History YMMV / FableI

* UncannyValley: The Anniversary edition has this sometimes. It comes from the fact that the character models are cartoonish and stylized, with realistic-looking skin and eyes. The worst offenders are the children in the game; Thankfully, outside the intro and Bowerstone, children are pretty rare in this game.

** Marriage, since there's exactly one character in the game you can marry who isn't a generic faceless NPC.
* WhatAnIdiot: Twinblade, you really should have worn some back armor.

** Thunder, for being a CommanderContrarian and more or less the only character in the game to play DudeWheresMyRespect completely straight. Basically, he just hates your guts and will let you know no matter what.

* TheScrappy: The Guildmaster for giving no useful information but constantly reminding you that your health is low or telling you to get your combat multiplier higher.

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: Lady Sophia, the noblewoman HighClassCallGirl HookerWithAHeartOfGold from the Darkwood Bordello, shows a bit more personality than the others, seeming to fall for the hero and expressing a desire to escape the place with him and get married. Several players were disappointed at the realization that you can't actually marry her after setting her free. Twice stupid because this would have allowed Good players an alternative to marrying the evil Lady Grey and still get past the one Demon Door that demands them to have a wife with a noble title.

* UnderusedGameMechanic: There’s no point in showing off your trophies since it’s ridiculously easy to earn fame.

** There is absolutely no reason to wear anything but plate armor, except for aesthetic reasons.

** There is absolutely no reason to wear anything but armor, except for aesthetic reasons.
** You’ll only need 4 spells in the game: Physical Shield, Enflame, Assassin’s Rush, & Slow Time.

* DemonicSpiders: Minions are MasterSwordsmen who can stunlock you with their combos while blocking most of your physical attacks.

* DesignatedEvil: A quest available after the Bandit Seeress quest tasks you with killing an assassin to avenge a guard's dead brother, except it turns out the assassin ''is'' the guard's brother and the guard wants him dead so he'll inherit their mother's fortune. The assassin offers to pay double to kill his brother instead, though he does note he's rather upset his brother wants him dead. Accepting the assassin's offer earns evil points while completing the quest to kill him earns good points.

* ComplacentGamingSyndrome: There is absolutely no reason to wear anything but armor, except for aesthetic reasons.

* ComplacenctGamingSyndrome: There is absolutely no reason to wear anything but armor, except for aesthetic reasons.

* UncannyValley: The Anniversary edition has this sometimes. It comes from the fact that the character models are cartoonish and stylized, with realistic-looking skin and eyes. The worst offenders are the children in the game; Thankfully, outside the intro and Bowerstone, children are pretty rare in this game.

** Escorting the traders to Barrow Fields is particularly hard because it’s an escort mission, [[EarlyGameHell you likely don’t have many upgrades yet]], and you can’t access quality equipment unless you’re aware of the [[GameBreaker money glitch]] & [[DiskOneNuke Wellow’s Pickhammer]].

** Escorting the traders to Barrow Fields is particularly hard because it’s an escort mission, [[EarlyGameHell you likely don’t have many upgrades yet]], and you can’t access quality equipment unless you’re aware of the [[GameBreaker money glitch]] & [DiskOneNuke Wellow’s Pickhammer]].

* AnnoyingVideoGameHelper: The Guild Master. "Try to get your combat multiplier ''even '''higher'''''!" "Your health is low. Do you have any potions? Or food?" "Check the guild for more quests."
** Parodied in one scene in ''The Lost Chapters'' where [[spoiler:Jack of Blades]] starts mocking these things. ''"Hero, there is an important quest card waiting for you at the bottom of a slime pit!"''
** Your Combat multiplier is atrocious!
** It's to the point where a loading screen hint in the sequel stated that it was rumoured the Guild Master died with the words "Your Health Is Low" carved into his forehead.

* ThatOneLevel: Bargate Prison, in the attempt to rescue [[spoiler:your mother]], thanks to an egregious case of FailureIsTheOnlyOption. Nothing you do can prevent [[spoiler:Jack of Blades from capturing you and your mother on your way out. You then endure a long unskippable [[ControllableHelplessness scene in a prison cell]] and an irrelevant RacingMiniGame -- and then have to repeat them both because your first attempt to steal your cell key from the Warden's office invariably fails and you [[StupidityIsTheOnlyOption can't just kill the guy]] while he's reading poetry off a wall with his back to you. To add insult to injury, once you do finally escape, your mother gets [[DamselInDistress re-captured]] in the ''very next quest'']].

* ThatOneLevel: Bargate Prison, in the attempt to rescue [[spoiler:your mother]], thanks to an egregious case of FailureIsTheOnlyOption. Nothing you do can prevent [[spoiler:Jack of Blades from capturing you and your mother on your way out. You then endure a long unskippable scene in a prison cell and an irrelevant RacingMiniGame -- and then have to repeat them both because your first attempt to steal your cell key from the Warden's office invariably fails and you [[StupidityIsTheOnlyOption can't just kill the guy]] while he's reading poetry off a wall with his back to you. To add insult to injury, once you do finally escape, your mother gets [[DamselInDistress re-captured]] in the ''very next quest'']].