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[–] Omegamanthethird@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago (3 children)

I liked 3 a lot. But it's way too easy. IIRC you also can't die. You just revive with a scar. But I never "lost" until I got to that assassin for the DLC.

Also, yeah, the ending was price gouge all of your rental properties or let everyone die. Like, great, what a choice.

Gameplay was fun though. Missions were fun. Everything was good except those two things.

[–] Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

All of the Fable games were easy. The first one had a shield spell early in the magic tree that made hits drain mana instead of health, mana potions were cheaper than health potions, you could carry a ton of them, and using them was instantaneous even in battle. It was straight-up impossible to die unless you did so deliberately.

The shield spell also made it so getting hit didn't reset your combo (which acted as an experience multiplier), so you could grind against infinitely respawning enemies like town guards or undead in the graveyard for a while until your combo was in the hundreds, then chug a few experience potions and max out all of your stats instantly.

The only downside was that the spell made an annoying loud humming noise the entire time it was active.


I can't remember ever having trouble in the second, but I don't remember it being so broken either. It was just tuned a little too low since they wanted casual players to be able to enjoy it. The games could have used some difficulty options.

[–] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

The third game also had that horrid "menuless" interface.

And in a series where magic was so OP it made other combat options useless in comparison, it had by far the most OP magic.

A maxed-out melee or ranged character would take twice as long to kill a single enemy as a low-level mage would take to kill a group of 10 enemies.

[–] yermaw@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The king telling you how hard the decisions are, and how you just dont understand how heavy the crown is and then forcing you to make the tough choices yourself seems great on paper until you realise you can solve the entire world's economic problems by putting a 15 minute shift in at the pie shop.

[–] Omegamanthethird@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

I thought that the point was that the King was only interested in saving everyone, so he didn't even consider that he could avoid being a tyrant. Like, if I remember right, you can overcharge for rent to get the money without going overboard. He just said fuck it and took everything.