History VideoGame / Fable

''Fable: The Journey'' was released in October 2012. A companion UsefulNotes/XboxLiveArcade game, ''Fable Heroes'' is a ''VideoGame/CastleCrashers''-styled party game that will work in concert with ''The Journey'' and [[http://www.strategyinformer.com/news/16897/fable-heroes-appears-on-xbox-live-marketplace was released]] on May 2, 2012.

* ''VideoGame/FableTheJourney'' (2012), a UsefulNotes/{{Kinect}} game that takes place after ''VideoGame/FableIII''.

*** Added to that sometimes you'll see kids playing hero where they fight the BigBaf. One of the lines they shout? ''From Beneath You It Devours.'' You don't think one of them will grow up to be...[[Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer well...]]

*** Another tombstone in Mourningwood reads "[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZelda It's dangerous to go alone, take this.]]" Digging up the grave reveals a toy sword.

* MedievalStasis: Averted. As time passes (between games, anyway), Albion transforms from Stock European Fantasy to an Industrial nation on the cusp of revolution.

* QueerRomance: An option throughout the series.

* CameraScrew: The camera tends to whip around to look at whatever the game thinks you should be looking at.

* BossArenaIdiocy: In Jack or Blades second form during his boss fight he'll float in the center of the Chamber of Fate and spam projectiles at the player. In addition he gains a new attack where he lifts the sword of aeons in a blinding light which deals many extremely rapid hits to anything in Jack's line of sight. Inexplicably, the Chamber of Fate gains rock pillars for the player to hide behind specifically for this part of Jack's boss fight.

* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: In all three games, after you commit crimes in a town, a guard will run up to you and charge you with a list of all of them, offering you options of how to respond to the charges (pay a fine, run away, etc). In many cases, you've just finished rampaging through a town destroying everything and every one in your path, and then a guard charges you with 30+ counts of murder and one count of vandalism from that door you kicked down.

** Basically anywhere that in anyway some people could conceivably have died in, in ''Fable III''.

*** More realistically in terms of orders of magnitude: even in ''III'', with your dog on your side boosting your social efforts at level 5, you can get someone who lives their lives in nothing less than abject fear of you (or abject fear of the rent you charge,) of you to want to wed you by tickling them for about 15 seconds, running a fetch quest for them, dancing with them for 15 seconds, giving them a present, dancing with them again for 15 seconds, running another fetch quest for them, hugging them for 15 seconds, taking them to a secluded spot, kissing them, and then proposing on the spot. More effort than in ''II'', but still ridiculously easy.

* ''Fable'' (202X), a new installment in the series that is being developed by Creator/PlaygroundGames for Microsoft Windows and Xbox Series X.

The three games are mainly set in Albion ([[JustForFun/IThoughtItMeant not]] [[NamesTheSame that]] [[VideoGame/{{Albion}} one]]), a [[FantasyCounterpartCulture land based on England]] during the Dark Ages, Enlightenment and Industrial Revolution respectively. In the first two games, the player takes on the role of an orphan who grows up to become an archetypal action hero determined to exact vengeance upon those who killed his loved ones when he was a child. The third game has you control a prince or princess, who quests to overthrow his or her brother, the corrupt king of Albion. In each game, depending on your playstyle, TheQuest may take the backseat to WideOpenSandbox gameplay and {{Irrelevant Side Quest}}s.

* FertileFeet
* {{AFGNCAAP}}: That it averts this is one of the original's main criticisms. ''Fable'' (the first one) was supposed to have the option to play as a female character, but the feature was removed before the game was released. Actions the player chooses to make in the game (any of the games) affect the main character's physical appearance, including height, skin color, and body type.

** [[Film/{{Arthur 1981}} Hobson]], a ServileSnarker for a rich guy in ''Fable III''.

* SteamPunk: Very prevalent in the second and third games.
* StraightGay: Another possible way to play your character.
* SuperFunHappyThingOfDoom

* VolcanicVeins
* WearingAFlagOnYourHead: Or on your underpants.

* ShopKeeper: They are everywhere in the series, they can even be killed if you wish.

*** Added to that sometimes you'll see kids playing hero where they fight the UltimateEvil. One of the lines they shout? ''From Beneath You It Devours.'' You don't think one of them will grow up to be...[[Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer well...]]

* AndYourRewardIsParenthood: Starting in ''VideoGame/FableII'', the [[PlayerCharacter Hero]] can have a child by sleeping with an opposite-sex spouse; ''VideoGame/FableIII'' adds the option to adopt. The Hero's spouse manages the day-to-day work of raising them, but children's personalities and [[CharacterAlignment Alignments]] are influenced by the Hero, and the Hero needs to maintain their relationship with them through dialogue and {{Sidequest}}s. [[spoiler:They're killed off in the ''VideoGame/FableII'' main quest, but the player has a choice to revive them at the end.]]

* CuttingOffTheBranches: The Hero of Oakvale was canonically LawfulGood, since his sister plays an important role in the sequels. The protagonists of the second and third games have both been made canonically male, much to the ire of many female fans, or anyone who simply preferred the female versions of the characters.

* NoCanonForTheWicked: The heroes of all three games are confirmed to be canonically LawfulGood, and Theresa, who only survives if you make a particular good choice in the first game, plays an important role in the sequels.

** The first game has some awful examples. Significantly easier in the sequel, as the escorts are now either affected by GameplayAllyImmortality or their survival isn't actually required. One quest even gives you the option of looting your escort's NiceHat off his body and wearing it to trick the quest giver into thinking you're him.