Alright, I don't love the game but it's not as bad as Yugi makes it out to be.
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!
Sadly, this is true. On my lady warrior I gave her the hot pants, the corset and the thigh boots because she looks so dumb it makes me laugh just to look at her. I don't mind the adventurer outfit though.
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.
I don't think it's dumb you have to level up to use those things, since you can get along fine without them anyway. You can aim you gun just not manually at first. It doesn't take long to level up to get those things anyway (since they are in the first 1 or 2 levels).
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!
My game only does this when I kill and enemy and it zooms in on the death animation. I have no idea why your game would be doing this randomly.
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.
I'm not saying this doesn't happen but I've never had an issue with this happening (I generally use ranged attacks though until I'm surrounded).
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).
I agree but replace Shock with Inferno. Inferno kills all.
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.
I've never had a problem with the magic charge time but my spells are only at level 3.
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!)
I don't ever buy potions at shops only furniture and such but having said that I haven't had any issues there yet. I've not had any trouble with eating and getting fat and I do eat quite a bit. Maybe the girl warrior is different than the male in that respect.
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).
lol I agree I prefered the d-pad item slot but I've never experienced lag in the menus. I do get about 2 seconds of lag while entering the menu but from there it's smooth.
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.
This is true but they do have bigger areas and you aren't (for the most part) restricted to the paths (ie. you can run around the forests/fields etc. so there is a bit more to explore.
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 find the dog mostly useless the only thing he's good for is dig spots but I haven't seen anything too spectacular from them.