The hero needing a gauntlet to channel magic is ridiculous. In lore, the first hero in fable one is like the great great grandson of William Black, the first person to ever have will. William Black was so powerful he reshaped Albion through sheer magic. William Black didn't even die, he still lives on in Fable one as Scythe. The magic that flows through their bloodline is the most powerful source of magic to pretty much ever exist.

I think the lesson we should take from Fable III is to play patty cake with strangers more often

Fable 3 was my introduction to the series and I have so much love for this game. After playing 2, then anniversary in that order I understood why 3 got so much flack. Not only did the earlier games have more content but they also had better written stories and the games were more challenging. Lionhead dropping the ball on this franchise is genuinely heartbreaking

Relegating the legendary John Cleese to a mere menu is an insult.

I lowkey love Fable III, but hated it at first. They downgraded melee, but made magic and ranged OP

The Fable series is hugely flawed, but I adore the series. It's one of my favorites

16:32 in lore Logan and Sparrow made trolls extinct in primary Albion.
They still exist in the Edgelands area of Albion.

26:18 it wasn’t related to Jack. It’s related to William Black.

Possibly your best fable review since your fable 1 and 2 reviews

Fable 3 is my favorite game, and the very best thing about it is that Michael Fassbender voices Logan.

I really do enjoy this series, but they definitely messed up going 500 years into the future what kind of time jump is that 😭

Hey, shout out from Lima Ohio!

Even with all of its flaws, I really do love Fable 3.
It was less magical, had less roleplaying potential, didn't handle the tonal switches between comedy and serious story as well as previous games, it went too far into the future, it simplified too many systems, using magic via gauntlets was a weird and unexplained change, it had less weapons, the golden line could be obnoxious, the promise system was implemented poorly & the endings being reliant on money was frustrating...
We could go on but it still had the magic for me, when playing it after 2 back in the day. Many quests, the towns, the environments, the music, customisation, evolving weapons, legendary weapons, secrets, the darker aspects of the story, the demon doors, the multiplayer, the revolution - I still remember it all fondly. It's nostalgia, yes, but I truly believe that 3 has moments where it's arguably the best Fable game, it's just that the majority is below average. High highs, low lows.

It always felt like the Skyrim, Bioshock Infinite or Final Fantasy XV of the franchise to me - Where a lot of people dislike them for one reason or another when compared to their predecessors, but there are great points of those games and great core ideas which never quite came to fruition.
It's one of those games that I'm passionately angry about, I wish it could be faithfully remade into the game that it could have been

I’ve played dozens of saves on this game over the years, I even bought the game again when I lost it. I find it so comforting and nostalgic that I come back to it again and again. (No I’m not good at games with real combat systems but we ball nonetheless)

They really made some crazy decisions, when all they needed to do was make Fable 2 with more stuff.

I remember before the release the developers put out a developer diary where they bragged about the new developer tools heavily sped up development but they clearly didn't take that extra time to actually make a good experience.

Love your style. Great vid.

Fun fact: the song in the trailer for Fable III is called “Young Men Dead” by the Psychedelic rock band Black Angels. Released in 2006, it was a critique of the Iraq War. Interesting to see it marketed for this game lol.

Love this series, thanks for doing a review. I'm cautiously optimistic that the one coming out next spring will hold on to some of the old charm.

There's some things I don't like about this game but I still enjoyed it there are some things I would change if I was in charge, they should have kept Logan as the main bad guy or somehow The jack of blades return and he worked with Logan like giving him more power in exchange for Albion because he was jealous of our character that we get to be the hero and he would not, some of the characters from the second game returning like hammer (Hannah) a DLC where are character opens a new school, a new heroes guild because Albion needs heroes again!

A frustrating game, I really wonder what it could have been without its troubled development.

An interesting thing to note about buying property in this game. You can't buy every building for sale from the "totally most accurate map ever". Some are only purchasable by physically going to the building itself for some odd reason. Why they didn't make a proper functional map, is beyond me.