I hated how you got the most powerful sword in the game so easily, and if you went out of your way to figure out Demon Doors and get in them you got pretty crappy weapons.This sounds a lot like how I felt about Oblivion too. There's all this exploration you can do, but the weapons/armor you find are shit and you can't find anywhere to sell all the useless junk you find.
I absolutely hated Fable 1. Like, I found nothing enjoyable about it. :( I seem to be the only person who seems to think this, though.No you're not the only one, I hated it too.
I won't be picking this up!
Oh yeah do you age really rapidly in this one too because I think my hair is already turning gray BUT I CANT TELL FOR SURE BECAUSE I CANT SEE MY FUCKING CHARACTERS FACE
This was a problem for me in Oblivion. You only see your character's face when you open the journal. I remedied this by making Ron Perlman. I think I might go through my next playthrough as a High Elf Barack Obama.
As for Fable II, I wasn't really keen on it at first, but this looks really neat, and it's gotten pretty good reviews across the board. I might rent it, but I take everything Peter Molyneux says with several pounds of salt.
yeah you can. iirc if you hold down the scroll button on your mouse you can rotate the camera around your character and zoom in/out
Yeah, but you can't get achievements in the pc release. Is this whole game like set in a time period where you only have ye olde guns and one handed swords? I want some fucking Huge Ass Dark Blood Plate Armor and a giant two-handed sword
Man, Bigass Doom Plate armor is probably the most important aspect of looking good. Bigass Doom Plate Armor and Mighty Death Axe. those are the TWO MOST IMPORTANT PARTSThere is no armor in the game :[ But ][/ But]I mean its fun but not being a baddass knight dude with thick ass armor sucks and really ruined the appeal for me.[/quote]
There is no armor in the game :[ But there is big axes, hammers and cleavers (giant butchers knifes). All clothes in the game are for appearance only, and have no other effects.
Also, most of the clothes in the game suck, badly. At the end of the game basically everyone will look the same, like a pirate or an assassin, because those are the only remotely decent looking clothes (the clothes you start with seriously look better than pretty much everything else except for pirate/assassin clothes).
The game is set several hundred years in the future. Armor at this point would be both out of place (how often do you see someone walking down the streets in a suit of full plate mail?) and due to the invention of guns useless.
It's not unrealistic that there is no armor in the game, but is sure sucks that there is hardly any decent looking clothes!
Anyway, the game is decent, but nothing great. Though in a lot of aspects it seems to have taken a step backwards from the first Fable game.
Leveling up in particular is pretty bad. At the start of the game you can swing your weapon, and shoot your gun, that is all. You cannot block, use flourishes, or even aim your gun. You literally have to level up to buy this stuff which came as default in Fable.
Combat it's self is at times stupid too. Sometimes the game just randomly goes into slow motion, and the camera zooms in on an enemy. I don't know why it does this to be honest with you!
You also cannot attack enemies that are backed up to a wall, you cannot swing weapons near walls, and if the enemy is near a wall, you simple cannot swing your weapon at them.
Magic is also really crappy. There is 8 spells, and only one of them is useful, and that is Shock and that is only because it hits and stuns. Inferno is basically Shock, but it does not stun, Blades is Shock without the stun, Vortex is Shock without the stun, Force Push is Shock with the stun... But less than half the damage. All the cool and useful spells Fable had have been removed for no apparent reason (no heal, mp shield, berserk, assassins rush, multi-strike/arrow and so on).
On top of that the way magic is cast though kind of useful (all spells can either be targetted at an enemy, or used to hit all nearby enemies) sucks because Mp is removed, and replaced with having to charge up a spell. To charge up a full level 5 spell takes a good 5+ seconds, if enemies are near you then chances are you'll be dead long before this happens, and if not then you'll only get off a single spell before enemies get too close to you. Also, having to charge up spells means you will only ever be using a single spell, since it is not easy to change a spell unless outside of combat.
Shops are crap too. They sell like... 1 of every item they have in stock, and that is it. And everyday their selection of items is randomised. If you want to stock up on some potions this means you buy a potion. Sleep for a day, come back the next and hopefully buy another if they have it in stock. Repeat until you have enough potions. (Never use food, after a single fight you'll end up a total fatass, and losing weight is impossible outside of buying a single stick of celery every day for 2 in game weeks... Great fun, really great fun!)
Using items is horribly retarded too. In the original Fable I could slap an item onto the D-Pad, and press that direction to use it. This seems to have been entirely removed from Fable 2.
Now you have to press start, select items, select potions, find and use the potion. Oh yeah... The menu system lags a lot. Pressing start, 2s lag, selecting items, another 2s lag, selecting potions, ANOTHER 2s lag, finally using the potion also results in a few seconds of lag. And you have to do this with every single item you want to use except in rare cases (when you are nearly dead a potion will be assigned to the left direction, but chances are it is not the right potion you want to use and the most expensive potion which will heal you for 500% more Hp than you even have).
Also, the game doesn't have a massive deal of exploration or open endedness to it. It is like Fable in that there is a path leading from one town to the next, only this time that path is slightly wider, and there is no easy to view minimap, making it look even less like a path.
The game could have been a lot better than it is. But for some reason the developers decided to make a lot of retarded choices for no apparent reasons. But at least you get a pet dog, and can get STDs!!!!!!
I beat it but the ending disappointed me.I cried at the end. :cry: