I actually really liked Fable 2, the only thing that really drove me up a wall was the horribly sluggish menus. It made it so tedious to do anything with them that it managed to push me away to different games and allow it to collect dust. Still, I thought it was a great game and in some ways better than TLC.
Fable 3 though? Ehh... by it's own merits it's not a bad game in my eyes, like honestly. Playing co-op when server and connections are stable was some great fun to be had for me. I also enjoyed its atmosphere and characters, but compared to the first 2 it's pretty damn bad, yeah. So I've mixed feelings on it.
On 2, in truth, I agree. Having now watched a couple Fable 2 playthroughs, it's a neat game. My resentment is mostly from the exclusivity of it. And I've always thought that 2 and 3 could have allowed for better games if they were instead 1 and 2 of a different IP, rather than trying to piece together a story from Fable's (which isn't much to start with) and then be stuck with it. But the games were successful, and with each Fable title they were able to show off different MS stuff like the Xbox, the 360, smartglass, Kinect and other garbage and now with Legends, the Xbox one. The rest of my resentment comes from them leveraging my childhood over and over to sell their stuff.
I'm still not playing 3 again though. Serious problems with the endgame. And beginning and midgame. So the whole thing, really.
Yeah I meant the original Fable team. I figured as much, kinda reminds me of Maxis and how they spiraled into whatever you wanna call them now. No more original members (even of the 2nd generation) and a perfect example of why a publisher should never dip their fingers so heavily in development. Wouldn't mind a nice thorough documentary on the studio's meaty history however... in fact I did a recent google search for such and came across the completely unrelated "At Lionhead" ... I was sorely disappointed.
Explains why the audio's always been good, even in the worst of them.
We could make one. You guys have been around almost as long as Fable. Surely some of you know a thing or two about the history.
And yep, any real history won't be found at the source. A terrible shame and wasted opportunity, I think.
Albion Knight, who I have seen on a couple other forums, is knowledgeable. In the modding circle there used to be Baystone, who was quite learned about various things regarding the irl lore. Keshire and Satan too, but I don't know if anyone would be able to filter out the profanity and disdain from their contributions. Provided they can even be reached. Luckily AK is here, maybe we can poke some storytime out of him. Shame former staff are restricted by those NDAs, I bet more than a few have since been disenchanted and would love to share their take on what all went down. Their former
community pet for instance. But maybe that's just a typo and he's not actually being petty. It's twitter, who knows.
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Jesus. Bad nostalgia. Searching 22cans on twitter brings up a lot of stuff that reminds me of what everyone was saying about Fable and sequels, mostly "what I thought" and "what I got" not lining up. Guess Godus isn't working out.