Guns in Fable: What do you think?

[TheHeroOfOakvale]

Guns in Fable: What do you think?

Seeing as how Fable II had semi-automatic pistols and rifles,I'm terrified to learn how advanced the firearms in Fable III will be. I was also unhappy about how the guns in Fable II revolutionized warfare and destroyed the need for armor(I liked the armor in the original Fable). And the new screenshot from the Redmond Preview Event shows a hero sporting a VERY futuristic looking gun. I'd be interested to hear your guys' opinion on this topic.

 

[enactment11]

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I don't think the game will go so far as to make guns OP like suddenly introduce starwars inspired blaster rifles or anything like that but I guess I can tolerate them being advanced to that extent.

I mean who doesnt like using a cool pistol to finish someone off after you've hacked him a fair bit with your katana?

I'm pretty sure armour would still be relevant in the new game as we can see that in one of the screenshots, the hero is wearing armour. Maybe some armours will have different qualities such as being resistant to certain weapon types. i.e. bullet/musket proof qualities etc. Maybe that will be how the game will become more balanced.

 

[Overan]

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I used guns for about 97% of Fable II combat, so guns will be good. If the combat is as improved as Lionhead has lead us to believe my use might go doown as low as 50%, still guns in Fable 2 were powerful and offered protection by its range,drawback was when ambushed guns could not handle large groupes up-close which is the best situation for magic.

 

[SonofRaiden]

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Armors are for fashion in Fable 3. they should make a star wars-type fable with blaster rifles and lighsabres and the force

 

[enactment11]

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Armors are for fashion in Fable 3. they should make a star wars-type fable with blaster rifles and lighsabres and the force

LOL Sci-Fi Fable!!!

I just realised. I don't think flight has been invented in the fable universe yet. hmmmm

 

[Ryu_the_fox]

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I honestly am not too much of a fan of guns, or crossbows. I just had to make do with what I had. I missed using the longbows and just holding them for hours before shooting. But taking out the crossbows in Fable 3. Now thats too far man. Crossbows are what I had left, and the Master Repeater one is Powerful. I can take a balverine out with one crossbow shot from that. No pistol of mine ever did such a thing. If I had to move on to any gun I'd say Rifle works for me. I kinda liked the master clockwork rifles because they looked kinda nice. Like one thing with me is that I care a lot about how the weapon looks, cuz I know pretty much that my character will own those monsters. That's partially why I use the Enforcer. It looked really nice. I think I'm drifting a bit but yea guns are moving in too fast... I wonder if there was any other ranged weapon of that time...

 

[SonofRaiden]

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machine gun, in aurora. it was making it's debut.

 

[GrimWhim]

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Seeing as how Fable II had semi-automatic pistols and rifles,I'm terrified to learn how advanced the firearms in Fable III will be. I was also unhappy about how the guns in Fable II revolutionized warfare and destroyed the need for armor(I liked the armor in the original Fable). And the new screenshot from the Redmond Preview Event shows a hero sporting a VERY futuristic looking gun. I'd be interested to hear your guys' opinion on this topic.

The gun isn't futuristic, it's just morphed. After all, what fun is it to play with a boring historically accurate gun? There's plenty of other games you can do that in.

Personally, I like it but the whole targeting system was crap in Fable II. Not to mention guns were extremely overpowered making using melee or magic pointless aside from personal preference.

Still, as long as they can tone down the power some and improve the aiming and targeting, I might actually give them a try.

 

[Terra_Zeta]

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wha, wha? They removed crossbows!?

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

Those where my favorite weapons, as close to a bow as i could get. /cries

I was never one for guns, but i will admit that my favorite type of gun in fable 2 was the pistols, i just wish you could dual wield.

 

[GrimWhim]

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wha, wha? They removed crossbows!?

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

Those where my favorite weapons, as close to a bow as i could get. /cries

I was never one for guns, but i will admit that my favorite type of gun in fable 2 was the pistols, i just wish you could dual wield.

Dual wielding is unrealistic and pointless, not to mention highly overrated. Sure, it looks cool but realistically your accuracy would be **** and of course, it would take longer to load and reload those two guns than if you only had one. Call me old fashioned but I prefer a single pistol.

I just wish they would add revolvers or a revolver-esque weapon. I love 'em to death.

 

[Terra_Zeta]

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Dual wielding is unrealistic and pointless, not to mention highly overrated. Sure, it looks cool but realistically your accuracy would be **** and of course, it would take longer to load and reload those two guns than if you only had one. Call me old fashioned but I prefer a single pistol.

I just wish they would revolvers or a revolver-esque weapon. I love 'em to death.

That's all that matters. ^_^

 

[GrimWhim]

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Personally, I find wielding one gun more bad ass than wielding two. Especially revolvers... mmm.

Damn it Lionhead! Add a revolver already! D:<

 

[El Mosqueton]

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Personally, I find wielding one gun more bad ass than wielding two. Especially revolvers... mmm.

Damn it Lionhead! Add a revolver already! D:<

Revolvers are confirmed, watch my News topics more often. :'(

 

[GrimWhim]

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Revolvers are confirmed, watch my News topics more often. :'(

Aw... don't feel bad TL, I don't really pay attention to anything that doesn't have a witty title.

But that's great news. Now I'm definitely going to have to become a gunslinger. Hm... might even do magic AND guns this time around. Should be interesting considering we no longer have to level up Strength, Skill or Will the old fashioned way.

 

[Matt_352]

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I use guns and swords about 99.9% of the time

 

[SelfAppointedGunslinger]

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Dual wielding is unrealistic and pointless, not to mention highly overrated. Sure, it looks cool but realistically your accuracy would be **** and of course, it would take longer to load and reload those two guns than if you only had one. Call me old fashioned but I prefer a single pistol.

I just wish they would revolvers or a revolver-esque weapon. I love 'em to death.

Revolvers, YES! This is gonna be sweet.

 

[joslen1]

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just as long as they don't add automatic weapons...
i suppose with augments, in the fable-verse the armours could be bullet retardant.

 

[GrimWhim]

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just as long as they don't add automatic weapons...
i suppose with augments, in the fable-verse the armours could be bullet retardant.

Indeed. The day they do that is the day I give up the series. I don't mind the guns and I found them slightly enjoyable in Fable II but I hope they greatly improved upon them in Fable III but not in the sense of making them more powerful or anything like that.

 

[joslen1]

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Indeed. The day they do that is the day I give up the series. I don't mind the guns and I found them slightly enjoyable in Fable II but I hope they greatly improved upon them in Fable III but not in the sense of making them more powerful or anything like that.

the world may explode when i say this... but i have to agree with you on fable 2 guns being overpowered and over-accurate... flintlocks couldn't hit straight at 50 paces in the real world, so why should a flintlock rifle be as accurate at 100 paces as it is at point blanc?

 

[GrimWhim]

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I wouldn't call them over-accurate but having the game aim for you is annoying. That's definitely a casual-inspired feature. I can hit an enemy's head at 300 paces with the lowliest of pistols but how is that an achievement when the game aims for you? I realize that guns are powerful but magic should technically be the most powerful as it doesn't follow the same rules that a gun or sword does and magic isn't hindered by things like wind or steel or those sorts of things.

Anyways, hopefully they allow us to aim freely in Fable III while toning down the power of guns just enough so that I'm not instantly killing everything I come across. That's boring and takes no skill at all.