Transform your Fable III dog

By Robert Purchese Published 16 December, 2010

Change to poodle, doberman or alsatian.

Bored of your Fable III dog? Wish you could swap for a cooler one? Lionhead has a remedy: a dog pack.

For 240 Microsoft Points you can transform your pooch into an exotic poodle or a doberman or an alsatian.

"Just let your dog have a sip when he's lying in his basket in the Sanctuary," instructs the add-on blurb, deviously.

Once that's done, the new-look dogs will be available when you unlock them in the storyline. There's no more information on this part - presumably it's not difficult to do.

Also available today in Fable III is a free Yule hat. "Bring cheer to the people of Albion with this extravagant hat. Whether you want to give them any gifts as well is entirely up to you."

Fable III in 15 minutes.

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About Robert Purchese

Bertie is Eurogamer's Senior Staff Writer. When he's not hunting down news stories he's often found playing with his kids or gabbling about fantasy games and strange online worlds. @Clert on Twitter.

Read more articles from Robert by visiting the Robert Purchese archive page.

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Comments (33) Latest comment 1 year ago

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  • dirtysteve #1 1 year ago

    240 points? Terrible, just terrible. The Molyneaux train ran out of steam years ago, now it's apparent to even the most die-hard 'wait and see' fans of his work.

  • geeza2020 #2 1 year ago

    You dont have to buy it. Its a piece of shit re-skin for your dog. Why would you want it anyway? I stopped playing this, long ago.

    But yes, 240 points is ridiculous.
    Edited by geeza2020 at 16/12/10 @ 16:07

  • welshben23 #3 1 year ago

    Poodle, doberman or alsatian? Meh....give me a Boxer or it's no deal! :)

    /Hasn't got the game anyway, so couldn't care less.

  • AdamAsunder #4 1 year ago

    You can change your dog?

    Fucking whoop.

    I'd want to exchange this dog of a game for something decent.

  • StolenGlory #5 1 year ago

    Can I pay 240MSP to transform the game into a decent one?

    Edited by StolenGlory at 16/12/10 @ 16:12

  • Triggerhappytel #6 1 year ago

    Are Lionhead actively intent on pissing off their fanbase now, or what? I've seen a lot less general goodwill and forgiveness for Fable 3 that there ever was for #2. And 240 points for a character skin is fucking ridiculous.

  • themerlin13 #7 1 year ago

    Considering what a bug fest the game is even after 3 patches, asking for more money for anything is insulting.
    For a first party title it's inexcuseable, so take your poodle skin and shove it up your ass.

  • RoaringPanda #8 1 year ago

    this is the patch i've been waiting for

  • Kanjin #9 1 year ago

    Doesn't really appeal to me, this seems the kind of thing that should be 80 MS points if anything was.

  • SpaceMidget75 Verified Senior Software Developer, Minerva Computer Services #10 1 year ago

    Alsatian

  • Moribundman #11 1 year ago

    @Welshben23 If you want a boxer, make sure you buy the special edition (if you *do* ever end up buying the game!)

    All this DLC, along with the pre-order/special edition stuff is in the one 250MB file that has been downloadable from day 1.

    I'm a fan of DLC generally, but considering most Fable III players already have all this stuff on their HDD locked away until they cough up their MSPs its a little cynical demanding 240 points for some dog skins, or indeed the dog COSTUME that you can also unlock for a similar amount...

    DLC fees should pay towards post-release additions to games, to subsidise the dev team continuing to work on a game after its gone gold. This is charging to unlock stuff you downloaded on day 1!

  • ZizouFC #12 1 year ago

    Can I change Jasper from a mute to a chatterbox?

    I'd even pay 240 points for it at this stage.

  • darkmorgado #13 1 year ago

    Can someone at lionhead please fucking tell Molyneux that increasing the emphasis on microtransactions doesn't negate the need to provide value for money?

  • HL706 #14 1 year ago

    For 240 points I could get one really good Indie game or two good Indie games. Hmmmm.

  • TheBiGW #15 1 year ago

    When can I buy the Dog Armor?

  • StolenGlory #16 1 year ago

    "Can someone at lionhead please fucking tell Molyneux that increasing the emphasis on microtransactions doesn't negate the need to provide value for money?"

    This implies that he listens to his lowers and takes their feedback seriously.

    He doesn't.

