Fable Released Tomorrow!!!!

[Fox 6]

fable comes out tomorrow, I've been saving up for this one!!! :D

[Acebot44]

Fully Pre-Ordered for more than a year. Yeah, it'll be fun.

[Swan]

So Fox, are you going to buy it tomorrow or later? When you do buy it, can I come over and watch you play it? Please.

[thatmariolover]

Err... Actually I'm pretty sure it ships tomorrow. It's out on the 15'th.

At least that's how it's listed in the Gamestop computers (I work there).

[Ginkasa]

Gamestop called me today and said it would be in tomorrow so...


*shrugs and walks away*

[thatmariolover]

Gamestop called me today and said it would be in tomorrow so...


*shrugs and walks away*

Sweet. Sorry for the confusion. I'm betting most major retailers (Walmart) won't have it until the 15'th and then most of the game oriented businesses (EB Games, Gamestop & Co.) will be getting it tomorrow.

[Fox 6]

So Fox, are you going to buy it tomorrow or later? When you do buy it, can I come over and watch you play it? Please.
Sure I guess, but i dunno when i'll get it, hopefully this week. After I beat it a couple of times im gonna let Dylflon borrow it, and he is going to borrow Dynes xbox or so im told.

[Jonbo298]

I never warmed up to Fable but it sounds good.

*Goes back to patiently waiting for Conker and Half-Life 2*

[Professor S]

I'm picking mine up today at 3 PM sharp... and then I have to go to work at 5... CRAP!!!

[thatmariolover]

I'm picking mine up today at 3 PM sharp... and then I have to go to work at 5... CRAP!!!

I have work at Gamestop at 4:00 today. I'm gonna be swamped :D

[CamFu]

Looks like I'll have to wait until I get back to the states before I get this one is my hands. I know that I won't be seeing around here for a while.

[Bond]

I'm getting mine this Friday. Hopefully I'll have sometime to play it on Sunday.

[Fox 6]

It looks like I'll be getting my copy on Thursday. :D Horay!!!

[Acebot44]

Picked mine up after school thanks to a spontaneous ride from my brother. Popped the game in and played for two hours (just the tutuorial) and forgot to save! So I turned the xbox off and did my HW then came back to see that my game was back at 1 hour. Played for about 6 hours straight after that :D

It's a great game and would be my all time favorite game if I hadnt known of what it could have been. I can't help but nit pick and think to myself "Now why isnt that like that, it wouldve been better if that that that". I've barely done anything really so it's only getting better.

[Professor S]

I played this after work until 4:30 in the morning morning. I had a lot of worries when I first started playing, but as I discovered more and more to do, my worries quickly became pretty groundless. I'll type up my impressions later on this week.

[Crono]

Just got back from picking up my copy.. opening it now... and gonna play it. I'll post impressions later.

[Ginkasa]

I got mine yesterday, but I haven't had enough time to play it for more than 45 minutes or so at a time. What I have seen, though, has been pretty good. I've had fun.

I'll maybe post more when I get farther (unless someone posts something that says what I would say anyway, denying my extra post the right to exist).


*shrugs and walks away*

[DarkMaster]

Just played nearly 2 hours of the game.

I like it, I like it a lot. I'm not sure exactly what I could say besides that, you all know the basics of the game, can't comment on anything much more than that until I get farther.

But yeah, I love it so far.

[Crono]

Just played nearly 2 hours of the game.

I like it, I like it a lot. I'm not sure exactly what I could say besides that, you all know the basics of the game, can't comment on anything much more than that until I get farther.

But yeah, I love it so far.

I second that.

[Ginkasa]

I'm a good chunk in, and I have to say this game is awesome. The only real complaint I have against is....marriage. What is the bloody point to it? I spent a good while flirting and flexing and posing for this brown haired girl and spent far more money than I would like on gifts. Finally, she started saying things like, "A wedding ring would look good on my finger." (subtle), so I went and spent a fortune on a wedding ring. I marry her and we move into a house I had bought (I had actually planned on renting it out, but then realized I'd to live in something besides the bar if I were married). I stand around. She talks about how happy she is and how cool I am. Several times.

