# Has anyone here played Fable yet? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 28, 2004, 6:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-here-played-fable-yet/266448 "2004-09-28T06:50:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![sturmhauke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47c2d/32.png) [@sturmhauke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sturmhauke)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2004, 6:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-here-played-fable-yet/266448/1 "2004-09-28T06:50:18Z")
It’s out now, and I’ve seen a few good reviews, but I haven’t seen any threads. I see 2 possibilities: 1. All the Dopers with this game have been fired from their jobs, threatened with eviction notices, and dumped by their partner, but they haven’t even noticed because the wall of soda cans around their Xbox shields them from the outside world. 2. Nobody actually gives a crap about this game. So, which is it? ---
**Author:** ![SolGrundy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbce88/32.png) [@SolGrundy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SolGrundy)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2004, 6:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-here-played-fable-yet/266448/2 "2004-09-28T06:52:23Z")
For me, it’s (2). At least for now. I was really excited about this game when I first heard about it, but the initial reviews have been lukewarm enough that I’m willing to wait until the price drops a little before I pick it up. If I had time to play games lately, I’d be playing _The Sims 2_. ---
**Author:** ![SPOOFE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c5a1d2/32.png) [@SPOOFE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SPOOFE)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2004, 7:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-here-played-fable-yet/266448/3 "2004-09-28T07:28:48Z")
Every RPG I play from now on will be compared to Morrowind. From the reviews I’ve read, Fable doesn’t sound better enough to grab me. All right, I can have five different wives! … This is fun? Na-a-a-ah. I’ll wait until Bethesda puts out either Fallout 3 or Oblivion, whichever comes first. ---
**Author:** ![Silentgoldfish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@Silentgoldfish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silentgoldfish)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2004, 7:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-here-played-fable-yet/266448/4 "2004-09-28T07:56:42Z")
Personally I’m hanging out for KOTOR 2 (done by the same team that did Torment [Duffman]Oh yeah![/Duffman]). Fable sounds too much like a Black and White type deal – sandbox world with a story grafted on at the last second. ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2004, 8:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-here-played-fable-yet/266448/5 "2004-09-28T08:26:53Z")
I’ve never been interested in games where my character can die from old age. I like to purposely spend a lot of gametime on a good rpg and nothing would piss me off worse than having this be rewarded by permanent death. Also, wasn’t Fable originally supposed to be an online game (via xbox live)? ---
**Author:** ![Duderdude2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/cdc98d/32.png) [@Duderdude2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duderdude2)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2004, 8:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-here-played-fable-yet/266448/6 "2004-09-28T08:33:03Z")
Don’t worry, in Fable, once you reach a certain age, you simply stop aging. You won’t die. And yes, it was originally supposed to support Xbox Live, but that, along with many other features were dropped, which likely contibuted to its so-so reviews. ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2004, 8:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-here-played-fable-yet/266448/7 "2004-09-28T08:45:22Z")
Well, that helps. Any reports on how long it is? Although I **loved** KotOR, I was a bit dissapointed with its ~40 hours of gameplay. If Fable is over 100 hours I might buy it… ---
**Author:** ![Duderdude2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/cdc98d/32.png) [@Duderdude2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duderdude2)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2004, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-here-played-fable-yet/266448/8 "2004-09-28T16:10:22Z")
I haven’t played it, but I’ve heard if you’re playing straight through, you can be done in a little over 10 hours. However, apparently there’s dozens of hours of extras, etc, so it really just depends on how one plays the game. ---
**Author:** ![badomen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c2a13f/32.png) [@badomen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/badomen)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2004, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-here-played-fable-yet/266448/9 "2004-09-28T22:02:11Z")
A review I read had the game with all the side quests at about 25 hours. Not super long. You can stretch that out a bit pursuing wives and whatnot, but still, it feels like a very short game. I haven’t finished it yet but I think I am getting close. Taking me a bit longer than I expected after some of the early reviews I had read. It’s not a bad game though. It would have been nice to see the kind of quests and size of world available in something like Morrowind with this game engine. ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2004, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-here-played-fable-yet/266448/10 "2004-09-28T22:14:26Z")
