that scene where the hero has his little flashback in his hometown while talking to the woman, is honestly one of my favorite scenes, i love how they integrated the flashback into the present conversation, even now, as clunky as it looks, the transition is solid, and i love it
To this day that ptsd flashback the hero of oakvale has is one of the greatest little cutscenes of all time. That’s how you build a character without a voice
@@SinjinBarrettit just went to shoe how much they cared about the detail. You watched your whole family and village get slaughtered as like a 5 year old boy and it shows that night is still haunting your hero, especially when you finally go back to where it happened
@@jagaloon14 Sure, maybe ijust dont get his point, its just ive found many other cutscenes much better. Like his sister's flashbacks. Or when he meets Jack. I feel like those had a bigger impact than a random girl you got a teddy for.
I love and hate this game, it'll always be the game that stopped me from reading anymore magazines or following/looking forward to new games. Followed this for years before it came out, read all the Peter interviews, the promises, special Gameinformer editions for it, of course got the preorder so I could watch the demo dvd that was given out.. Then after years of hype, getting other people to join on that hype with me, we got a game that only delivered about 10% of what was said.
It was good for when we don’t know he’s the guy who destroyed Oakvale and our family. After that the new voice is good to show Jack isn’t human and has been deceiving us and all other humans.
It's been so long since I've played fable and I was thinking how odd it was that I remembered his voice being so different so I'm so glad you made me realize I wasn't crazy lol. BTW I definitely like the original voice better
@David Cheney OK but just look at Jack. At first Glance, you can tell he's sinister. Even his tone of voice is evil. His first interaction with you is asking to to kill Whisper. This guy is evil without doubt.
When I saw a retrospective video pop up in my notifications I said aloud to myself “that better be my favorite son“ and I just had to laugh at the sentence 😆
The stealth section was never a problem for younger me, because I became rather good at decapitating bandits with arrows. Can't imagine how frustrating it would be to actually sneak past all of em.
used to get me all the time too, very frustrating. but in the anniversary you can just run past them all, get the alarm sounded then kill them and the game wont put you back at the start.
Your channel is killer. I've loved all your retrospectives and the games are ones I've all played and had a special connection too. Honestly it's like my mind is being read and its super cool. Like a just made a new friend talking about my favorite video games. You really do the games you play justice too. There are other channels that do retrospectives, but each one seems like a critic trying their best to find the flaws in an older game. I believe that is the difference and what makes me love these so much. You give the games the benefit of the doubt, even when the game has flaws but you never let that get in the way of the big picture, the concept the game is putting forth. Proud of you son. Seriously.
A side note. Some of the side quests you completed prior to killing Jack the first time were also part of the lost chapters. The game was a little bare before the dlc came to life, but it didn't stop me from completing it hundreds of times before the dlc came to be. The greatest disappointment from the original was getting the sword of aeons and having absolutely no reason to have it. The game was over, everything worth killing was dead. The lost chapters and anniversary truly elevated the original idea. A masterpiece of its time
@@philipdillon83 you laugh. But this isn't a bad estimate. I literally did complete it hundreds of times. During 2 school years my buddy John and I would beat it again every day after school. Pushing the limits of how we could beat it, what was possible. How fast, how strong could we get, what's the most money we could earn? I consider myself a true fan of the original game, but I've only played 2 and 3 a couple of times each. It just isn't the same, although I do really enjoy them
Just wish they didn't nerf the Sword of Aeons so much in The Lost Chapters. Kinda defeats the point of even using it when other weapons do more damage than it does.
@@philipdillon83 yes but in the original game there was no Avo's Tear. The Lost Chapters adds in extra content after you beat Jack the first time. In the original game you can just play afterwards but there's no new quests and the Sword of Aeons does like 550 damage.
Fable was such a big part of my childhood, I love it. It was pretty much first "new" game on "new" pc for a kid, who only played 2d games from 90s before, like starcraft, homm3 or warcraft 2 and diablo 2. And when I found out not only you can make "evil" choices, but they also affect things? My mind was blown to pieces.
I love how you made a point about Jack of blades monsters sounding out of the world/mechanical. I remember thinking the same thing when I played as a kid. Everything else had a place, these didn't.
