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General => Video Game Bored => Topic started by: Don Flamenco on October 21, 2008, 02:57:31 AM

Title: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: Don Flamenco on October 21, 2008, 02:57:31 AM
game comes out tomorrow on the xbox 360

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fable_2

my first official thread!


Title: Re: official fable 2 thread
Post by: bork on October 21, 2008, 02:59:42 AM
Official threads are officially lame.  Just say "Fable 2 Thread," JEEZ-LOUISE!!
Title: Re: official fable 2 thread
Post by: Don Flamenco on October 21, 2008, 03:04:47 AM
Official threads are officially lame.  Just say "Fable 2 Thread," JEEZ-LOUISE!!

bu bu this is in tribute to tieno's epic fallout 3 thread
Title: Re: official fable 2 thread
Post by: pilonv1 on October 21, 2008, 03:10:39 AM
yes this is an homage
Title: Re: official fable 2 thread
Post by: bork on October 21, 2008, 03:15:59 AM
hokay i change for u
Title: Re: official fable 2 thread
Post by: demi on October 21, 2008, 03:16:56 AM
as much as i'd like to play, i cant until i beat Fable 1. i should be near the end, though. i broke out of jail with my mommy last i played.
Title: Re: official epic FABLE II homage thread of officially epic officialness
Post by: Bildi on October 21, 2008, 03:29:34 AM
As per the WDYB thread, I picked up these today, but they're Christmas presents (one is for me):

(http://i142.photobucket.com/albums/r89/Bildi777/evilbore/Fable2.jpg)

I am INCREDIBLY tempted to play this and save Dead Space until Christmas instead (it arrives tomorrow) because I am dying for some good old light-hearted adventuring.

But I've been waiting for Dead Space all year so I think I'm going to stick with my plan and delay Fable 2 playing until Christmas.

:gloomy
Title: Re: OFFICIAL, EPIC FABLE II homage thread (of officially epic officialness)
Post by: The Innocent X on October 21, 2008, 04:10:44 AM
Got to wait on this one. GHWT, RB2 and Gears mean I wouldn't get enough time on it till christmas anyway. Really looking forward to it though.
Title: Re: OFFICIAL, EPIC FABLE II homage thread (of officially epic officialness)
Post by: AdmiralViscen on October 21, 2008, 11:06:43 AM
Old hat.

They came through on the co op patch though, downloaded that this morning. It was huge, took almost 20 seconds :o



It's kind of annoying that your wife's allowance is deducted based on 24 hours of game time, but you gain money from your properties based on 5 minutes of real time. So if you warp between two distance towns your wife will charge you money but you won't take in any money from the people renting your house right next to your own.
Title: Re: OFFICIAL, EPIC FABLE II homage thread (of officially epic officialness)
Post by: Tucah on October 21, 2008, 12:52:28 PM
My roommate was out and picked up my copy, I can't wait to get back from class in a couple hours and play :hyper :hyper :hyper
Title: Re: OFFICIAL, EPIC FABLE II homage thread (of officially epic officialness)
Post by: Don Flamenco on October 21, 2008, 03:59:53 PM
I feel so violated! 

Just got the game but I have to have lunch first.

:bow lunch :bow2

:piss hunger :piss2
Title: Re: OFFICIAL, EPIC FABLE II homage thread (of officially epic officialness)
Post by: Grecco on October 21, 2008, 05:40:25 PM
Got it and did the childhood part. Pretty fun. But it doesnt explain alot of stuff.
Title: Re: OFFICIAL, EPIC FABLE II homage thread (of officially epic officialness)
Post by: demi on October 21, 2008, 05:41:53 PM
You mean story? It takes place 500 years later, what do you want them to explain?
Title: Re: OFFICIAL, EPIC FABLE II homage thread (of officially epic officialness)
Post by: Grecco on October 21, 2008, 05:46:31 PM
Stuff to do. Like the different things each individual npc has with you the heart the thing and the other thing

stuff like that. The tutorial part was barebones imo
Title: Re: OFFICIAL, EPIC FABLE II homage thread (of officially epic officialness)
Post by: Mupepe on October 21, 2008, 05:58:08 PM
How easy is this to get?  Can I just go into a gamestop and pick it up?  I swore I wouldn't spend out of my savings anymore but I can't hold off
Title: Re: OFFICIAL, EPIC FABLE II homage thread (of officially epic officialness)
Post by: demi on October 21, 2008, 06:08:23 PM
They had midnight launches, the game has been in stores since last week at least
Title: Re: OFFICIAL, EPIC FABLE II homage thread (of officially epic officialness)
Post by: Mupepe on October 21, 2008, 06:14:25 PM
sweet tits.  they better have tons then.  COME ON 7PM COME ON 7PM
Title: Re: OFFICIAL, EPIC FABLE II homage thread (of officially epic officialness)
Post by: Bildi on October 21, 2008, 07:40:08 PM
The one game I get before everyone in the US, and I can't play it.  Typical. :lol

Title: Re: OFFICIAL, EPIC FABLE II homage thread (of officially epic officialness)
Post by: demi on October 21, 2008, 08:52:42 PM
I have the Fable! But I cant play it until I beat Fable!
Title: Re: OFFICIAL, EPIC FABLE II homage thread (of officially epic officialness)
Post by: Bildi on October 21, 2008, 09:18:44 PM
At least it’s not long...

spoiler (click to show/hide)
I liked it though.
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Title: Re: OFFICIAL, EPIC FABLE II homage thread (of officially epic officialness)
Post by: Don Flamenco on October 21, 2008, 09:42:20 PM
Great stuff so far.  Wish I could be playing instead of doing homework. 

On complaint is that it has some really glitchy animation at times and the dog always seems to get caught on stuff.
Title: Re: OFFICIAL, EPIC FABLE II homage thread (of officially epic officialness)
Post by: Van Cruncheon on October 21, 2008, 09:43:20 PM
i watched big sis walk right through a closed door

:bow :bow mystical powers of bounding box misdetection :bow2 :bow2
Title: Re: OFFICIAL, EPIC FABLE II homage thread (of officially epic officialness)
Post by: permutated on October 21, 2008, 09:43:42 PM
Do not want.

Well...until Co-Op is out :D
Title: Re: OFFICIAL, EPIC FABLE II homage thread (of officially epic officialness)
Post by: Don Flamenco on October 21, 2008, 09:45:53 PM
co-op is out, I think.  Got prompted for an update when I put the disc in.

Yeah, Rose walked right through Lucien's door! 
spoiler (click to show/hide)
I hope she comes back in to the story, she was cool.  I'm guessing she does, if it's anything like Fable 1's twists.
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Title: Re: OFFICIAL, EPIC FABLE II homage thread (of officially epic officialness)
Post by: AdmiralViscen on October 21, 2008, 09:56:36 PM
Got it and did the childhood part. Pretty fun. But it doesnt explain alot of stuff.

It's true, and it doesn't get much better as you move on. But you wind up figuring most of it out anyway.

I prefer this to the 90 minute intro portion of Fable 1, that's for sure.


Co op is active as of today. I tried it out, it's not as bad as people were saying or as I feared. It can be awkward but it's fun.
Title: Re: OFFICIAL, EPIC FABLE II homage thread (of officially epic officialness)
Post by: demi on October 21, 2008, 10:03:02 PM
How does the co-op work? Are the orbs all the people on my friends list? Can they just hop in? Can I turn it off?
Title: Re: OFFICIAL, EPIC FABLE II homage thread (of officially epic officialness)
Post by: AdmiralViscen on October 21, 2008, 10:15:35 PM
-orbs can be changed in the settings, they are either friends only or 'everyone,' which I imagine is a sampling of random people
-i just did the same old 'invite to game.' he can't hurt allies unless I turn off the safeguard in the RB wheel, and I can kick him any time. When he joins he sets up his character and I get to decide what percentage of EXP and gold he gets to take. annoyingly, he even got 50% of my rent and owned shops, not just treasure chests. but then when he dropped out, i got all his gold back in one lump sum and he didn't get any in his pocket on his side. He thinks he might have quit the wrong way or something.
-it only takes a second for them to hop in or drop out, probably even better than SR2.

Camera is not perfect, it's completely computer controlled. it works well for combat and walking around but if you're going up a spiral staircase or behind bushes to get to a chest it can be annoying. you get special bonuses for doing combo attacks, and if either player holds RT both of you will get the experience orbs, you get into a nice rhythm with that.
Title: Re: OFFICIAL, EPIC FABLE II homage thread (of officially epic officialness)
Post by: cool breeze on October 21, 2008, 11:02:53 PM
My dog is awesome! he found me a condom in the dirt that I will use to bang some chick.
Title: Re: OFFICIAL, EPIC FABLE II homage thread (of officially epic officialness)
Post by: Mupepe on October 22, 2008, 12:52:21 AM
How do you bang chicks??  This girl is telling me she wants to roll around in the hay and her personality says she's raunchy but I can't figure out how to fuck her.  Do I need to get an expression or something from somewhere???  WHAT THE FUCK
Title: Re: OFFICIAL, EPIC FABLE II homage thread (of officially epic officialness)
Post by: Smooth Groove on October 22, 2008, 12:54:20 AM
How are the graphics?  I'll probably exchange for it at TRU later this week. 
Title: Re: OFFICIAL, EPIC FABLE II homage thread (of officially epic officialness)
Post by: AdmiralViscen on October 22, 2008, 01:01:59 AM
Graphics range from pretty damn gorgeous to don't look too closely, IMO
Title: Re: OFFICIAL, EPIC FABLE II homage thread (of officially epic officialness)
Post by: cool breeze on October 22, 2008, 01:04:03 AM
It runs a bit like GTA4 where everything seems delayed because of the frame rate.
Title: Re: OFFICIAL, EPIC FABLE II homage thread (of officially epic officialness)
Post by: cool breeze on October 22, 2008, 01:04:46 AM
How do you bang chicks??  This girl is telling me she wants to roll around in the hay and her personality says she's raunchy but I can't figure out how to fuck her.  Do I need to get an expression or something from somewhere???  WHAT THE FUCK

I think you need to get married to have sex unless it's with a hooker.
Title: Re: OFFICIAL, EPIC FABLE II homage thread (of officially epic officialness)
Post by: AdmiralViscen on October 22, 2008, 01:06:08 AM
I think you just need the "Come Back to my Place" expression (or whatever) that you can get from the Bowerstone bookstore, and a house. Maybe an Inn would work.

iirc I couldn't even fuck my own wife until I got that book. The bed would just prompt me to sleep.
Title: Re: OFFICIAL, EPIC FABLE II homage thread (of officially epic officialness)
Post by: cool breeze on October 22, 2008, 01:07:54 AM
I'm gonna need to buy that book.
Title: Re: OFFICIAL, EPIC FABLE II homage thread (of officially epic officialness)
Post by: demi on October 22, 2008, 01:12:50 AM
I think you just need the "Come Back to my Place" expression (or whatever) that you can get from the Bowerstone bookstore, and a house. Maybe an Inn would work.

iirc I couldn't even fuck my own wife until I got that book. The bed would just prompt me to sleep.

Sounds like married life...
Title: Re: OFFICIAL, EPIC FABLE II homage thread (of officially epic officialness)
Post by: AdmiralViscen on October 22, 2008, 01:13:09 AM
Also, if you get your wife's pussy sopping wet, make sure you actually fuck her. There was a time when I got her super horny and then tried to go to bed, but the primary mission I was on prevented me from sleeping. So she followed me through two different dungeons, kept getting attacked by trolls and shit, and when I'd rescue her her fear rating would go up. Still recovering from that.
Title: Re: OFFICIAL, EPIC FABLE II homage thread (of officially epic officialness)
Post by: Greatness Gone on October 22, 2008, 01:14:37 AM
Okay, I'm buying this. Does it have gay marriage?
Title: Re: OFFICIAL, EPIC FABLE II homage thread (of officially epic officialness)
Post by: AdmiralViscen on October 22, 2008, 01:15:08 AM
Yes.
Title: Re: OFFICIAL, EPIC FABLE II homage thread (of officially epic officialness)
Post by: Jansen on October 22, 2008, 01:30:07 AM
movement feels really floaty and slow  :-\
Title: Re: OFFICIAL, EPIC FABLE II homage thread (of officially epic officialness)
Post by: cool breeze on October 22, 2008, 01:51:04 AM
I was thinking about banging this bar maid so I checked out her profile, it said she was a chubby chaser lol
Title: Re: OFFICIAL, EPIC FABLE II homage thread (of officially epic officialness)
Post by: Don Flamenco on October 22, 2008, 02:05:04 AM
huge improvement over the first one.  I liked Fable 1, but this is much better. 

Few questions:
--any way to get a mini map for when you're wandering around?  That seems like a huge omission.  With the second delay to pause, it's annoying to constantly go to the menu.

--any way to map item to the D-pad like in the first one?  see above.

--is there some kind vaseline filter that makes the game a little blurry or is it just my monitor ghosting a little?
Title: Re: OFFICIAL, EPIC FABLE II homage thread (of officially epic officialness)
Post by: Mupepe on October 22, 2008, 02:28:05 AM
huge improvement over the first one.  I liked Fable 1, but this is much better. 

Few questions:
--any way to get a mini map for when you're wandering around?  That seems like a huge omission.  With the second delay to pause, it's annoying to constantly go to the menu.

--any way to map item to the D-pad like in the first one?  see above.

--is there some kind vaseline filter that makes the game a little blurry or is it just my monitor ghosting a little?
1.  I don't think so.  The trail and dog thing are supposed to take care of that.

2.  Not sure

3.  Mine is too.  Looks like a GTA game
Title: Re: OFFICIAL, EPIC FABLE II homage thread (of officially epic officialness)
Post by: cool breeze on October 22, 2008, 02:31:05 AM
Both the controls and graphics remind me of GTA.

And the only item mapped to the d-pad are my food items, but it doesn't tell me which ones and I never use it since they make my character unhealthy.  I have carrots and tofu along with the shitty rancid fish I don't want to eat.
Title: Re: OFFICIAL, EPIC FABLE II homage thread (of officially epic officialness)
Post by: Mupepe on October 22, 2008, 02:41:23 AM
played for 4 hours.  Didn't accomplish much, but I had fun.

me and my friend were sitting here playing and some guy fell in love with me.  i killed him when he flirted with me and pet my dog.  Then I did community service and now people just call me a murderer :(

I had like 3 women in love with me and they're scared of me.  whores.

I still haven't had sex though. 
Title: Re: OFFICIAL, EPIC FABLE II homage thread (of officially epic officialness)
Post by: TVC15 on October 22, 2008, 04:29:02 AM
Only played a lil bit, but so far this is just about all I could have expected from a Fable sequel
Title: Re: OFFICIAL, EPIC FABLE II homage thread (of officially epic officialness)
Post by: VALIS on October 22, 2008, 04:53:33 AM
Only played a lil bit, but so far this is just about all I could have expected from a Fable sequel

You get the eye patch I sent you? Sorry, I realized after I sent it you were probably doing the blacksmith job at the time and it might've distracted you.

I like banging all the married women in this game. Just like in real life.  :tophat
Title: Re: OFFICIAL, EPIC FABLE II homage thread (of officially epic officialness)
Post by: TVC15 on October 22, 2008, 05:09:41 AM
Only played a lil bit, but so far this is just about all I could have expected from a Fable sequel

You get the eye patch I sent you? Sorry, I realized after I sent it you were probably doing the blacksmith job at the time and it might've distracted you.

I like banging all the married women in this game. Just like in real life.  :tophat

Haha, I saw your orb there.  I didn't get any indication you were trying to send me anything.  Maybe pop-ups are blocked when you are doing a job or mini-game like that?  I think the orb thing is pretty cool.  Sorry I wasn't up for fucking with it tonight, but I am mildly ill.
Title: Re: OFFICIAL, EPIC FABLE II homage thread (of officially epic officialness)
Post by: Lucretius on October 22, 2008, 05:20:54 AM
Loved the game for a few hours.  Then I got to a game ending glitch.  I'm at "The Ritual" quest.  This is pretty early on so no real spoilers.  I have to talk to an abbot inside this room but there's a monk standing in the door way who will not move and is absolutely unresponsive.  I've done everything.  I even turned off Safe Mode and tried to kill the guy.  He still just stands there.  I checked the Lionhead forums and I'm not the only one who has gotten stuck on this quest due to glitches.  I cannot progress in the game's story without getting past this guy.

So now I put Fable II back in it's case and wait for Lionhead to release a patch.  I don't really want to go back and replay the hours I've already put into the game with no assurance that this won't happen again when I get to this part.
Title: Re: OFFICIAL, EPIC FABLE II homage thread (of officially epic officialness)
Post by: AdmiralViscen on October 22, 2008, 10:33:56 AM
I definitely wish they had a better area map. It can be annoying if you just need a condom and every blue dot is selling pies or fish and shit.

How do you do community service? Or is that just a penalty for murdering?
Title: Re: OFFICIAL, EPIC FABLE II homage thread (of officially epic officialness)
Post by: cool breeze on October 22, 2008, 10:35:45 AM
Yeah, this game needs a much better map system.  I think Peter said that the golden urine trail was supposed to be the substitute.
Title: Re: OFFICIAL, EPIC FABLE II homage thread (of officially epic officialness)
Post by: Don Flamenco on October 22, 2008, 10:51:26 AM
Hannah's head is comically small.
Title: Re: OFFICIAL, EPIC FABLE II homage thread (of officially epic officialness)
Post by: Mupepe on October 22, 2008, 11:01:16 AM
I definitely wish they had a better area map. It can be annoying if you just need a condom and every blue dot is selling pies or fish and shit.

How do you do community service? Or is that just a penalty for murdering?
It's just a penalty.  And yeah, the map is fucking worthless.

