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    Fable III

    Game » consists of 16 releases. Released Oct 26, 2010

    The third game in the Fable series sets you with the task of overthrowing your own brother, the tyrant ruler of Albion, as the kingdom enters the industrial era.

    Fable III For PC Gets A Date, New DLC Announced

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    Edited By BradNicholson
    Fable III for the PC has been dated: the slightly-less-than-great third title in the Fable franchise will hit the platform May 17, 2011 in the US. This version was once slated to hit on Oct. 26, 2010 alongside the Xbox 360 edition of the game, but it was delayed as Microsoft began focusing on “building experiences optimized” for both platforms.
     
    Perhaps falling under the experience optimization banner are these two key additions to the Games for Windows Live Fable, which the 360 version doesn't have: 3D support powered via NVIDIA and a “hardcore mode” that nebulously adds “a higher level of difficulty.” I wonder if we’ll have to eat meat and tofu to stave off starvation? What about farting to relieve life-threatening gas build-ups? Oh, a man can dream!
       

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    == TEASER == This news comes via the recent Microsoft event in San Francisco, where another cool Fable III-related bit of information snuck out. As Major Nelson details on his blog, a second downloadable add-on for the RPG is hitting on March 1. “Traitor’s Keep,” as it’s being called, will offer up several new quests about a mysterious prisoner in three new areas: Ravenscar Keep, Clockwork Island, and the Godwin Estate.  
     
    Traitor's Keep will be sold at 560 Microsoft points, and while no release platforms have been mentioned, I imagine both the Xbox 360 and the PC version will get this content.
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    #1  Edited By BradNicholson
    Fable III for the PC has been dated: the slightly-less-than-great third title in the Fable franchise will hit the platform May 17, 2011 in the US. This version was once slated to hit on Oct. 26, 2010 alongside the Xbox 360 edition of the game, but it was delayed as Microsoft began focusing on “building experiences optimized” for both platforms.
     
    Perhaps falling under the experience optimization banner are these two key additions to the Games for Windows Live Fable, which the 360 version doesn't have: 3D support powered via NVIDIA and a “hardcore mode” that nebulously adds “a higher level of difficulty.” I wonder if we’ll have to eat meat and tofu to stave off starvation? What about farting to relieve life-threatening gas build-ups? Oh, a man can dream!
       

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    == TEASER == This news comes via the recent Microsoft event in San Francisco, where another cool Fable III-related bit of information snuck out. As Major Nelson details on his blog, a second downloadable add-on for the RPG is hitting on March 1. “Traitor’s Keep,” as it’s being called, will offer up several new quests about a mysterious prisoner in three new areas: Ravenscar Keep, Clockwork Island, and the Godwin Estate.  
     
    Traitor's Keep will be sold at 560 Microsoft points, and while no release platforms have been mentioned, I imagine both the Xbox 360 and the PC version will get this content.
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    #2  Edited By Krakn3Dfx

    Nice, hopefully it's better than the main story.
     
    Also, first.
     
    Finally.  Jeebus F'n Crisco.

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    #3  Edited By Maluvin

    I've never played any of the fable titles.  Should I give this one a chance on the PC if I like things like Dragon Age and Elder Scrolls?

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    #4  Edited By PhatSeeJay

    How about a DLC that adds events to those elusive 100 fucking days in your "year" as ruler?!

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    #5  Edited By Terry_Towelling

    Third?
     
    Such a shame about this game....

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    #6  Edited By super2j

    well finally. I have been waiting for that sucker  a  long time.

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    #7  Edited By Dylabaloo

    Does anybody want this?

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    #8  Edited By BasketSnake

    Hardcore Fable 3! NO dogs, NO potions and you can dream about any kind of map marker!

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    #9  Edited By Yummylee

    Hardcore mode.. so only three saves for the entire 30 hour adventure? =O

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    #10  Edited By wolf_blitzer85

    I bet it'll look pretty. Too bad the game still fucks you hard in the end.

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    #11  Edited By gosukiller

    Wait. Why would they port the inferior one and not Fable 2?  

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    #12  Edited By AxleBro

     Don't buy this. There i said it.

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    #13  Edited By Crixaliz
    @Maluvin: Fable is a much simpler RPG compared to those two. In terms of combat and the choices you make. Also character creation aspect is pretty basic too.
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    Microsoft has a weird way of alienating the PC gamers and still trying to make a buck or two with late shoddy ports. It's baffling, seeing how they never bothered to port over Gears of War 2 and Fable 2. 
     
    Needless to say, this release will bomb. Fable is just not a thing on the PC, as one Mr. Navarro would say.

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    #15  Edited By 2HeadedNinja

    No, thanks Microsoft. And dear Microsoft, let me tell you: If this game sells poorly (and trust me, it will), thats not because we PC gamers all are evil people who pirated a copy of the game, its because the game is not good and you failed to even deliver Fable 2 to us.  
     
    So, with all due respect, take this game and shove it.

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    #16  Edited By Rattle618

    I really hope they release a Fable 2 PC version along with this, cause otherwise Im not going to get near it.

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    #17  Edited By cornbredx
    I will be continuing to not get this game.
     
    @Maluvin:  No. Those games are good and more robust RPGs. Fable is more action oriented and gets farther away from RPG in every outing.
     