Proud of you son. While I’ve been spoiled in the past by your long videos released as a whole, this is an exciting change and I can’t wait to see the rest of the content.
I loved Fable, and though I played the sequels and enjoyed the improvements in those and new mechanics, the first one was always my favorite. Far from a perfect game, and somethings always frustrated me about it, but I really liked the feel of it.
@yourfavouriteson Hey dude, your work is appreciated. We like what you are doing. Me and my brother loved your soul reaver review. Would you be so kind as to review Elder Scrolls series from first game to skyrim.
I always enjoyed trying a Neutral playthrough after so many Good and Evil playthroughs. Not Hero trying get Admiration and Praise. Nor a Villain, gaining Power and Revenge. Just a Mercenary doing things for Fame and Glory
That’s basically what I do I have no problem opening all demon doors that are good or evil or doing all quests good or bad but when it comes down to making choices between the two I always go down with good. However the one quest you get in oak vale in fable 1 where the gaurd wants you to go kill an assassin and you find out he’s the brother, I actually take the assassins side because he was targeted first out of jealousy so I go back and kill the gaurd taking the extra cash from doing that quest. Morality games are amazing dragon age is a good one but fable is a rare breed where your character and the world around you changed based of your desisions, a great example is fable to where the choice you make as a child effects bowerstone olde town aesthetics for the rest of the game
My favorite is fable the lost chapters I didn't have the anniversary edition though. My favorite route was evil route. I felt so amazing and cool once I got the mask at the end. God that shit was so edgy and cool xD
I love how you actually role-play whilst describing your play through. Role-playing is something I am seemingly never able to do while playing video games, and I wish I was able to. It makes games so much more fun and interactive.
So the stealth mission to the bandit camp, I just use my bow and try to get a clear shot. If your bow is powerful enough and you're accurate enough, you can decapitate each bandit. None of the bandits will alert anyone if they happen to come across a dead body, unlike town guards.
I never actually had problems with the sneaking area... The large stone at the end of the path can be easily hidden behind, you only need to run through and kill the three bandits, then hide behind the rock, wait for them to respawn and start patrolling, and then you just run to the gate...I figured this out when I was 11. You don't even need to sneak.
"Fable brought it to the masses and made people realize that this was a game that could be made" Uhhh Black & White? Extremely popular at its release and being good or evil was the entire gimmick of the game. Made by the same studio as well.
As a teen i brought a xbox one because i wanted that cancled fable game only to learn it was cancled months after Id played though fable 3 more times then i can remember as a kid, i loved the game
Yeah, pure Will playthrough is basically Fable Hard Mode 😂 absolutely love the Fable franchise, looks like I'll be binge watching these Edit: Son: "killing the Guild master was hard" GM "your health is LOW, do you have any potions or food?" me: "die old man, now who's health is LOW?"
Fable is my favorite game. I love it so much. And while I've thought about how weird it is that they are okay with you being evil, I just now realized exactly how weird it is. Compare it to Star Wars. Say they train people with the force and you were free to be Sith or Jedi and they wouldn't judge as long as you didn't take down the council... xD
This was a genuinely fantastic video. There's not enough classic Fable content out there and I felt like this hit many nails on the head correctly. If you're after more Fable lore, I recommend Skyrionn here on TH-cam, he has a large playlist of Fable lore!
After seen that deform child on the very start I do remember why I uninstalled and never gave that game a chance... I did try to give the 3th a try back in the day but game was so CPU intensive that my PC wasn't up to the task.
Always great to see a new video talking about the Fable series. Good job putting this together, researched pretty well and you showed great clarity when presenting it :)
@@YourFavoriteSon1 If I was your dad, I would have told you to add more stuff about Cut Content. But your video was amazingly researched, none-the-less!
I loooooove Fable 1 and 2. I never had a chance to play 3. That being said, they have their problems, but I enjoy them. Thanks for the nostalgia trip, son!
This is a great video very well researched. I appreciate that you took the time to show both perspectives of this game. If you enjoy Kotor or Kotor 2 I think this style could work well with those games.