Should I marry alex or break her heart?
Title: Re: OFFICIAL, EPIC FABLE II homage thread (of officially epic officialness)
Post by: GilloD on October 22, 2008, 11:07:11 AM
This game will be fun in a month. I wanna wait for ti to get chilly and cozy up under a blankie with it.
Title: Re: OFFICIAL, EPIC FABLE II homage thread (of officially epic officialness)
Post by: Don Flamenco on October 22, 2008, 11:10:06 AM
I definitely wish they had a better area map. It can be annoying if you just need a condom and every blue dot is selling pies or fish and shit.

How do you do community service? Or is that just a penalty for murdering?
It's just a penalty.  And yeah, the map is fucking worthless.

Should I marry alex or break her heart?

marry her, have a kid, get the achievements so you never have to do that pointless shit again.  Your wife and kid just become money sponges....JUST LIKE IN REAL LIFE!
Title: Re: OFFICIAL, EPIC FABLE II homage thread (of officially epic officialness)
Post by: cool breeze on October 22, 2008, 12:06:23 PM
I broke up with her.  Bitch got over her dead fiance after a quick dance...fucking whore.
Title: Re: OFFICIAL, EPIC FABLE II homage thread (of officially epic officialness)
Post by: AdmiralViscen on October 22, 2008, 12:12:19 PM
Just beat the crucible.

Make sure you go in there with lots of potions, good weapons, lots of upgrades. As far as I can see there's no way to quit in the middle.
Title: Re: OFFICIAL, EPIC FABLE II homage thread (of officially epic officialness)
Post by: Don Flamenco on October 22, 2008, 12:14:20 PM
You could murder half a town, do a quick dance, and the rest of the town would get over it. :lol
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: Don Flamenco on October 22, 2008, 12:38:12 PM
okay, thread title finalized.  I promise never to put "to begin with? everything." in a thread title again.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: Jansen on October 22, 2008, 04:38:01 PM
the controls are imprecise and the game has a weird ghosting effect going on. other than that it's seems pretty fun.

what is in the locked chest that tells you to go to fable2.com? dlc?
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: Don Flamenco on October 22, 2008, 04:40:38 PM
the controls are imprecise and the game has a weird ghosting effect going on. other than that it's seems pretty fun.

what is in the locked chest that tells you to go to fable2.com? dlc?

I don't know but I thought that was lame. 
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: cool breeze on October 22, 2008, 04:50:52 PM
the controls are imprecise and the game has a weird ghosting effect going on. other than that it's seems pretty fun.

what is in the locked chest that tells you to go to fable2.com? dlc?

Did you get the LE? it comes with a code to enter on the XBLA which unlocks a bunch of Halo stuff.  You get the laser sword, armor set like Master Chiefs, and the actual title of Master Chief.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: demi on October 22, 2008, 04:56:36 PM
the controls are imprecise and the game has a weird ghosting effect going on. other than that it's seems pretty fun.

what is in the locked chest that tells you to go to fable2.com? dlc?

There's a web movie you can watch, and at the end you pick a crown and it gives you goodies. The prizes are useless, the Pub Game prizes are better.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: TVC15 on October 22, 2008, 05:52:57 PM
So what was the punishment if you cheated at pub games?
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: Jansen on October 22, 2008, 06:11:29 PM
Did you get the LE? it comes with a code to enter on the XBLA which unlocks a bunch of Halo stuff.  You get the laser sword, armor set like Master Chiefs, and the actual title of Master Chief.

after they cut out all the goodies and my amazon preorder at $66.99 didn't look like a deal anymore? hell no.

Quote
So what was the punishment if you cheated at pub games?

evil points.

game is awesome so far. i thought you guys were joking about condoms being in the game lol

I don't know but I thought that was lame. 

it is lame. making people wonder why they can't open the chest and having to go online to find out what could be in it is pretty shitty.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: cool breeze on October 22, 2008, 06:27:06 PM
I didn't get any evil points for pub games cheat.  I think it is only if you have a ton of money and I only had about 300 thousand.  I invested most in shops and get about 4,000 every minute or so.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: archie4208 on October 22, 2008, 07:07:53 PM
Stupid question.  Is anyone elses 360 much louder with the Fable 2 disc?  It sounds like a jet engine taking off when playing Fable 2.  I thought my 360's disc drive was going but I put in my Rock Band 2 disc and it sounded fine. ???
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: Mupepe on October 22, 2008, 07:28:24 PM
Not a stupid question archie.  My normally quiet falcon elite sounds obnoxiously loud with fable 2.  I thought something was wrong with my 360 when it was going
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: cool breeze on October 22, 2008, 07:46:02 PM
Same here.  The game running choppy didn't help ease my worries either.

I really wish that the new 360 dash was out so I could install this for both noise and load time reduction.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: Jansen on October 22, 2008, 08:27:57 PM
where in the hell is an inn?

and yeah, this game makes the drive go bonkers.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: TVC15 on October 22, 2008, 08:34:15 PM
Fable 2 is basically like what you'd get if Nintnedo tried to make an actually ambitious Zelda game.  GOTY.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: Mupepe on October 22, 2008, 08:54:58 PM
where in the hell is an inn?

and yeah, this game makes the drive go bonkers.
In bowerstone you can sleep above the pub I think.

I just bought my first house and got married.  Decided not to do children yet.  I spent soooooooooooooooo much time on that stupid blacksmith mini game so I could buy a damn house for the goddamn barmaid.

I just banged her and now people find me more attractive.

But now, where the fuck is the bookstore?  I can't find it for the life of me.  I even searched in Old Bowerstone but it's such a mess and the map sucks.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: Jansen on October 22, 2008, 09:01:25 PM
wow you spent that much time blacksmithing? :lol

i got to level 4 and around 10,000 gold then quit
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: Mupepe on October 22, 2008, 09:10:55 PM
I got 20k from the blacksmith mini game :(

I wanted to commit suicide.  after a while i couldn't even get past like 3 chains because i was so numbed out I didn't really give a fuck when i pressed the button
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: Don Flamenco on October 22, 2008, 09:18:03 PM
yeah my 360 sounds like its eating the disc.  I thought it was because my system is sitting upright.   Reminds me of Gears 1...that's another oddly loud as shit game.   

:bow November 19th :bow2

and chopping wood and the blacksmith are oddly addictive.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: cool breeze on October 22, 2008, 10:15:32 PM
I wish I could give you guys some cash through co-op.  I'm ballin' with my 5k+ every minute.

And I made my guy too buff without thinking about his height, so now he looks like a beefy midget and I need to work him up to be tall now.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: AdmiralViscen on October 22, 2008, 10:21:37 PM
I'm real close to 5 starring the blacksmith.

If you don't get corruption for 300k I'm gonna import my pub games, I think I had like 180k.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: archie4208 on October 22, 2008, 10:37:26 PM
I'm not feeling this game.  I liked Fable 1 but this just feels kinda ehh.  I keep on wanting to play the Witcher instead of this.  :/
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: Jansen on October 22, 2008, 11:08:58 PM
FUCK FUCK FUCK

i got a DRE during an autosave and now i have to start all over.

what fucking prick decided that one save was sufficient?
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: Mupepe on October 22, 2008, 11:57:05 PM
FUCKING BOWERSTONE BOOKSTORE WHERE THE FUCK ARE YOU
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: cool breeze on October 23, 2008, 12:05:50 AM
It's right next to the clock tower.  If the pub is north, and the blacksmith is east, then the bookstore is west.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: pilonv1 on October 23, 2008, 12:56:44 AM
fuck im really trying to finish saints row 2 completely before i start this but all the positive talk is killing me
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: TVC15 on October 23, 2008, 01:25:01 AM
I've killed two wives so far.  The first one I married, had unprotected sex, she had a kid, and then right after I force threw her and hacked her with my sword, and she fell right on top of our bed, completely dead.  Then child protective services came and took my baby away.

Second wife, I force threw her off the balcony of my house, and she landed right in the middle of the clock tower square.  I had to do community service for that one since like half the town saw her die.

GOTY, btw, GOTY! 
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: cool breeze on October 23, 2008, 01:30:20 AM
just like real life
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: Don Flamenco on October 23, 2008, 01:34:37 AM
I'm not feeling this game.  I liked Fable 1 but this just feels kinda ehh.  I keep on wanting to play the Witcher instead of this.  :/

That's an unfair comparison though, since the Witcher is better than everything. 

I'm digging the arcadey feel of this game, though some of the consolized bullshit pisses me off:

--would not need a vaseline filter on PC
--Leaving quests = reverting to your last save and losing everything? WOT
--Entering the pause menu for everything, having to leave after using an item.
--Automated potions/expressions
--shitty framerate.  granted some of the animations may still be choppy, but I'll always miss 60fps.

Only glitch I've run into was in brightwood.  kept hitting start to get to my menu and instead it kept saying "Game Paused." yay! 


That sounds like a lot but really, the game is awesome so far.   

I just sacrificed my wife + 3 aristocrat skanks at the temple of shadows for a whopping 300 temple points! yeah!
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: BlueTsunami on October 23, 2008, 01:36:36 AM
I tried to rent this game at Blockbuster. Wasn't there. God I hate Blockbuster.

and I just pushed Kranz Fafka's post into the former page :lol

Post it again, mang!
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: pilonv1 on October 23, 2008, 01:39:49 AM
I've killed two wives so far.  The first one I married, had unprotected sex, she had a kid, and then right after I force threw her and hacked her with my sword, and she fell right on top of our bed, completely dead.  Then child protective services came and took my baby away.

Second wife, I force threw her off the balcony of my house, and she landed right in the middle of the clock tower square.  I had to do community service for that one since like half the town saw her die.

did you jump on either of their wedding dresses?
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: TVC15 on October 23, 2008, 01:42:39 AM
How do I orgy?  Do you have to be married to fuck?
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: Don Flamenco on October 23, 2008, 01:43:04 AM
Quote
I tried to rent this game at Blockbuster. Wasn't there. God I hate Blockbuster.

and I just pushed Kranz Fafka's post into the former page laugh

Post it again, mang!


Here's me complaining about a bunch of things:

I'm not feeling this game.  I liked Fable 1 but this just feels kinda ehh.  I keep on wanting to play the Witcher instead of this.  :/

That's an unfair comparison though, since the Witcher is better than everything. 

I'm digging the arcadey feel of this game, though some of the consolized bullshit pisses me off:

--would not need a vaseline filter on PC
--Leaving quests = reverting to your last save and losing everything? WOT
--Entering the pause menu for everything, having to leave after using an item.
--Automated potions/expressions
--shitty framerate.  granted some of the animations may still be choppy, but I'll always miss 60fps.

Only glitch I've run into was in brightwood.  kept hitting start to get to my menu and instead it kept saying "Game Paused." yay! 


That sounds like a lot but really, the game is awesome so far.   

I just sacrificed my wife + 3 aristocrat skanks at the temple of shadows for a whopping 300 temple points! yeah!
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: cool breeze on October 23, 2008, 01:50:59 AM
How do I orgy?  Do you have to be married to fuck?

I'm guessing you get two sleezy women (bar waitresses are easy targets) and ask both to come back to your house with you, then when you choose the bed it should orgy I guess.  I'm gonna try it tomorrow.  I still need to get married and I'm pretty sure I missed out on a big part of the game since I didn't get married. 
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: Don Flamenco on October 23, 2008, 02:00:40 AM
To get the "Owner Murdered" bonus on houses, do you have to kill them in the house?
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: Mupepe on October 23, 2008, 02:52:19 AM
 :lol :lol :lol

I'm trying to play it fairly balanced for now.  I'm good to my wife.  I haven't stolen.  I do the assassination missions though.  And I will probably cheat on her at some point for shits and giggles.  But man, this game is so fucking fun and I don't accomplish anything.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: Jansen on October 23, 2008, 03:27:17 AM
i fucking love this game but i should be able to turn autosave off and have more than one save slot per character.

anyways i'm past where i was before my save got corrupted.

How do I orgy?  Do you have to be married to fuck?

you don't have to be married to have sex. some girls will follow you home if asked and others won't.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: Kestastrophe on October 23, 2008, 08:39:07 AM
Is it true that clothing/armor doesn't affect the damage you take?
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: cool breeze on October 23, 2008, 08:50:28 AM
i haven't found any armor yet, but so far the clothing doesn't affect anything.  It boosts random stats like attractiveness, aggression, poshness, and moral standings.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: maxy on October 23, 2008, 09:13:37 AM
Is it true that clothing/armor doesn't affect the damage you take?

There is no armor in Fable 2,only toughness stat.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: drew on October 23, 2008, 09:20:36 AM
wats a Fable?

Should I rent Fable II, or buy Fable on xbox originals (never played), or San Andreas on originals?

(http://i143.photobucket.com/albums/r126/Drewsy_photobucket/Picture35-1.png)

(http://i143.photobucket.com/albums/r126/Drewsy_photobucket/Picture36-1.png)

Help me denizens of EB.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: tiesto on October 23, 2008, 09:35:32 AM
wats a Fable?

Should I rent Fable II, or buy Fable on xbox originals (never played), or San Andreas on originals?

(http://i143.photobucket.com/albums/r126/Drewsy_photobucket/Picture35-1.png)

(http://i143.photobucket.com/albums/r126/Drewsy_photobucket/Picture36-1.png)

Help me denizens of EB.

Fable 1 is an OK game, as long as you're not expecting too much. Very hack and slash, shallow plot, confined to small paths, and over in like 10 hours. From what everyone is saying about Fable 2, it sounds great though.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: Jansen on October 23, 2008, 09:53:15 AM
why is there no mini map displayed on the hud? sooo dumb.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: Lucretius on October 23, 2008, 10:23:39 AM
found a work around for the glitch I ran into early on.  Just finished a super marathon session with the game.  mostly side quests.

Favorite moment so far:
Having sex with my husband and immediately trying to get him to go for another round to which he replied, "Not again.  I'm still sore, sweetie!"
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: AdmiralViscen on October 23, 2008, 11:07:51 AM
I dunno what the deal is, but the furniture seller at Bowerstone Market never has shit anymore. She used to have 40+ items on sale, but now she has 1 - a stupid book. I tried selling her some of my old shitty furniture to kick start her profits or something, but the next day she was selling the same book and my shitty furniture. Then the next day she sold off my furniture and she's back to selling only a book. I have no idea what spurred this.

Any ideas? Should I kill her to get the shop to reboot, or are the wares unrelated to the owner?


fuck it's a glitch
http://community.lionhead.com/forums/thread/3153159.aspx

Stock up on furniture guys, someone there said that the other furniture store doesn't stock sinks and stoves. I've got a house I want to renovate but I can't :(
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: Jansen on October 23, 2008, 11:37:39 AM
cause you have the bread trail shit.

which isn't very helpful for navigating towns
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: AdmiralViscen on October 23, 2008, 11:39:34 AM
No answer on whether you can kill off every inhabitant of a town?

You could even do that in the first game, so I figure yes.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: cool breeze on October 23, 2008, 01:43:27 PM
When do I start finding towns with non-ugly people? I want to get married and have kids already.  I'm a bit pissed that I probably missed out on a huge event, but hopefully it isn't as big as I'm thinking it was.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: Don Flamenco on October 23, 2008, 02:07:12 PM
Add me to XBL:  mamesj

I can't play online (lag), but I like seeing where people are at in the game :)

Drewsy-- get the PC version Fable 1.  Has pretty low specs by now and the XBox version runs at about 15-20fps.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: cool breeze on October 23, 2008, 02:08:44 PM
When do I start finding towns with non-ugly people? I want to get married and have kids already.  I'm a bit pissed that I probably missed out on a huge event, but hopefully it isn't as big as I'm thinking it was.

Only having ugly people to choose from, huh?

Sounds like your real life.

I do live in Philadelphia, a placed branded the 'ugliest city'.

 
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: demi on October 23, 2008, 02:27:47 PM
wats a Fable?

Help me denizens of EB.

I can send you my copy of Fable TLC, I bought it for like $5 at GameStop but it was too ugly for me so I DL'd the PC version instead
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: Himu on October 23, 2008, 03:26:54 PM
so this game is way better than the first? Sounds like a good sequel. It sounds like they've improved a lot.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: Tucah on October 23, 2008, 03:33:20 PM
So much better than the first. I sorta liked the first, but I love the sequel.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: drew on October 23, 2008, 04:56:04 PM
This looks like a gay Oblivion.

am I missing something?
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: Smooth Groove on October 23, 2008, 04:58:24 PM
So most of you love the social aspects but how's the combat?
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: Tucah on October 23, 2008, 05:04:01 PM
Combat's fun. I like the magic a lot, stuff like Force Push and Time Stop is really entertaining to fool around with. Swordplay is typical hack-slashy mash X stuff, but I love using everything (magic, sword, gun) I have in combat and messing around with combos.

It's also really, really easy and hard to die.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: drew on October 23, 2008, 05:06:50 PM
I can send you my copy of Fable TLC, I bought it for like $5 at GameStop but it was too ugly for me so I DL'd the PC version instead

Alright, take it to the Popey's on Secor, then stuff the game into a Whole Foods bag (Fresh Market will do) and toss it in the grass.  Guaranteed nobody will fuck with it!  :mrt

 :tbslol
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: cool breeze on October 23, 2008, 05:07:42 PM
Combat is decent enough, but at times it can get really annoying.  I'm not a fan of how you have to hold down the button to activate certain things.  Like, to manually aim your gun, you hold down the button, to shoot you quickly let go and press down again...It's like MGS2 from hell.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: Don Flamenco on October 23, 2008, 06:08:42 PM
I like the combat, but find the social aspects tacky.  I mean, you do one gesture and the whole fucking town surrounds you and flips out. :lol

but the combat is right in a lot of respects.  While it's easy, the enemies do attack, so it's not like some Dynasty Warriors shit.  When the enemies are stronger, like the guys brightwood tower, it feels great.  You have to actually block and roll a lot, hits do some damage.  I wish the game had a hard mode for combat--it's a lot of fun, but the fights are always too short.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: TVC15 on October 23, 2008, 07:23:55 PM
TVC, were you stalking me last night?

