History YMMV / Fable

* HypeBacklash: Concerning the first game: The development team had promised people GrandTheftAuto [[RecycledINSPACE in 13th century England]], and what people got was a half-done ObviousBeta [[TheLegendOfZelda Ocarina of Time]] clone, and many people were not amused. The sequel didn't receive as much ridiculous backlash mainly because the devs learned their lesson from the first game and didn't promise everyone the moon this time (except for the whole dog gameplay mechanic, anyway.)

* TheyChangedItNowItSucks: Jack of Blades was stripped of his sociopathic CreepyMonotone in ''The Lost Chapters'', which replaced it with a generic deep [[StargateSG1 Go'a'uld]] [[EvilSoundsDeep sounding voice]]. Considering he was one of the few characters who were actually well-voiced, reactions were mixed.

* BaseBreaker: Fans are divided over whether Reaver is hillarious and awesome (and voiced by StephenFry), or is a [[TheWesley Wesley]] who seriously needs to finally get some comeuppance for his bad deeds, particularly for making ''VideoGame/FableII'''s PlayerCharacter [[spoiler: give away his youth (if the player chooses to be good) and killing Barnum]].

** Reaver is one, as finding his journal reveals [[spoiler: that he is responsible for what happened to Oakvale. And you, or a random girl (who NEVER says "Thank you for not trading away my youth"]]

* TheWesley: [[YourMileageMayVary Arguably]] Reaver, considering that the games tend to gloss over his atrocities in favor of his {{Badass}}ness.

** Fans are divided over whether Reaver is hillarious and awesome (and voiced by StephenFry), or is a [[TheWesley Wesley]] who seriously needs to finally get some comeuppance for his bad deeds, particularly for making ''VideoGame/FableII'''s PlayerCharacter [[spoiler: give away his youth (if the player chooses to be good) and killing Barnum]].

** Reaver is one, as finding his journal reveals [[spoiler:that he is responsible for what happened to Oakvale. And you, or a random girl(who NEVER says "Thank you for not trading away my youth"]]
* CrazyAwesome: Sabine. He just loves blowing things up.
** The Hero of Brightwall in the third game can be this as a monarch. As one achievement is to make a royal decree while dressed as a chicken, this is highly likely to come up for most gamers at least once.

* EnsembleDarkhorse: She only appeared in one trailer, but the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHB6P8IKi9Y Rebellious Chicken]] captured the hearts of all who knew her. Rest in peace, noble chicken - you shall be avenged.

** Logan's monlogue about how Albion is his to mold and shape sounds evil at first, [[spoiler: till you realize that his threats are actually facts based on when the Crawler arrives and slaughters all of Albion.]]
*** More specifically, that Albion is his and the people will do what he says or they will die. [[spoiler: He's more right than you could possibly think, and NOT in the figurtive sense either. It's just that he's not going to be the one to kill them.]]

* GoodBadBugs: In III, when the Hero has sex, it doesn't stop other [=NPCs=] from playing their standard interaction dialogue if they wander in the room. Having your child demand a toy or your wife coo "Oooooh, nice doggie!" during sex is absolutely hilarious.

* MissedMomentOfAwesome: The third game has only one MontyPython reference, and sadly, it isn't from Jasper.
** Furthermore, John Cleese and Stephen Fry are cast in a major production and never given a scene together. Really? Really?!
* MomentOfAwesome: In Fable III, [[spoiler:technically speaking, Jonathan Ross gets killed by Balverines while Stephen Fry smugly ignores his cries for help?]]

** Walter...."tell me how to be a hero"...

* RewatchBonus: There's a short cutscene early in ''III'' where Logan scowls over a map of Albion and makes typical tyrant threats ("These cities will bow to my will, or they will burn"). [[spoiler: Once you learn of the Crawler and Logan's true motives, this scene comes across completely differently.]]

** Fable III's streamlining of quite a few of its predecessor's features, especially its combat system. Which wasn't exactly the most complex to begin with either.

* TheWesley: [[YourMileageMayVary Arguably]], considering that the games tend to gloss over his atrocities in favor of his {{Badass}}ness.
* ValuesDissonance: The Blind Date quest in ''Fable II'' may be that to some conservative players, given that [[spoiler: setting up Rupert with a gay man rewards you with Good points and setting him up with a woman rewards you with Evil points]].
* XenSyndrome: [[spoiler: The build-up to the Crawler invasion takes an enormous amount of time and money if you want to do it the good way, but the invasion level itself is extremely short and culminates with an easy boss fight.]]

* ValuesDissonance: The Blind Date quest in ''Fable II'' may be that to some conservative players, given that [[spoiler:setting up Rupert with a gay man rewards you with Good points and setting him up with a woman rewards you with Evil points]].

