Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-87.102.2.235-20160720090052/@comment-25936766-20170724035535

Arkantos95 wrote: ... I feel like I missed out having 3 be my only experience with the Fable franchise. Ugh, you got the 2nd worst game of all Fable games (Counting The Journey and excluding things like Fable Heroes (or whatever it was called)).

In Fable 3 you can kill everyone just by spamming the Y button, can't die, and even a simple combination of basic spells is enough to kill everything in 1 shot 95% of the time without resistance.

In Fable 1, you actually can die, enemies do offer a challenge for at least a good part of the game (unless you cheese your way through) and you do need skill and some reflexes to avoid being bashed around like an idiot.

Also, it has an actual Final Boss that is actually difficult. Well, TLC did; against (human) Jack of Blades my Badass Goody-2shoes Archer Hero took down more than half his HP with a single arrow. It was still harder than Lucien in Fable 2 though, so it's something.

There's also a bigger variety of spells. For example, Summoning the ghost of a wasp, who turns into the ghost of whatever (stronger than it) enemy it killed (So if the wasp killed a Balverine, you get a Ghost Balverine). Or turning your arrow into a flurry of magical homing arrows. Or creating a shield that uses up Mana to absorb damage. Or healing. And so on.

Of course, it lacks the good things Fable 2 and 3 do have. You can't play as a woman, there's no Corruption-Purity mechanic, no transforming weapons, areas are not open in design, you can't Dye stuff, and every time you level up a single skill your character grows up by 0.7 years.

Still better though. The humor is less retarded, for starters.