:-*

I've had that happen with like 3 different people, where you end up crossing each other's path repeatedly.

Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: TVC15 on October 23, 2008, 07:27:44 PM
Where can I see what my corruption score is?
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: cool breeze on October 23, 2008, 07:31:56 PM
stupid demon door! I need to find a rejection notice so this bitch i'm engaged with would leave.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: VALIS on October 23, 2008, 07:42:59 PM
Where can I see what my corruption score is?

Start > Logbook > Personality
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: TVC15 on October 23, 2008, 07:50:59 PM
My dude basically looks like a decomposing zombie.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: drew on October 23, 2008, 08:33:23 PM
 :lol

pics
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: TVC15 on October 23, 2008, 08:50:01 PM
If I can get to a spot where he looks good up close.  When you look at the characters up close, they tend to look uggo.

I just got the ability for semi-RE4 aiming with the gun.  I was just sitting on the balcony of my house shooting out other peoples' windows.  Everybody in Bowerstone hates me and runs away and screams murderer when I'm around.  I murdered some chick's husband because she was in love with me but wouldn't marry me.  I busted into her house at night and murdered her husband in front of her.  For whatever reason she didn't love me anymore then, so I killed her.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: drew on October 23, 2008, 08:53:43 PM
I just got the ability for semi-RE4 aiming with the gun.  I was just sitting on the balcony of my house shooting out other peoples' windows.  Everybody in Bowerstone hates me and runs away and screams murderer when I'm around.  I murdered some chick's husband because she was in love with me but wouldn't marry me.  I busted into her house at night and murdered her husband in front of her.  For whatever reason she didn't love me anymore then, so I killed her.

See that's whats so great about Saints Row 2, you can go on a 3 star hijack full of S.W.A.T. and helicopters then when you get paid your ransom you slam on the brakes and he/she walks out and everyone just gets on with their lives.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: TVC15 on October 23, 2008, 08:59:01 PM
I still haven't found anyone to have gay sex with
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: Smooth Groove on October 23, 2008, 08:59:51 PM
I still haven't found anyone to have gay sex with


You have yourself to blame.  Who's gonna be able to handle that large member?
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: Greatness Gone on October 23, 2008, 09:01:22 PM
Got it.

omg can't wait to be a drag queen murderer with devil horns. I heard there was a gay farmer or something in the game.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: TVC15 on October 23, 2008, 09:02:44 PM
I still haven't found anyone to have gay sex with


You have yourself to blame.  Who's gonna be able to handle that large member?

I did eat a bunch of pies to make myself a fatass.  There's no use in playing these games if you aren't going to be obese.

Got it.

omg can't wait to be a drag queen murderer with devil horns. I heard there was a gay farmer or something in the game.

I am wearing gothy make-up and I have pig tails.  I might start going drag, too.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: TVC15 on October 23, 2008, 10:18:36 PM
Wooo I got gay married
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: Phoenix Dark on October 23, 2008, 10:24:12 PM
I saw TVC's orb, I like how that works. I gave him an emerald and it gave me an acheivement, then he gave me a doll! :rock

I five starred blacksmithing, and I'm buying stores and what not.

sounds like Animal Crossing 360

spoiler (click to show/hide)
i want this
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Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: TVC15 on October 23, 2008, 10:27:53 PM
I just married another dude.  I'll be a mormon for a while.  Maybe I should get a wife, too.  Is there a downside to having unprotected sex with multiple male partners?
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: Greatness Gone on October 23, 2008, 10:28:10 PM
buy it so we can trade stuff and shit, PD
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: TVC15 on October 23, 2008, 10:29:50 PM
My second male wife, Hugh the Beggar, says he likes that I'm so big because there's more of me to love.  He then proceeded to "whip me like I've never been whipped before"

I think I'm going to go across the street and marry the chick there and get her knocked up.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: TVC15 on October 23, 2008, 10:40:18 PM
Well, my love life just collapsed.  My two husbands discovered each other and walked in on me just after I got done bangin some hussy from the bar.

(http://i33.tinypic.com/2n8ov4o.jpg)

Mojo watched.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: Greatness Gone on October 23, 2008, 10:41:56 PM
Your husbands are ugly as fuck.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: TVC15 on October 23, 2008, 10:45:01 PM
One of them is a BEGGAR!

And I'm no looker myself.  Lemme get a picture.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: TVC15 on October 23, 2008, 10:50:47 PM
(http://i35.tinypic.com/v5brcz.jpg)

Note, he is white.  He is just very, very evil.

Their love meters were dropping fast, so I shot one of my husbands in the head, dead.  I then gave my other husband a toy sword and a piece of chocolate, to which he replied "This is why our marriage works."
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: Greatness Gone on October 23, 2008, 10:53:21 PM
Evil = Blackface

Good = German master race

Molyneux, die.

That hat is cute, btw.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: pilonv1 on October 23, 2008, 10:57:26 PM
Quote
Their love meters were dropping fast, so I shot one of my husbands in the head, dead.  I then gave my other husband a toy sword and a piece of chocolate, to which he replied "This is why our marriage works."

:rofl I cant wait to play this now.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: Don Flamenco on October 23, 2008, 11:04:21 PM
shit just got real.  :lol
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: demi on October 23, 2008, 11:07:55 PM
Damn those graphics are NASTY
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: Phoenix Dark on October 23, 2008, 11:16:35 PM
Quote
Their love meters were dropping fast, so I shot one of my husbands in the head, dead.  I then gave my other husband a toy sword and a piece of chocolate, to which he replied "This is why our marriage works."

You can kill your spouse? Are there any ramifications  :lol
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: TVC15 on October 23, 2008, 11:22:28 PM
If anyone knows, you get charged with murder.  If you have any children, child protective services takes them away.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: Phoenix Dark on October 23, 2008, 11:27:50 PM
Can you beat/kill your children? Not that I would of course
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: demi on October 23, 2008, 11:29:32 PM
Can you beat/kill your children? Not that I would of course

smh black people lying

yes you can kill the kids
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: AdmiralViscen on October 23, 2008, 11:29:42 PM
lol @ TVC
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: TVC15 on October 23, 2008, 11:40:54 PM
I'm trying to make my baby hate me.  I gifted it a bottle of booze.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: Mupepe on October 24, 2008, 12:23:36 AM
Is there any way to change what your spouse wears?  i married a barmaid and she's being dumb and wearing the same ugly shit she was when i met her. 
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: TVC15 on October 24, 2008, 01:20:35 AM
Is there any way to change what your spouse wears?  i married a barmaid and she's being dumb and wearing the same ugly shit she was when i met her. 

I don't think so.  I kept giving my hubby dresses and he wouldn't change.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: cool breeze on October 24, 2008, 01:50:03 AM
I decided that I'm gonna marry one of the posh women in that rich place, but there are no houses to buy...damnit.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: TVC15 on October 24, 2008, 03:05:51 AM
I can't stop playing this.  It has some flaws and rough edges, but  this is truly Lionhead's first great game.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: cool breeze on October 24, 2008, 03:28:47 AM
It is pretty addicting.  I was supposed to stop playing 3 hours ago, I turned off my 360 7 minutes ago.

I still feel like there is no sense of accomplishment or really anything for your actions.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: TVC15 on October 24, 2008, 03:51:51 AM
I still feel like there is no sense of accomplishment or really anything for your actions.

To a degree, I kinda want this.  I find it somewhat comforting to know that I could fix my rep in Bowerstone if I put just an hour of work into it.  I like that it doesn't feel like I've permanently fucked my dude over.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: demi on October 24, 2008, 11:44:48 PM
This game is hideous and really turns me off from playing it
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: demi on October 25, 2008, 03:14:28 AM
the co-op is complete trash
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: demi on October 25, 2008, 04:57:03 AM
The orbs are such a cool feature.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: drew on October 25, 2008, 05:02:12 AM
homoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

spoiler (click to show/hide)
can I get that copy of OG Fable?
[close]
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: demi on October 25, 2008, 05:03:34 AM
Sure
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: cool breeze on October 25, 2008, 05:09:18 AM
This game really hates indecisive people, nice people, or anyone who doesn't want to get pissed off.  Two things got fucked over big time for my character because I unknowingly did something, then the game autosaved, and then I realized on what I lost and can never gain.  I really wish so many aspects of this game weren't automatic since it's so janky.  I hate how left is both heal me, scold my dog, and throw angry remarks at people.  Then there is other shit like menu lag and the hud overlaying and blocking other things you need to see.  There have been a number of times where I would think I pressed by to exit out of a menu only to shoot a damn force blast at someone and now the cops are after me FUCK
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: TVC15 on October 25, 2008, 05:11:52 AM
Yeah, one of my few legit complaints would be the flakiness of the context sensitive d-pad menu.  Too often it seems to eitehr be not showing anything relevant or not showing anything at all.  It's inconsistent enough that I'm kinda surprised it passed testing.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: demi on October 25, 2008, 05:49:46 AM
If any of you get your Hero Doll post what one you get... so we can set up some trading for the Doll achievement

There are 5 to collect

* Theresa
* Reaver
* Lucien
* Hammer
* Garth
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: AdmiralViscen on October 25, 2008, 08:53:36 AM
If you guys want the achievement for selling a house for double, the best one appears after you save the second Hero (or maybe it's there before, I dunno). Go into Bowerstone old town and buy the first house on the left, it cost me $5800. This house has tons of shitty furniture, unlike the Marketplace area where they already have 3 and 4 star stuff. This house also has TONS of furniture, we're talking 20 or so pieces. AND it has a trophy plaque. I brought it to $21k in just a few minutes.

This game really hates indecisive people, nice people, or anyone who doesn't want to get pissed off.  Two things got fucked over big time for my character because I unknowingly did something, then the game autosaved, and then I realized on what I lost and can never gain.  I really wish so many aspects of this game weren't automatic since it's so janky.  I hate how left is both heal me, scold my dog, and throw angry remarks at people.  Then there is other shit like menu lag and the hud overlaying and blocking other things you need to see.  There have been a number of times where I would think I pressed by to exit out of a menu only to shoot a damn force blast at someone and now the cops are after me FUCK

I hate when you think you're locked on to someone, press Y, but you do a spell and everyone fears you. Safety mode should prevent you from withdrawing or using weapons in towns.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: Hitler Stole My Potato on October 25, 2008, 12:14:40 PM
Just picked it up last night and have only gotten a few hours into it but I'm really liking it so far.  It already seems infinitely more polished and focused over the first Fable and I'm honestly surprised with how good it looks (at times).

Those fucking orbs are distracting as hell though.  It just seems too wierd seeing people on my friends list that I barely know floating around watching me hammer a sword.  Go somewhere else you filthy poors and leave me alone.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: Akala on October 25, 2008, 12:32:26 PM
I was going to hold off on this game, but TVC's pics pushed me over the edge.  :lol

Will probably get later on today.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: demi on October 25, 2008, 03:02:44 PM
Just picked it up last night and have only gotten a few hours into it but I'm really liking it so far.  It already seems infinitely more polished and focused over the first Fable and I'm honestly surprised with how good it looks (at times).

Those fucking orbs are distracting as hell though.  It just seems too wierd seeing people on my friends list that I barely know floating around watching me hammer a sword.  Go somewhere else you filthy poors and leave me alone.

Set Orbs to Everyone and get mindfucked at how many people are on at the same time
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: cool breeze on October 25, 2008, 03:44:37 PM
well, that was incredibly anti-climactic.

This game isn't really that great as an RPG, but as a 'life sim' it isn't bad.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: archie4208 on October 25, 2008, 04:06:17 PM
Rent
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: AdmiralViscen on October 25, 2008, 04:10:57 PM
Buy
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: demi on October 25, 2008, 04:15:00 PM
Rent
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: Van Cruncheon on October 25, 2008, 04:16:39 PM
buy
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: muckhole on October 25, 2008, 04:27:34 PM
Shit, I just realized I never got my card with the bonus armor code in my special edition. Now I have to wait for some workaround at the end of the month.  :maf
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: cool breeze on October 25, 2008, 05:00:25 PM
Having a wife sucks.  She lives in a castle that cost a million gold, I fathered two children with her, yet she still is only 'happy' and not very happy with this shit.  I even give her 5 times the amount of gold she wants per day and she isn't very happy.  I knew I should have married a hooker.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: AdmiralViscen on October 25, 2008, 05:09:10 PM
Which castle is that? Do you have to get to a certain point to be able to buy it?

I just cleared a million gold in assets, I want the 2.5M achievement.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: cool breeze on October 25, 2008, 05:16:36 PM
The one in the posh area of Bowerstone.  I got it after I beat the game, so yeah.

The biggest prize from it is
spoiler (click to show/hide)
a cheeseburger formula
[close]
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: demi on October 25, 2008, 05:27:27 PM
Which Hero Doll did you guys get from the shooting gallery?
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: Jansen on October 25, 2008, 05:31:51 PM
rent? are kidding me? fable 2 is the shit. buy buy buy.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: Mrbob on October 25, 2008, 05:40:58 PM
I rented it.

Once I finish the campaign I won't touch the game again.  Saved myself 60 dollars.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: cool breeze on October 25, 2008, 05:46:16 PM
Which Hero Doll did you guys get from the shooting gallery?

Lucian.  I have 7 of them because I kept getting second place.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: demi on October 25, 2008, 05:53:42 PM
You can get all the decision achievements at the end by picking the card, then restarting your xbox / exit to dash before it saves
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: cool breeze on October 25, 2008, 06:00:12 PM
the fuck? my daughter went out to fight monsters, so now I gotta rescue that brat.  A hooker wife would know how to handle a daughter...stupid aristocrat bitchy wife.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: cool breeze on October 25, 2008, 06:06:53 PM
It's good

Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: AdmiralViscen on October 25, 2008, 06:07:24 PM
How much % is left after you save the second hero?
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: cool breeze on October 25, 2008, 06:14:36 PM
You get a bunch of new side missions, but if you skip those and go straight for the final hero, it is maybe an hour or less from that point to finish the game.  Once you start saving the final hero, you can't really back out.  There are more side quests after the game ends also.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: AdmiralViscen on October 25, 2008, 06:18:47 PM
I'm doing the Blind Date quest now, I just did the Hobbe quest and visited the guy I lent $5k to. Other than that it's just archaeology and sculpting. Do I lose missions if I beat the game?
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: drew on October 25, 2008, 06:19:01 PM
I'm thinking about renting this.  I have no idea what the fuck Fable is about.

Is it like Oblivion?
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: cool breeze on October 25, 2008, 06:21:07 PM
I don't know if you lose missions since I did them all, but I know that depending on the ending you choose
spoiler (click to show/hide)
you can't do the archeology stuff anymore
[close]
.

And I think the biggest flaw of this game is that there is zero sense of accomplishment for doing anything, and there is no reward for even the most annoying tasks.  Like, I did the entire archeology stuff and all I got was some chump change for it.  All that work for nothing.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: drew on October 25, 2008, 06:22:36 PM
life sim

yeah, fuck this game.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: AdmiralViscen on October 25, 2008, 06:32:30 PM
What's the best of the three endings to ultimately choose? Or what are the postgame differences, at least?
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: demi on October 25, 2008, 06:34:08 PM
One of them - Needs of the Few, I think - prevents you from getting a silver key
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: demi on October 25, 2008, 06:34:28 PM
I'm thinking about renting this.  I have no idea what the fuck Fable is about.

Is it like Oblivion?

Not really
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: cool breeze on October 25, 2008, 06:39:32 PM
What's the best of the three endings to ultimately choose? Or what are the postgame differences, at least?

I did love because others seemed to be rubbish.

Love is
spoiler (click to show/hide)
your dog gets brought back to life and any family you may have had also gets revived.  If you don't have the dog, you can't complete the archeological stuff.
[close]

Other choices are stupid.  I really don't know why anyone would pick gold.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: AdmiralViscen on October 25, 2008, 06:56:24 PM
Ok I'll do that.

I just did the little dungeon underneath Giles' farm, and my 5 star dog won't tell me where the fuck to dig for the legendary weapon. So I guess I never get that now.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: cool breeze on October 25, 2008, 06:58:43 PM
that Giles farm weapon is pretty awesome.  It kills most enemies in one shot. 
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: demi on October 25, 2008, 07:49:26 PM
what's a quick way to get out of Corrupt status? I'm at 100% and dunno what I even did. Maybe because I made each of my homes at 50% rent so far - and even then I only make like 1000 gold
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: AdmiralViscen on October 25, 2008, 08:14:54 PM
Buy all the shitty houses in the gypsy town that only give you 7 gold per day and set their rent to 0. Or eat tofu and other purity-enhancing vegetables.

I did this and it allowed me to put all of my high-$$$ shops at +80% and I'm still max pure with a halo around my head at all times.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: Jansen on October 25, 2008, 08:23:41 PM
your dog is rated? based on what?
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: Ganhyun on October 25, 2008, 08:47:39 PM
This game is awesome.

Swaggas, yea, having a mid-low class wife makes it easy to keep them happy. they want like 30 gold a day and i give mine 40 and a gift every so often and she never drops from the pure love. lol.


Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: AdmiralViscen on October 25, 2008, 09:05:12 PM
How the fuck do you do a chain attack? The timing seems completely arbitrary.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: Ganhyun on October 25, 2008, 09:06:51 PM
How the fuck do you do a chain attack? The timing seems completely arbitrary.

I'm not sure of this myself. I just button mash the three attacks in random order, seems to get me a bit more experience that way.


Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: Mupepe on October 25, 2008, 09:09:48 PM
I have to start over.  Game breaking glitch corrupted my save.  I can't run.  I can't pull out a weapon.  I can't accept quests.  No one attacks me.  Gargoyles don't even yell shit at me.  Fucking gay :(
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: Ganhyun on October 25, 2008, 09:10:29 PM
I have to start over.  Game breaking glitch corrupted my save.  I can't run.  I can't pull out a weapon.  I can't accept quests.  No one attacks me.  Gargoyles don't even yell shit at me.  Fucking gay :(

Wow, how did this happen?

Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: AdmiralViscen on October 25, 2008, 09:22:55 PM
Just so you guys know, you can backup your saves by copying them to a different gamertag in your System blade.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: demi on October 25, 2008, 10:47:21 PM
There's barely any quests in this game, except the stupid fetch quests. Where do I get Crispy Chicks for the Shadow Temple?
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: AdmiralViscen on October 25, 2008, 11:11:27 PM
The dude will hand them to you when you go up to the door.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: duckman2000 on October 25, 2008, 11:12:10 PM
So, how is the story?
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: Mupepe on October 25, 2008, 11:38:31 PM
I have to start over.  Game breaking glitch corrupted my save.  I can't run.  I can't pull out a weapon.  I can't accept quests.  No one attacks me.  Gargoyles don't even yell shit at me.  Fucking gay :(

Wow, how did this happen?


dunno.  did the quest to kill 100 hollow men in the graveyard and after i gave the dude the book and finished the quest, i saved.  then i loaded back up a few hours later and I couldn't run.  I tried switching areas, fighting people, rebooting.  everything.  fucking gay.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: cool breeze on October 25, 2008, 11:45:32 PM
So, how is the story?

Bad, and if memory serves me correctly, worse than the first Fable.  Characters are also really shitty.  Hammer is most grating character I had to deal with in a while.  It doesn't help that you can't skip her boring monologues.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: Jansen on October 26, 2008, 12:07:38 AM
Just so you guys know, you can backup your saves by copying them to a different gamertag in your System blade.

i already tried doing that and you can't for this game.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: drew on October 26, 2008, 12:13:35 AM
FUUUUCK i wish there was a demo for this game!
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: demi on October 26, 2008, 02:15:25 AM
Boooo I got a Lucien doll. Anyone with something different let me know
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: drew on October 26, 2008, 02:33:29 AM
trading dolls with other men on the internet = PORCELAIN PANSY

(http://i143.photobucket.com/albums/r126/Drewsy_photobucket/spingay.gif)
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: Greatness Gone on October 26, 2008, 02:56:50 AM
This really is a better sim than an RPG.

I had GAY sex with a really hott guy and I killed a whole bunch of people in my town today. Great game. Probably the best one I've played this year, even though it's a shit RPG.

I'm going to get a hooker preggo next.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: demi on October 26, 2008, 03:37:46 AM
Got a Hammer Doll from someone on GameFAQs :flex
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: demi on October 26, 2008, 04:14:13 AM
Now I have a Reaver doll :flex
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: drew on October 26, 2008, 12:32:11 PM
I have a Theresa doll, or whatever its called.

Demi, I can give you one.

HELPFUL HOMO
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: Greatness Gone on October 26, 2008, 01:24:29 PM
I got DIVORCED today.  :'(

It's weird that I have no desire whatsoever to actually play the action part of this game.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: cool breeze on October 26, 2008, 01:39:55 PM
The weirdest part about this game is that the only woman who aren't totally ugly are hookers and zombies. 
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: demi on October 26, 2008, 03:26:38 PM
I have a Theresa doll, or whatever its called.

Demi, I can give you one.

Sent you a FR real quick, accept and lets meet up in a city
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: demi on October 26, 2008, 06:34:47 PM
Yes
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: AdmiralViscen on October 26, 2008, 09:15:07 PM
Just so you guys know, you can backup your saves by copying them to a different gamertag in your System blade.

i already tried doing that and you can't for this game.

Yes you can.

Try logging in to the gamertag that you want to store the new save on.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: Greatness Gone on October 26, 2008, 09:17:43 PM
Married another man.

I'm trying to get an all dude orgy going on.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: demi on October 26, 2008, 09:20:52 PM
I have doll achievement :flex

The game glitched too on me and Robby when we loaded Bowerstone. It dropped him from a height into the river and then it blipped when everything was back to normal. lol

The Cliff Diver achievement I mean
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: The Fake Shemp on October 26, 2008, 11:20:36 PM
This game is pretty much pure homo, but I love it.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: Mrbob on October 27, 2008, 02:18:33 AM
Got about three hours into the game now...its pretty good.  Combat is fun, messing around with the people in towns is fun.  The social aspect is completely overrated, and I can't believe Lionhead got away with this bread crumb system when PDZ got hammered for having the same setup. 
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: Don Flamenco on October 27, 2008, 10:33:24 AM
Got about three hours into the game now...its pretty good.  Combat is fun, messing around with the people in towns is fun.  The social aspect is completely overrated, and I can't believe Lionhead got away with this bread crumb system when PDZ got hammered for having the same setup. 

Well, the social aspect lets people follow you to the Temple of Shadows and for that, I'm very grateful.  Otherwise, yeah, it's pretty distinguished mentally-challenged. 
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: cool breeze on October 27, 2008, 10:35:45 AM
The reason why the PDZ trail was hated on was because it was a linear game.  Fable 2 is an open world game.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: Don Flamenco on October 27, 2008, 12:28:57 PM
Got about three hours into the game now...its pretty good.  Combat is fun, messing around with the people in towns is fun.  The social aspect is completely overrated, and I can't believe Lionhead got away with this bread crumb system when PDZ got hammered for having the same setup. 

Well, the social aspect lets people follow you to the Temple of Shadows and for that, I'm very grateful.  Otherwise, yeah, it's pretty distinguished mentally-challenged. 

You know, you can just warp there and they'll follow you.

that's what I've been doing.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: demi on October 27, 2008, 03:50:49 PM
http://www.xbox360achievements.org/news/news-1784-The-Great-Fable-2-Achievement-Conspiracy.html


tl;dr

You cant get the "completionist" achievement without buying Pub Games and doing the Fable2.com flash game
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: demi on October 27, 2008, 03:58:35 PM
Me? Yeah I can, I've got the Pub Games and Webgame awards
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: demi on October 27, 2008, 04:11:41 PM
I dont know what you mean - in general? You cant, unless you get Pub Games
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: demi on October 27, 2008, 04:17:53 PM
cause im awesome and have lots of achievements
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: demi on October 27, 2008, 04:21:48 PM
overruled, cause im awesome and have lots of achievements
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: Mupepe on October 27, 2008, 04:35:58 PM
edit: i'm dumb.  I guess you guys mean only one save file per character
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: MCD on October 27, 2008, 07:59:09 PM
man, this golden trail is the best thing ever.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: demi on October 27, 2008, 08:57:07 PM
I just found my DREAM MAN in Bloodstone!!!! LMFAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

(http://img263.imageshack.us/img263/3295/hpim0851we0.jpg)

:rofl :rofl
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: MCD on October 27, 2008, 09:00:29 PM
poor robby.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: Bildi on October 27, 2008, 09:27:27 PM
:lol

That buckle is HUGE.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: Mupepe on October 27, 2008, 11:29:58 PM
:lol
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: demi on October 28, 2008, 02:45:57 AM
I just traded some dude on GameFAQs all my dolls for 5 million gold... and he gave me my dolls back afterwards

:rock
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: drew on October 28, 2008, 02:47:45 AM
and you give me shit about Oblivion

at least i'm not trading fucking dolls on GameFAQs!
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: demi on October 28, 2008, 03:36:55 AM
Oh yeah well I just had sex with 4 people at once
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: TVC15 on October 28, 2008, 03:40:13 AM
I witnessed Demi having the five way.  If only I could have taken part.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: drew on October 28, 2008, 04:00:27 AM
Oh yeah well I just had sex with 4 people at once

5 if you count the thumb!
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: drew on October 28, 2008, 04:14:10 AM
ohsnap.gif
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: drew on October 28, 2008, 10:13:45 PM
demi has abandoned this thread due to intense shame :-[ defeat :-\ and ownage :'(
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: demi on October 28, 2008, 10:31:45 PM
Actually I'm about to beat it, and get all 1000 points, and trade it off
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: drew on October 28, 2008, 11:51:16 PM
 :meeble

jesus christ man, are you going to go through Fallout 3 by next weekend?
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: demi on October 29, 2008, 12:24:55 AM
Maybe

Oh, and

(http://img267.imageshack.us/img267/3151/12839259yn4.jpg)
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: demi on October 29, 2008, 12:29:43 AM
You dont actually need all the expressions, I was missing the two scary expressions from being evil, and I still got it when I upgraded all my abilities
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: Don Flamenco on October 29, 2008, 12:55:34 AM
I'm at the Spire quest...is the main quest really almost over?   I've only seen 11 regions.

also, level 5 shock practically breaks the game, as long as you have potions and phials.  :lol
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: AdmiralViscen on October 29, 2008, 12:57:34 AM
How many expressions can you do without though? My friend has all the abilities but he doesn't have the achievement.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: demi on October 29, 2008, 12:58:48 AM
You need to 5-star every ability (do the exp exploit)

You need every dog trick

You need to 5-star the dog

You need I assume all the expressions you can learn from books... I had every expression except Threaten (50% evil) and Extort (100% evil)
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: AdmiralViscen on October 29, 2008, 01:08:27 AM
Hmmmm I can do that pretty easily, all I need to do is drink lots of magic boosting potions.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: AdmiralViscen on October 29, 2008, 01:46:43 AM
Should all be doable sub-30 hours.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: demi on October 29, 2008, 01:47:37 AM
How much time did you put into it, demi? You seem to have got through pretty quickly.

You can just join someone game who has most of the achievements and they can unlock them for you. I had Robby join my game and unlocked every non-story achievement excpet the Gambler (cause it was late and didnt want to sit around).

Oh, and you'll need to trade online for the Hero Dolls
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: Don Flamenco on October 30, 2008, 02:29:27 AM
Passed the Spire...had an orgy...starting to get bored...
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: Mrbob on October 30, 2008, 02:31:13 AM
I wish I could get into this game.

The more I play it...the more I think it is mediocre.  The streaming is horrendous, my 360 sounds like a Dreamcast playing this.  Menus are laggy.  Map system is garbage.  Character movement is sloppy, combat is choppy at best.  The story isn't holding my attention.  Bethesda gets shit for long dialogue trees, but sometimes these NPCs drone on and on forever.  Also, those stupid fucks always tend to get in my way when I'm going around town.  I just saved the first major hero, I hope the game picks up.  I'm having more fun doing jobs and buying properties than playing the actual game.  
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: Ganhyun on October 30, 2008, 11:03:36 AM
I wish I could get into this game.

The more I play it...the more I think it is mediocre.  The streaming is horrendous, my 360 sounds like a Dreamcast playing this.  Menus are laggy.  Map system is garbage.  Character movement is sloppy, combat is choppy at best.  The story isn't holding my attention.  Bethesda gets shit for long dialogue trees, but sometimes these NPCs drone on and on forever.  Also, those stupid fucks always tend to get in my way when I'm going around town.  I just saved the first major hero, I hope the game picks up.  I'm having more fun doing jobs and buying properties than playing the actual game.  

Well, when the NXE is out and you put this on your HDD, it will be much quieter ;)
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: Don Flamenco on October 30, 2008, 11:44:45 AM
The game starts out good enough, but the mechanics aren't really enough to keep things interesting.  The quests kinda suck too.  "Slaughter a whole town" = kill 29 people.   The dog was fun at first, but now I'm sick of digging holes.  Combat is about the only thing keeping me going, but I'm seeing how much it costs for Level 4 Strength and Speed skills and I'm just not feeling like I'll even get that far.

The social stuff is a novelty...there are no consequences.  I did the "Destroy the temple of light" mission, went back to Fairfax, and everyone was scared.  Then I sat there eating tofu and celery for a few minutes, danced a few times, and they forgot about my massacre completely.

Kinda like Fable 1.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: AdmiralViscen on October 30, 2008, 11:49:27 AM
You can buy EXP potions at the potion shop if you want to level up.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: Hitler Stole My Potato on October 30, 2008, 12:04:07 PM
Yeah potions are the way to go if you want to level up to 5 stars for anything.  Potion dealers will eventually start selling concentrated items that'll give you a 62,500 exp boost.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: Ganhyun on October 30, 2008, 01:20:13 PM
Yeah potions are the way to go if you want to level up to 5 stars for anything.  Potion dealers will eventually start selling concentrated items that'll give you a 62,500 exp boost.

Awesome.

Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: Tieno on October 30, 2008, 01:32:57 PM
Best combat in an RPG I've played. Combat usually isn't good in an RPG, but Fable II has simple yet very fun combat that looks pretty cool. I especially like mixing melee with the time control warp. A 5 star area force push is also cool. Haven't got the hang of the chained melee combat. Did a few times by accident but don't know what I should be looking or listening for.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: demi on October 30, 2008, 02:12:14 PM
Yeah potions are the way to go if you want to level up to 5 stars for anything.  Potion dealers will eventually start selling concentrated items that'll give you a 62,500 exp boost.

Nope, just do the exprience exploit

* Get a second controller, have it join in - dont sign into a gamertag
* Sell all the second person's abilities
* Have second character quit
* All experience from him goes to your character
* Upgrade abilities
* Sign secnd player back in, repeat as necessary
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: Ganhyun on October 30, 2008, 02:15:35 PM
Yeah potions are the way to go if you want to level up to 5 stars for anything.  Potion dealers will eventually start selling concentrated items that'll give you a 62,500 exp boost.

Nope, just do the exprience exploit

* Get a second controller, have it join in - dont sign into a gamertag
* Sell all the second person's abilities
* Have second character quit
* All experience from him goes to your character
* Upgrade abilities
* Sign secnd player back in, repeat as necessary

So where would I sell the second player's abilities? Shops?
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: demi on October 30, 2008, 02:28:44 PM
In your abilities screen, just press Y
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: Ganhyun on October 30, 2008, 02:29:12 PM
In your abilities screen, just press Y

Thank you good sir.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: Hitler Stole My Potato on October 30, 2008, 05:31:11 PM
Yeah potions are the way to go if you want to level up to 5 stars for anything.  Potion dealers will eventually start selling concentrated items that'll give you a 62,500 exp boost.

Nope, just do the exprience exploit

* Get a second controller, have it join in - dont sign into a gamertag
* Sell all the second person's abilities
* Have second character quit
* All experience from him goes to your character
* Upgrade abilities
* Sign secnd player back in, repeat as necessary

Pffft.  Cheater.  I'll stick to collecting rent and do a little bartending on the side to pay for my potion addiction.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: demi on October 30, 2008, 05:31:47 PM
I did everything legit until I beat the game (unless you count trading my dolls for 5 million gold), so I just did the exploit to get Completionist achievement
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: Mrbob on October 30, 2008, 06:34:28 PM
Spoilers bitch!

Anyway, I'm about to reach the Spire.  Am I over 50 percent done with the main quest yet?  I hope so. 
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: Bildi on October 30, 2008, 07:53:32 PM
Spencer!  Did you just tell us the end of the damn game?!
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: Don Flamenco on October 30, 2008, 09:02:35 PM
played a little more and I completely lost interest...traded it in for Fallout. 
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: Mrbob on October 30, 2008, 09:18:48 PM
Probably for the best.

I'm happy I completely forgot about gamerang sending me this game in the mail, saved me 60 dollars. 
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: Mrbob on November 01, 2008, 02:30:04 AM
I've given this game a ton of shit for being mediocre, but ever since I've hit the spire things have picked up greatly.

Plus I have a high powered pistol with time stop so I keep on using my master katana with time stop with my pistol owning the fuck out of enemies.  Adding a new layer, and having a good time.

I might have to raise the game status from mediocre to good. 
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: pilonv1 on November 01, 2008, 08:23:47 AM
omg the LE clothing and weapon :rofl

This is an awesome game, only 1hr in and im dying to keep playing it instead of going to sleep.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: CurseoftheGods on November 01, 2008, 03:38:42 PM
What's more fun to play? Good or Evil?
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: Tieno on November 01, 2008, 03:42:34 PM
I for one liked the ending.
Yeah potions are the way to go if you want to level up to 5 stars for anything.  Potion dealers will eventually start selling concentrated items that'll give you a 62,500 exp boost.

Nope, just do the exprience exploit

* Get a second controller, have it join in - dont sign into a gamertag
* Sell all the second person's abilities
* Have second character quit
* All experience from him goes to your character
* Upgrade abilities
* Sign secnd player back in, repeat as necessary

Pffft.  Cheater.  I'll stick to collecting rent and do a little bartending on the side to pay for my potion addiction.
I just buy weapons and other expensive stuff under the base value whenever I can, then sell it to traders at Fairfax Gardens who always give above base value for it. I keep all the highest weapons and when it became available only one of each master weapon with two augment slots. Easiest way to make money, then put all of that towards buying stores (and then houses) and keep around 50k (100k-200k when master is available) of gold for the next round of weapons. Sometimes I was selling 100+ weapons.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: Tieno on November 01, 2008, 03:44:03 PM
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I can't decide on the ending. I'm thinking love because, wtf they killed my dog  :'(
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I also picked love, because I thought it'd also bring back my sister :'(. I liked the ending, but the way they killed the dog broke my suspension of disbelief, felt very awkward.
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Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: Grecco on November 01, 2008, 09:35:16 PM
I loved it. Yeah Glitchy janky as hell but still really good.  It has its issues but its a flawed gem i guess.


