Overhyped, cliche, medicore. I don't get why people give it such high scores.
Fable's presentation felt tidy and the game felt overall polished. Cartoony, WoW-like graphics, decent music that isn't annoying, good animations, pretty day/night cycle. You might hate how all the people's feet look huge, but its really a matter of taste. There's really no complaints in these areas other then the world feeling so small.
The story is bland, predictable and cliche to the max. It's definately its major weakness in my book. Hero's Guild. Main character's village and family gets destroyed. Main character is a chosen one. Couldn't they have come up with something just a tad less typical for God's sake? I was struggling to get through the game every now and then because the story is just so boring and predictable. I knew a certain character was going to betray at some point and pretty much anyone could guess correctly.
Fable's characters are all flat and unmemorable. A few had potential, but they were never really realized. The only character I mildly liked was Briar Rose, but even she felt underdeveloped.
Fable's levelling system is a refreshing change, I did like how it felt natural...but it really irked me how using Will (magic) powers rapidly aged your character...unless you fancy looking like a 50 year old man at 21 you shouldn't use it too much, but at the same time, Will powers are so unbelieviably useful and overpowered, there's really no point in not using them. Certain Will powers are like I WIN buttons to an already easy game. The combat system is like a copu of Zelda and its pretty fun at least. There's just one thing I thought was kinda stupid...those experience orbs....like what's the point really? Can't you just immediately get experience from killing something instead of pressing left mouse button to suck in all those green orbs that pop out from a monster? Oh yeah I'll mention I personally felt the final battle was anti-climatic and way too easy. It's just could have been so much more epic but I felt it failed.
All those little side ventures like marriage, sex, flirting, getting drunk, brawling, farting at people, owning a house...are all gimmicky and pointless, but can be fun for a while. It's just dissappointing at how underdeveloped marriage especially felt. You can earn gifts from your partner but its nothing terribly exciting. I married one girl, bought a house, did it once with her and later felt it was a sheer waste of money so punched her until she divorced me and sold the house. If you decide to skip it you're not missing much at all.
The character customization bit is decent with various tattoos, small selection of hairstyles, give your hero titles, etc etc. It's also cool how you get scars from battle, and how your body changes as you gain toughness points. Purely cosmetic, but its a nice touch. Being Good & Evil makes very little difference really, only how people react to you; if you're good you get little butterflies and angel thingy and people clap at you, call out your name and if you're super evil you lose your hair, grow horns, get scary eyes and people flee from you. In the end it makes zero difference, because the final decision in the game determines if you get the good or bad ending, nothing else bofore it.
So to conclude...Fable: Lost Chapters is a mediocre RPG with a few nice gimmicks. Since the game has been out for a while and its pretty cheap everywhere now it might be worth the buy if you're really bored. It isn't horrible, but really overrated. I still can't figure out why some people give it a 8 or 9 say its the best RPG ever? Do people have standards????? lol