History VideoGame / Fate

* The fourth game of the series, ''[=FATE=]: The Cursed King'', was released on March 30, 2011, and takes place in a separate realm. As a citizen of the city of Ektaban, the PlayerCharacter grew up hearing great tales of good and evil, particularly [[ContinuityNod the heroic deeds of the Champion of Grove]], and resolves to eventually do great deeds worthy of the Champion's attention. One day, while adventuring just outside the city, the player enters a small cave and finds a chest. Unable to make out the writings on it, the player opens the chest, only to realise that it was the tomb of an evil necromancer, T'Kala, and that by opening the chest, T'Kala's evil spirit was unleashed upon Ektaban. The player is unable to warn the King of Ektaban fast enough, and the city is destroyed. Miraculously alive, Kurosh, the Beggar King of Ektaban, now bestows upon the player the task of ridding the city of T'Kala's influence.

* BigCreepyCrawlies: Large insects and insectoid enemies are often encountered as enemies. Druantia's dungeon is mostly populated by these enemies, with humanoid bees, ants and scarabs of various types as enemies.

** Nautiloid Apprentices (a Mindflayer-like monsters) do this literally: if they aggro you, they'll start spamming high-damaging waves of fire, each blast diminishing their HP until they drop dead.

* {{Cthulhumanoid}}: Nautiloids from the second game are blue/green humanoids with squid-like faces and webbed hands who can attack by spells or weapons.

** Nautiloids (a Mindflayer-like monsters) do this literally: if they aggro you, they'll start spamming high-damaging waves of fire, each blast diminishing their HP until they drop dead.

* DualWielding: An option avaible to everyone with every weapon that you can wield one-handed, which means everything but bows/crossbows, staves and polearms. In ''The Traitor Soul'', Shadow Elves start with 5 point in this skill, along with skill in both Swords and Spears.

* GiantSpider: One of the most common monsters in the dungeons, it comes in both hairless and hairy variations. Both tend to be poisonous.

* SerratedBladeOfPain: At low leves, you can finde the Goblin Scimitar (whose cutting edge is barbed like a saw) and the Orcish Scythe (same thing, on a stick). At high levels, Harpoons, Battle Lances and Greatswords sport irregular, jagged edges.
* ShapeShifting: Depending on what fish you feed your pet, it can transform into more powerful creatures for a certain length of time. Flawless fish turns your pet into another creature permanently until you feed it another fish.
* SinisterScythe: Most polearms are different types of scythes. Despite the large blades they all deal "piercing" damage.

* OurOrcsAreDifferent: Shockingly enough, Fate's Orcs are not low-level Mooks (that would be Goblins) but are massive, blueish brutes who hit quite hard and encountered midway through the Dungeon, resembling fatter counterparts of Ogres. Half-Orcs are humanoid in size and form and can be used as playable characters from the third game onward, working well as melee-oriented fighters.

* In ''[=FATE=]: The Traitor Soul'', released in 2009, the adventurer, now called the Champion of Grove, retrieves the Book of Fate and returns it to where it originally belongs. Not too long after this, the Champion meets a Traveller who claims that within the Temple of Fate lies a Chamber of Trials to prove one's worth. The Champion decides to follow the Traveller back to the Temple of Fate and venture into the Chamber of Trials. ''Traitor Soul'' contains all of the content from the original game and ''Undiscovered Realms'', additionally adding the Chamber of Trials and new equipment.

* In ''[=FATE=]: The Traitor Soul'', released in 2009, the adventurer, now called the Champion of Grove, retrieves the Book of Fate and returns it to where it originally belongs. Not too long after this, the Champion meets a Traveller who claims that within the Temple of Fate lies a Chamber of Trials to prove one's worth. The Champion decides to follow the Traveller back to the Temple of Fate and venture into the Chamber of Trials.

* GridInventory: about 10x4 per backpack. Made {{egregious}} by the amount of 2x3 equipment in the game, as well as the infrequency of 1x1 potions and 2x1 belts; it is not unusual for your "full" inventory to have an entire horizontal row empty.

* FireIceLightning: Sorted by the least amount of Magic required to use the spell, the Fireball, Frost and Lightning Strike spells go in this order.

* GiantSpider: One of the most common monsters in the dungeons

* BoringButPractical: Perhaps the single best item to get at the beginning of the game is the humble fishing pole. Why? Because with a little patience and some luck, a fisher can pull relatively low-power artifacts out of the water as early as the second floor, and occasionally even in Grove or the other towns in the sequels. Even these items sell for six-digit figures, which provides a ''very'' significant return on investment. Even failing that, some of the fish that can be pulled out in the early game can transform your pet into creatures that are just plain overpowered.

No relation whatsoever to the ''[[VisualNovel/FateStayNight Fate]]'' series, a character from ''MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha'', the TabletopGame based on TabletopGame/{{FUDGE}}, TabletopGame/{{FATAL}}, or ''VideoGame/ExitFate''.

With each new game in the series comes new features and equipment. ''Undiscovered Realms'' raised the player's level {{Cap}} to 199, gave the player the ability to import their characters from the first game and introduced two new towns, each with their own dungeons, with the defeat of Kaos and retrieval of the Book of Fate only possible once these two dungeons are purged of their evil influences. ''The Traitor Soul'' introduced a CharacterClassSystem by giving the player the option to start off new games as an individual from another species, added an additional dungeon, brought back the town of Grove and its dungeon, removed the player's level cap and brought in RealTimeWeaponChange. ''The Cursed King'' features a FreeRotatingCamera and introduces an {{NPC}} party system and online features, allowing players to trade items and connect to each other through {{Facebook}}.