That has been my entire marriage experience. I did get a dowry of 250 (that's two-hundred fifty....period...s'all), but that doesn't even dent the money I spent on her rather than good armor or weapons in my quest to rid the world of evil.

She's not even all that pretty.

I'm staying single when I get older...


*shrugs and walks away*

[Fox 6]

I just found out that I'm going on vacation on Friday so I wont have much time to play it on the weekend.

[The Germanator]

I'm a good chunk in, and I have to say this game is awesome. The only real complaint I have against is....marriage. What is the bloody point to it? I spent a good while flirting and flexing and posing for this brown haired girl and spent far more money than I would like on gifts. Finally, she started saying things like, "A wedding ring would look good on my finger." (subtle), so I went and spent a fortune on a wedding ring. I marry her and we move into a house I had bought (I had actually planned on renting it out, but then realized I'd to live in something besides the bar if I were married). I stand around. She talks about how happy she is and how cool I am. Several times.

That has been my entire marriage experience. I did get a dowry of 250 (that's two-hundred fifty....period...s'all), but that doesn't even dent the money I spent on her rather than good armor or weapons in my quest to rid the world of evil.

She's not even all that pretty.

I'm staying single when I get older...


*shrugs and walks away*

Just KILL her. That's probably what I'll do when I get the game (hopefully soon)...I'm a sicky though.

[Acebot44]

I finished my first run through the game about an Hour ago. Finished all good (Halo and all) at the age of 55. I even had magic tats from my constant use of Force Push and Lightning. I was a strong guy though, Got up to 6 in Physique and 5 in Speed. Here's a pic of my guy. I had to take it with my camera phone cus the video camera left that green bar in the middle.

[Canyarion]

:wtf: You already beated it???? .....
How long does this game take????

[Dark Samurai]

He looks like Zero from the KoF series.

http://www.snkplaymore.jp/official/kof2000/character/gif/zero.jpg

[Acebot44]

:wtf: You already beated it???? .....
How long does this game take????

Well I played about a total of 15 hours the first time through and I'm sure I missed A LOT. I only did about 5 sub quests and didnt buy any houses or even get all the tattoes/haircuts/keys/armor types. I still need to find the legendary weapons too. I'm gonna go through good again but this time I'll steal a bunch and wont use as much magic so I wont turn out grey and white.

[Canyarion]

How do you get older? In real-time or after certain actions?
I mean, can you play longer than 15 hours?

[Acebot44]

Oh yeah. You can play as long as you want, but after you finish the main quest, no more quests will be given out at the guild, you'll have to find them on paths and in towns. You can still get married, buy houses, all that good stuff too. This game is all about the gameplay and not that much on story, so you'll play it as long as you like because you can find things to do on your own. Hell, walk around a listen to the different reactions you get from people after farting on them. Get people drunk, get yourself drunk, kick chickens, become champions in the bar games.

You age in three ways. 1. When you level up your skills you age about .7 years I believe. 2. When you finish a major point in the story, you'll go onto the next chapter and age a couple years. 3. When you use the will(magic), you'll gradually age everytime you use it, in real time, but it's so small you wont notice it that much till you look at your character after a while.

[Bond]

Fable is here... I am overcome with joy...

[DarkMaster]

Contrary to various reviews, this game isn't exactly easy. Especially the sub quests, having a lot of health potions doesn't mean jack all, don't know what IGN was talking about.

[Fox 6]

I got my Fable!
and with $20 off, I got my mom to use some of her reward points.

[Ginkasa]

Contrary to various reviews, this game isn't exactly easy. Especially the sub quests, having a lot of health potions doesn't mean jack all, don't know what IGN was talking about.


Are you serious? There's been only one subquest where I had to actually use a ressurection vial or two. The rest were easy so long as I had a few health potions.

