Some questions about the gameplay

[<3 farmers cuz füd]

After viewing some of the footage from the xbox 360 version and playing the old Fable TLC I started to wonder whether some of the issues from that version have been resolved in the PC version.

1. Does lock on still tend to lock on to enemies that are further away when your current target dies?

2. Are you able to do something when 3 or more enemies decide to bash you into pieces? In the original TLC you were more or less boned when several enemies surrounded you, because they just stunlocked you. Generally this doesn't happen, but in the arena fights this happened every now and again and it just felt cheap.

3. Have faces been improved over the 360 version? When looking at the 360 version some of the faces looked...strange, even that of the main character when he is/was a kid.

4. I heard that at some points the framerate drops. Are there any areas in the PC version that also can cause this issue?


Two questions I have myself are:

1.Are there any improvements to the early game magic system? In the original the beginning was really boring as a mage. You lock on to a target, hold down the button, the game locks to another target, you keep holding down the button until everything is dead.
This seems something inherent to the game, but it does cause me to start as either a warrior or a thief, since mage is just boring as can be at the start.

2. What happened to so much of the DLC that is in the xbox 360 version? Because it is lacking I get the feeling it is just cut out of the game in order to sell it to us later for some extra money.

[<3 farmers cuz füd]

Can I imply that no answer might also be an answer?

[JohannZA]

Originally posted by Deep-Sea Dinosaur:

Can I imply that no answer might also be an answer?

The changes from The Lost Chapters to Anniversary have been covered in-depth already, e.g. new textures, new models, new save system, new difficulty mode, etc. We also know that all of the DLC from the Xbox 360 version will be gathered into two packs, both of which will be available for sale at launch.

Regarding the other questions, you'd have to ask someone who's actually played the game. Since it's not out yet, I guess it's logical that you might struggle for answers. It could also be that your thread simply got lost in the mess of trolling we've seen on here.

EDIT: And yes, you'll age slower, as noted by MasterCrumble.

[CrumbleCat]

They didn't change much of the gameplay because they wanted to stay true to the original.

Faces have been remodelled because it's a new engine. The hero as a kid looks different.

I read your mind and will answer another question you have: Aging is about 50% slower, so you wont be a 65 year old at the end of the game... as fast.

[<3 farmers cuz füd]

So they won't fix things like the lock-on system, nor the way you can get stunlocked relatively easily in the arena fights?

Also, I asked about the models, because right now the only thing we have to look at are screenshots and the xbox version. If you look at all the models in the xbox version you'll see that the boy looks awkward when he is young, and that some NPC's almost have their eyes popping out of their skulls.
I do have to say that so far I have the feeling that the PC version is just a straight up port rather than something where work has actually been put into.

The reason I asked about the DLC is because it's already out, yet it has been cut out of this version to sell back to us for more money...that feels really cheap to say the least.

I am actually not asking about age because I don't really care about that alot and I have done a bit of research before creating the post so I already know they about halved the speed of that.

The reason I asked the questions was that I found very little to justify the price, since it seems like my thoughts of it being a straight up port...are justified by almost everything I find. The developers did extremely little when you compare it to the xbox version (in fact, they sliced off content from that version), and gameplay wise there is little to no improvement over The Lost Chapters.

As you might have noticed, while you were trying to be condescending, most questions are about improvements in gameplay, because those actually give a reason for the €30 price tag.

[DiamondPugs]

They fixed some stuff, and tweaked some other stuff (like the age system), but I don't know if they fixed exactly what you are asking for. Only a dev can answer that.

[Doge Vandire]

The game was pretty easy to be honest with the only real challenge coming in from the arena fights, I feel like the whole stunlock was required in order to bring in a semblance of difficulty and keep you moving.

[[{******---Dead4Life---******}]]

Mostly fixed, but the eye pop outs when blocking was never addressed. So bad.