A few google searches and a tweaking of the DEP later, no problem. Game launches fine. Fine, until the point where the game actually tried to load, at which time the game "Encounters a problem and has to close. Tried safe mode, no dice.
Tried Windows XP compatability mode, no solution there. Tried creating another profile to play the game, also didn't work. Any other ideas or fixes for this game? Was this reply helpful? Welcome, ladies and gentleman to the world of Fable. A world in which the traditional trappings of a fantasy RPG swords, spells, stats - check collide head-on with the phenomenon of cause and effect meaning that pretty much every action you take will have some result in game, from your choice of haircut to whose blood you decide to spill.
It's a simple concept, but one that's carried off with great aplomb, allowing you to play either the godly hero who gains power and respect through helping out the locals, or the dastardly anti-hero who steals everything that's not nailed down, beats up small children and throws a 'kiss my arse' gesture to anyone pot afraid to look. Lionhead has always been one to try something a bit new and Fable's no different, starting you off as a wee nipper and taking you all the way through your character's life, right through to the pension and Just For Men' at the end.
Over time, your actions will start to impact upon your character's appearance. Enjoy picking fights and stealing stuff?
Then watch as your character's skin turns pale, horns start to protrude from your forehead and flies gather around your napper. Prefer helping out the locals? Then your skin will start to glow, you'll get a halo and faint butterflies will encircle you. While the story progresses through the completion of the main missions, there's tons of extra content to be found too: fist-fighting, grave-digging, property development, card games and getting drunk to name a few.
Of course, you could just get pissed down your local, come home, throw up and badger your partner for sex. Just like real life really. Everything looks pretty tasty too running through the upgraded graphics engine and Lionhead's seen right to not only give the graphics a swift boot up the arse, but also extend the improvements to new spells, expressions, missions, regions and more. These aren't just crappy tacked-on extras either - an in-game brothel where you can choose to man-whore yourself out for extra moolah and a massive extra section based after the end of the original are just some of the fantastic extensions to the tale.
One of Fable's most refreshing facets is its attempt to tell an RPG tale in a lighter and more humorous style than normal. Its use of strong British accents, bizarre side quests magic mushrooms anybody?
Having so far sung its praises, we should mention the drawbacks too. If you play games just for the challenge, you'll be disappointed - Fable's not set to tax either your grey matter or your fingertips although the 'lost chapters' at the end definitely provides much more of a task.
Also, despite having the extra third, it's still a tad on the short side for an RPG. Morrowind's endless expanses this definitely is not. Fable may not have reached the lofty heights of Molyneux's original vision, but the result is still a hugely amusing and entertaining waylo fritter away the hours. If you're looking for a highly polished RPG in which to exorcise your inner demons and kick defenceless farmyard animals , Fable tells the right story.
It's Always a pleasure to chat with Lionhead, so this month we were delighted to get together with Guildford's finest development house to hear the tall tale behind Fable: The Lost Chapters, one of the studio's most hilarious and bumpkin creations. We put on our robes and wizard hats to take council with brothers Dene Carter designer, left and Simon Carter lead coder, right , the minds behind all the brothels, phallic hedges and chicken football of Albion Dene: "When Simon and I were kids, we were kicking around the idea of something we called 'The Game'.
This was going to be an RPG where you could do pretty much anything you wanted in the entire world, including taming your own horses and mixing your own potions from everything. In short, it was just ridiculous. Simon: And very, very dull! Dene: "Imagine Morrowind, but multiply the dullness by an ultralarge factor.
It wasn't on any specific platform, the idea was just 'The Game' in our heads and it kept moving onto whatever platform we were on next. That'll be perfect'! Dene: 'There were frankly buckets of really stupid ideas we had throughout the development of Fable -, things like chicken-kicking competitions and brothels. The nice thing with Fable is it's the sort of game where, when you have an idea or when you think about something in the normal, everyday world that strikes you as a bit ridiculous, you can think, 'I wonder what that would be like in Albion?
Dene: In a stern voice "We'd like to feel that Fable has a very deep, philosophical message. It's actually ripping the piss out of the culture of celebrity greatly. We really liked the idea that these heroes were frankly, stupidly blown-up, horrible characters you'd find in Hello! Simon: "We were watching a lot of Big Brother" Dene: "We were trying to differentiate the accents so that the country yokels were very obviously overt country yokels.
So we took the most strong, unpleasantly horrible regional country accents we could and blew them out of all proportion, so you really knew who you were supposed to care about and who was a clapping monkey. They were all caricatures intentionally though, so if ever I visit Northumberland, for example, I hope there's not a gang of pissed off people gathered outside my hotel Simon: "I think if yon were to ask our artists, the bit they were most pleased they jot away with was the topiary cocks.
Basically, it was late and they were a bit pissed off that they were working late, so they decided to make things sha ed out of penises". Simon: "Yeah, I think they're actually in the north part of Bowerstone. But if you asked them on another day, they'd just say that it was in fact a complete accident and there's nothing even remotely phallic about the shape of those bushes.
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