Oh, my wife is giving me weapons. Too bad they're obsidian (which are, I guess, inherently evil) and I'm the overly sweet and good guy.

They make me good monies though.


*shrugs and walks away*

[Acebot44]

I only died in the arena during the bandit portion. But luckily, I had about 12 reserection whatevers so I made it out of there...barely, and bought all the potions the vender had.

[DarkMaster]

Are you serious? There's been only one subquest where I had to actually use a ressurection vial or two. The rest were easy so long as I had a few health potions.

Oh, my wife is giving me weapons. Too bad they're obsidian (which are, I guess, inherently evil) and I'm the overly sweet and good guy.

They make me good monies though.


*shrugs and walks away*
The Hobbe's Cave quest, where you save the old woman's kid, can be challenging. I never said it was hard, just not tremendously easy as so many reviewers have made it out to be. I was under the impression that it would be Wind Waker easy.

[Professor S]

I'm on the quest right now where youi have to kieep the bandit prisoner from escaping, and its giving me fits. Not only are the bandits no joke, but the damn prisoner keeps getting in the way and I end up killing him with one errant shot!

Also, I made sure that I increased the difficulty level for myself by making sure I am a meleee warrior only. All my experience goes into the Strength category and a little into "speed", This seems to make many of the enemies and quests much moere challenging, especially those giggling little fairies that fly all over the place summoning creatures and shooting crap at you.

Next time through I'm going to do it as a straight up sorceror.

[Ginkasa]

I'm on the quest right now where youi have to kieep the bandit prisoner from escaping, and its giving me fits. Not only are the bandits no joke, but the damn prisoner keeps getting in the way and I end up killing him with one errant shot!


I'm at that part, too. I've only tried it once (killed the prisoner).


The Hobbe's Cave quest, where you save the old woman's kid, can be challenging. I never said it was hard, just not tremendously easy as so many reviewers have made it out to be. I was under the impression that it would be Wind Waker easy.


That's the quest where I had to use a couple of ressurection phials ;)


*shrugs and walks away*

[DarkMaster]

I'm at the arena quest, not sure how far I am in the game story-wise. My character is 59 years old now, got 12 hours clocked in the game so far, 90% of my time is spent doing stuff that I just feel like doing. I barely do any main quests at all, and I'm not the least bit bored.

[Ginkasa]

I have some questions that might extend into spoiler territory.

So...

You've been warned...

Anyway...

There's a subquest to get Lady Grey to marry your character. I'm at this part. However, I do not wish to marry Lady Grey for two reasons:

1) I'm already married and I don't need to two [bad word] fawning over me and giving me crap presents (and one of them yelling at me for cheating)
2) Lady Grey killed her sister. I don't dig murderous chicks (I will next time, though ;))

Now, this would mean I probably shouldn't do the quest and marry Lady Grey. However, I have been given reason to believe that this quest may or may not end in me exposing Lady Grey for the evil evil woman that she is and gaining more fame and renown and goodness, etc. But I'm not sure and I don't want to end up with divorce and then marriage so...

Has anyone done this quest and know whether I can choose to expose or marry Lady Grey? And if I can expose her, can you tell me how to get the two guys in the Oakvale Memorial Garden to stop whispering behind my back and tell me where the friggin' necklace is?


*shrugs and walks away*

[Acebot44]

I heard that you just need to sneak around them and listen to their conversation. They will let it out eventually between themselves.

[Crono]

Just thought I'd say this... Fable has now entered my top 10 list of favourite games. I love this game. I knew very little about the game before I bought it and it has blown me away.

[DarkMaster]

You might wanna marry Lady Grey, theres a silver key and a silver key chest in her room which you can only get by marrying her. If you don't like her you can always divorce later.

[Ginkasa]

But I've heard that divorce = major evil points. And I'm the upstanding halo over the head good guy.

And I like that....

Although the mayor might be able to give me some better stuff than my cheap slut of a wife O_o

Hrrmm....