Wow, 10-25 hours? I tought this was supposed to be a big epic xbox “killer-app”. One of my only complaints with Knights of the Old Republic was that it was too short and it took me 54 hours the first time I played. What happened? With all the anticipation I can’t imagine they ran out of funding. ---
**Author:** ![FilmGeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@FilmGeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FilmGeek)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2004, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-here-played-fable-yet/266448/11 "2004-09-28T22:14:28Z")
Ardred picked it up this afternoon. (happy birthday, Ardred) As for length, because every choice you make makes a difference in your character and their interactions, I would think it’s got massive replay value. I haven’t played it yet, as I’m still at work, but the concept sounds great. ---
**Author:** ![Silentgoldfish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@Silentgoldfish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silentgoldfish)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2004, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-here-played-fable-yet/266448/12 "2004-09-28T22:21:56Z")
What happened? Peter Molyneux. Has that guy released a game that didn’t ultimately fall short and suck since Populace? Some visionary. ---
**Author:** ![Silentgoldfish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@Silentgoldfish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silentgoldfish)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2004, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-here-played-fable-yet/266448/13 "2004-09-28T22:22:58Z")
I of course mean Popul_ous_. ---
**Author:** ![sturmhauke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47c2d/32.png) [@sturmhauke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sturmhauke)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2004, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-here-played-fable-yet/266448/14 "2004-09-28T23:58:18Z")
He has a tendency to reach too far I think. You gotta admit, he always pushes the boundary of what’s possible, even if the result isn’t all that great. ---
**Author:** ![Soapbox\_Monkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@Soapbox\_Monkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soapbox_Monkey)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2004, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-here-played-fable-yet/266448/15 "2004-09-29T00:00:16Z")
From what I’ve seen (my friend played it for about 2 hours in my presence) it seemed like an extremely linear game disguised as being nonlinear. ---
**Author:** ![Silentgoldfish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@Silentgoldfish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silentgoldfish)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2004, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-here-played-fable-yet/266448/16 "2004-09-29T01:26:36Z")
> [@sturmhauke](#): > > He has a tendency to reach too far I think. You gotta admit, he always pushes the boundary of what’s possible, even if the result isn’t all that great. From what I’ve seen he always _talks_ about pushing boundries but fails in the attempt. ---
**Author:** ![Lissa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/85f322/32.png) [@Lissa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lissa)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2004, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-here-played-fable-yet/266448/17 "2004-09-29T01:31:12Z")
I was looking forward to this game back when it was still _Project Ego._ I’ve played for about five hours now, not really doing any of the quests: just exploring. Sometimes, it’s just fun to wander around and appreciate the beauty of the scenery. I haven’t put in any long game time yet-- taking the game in little sips, as it were, to make it last longer. I’m glad that it’s easy to play. I’m easily frustrated by games which require fast thumb-work and skillful use of the controller. I didn’t grow up with one of these in my hands, so games like _Tomb Raider_ which required a quick succession of button-pressing in precise order would cease to be fun very rapidly. Count me as one of those having a lot of fun with it. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2004, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-here-played-fable-yet/266448/18 "2004-09-29T02:22:01Z")
> [@Silentgoldfish](#): > > What happened? Peter Molyneux. Has that guy released a game that didn’t ultimately fall short and suck since Populace? Some visionary. _Dungeon Keeper_. ---
**Author:** ![My\_Darn\_Snake\_Legs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f14d63/32.png) [@My\_Darn\_Snake\_Legs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/My_Darn_Snake_Legs)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2004, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-here-played-fable-yet/266448/19 "2004-09-29T02:40:31Z")
well, three of my friends have been playing it for the last few weeks, and they are having a great time with it. That’s my anacdotal bit for the day. ---
**Author:** ![Silentgoldfish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@Silentgoldfish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silentgoldfish)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2004, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-here-played-fable-yet/266448/20 "2004-09-29T03:40:22Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > _Dungeon Keeper_. He did that? Ok that’s still 2 for 4 though. It wouldn’t bug me except that he keeps promising the world and the press keeps acting like he consistantly delivers. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-here-played-fable-yet/266448.md?page=2)