Because the menus in Fable, be they for checking your quests, dying your hair, or sorting your weapons, weren’t that different from any other RPG you’ve ever played. It suddenly dawns on you that part of your dissatisfaction with the experience stemmed from how the game constantly kept you at arm’s length, actively doing its best to prevent you from feeling any kind of connection to your character, her gear, or the quests she was completing. But until you sample Fable 3‘s ingenious new interface, you don’t realize how aggravating and ham-fisted the system from the old games was. Not exactly the first feature you’d normally think of tweaking in a game that has issues with its combat, economics, and morality, granted.
All of that is coming, I’m sure, but before it happens, I’d like us all to take a moment and thank Lionhead for getting rid of the damn menus. Despite the franchises’ many strengths – or perhaps because of anticipation those strengths create – its weaknesses seem to amplify in players’ minds, swirling into a maelstrom of disappointment and frustration that the development team itself ends up echoing. Because that’s what happens with Fable games. Some time from now, after Fable 3 has been released, played, praised, and dismissed, Lionhead will probably end up apologizing for its imperfections.
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