Do you know what's in the silver chest in her room? If it's the legendary katana I'll have no choice but to marry her :unsure:


*shrugs and walks away*

[DarkMaster]

Yeah, it's the legendary katana. And it owns.

[Ginkasa]

*didn't marry her*

>_<

The legendary longsword will have to do...


*shrugs and walks away*

[Fox 6]

Havent really had a chance to play it until today, I've done a lot of quests and and stuff, and I enjoy it very much

[Fox 6]

sorry for the double post but does anyone know how to get that sword out of the rock in witch wood?

[DarkMaster]

max physique, max health, max toughness. FYI the sword blows compared to other legendary weapons.

[TheGame]

I need to stop reading this topic... makes me upset that I can't afford it yet. :(

[Fox 6]

max physique, max health, max toughness. FYI the sword blows compared to other legendary weapons.
Man I got to get off my ass and find some of these legendary weapons, could you give me some info as to where they are?

[Acebot44]

Right Nyah (http://db.gamefaqs.com/console/xbox/file/fable_weapon.txt).

I love this game. The second time is so much more fun than the first :D

[Fox 6]

sweet +rep

[DarkMaster]

The hidden secrets about this game are driving me and many other insane. The most intriguing of all, if the elusive Dragon Quest, which is terribly secretive. It DOES exist, people have modded their Xbox's and searched through the game's code finding things like QUEST_CARD_SECRET_DRAGON_FIGHT, along with specific codings for the dragon's model and such. Also, when you beat the game, there's a single fresco painting missing from the chamber of fate, someone who hacked the game's code found the missing fresco, it shows you fighting a dragon.

BBB refuses to tell anyone how to get these secrest things (there's plenty more besides the dragon), and they specfically told Prima to keep them out of their guide. So...people are going insane right now trying to discover the secrets of this game.

[Acebot44]

Yeah, when I read that at the boards a day or two ago, I was going NUTS! It will be completely amazing if they find it or a complete kick in the nuts if they simply took one bit of coding out to leave the dragon scripting out of coming into play.

[DarkMaster]

Btw, anyone know where the hell the 3rd treasure clue is? It's the only one I dont have, no guides that I've found list the location for these clues.

[Ginkasa]

Btw, anyone know where the hell the 3rd treasure clue is? It's the only one I dont have, no guides that I've found list the location for these clues.


Third Treasure Clue (http://boards.gamefaqs.com/gfaqs/genmessage.php?board=13705&topic=16435568)

I haven't tried it yet, so it could possibly be a fake. Doesn't seem like it though...


*shrugs and walks away*

[DarkMaster]

I just now saw that thread, I'll try it tomorrow. Sounds reasonable, gotta get something from killing all the assassins.

[DarkMaster]

Has anyone else noticed....

http://www.planetlionhead.com/Screenshots/fable/tjy8039d542.jpg

....that you can't access these quests by any means? I've tried getting my fame up high enough, and then they dissappear. That is some straight up bullsh*t yo.

[Acebot44]

Those are actually "dummy" quests. They will never be completable because they were simply there so you would know that you're in need of gaining more reknown.

[Fox 6]

I finally got off my ass and started to do stuff, I found a lot of keyes, got married ( wasnt that hard ) all I did was just use my " sexy heroic pose" and she fell for me. and fishing! and digging up peoples graves! and lets not forget kicking chickens.

[Acebot44]

Fable Breaks Sales Records in First Week of Release
Microsoft Game Studios today announced that Fable has had an amazing start at retailers across North America in its first week of release, breaking records and selling through more than 375,000 units. Sales records are being broken at retailers throughout North America: the game was EB Games' biggest first-week sales for any Xbox title ever; it broke Game Rush's first-day sales record for any game; it is the No. 1-selling overall title on any platform last week at GameStop and is the fastest-selling Xbox game at EB Games Canada for the first week.
Fable even grossed more money than the No. 1 box office movie last week, Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow*.

"Fable was the best first-week title on Xbox that we've ever had" says Jim Tyo, vice president of EB Games Canada. "The game has exceeded our expectations, and we're confident that this strong sales trend will continue."

