Fable 2004

Is it still worth playing?

Big Blue Box Studios' 2004 third person action role playing game for the Xbox, with Peter Molyneux among its designers. You are the unnamed Hero of Oakvale in the world of Albion, taking required quests marked gold and optional ones marked silver at the Heroes' Guild. Combat is melee, ranged and magic, and experience splits into Strength, Skill and Will, spent at the Guild. What you do shows on the Hero. Alignment shifts with good or evil acts and changes how the Hero looks and how townspeople react. Those towns offer trade, property ownership and marriage, and nearly any villager can be flirted with, won over with gifts and married. A character whose look and reputation follow good and evil acts still makes those choices visible today.