10 Most Disappointing Video Game Sequels Of All Time
1. Fable 3
The original Fable was truly a revolution. The trouble, as we’ve discussed, is that developers can simply never win.
On its 2004 launch, this vast, ambitious, Peter Molyneux-designed RPG delivered creative, engrossing gameplay. The land of Albion was one unlike anything genre fans had explored before, and it has become the stuff of legend in the years since.
With the first instalment being so revered, it’s nothing short of tragic that the entries that followed perhaps failed to hit the same high notes. Fable 3, in particular, remains controversial.
The game, for some, lacked the weighty decisions that the player sometimes had to make earlier in the series, and elsewhere in the genre. This was particularly unfortunate given the much-anticipated role of monarch players are given later. Without this nuance, the experience wasn’t the step forward that it could have been.
The series continues to have an incredible mystique, as a Microsoft exclusive, and there’s tremendous pressure on the upcoming Fable 4 to deliver.