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Fable III cover artvsPenny Arcade Adventures: On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness - Episode Two cover art

Fable IIIvsPenny Arcade Adventures: On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness - Episode Two

Fable III leans Optimization (Pure Optimization); Penny Arcade Adventures: On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness - Episode Two leans Optimization (Pure Optimization).

EXECUTION3 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE1 /10OPTIMIZATION6 /10
Fable IIIPenny Arcade Adventures: On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness - Episode Two

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Execution3 vs 2

Fable III leans harder on execution: Simplified combat rarely punishes

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance1 vs 2

Penny Arcade Adventures: On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness - Episode Two leans harder on variance: Encounters are predictable after first contact

Optimization6 vs 6

Even - both lean on optimization about the same.

Two games can score the same on an axis and still test it in very different ways - read each rationale, not just the number.

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Fable III

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Penny Arcade Adventures: On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness - Episode Two