Enflame is the best spell in game. It's DPS is just insanely high, even when compared to other spells, like Infernal Wrath and Divine Fury. This is because I can cast Enflame like 7-10 times in the time it takes to cast Wrath/Fury even once, almost tripling or even quintupling the overall damage. In simple words Enflame/Physical Shield combo is broken OP
If you stand where the Will training dummies (if they had eyes) line of sight, where they intersect, then hold shift, you can hit all three in a row without needing to adjust in between. Just be careful as you can hit the Guild Master while doing this.
It's the in depth, quality retrospectives like this, that makes you my favourite son 👍 Great series of games, does have its low points but overall it's good, the first one was one of the games that really got me into RPG's
I think the dialogue lines are fine in their spacing. Better than the five second delay between lines in games like the elder scrolls. It feels like a natural talking pace for somewhere that just talks fast. I know that there are places in the US that talk faster than that.
I love the fables series and it took me forever just to even play the first one. I would constantly reread the game informer magazine that had so much cut content on Fable. I still prefer the Lost chapters over anniversary because of how drastic some of the changes in anniversary are to model faces and Jack's voice being too modulated.
Love the new format, and I think it'll allow you to grow faster this way. Also, not having to edit 5 hours of content together should be a touch less taxing on your mental health too. Keep it up boyo, and stay awesome!
I have watched your legacy of Kain video and an currently working through the fable videos. I was never a fan of the fable games but your work makes them bearable for me. Good work on this one, I liked how you went back through the evil choices
To be honest, I kind of wish you'd recorded from The Lost Chapters or even the base game. The anniversary edition being used as someone who never played it and has very strong nostalgia of the original game on Xbox is a bit jarring. In my opinion the textures and UI being updated is just weird/offputting. That said, i very much enjoyed the retrospective and romp through nostalgia
Great video, but I have some thoughts: I may have misinterpreted what “complete retrospective” means, or at least in this context, but it didn’t feel like a mastery of this game. It instead felt like an elementary playthrough of a game with very little detail on the intricacies of the humor playing such a significant role in the theme and story. You did little to show progression outside of the main story as well. Though you delve deep into the lore initially, you didn’t expand on other elements and quests which were the main draw of the game for many. In fact, there were several times you pressed forward in the plot without explaining what you had to do to get there. How about not ever getting Avo’s Tear in the “good” playthrough? That was a significant part of the expansion of the game. Also, most would start off playing good, but would be faced with choices where they may stray one way or another. Most people aren’t perfectly good or evil. And a lot of my playthroughs ended up being a mix of good, and in some cases “evil”, depending on balance between the two during a decision. You tended to make up for some things you missed during the first telling on the good side but I felt as a long time Fable fan it didn’t go nearly as deep as it could have, and almost spat in the faces of those who remember this game so well. BUT. You did a great job telling the story how you played it. You also provided an alternative to how you played it the first time. Though many things were missing, I really enjoyed your take on the game.
In both of you Fable videos you say over and over again that you weren't sure what the right choice to some of the choices. Are you serious?!?!?!?!?! I couldn't tell if you were joking but the choices are absolutely black and white.
Spent so many gosh dang hours assasins rushing between load borders to stop time so I could drag traders to the evil temple for that dang bow just to realize being good and saccing your wife or husband is all that's needed. Dangit Skorm. Stupid balvarines. Fml.
Started watching the video 3 days ago, paused it midway, downloaded Fable, got all steam achievements, returned to finish watching the video. Yes, I am easily distractable.
Had to stop to comment on the Twinblade guard area. Best way to do this is to just run right in, be noticed and kill them. Then hide behind the rock next to the barrels kitty corner from the Gate. Let them all go to where they are stationed and just charge up a bow shot and head shot the closest guy. He'll lose his head and then you just run for the gate. Won't get caught. Unless you can't aim then He'll say something lmao
i love that the algorithm randomly suggested this video to me, fable is my favourite game series, and I absolutely agree with most of your points, I only really disagreed on your point in fable 2, when you said the choices in fable 2 arent obvious, maybe its because I have been playing the game since launch, but although its not down to the point of this is good this is bad, I still think it was pretty obvious which was the right answers to go for on a good play through, I love this channel and have been watching all your other videos and hope you get the subscribers you deserve
Duuuude, you brought memories of my childhood I had forgotten about the Fable games. 2 was my all time favorite but the 3rd had so much potential but was squandered
And here I was just recently thinking wonder what his next video is going to be and then you pull out this That's my boy I knew there was a reason you were my favorite son
Jesus how long was the hero in the heroes Guild? The little girl who you help find the doll within the prologue looks like an old woman when you go back to Oakvale.
