With my general apathy to world of Warcraft recently, I’ve been playing Fable pretty heavily. My escapades into evil adventuring went surprisingly well, and I finished the game this weekend just gone. Deciding to be as evil as possible turned out to be both a blessing and a curse. It was awesome being powerful, having people obeying me out of terror, killing whoever I felt like (including people on my side) and generally pushing the boundaries of the game as far as possible. However I think I also missed out on a few aspects of the game; definitely some quests (because I killed the quest givers), speaking to people from town (they were either dead or ran away) and a few other minor things.

Overall I enjoyed the game, it was a little shorter than I expected, but then at the same time I don’t like games that go on too long.

Notable evil deeds:

- Hiring a prostitute, smashing down the door to some guys house, taking said prostitute upstairs and having unprotected sex with her, with the guys wife and kid in the house. Deciding I liked the look of the house and to buy it, but then finding out it was more expensive than I was anticipating. Killing owner of house to reduce its sale price, then renting it out at an unfairly high rate.

- Joining the evil temple guys, and going on a quest for them to slaughter an entire village of innocents. Cackling manically as I chased villagers through corn fields before murderising them. Later returning to the evil temple guys, collecting my reward, and then murdering them too.

Just a couple of unsavoury examples there. The best part (I think) about fable is that your character appearance changes over the course of the game, in line with both your good/evil rating and your pure/corrupt rating. I intend to at some point play through again being “good” (meh) so that I have a third picture for comparison, but below you can see how I started out, and how I ended up.

Yes, I was pretty hideous by the time I finished the game. That’s pretty much max on both evil and corruptness. The blue lines on my skin show the amount I used magic (a lot) and the scars are from dying and such I think. Tattoos are store purchased and the horns I think are from being corrupt. Not sure what changed my eyes from brown to green.