Fable (1996)

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Bearing no relation whatsoever to the Peter Molyneux game, the 1996 Fable is the tale of Quickthorpe and his quest of obtaining the mystical gemstones.

Developer Command-Line Arguments#

When launching the game, if the first command-line argument is ANDERS (for Anders Johansson, the game's lead programmer), the consecutive arguments activate features presumably used during development.

Parameter	Effect
ENG	Forces the language to English
FRE	Forces the language to French
GER	Forces the language to German
SPA	Forces the language to Spanish
ITA	Forces the language to Italian
AUTO	Enables automatic playback mode
GAME	Skips the intro
TITLE	Plays the intro movie
CD	"All loading from current directory."
ROM	"All loading from cdrom directory."
S x	Starts the game at scene x
F x	Starts the game at frame(?) x
OUTRO	Plays the ending movie
NATIF	Invalid, may have done something in an earlier build
VESA
SINGLE
DOUBLE
INFO

(Source: Original TCRF research)

Revisional Differences#

Watch on YouTubeThe original release of the European version had an ending that was rather mean-spirited, revealing the entire game to be the hallucinations of the protagonist, who has been jailed since the age of 3 for murdering his whole family.

This resulted in such a huge backlash that the game's ending was hastily changed for subsequent releases, including the North American release, to be Ishmael getting killed and the protagonist going up to Wanette to (presumably) make love.