I find it strange that people find anniversary edition to be more pleasing to the eye. looks muddy, sad and weird when compared to a cozy original vision.
@@YourFavoriteSon1 At first you were...then you became ma brutha...I believe with your next video you'll be me...& I'll be you...& there won't be any me & you...only us...Holy shit I need to put my weed aside for a couple of hours
Love this vid and its format. I like them too but this is a breath of fresh air amongst all the long form critiques. The way you framed it as the heros journey not your own really kept my attention, especially the way you handled the slippery slope of evil. Your writing is truly superb my friend.
Loving these vids! Keep it up can't wait to see what's next! Would love to see you try to tackle the resident evil or silent hill franchises. Haha would be a nice long vid or good multiple part vids haha
I was definitely thinking about you doing another video I loved the format it brought back to life for me it was one of the first games I sunk hours and hours into. The narration was perfect
What's your favorite Fable game Dad? ⚔
My nostalgia goggles for the first fable game are set to 20/20
The first of course.
Uh...Ultima 7....because Fable is my son's game.
That's a hard question. There are things I really like about both Fable 1 and 2.
Oddly enough, 3
that scene where the hero has his little flashback in his hometown while talking to the woman, is honestly one of my favorite scenes, i love how they integrated the flashback into the present conversation, even now, as clunky as it looks, the transition is solid, and i love it
Out of the whole game thats what you like?
@@SinjinBarrett i like a lot of things about this game, that's just one of them :3
To this day that ptsd flashback the hero of oakvale has is one of the greatest little cutscenes of all time. That’s how you build a character without a voice
@@SinjinBarrettit just went to shoe how much they cared about the detail. You watched your whole family and village get slaughtered as like a 5 year old boy and it shows that night is still haunting your hero, especially when you finally go back to where it happened
@@jagaloon14 Sure, maybe ijust dont get his point, its just ive found many other cutscenes much better. Like his sister's flashbacks. Or when he meets Jack. I feel like those had a bigger impact than a random girl you got a teddy for.
this video was epic u are talented
I love and hate this game, it'll always be the game that stopped me from reading anymore magazines or following/looking forward to new games. Followed this for years before it came out, read all the Peter interviews, the promises, special Gameinformer editions for it, of course got the preorder so I could watch the demo dvd that was given out.. Then after years of hype, getting other people to join on that hype with me, we got a game that only delivered about 10% of what was said.
Does anyone else like Jack's original voice over the one they gave him in anniversary?
It was good for when we don’t know he’s the guy who destroyed Oakvale and our family. After that the new voice is good to show Jack isn’t human and has been deceiving us and all other humans.
It's been so long since I've played fable and I was thinking how odd it was that I remembered his voice being so different so I'm so glad you made me realize I wasn't crazy lol. BTW I definitely like the original voice better
I like it for when he's a human. The new voice works for when he's a dragon.
Yupp, original is the one I like the best. The new one sounds so "mainstream" evil
@David Cheney OK but just look at Jack. At first Glance, you can tell he's sinister. Even his tone of voice is evil. His first interaction with you is asking to to kill Whisper. This guy is evil without doubt.
I will never forget the constant "Your health is low!" prompt. Lol I remember yelling back 'I know!' as I'm getting my but kicked
"try to get your combat multiplier even higher"
"AAAAAAAAAAGH"
In fable 2 there's book says he was killed with your health is low carved on his head
"Do you have any food? Or potions?"
me: IM WORKIN WITH WHAT I GOT HERE MY GUY!
The skull death scene scared the fuck out of me
Do you have any potions? .. or food?
When I saw a retrospective video pop up in my notifications I said aloud to myself “that better be my favorite son“ and I just had to laugh at the sentence 😆
It's always me dad.
My man!
The stealth section was never a problem for younger me, because I became rather good at decapitating bandits with arrows.
