavily on meat that was cooked with spices, then your Cooking ability will increase, but in the morning your character will feel bad because he overeat. Yes, he will cope with monsters, because you can cope with the character, but such a situation will show once and for all that every action must be thought out. The game is diverse in its gameplay. There is no usual sandbox, where each skill must be pumped to make it more convenient to survive.
There is no constant collection of items to sell. Yes, you will receive money from completing tasks or killing monsters, but the usual "farming" will not be. With the money received, you can buy houses, furnish them with furniture, buy food, new equipment. You can also buy books and learn combinations of blows, spells and everything that may come in handy in battle, because this is still an action RPG.
The main factor in the game is good and evil. Good deeds bring you reputation, personal peace of mind, a halo over your head. The bad ones - wife violence, beating children, helping demons - will make your look evil, and people will bypass you..
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Over time, your actions will start to impact upon your character's appearance. Enjoy picking fights and stealing stuff? Then watch as your character's skin turns pale, horns start to protrude from your forehead and flies gather around your napper.
Prefer helping out the locals? Then your skin will start to glow, you'll get a halo and faint butterflies will encircle you.
While the story progresses through the completion of the main missions, there's tons of extra content to be found too: fist-fighting, grave-digging, property development, card games and getting drunk to name a few. Of course, you could just get pissed down your local, come home, throw up and badger your partner for sex. Just like real life really.
Everything looks pretty tasty too running through the upgraded graphics engine and Lionhead's seen right to not only give the graphics a swift boot up the arse, but also extend the improvements to new spells, expressions, missions, regions and more. These aren't just crappy tacked-on extras either - an in-game brothel where you can choose to man-whore yourself out for extra moolah and a massive extra section based after the end of the original are just some of the fantastic extensions to the tale.
One of Fable's most refreshing facets is its attempt to tell an RPG tale in a lighter and more humorous style than normal.
Its use of strong British accents, bizarre side quests magic mushrooms anybody? Having so far sung its praises, we should mention the drawbacks too. If you play games just for the challenge, you'll be disappointed - Fable's not set to tax either your grey matter or your fingertips although the 'lost chapters' at the end definitely provides much more of a task. Also, despite having the extra third, it's still a tad on the short side for an RPG.
Morrowind's endless expanses this definitely is not. Fable may not have reached the lofty heights of Molyneux's original vision, but the result is still a hugely amusing and entertaining waylo fritter away the hours. If you're looking for a highly polished RPG in which to exorcise your inner demons and kick defenceless farmyard animals , Fable tells the right story.
It's Always a pleasure to chat with Lionhead, so this month we were delighted to get together with Guildford's finest development house to hear the tall tale behind Fable: The Lost Chapters, one of the studio's most hilarious and bumpkin creations. We put on our robes and wizard hats to take council with brothers Dene Carter designer, left and Simon Carter lead coder, right , the minds behind all the brothels, phallic hedges and chicken football of Albion Dene: "When Simon and I were kids, we were kicking around the idea of something we called 'The Game'.
This was going to be an RPG where you could do pretty much anything you wanted in the entire world, including taming your own horses and mixing your own potions from everything.
In short, it was just ridiculous. Simon: And very, very dull! Dene: "Imagine Morrowind, but multiply the dullness by an ultralarge factor. It wasn't on any specific platform, the idea was just 'The Game' in our heads and it kept moving onto whatever platform we were on next.
That'll be perfect'! Dene: 'There were frankly buckets of really stupid ideas we had throughout the development of Fable -, things like chicken-kicking competitions and brothels. The nice thing with Fable is it's the sort of game where, when you have an idea or when you think about something in the normal, everyday world that strikes you as a bit ridiculous, you can think, 'I wonder what that would be like in Albion?
Dene: In a stern voice "We'd like to feel that Fable has a very deep, philosophical message. It's actually ripping the piss out of the culture of celebrity greatly. We really liked the idea that these heroes were frankly, stupidly blown-up, horrible characters you'd find in Hello! Simon: "We were watching a lot of Big Brother" Dene: "We were trying to differentiate the accents so that the country yokels were very obviously overt country yokels.
So we took the most strong, unpleasantly horrible regional country accents we could and blew them out of all proportion, so you really knew who you were supposed to care about and who was a clapping monkey. They were all caricatures intentionally though, so if ever I visit Northumberland, for example, I hope there's not a gang of pissed off people gathered outside my hotel Simon: "I think if yon were to ask our artists, the bit they were most pleased they jot away with was the topiary cocks.
Basically, it was late and they were a bit pissed off that they were working late, so they decided to make things sha ed out of penises". Simon: "Yeah, I think they're actually in the north part of Bowerstone. But if you asked them on another day, they'd just say that it was in fact a complete accident and there's nothing even remotely phallic about the shape of those bushes. Dene: "We were trying to be extremely politically correct with Fable, in that we were very proud of being one of the first games where you could have a gay relationship.
By default, the code was obviously politically correct in that you could get married to anybody and have sex in the game. So we then went down the route of thinking that if you're a man and there are sex scenes where you can have sex with your wife, then there should be sex scenes where you can have sex with your husband as well.
So we dropped it without a second thought. Simon: "Originally, we thought we'd only put about three or four days into it and then Adam - one of our brilliant artists - came back and had completely made over the brothel. The fabric that's in there at the moment is this obvious porn-palace kind of look - in fact, we originally had a flashing sign that had 'GIRLS! Then, when it came to scripters, they put a similar level of love and respect into it.
We originally had them as generic GM-style brothel women; characterless, with standard lines for all of their interactions. Then we ended up with a page script, and I thought 'My god, you've given these characters more background than any of the heroes'! So I think that at the end of a game, Peter thinks, 'I know what will make this better - a brothel'! Dene: "We had many problems with the prison. We started off with the whole prison outbreak tiling, referencing things like The Count Of Monte Cristo and various other bits.
It was supposed to be a very dark, very serious and very moving part of the game, but we realised that we'd created such a strange, silly bird of a game that it didn't quite work. Every single time we tried to get very leaden and moving like: gravelly voice 'I've been here now for Ten whole years," we just started giggling because it's just a very silly game. The whole Vogon poetry recital came up during one very late coffee-fuelled session, where we were desperately trying to think 'if we can't do it seriously, how can we make this absolutely ridiculous?
Dene: "It may be completely stupid, but I love the idea that you can completely undermine the heroic experience when you play Fable. In that game you could have the rabbit ears, and in the time-travelling cut-scene it was just fantastically funny. So we talked about being able to play the entirety of Fable while wearing a chicken hat; having all these emotive cut-scenes while you've got a big chicken hat on would be quite funny.
Dene: "Noooooo! Cluck, cluck! Simon: "People have said that it's almost like Fable was written by Gonzo from The Muppets, because it has this strange obsession with wild foul. With a load of added features, items, and a level not previously on the XBox version, Fable hopes to make the transition more successfully than earlier console ports have.
First off, I need to stress that while Fable: The Lost Chapters looks like a port, it doesn't feel or even play like one. The storyline is the same as the original: Play the life of a character from early youth to wizened veteran.
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