Anyone know how to get the duelist achievment?
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: demi on November 01, 2008, 09:37:01 PM
Get the chain attack skill, then just swing your sword enough times. It has to leave a blue trail.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: Grecco on November 01, 2008, 09:39:33 PM
I have it i think. What i dont understand is if you have to charge the x attack or not.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: demi on November 01, 2008, 09:40:58 PM
No you press it at the right time. Read the instructions.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: duckman2000 on November 02, 2008, 09:49:55 PM
The game is  :omg awesome and generally quite pretty, but the screen tearing and foliage popping into view a feet away from my character makes it feel like it's just about ready to fall apart at times. Oh well, console gaming.  :gloomy

On a separate note, this game shits all over Zelda in every way imaginable.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: demi on November 03, 2008, 02:06:02 AM
That's why it's better. It's a realistic take on the happy ending. No build up, no epic fight, just STFU you lost. Then once it's all over, you're still the same hero from before.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: TVC15 on November 03, 2008, 02:33:55 AM
The game is  :omg awesome and generally quite pretty, but the screen tearing and foliage popping into view a feet away from my character makes it feel like it's just about ready to fall apart at times. Oh well, console gaming.  :gloomy

On a separate note, this game shits all over Zelda in every way imaginable.


I'd agree, if the story didn't suck and the end had an actual climax.

Because Zelda games have awesome stories, right?
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: Bloodwake on November 03, 2008, 05:03:50 PM
For someone who didn't love the first game:

Is it worth picking up? I get paid next week.

Basically someone give me some pros and cons.

Oh yeah, and how long is it?
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: demi on November 03, 2008, 05:04:36 PM
It's short if you blitz the story. Theres barely any sidequests compared to Fable 1.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: Oblivion on November 03, 2008, 05:06:59 PM
The game is  :omg awesome and generally quite pretty, but the screen tearing and foliage popping into view a feet away from my character makes it feel like it's just about ready to fall apart at times. Oh well, console gaming.  :gloomy

On a separate note, this game shits all over Zelda in every way imaginable.


I'd agree, if the story didn't suck and the end had an actual climax.

Because Zelda games have awesome stories, right?

But in Majora's Mask you fight someone that's not Ganon, you see.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: chronovore on December 11, 2008, 05:00:22 AM
The weirdest part about this game is that the only woman who aren't totally ugly are hookers and zombies. 

JUST LIKE REAL LIFE.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: pilonv1 on December 11, 2008, 06:25:20 AM
Forgot to post I finished this. Final 1/3-1/4 of the game is laughable and there's nothing to it. The battle at the end when you come out the tunnel sucked a giant cock too.

I'll go back and do the side quests eventually but I'm glad to be free of this for a while. Was fun for the first half when I was trying to work out what I could/couldn't do. Story is naff and the there's more fun to be had fucking around.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: chronovore on December 12, 2008, 01:39:26 AM
trading dolls with other men on the internet = PORCELAIN PANSY


I'm still hoping to get in on this distinguished, effete pastime.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: AdmiralViscen on December 12, 2008, 10:42:52 AM
Fuck, the DLC got moved from the 12th to the 22nd.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: AdmiralViscen on December 12, 2008, 10:08:46 PM
Check your achievements page, there are new Knothole achievements.

The Collector
Acquire all the mystery items in The Box of Secrets shop, or see another Hero do so.
   25
Locked

The Meteorologist
Bring all of Knothole Island’s weather problems under control, or help another Hero to do so.
   50
Locked

The Bibliophile
Find all the books detailing the history of Knothole Island, or help another Hero to do so.
   25
Locked
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: demi on December 12, 2008, 10:18:19 PM
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: AdmiralViscen on December 12, 2008, 10:20:26 PM
Did you trade off the game? Or you just don't wanna buy the DLC?
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: demi on December 12, 2008, 10:20:59 PM
I sold it and I don't plan on buying the DLC
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: siamesedreamer on December 22, 2008, 11:27:19 PM
Tried to buy Knothole Glade, but its not up. Searched the interwebs and it looks like its delayed until late January:

http://www.xbox.com/en-US/games/f/fable2/knotholeisland/default.htm?WText.camp=Xb oxLive&WText.campSrc=RSS (http://www.xbox.com/en-US/games/f/fable2/knotholeisland/default.htm?WText.camp=Xb oxLive&WText.campSrc=RSS)
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: chronovore on December 24, 2008, 01:30:52 AM
On a separate note, this game shits all over Zelda in every way imaginable.

So it has better dungeons than Zelda?

Heh. Uh... no.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: chronovore on December 25, 2008, 11:23:46 PM
I may be SOL as of this morning. The past week there have been a few times when the game freezes mid-loading, and the Xbox message sound chimes, but does not display. Other times it does display and says "Disk is unreadable." As of this morning, it generates that message whenever I try to launch from the Dashboard.

The disc is pristine. The problem may be the drive, but every other game I have loads just fine. I wonder if the disc has some sort of odd compression, or if it's dual-layered and the other games I'm trying (Rock Band 2, Bully, Dead Space) may only be single-layered.

It may just be another in a long list of buggy issues with the game; the HUD gets elements "frozen" into it, such as this morning it would not let go of the more information pane along the top of the screen for focusing on individual NPCs. This meant that, instead of pulling my gun out and shooting, I could only get more information about the last NPC I'd focused on.

Another problem was that the HUD elements are apparently part of the save data, as the Westridge shooting range's "target: 15, (something): 1" stayed on my HUD for a few play sessions until I went back to it and did the range again.

Is buggy software a British thing, or is it just Sir Molyneux's fyne efforts?
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: AdmiralViscen on December 26, 2008, 12:16:22 AM
Never had a problem here

:(
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: y2kev on December 26, 2008, 12:21:53 AM
What's the comparison to Zelda really? Zelda's meat and potatoes is puzzle solving in dungeons. This game doesn't really have that.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: cool breeze on December 26, 2008, 12:37:35 AM
They're both fantasy, and, uh, swords...?

Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: Jansen on December 26, 2008, 01:43:46 AM
the delay for the dlc also delayed the patch?

lololol
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: chronovore on December 26, 2008, 06:25:52 AM
The DLC /is/ the patch.  :o
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: siamesedreamer on December 27, 2008, 02:35:37 AM
It froze on me a couple times.

But, you should install Fable II. Made a huge difference for me in the menus.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: chronovore on December 29, 2008, 08:44:41 AM
I would if I had the space. Not sure WHAT'S taking up all that space on my 20GB, but I managed to get to 6GB free and Fable wants just over 7GB, I think.

I /would/ like to get those menus working a little better, that's for sure.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: GilloD on December 29, 2008, 11:46:32 AM
I want to like this game so much.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: chronovore on December 29, 2008, 07:40:50 PM
I want to like this game so much.

Are you not liking it?

I'm occasionally annoyed by its bugs, but in general I'm really enjoying it. The joy-killing bugs are the unreadable-disc errors, slow and somewhat lame menus, and context-sensitive UI which frequently fails to, um, understand the fucking context I'm in.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: notstupid on December 30, 2008, 04:28:01 PM
END SPOILERS, K?

for those that chose
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love
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, whats with
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your sister? is she alive or what?
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Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: AdmiralViscen on December 30, 2008, 09:35:27 PM
Did you choose it? Check your inventory for a letter.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: Bildi on December 31, 2008, 02:02:30 AM
I got this for Christmas and have been having a great time for the last couple of days.  But my money-hoarding ways have meant I've spent almost all that time in Bowerstone moving stock between traders to rack up money.  Still fun though!
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: chronovore on December 31, 2008, 10:16:50 AM
Begin a real estate market; before spending too much money locally, start BUYING property instead of items. This feeds into itself until you get the local area completely under your control; pretty soon you will have no need for money. No joke.

BTW, freed my HDD up to 6.1GB, and am now playing Fable without a hitch, without drive noise, and so far no crashes, from the HDD install. This is what love feels like.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: Bildi on December 31, 2008, 06:22:17 PM
I bought all the buildings in Bowerstone so am now walking around with about 1.7M burning a hole in my pocket until I run into the next town.  They better make me the queen of their town or something. :whip

I ended up with so many augments at the stone trader that if I buy all of them, sell the shop, and then sell back to him I end up making something like 150,000.  I remember making a lot of money in some similar way in Fable, but I don't remember it being this easy.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: chronovore on January 01, 2009, 01:28:41 AM
Yeah, I walked into Bloodstone with 2.5M in my pockets, and just started buying from the first building I saw. Kinda anticlimactic, considering that big ponce the shooting Hero is supposed to be running the whole show there. "Cool, yeah, you're in charge. But I OWN everything."  :lol

I'm maxed out Strength and Shooty, but have a long ways to go before maxing out ALL the Will powers.

Still can't seem to get The Duellist achievement. I never see the blue arc. I've seen it once, but wasn't able to replicate the timing.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: demi on January 01, 2009, 01:30:06 AM
BTW, freed my HDD up to 6.1GB, and am now playing Fable without a hitch, without drive noise, and so far no crashes, from the HDD install. This is what love feels like.

Himuro owned...  :'(
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: chronovore on January 03, 2009, 09:08:01 AM
Finished the main quest last night, and am sitting deep in the bowels of Castle Fairfax. Prolly finish this quest and hang it up. I don't feel like spending another week of wandering around, looking for keys and gargoyles. Fabulous game, bugs and framerate aside. The ending was fine, I don't know what people were bitching about.

Anyone thinking that Lionhead would drop a big, Zelda-esque final boss fight is bound to be disappointed, I suppose, but
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I really liked the way they showed the character at each important decision stage, and how his appearance changed. The time on the farm with Rose was charming, but also well directed. I was supposed to feel safe and happy, but was creeped out the whole time. It may be the best bit of in-game evocative "direction" I've ever seen.

Actually, that and the "Winter Lodge" Demon Door were both really good. Man, Winter Lodge freaked me the fuck out.

Anyway, the ending was what it was -- I'm just unhappy I wasn't afforded a chance to shoot that son of a bitch, Reaver.
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Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: chronovore on January 04, 2009, 12:12:38 AM
Double-up update: I bailed from Castle Fairfax after spending close to an hour over two sessions trying to get the last "Will - Skill - Skill - (move) Skill" timed flick-switch to open a door. Between that, and the Westcliff shooting range, I just can't seem to aim fast enough, and I can't be bothered to finish them.

I'm on to Saints Row 2 for anyone who wants to co-op.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: notstupid on January 05, 2009, 11:21:07 PM
i felt the endgame for fable 2 was perfect for the game it was attempting to be. 
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the end sequence after you leave w/ reaver is the last action-packed experience (you just aren't told this, which is why the end seems like a shock), but its fun and has some stronger enemies.  then, the montage and everything was great b/c and the farm was probably the most emotional part of the game for me (comparatively, obviously it didn't have me in tears or anything) and then theresa basically reminds you that lionhead has dlc coming and it better not take another year to get here.  and then the choice was perfect because there was a neutral option, and thanks to there actually a game afterwards, the choices do have real impacts (or you feel the lack of some characters, etc.) on your game which is nice. and yes, i chose love, i just didn't totally get the letter that you recieve from rose.
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what a long post.  9/10 game for me.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: chronovore on January 05, 2009, 11:29:30 PM
i felt the endgame for fable 2 was perfect for the game it was attempting to be. 
spoiler (click to show/hide)
the end sequence after you leave w/ reaver is the last action-packed experience (you just aren't told this, which is why the end seems like a shock), but its fun and has some stronger enemies.  then, the montage and everything was great b/c and the farm was probably the most emotional part of the game for me (comparatively, obviously it didn't have me in tears or anything) and then theresa basically reminds you that lionhead has dlc coming and it better not take another year to get here.  and then the choice was perfect because there was a neutral option, and thanks to there actually a game afterwards, the choices do have real impacts (or you feel the lack of some characters, etc.) on your game which is nice. and yes, i chose love, i just didn't totally get the letter that you recieve from rose.
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what a long post.  9/10 game for me.

The Love choice is what I went with as well;
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I didn't feel much sympathy for the 1000s that died making the spire, and I did actually like my four families (ahem) in their discrete locations throughout Albion. And you need the dog for treasure hunting if you want to mop that up. For a good part of the game, I assumed that Theresa was a future version of Rose, come back to make things happen correctly, but it turns out she's from the first game. I looked on Wikia to find out about the letter, and it supposes that Rose is also with a character from the first game. Which makes me want to buy the first game and try it out.
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The game would be a 9 for me except for the technical issues, for which I subtract half a point.
*raises half a finger to demonstrate*
 ;)

Even so, I'm not needing the DLC or its Achievements that badly.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: demi on January 05, 2009, 11:31:55 PM
I chose all 3 because I can, then I picked the one where everyone is revived because I had like 5 million gold anyway
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: Bacon on January 06, 2009, 01:53:28 AM
i felt the endgame for fable 2 was perfect for the game it was attempting to be. 
spoiler (click to show/hide)
the end sequence after you leave w/ reaver is the last action-packed experience (you just aren't told this, which is why the end seems like a shock), but its fun and has some stronger enemies.  then, the montage and everything was great b/c and the farm was probably the most emotional part of the game for me (comparatively, obviously it didn't have me in tears or anything) and then theresa basically reminds you that lionhead has dlc coming and it better not take another year to get here.  and then the choice was perfect because there was a neutral option, and thanks to there actually a game afterwards, the choices do have real impacts (or you feel the lack of some characters, etc.) on your game which is nice. and yes, i chose love, i just didn't totally get the letter that you recieve from rose.
[close]

what a long post.  9/10 game for me.

The Love choice is what I went with as well;
spoiler (click to show/hide)
I didn't feel much sympathy for the 1000s that died making the spire, and I did actually like my four families (ahem) in their discrete locations throughout Albion. And you need the dog for treasure hunting if you want to mop that up. For a good part of the game, I assumed that Theresa was a future version of Rose, come back to make things happen correctly, but it turns out she's from the first game. I looked on Wikia to find out about the letter, and it supposes that Rose is also with a character from the first game. Which makes me want to buy the first game and try it out.
[close]

The game would be a 9 for me except for the technical issues, for which I subtract half a point.
*raises half a finger to demonstrate*
 ;)

Even so, I'm not needing the DLC or its Achievements that badly.

Playing the first game won't really flesh anything out for you.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: notstupid on January 06, 2009, 02:12:25 AM
see, im one of those people that liked the first game.  it was a zelda w/o the overly complex puzzles (which is arguably a big part of zelda, i know) and instead added in fun combat and a ton of other timewasters and a morality system!  if you enjoy it for what it is, an adventure game, not the best rpg ever created, it is a lot of fun.  The only real criticism i have of fable 2 i guess is that it is not the same setting as fable 1, which takes away this great backstory and the heroes guild and stuff and i actually liked all that stuff.  this game just needs its own little encyclopedia/codex thing.

but yeah, for the rose thing, not even a hint of them being there. though theresa on the other hand....

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what about scythe? he's like the only other guy that she might be with...
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Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: chronovore on January 06, 2009, 02:56:30 AM
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That's the guy. Scythe. It's posited that Rose is hanging out with Scythe.
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I did all three endings too, to get the delicious gamerscore, but
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I kept playing after the Love ending, and let it save the data with that one. I actually felt sad when I put the game away; I went back to my first family which had two kids, and did a little dance and made a big laugh and gave them presents before leaving the game for the last time. It was more emotion than I've felt leaving any other game...
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Even so, I won't miss half the freakin' trollops in the town telling me they want to get married, and following me into my house. NPC stalkers: can't live with 'em, can't kill 'em (if you're playing Good).
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: demi on January 06, 2009, 02:58:46 AM
I did all three endings too, to get the delicious gamerscore, but
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I kept playing after the Love ending, and let it save the data with that one. I actually felt sad when I put the game away; I went back to my first family which had two kids, and did a little dance and made a big laugh and gave them presents before leaving the game for the last time. It was more emotion than I've felt leaving any other game...
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LOL!!!!!
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: chronovore on January 06, 2009, 04:09:52 AM
Then I handed in my penis as I left.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: demi on January 06, 2009, 11:40:36 PM
Just do the dog treat command
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: demi on January 06, 2009, 11:44:04 PM
Yep, free
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: demi on January 07, 2009, 01:13:38 AM
Spent ages working for the blacksmith then spent it all on a house and got married :'(
Much like real life.

My wife is better

(http://img263.imageshack.us/img263/3295/hpim0851we0.jpg)
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: demi on January 07, 2009, 12:30:18 PM
Condoms :gay
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: Brehvolution on January 07, 2009, 01:29:53 PM
Spent ages working for the blacksmith then spent it all on a house and got married :'(
Much like real life.

My wife is better

(http://img263.imageshack.us/img263/3295/hpim0851we0.jpg)

:rofl x1000
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: Trent Dole on January 07, 2009, 03:34:07 PM
Is there anything to gain from the Crucible besides Mad Dog's axe? Cause I've won that akready and it's not as awesome as my Master Hammer with a Ghoul Augment.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: demi on January 07, 2009, 03:34:46 PM
nope, no reason to be there besides the story
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: chronovore on January 08, 2009, 01:01:07 AM
nope, no reason to be there besides the story

:lol
Yeah, if you don't want to progress, no reason to clear it. OTOH, if you're just going back for a mess of "perfect rounds" to beat the record and bag the axe, the only reasons are a paltry amount of gold and a reasonable amount of XP.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: chronovore on January 08, 2009, 01:10:12 AM
Spent ages working for the blacksmith then spent it all on a house and got married :'(
Much like real life.

My wife is better

(http://img263.imageshack.us/img263/3295/hpim0851we0.jpg)

It's nice he's got that cupholder on his chest.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: demi on January 08, 2009, 08:24:23 PM
Those who have uncovered every treasure, bludgeoned every bandit and cracked every wisecracking gargoyle in Albion will be pleased to note that Fable 2's Knothole Island add-on (800), initially delayed due to technical issues, is now scheduled to arrive on Xbox Live Marketplace next Tuesday, January 13th. The downloadable detour will add an isle's worth of quests, items and specialty shops for you to uncover and / or fart at.

Lionhead's community blog notes that January 13th will also bring a free title update which fans -- and Oakfield's abbot -- have been eagerly awaiting. You can look forward to new items, clothing and leaderboards being patched in along with the, uh, patch.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: chronovore on January 09, 2009, 06:48:59 AM
I was kind of surprised how little variation there was in the clothing, so it's neat that they're adding more for free. It seemed like there were maybe 10 set outfits which could be mixed and matched on a component level.

