fair enough... ive definately had a few quirks that irritated me. I cant interact with my first wife namely. she just follows me around aimlessly not allowing me to speak to her or hold her hand or anything, but nothing as bad as what you said that has detered any mission ive done in the game. im at the 239 days till darkness point and ive done 60 missions. maybe the patch cleaned up a lot. I totally agree jasper is worthless. :)TheEroica
I quite liked Fable 2, and the shortcomings of Fable 3 were really disappointing to me. I'm glad some are able to enjoy the game regardless. I appreciated parts of it as well, but it was not a good sequel in my eyes.
Handholding
It is a finicky mechanic that looks busted and brings absolutely nothing to the game but frustration as you fail to lock onto people.
Dog
In Fable 3 it serves no other function than to point out treasures, which it inexplicably does much more poorly.
Waypoints
Also baflingly broken. More like "where?"*points*. Much too frequently the game gets confused and does not know where the waypoint is and points you in the wrong direction, or nowhere at all, just disappears.
Communication
The game now tells you which gesture you are to perform and you just basically press A two times or whatever. There is absolutely nothing compelling about this. And no longer can you crap your pants. Could just as well have been automated. And oh, only one person at a time.
Also, something that's peculiar in Fable 3 is that they decided the character would be able to speak like a normal person. So when you still communicate with people by whistling and farting in their faces, that is supremely supersenseless. There is no sense. You can't both have your cake and fart on it.
Relationships
To make friends with people involves performing a neverending series of raw ass fetch quests. This is not fun either. It is actively, abrasively tedious. It is the Fable version of mineral scanning. Whoever though of this ought to get slapped with a fish.
Where the f*** is my minimap?
Seriously. Where is it? Pressing start to bring up the sanctuary, run up to the map, press A and then not see where on that abstract map I am and be unable to set waypoints is not helpful.
Weapon upgrades
You earn them by performing sometimes really menial tasks. Kill 250 bandits in the day. How about no? It's like....why is the game like this? Why is it so set on trying to make you have a boring time?
Technical issues
There are, or at least were, a lot of them. Most of them small, but boil em, mash em, stick em in a stew...
Misc.
The economics and property ownership is about as involved as it was in Fable 2 I guess. Only now you have to bother with repairs. Which you as quickly as possible start not doing by solely owning shops.
The story was fairly flat and aimless. But I can't say it was worse than Fable 2's. Basically, the story was. It was a thing, and it wasn't bad. I don't feel this has ever been a strong point of the series.
Although the ending is ****ed up in a way that could totally ruin your day. I knew it was coming so I wiggled the stick around some while watching TV for a while. It is the worst kind of twist ending. Just borderline meanspirited. I don't know what they were trying to accomplish with it. Would love to hear it in a postmortem, along with explanations for the rest of the game being what it is.
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But it's not a wholly s***ty game, just disappointing. What still works is the writing and quirky charm. That's still very much a part of Fable. And it's what motivated me to complete the game. That and the Aurora section, which was an interesting diversion. And the combat was just about unsimple enough to not start feeling grating. Basically Fable 3 consists of a lot of parts, many of which are a bit rubbish, but a few of them are strong enough combined that they carry the game by themselves.
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