Well, that theory would be great, if the thread itself actually had some substantial information in it that would somehow be useful within the future, hence, stickies. This thread however, fails.

I believe you got the title of this thread wrong. The game name you were looking for is Metal Gear Solid 4.

God damn Fable fucking sucked. I'm sorry to be so malicious but damn it needs it.

It's like a bunch of renegade Game Creators got really drunk at a bar, and came up with this great awesome kick ass idea for an RPG(all the elements that were mentioned). Then they somehow got recognition from the public for promising all this cool ass shit. Then they realized "Making a game is hard, let's just cut corners on all those promises."

Equalled to:

No Free Roaming

A VERY LINEAR storyline

VERY PREDICTABLE and SIMPLE persuasion and character affection system

Really short game

Aging system worked like Zelda, you pretty much had stages of your life that paralleled the storyline. It just had about 5 instead of 2

Horrible leveling system

Predictable TOWNS and CHARACTERS that again, paralleled the storyline

I'm trying to remember something good about that game... but really, I just can't.

The combat system was pretty borked too.