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Fable Review

by David Hostetler [posted 20080224:00:16 (Sun)]

While I've got a long track record of railing against 'action' RPGs, I have an admitted penchants for just plain RPGs, where by 'plain' I mean games that actually offer legitimate role-playing, rather than confusing the concept with random number generation (which has always struck me as a particularly odd pair of concepts to confuse).  So I've had my eye on Molyneux's Fable ever since I caught wind of it.  That was a long time ago.  Even for real time, not just internet time.  Nevertheless, I finally got around to giving it a fair shake, and unfortunately what fell out of it was an admission that it's purported role-playing was a ruse.  I did not react kindly.  See for yourself.