• @[email protected]
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    910 months ago

    I remember playing the first two and loving them. When the third came out, I heard it wasn’t even good, so I never played.

    • @[email protected]
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      1510 months ago

      Honestly, I like it a lot. Interesting characters and its fun to change a whole world as a king. It is indeed worse than II but I still enjoy it.

        • @[email protected]
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          410 months ago

          Yeah off-putting, but I feel like it made sense: when you are King/Queen you can do selfless things for little personal gain, or you can do selfish things for great monetary gain.

          • @[email protected]
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            710 months ago

            Or you can buy up a bunch of real estate, get filthy rich off of rents, and finance the morally good decisions out of your own pocket, trivially breaking the core conflict of the end of the game. Seriously, I did this by accident. I just figured it would be a good idea to hoard a shitload of gold just in case, and it turned out that I was right.

            • @[email protected]
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              110 months ago

              Yeah, I think it maybe have been a bit of capitalist realism leaking to it. Kind of a piece of Cyber Punk 2077 problem for me. Like they have just a little hints or theming of corrupt landlords and corporations, but no meaningful resistance or alternatives to the system.

        • Omega
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          410 months ago

          What was the message? Excessive taxation increases suffering. Try to find a balance or don’t. Seems like a typical medieval setup.

    • @[email protected]
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      310 months ago

      I didn’t go far into it. I remember it had a rather boring start.

      Also I was already a bit pissed at those few doors in Fable 2 that mostly only opened in co-op (except one or two) and had weird stuff hidden behind them that I wanted to see, and I got to one again in 3. It’s a minor thing but it may have played a part in the “fuck that game” sentiment.

      Seriously, talk about tacking on and forcing a multiplayer mode into a game that is absolutely not made for it.

    • @NotAGuyInAHat
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      110 months ago

      My wife and enjoyed the cooperative greatly but soooo much went wrong