  • SAMagic #17 1 year ago

    It annoys me, but this is hardly anything new. People are prepared to pay nearly £5 for a lightsaber for their virtual avatar to hold with the impression that it will impress their friends.

    What worries me further is that this garbage will only get worse in the future. Avatar items should all be achievement related, but, no, Microsoft and certain devs want to squeeze as much money out of idiots as possible.

  • Bitkari #18 1 year ago

    I'd pay 800 to get rid of the dog altogether.

  • kangarootoo #19 1 year ago

    A choice of dog types should have been free from the off.

    And how many points do I need to pay to stop the Butler telling there are "new" items in the shop, when there is nothing of the sort?


    Not that I'm playing anymore. I really enjoyed Fable 1 and 2, but I found 3 to be quite a disappointment overall. This bloody obsession with being the revolutionary and then being the King spoiled the flow of the whole game imo. Found a handful of silver keys, not one gold key, opened a single demon door... it all just moved past too quickly. I also thought the weapon upgrade system was badly constructed, meaning nothing much happened unless you contrived your actions. I started a second play through, with the gift of hindsight, but ended up trading it in for AC:Brotherhood in the end. Really wanted to like it a lot, and I did like it, but it wasn't great :(

  • sneetch #20 1 year ago

    Very tempted to buy a second hand version, I've always bought first hand but after all their dicking about with the PC version I don't feel like giving them my money anymore.

  • arcam #21 1 year ago

    This implies that he listens to his lowers and takes their feedback seriously.

    He doesn't.

    I'm pretty sure he does. But I suspect he has a hard time convincing the higher-ups to sacrifice guaranteed profit in the pursuit of a more satisfying game.

  • kendoji #22 1 year ago

    Horse armour! :-D

  • Cassock #23 1 year ago

    As I'm sure your all aware Fable 1 was legendary and could be remade into a sequal of epic proportions. However Lionheads vilianous money making schemes results in scattered fan bases and ridiculous games that are nowhere near as good as some other games avialable these days or even some games that are coming out very soon (Deus Ex, Elder Scolls: Scyrim [We know it'll be fun])

    Instead Lionhead goes and sells DLC like Activision does... and that is what scares me the most ! :o

  • hiddenranbir #24 1 year ago

    You're all to blame for even ONE dlc payment you made. Now it is an epidemic.

  • metalangel #25 1 year ago

    I would love to transform the dog into a dead dog. I might be tempted to buy the game then.

  • Bluetooth #26 1 year ago

    Next up - for 600 MSP you can change the colour of your castle's roof.

  • Rack #27 1 year ago

    Wow. Makes Horse Armour seem like a bargain...

  • Kamata #28 1 year ago

    I saw this clown at the Eurogamer conference, his games are all overhyped, overated and underplayed because the reality is they all lack real substance.

  • Gastrian #29 1 year ago

    Post deleted at 17:56:43 13-04-2012

  • smelly #30 1 year ago

    MOLYNEUXGAMER strikes again!

    Money well spent there!

    Yes, i REALLY want a new type of dog.. and not a patch which makes the game challenging and gets rid of the REALLY badly designed ending
    Edited by smelly at 17/12/10 @ 06:53

  • smelly #31 1 year ago

    >A choice of dog types should have been free from the off.

    Theres a 99.999% chance it probably was.

    I'd put good money on the content actually being available on disc and this DLC just unlocks it

  • linksdad #32 1 year ago

    Comments just about sum up my feelings exactly; Worse Fable eva.

    Good luck finding people still playing this who are guilable enough to buy this tat.

  • SAMagic #33 1 year ago

    @Gastrian : The thing is, that's exactly what I thought about Fable 2. I could excuse Fable 1 for it being the first in a series (you have to start somewhere and then develop from there) but so many ridiculous mistakes and poor, clearly rushed design issues were repeated, it truly seems, if Black and White wasn't evidence enough, that Molyneux has lost the plot and is stuck up his own arse. I hear Fable 3 has done the same again.

    In Fable 2, the start of the game where you're running around the lake with your dog was brilliant, there was a lovely feeling that this game is going to be huge and awesome. But no. Shortly after that Fable 2 became nothing but very repetitive combat (Look at Arkham Asylum for how it should be!), with boring weapon upgrades and next to no real moral decisions (bar the stuff on the Spire). It's like the player was meant to entertain themselves by dicking around with villagers.
    Edited by SAMagic at 17/12/10 @ 09:57