Killing Jack of Blades in Fable gets you a considerable amount of experience. After you kill him you get the Sword of Aeons and the option to kill Theresa or throw it in to the vortex. Instead of doing either just hero save the game and start the quest again, you keep the experience gained from the fight so you can just keep doing it. Fable was the top-selling game of September 2004 and sold more than two million units by 2007. The game was followed by two sequels, Fable II in 2008 and Fable III in 2010. Fable Anniversary, a high-definition remake of the game that includes The Lost Chapters, was released for the Xbox 360 and Microsoft Windows in February 2014. Would it be possible for me to purchase the Fable III steam code off of Amazon (the only legitimate way to buy the game) and run it on Mac OS through Boot Camp. My girlfriend has a mac, and I have windows with Fable III no issues, i’m wondering if Co-Op is even possible generally speaking. Graphically Updated to HD. Fable Anniversary is without a doubt a major leap visually over the original Fable, with stunning graphics and audio remastered for the Xbox 360.The development team has devoted enormous resources into remaking the adventure, breathing new life into the beloved classic with advancements like vastlyimproved fidelity, lighting, special effects and more.
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Overview
This is an adventure role-playing game set in a fantasy world where your interactions with the world and villagers, and decisions about your use of magical power, substantially alter the story and the environment.As you progress through the game over many hours, your character visually changes depending on how you play. As in other role-play games you choose how to develop skills and accrue equipment and clothing. In Fable II you can gain a career as Blacksmith, Woodcutter, Bartender, Assassin, Civilian Displacement (Slaver), Bounty Hunter, or Merchant.
You develop deep relationships in the game with different non-player characters. You have a pet dog to help you. You can even find a wife and have children. But these things remain secondary to the main adventure story.
Although the features of the game developed with each version, Fable II is generally thought to be the best version of the game. - Fable (Xbox)
- Fable: The Lost Chapters expansion
- Fable Anniversary remade first game on Xbox 360
- Fable II (Xbox 360) with free Knothole Island and See the Future downloadable content available.
- Fable III (Xbox 360)
- Fable Heroes spin-off game (Xbox 360).
- Fable: The Journey spin-off game for Xbox Kinect camera, that is controlled by motion and gestures alone.
- Fable Trilogy compilation including Fable Anniversary, Fable II and Fable III (Xbox 360)
- Fable (Xbox Series X, PC) Series rebooted for the new generation of consoles from the team behind open world driving game Forza Horizon.
Game Details
Rating: PEGI 16+
Release Date: 14/09/2004
Platforms: Mac, PC, Xbox, Xbox 360, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Genres:Action, Adventure, Open World and Role-Playing
Developer:@WeArePlayground
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Commitment
Players: This is a single player game.
Costs
Fable usually costs £14.99 to £29.99.Fable Anniversary
Fable II
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| Xbox One | £14.99 | – | – |
Fable III
Fable I, II and III
| Xbox One | – | – | Free Xbox Game Pass |
This game is free to play. Additional in-game purchases are offered for items that enhance the experience. The Fable Anniversary remake includes all the in-game purchases for free. Other games including Fable Trilogy require in-game purchases for additional content that extend the adventures.
Age Ratings
This game has been rated ESRB MATURE 17+.
PEGI 16+ with frequent, moderate violence. The examiners report expands this rating with the following: Violence consists of you hacking and slashing and casting spells at enemies. Blood is shown. Bodies remain for a short while. You can also attack innocent civilians, get drunk in your local tavern, and spend all your money on Blackjack.
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Fable Anniversary is content to ignore too many old problems
| Game Info |
| Platform360, Win |
| PublisherMicrosoft Studios |
| DeveloperLionhead Studios |
| Release DateFeb 4, 2014 |
Fable Anniversary has two difficult legacies to contend with.
2011's Halo Anniversary presented a lovingly touched up version of 2001's Halo: Combat Evolved. This introduced publisher Microsoft's branding for the trend of 'HD remakes' — prettied up and improved versions of classic titles.
As Microsoft's other longest running action series, Fable seemed ripe for the same treatment. At the twilight of the Xbox 360, Lionhead has released Fable Anniversary, which, on paper, follows Halo's lead, giving the original Fable a wholly new visual presentation.
But there's a problem. Since Fable's debut on the original Xbox in 2004, Lionhead Studios has continued the series to varying degrees of critical acclaim, polishing the original formula and tempering their occasional surplus of ambition. None of that is evident in Fable Anniversary. The enhanced presentation isn't enough to paint over the fundamental problems that first appeared in 2004 — and that Lionhead hasn't fixed.
In premise and plot, Fable Anniversary is identical to the 'director's cut' Fable: The Lost Chapters originally released on Xbox and later PC. You start the game as a young boy in a village who quickly loses his family and village to a violent attack. Saved by a member of the famous Heroes Guild, you're then guided quickly through your adolescence to become a full, card-holding member of the guild, responsible for hero'ing contracts, all while unraveling a growing mystery in the land of Albion.