    That being said, if you do want to try Fable I suggest either the 1st or the second. The first has a decent story with closure and is fairly fun (which you can get on PC, but it has one quest that breaks the game and they never bothered to fix- so don't marry a particular Mayor of Bowerstone or do any side quest relating to her). The second had decent combat, but a really flawed ending (XBOX only though, so don't know if that's an option for you).
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    #18  Edited By TheToecutter

    Ah, Fable 3, how you disappoint me. (ker rhyme)

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    #19  Edited By Deimos
    @2HeadedNinja said:
    " No, thanks Microsoft. And dear Microsoft, let me tell you: If this game sells poorly (and trust me, it will), thats not because we PC gamers all are evil people who pirated a copy of the game, its because the game is not good and you failed to even deliver Fable 2 to us.   So, with all due respect, take this game and shove it. "
    This pretty  much sums it up.
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    #20  Edited By warxsnake

    Honestly, I doubt anyone on pc gives a shit about this title anymore, especially after the half-baked track record of the release of fable game(s) on PC. There are so many other, better options... at this point the only sales this thing will get if it's put on Steam and on a ridiculous sale. 
     
    Buy Witcher 2 and DA2 instead.

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    #21  Edited By rustyspoon

    I kinda feel sorry for all the PC players that were looking forward to this...

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    #22  Edited By crusader8463

    Half a year late, and we never got the previous game in the series. No thanks Microsoft.

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    #23  Edited By sammo21

    Congratulations PC gamers...now out disappointment can come to you in an instant.   
     
    Oh but it will look better (isnt that the typical thing I hear now with PC games?  Not features but "it looks better"?).

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    #24  Edited By blueduck

    The Fable series should have died a long time ago.

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    #25  Edited By Maluvin

    Yeah based on my initial impressions and what I'm hearing here this is one to skip.

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    #26  Edited By donaldkhogan

    Well, I'm hoping that "hardcore mode" refers to completely changing the game so that it is fun to play.  Then I'd be all over this.  Dunno about you guys, but I still think Fable is better than either of its sequels.  The Lost Chapters version was awesome on PC.

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    #27  Edited By Mumrik
    @atomic_dumpling said:
    " Microsoft has a weird way of alienating the PC gamers and still trying to make a buck or two with late shoddy ports. It's baffling, seeing how they never bothered to port over Gears of War 2 and Fable 2.  Needless to say, this release will bomb. Fable is just not a thing on the PC, as one Mr. Navarro would say. "
     
    Fable is not a thing on the PC because (as you said) MS has done its best to prevent it from being that. It's odd that they choose to release the worst title in the series on the PC, but not the one that got the best reception (F2).  I absolutely agree with the rest of what you wrote.

     I'm really tired of MS's ways here. It's as if they don't understand at all that games and gamers have been essential in keeping their operating system market-share, and that pissing on them and emphasizing consoles (which they make very little money on) might hurt them in the OS space over time. They HAVE been losing market share since they entered the console space and started undermining PC gaming (buying out devs, dropping PC publishing plans).
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    #28  Edited By SpacePenguin

    Im sorry but fable III sucked

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    #29  Edited By gike987

    Same day as The Witcher 2. So now we have to choose between one of the best looking PC exclusives in a long time or a many months late console port of a game that wasn't all that great to begin with.

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    #30  Edited By Brake

    I was intrigued before all the reviews came out.

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    #31  Edited By xyzygy

    Cool. Lionhead better have been working their asses off to optimize this game better than the 360 version. It was a good game but man, Bower Lake (or the Millfields in Fable 3 era) chugged like bastard.

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    #32  Edited By chilipeppersman
    @blueduck said:
    " The Fable series should have died a long time ago. "
    yea i hated it since the first one lol
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    #33  Edited By TheChaos

    Took so fucking long that I don't even care anymore.

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    #34  Edited By alternate

    If they fix a lot of the complaints that is one thing but it is is just higher res and you can use a mouse then it wasn't worth the wait.

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    #35  Edited By ptys

    Love who this non-news is getting the treatment from the GB community. Please only post stuff we actually care about. LOL

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    #36  Edited By dr_mantas

    The first Fable was great. Loved it. On the PC.
    From what I heard about this, I shouldn't even care. And I don't.
    This comment is as worthless as Fable III.

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    #37  Edited By Jayzilla

    am i alone in thinking the 3 fable games were just a notch above middling?

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    #38  Edited By mewarmo990
    I liked the first Fable as it had a lot of personality to it, but:
     
    @TheChaos said:
    " Took so fucking long that I don't even care anymore. "
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    #39  Edited By ZeroCast
    Hey Everyone!
     
    I am going to buy it!  Sue me!
     
    Exclamation marks!
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    Too little too late. They took their sweet ass time and now anyone who would have played it either played it on Xbox or doesn't give a shit anymore. With so many better RPGs coming out on PC this would be a waste of money to buy.

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    #42  Edited By Mumrik
    @alternate said:
    " If they fix a lot of the complaints that is one thing but it is is just higher res and you can use a mouse then it wasn't worth the wait. "
    If they gave me a mouse and highers res/draw distance on Red Dead Redemption on the other hand... Yes please. I own a 360, but I just can't bring myself to suffer through shooter mechanics on a gamepad.
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    #43  Edited By MisterMouse

    it is weird seeing this finally having a a release date.

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    #44  Edited By Vaile

    So the Hardcore mode will basically be any other game's Easy mode? 
     
    I still can't forgive myself for spending $80 on this game.. 
     
    YOU ARE TEARING ME APART, LIONHEAD!

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    #45  Edited By landon

    Fuck Fable 3.

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    #46  Edited By armaan8014

    Fi - fucking - naly

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    #47  Edited By armaan8014
    @gike987 said:
    " Same day as The Witcher 2. So now we have to choose between one of the best looking PC exclusives in a long time or a many months late console port of a game that wasn't all that great to begin with. "
    Oh damn didn;t realize that. The Witcher 2 obviously
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    #48  Edited By jakob187

    It must be bad when you forgot that a game like Fable III even came out in the last six months.

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    #49  Edited By ShockD

    Finally!

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    #50  Edited By iek

    If only this had come out when i still cared, half a year ago.

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