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Rating of
3/5
Banal Fable
Chris Kavan - wrote on 05/13/2021
I remember back when there were many exclusives between consoles (there are still a few here and there, but they are becoming easier to to play on PC as long as you can wait) that I was upset the Xbox crowd was getting the Fable exclusives as it looked like a solid and fun open-world RPG. Big choices - be good, be evil, kill chickens, change your appearance, romance! And when Steam finally got the games, I put it on my list to get to... someday. But that someday came much too late as after experiencing much bigger and better games, Fable has not aged at all well. In fact, it was so generic and bland, I couldn't even make it through much and I don't usually review games I haven't finished, but here we are and here I go.
Looks and Stuff: For a 2014 game it looks fine. It has a slightly …
Rating of
2.5/5
Molyneux Remastered
Nelson Schneider - wrote on 08/03/2016
“Fable,” a new IP from the 6th Generation, originally appeared as an exclusive title on the original Xbox, developed by Big Blue Box and published by Microsoft itself. Big Blue Box was originally assembled from members of former Western PC developer, Bullfrog, which was eventually gobbled up by EA, leaving a number of its employees free to reconvene elsewhere. Big Blue Box didn’t last long, however, as “Fable” was its only published game prior to complete absorbtion by parent company Lionhead Studios, which itself was later absorbed (and recently shuttered) by Microsoft. Throughout all of phases of existence, the one cornerstone of Bullfrog, Big Blue Box, and Lionhead was one Peter Molyneux, a British game designer with a massive tendency to overestimate the quality and depth …