No relation whatsoever to the ''[[VisualNovel/FateStayNight Fate]]'' series, a character from ''MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha'', the TabletopGame based on {{FUDGE}}, TabletopGame/{{FATAL}}, or ''VideoGame/ExitFate''.

* PurelyAestheticGender: They even share the same DeathCryEcho.

->''Will you tempt Fate?''

Finally, the game has an interesting handle on the ending. While you're given a specific goal of getting down to a certain dungeon level and defeating a specific boss monster, you still have a choice after you accomplish this. You can retire your adventurer and then [[NewGamePlus start a new quest using his or her descendent]] and picking one piece of equipment to [[AncestralWeapon pass on to them]], or [[WideOpenSandbox continue journeying down the dungeon]]. The games are capable of randomly generating up to 2,147,483,647 levels per dungeon.

First off, your character gets a pet. Its main function is to multiply the size of your GridInventory, but it also serves as a convenient MeatShield ([[GameplayAllyImmortality it cannot die]], though it will flee battle for a while if it bottoms out on HitPoints) and can be sent back to town with its load of VendorTrash, which it will ([[FridgeLogic somehow]]) sell to local merchants before reporting back with the spoils. This pet could also be fed various types of fish to transmogrify it into [[PetMonstrosity various types of enemy monsters]] for varying amounts of time. Fishes are obtained by fishing in water bodies positioned below clouds of fireflies, though the activity itself mostly consists of staring at the screen until an exclamation mark pops up, and then clicking a button with the mouse button on time. Yields include [[CaptainObvious fish]], new gear, or sometimes nothing at all. All equipment is randomly generated, except for a few, rarely-appearing "Artifact" weapons with pre-determined stats. These can become outclassed by the weapons given enhancements through the RandomNumberGod, but they still sell for a ton. That's important in a game where vendors buy stuff for one-eighth of their selling price.

With each new game in the series comes new features and equipment. ''Undiscovered Realms'' raised the player's level {{Cap}} to 199, gave the player the ability to import their characters from the first game and introduced two new towns, each with their own dungeons, with the defeat of Kaos and retrieval of the Book of Fate only possible once these two dungeons are purged of their evil influences. ''The Traitor Soul'' introduced a CharacterClassSystem by giving the player the option to start off new games as an individual from another species, added an additional dungeon, brought back the town of Grove and its dungeon, removed the player's level cap and brought in RealTimeWeaponChange. ''The Cursed King'' an {{NPC}} party system and online features, allowing players to trade items and connect to each other through {{Facebook}}.

With each new game in the series comes new features and equipment. ''Undiscovered Realms'' raised the player's level {{Cap}} to 199, gave the player the ability to import their characters from the first game and introduced two new towns, each with their own dungeons, with the defeat of Kaos and retrieval of the Book of Fate only possible once these two dungeons are purged of their evil influences. ''The Traitor Soul'' introduced a CharacterClassSystem by giving the player the option to start off new games as an individual from another species, added an additional dungeon, brought back the town of Grove and its dungeon, removed the player's level cap and brought in RealTimeWeaponChange. ''The Cursed King'' features a FreeRotatingCamera and introduces an {{NPC}} party system and online features, allowing players to trade items and connect to each other through {{Facebook}}.

* FinalDeath: Hardcore mode/difficulty. This is harder than Legend difficulty and cheats are disabled. Your character's demise is permanent, and your progress gets sent to the online leaderboards.

* IdiosyncraticDifficultyLevels: "Page", "Adventurer", "Hero", "Legend" and "Hardcore". In this order, they represent the games' difficulty levels from Easy to Hard, with "Hardcore" being "HarderThanHard with no cheats allowed and FinalDeath enabled".

** The player can also manually edit the [[hottip:files:(Namely, prefix.dat, prefix2.dat, suffix.dat, suffix2.dat, and title.dat, in the NAMES directory)]] containing name-parts, leading to names such as "Arseface the Beautiful" and "Galvatron the Anachronistic", among other things.

No relation whatsoever to the ''[[FateStayNight Fate]]'' series, a character from ''MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha'', the TabletopGame based on {{FUDGE}}, {{FATAL}}, or ''VideoGame/ExitFate''.

With each new game in the series comes new features and equipment. ''Undiscovered Realms'' gave the player the ability to import their characters from the first game and introduced two new towns, each with their own dungeons, with the defeat of Kaos and retrieval of the Book of Fate only possible once these two dungeons are purged of their evil influences. ''The Traitor Soul'' introduced a CharacterClassSystem by giving the player the option to start off new games as an individual from another species, added an additional dungeon, brought back the town of Grove and its dungeon, removed the player's level cap and brought in RealTimeWeaponChange. ''The Cursed King'' features a FreeRotatingCamera and introduces an {{NPC}} party system and online features, allowing players to trade items and connect to each other through {{Facebook}}.

* {{Cap}}: In the first two games, your character and pet can only gain experience up to Level 99. From the third game onwards, the level cap has been removed.