I was also surprised that players can't change their own skin and hair color, where it instead darkens for evil or lightens for good. YAY! Aryan supremacy mindset!

Although Molyneux is a brunette, so that means he's evil, right?
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: siamesedreamer on January 09, 2009, 08:04:04 AM
Those who have uncovered every treasure, bludgeoned every bandit and cracked every wisecracking gargoyle in Albion will be pleased to note that Fable 2's Knothole Island add-on (800), initially delayed due to technical issues, is now scheduled to arrive on Xbox Live Marketplace next Tuesday, January 13th. The downloadable detour will add an isle's worth of quests, items and specialty shops for you to uncover and / or fart at.

Lionhead's community blog notes that January 13th will also bring a free title update which fans -- and Oakfield's abbot -- have been eagerly awaiting. You can look forward to new items, clothing and leaderboards being patched in along with the, uh, patch.

Good...any achievement details released?
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: demi on January 09, 2009, 08:10:49 AM
Yeah check your xbox.com profile
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: pilonv1 on January 09, 2009, 07:04:19 PM
I was kind of surprised how little variation there was in the clothing, so it's neat that they're adding more for free. It seemed like there were maybe 10 set outfits which could be mixed and matched on a component level.

I found there was a decent amount of clothing but only 1-2 items had any decent stats on them.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: Bacon on January 09, 2009, 10:27:50 PM
The outfits are worthless and don't even really have "stats". You can wear the shittiest clothes and everyone will still love you.

Finished the main quest tonight. :supergay

Will be putting this game away forever. Pretty damn disappointing overall. Can't see myself buying a third game after these last two...
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: demi on January 10, 2009, 10:00:55 PM
Lionhead's announced that a patch finally fixing a slew of bugs — including the infamous unresponsive abbott in Monk's Quest — has gone live today. And good news! No one will assassinate your child anymore!

Here's the full list of what's fixed:

• The Ritual/Monk’s Quest — Fixed the issue with the Abbott becoming unresponsive if you leave Oakfield before he finishes talking. This will fix the problem if you’ve already hit it, too.

• Rescuing Charlie/Rescue My Baby — after rescuing Charlie, you can now able to interact with objects

• Guild Cave chest — resolves any issues with previously inability to retrieve items unlocked from Limited Collector’s Edition, website or Chicken Kickin’ game. If you’ve already hit this bug you should now get your items.

• The Spire (Pt2) — no more issues with ship captain being unresponsive

• The Hero of Skill (Pirate King) — you’ll no longer get stuck during Hero of Skill quest (Bloodstone)

• T.O.B.Y./Trouble In Bloodstone — you’ll no longer get stuck during T.O.B.Y. quests (Bloodstone)

• Your child — will no longer be chosen as an assassination target

• Furniture Shop in Albion (Bowerstone) will now always have something for sale

• "Additional unspecified fixes" (their words)

Also, Knothole Island has been added to the map in Tales of Albion.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: AdmiralViscen on January 10, 2009, 10:07:29 PM
The only one that I ran into was the Bowerstone furniture one. Are the new clothes and shit up too?
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: chronovore on January 11, 2009, 12:45:09 AM
I loaded the patch yesterday, and my wife was still gone. The kids are there, but the wife is just gone. Weird 'ho is probably banging half of Fairfax Gardens.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: Trent Dole on January 11, 2009, 02:59:46 AM
The reward at the end of the buying the castle quest is fucking stupid. Maybe if that shiz had infinite uses and never ran out it'd be cool. Kind of a waste of my time, especially since I already had all my abilities maxed out.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: demi on January 11, 2009, 06:09:19 AM
I think it's a joke item. People are so eager that they fuck up their character in the stroke of one button. Oops, auto-save!
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: chronovore on January 11, 2009, 07:27:05 AM
The reward at the end of the buying the castle quest is fucking stupid. Maybe if that shiz had infinite uses and never ran out it'd be cool. Kind of a waste of my time, especially since I already had all my abilities maxed out.
Isn't there a bug which gives it infinite uses? I thought if you traded it to someone else, and they send it back, it gains infinite uses. Or maybe the patch fixed that?

How the FUCK did you clear the last flick-switch? I spent SO MUCH time trying to get the fourth shot in... I got the first three, but could not move then shoot to save my freakin' life. Finally gave up.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: Trent Dole on January 11, 2009, 12:02:59 PM
The reward at the end of the buying the castle quest is fucking stupid. Maybe if that shiz had infinite uses and never ran out it'd be cool. Kind of a waste of my time, especially since I already had all my abilities maxed out.
Isn't there a bug which gives it infinite uses? I thought if you traded it to someone else, and they send it back, it gains infinite uses. Or maybe the patch fixed that?

How the FUCK did you clear the last flick-switch? I spent SO MUCH time trying to get the fourth shot in... I got the first three, but could not move then shoot to save my freakin' life. Finally gave up.
Oh god yeah that shit was pissing me off. Start by standing in the sorta middle instead of right in the column where you cast lightening, stand back a bit, and just fire your gun without doing any aiming. That's what worked for me anyway.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: rubber feathers on January 11, 2009, 12:22:05 PM
The reward at the end of the buying the castle quest is fucking stupid. Maybe if that shiz had infinite uses and never ran out it'd be cool. Kind of a waste of my time, especially since I already had all my abilities maxed out.
Isn't there a bug which gives it infinite uses? I thought if you traded it to someone else, and they send it back, it gains infinite uses. Or maybe the patch fixed that?

How the FUCK did you clear the last flick-switch? I spent SO MUCH time trying to get the fourth shot in... I got the first three, but could not move then shoot to save my freakin' life. Finally gave up.
Oh god yeah that shit was pissing me off. Start by standing in the sorta middle instead of right in the column where you cast lightening, stand back a bit, and just fire your gun without doing any aiming. That's what worked for me anyway.
Yeah, I did the same thing.  Maybe you could hit all the switches if the process of manually aiming wasn't so slow and cumbersome, but alas.

The reward item for that whole questline was stupid too.  Couldn't they have just given you some potion to max out every single Will spell?  So you can use something different than the you chose to upgrade without having to, like, have five million exp.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: chronovore on January 11, 2009, 07:13:18 PM
I got to three with manual aiming, but had started on the leftmost side, then tried it from really far back... ima gon' be pissed if spamming the bullets is the answer. Then again I did the same mistake with that one amusement park boss in The Warriors...  :'(
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: chronovore on January 18, 2009, 08:32:23 PM
Check the official forums to see if anyone has a workaround. I had a few nasty bugs which cleared themselves up after the last patch.

Actually, I wonder if clearing your cache and reloading the patch would help at all?
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: demi on January 18, 2009, 11:35:49 PM
There is no slavery "quest" - it's a sidejob, like blacksmithing.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: chronovore on January 18, 2009, 11:49:39 PM
It fixed itself when I walked into the area instead of fast travelling. I now have the second version of that quest (freeing the slaves), so I think I've got rid of the problem for good. I shat myself for a while, though.

Yeah, not sure what eventually cleared up my game. In my case, it thought I was still locked on to a person I'd had highlighted, so the context for Y-Button never changed. I left Giles or his distinguished, effete son to continue the quest, and when beset by assassins the Y-Button would only bring up Giles' specific information instead of, say, SHOOT THE ASSASSINS WHO ARE ATTACKING ME. :maf
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: demi on January 22, 2009, 10:56:10 PM
In the Crucible village, theres a shooting gallery. Get 2nd place, and you get a doll that is unique to your game - it is one of... 4 or 5. You can ONLY get that doll on your game. What you do is trade online for the rest of the dolls:

* Reaver
* Hammer
* Lucien
* Hero (Fable Pub Games)
* the Wisdom hero guy
* Theresa

Most people will just help you out if you ask.

You need to buy the Fairfax mansion for the achievement... just buy it
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: AdmiralViscen on January 22, 2009, 10:59:55 PM
What's this blackmail mission? Don't think I saw that one.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: demi on January 22, 2009, 11:01:09 PM
It happens if you marry more than one person, then go fucking random people. I told the guy to fuck off and sliced his nugget off
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: chronovore on January 23, 2009, 04:58:26 AM
I had like three families, including my undead wife and hybrid zombie-child. Never got the blackmail message. Weird.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: BobFromPikeCreek on January 26, 2009, 05:54:25 PM
Started playing this today. Pretty meh so far.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: WrikaWrek on January 26, 2009, 06:12:52 PM
I just can't get into this game.

I've tried 2 times already. The game is visually rough as hell (360=shit), and it's just not fun. The characters talk a good game, but nothing interesting really happens with the story, and for all the funny sandbox stuff going on, the game isn't appealing.

I don't know how much money MS put on this game, but i hope the next one has a bit more of that "epic juice" going on with the story, and making you feel like you are involved in this crazy ass adventure.

This game is way too freaking soft.

Another bomb from MS.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: BobFromPikeCreek on January 26, 2009, 06:34:43 PM
Er. I wouldn't go that far. Right now the game just feels kinda awkward to me. It's not quite openworld but it's not quite linear. I don't know what to make of it.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: AdmiralViscen on January 26, 2009, 07:42:53 PM
This game is at least good, Wrik tries too hard.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: demi on January 26, 2009, 07:46:35 PM
I just can't get into this game.

I've tried 2 times already. The game is visually rough as hell (360=shit), and it's just not fun. The characters talk a good game, but nothing interesting really happens with the story, and for all the funny sandbox stuff going on, the game isn't appealing.

I don't know how much money MS put on this game, but i hope the next one has a bit more of that "epic juice" going on with the story, and making you feel like you are involved in this crazy ass adventure.

This game is way too freaking soft.

Another bomb from MS.

um... it sold gangbusters compared to actual bombs
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: pilonv1 on January 26, 2009, 07:55:20 PM
the first one sold 1million+ in the USA too. Saying it's a shit game and a bomb is just being too negative, it's not great but it's definitely fun
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: WrikaWrek on January 26, 2009, 08:36:21 PM
This game is at least good, Wrik tries too hard.

The game is well made, but it's not fun. If you don't care about marrying, having virtual kids, killing random npcs.

but nothing interesting really happens with the story

You mad? How far did you get?

Till after the fat Norida(? Heavenly sword bitch).

I just can't get into this game.

I've tried 2 times already. The game is visually rough as hell (360=shit), and it's just not fun. The characters talk a good game, but nothing interesting really happens with the story, and for all the funny sandbox stuff going on, the game isn't appealing.

I don't know how much money MS put on this game, but i hope the next one has a bit more of that "epic juice" going on with the story, and making you feel like you are involved in this crazy ass adventure.

This game is way too freaking soft.

Another bomb from MS.

um... it sold gangbusters compared to actual bombs

Didn't mean bomb like sales bomb. More like, bomb in the "it failed to cement itself as a big name in MS lineup".

It's not Too Human, but fable has become one of those "yeah whatever, i'll check it out whenever" games.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: demi on January 26, 2009, 08:37:40 PM
huh? i still dont follow. fable was always "the xbox rpg"
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: tiesto on January 26, 2009, 08:39:43 PM
Is this game as short as the first one?
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: WrikaWrek on January 26, 2009, 08:40:47 PM
huh? i still dont follow. fable was always "the xbox rpg"

Completely disagree. Kotor was "the xbox rpg".

Fable was that game that failed hard at accomplishing anything it promised. And fable 2 is that "it's better than the 1st one, but it's clear by now that this is not the next big franchise".

And what i mean is, it's not a game that has people hyped up for the sequel, it's not a game that has people talking, and is not a game that gives you that "Blockbuster" vibe.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: Hitler Stole My Potato on January 26, 2009, 08:41:55 PM
Is this game as short as the first one?

I think it's longer but it's hard to say.  Both games seem to go by pretty fast.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: AdmiralViscen on January 26, 2009, 08:44:15 PM
If Fable 1 was as disappointing for the average gamer as you say it was, Fable 2 would have flopped.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: WrikaWrek on January 26, 2009, 08:51:06 PM
?

If Fable 1 had reached the goals it set out to reach, Fable 2 would've been a Gears of War 2 size hit. Let's not forget there's a ton of "new" xbox gamers, that had never played Fable in the first place, and for all intents and purposes Fable 2 had good reviews, and a big marketing campaign, and considering how hungry the 360 audience has proved to be, selling on par with fable 1 in the U.S, isn't exactly some wonderful achievement, the game sold a million.

That's 60 million dollars right? +-

Considering the size of the project, it's not like it was a huge hit. It made nice bank i'm sure, but in movie terms it was as much of a hit as Hellboy 2 was.

Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: AdmiralViscen on January 26, 2009, 09:04:26 PM
Fable sold 1.7M lifetime, Fable 2 sold 1.1 or 1.2M in like 40 days.

There is no way to say how big Fable 2 would have been if Fable 1 "delivered." I didn't like Fable 1 but I know a lot of people who loved it. The backlash exists on forums only, near as I can tell.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: WrikaWrek on January 26, 2009, 09:11:06 PM
?

If Fable 1 had reached the goals it set out to reach, Fable 2 would've been a Gears of War 2 size hit. Let's not forget there's a ton of "new" xbox gamers, that had never played Fable in the first place, and for all intents and purposes Fable 2 had good reviews, and a big marketing campaign, and considering how hungry the 360 audience has proved to be, selling on par with fable 1 in the U.S, isn't exactly some wonderful achievement, the game sold a million.

That's 60 million dollars right? +-

Considering the size of the project, it's not like it was a huge hit. It made nice bank i'm sure, but in movie terms it was as much of a hit as Hellboy 2 was.


What the fuck are you talking about?  Fable 1 was the third best selling new game franchise last gen (maybe second?), and Fable 2 is tracking to beat it.  SMH @ not knowing what you are talking about.

On the Xbox maybe.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: WrikaWrek on January 26, 2009, 09:14:42 PM
What? Where did you get that list?

What about Jak and Daxter, Ratchet and Clank, God of War, Kingdom Hearts, Singstar, and who knows what else?
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: WrikaWrek on January 26, 2009, 09:19:48 PM
And kingdom hearts doesn't even figure?  :lol

You are just making that up.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: WrikaWrek on January 26, 2009, 09:21:34 PM
Yes it is.

Still you don't answer where you got the list.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: WrikaWrek on January 26, 2009, 09:25:33 PM
I call bullshit.

Oh and fable 1 had great legs. Fable 2 came instantly, that's what happens when you have competition. Xbox 1 was a barren wasteland.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: cool breeze on January 26, 2009, 09:28:41 PM
what happened to you? get a little money from Wii games and now full on sales talk? your ass used to be beautiful
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: WrikaWrek on January 26, 2009, 09:30:35 PM
It's not the point anyway, the point is...








...this year looks horrible for the 360. I'm actually considering selling it. But it's a tough move now, i bought guitar hero for it.


And fable 2 ain't helping my decision.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: AdmiralViscen on January 26, 2009, 09:31:38 PM
I call bullshit.

Oh and fable 1 had great legs. Fable 2 came instantly, that's what happens when you have competition. Xbox 1 was a barren wasteland.

You're really judging Fable 2's legs with two data points?
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: Brehvolution on January 26, 2009, 09:33:22 PM
...this year looks horrible for the 360. I'm actually considering selling it.

That's pretty near sighted.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: AdmiralViscen on January 26, 2009, 09:41:26 PM
Yea that's distinguished mentally-challenged.

I don't know what I'm buying this year. Killzone 2 and Infamous on the one side, both Halo games on the other. Prototype and then I really can't think of anything else on disc.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: WrikaWrek on January 26, 2009, 09:55:08 PM
Quote
...this year looks horrible for the 360. I'm actually considering selling it.


this was the mantra of the hopeful back in 2008, that the X360 had shot its load and , again, i expect 2009 to have lots of goodies that we don't know too much about.



Not me.

We knew everything that was coming last year in the beginning of the year if you think about it.

Gears 2? We already knew.

Banjo? Same shit. Goes for Fable 2 too.

We knew these games were coming in 09. Sure, MS only really announced them during E3, which means that if they decide to go with that route for new games, it will be harder for us to know ahead of time.

But we already know Forza 3 is coming, Alan Wake is a potential release, and Halo 3 ostd. Sure Rare will probably bring us another "concept" game, and i'm sure there will be plenty of shit like "You're at the movies" being announced too.

It just doesn't look gud, and i no longer pay Live.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: pilonv1 on January 27, 2009, 12:51:51 AM
cohen's list looks good to me.

also loul @ 2009 being shit. another year of ps3 i guess
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: chronovore on January 27, 2009, 01:04:04 AM
dcharlie, I had the same problem when backing out of Fable's sluggish menus. Wear Hat (B) Clothes (B) Items (B) {come on, come on} (B) (B) (B) Electrocute Passers-By...  :(

Just use Spell Selector to set your level-1 slot for Time Control instead of ZAPPO-EL-BOLTY-de-BOLTINESS. They get a little scared when you futz.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: chronovore on January 27, 2009, 04:31:38 AM
I cannot do the Executioner achievement because I joined the Temple of Light? Are you shitting me >:(
Thatz correct, sir. However you can hook up with anyone who is playing evil, hench in their game, and just watch them do it in one try. That's what I did.

Let DCharlie futz the menu and kill half the town one more time; he'll swap to evil faster than Anakin, then you can watch him kill peeps at the Wheel o' Fortune.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: chronovore on January 27, 2009, 04:33:14 AM
Quote
dcharlie, I had the same problem when backing out of Fable's sluggish menus. Wear Hat (B) Clothes (B) Items (B) {come on, come on} (B) (B) (B) Electrocute Passers-By... 

Just use Spell Selector to set your level-1 slot for Time Control instead of ZAPPO-EL-BOLTY-de-BOLTINESS. They get a little scared when you futz.


oooh, thank you sir, will give it a try :)

i almost nearly lose it each time and almost decide to switch off safety and go psycho....

Incidentally, you can set Time Control on slot 3, and it will give you a lot more time to roll off the Level 4 and 5 damage spells.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: BobFromPikeCreek on January 27, 2009, 11:52:54 AM
I played a bit more and I'm starting to like it quite a bit. It really opened up out of nowhere.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: dammitmattt on January 27, 2009, 01:44:57 PM
I decided to dig back into Fable II after not having played it since Fallout 3 came out.  I had just gotten the first hero, so I wasn't very far into the game, but it still took me a surprisingly long amount of time to get back into the flow of things.  The biggest hindrance is the piss-poor menu design (why are the detailed region maps three clicks deep???), which is still laggy even after installing the game to my hard drive, but it's also a little too easy to accidentally set villagers on fire when the button layout isn't burned into your brain.

Like someone else said, Fable 2 is this awkward mixture of Oblivion and Fable 1 where you're sort of on rails but sort of have some freedom to explore.  It's very inconsistent in letting you wander off the beaten path, which makes finding all the hidden keys/gargoyles/chests kind of a big pain in the ass, but it also means that there's not

However, after an hour or so of adjustment, I got back into the swing of things and started enjoying myself again.  The combat is fairly fun with all three weapons (level 3 time + level 5 fire for a good time), though after playing PoP I wish they would've done more with the timing windows and how they communicate to the user how and when to perform combos.  Something just doesn't feel quite right about the sword combat, and I hate that there's not a dedicated block button.  It basically turns into "roll in, swipe 3 times, roll out" over and over and over.

I'm also not finding myself particularly engaged in the story or the cutscenes, which is unfortunate because I really liked how it started off.

I just finished the Crucible and I'm about to head to the Spire...is there anything I need to do before I go down this quest line?
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: Herr Mafflard on January 27, 2009, 02:11:28 PM
I don't really like this game. I got the SE where you get Hal's armour and sword and I didn't even use the sword - it's got like 22 damage but 5 slots.

Oh and the bonus dvd is bullshit - it's just a compilation of all the video diaries.

Fucking last time I'm getting fooled by Molyneux and the hype train.

(http://i44.tinypic.com/33dgnia.jpg)
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: WrikaWrek on January 27, 2009, 02:16:25 PM
How hard can it be anyway?

A) Come up with a concept

B) Hire a writer to write the story

C) Hire Artists and Programmers to bring the concept and the story to life


Somehow often games seem like "Do concept, game, and write in your spare time, and whatever". And the main dude not having a voice sucks balls.

Cmon, get on with the times. It sucked in Zelda, it sucks in Fable. Learn with Mass Effect.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: WrikaWrek on January 27, 2009, 02:26:06 PM
How hard can it be anyway?

A) Come up with a concept

B) Hire a writer to write the story

C) Hire Artists and Programmers to bring the concept and the story to life

:lol

Is there no pre prodution work done in games?

edit: Btw, i realize that's not how games are done...just sayin i wish it was more like that.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: rubber feathers on January 27, 2009, 02:28:54 PM
I just finished the Crucible and I'm about to head to the Spire...is there anything I need to do before I go down this quest line?
Eh, there's some sidequests that'll disappear if you don't do them, but nothing really important.

Fable 2 really opened up...
spoiler (click to show/hide)
after you left the Spire.  You finally are able to do sidequests that actually have some meat to them, and are rather unique.  The story starts progressing more, Albion changes after the 10-year spire stint, etc.  It gets really good.  Fable 2 pre-spire is interesting enough to keep you going, but it's not exactly fun.
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The game also does a really shitty job of explaining things to you, too.  I didn't know about the Gargoyles (at all – I thought that whiny, taunting voice was from beggars) until 2/3rds through the game, I didn't know about using multiple spells on the fly until I finished and sold the game, etc.  The relationship thing is stupid too; I can cheat on Alex and have her wanting to divorce me, but after doing a stupid "seduce" animation a few times in the town square, she's all happy.  It doesn't help that the women in the game all have the same three lines by the same voice actor, and have three different character models total.  Lionhead themselves poking fun at this in the load screens is worse – why didn't you assholes try to remedy this problem?  Ugh.

Fable 2's still a very good game with some really awesome moments and, in my opinion, surprisingly satisfying combat, but it has a shitload of flaws.  It needed another 6 months in the cooker.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: BobFromPikeCreek on January 27, 2009, 03:13:57 PM
I decided to dig back into Fable II after not having played it since Fallout 3 came out.  I had just gotten the first hero, so I wasn't very far into the game, but it still took me a surprisingly long amount of time to get back into the flow of things.  The biggest hindrance is the piss-poor menu design (why are the detailed region maps three clicks deep???), which is still laggy even after installing the game to my hard drive, but it's also a little too easy to accidentally set villagers on fire when the button layout isn't burned into your brain.

Like someone else said, Fable 2 is this awkward mixture of Oblivion and Fable 1 where you're sort of on rails but sort of have some freedom to explore.  It's very inconsistent in letting you wander off the beaten path, which makes finding all the hidden keys/gargoyles/chests kind of a big pain in the ass, but it also means that there's not

However, after an hour or so of adjustment, I got back into the swing of things and started enjoying myself again.  The combat is fairly fun with all three weapons (level 3 time + level 5 fire for a good time), though after playing PoP I wish they would've done more with the timing windows and how they communicate to the user how and when to perform combos.  Something just doesn't feel quite right about the sword combat, and I hate that there's not a dedicated block button.  It basically turns into "roll in, swipe 3 times, roll out" over and over and over.

I'm also not finding myself particularly engaged in the story or the cutscenes, which is unfortunate because I really liked how it started off.

I just finished the Crucible and I'm about to head to the Spire...is there anything I need to do before I go down this quest line?

I'm not nearly as far as you, but I hated the combat until I got flourishes. Having to use the same button for blocking and attacking got a lot less frustrating for me with flourishes since you need to hold X for them anyway.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: dammitmattt on January 27, 2009, 03:33:56 PM
I decided to dig back into Fable II after not having played it since Fallout 3 came out.  I had just gotten the first hero, so I wasn't very far into the game, but it still took me a surprisingly long amount of time to get back into the flow of things.  The biggest hindrance is the piss-poor menu design (why are the detailed region maps three clicks deep???), which is still laggy even after installing the game to my hard drive, but it's also a little too easy to accidentally set villagers on fire when the button layout isn't burned into your brain.

Like someone else said, Fable 2 is this awkward mixture of Oblivion and Fable 1 where you're sort of on rails but sort of have some freedom to explore.  It's very inconsistent in letting you wander off the beaten path, which makes finding all the hidden keys/gargoyles/chests kind of a big pain in the ass, but it also means that there's not

However, after an hour or so of adjustment, I got back into the swing of things and started enjoying myself again.  The combat is fairly fun with all three weapons (level 3 time + level 5 fire for a good time), though after playing PoP I wish they would've done more with the timing windows and how they communicate to the user how and when to perform combos.  Something just doesn't feel quite right about the sword combat, and I hate that there's not a dedicated block button.  It basically turns into "roll in, swipe 3 times, roll out" over and over and over.

I'm also not finding myself particularly engaged in the story or the cutscenes, which is unfortunate because I really liked how it started off.

I just finished the Crucible and I'm about to head to the Spire...is there anything I need to do before I go down this quest line?

I'm not nearly as far as you, but I hated the combat until I got flourishes. Having to use the same button for blocking and attacking got a lot less frustrating for me with flourishes since you need to hold X for them anyway.

That's all fine and well if you're already attacking, but I want to block while I'm using ranged/magic, too :/
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: chronovore on January 27, 2009, 06:39:45 PM
How hard can it be anyway?

A) Come up with a concept

B) Hire a writer to write the story

C) Hire Artists and Programmers to bring the concept and the story to life

:lol
Seconded:
:rofl
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: chronovore on January 27, 2009, 06:41:55 PM
I just finished the Crucible and I'm about to head to the Spire...is there anything I need to do before I go down this quest line?

There's that guy who used to have a criminally inaccurate thesaurus; he is looking for investments in the camp near the Crucible tower. Hit him up.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: chronovore on January 27, 2009, 08:13:36 PM
Sorry, is that White Knight Story?
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: chronovore on January 28, 2009, 12:32:09 AM
Thank you. I looked up WKS and mostly found non-helpful MS Works links. :-/

How many people here can actually compare them, I wonder. A PS3 exclusive and a 360 exclusive... I thought the plan was to have one or the other, and then a Wii on backup for when family gatherings occur. :-)

All you goombahs playing and talking about it again... makes me regret giving Reno his copy back last week.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: dammitmattt on January 28, 2009, 10:32:24 AM
I just finished the Crucible and I'm about to head to the Spire...is there anything I need to do before I go down this quest line?

There's that guy who used to have a criminally inaccurate thesaurus; he is looking for investments in the camp near the Crucible tower. Hit him up.

I'm really glad that I scraped together my gold to invest with him.  That was WELL worth it.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: BobFromPikeCreek on January 28, 2009, 10:38:10 AM
Is the rent system broken? I'm supposed to be getting it every 5 minutes even when I'm not playing, right? Why did I just log in and get like an eigth of what I calculated I'd have earned?
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: chronovore on January 28, 2009, 10:55:35 AM
Is the rent system broken? I'm supposed to be getting it every 5 minutes even when I'm not playing, right? Why did I just log in and get like an eigth of what I calculated I'd have earned?

Rent is every 5 minutes you're playing, but the accruing runs at a different rate when the machine is not actively running the game. You can leave the 360 on overnight, which will get you the full amount AND heat your living room.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: chronovore on January 28, 2009, 10:57:17 AM
just got to :bow Stephen Fry :bow2

O-M-EFFING-GEE. Is that who that was? No wonder the voice was so good. He was the character I most emotionally connected with:
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I wanted to kill him.
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Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: pilonv1 on January 28, 2009, 06:06:22 PM
he was by far the highlight for me.

now i want to watch a bit of fry and laurie
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: demi on January 29, 2009, 12:11:33 AM
Yes, but you should be able to select what spell you want to cast at whichever level
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: chronovore on January 29, 2009, 08:52:27 AM
Just use whatever's appropriate. It basically helps to use a low-level time dilation and then another spell to follow it up. The added time means you can cast a higher level spell.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: dammitmattt on January 29, 2009, 10:17:22 AM
I just went through Wraithmarsh and Bloodstone for the first part of the Hero of Skill quest, and the game is getting more and more enjoyable.  I had been a bit down on the main storyline during the Spire section (I appreciate what they did from a story point of view, but it was just a huge, boring environment), but it's picking up again, and for the first time, there's a good number of (meaty) side quests available to choose from, including more interesting jobs.  It's also nice to have access to great guns, swords, and magic in addition to a healthy amount of cash to spend after feeling so restricted earlier in the game.

On a side note, my main combat strategy until recently was to cast a level 3 time and then follow that up with level 4/5 inferno.  It was just so much more devastating than any gun/melee attacks I had at the time.  Unfortunately, this turned me into a bald will user with blue glowing shit running through my body, which means my character looks JUST LIKE Baldur from Too Human.  Is there any way to change or reverse this, or am I stuck looking like this?

Also, does anyone have a good map of the silver keys and gargoyles.  The text guide I have isn't good enough to help me find a couple of missing items that I have.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: chronovore on January 29, 2009, 10:48:33 AM
I suspect if you sell off your Will skills for points you might remove them...? Or it might just track the total amount of Will XP, whether or not you've invested it in spells. It would be a pretty crappy way to spend points though.

Just use a collar to rename your dog "Dyack" and take out your frustrations passively by never healing it.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: BobFromPikeCreek on January 29, 2009, 01:53:42 PM
Fuck this stupid bullshit game. The game didn't tell me it was going to entirely eliminate the Temple of Shadows after that stupid fucking Temple of Light mission. This is bullshit. And they force a save right the fuck after it happens so you don't have a chance to reload, and they only let you have one fucking save. Fuck this piece of shit. I don't even want to play it anymore now, and I was just starting to really like it.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: dammitmattt on January 29, 2009, 04:53:02 PM
Fuck this stupid bullshit game. The game didn't tell me it was going to entirely eliminate the Temple of Shadows after that stupid fucking Temple of Light mission. This is bullshit. And they force a save right the fuck after it happens so you don't have a chance to reload, and they only let you have one fucking save. Fuck this piece of shit. I don't even want to play it anymore now, and I was just starting to really like it.

Fuck this game for making your decisions actually mean something.  Fuck it hard in the ass.

Dude, all you lost was 10 potential achievement points and a slightly annoying side quest with little benefit.  There's much, much more stuff that opens up later in the game that's more fun both on the good and especially evil sides.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: BobFromPikeCreek on January 29, 2009, 06:37:22 PM
I'm all for decision making when the consequences are drawn out for the player. The quest description said nothing of destroying the temple. It just said I was defending Oakfield. As an OCD completionist, that shit bugs me. But I've gotten over it.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: pilonv1 on January 29, 2009, 06:59:29 PM
NO!

Ladies, gents....

watch QI !

(Quit Interesting)

Stupid comedy trivia quiz show hosted by Fry. It's great.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpU4mOCLdkw
http://jp.youtube.com/watch?v=zpU4mOCLdkw

Fry destroys Alan Davies.


guy next to me at work has QI on DVD

i just want some old fry & laurie

maybe i should fire this up tonight and check my rental properties
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: MyNameIsMethodis on January 29, 2009, 07:11:37 PM
I didn't do a single Demon Door, did I miss anything? What's behind them anyways?
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: Trent Dole on January 29, 2009, 07:25:23 PM
I didn't do a single Demon Door, did I miss anything? What's behind them anyways?
Crappy items.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: MyNameIsMethodis on January 29, 2009, 07:34:43 PM
Oh okay then it doesn't bother me anymore that I ignored them.

I liked it. I couldn't get past ten minutes of Fable 1 but I actually stook around to beat this one. The only thing I hated was how choosing Strength powers made me obese.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: Trent Dole on January 29, 2009, 08:38:08 PM
You can have multiple heroes. I have four.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: Bildi on January 29, 2009, 08:43:37 PM
The only thing I hated was how choosing Strength powers made me obese.

I understand their reasoning, but I don't really like it either.  I actually undid my strength levelling up early on because my female character looked so fugly.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: demi on January 29, 2009, 08:57:17 PM
Oh okay then it doesn't bother me anymore that I ignored them.

I liked it. I couldn't get past ten minutes of Fable 1 but I actually stook around to beat this one. The only thing I hated was how choosing Strength powers made me obese.

Strength makes you bigger and buffer. Eating fat food and beer makes you fat.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: BobFromPikeCreek on January 29, 2009, 09:20:55 PM
Wait, you can have multiple saves? Awesome. Never mind my earlier nerd rage.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: AdmiralViscen on January 29, 2009, 09:52:19 PM
I saved the Light/Dark missions till after the Spire only to find that Dark wins and Oakfield looks like shit forever  :'(

btw I hear that some of the Demon Doors have pretty big and awesome areas behind them.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: BobFromPikeCreek on January 29, 2009, 10:12:48 PM
One of the Demon Doors I opened got me a pretty sweet house and a bad ass hammer.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: chronovore on January 29, 2009, 11:07:28 PM
I didn't do a single Demon Door, did I miss anything? What's behind them anyways?

Do the one in Wraithmarsh, on the way to Bloodstone... in the row of crypts. I liked that one.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: BobFromPikeCreek on February 01, 2009, 12:46:47 AM
Wow. I set multiplayer orbs to everyone to see what it was like, and some guy just completely out of nowhere without saying anything gave me all the dolls.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: demi on February 01, 2009, 01:03:23 AM
I love the orbs... one of the best ideas for singleplayer multiplayer implemented. I hope more games take advantage of it
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: BobFromPikeCreek on February 01, 2009, 01:13:41 AM
Yeah the orbs are really cool. If someone didn't throw all the dolls at me for no reason I imagine the orb system would have made Dollcatcher pretty easy to get anyway.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: MyNameIsMethodis on February 01, 2009, 01:20:00 AM
Is there any references to the first Fable in this game?
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: demi on February 01, 2009, 01:29:50 AM
Yes
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: MyNameIsMethodis on February 01, 2009, 01:33:47 AM
Like?
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: demi on February 01, 2009, 01:59:24 AM
Stuff that was in Fable 1
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: MyNameIsMethodis on February 01, 2009, 01:59:50 AM
Such that?
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: chronovore on February 01, 2009, 10:39:05 AM
The blind chick. And the note at the end... well, one of the endings. Jesus, there's a wikia wiki up for it if you are interested in spoilers.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: MyNameIsMethodis on February 01, 2009, 12:21:01 PM
I already beat the game and sold it off. I'm just wondering.

Who was the blind chick anyways?
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: demi on February 01, 2009, 12:35:32 PM
I'm pretty sure you're doing this on purpose. So I won't answer your obvious question.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: demi on February 01, 2009, 12:37:08 PM
Your act is tired. Straighten up.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: MyNameIsMethodis on February 01, 2009, 02:03:26 PM
How am I doing this on purpose?

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=320335306883

theres the auction I sold my fable 2
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: chronovore on February 01, 2009, 09:38:36 PM
This is the internet. There are lots of places to find answers. Sac up and go find them.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: BobFromPikeCreek on February 03, 2009, 03:10:25 AM
Wow. I set multiplayer orbs to everyone to see what it was like, and some guy just completely out of nowhere without saying anything gave me all the dolls.

