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When I bought my new PC, I made explicitly sure that it met or exceeded the recommended specs, including making sure I had a compatible nVidia card. I also made sure I had XP Pro as most of the error reports I had found revolved around Vista.
The first day I had it home, it worked! I played several times through the day, sometimes after a cold boot, sometimes after no reboot. However, at the end of the day, it just stopped working. This is the only application that has been installed on this machine. Now, upon starting the game, the entire system freezes. This is even with a bare boot with no extraneous services or applications running. When it first worked, I made sure to create a restore point in case things went bad. Going back to that restore point has had no effect. I'm starting to wonder if there was actual hardware damage to my nVidia card done by the game.
The bottom line is that nVidia, LionHead, and Microsoft have no answers. There are no patches, there are no updates. There is a meager troubleshooting guide that seems to do no good for the vast majority. Nobody is supporting this product without you first purchasing a support plan at a cost that's multiple times the cost of the game.
Some people have had luck switching to Radeon cards, maybe it's a problem with nVidia and this game together. I don't know, nobody knows for certain. Save yourself the trouble and find a different game. Otherwise you're rolling the dice.
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I must say I cannot believe it took me so long to know of this game. The game is really good. When given a quest, you are given the option to choose several paths so you can choose the outcome and later affecting the game. You can cast pretty neat spells, but I think it could be better if you could transform into a creature of some type, or at least summon one. The world is fairly large with a lot of places to go, although the areas can sometimes be a little narrow. One feature I love is that your gear appears on your character, so you can choose how he looks whenever you want. Overall a great game, if a second part is to be released I will most definitely buy it.
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I wish I had listened to the people who said this game was buggy. It played OK the first few days, but the longer I play it, the worse my problems are getting. My two-year-old Dell computer exceeds the minimum system requirements. One thing I don't like about the game play is that some sequences take an hour to complete and you can't save in the middle. Now that the game crashes during saves, I probably will not be able to finish it. I tried reloading the game, but it didn't fix anything.
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An excellent port to PC, faithfully retaining the fast-paced action of the Xbox version along with all the colorful world design and British humor. The graphics are, if anything, slightly better than in the original. The extra content is also very satisfying, as in the original your character would be getting incredibly powerful and fun to use just about the time that the game ended, making you feel a bit silly if you power-leveled at some point.
Very worthwhile game with enormous replay value.
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I've been a fan of Peter Molyneux's work for a while. I waited for Black & White and found the concept was brilliant, but the game itself was a little lacking. Fable:The Lost Chapters fulfills all the expectations I had for Black & White. It's an amazing game where you can have a completely different experience every time you play it. Every decision you make within the game has an effect on the storyline, your appearance and how you are seen by NPCs within the game. FTLC does this without the boring peasant maintainence which was a major detracting factor of Black & White.
Visually, the game is stunning in parts and average in others. Characters hands seem to be unusually large in proportion to the rest of their body at times. There is nothing in the graphics that detracts from the overall enjoyment or playability of this game however. If you have a decent graphics accelerator, there's really nothing bad to say here. I found the graphics style fun and entertaining. It's a mix of realistic and cartoon art that works well for the genre.
The only suggestions I have for improving upon this game would be to make it longer. Once you start playing, it can be addictive and it seems to fly bye. There were a few avenues that developers could have taken to expand on this game, but the replayability makes up for this since there are so many different possibilities to explore within the limitations of the storyline.
I can't wait for Fable 2.
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