"Fable has been a huge hit for us, and it was our number one-selling title across all platforms over the last week" says Dan DeMatteo, president and chief operating officer of GameStop.
23rd September 2004

LHtimes (http://www.lhtimes.com/exotic/index.html)

[The Germanator]

Just to give my two cents...

This game is pretty awesome. It doesn't seem to be quite the experience I expected, but it's still an incredible game. Both me and my roommate have been playing it simultaneously which has been pretty interesting. We are both choosing to be good guys though, so I have to be careful to not peak at what he his doing (he's a little further than me)

Anyway...I cannot wait to go through the game next time so I can just be a total, total bastard...I'm so tempted sometimes just to slaughter the innocents, but I've been keeping pretty clean so far, and that's how I'll finish.

[Fox 6]

I just realised some guys in oakvale had hearts over thier heads!!! That was really wierd

[DarkMaster]

Generally I kill any males I see with hearts above their heads.

[Ginkasa]

You're a wonderful human being with morals we should all strive to uphold.

[/sarcasm]


*shrugs and goes to beat the shnot out of his Fable wife*

[Typhoid]

You're a wonderful human being with morals we should all strive to uphold.

[/sarcasm]


*shrugs and goes to beat the shnot out of his Fable wife*





Ahhhh Fable. Where people can beat their wives and not get arrested, and marry a man and not go to jail....Unless your Canadian...well....not...all...Canadian provinces....but....blah...

I want to beat a fake wife now. :(

[DarkMaster]

Ahhhh Fable. Where people can beat their wives and not get arrested, and marry a man and not go to jail....Unless your Canadian...well....not...all...Canadian provinces....but....blah...

I want to beat a fake wife now. :(
Who said you couldnt get arrested for beating your wife in Fable?

I mean, you can just kill the guards....

[Fox 6]

if you pay hte guards to go on break you can punch them in the back and knock them out and be free to do mischief, or so I'm told.

[Swan]

Wow. Wow.

I still need to go to your house and watch/play it.

[Fox 6]

okya so I beat the quest where you helped your mother get out of prison, I was wondering how much is left in the game?

[Canyarion]

Eeeeh 1 hour, perhaps 1:20 depending on how fast you play.

[DarkMaster]

If you havent gone to hook coast left, there's about 2 hours left of the main quest.

[Canyarion]

L:lol:L :p
I was just trying to scare him with my 1 hour. I wasn't that far off.. :(

Seriously, can anyone understand why they didn't make this game longer??? Perhaps nog as long as Morrowind, but at least twice as long?

[Fox 6]

L:lol:L :p
I was just trying to scare him with my 1 hour. I wasn't that far off.. :(

Seriously, can anyone understand why they didn't make this game longer??? Perhaps nog as long as Morrowind, but at least twice as long?
even though the game is shorter the story line is pretty good



and I'll pfobably drag the game on for longer, there is some stuff I gotta do thats not quest related.

[Ace195]

How long is this game total..1 day 2 days ?

[Fox 6]

I've been playing it for periods of 2 or 3 hours, but I dont play it everyday, You could probably finish it in a day if you started early and kept playing all day non-stop

[Ace195]

Hrm... gonna save my money then and just rent it :)

[Fox 6]

I told my friend to rent it, and he did, he loved it so much that he ended up buying it two days later.

[DarkMaster]

It took me roughly 20 hours to "beat" the game. I'm at about 38 hours now, still got plenty of crap to do and fool around with, then I'll start a new game and play it a different way. It's a long game if you want it to be long.

[Neo]

I'll either buy the game or get one of those game passes at blockbuster so I can play me some other games too.

[Fox 6]

I finished playing the game as a good guy a couple of days ago, now ive started my evil ax wielding cold blooded killer guy. I'm so rich and i havent fought twin blade yet, I break into peoples houses when they are asleep and kill them, then I buy thier house and rent it out. So far Im renting out 4 houses and 1 barn :D