Can't imagine how frustrating it would be to actually sneak past all of em.
Yup! First thing I tried back then. Even that could take a few tries if they see the other guards die or find their bodies.
used to get me all the time too, very frustrating. but in the anniversary you can just run past them all, get the alarm sounded then kill them and the game wont put you back at the start.
I just Runed .
I snuck past them, it was very thrilling for an 8-year old me x3
Sneaking past them is pretty easy now I think about it, but as a kid hearing "Intruder, shut the gates" was like death 😅
Your channel is killer. I've loved all your retrospectives and the games are ones I've all played and had a special connection too. Honestly it's like my mind is being read and its super cool. Like a just made a new friend talking about my favorite video games. You really do the games you play justice too. There are other channels that do retrospectives, but each one seems like a critic trying their best to find the flaws in an older game. I believe that is the difference and what makes me love these so much. You give the games the benefit of the doubt, even when the game has flaws but you never let that get in the way of the big picture, the concept the game is putting forth.
Proud of you son.
Seriously.
Thanks dad!
Your narration is impeccable son. Amazing work! Your the Morgan Freeman of white guys 👍
Best compliment I could've gotten
A side note. Some of the side quests you completed prior to killing Jack the first time were also part of the lost chapters. The game was a little bare before the dlc came to life, but it didn't stop me from completing it hundreds of times before the dlc came to be. The greatest disappointment from the original was getting the sword of aeons and having absolutely no reason to have it. The game was over, everything worth killing was dead. The lost chapters and anniversary truly elevated the original idea. A masterpiece of its time
"hundreds of times". lol.
@@philipdillon83 you laugh. But this isn't a bad estimate. I literally did complete it hundreds of times. During 2 school years my buddy John and I would beat it again every day after school. Pushing the limits of how we could beat it, what was possible. How fast, how strong could we get, what's the most money we could earn? I consider myself a true fan of the original game, but I've only played 2 and 3 a couple of times each. It just isn't the same, although I do really enjoy them
Just wish they didn't nerf the Sword of Aeons so much in The Lost Chapters. Kinda defeats the point of even using it when other weapons do more damage than it does.
@@ArvelDreth I thought it was statistically equivalent to avos tear?
@@philipdillon83 yes but in the original game there was no Avo's Tear. The Lost Chapters adds in extra content after you beat Jack the first time. In the original game you can just play afterwards but there's no new quests and the Sword of Aeons does like 550 damage.
Fable was such a big part of my childhood, I love it. It was pretty much first "new" game on "new" pc for a kid, who only played 2d games from 90s before, like starcraft, homm3 or warcraft 2 and diablo 2. And when I found out not only you can make "evil" choices, but they also affect things? My mind was blown to pieces.
Will you do a retrospective on Jade Empire? It's one underrated gem of a game.
During the sneaking part of the bandit quest, you can just shoot the heads off the guards to pass. as long as they dont see you it works.
I love how you made a point about Jack of blades monsters sounding out of the world/mechanical. I remember thinking the same thing when I played as a kid. Everything else had a place, these didn't.
Son, you definitely deserve more daddies.
We'll get em dad.
When Fable first released, I was obsessed with it. I replayed it countless times and just loved how much you could do and influence.
Talk about fluence...my controller was ALWAYS sticky...lol
How little you could do and influence
Proud of you son. While I’ve been spoiled in the past by your long videos released as a whole, this is an exciting change and I can’t wait to see the rest of the content.
I loved Fable, and though I played the sequels and enjoyed the improvements in those and new mechanics, the first one was always my favorite. Far from a perfect game, and somethings always frustrated me about it, but I really liked the feel of it.
I maxed out all the stats in this game it is possible. Easy explanation is combat multipliers the legendary bow and undead zones.
@yourfavouriteson Hey dude, your work is appreciated. We like what you are doing. Me and my brother loved your soul reaver review. Would you be so kind as to review Elder Scrolls series from first game to skyrim.
