Sure, Xbox owners are currently turning as green as the light emanating from their console, but c'est la vie. You got it a full year before PC gamers, fellas, and now it's our turn for a treat.
If you're unfamiliar with Fable , it's a combat-heavy action RPG with one hell of a hook: you start off as a child, and can live your in-game life - right up to old age - pretty much how you see Ifit. The Lost Chapters is the Xbox version plus a heap of added content. There are more missions to be undertaken, more regions to explore, more spells to fling around and more people to meet. Or kill, if you want - like we said, exactly how you play the game is up to you.
New enemies like the Ice Troll big, white and made, funnily enough, of ice and Summoner nasty uber-mage who does a natty line in electric balls also make their debut. Both these baddies look fantastic in action, and much of this is down to the revamped graphics engine powering the game's visuals: high-resolution textures, improved draw distance and bumpmapping on characters all come courtesy of Fable's move to the PC.
Also getting an overhaul is the control system. We all know that what works for a gamepad probably won't work for a keyboard and mouse, and Lionhead is particularly keen on making combat feel right for PC gamers. Sword and bow controls will be assigned to your right hand and spell control to your left. This means that you can hack a couple of times, then immediately loose off a fireball or put up a magical shield.
You can also expect to see lots in the way of what Lionhead calls fun' content: stuff that doesn't really affect the plot, but simply makes Fable more enjoyable to play. You can import images to tattoo upon your character's body, make a photo journal that can be displayed online and prance around like a flamenco dancer. Lionhead is currently polishing the game like mad, and the version we saw looked tantalisingly close to completion.
We'll soon know if Molyneux's mob can deliver the definitive Fable it's been promising all along. I'm Stood In the middle of the local town, looking for something to do. On a curious whim, I remove all of my clothes.
I'm sporting a set of Union Jack Y-fronts. Spying a nearby crate, I smash it open. A sudden holler goes up from behind me: "I saw that! That's naughty! As I turn around, a small brat is running full-pelt for the nearest guard. An unlucky chicken feels my annoyance as I boot it across the square. Still nearly naked as the guards near, I flip the finger at them and make a mad dash for the other end of town with my entourage in tow.
Imaginary Benny Hill music plays in my head. The guards finally catch me, take all my money in fines and dump me outside of town in nothing but my patriotic kecks. A nearby guard calls me "arseface. I fart and laugh to myself. Welcome, ladies and gentleman to the world of Fable. A world in which the traditional trappings of a fantasy RPG swords, spells, stats - check collide head-on with the phenomenon of cause and effect meaning that pretty much every action you take will have some result in game, from your choice of haircut to whose blood you decide to spill.
It's a simple concept, but one that's carried off with great aplomb, allowing you to play either the godly hero who gains power and respect through helping out the locals, or the dastardly anti-hero who steals everything that's not nailed down, beats up small children and throws a 'kiss my arse' gesture to anyone pot afraid to look.
Lionhead has always been one to try something a bit new and Fable's no different, starting you off as a wee nipper and taking you all the way through your character's life, right through to the pension and Just For Men' at the end. Over time, your actions will start to impact upon your character's appearance. Enjoy picking fights and stealing stuff? Then watch as your character's skin turns pale, horns start to protrude from your forehead and flies gather around your napper.
Prefer helping out the locals? Then your skin will start to glow, you'll get a halo and faint butterflies will encircle you. While the story progresses through the completion of the main missions, there's tons of extra content to be found too: fist-fighting, grave-digging, property development, card games and getting drunk to name a few. Of course, you could just get pissed down your local, come home, throw up and badger your partner for sex.
Just like real life really. Everything looks pretty tasty too running through the upgraded graphics engine and Lionhead's seen right to not only give the graphics a swift boot up the arse, but also extend the improvements to new spells, expressions, missions, regions and more.
These aren't just crappy tacked-on extras either - an in-game brothel where you can choose to man-whore yourself out for extra moolah and a massive extra section based after the end of the original are just some of the fantastic extensions to the tale. One of Fable's most refreshing facets is its attempt to tell an RPG tale in a lighter and more humorous style than normal. Its use of strong British accents, bizarre side quests magic mushrooms anybody?
Having so far sung its praises, we should mention the drawbacks too. If you play games just for the challenge, you'll be disappointed - Fable's not set to tax either your grey matter or your fingertips although the 'lost chapters' at the end definitely provides much more of a task. Also, despite having the extra third, it's still a tad on the short side for an RPG. Morrowind's endless expanses this definitely is not. Fable may not have reached the lofty heights of Molyneux's original vision, but the result is still a hugely amusing and entertaining waylo fritter away the hours.
If you're looking for a highly polished RPG in which to exorcise your inner demons and kick defenceless farmyard animals , Fable tells the right story. It's Always a pleasure to chat with Lionhead, so this month we were delighted to get together with Guildford's finest development house to hear the tall tale behind Fable: The Lost Chapters, one of the studio's most hilarious and bumpkin creations. We put on our robes and wizard hats to take council with brothers Dene Carter designer, left and Simon Carter lead coder, right , the minds behind all the brothels, phallic hedges and chicken football of Albion Dene: "When Simon and I were kids, we were kicking around the idea of something we called 'The Game'.
This was going to be an RPG where you could do pretty much anything you wanted in the entire world, including taming your own horses and mixing your own potions from everything. In short, it was just ridiculous. Simon: And very, very dull! Dene: "Imagine Morrowind, but multiply the dullness by an ultralarge factor. It wasn't on any specific platform, the idea was just 'The Game' in our heads and it kept moving onto whatever platform we were on next. That'll be perfect'! Dene: 'There were frankly buckets of really stupid ideas we had throughout the development of Fable -, things like chicken-kicking competitions and brothels.
The nice thing with Fable is it's the sort of game where, when you have an idea or when you think about something in the normal, everyday world that strikes you as a bit ridiculous, you can think, 'I wonder what that would be like in Albion? Dene: In a stern voice "We'd like to feel that Fable has a very deep, philosophical message. It's actually ripping the piss out of the culture of celebrity greatly.
We really liked the idea that these heroes were frankly, stupidly blown-up, horrible characters you'd find in Hello! Thanks for your feedback. The version of Fable on the marketplace is the regular version, something I was disappointed to find out when I downloaded it.
Does anybody know if Xbox is going to put up the DLC for the original fable? Or if the are going to put up fable the lost chapters on the marketplace?? Because I can't find an original fable the lost chapters game anywhere. They are making a HD remake of the first Fable so it may be worth waiting for that.
Not sure if it will be The Lost Chapters version but i would assume it is. The dlc for the first fable wont be up for download,only way to play it at the moment is to buy it on disc. It's just the first fable. The lost chapters edition has a bug that prevents full completion and freezes before you get to kill Jack the final time. This thread is locked. You can follow the question or vote as helpful, but you cannot reply to this thread.
I have the same question 0.
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