Fable — and so, Fable Anniversary — is an action RPG light on stat tracking and heavy on actual play. You have attributes for strength, dexterity and magic, and using abilities tied to an attribute gives you bonus experience for its respective upgrades. There's not a lot of gear, and there aren't many weapons. It's all about easily-accessible combat and lots of little 'moral' choices throughout the game that reflect on you, both in the way that citizens react to you and in your appearance. Be good, and you'll look it. Act a monster, appear a monster.
Act a monster, look a monster
when it's working, Fable comes together quite unlike any other action RPG out there
You'll get chances to be a hero or a villain via jobs assigned at the Guild, which, strangely, include contracts to save the helpless and to prey on them as well. There are wrinkles to the job system, such as the ability to boast, which makes missions harder for a greater reward. Fable Anniversary is pretty straightforward. You'll get a job, you'll kill some things while potentially rescuing someone else, and you'll get paid.
It seems simple because it is simple, but when it's working, Fable Anniversary comes together quite unlike any other action RPG out there. Combat is mashy, but there's a rhythm to it, and leveling up different skills yields tangible (and often visible) benefits quickly. More than just about any of its contemporaries at release, or even now, Fable Anniversary is content to let you become just short of a walking god.
It's not complicated to accumulate massive amounts of experience quickly and level yourself well beyond the quests you can take at any given time. That it's still perfectly satisfying to clean up Albion's evil with little personal danger — or serve as a tyrant without peer — is a testament to the bizarre je ne sais quoi that Lionhead found with Fable.
This new Anniversary release takes all of that and provides with a comprehensive visual makeover. But that's just about the only thing it does. Fable Anniversary only serves to build a new façade on massive structural and technical problems.
Basic but critical elements of Fable Anniversary reflect the amount of progress made in this kind of title since the original's release in September of 2004. In so many ways, it's a only-somewhat playable mess, a collection of parts that feels less tightly sewn together than it did all those years ago. Take the camera, for example, which might charitably be called unfocused. It would more accurately be called wildly broken.
The camera is often wildly broken
Oh, sure, outside, where there are no walls for it to get stuck on, it functions. You can see things that are beyond your hero, and it can be coaxed to move where it should probably go. It's never good, but I was able to forget about it. But add a few trees to that environment, and things get complicated — it was difficult to position it reliably where I needed it to be. In caves or smaller structures, the camera can clip through the world or otherwise collide with it in a way that successfully harvested a volume of profanity my living room hasn't been witness to for months.
This was quickly surpassed by my colorful responses to Fable Anniversary's abysmal targeting system. The way it's supposed to work: a pull of the left trigger locks on to the nearest enemy, where your focus will stick — move left or right while holding the trigger and you'll remain attached to that target to shoot, stab, or spell at your leisure. This, it should be noted, would be fine, because when it does this, it does work fine.
But the lock-on system doesn't do 'that' (where 'that' means 'work'). Instead, it was much more likely to: turn me around 180 degrees to lock onto a civilian; turn me 180 degrees to lock on to nothing at all; lock on to an enemy dozens of yards away instead of an enemy directly in front of me; lock on to nothing at all parallel to several enemies; lock on to an enemy — which Fable Anniversary shows by highlighting the individual in red — but not really lock on to them, which I would only learn as my arrows fired in a totally different direction.
number of times Fable Anniversary hardlocked during this review: 6
With one or two enemies, this wasn't really that big a deal. Towards the latter half of the game, as Fable Anniversary was throwing greater and greater numbers of enemies at me, it was rage-inducing. But even more galling is the horrific number of game-breaking bugs and system lock-ups that hang from Fable Anniversary's every surface and precipice — many of which are carried over from the original game.
This is not a typo or an exaggeration. Fatal quest problems from the original game that would halt progress and require, at best, a load of a much earlier save, have been preserved for this new release. Fable in 2004 was notorious for hardware crashes; in my time with Fable Anniversary for review, the game locked up my Xbox 360 six times. A simple Google search in the week since release reveals numerous users suffering from problems that Fable veterans recall from their initial playthroughs. In 2004.
To be clear: Lionhead and Microsoft have released a game with known issues over a decade old without fixing them.
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In 2004, these issues were offset by the ambition that shined through Fable's cracked exterior. The ability to marry (whether a man or a woman), the ability to become a murderer or a saint, the persistence of certain world elements — all of these things set Fable apart from the pack. Those things are still present in Fable Anniversary, but context has changed. And it hasn't been kind, new visual layer or no. Even here, there are problems: Fable Anniversary's performance is an embarrassment. The framerate drops precipitously and seemingly at random, making the series' traditionally soggy controls even less reliable.
Wrap Up:
Fable Anniversary is content to ignore too many old problems
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These issues are so frustrating because of the bizarre, charming core that sits at the heart of the Fable series. If you could wade through the sometimes crippling issues present in Fable Anniversary, there's so much here worth exploring. But that's the thing. Lionhead themselves pushed forward into this territory much more successfully with Fable 2 and even Fable 3. This leaves Fable Anniversary a curiosity at best — and an infuriating disservice to the series' legacy at worst.
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