It's on the list dad
I always enjoyed trying a Neutral playthrough after so many Good and Evil playthroughs. Not Hero trying get Admiration and Praise. Nor a Villain, gaining Power and Revenge. Just a Mercenary doing things for Fame and Glory
That’s basically what I do I have no problem opening all demon doors that are good or evil or doing all quests good or bad but when it comes down to making choices between the two I always go down with good. However the one quest you get in oak vale in fable 1 where the gaurd wants you to go kill an assassin and you find out he’s the brother, I actually take the assassins side because he was targeted first out of jealousy so I go back and kill the gaurd taking the extra cash from doing that quest. Morality games are amazing dragon age is a good one but fable is a rare breed where your character and the world around you changed based of your desisions, a great example is fable to where the choice you make as a child effects bowerstone olde town aesthetics for the rest of the game
You can do that?
Physical shield and slow time... break the game that way.
My favorite is fable the lost chapters I didn't have the anniversary edition though. My favorite route was evil route. I felt so amazing and cool once I got the mask at the end. God that shit was so edgy and cool xD
This game has a special place in my heart. I still have my copy from the jump. I was at a balance between good & evil
I love how you actually role-play whilst describing your play through. Role-playing is something I am seemingly never able to do while playing video games, and I wish I was able to. It makes games so much more fun and interactive.
So the stealth mission to the bandit camp, I just use my bow and try to get a clear shot. If your bow is powerful enough and you're accurate enough, you can decapitate each bandit. None of the bandits will alert anyone if they happen to come across a dead body, unlike town guards.
Fable taught me that if you're evil and rude, you'll go bald. So be good people
I never actually had problems with the sneaking area... The large stone at the end of the path can be easily hidden behind, you only need to run through and kill the three bandits, then hide behind the rock, wait for them to respawn and start patrolling, and then you just run to the gate...I figured this out when I was 11. You don't even need to sneak.
hell yeah!! so many great memories staying up all night in 2004 playing Fable.
1 & 2 are fucking excellent.
3, Fortune, and The Journey, while interesting from a lore standpoint, are trash.
"Fable brought it to the masses and made people realize that this was a game that could be made"
Uhhh Black & White? Extremely popular at its release and being good or evil was the entire gimmick of the game. Made by the same studio as well.
As a teen i brought a xbox one because i wanted that cancled fable game only to learn it was cancled months after
Id played though fable 3 more times then i can remember as a kid, i loved the game
Yeah, pure Will playthrough is basically Fable Hard Mode 😂 absolutely love the Fable franchise, looks like I'll be binge watching these
Edit:
Son: "killing the Guild master was hard"
GM "your health is LOW, do you have any potions or food?"
me: "die old man, now who's health is LOW?"
Fable is my favorite game. I love it so much. And while I've thought about how weird it is that they are okay with you being evil, I just now realized exactly how weird it is. Compare it to Star Wars. Say they train people with the force and you were free to be Sith or Jedi and they wouldn't judge as long as you didn't take down the council... xD
This was a genuinely fantastic video. There's not enough classic Fable content out there and I felt like this hit many nails on the head correctly. If you're after more Fable lore, I recommend Skyrionn here on TH-cam, he has a large playlist of Fable lore!
After seen that deform child on the very start I do remember why I uninstalled and never gave that game a chance...
I did try to give the 3th a try back in the day but game was so CPU intensive that my PC wasn't up to the task.
Always great to see a new video talking about the Fable series. Good job putting this together, researched pretty well and you showed great clarity when presenting it :)
Thanks dad!
@@YourFavoriteSon1 If I was your dad, I would have told you to add more stuff about Cut Content. But your video was amazingly researched, none-the-less!
I loooooove Fable 1 and 2. I never had a chance to play 3. That being said, they have their problems, but I enjoy them. Thanks for the nostalgia trip, son!
Well if you thought the economy in 1 and 2 was broken you haven’t seen nothing yet
Hoooly shit, you really ARE my favorite son! Hyped to watch it this evening
Well made video this game will always hold a special place in my heart.
This is a great video very well researched. I appreciate that you took the time to show both perspectives of this game. If you enjoy Kotor or Kotor 2 I think this style could work well with those games.
Well get there dad!
I married lady grey, because i was a man of culture in 2004 (14 at the time).
When I was 6 yrs old, my cousin recommended me to augment an ebony bow & aim for the heads of bandits instead of sneaking by.
