Has anyone played Fable?

[RocketGirl]

No, not the XBox game. The point-and-click PC adventure game. This one.

I was going through my games CDs a while back and this one jumped out at me. I bought it at Half-Price books about six or seven years ago and I vaguely remember thinking that the initial few puzzles were annoying and I took an instant dislike to the protagonist because he hates cats. I never got much further than an hour or two of gameplay.
Fable sat on my shelf ever since, but being that I've been deeply missing adventure games, well...I thought about giving it a second chance.

Has anyone else played this? The review I linked to above kinna pans it, but I'd like to hear what others have to say on the subject.

[AlbinoPanther]

Yes and it was great.

BTW you can download it here (it is perfectly legal ) [removed pending investigation!]

60 mb

enjoy

[Gilbert]

BTW you can download it here (it is perfectly legal )

Really? Did they wrote about the license status of the game?

[AlbinoPanther]

We don't know.But this WEB site is dedicated to old games and on it there is DOTT but you can't download that game nor Kings Quest games nor Larry (and many other games it says that games are protected by the ESA) so if you can't download that games and you can FABLE it is clear that this is legal download.

[Rui 'Trovatore' Pires]

Well, the underdogs also has it, and the underdogs are pretty well-informed about these things - if they host something they shouldn't and find out about it, they remove the download.

All in all it's up to each one's conscience and definition of "abandonware" and whether it even applies.

I played that thing, I still have the box. Only box I still have. Shaped like a book, it was. SHame it doesn't run on XP.

I think it had a bug. I think all deaths were supposed to "retry" - when one dies, the game automatically backtracks. I think this because there are 2 or 3 issues in this game when this happens. Only two or three. And they are in no way different to the other millions of ways you can die. So I reckon they forgot to add that rewinding to all of them... it's the only explanation that makes sense.

Anyway, I enjoyed it visually and musically. It was the puzzles that were a bit weird (I never understood why we should have to give that fruit to the big bird so the bird could takes us in a travel), and I never could follow the storyline... but then, I was what, nine years old at the time? Needless to say, I had to get a walkthrough.

[Pesty]

I played Fable. It really seemed like there was supposed to be more, more places to go and more things to do, but they ran out of time and didn't put any of it in. It was like there were entrances to places all over, but you couldn't go into any of them. It's not horrible, but it's not all that good, either.

If they had expanded on it or at least made the game world not feel as open as it does without actually being open, it would've been a good game. As it is now, it really feels unfinished and rushed, including the ending. I don't even remember the story of it, because it just didn't stand out to me. It's worth a play through, I suppose, but don't expect anything great.

[RocketGirl]

BTW you can download it here (it is perfectly legal ) [removed pending investigation!]

Well, I have the CD, so...

Anyway, thanks for the opinions, folks.