Fable 2 is a game for casual gamers


Sorry for ranting in here so much

lol i tried my luck with HMV but no joy.

Also as a warning to those to purchase this game

There is a church, Abbott Church where you take a quest called the Ritual Quest. If you leave said church before the NPC stops talking, you can't continue to listen to this NPC. This results in making it impossible to progress in the story and ruins your character you built over time making you start over.
This didn't happen to me, but the internets are being flooded by this complaint.
If you leave any NPC before they finish talking to take on a quest, you won't actually have the quest until they're done. You return to the NPC so they finish

Here is what I consider to be the sad part. When did Fable go gold? The answer is LONG time ago. I can't even remember, but a long time ago they announced they had gone gold. So what the hell happened between that time and the actual release? They just went on vacation it seems, leaving a technically embarrassing game.

Honestly, the more I hear about it, the worst it gets. No matter how good a game is, if it isn't technically up to par...........well. Anyways, this is very unfortunate.

Lebato: the gone gold news i find when googling is posted on the 22 of september, meaning that the announcement of Fable going gold is like one month old. So...IS WRONG i guess ;)

Anyhow, i'm super stoked. Going to pick my copy up soon, like in 30 minutes.

Just got my copy!!!!! but i'm at Uni so cant play untill later :(

Just got my copy too! :), so i will play tonight and give impressions as i go.

So far, after like 8 hours of straight playing since i got home, i'm pleased witht he game. I never did ahve any expectations on depth or anything, since i know that Mullenö is always full of shit. It is, however, a very enjoyable action/rpg hybrid with some funny quirks. I mean...if you were expecting the game to keep up with Peter's BS then you are bound to be disappointed, if you however expected Fable 2 to be very much like the first then you'll probably enjoy it.

That's all I did in the beginning. Then I realized how easy it is to make money, ie the bartending and blacksmithing which by the way has no impact in the game. You can get promoted to top levels in woodcutting, blacksmithing, and bar-tending and nothing happens.
It makes buying your towns and other locations way too simple.
I was also excited for the family aspect, in fact it was what I looked forward to most. My child not getting as old as I am was a huge letdown. You can have sex with just about anyone, big deal though on that one.
You can only get married to one person. I wanted to have kids from multiple people and watch them grow, but again that was a let down too. You can only get engaged to people after you are initially wed. Maybe so as not to offend religious types?

I think this game needed more than a couple months. It needed a couple more years. This is NOT a game for hardcore gamersThe first was at the very least challenging, and had SUCH better execution it's not even funny
I really liked the first one and was excited for this sequel.

loving it so far :), back to the game.

Tinks: neither was the first if you ask me (a game for hardcore gamers that is). It was way easy to earn money and get the girls in the original fable as well, and the first was more challenging you say? Not that i've faced any heavy resistance in 2, but the only part that i had to retry in 1 was that part where you had to sneak past some guards, cause it was so terribly executed. So for me that's a void argument, Fable 1 wasn't challenging either.

It's kind of funny though, getting 250 golds for splitting one log. Them peasants in Albion must be LOADED.

You could die in Fable 1, there was more at risk
Also mana came in levels, you didn't have an infinite amount of it

A bug just destroyed my save of like 17 hours. Lovely. I was going to do the shooting gallery quest but i hadn't bought the second level skill that let's you aim, so i bought it while still standing in the area of the quest and then when i tried to accept nothing happened and afterwards i couldn't move. I tried restarting the game, still can't move, i tried fast traveling, still can't move...basically i'm boned.

The game seems really sensitive when accepting quests. Bugs like that are totally devastating as well. If it happens to me I really doubt I will play through to the same point again. I never have the patience to do that. Sorry to hear this Megido.

really enjoying it. the start of the game has one serious buggy animation cycle. once you grow up tho everything seem fine.

played a good 20 or so hours so far and still havnt finished the story. i get wrapped up in the property market and side quests, plus exploration. the only few things that im not liking is the general lack of reward for going off the beaten track. yes there are hitten dig treasure and chests, but they almost ALL contain some sort of potion or gold. i would have liked more weapons and clothing cos i found an assassins shirt in the first 10 mintues of the game, and then havnt found anything since really except the odd hat.

other then that tho, exploration is pretty nice. and you get a good sense that you've explored an area fully since its not completely open world. saying that however, i still think each area should have been stitched together via a streaming engine, cos these 30 second load times are rediculous. although i guess the world would feel incredibly small if that was done.

oh and as nice as the world is, it lacks something. i just fast travel everywhere now since there really isnt any reason to run there. a couple hobbe and bandit fights doesnt seem worth the journey on foot.

oh, one other negative is the menu, becasue they use 3D models for all items it slows it down to a crawl. especially if you have a lot of items.

games great tho despite these issues. one button combat works surprisingly well as does the lack of mana. graphics are nice, if not amazing. and gameplay rocks. it kinda feels like a bit of a fable 1.5 in the sense this feels like what fable 1 SHOULd have been from the start. but im glad i bought it and thats all i really care about.

That pretty much sums up my feelings aswell KORNdog, theres some amazing touches, the game is very ambitious, theres lots to do and its fun.
That said, there still seems to be something missing, maybe its a reward thing but it feels like everything could have been expanded upon quite easily, like cloths and whatever, theres only a few types of clothing but theres not enough to satisfy.
I think thats maybe what it is, there isnt enough depth or difficulty in there to make it a truly great game, and then theres the bugs that make you wary at all times.
I just hope they can and will iron out the issues that exist with a patch and a quick one aswell, theres no point patching a game 2 months after its released cause people wont go back to it.

Just thought i'd share in case it happens to someone else:
I managed to fix my save game, and this is how i did it. After restarting the console (just quitting and reloading wasn't enough) i could walk again if i pressed the left trigger, so with that i walked back and did the quest and after that i could walk again.

Just really started playing and so far so good.

Just watched the GamerTV review special - 10\10 they loved it.

Really enjoying this game now, one negative i have is the lack of magic assign buttons, i mean how hard can it be to have the dpad map over to magic assigned powers when in combat then back to dog tricks and healing when not in combat?

Yep

This game should not be getting perfect scores. While it is an excellent title, the plethora of bugs should be enough to warrant a few hits on the reviews.

Anyone know of anyway to fix the inanimate child bug? My kid is no longer interactive and just stands there staring blankly at my house.