Enflame is the best spell in game. It's DPS is just insanely high, even when compared to other spells, like Infernal Wrath and Divine Fury. This is because I can cast Enflame like 7-10 times in the time it takes to cast Wrath/Fury even once, almost tripling or even quintupling the overall damage. In simple words Enflame/Physical Shield combo is broken OP
The consistency and content quality of this channel is amazing!
Fable HITSposting gang check in!
The soundtrack is so memorable
Thankyou so much for keeping these games alive!!!
My favorite part of Fable was always the age progression when you start game at like 10 years old and end the game at 70 years old
If you stand where the Will training dummies (if they had eyes) line of sight, where they intersect, then hold shift, you can hit all three in a row without needing to adjust in between. Just be careful as you can hit the Guild Master while doing this.
It's the in depth, quality retrospectives like this, that makes you my favourite son 👍
Great series of games, does have its low points but overall it's good, the first one was one of the games that really got me into RPG's
Two main playthroughs??!? I very much appreciate the dedication you put into these videos Son.
Ever try a neutral run? Shits difficult lol
Just found your channel and this video. Absolutely love the narration you do along with the game analysis. Cheers mate!
I think the dialogue lines are fine in their spacing. Better than the five second delay between lines in games like the elder scrolls. It feels like a natural talking pace for somewhere that just talks fast. I know that there are places in the US that talk faster than that.
I love the fables series and it took me forever just to even play the first one. I would constantly reread the game informer magazine that had so much cut content on Fable. I still prefer the Lost chapters over anniversary because of how drastic some of the changes in anniversary are to model faces and Jack's voice being too modulated.
Holy shit. This is an amazing review/retrospective! Fantastic. I hope you keep making videos. Will be watching more :)
Your retrospectives have been keeping my mind occupied while going through a very hard breakup. Thank you.
Love the new format, and I think it'll allow you to grow faster this way. Also, not having to edit 5 hours of content together should be a touch less taxing on your mental health too. Keep it up boyo, and stay awesome!
HOW do you not have more followers?! Another amazing video! Thank you for your hard work!
Yummy,you look like tom Holland if he looked like a man
I have watched your legacy of Kain video and an currently working through the fable videos.
I was never a fan of the fable games but your work makes them bearable for me.
Good work on this one, I liked how you went back through the evil choices
To be honest, I kind of wish you'd recorded from The Lost Chapters or even the base game. The anniversary edition being used as someone who never played it and has very strong nostalgia of the original game on Xbox is a bit jarring. In my opinion the textures and UI being updated is just weird/offputting.
That said, i very much enjoyed the retrospective and romp through nostalgia
Great video, but I have some thoughts:
I may have misinterpreted what “complete retrospective” means, or at least in this context, but it didn’t feel like a mastery of this game. It instead felt like an elementary playthrough of a game with very little detail on the intricacies of the humor playing such a significant role in the theme and story. You did little to show progression outside of the main story as well. Though you delve deep into the lore initially, you didn’t expand on other elements and quests which were the main draw of the game for many. In fact, there were several times you pressed forward in the plot without explaining what you had to do to get there. How about not ever getting Avo’s Tear in the “good” playthrough? That was a significant part of the expansion of the game. Also, most would start off playing good, but would be faced with choices where they may stray one way or another. Most people aren’t perfectly good or evil. And a lot of my playthroughs ended up being a mix of good, and in some cases “evil”, depending on balance between the two during a decision. You tended to make up for some things you missed during the first telling on the good side but I felt as a long time Fable fan it didn’t go nearly as deep as it could have, and almost spat in the faces of those who remember this game so well.
BUT. You did a great job telling the story how you played it. You also provided an alternative to how you played it the first time. Though many things were missing, I really enjoyed your take on the game.
Fable 1: Legit story great game
Fabel 2; The Mony Python of Fable but still good.
Fabel 3: MY BOY WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO MY BOY!!!!
In both of you Fable videos you say over and over again that you weren't sure what the right choice to some of the choices. Are you serious?!?!?!?!?! I couldn't tell if you were joking but the choices are absolutely black and white.