** In fact, if you pay attention at the beginning of the game when you walk into the kitchen, you see a black chicken walking out of it. Rebellious Chicken lives to rebel another day. We're supposed to assume that the chicken survived the buckshot to the face.

* CharacterAlignment: There's nine convenient titles in the second game.
** [[LawfulGood Saint]]
** [[NeutralGood Philanthropist]]
** [[ChaoticGood Decadent]]
** [[LawfulNeutral Puritan]]
** [[TrueNeutral Oppurtunist]]
** [[ChaoticNeutral Debaser]]
** [[LawfulEvil Fanatic]]
** [[NeutralEvil Demon]]
** [[ChaoticEvil Ghoul]]

* HighOctaneNightmareFuel: [[{{HighOctaneNightmareFuel/Fable}} The series has had its share.

* UnfortunateImplications: Making a good/pure character in Fable II makes him/her pale and blonde... but become corrupt and evil, and their skin and hair go dark. Oops!
** On the other hand, a pure evil character has completely white skin ([[UnfortunateImplications oh]] [[EvilAlbino dear]]), and the corrupt evil isn't so much black as lava-textured.
*** Don't forget the massive horns, that you have to become almost completely good again to get rid of.
* ValuesDissonance: The Blind Date quest in ''Fable II'' may be that to some Christian players, given that [[spoiler:setting up Rupert with a gay man rewards you with Good points and setting him up with a woman rewards you with Evil points]].

* ValuesDissonance: The Blind Date quest in ''Fable II'' may be that to some Christian players, given that setting up Rupert with a gay man rewards you with Good points and setting him up with a woman rewards you with Evil points.

* UnpleasableFanbase: Yes, indeed, though Molyneux deserves a little of it from promising the Moon all the time.

** EvenBetterSequel: And Fable 3 even more so.

* FunnyMoments: [[{{Funny/Fable}} Tons.]] The game isn't MontyPython-style RPG for nothing.

* TearJerker:
** The return to childhood in ''Fable II''.
** One quest in ''Fable III'' has you finding the remains of a dog that a soldier was forced to kill. His ghost moans about having to follow orders out of blind loyalty, and cannot rest because of his act.
** [[spoiler: Walter's death.]]

** On the other hand, a pure evil character has completely white skin ([[UnfortunateImplications oh dear]]), and the corrupt evil isn't so much black as lava-textured.

* XenSyndrome: [[spoiler: The build-up to the Crawler invasion takes an enormous amount of time and money if you want to do it the good way, but the invasion level itself is extremely short and culminates with an easy boss fight.]]

* BoringInvincibleHero The only penalty for dying is experience loss and scarring, and some weapons in III let you bypass even that. This irritates some critics

* CharacterAlignment: While so much is stressed of purity/corruption, love/hate, and good/evil. (At least it doesn't have the [[FanDumb unnecessary whining]] of [[DungeonsAndDragons some other games]]) There's nine convenient titles in the second game.
** [[LawfulGood Saint]]
** [[NeutralGood Philanthropist]]
** [[ChaoticGood Decadent]]
** [[LawfulNeutral Puritan]]
** [[TrueNeutral Oppurtunist]]
** [[ChaoticNeutral Debaser]]
** [[LawfulEvil Fanatic]]
** [[NeutralEvil Demon]]
** [[ChaoticEvil Ghoul]]

* CrowningMomentOfAwesome: Does anyone else relish in the fact that in Fable III, [[spoiler:Technically speaking, Jonathon Ross gets killed by Balverines while Stephen Fry smugly ignores his cries for help?]] Honestly, that's one of very few things I actually ''like'' about Reaver.

** It's hard to feel sorry for them shouting 'Magic is not fair!' when they ambush me in groups of seven.

* HeyItsThatVoice: Zoe Wanamaker, Oliver Cotton, Julia Sawalha, [[{{Firefly}} Ron]] [[{{Serenity}} Glass]], StephenFry, [[{{Knightmare}} Hugo Myatt]].
** Bonus points as we already know that Charlie Brooker and Jonathan Ross have signed up to do voices for Fable III
*** Don't forget that Molyneux just announced JohnCleese to be your Goddamn ''butler''.
** ''Fable III'' will feature John Cleese, Ben Kingsley, Simon Pegg, Michael Fassbender, [[{{Skins}} Nicholas Hoult]] and Naomie Harris with Zoë Wannamaker and StephenFry returning.

* RevenueEnhancingDevices : The DLC for Fable 2 and 3.

*** Don't forget the massive horns, that you have to become almost completely good again to get rid of.

*** Don't forget that Molyneux just announced JohnCleese to be your goddamn ''butler''.