Fable 2 Made Me Sad

I finally decided to wrap up my first round of the main quest today. Although I knew it was coming (my sister is really bad at this not spoiling games thing), I was still all:

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My poor dog got shot in the face. I was doing a perfectly good run (minus one Assassin job that the townspeople of Bowerstone won't forget), so of course I took the selfless option instead of picking love. Now I guess I'll just become rich, buy everything and wrap up the side quests to as complete of an extent as possible, and probably start a more focused new game. I am picking love next time for sure. Screw all those people that died building the Spire. I died twice in that game, and you don't see other people sacrificing themselves to bring me back.

Selfish bastards.

My sister owns Fable 3 though too, as well as the original (I haven't played the original, but I watched my brother beat it fairly thoroughly awhile back). I don't know if my sister will let me play the first game before she does though. If worst comes to worst, I could actually get around to beating FF5 before that challenge is over.

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I'm making bank right now as I do stuff around here. I should have about $30 towards a PSV or FF Type-0 (whichever comes first) come tomorrow when my Aunt pays me the rest of the way. $15 for mowing the lawn, though there was a lot of lawn to mow to be fair. There was enough that the mower actually ran out of gas and I had to refill it to work for another hour. Sadly though, there is only one more month of summer (in western Oregon, summer can end pretty abruptly and just kind of push into fall). I might amass maybe $60 to $70 before summer's end. How I'll make cash past that is yet to be determined. Hopefully, you know, a job or something. Have to wait until September to start applying around here though. Everywhere is loaded down with summer work at the moment.

Other than that, not much has been going on. I'm just trying to make the best of each day.

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I bought Fable II and tried to get into it but it was just so dull and boring. I felt like there was a lot to do but why would I even want to do any of it? I just feel like there are games with similar themes but are deeper and more interesting.
 
[quote name='Guild McCommunist' post='3799723' date='Jul 28 2011, 11:15 AM']I bought Fable II and tried to get into it but it was just so dull and boring. I felt like there was a lot to do but why would I even want to do any of it? I just feel like there are games with similar themes but are deeper and more interesting.[/quote]Try Fable I, much more better.
 
[quote name='prowler_' post='3799748' date='Jul 28 2011, 01:32 PM'][quote name='Guild McCommunist' post='3799723' date='Jul 28 2011, 11:15 AM']I bought Fable II and tried to get into it but it was just so dull and boring. I felt like there was a lot to do but why would I even want to do any of it? I just feel like there are games with similar themes but are deeper and more interesting.[/quote]Try Fable I, much more better.
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Yeah, everyone says that. I should pick it up eventually, I think it's on Xbox Originals for the 360.
 
Man, I loved Fable 1 on XBox. It was a great experience but a little on the short side though. Now what I`ve seen from Fable 2 it looks just as good.

Sadly this Gen I went with PS3 (only get one console beside the Nintendo one :P) and the second game didn`t get a PC release so I haven`t had a chance to play it yet. Fable 2 and Alan Wake are games that didn`t come out on PC that I definitely wanted to play.

I don`t want to play Fable 3, which did get a PC release, without before playing 2, so.... :(
 
Fable 2 is NOT just as good.
It's not even in the same league. Fable 1 is what Fable 2 hopes to grow up to be like one day.

3 isn't even Fable. "Fable" 3 shows EXACTLY what a fantastic game like Fable 1 looks like when they try to make it as absolutely casual as possible. It's the most disgustingly bad game i'd played in a long time. They essentially ruined every single thing that made Fable what it was.
 
[quote name='Hells Malice' post='3800102' date='Jul 28 2011, 04:53 PM']Fable 2 is NOT just as good.
It's not even in the same league. Fable 1 is what Fable 2 hopes to grow up to be like one day.

3 isn't even Fable. "Fable" 3 shows EXACTLY what a fantastic game like Fable 1 looks like when they try to make it as absolutely casual as possible. It's the most disgustingly bad game i'd played in a long time. They essentially ruined every single thing that made Fable what it was.[/quote]

I completely agree with you there. Its sad that they ruined a series that could have become something really big and good! :(
 
I took the selfless option on my first game too, but then I went on a rampage killing everyone in some town to bring down the property prices. You should try that on co-op mode.
 
[quote name='Hells Malice' post='3800102' date='Jul 28 2011, 07:53 AM']Fable 2 is NOT just as good.
It's not even in the same league. Fable 1 is what Fable 2 hopes to grow up to be like one day.

3 isn't even Fable. "Fable" 3 shows EXACTLY what a fantastic game like Fable 1 looks like when they try to make it as absolutely casual as possible. It's the most disgustingly bad game i'd played in a long time. They essentially ruined every single thing that made Fable what it was.[/quote]

I was helping out my sister with her Fable 3 run, and I think I'm really going to dislike that game. The lack of menus is more frustrating than it is innovative (lol good luck knowing when you're low on potions), the game as a whole doesn't run that fantastically (at least on a non-HD television), the job system took a dive for the too easy, and all the weapons seem to have vanished into the nether. It makes me angry that they changed so much of the game for the worse. The whole King deal isn't that fun either. Oh boy, you get to choose where to spend money and either go spiraling into debt, or have people hate you.

SUCH FUN.

But yeah, I really want to play the first game. The second game really wasn't that bad. I can appreciate what they are trying to do with the series (move through the ages), but they could have done it in such a better way than they have been. Here is to hoping that when and if Fable 4 comes out, they dip back to old Fable some. Like I said, Fable 2 wasn't that bad. If I decided to nit pick, I could find plenty of problems.

For example: Pistols are easily the best gun. The lowered power means nothing when you can squeeze off head shots easily without the long reload time of a blunderbuss, or the reload time in general after each shot with a rifle. The heavier weapons leave you wide open and just suck. You are much better off with the likes of Katana over the power of a Hammer. The special weapons are generally poop too. I would rather not sacrifice speed and power for a couple of augments on a neat looking weapon. There are only a couple of really good augments (absorb HP and gold per kill with no backlash), and few weapons can even utilize them. The system is pretty poorly thought out. Your spouse is also too damn needy. How am I supposed to play the game if I have to go back to my spouse after every half quest because they suddenly miss me? Oh yeah, and the spouse system is kind of broken. I can't count the number of times my spouse just sort of froze in place and would only react to a small handful of expressions.

The townsfolk are stupid and the game never lets you forget anything. I killed a single person for an assassin contract (briefly mentioned in the first post), and no matter how much time passed or how much the people liked me, they wouldn't stop bringing it up. The shop AI would tend to not be in their shops and instead, they would wander about outside of the shops where I couldn't buy jack shit. People who love you can also crowd you into really bad spots. Next play through, I'm being evil with the safety off. Screw all the townsfolk. If they get in my way, I'll shoot them in the face with a crossbow, pistol, rifle, whatever I may have at the time.

Overall, the game was also just too easy or too confusing. Hunting the gargoyles can be a real pain, as can the vague clues for the archeology quest that has a pretty shit reward. The battles were never hard unless you got locked between a couple of enemies that hit quickly (hobbes were prime offenders of this) with the exception of the Commandant fight that requires you to use crappy gear with few healing items. The quests overall just seemed like time killers to cover the fact that the main quest, honestly, was probably shorter than the average CoD campaign anymore. Them killing your dog is a pretty shitty move too. Makes post game not nearly as fun when you are treasure hunting without a dog (guess who isn't finishing the aforementioned archeology quest) because you were trying to be the good guy and didn't pick Love.

Yeah, there are definitely problems. I still enjoyed the game in the long run though, and the problems I've had with Fable 3 already are far worse.
 

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