Spent so many gosh dang hours assasins rushing between load borders to stop time so I could drag traders to the evil temple for that dang bow just to realize being good and saccing your wife or husband is all that's needed. Dangit Skorm. Stupid balvarines. Fml.
Wow, your portrayal of evil hero world-viewing lens was very fascinating! I never really looked at it with this point of view in mind
Started watching the video 3 days ago, paused it midway, downloaded Fable, got all steam achievements, returned to finish watching the video.
Yes, I am easily distractable.
Had to stop to comment on the Twinblade guard area. Best way to do this is to just run right in, be noticed and kill them. Then hide behind the rock next to the barrels kitty corner from the Gate. Let them all go to where they are stationed and just charge up a bow shot and head shot the closest guy. He'll lose his head and then you just run for the gate. Won't get caught. Unless you can't aim then He'll say something lmao
i love that the algorithm randomly suggested this video to me, fable is my favourite game series, and I absolutely agree with most of your points, I only really disagreed on your point in fable 2, when you said the choices in fable 2 arent obvious, maybe its because I have been playing the game since launch, but although its not down to the point of this is good this is bad, I still think it was pretty obvious which was the right answers to go for on a good play through, I love this channel and have been watching all your other videos and hope you get the subscribers you deserve
Duuuude, you brought memories of my childhood I had forgotten about the Fable games. 2 was my all time favorite but the 3rd had so much potential but was squandered
28:35 I just headshotted the bandits with the bow i got from the chickin kicking contest house
And here I was just recently thinking wonder what his next video is going to be and then you pull out this That's my boy I knew there was a reason you were my favorite son
Jesus how long was the hero in the heroes Guild? The little girl who you help find the doll within the prologue looks like an old woman when you go back to Oakvale.
i used to play fable 2 co-op on 360 with my friend and we'd always get married and start a family together :^)
Fable 1 is the best fable in my opinion and your video did it justice! I subscribed!
Hey Son, just wanted to say, your health seems low. do you have any potions? or food? Also, please call your mother.
I love this game growing up
Fable 1 had the best magic. It’s crazy how backwards they started going after
Interestingly fable 3 was first recommended! Nontheless love ur vids!
Loved the video, I was so excited to see that the 2nd and 3rd video are already up looks like im binging
I find it strange that people find anniversary edition to be more pleasing to the eye. looks muddy, sad and weird when compared to a cozy original vision.
You are wrong about the anniversary edition looking better lol, it has zero charm.
Killing Briar Rose is neither a good or a bad choice. it's the ONLY reasonable choice. :P
Cannot wait for the new fable 🤩🙌🏽
This is how I wanted my channel to like! I will take many notes from your scriptwriting and editing. Amazing stuff please keep going, man!
You can actually save the trader before he turns into a balverine if you are fast enough at 24:10
I Just tiped fable history, and got 4 hour just uploaded video, blessed, innit?
Twinblade Camp Sneak Cheat:
One Hit Kill Headshot +2 Good Alignment
Up to this point your gaming taste is 90% similar to mine...It's like your my brutha from another mutha
Its almost like i'm your....son?
@@YourFavoriteSon1 At first you were...then you became ma brutha...I believe with your next video you'll be me...& I'll be you...& there won't be any me & you...only us...Holy shit I need to put my weed aside for a couple of hours
Love this vid and its format. I like them too but this is a breath of fresh air amongst all the long form critiques. The way you framed it as the heros journey not your own really kept my attention, especially the way you handled the slippery slope of evil.
Your writing is truly superb my friend.
I wish I could play these again. Fucking Xbox exclusives.....
One of my favorite parts about fable was you could fart to boost your likeable moral.
Aging is not permanent! You can give money at the temple of avo and get the gift of youth
Love your content but your audio is soooo low the adds are on blast compared to you :(
Loving these vids! Keep it up can't wait to see what's next! Would love to see you try to tackle the resident evil or silent hill franchises. Haha would be a nice long vid or good multiple part vids haha
I always end up being evil. Mostly because I owned Albion through "aggressive tactics" when it came to real-estate
I was definitely thinking about you doing another video I loved the format it brought back to life for me it was one of the first games I sunk hours and hours into. The narration was perfect
The doors name is hits but if you spell shit he says something special