Fable: The Balverine Order

[El Mosqueton]

Fable: The Balverine Order

Sorry if dupe, but couldn't find anything. (yes, I did use the Search button)
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Fable-Balve...=sr_1_9?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1279893529&sr=1-9

Here it is, finally, a Fable book, with in-game content, I might add.

EDIT: Here's the description:

Fable is a first person role-playing game set in the city realm of Albion. The city is full of riches and poverty, magic works but industry is coming. The royal family who run the city have a dark past and its secrets rule the present. Past versions of the game have been set in, loosely, medieval and renaissance times. The new version, launched to coincide with the book, will take the city into the industrial revolution, launching a war between industry and magic. The game is unique for the richness of the created universe and for the way the actions of the character are reflected in its appearance and the responses of NPCs to it: if you eat a lot you become fat, if you get into a lot of fights you get scarred and people become wary of you. The interaction of player and game, the richness of the world, makes the franchise unusually appropriate for a tie-in novel and the novel will include an interactive element.

EDIT: Happy now, POOP?

 

[Recycled Human]

Re: Fable: The Balverine Order

Interactive Element? Intriguing.

Guess I'll have to check it out.

 

[Paragon]

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Hmm interesting. I wonder why I never heard of this before. I also wonder if this is associated with Lionhead and Fable?

 

[El Mosqueton]

Re: Fable: The Balverine Order

Hmm interesting. I wonder why I never heard of this before. I also wonder if this is associated with Lionhead and Fable?

Should be, a Dev posted it a few days ago in the Official forum, besides I don't think Lionhead would give an exclusive in-game weapon to an unliscensed publisher.

 

[POOP]

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First person role-playing? City realm of Albion? Is that right?

 

[DarkONI]

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First person role-playing? City realm of Albion? Is that right?

It's a video-game based book. Such books sometimes try to add missing parts to the lore or just create fictional stories based on the game.

Doesn't sound bad to me. I will look around, looks like an interesting book to read. (at least, I hope so)

 

[POOP]

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I don't think I'm even going to get into books based on games. Games based on books aren't even good.

 

[DarkONI]

Re: Fable: The Balverine Order

I don't think I'm even going to get into books based on games. Games based on books aren't even good.

Depends, deeply all the games are based on books, the design team, always writes tons of text for a game, therefore somehow games are based of books, where specific parts are changed, removed and ignored with time.

There are few games that are based off books, some of them are good, mostly these games stick with the movie of the same book, to be honest, so they are mostly based on the movie rather than the book itself.

Books based on games are good, at least, depending on what you like to read. So far the Halo based books didn't look that bad to me, though I didn't completely read them all.

 

[El Mosqueton]

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C'mon guys, it's Fable book, about friggin' Balverines, with a weapon for Fable III, how is that NOT awesome?

 

[king_reaver]

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what ingame item we get?

 

[SelfAppointedGunslinger]

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what ingame item we get?

Probably something to with killing balverines, maybe a silver blade or something?

 

[king_reaver]

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we ready get sword does that in special edition

 

[DarkONI]

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I believe that the sword will be related to the book and hero, however not with balverines, because in the Fable III special edition players already get a sword that has to do with balverines.

I believe we will need to read the book, in order to understand what sword comes with it, to understand the story of the weapon that comes with it.

 

[Shark]

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So is this one of those books where you read through it and... role-play? or is it a book which you just read, a story?

 

[DarkONI]

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So is this one of those books where you read through it and... role-play? or is it a book which you just read, a story?

A book that you read, a story. Though the idea of making a book based on Fable for role-playing is interesting.

 

[Purple Nurple]

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It could be one of those 'turn to page 30 to continue, turn the page the turn around' books.

 

[Recycled Human]

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If it's a choose your own adventure book I'll order it now.

Anyone know if it's affiliated with the writers that were hired specifically for fable 3's story? How cool would it be if the actual team wrote it...

 

[Paragon]

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Well if it truly is associated with Lionhead/Fable then maybe I'll pick it up if I ever see it. It could be a pretty good read.

 

[joslen1]

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anyone know where you can order this book? or is this just speculation on a rumour?

 

[king_reaver]

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i wonder if is will user in this book?
don't need answer this question