Fable??

[UnApologetikLuv]

I'm just curious what your thoughts on the game are...a friend let my borrow it,but b/c of the rating my Mom doesn't want me to play it. So just curious if it's as bad as the ratings make it. I looked up a Christian review and it didn't seem like it needed a rating as harsh as it got.

 

[willard3]

It really comes down to your choices. If you take the evil route, sure, it deserves every rating it got. If you're a good guy, people will cheer you, you'll get a holy aura around you, and are just generally nicer.

Avoid all the vulgar gestures and such and it'll be fine. Otherwise, it's fairly accurate.

 

[Lithium Hobo]

The M rating really stems from blood and sexual themes. There is language, but nothing too harmful (damn and sh-- is all it is). The blood can be a bit much, sometimes in a fountain of itself from the fallen enemy. Sexual themes are avoidable, but it is part of the game. You can flirt with a member of the opposite or same sex and eventually marry them and down the road, have sex.

You don't have to marry, though, or even have sex when you do get married, so there's no real problem with the sexual themes if you avoid it. I do hear in the Lost Chapters (the expansion for Xbox; game for PC), that there is a bordello in the game that has some quests invovled in it.

Fable is really a fun game, though. You can become quite rightgeous doing the right thing and people praise you gloriously for it. Walking into the town and people clap and cheer for you and the ladies swoon at your step.

People always say video games show too much immoral behavior and reward you for it. Fable doesn't do that. If you act evily, people will run in fear of you, they have a large dislike for you, and your appearance takes a hard hit as you go down the naughty path. If you act rightgeously, you will be praised, you get better deals, and are basically rewarded for your good efforts (i.e. looking pretty good for a 60 year old).

 

[UnApologetikLuv]

Thanks guys!

 

[FamilyFriendlyGaming]

I heard that this game allows a player to have multiple spouses, and it allows same sex marriage. Can anyone verify that?

 

[Paladin Dave]

Its a possibility, I am told. As much as I am grossed out by that, atleast you don't HAVE to do it. But yeah... thats just one aspect where I think the lads at Lionhead took it a BIT too far.

 

[Dracil]

I'm still sad they took out football with children's heads.

 

[WhirlwindMonk]

I heard that this game allows a player to have multiple spouses, and it allows same sex marriage. Can anyone verify that?

Yes, both are true. The first one I tested myself. The second, I know it's possible from a dev quote, and I'm not willing to confirm it.

The game is good, just far too short. If you play a good character, it probably should only have a T rating for violence, blood, and gore. If you enjoy RPGs, I'd say it's worth your time if you can convince your parents.

 

[UnApologetikLuv]

If you enjoy RPGs, I'd say it's worth your time if you can convince your parents.

Now that would be the tricky part, eh? It's not really my Pop, b/c he's the one who got me into the whole guns , knives, war, and fighting...it's more my Mom. She doesn't really look at the game itself....mroe the rating. So I'll be praying!

*Corey*

 

[Lithium Hobo]

I heard that this game allows a player to have multiple spouses, and it allows same sex marriage. Can anyone verify that?

Yup. However, finding a same sex attraction is rare in the game I've found. Only a few choice gentlemen here and there will find you attractive. As for wives, yes you can have more than one wife, but only 1 per town.

Now that would be the tricky part, eh? It's not really my Pop, b/c he's the one who got me into the whole guns , knives, war, and fighting...it's more my Mom. She doesn't really look at the game itself....mroe the rating. So I'll be praying!

*Corey*

Well, you're 16, only one year away from 17, which is the youngest you can be to even buy a M rated game. Maybe you can get your dad to help talk your mom into it. I know when I'm trying to talk my dad or mom into something, I always come off as condescending, I guess, so I get in trouble for having "a tone". So I try to get the other parent to talk to the parent in question if they can convince them and tell them my side of the case.

 

[UnApologetikLuv]

haha, you sound like me!

 

[Lignoba]

I heard that this game allows a player to have multiple spouses, and it allows same sex marriage. Can anyone verify that?

Yup done it. And even beat my same sex partner after he wouldnt put out... but thats how I roleplay an evil character.

 

[Pyrokinesis]

Fable is very good game, I have just started playing it . It seems it can be pretty violent, with sexual content, but you can avoid it! That's great, your character can differ a lot... But all of my friends who also play this game are on the evil side, because it's fun be evil... >_<. I cannot be evil, even in games.

 

[Lithium Hobo]

Fable is very good game, I have just started playing it . It seems it can be pretty violent, with sexual content, but you can avoid it! That's great, your character can differ a lot... But all of my friends who also play this game are on the evil side, because it's fun be evil... >_<. I cannot be evil, even in games.

Yeah, I know what you mean. Sometimes it can be hard for me to make an evil character because I don't kill civilians, I just kill bandits and undead because, well, that's what attacks me, and I just saved the merchants, so I can't just go and kill them too. However....

Spoiler: Fable Ending

...it's easy to be 100% at the end of the game if you choose to take the Sword of Aeons. No matter how good you are, you become all the way evil. I tried to make a file where I was 100% good but still get the Sword of Aeons, and, well, all those good deeds went to no use except to get me some new emotes, lol.

 

[zoziw]

MOD HAT ON

The question of same-sex marriage in this game has been answered and no more discussion will be allowed as per section 4.2 of the CF rules.

MOD HAT OFF

 

[blacktroll]

This game = 2 short.

 

[Lithium Hobo]

This game = 2 short.

Very true. It's easy to blast through the main quest in under 6 hours in that game. However, the game is much longer if you do all the side quests and such. Plus, the game is pretty much endless if you strive to own all the towns and such and max out everything you have, get all the weapons, etc. Still, even after that it's pretty short for an RPG.

 

[The Doctor of Thugonomics]

i like the swords of aeons the kicks butt you rule with that sword.

 

[Veiled Viper]

Yes,it does deserve the M rating,but it was a fun,short game.Can't wait for the next one and I hope it's longer and more immersive.