Do you still have them? :o

Yeah. Want em? My GT is F1shBulb. Add me and I'll give them to you. I'll probably play a little tomorrow night.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: BobFromPikeCreek on February 03, 2009, 03:24:13 AM
Do you have the achievements for getting all the keys and gargoyles. I read somewhere that if you join the game of someone who does, and have them sell and rebuy an ability the co-op dude will get the achievements. If you could do that in return I'd be very appreciative.  :-*
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: Third on February 03, 2009, 09:25:05 AM
Yeah, it's easy to get all the endings achievements. Just return to the dashboard after chosing a card. Good thing the endboss is such a joke. One hit kill URGH

Game was awesome. One of my 2008 favorites. Still a bit too short and too much backtracking.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: AdmiralViscen on February 03, 2009, 10:03:50 AM
can I get some dolls too  :-*
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: dammitmattt on February 03, 2009, 10:26:36 AM
I'd like to throw my hat into the dolls circle jerk.  I need help with the dolls and executioner achievements.  GT is dammitmattt if anyone wants to help.  I can help you, too, if you need any money or anything else.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: Herr Mafflard on February 03, 2009, 02:28:28 PM
If the Hal's body armour and sword are tradeable ingame, I'll swap those for a doll achivement.

Mightaswell get some points for a game I won't play again.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: BobFromPikeCreek on February 03, 2009, 11:08:09 PM
Groo. I'm free for the next little while, so post if you read this and want to get the dolls.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: BobFromPikeCreek on February 03, 2009, 11:28:27 PM
Actually I'm going to go on my 360 now so just message me there.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: AdmiralViscen on February 03, 2009, 11:34:33 PM
If he's not on, you wanna give em to me? I'll just give em right back to you
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: AdmiralViscen on February 04, 2009, 12:00:24 AM
wtf i thought that was like 50G lol
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: AdmiralViscen on February 04, 2009, 12:15:37 AM
I did that shit and I'm still good :rock
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: BobFromPikeCreek on February 04, 2009, 01:28:51 AM
Holy jesus that was tedious gifting all the dolls. Glad I could help you guys out.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: dammitmattt on February 04, 2009, 02:16:03 AM
Oh yeah, for the benefit of other EBers, I am now the designated HIV doll carrier, so if you want that achievement, come get some.

Can you give it to me tomorrow?  GT is dammitmattt....I'll owe you one!!!
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: Herr Mafflard on February 04, 2009, 05:21:17 PM
I don't want the Hal stuff. So if anyone wants them, I'll gladly give them for nothing - I don't even want the doll achivement anymore.

GT: Glodeus Rush
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: dammitmattt on February 05, 2009, 08:16:22 AM
I'm in CT but I'm working from home this week, so I'm online throughout the day.  What's your GT?
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: BobFromPikeCreek on February 05, 2009, 04:23:24 PM
Just got the executioner achievement. 1000/1100, and since I hear Knothole sucks I think I'm done with this game. 30 hours to do absolutely everything according to the stats screen.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: demi on February 05, 2009, 04:24:16 PM
Apparently you can get Knothole achievements from someone who bought it. Dunno if I'm willing to rent the game for that though... lol
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: BobFromPikeCreek on February 05, 2009, 06:04:04 PM
Awesome. I'm going to look into that before I get rid of it.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: pilonv1 on February 05, 2009, 06:13:54 PM
Any people who want the dolls you're gonna have to let me know your timezone so I can try and schedule something. I'm in Japan, you see. Which is GMT+9.

:hyper GMT+10
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: muckhole on February 24, 2009, 03:07:39 AM
Kinda late with this, but if anyone still has the dolls up for grabs, let me know. I will send you dirty PM's in tribute.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: Bildi on March 04, 2009, 06:07:36 PM
I just got to the Spire but haven't looked around yet.

Jesus I with they'd provide some goddamn property to buy.  I have $5m and absolutely nothing to spend it on. >:(

I dunno, the game isn't really grabbing me like Fable 1.  And for all the fanfare about the size of the game, it doesn't really seem much bigger than the first at all, and I've been assing about quite a lot. 
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: Trent Dole on March 04, 2009, 07:04:33 PM
This game is so awesome. Though I wish my wife would want sex more, I know we have a kid now but shit. He probably wont even notice.

Oh and I'm in the Spire right now. I'm not supposed to feed these people but I fed one. What'll happen to me if I feed them all? I think the EXP loss is bullshit BTW.
If you want a super horny wife marry a whore. You'll get sick of her wanting it constantly and end up shooting her eventually. Least I did.

All that happens for feeding people in the Spire is some exp loss and ya pass out eventually from the drainage.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: Bildi on March 04, 2009, 07:27:19 PM
How the fuck do you have 5 million?

Oh and is there anyway I can become less fat in a short amount or time? I look like a whale in a pink coat.

Buy some celery.  You can get it at the vendor in front of the furniture store in Oakvale, she sells about 3 sticks at a time.  You only need to eat maybe 10-20 sticks to go from super fat to skinny.

I got some money initially by trading.  Then I bought every property in Bowerstone and Oakvale, I don't think that took much more than $1m.  Since then, the rent has just been piling up, and I can't spend it fast enough.  It's pretty unbalanced.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: chronovore on March 05, 2009, 02:54:14 AM
Money is pretty broken, yeah. It's fun at first, trying to scrape by, but all you need is a place to rent, toss some furniture in it, lather, rinse, repeat, and pretty soon you've got more money than you can use, and own every place in the game.

I hear the upscale spouses in the game are really shrill, needy, and annoying. I never married one of those. There was a farmer in Oakdale (normal), a stylist in Bowerstone (Lewd, Randy), and the snap-together undead GF in the cemetary mansion. They all wanted it all the time.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: demi on March 05, 2009, 10:46:00 PM
Your hair turns white (more like a blonde) from being good. And you have butterflies flying around. Crap like that
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: chronovore on March 05, 2009, 11:44:28 PM
Fuck Peter Monolux right up his ass. I picked the love ending(I actually picked all three but whatever), and I get the letter from Rose. I'm thinking alright so I did bring my sister back to life after all, awesome. But wait,
spoiler (click to show/hide)
the letter tells me she's safe and there's no way to track her down. What the fuck? Is there anything in the DLC that's helpful regarding this? I mean seriously, fucking lack luster. Would it have even mattered if I picked love or sacrifice(I was tempted to pick this hoping Bob would return and hate me)?

Oh and is there any reason to actually play Fable one? Because the whole "But the spire... is mine, begone." really threw me off. Is Theresa known to be evil and that I was duped the whole time?
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Fixed that for you.

Srsly tho', the endings are identical, except for that item. It's a bit of text that apparently ties in to the earlier Fable title, which is available in the first five hits of a google search on the topic. I can't believe you'd let that one detail spoil your enjoyment of the rest of the game.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: chronovore on March 06, 2009, 01:47:49 AM
LOL @"Monolux" - "He is the one light."

Between Fable 2 and Fallout 3, I am enjoying having games where there are consequences for my actions, and even when I do the right thing, not everything comes out rosy. It's easier to believe.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: chronovore on March 17, 2009, 08:31:48 AM
I couldn't clear the last target practice puzzle; I tried for probably an hour, possibly more, then gave up and decided there were other games to play and I couldn't very well play them if I broke my controller over Fable II.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: demi on March 17, 2009, 08:52:00 AM
I think the endings and rewards fit with the game. It's very realistic, it fits the world. You arent going to be some world renowned hero who gets everything in the end. Welcome to reality, you get a statue and a wife who's pissed as fuck as to where you were.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: Great Rumbler on March 22, 2009, 05:15:56 PM
Put in a few hours so far. It's okay, but not great.

Good:
-Interaction with NPCs
-World is more open
-The dog
-Leveling is simple and intuitive

Not so good:
-Everything feels floaty
-Combat is really simple, at least so far
-Graphics are bleh
-Bloom lighting overload
-Too much hand-holding
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: chronovore on March 23, 2009, 03:09:10 AM
Combat stays simple, sadly. There is a lot of depth in it, if you want it, but you can get by on button mashing -- basically the worst thing you can do to a complex fighting system is make it irrelevant.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: Great Rumbler on March 23, 2009, 05:40:11 PM
Combat stays simple, sadly. There is a lot of depth in it, if you want it, but you can get by on button mashing -- basically the worst thing you can do to a complex fighting system is make it irrelevant.

That's kind of what I figured. You get some extra stuff in combat as the game goes on, but you can still just mash away.  :-\

Also, it needs a quickly accessible overworld map
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: duckman2000 on March 31, 2009, 03:15:33 PM
As long as the game stays in strict adventure mode, it's really quite awesome. No one does fantasy settings and creatures this well, and it generally feels more authentic than the typical fantasy Americana shit. And I really like the new magic system. It's when the other shit interferes that the game becomes shit. For example, I was stuck with an overhead text talking about redecoration during The Crucible. Apparently, since I jumped straight from my home to some other region, I was still decorating my home while fighting hobbes.  :wtf
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: Great Rumbler on March 31, 2009, 04:01:27 PM
Quote
No one does fantasy settings and creatures this well, and it generally feels more authentic than the typical fantasy Americana shit. And I really like the new magic system.

It has some nice settings, but overall it feels kind of...cartoony.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: duckman2000 on March 31, 2009, 08:33:31 PM
It has some personality and plenty of humor. It's got a bit of a Discworld feel to it, as well as the classic dark fairy tale touch of the first game. Not the very serious shit blended with renaissance fair field studies and plastic D&D nerdcore shit that seems to typically tickle the rims of fantasy dweebtards.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: Bocsius on March 31, 2009, 10:41:06 PM
You've now talked me out of Fable II, good job.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: Bildi on March 31, 2009, 11:10:12 PM
I've been fairly unimpressed with it thus far, but after going to the Spire and coming back it's been a little better as you get to see a few consequences for your actions in the first part of the game. 

I've been ignoring spouses but last night married Tina the Whore, found a nice house and decorated it.  It's been kind of fun.  I'm female, so no risk of getting annoying kids.

:smug
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: Great Rumbler on April 01, 2009, 12:42:51 AM
Does this game ever get good?

No.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: rubber feathers on April 01, 2009, 02:10:00 AM
Does this game ever get good?

You start to really appreciate Fable 2 after the Spire and after you've completed a few of the bigger sidequests.  Otherwise, no.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: Bildi on April 01, 2009, 02:35:24 AM
Does the environment change more depending on which ending you pick?

I found the changes after I got back from the Spire refreshing, because frankly the game world is disappointingly small so if it changes as you go at least that's something.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: BobFromPikeCreek on April 01, 2009, 02:37:24 AM
After the Spire the world pretty much doesn't change.

And looking back on the game two months or so after beating it, it wasn't that great really.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: Bildi on April 01, 2009, 02:59:14 AM
Crap. :(

I just found this diagram of the areas in the game - it really is quite tiny.

spoiler (click to show/hide)
(http://www.wikicheats.com/images/8/87/Fable_2_region_travel_map.png)
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Another of my beefs is that Lionhead need to learn about rewarding people for exploring.  Even when you find a new door and head down into a cave there's just some useless crap like a Children's Health Potion or 1000 gold.  Last night I opened a demon door and for my effort I got a fucking experience potion - I've already bought and used tons of them from the potion shop.

God forbid you should get a great weapon, new clothing or anything else remotely exciting from exploring.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: duckman2000 on April 01, 2009, 03:37:21 AM
Had they made the game world larger, we'd probably be stuck with some uninspired, engineered and mostly ugly crap like Oblivion. Instead we get these smaller but beautifully crafted locales. It really is remarkable with which great force the these environments shit on anything and everything else.

Agree about the exploration, though. I've stepped far away from the obvious path a few times, and expected something greater than just a noble hat or some gold.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: Bildi on April 01, 2009, 04:08:57 AM
I agree Oblivion is kind of bland unless you really, really, really like trees.  But at least you know what you're getting - a big ass area where you can walk anywhere.

Fable 2 is like they tried to offer occasional big open areas yet they're filled to the brim with annoying little hurdles that you get caught up on and just when you start to get a bit off the beaten path you hit a wall.  It's like the game is stuck half way between open world and small paths.

I think Fable 1 didn't annoy me like this because in between settlements it just did narrow paths, and it did them well.

I'm making it sound like I hate the game - I don't.  It just seems there's some balance issues which then makes parts of the game a waste - it's easy to become a millionaire so why take odd jobs, and everything worth owning is gained through the stores in Bowerstone and treasure chests are filled with crap, so why explore, for example.

It's really wasteful game design or something.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: duckman2000 on April 01, 2009, 01:50:00 PM
True, and there are some really weird design decisions regarding movement and ability to traverse the environments. In Fairfax gardens, there is a very low ledge separating the dig site from the path. Yet I have to locate the steps in order to get to that area. Being capable of jumping across one ledge while having to find an actual exit path to get past an identical ledge elsewhere is equally weird.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: Great Rumbler on April 01, 2009, 05:06:20 PM
Another of my beefs is that Lionhead need to learn about rewarding people for exploring.  Even when you find a new door and head down into a cave there's just some useless crap like a Children's Health Potion or 1000 gold.  Last night I opened a demon door and for my effort I got a fucking experience potion - I've already bought and used tons of them from the potion shop.

God forbid you should get a great weapon, new clothing or anything else remotely exciting from exploring.

I hate that about Fable 2. I found some hidden cave that was in the middle of nowhere and went all the way through it just to get a little bit of gold and a potion.  :-\
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: Bildi on April 01, 2009, 07:09:38 PM
Last night I thought I was onto a good quest where I had to clear our a cave of hobbes and I was finding these cool little diary pieces.  At the end was a glowing chest with... a standard health potion. >:(

But behind a demon door I actually found something useful - some big glass hammer.  That has to be a first.

I've decided to try to make my own fun by marrying every whore in Albion.  I suspect whores just keep turning up though as you kill or marry them.  Maybe then I'll take them all to the sacrificial chamber.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: BobFromPikeCreek on April 01, 2009, 09:55:55 PM
The real reward in Fable is the love of your family and the admiration of Albion. :smug /molyneux
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: Bildi on April 02, 2009, 12:23:16 AM
:lol

That's another thing - obviously I didn't expect to feel love for the dog (jesus christ Molyneux shut up about love in videogames), but as a dog lover IRL I'm surprised I have absolutely zero emotional attachment to the dog at all.

Mission failed miserably Lionhead.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: BobFromPikeCreek on April 02, 2009, 02:46:09 AM
Nobody beats Oblivion.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: duckman2000 on April 02, 2009, 04:20:48 PM
:bow Wraithmarsh :bow2

The game has the best fantasy environments ever, by a wide margin no less, but it could really use some real mountain ranges.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: Great Rumbler on April 02, 2009, 05:23:32 PM
:bow Wraithmarsh :bow2

The game has the best fantasy environments ever, by a wide margin no less, but it could really use some real mountain ranges.

I'd probably have to go with Planescape: Torment on this one.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: duckman2000 on April 02, 2009, 11:59:03 PM
Bloodstone is nothing like I had expected it to be. I had imagined something truly seedy and vicious, but it's like any other town, only with prostitutes and assassins.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: duckman2000 on April 03, 2009, 05:27:13 PM
So what's the difference between the free and the premium Knothole Island download?
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: BobFromPikeCreek on April 03, 2009, 05:43:55 PM
The free version gives you a few useless teaser items.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: demi on April 03, 2009, 05:45:37 PM
So what's the difference between the free and the premium Knothole Island download?

Free means you can play co-op with someone who actually bought it, but you yourself cant go to Knothole Island, I believe
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: duckman2000 on April 03, 2009, 06:49:49 PM
Ah. Is it worth the 800pts?
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: demi on April 03, 2009, 06:56:19 PM
Dunno
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: duckman2000 on April 03, 2009, 08:49:46 PM
Shittiest looking snowy environment ever  :gloomy I want my 800pts back  :violin
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: duckman2000 on April 04, 2009, 12:19:29 AM
I believe I'm nearing the end of the game, and I think I see what you guys have been saying about it being small. Given the similarities between the (very nicely decorated) environments, how small the areas generally are between loading points and how little of the environments you can actually traverse, it feels more like a small county than a magical world. It's also oddly light on cool enemies like trolls. It feels like there should be more of the world available, which makes me suspect that this is going to be heavy on DLC. 
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: Bildi on April 04, 2009, 09:10:11 AM
Knothole was kind of rubbish was it?

I must say I'm enjoying the game a bit more now that I've been around Wraithmarsh and Bloodstone a bit.  Quite a lot of quests are popping up which is good.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: duckman2000 on April 04, 2009, 12:17:08 PM
Finished it last night

spoiler (click to show/hide)
What a weird end game. The Perfect World bit was amazing, but then it all culminates with me not fighting the boss, but playing a damned music box at him? Good grief. And then there was some idiotic bit with Hammer where she talks about how great friends we are, which made no sense since I had spent very little time with her. I guess that's fat chicks for you. So yeah, weird ending.
[close]

The game after the end is already proving to be a bit better, but with kick ass weapons already in my possession and with 3 spells already maxed out, there hasn't been much of a challenge, ever. I think that if you get into the whole village thing, with owning property and interacting with all villagers and townspeople, this would probably be a lot more satisfying. I still have Knothole to finish, but I doubt that's going to happen any time soon.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: duckman2000 on April 04, 2009, 11:47:04 PM
You know, it really is fucking cheap how they attempt to make the world seem larger by simply adding hours to the travel times between sections. And it makes no fucking sense that there would be 20 or so hours of travel to a place that I can actually see from the other area. And honestly, these low-end enemies should be running the fuck away from me at this point, what with my renown, assassin's outfit and glowing weapons. Bring on the trolls.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: Great Rumbler on April 05, 2009, 12:27:03 AM
I'm glad I only paid $20 for this game.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: Homemade Milk on April 05, 2009, 06:09:09 AM
good game, saved before taking the sex change potion then it auto saved, couldnt wear condoms for hookers anymore.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: Bildi on April 05, 2009, 07:14:50 PM
And it makes no fucking sense that there would be 20 or so hours of travel to a place that I can actually see from the other area.

:lol This gets me everytime I travel from Bowerstone Market to Bowerstone Old Town in particular where I can see it right in front of me yet arrive a couple of hours later.  Brilliant!

Did the pirate ship quest last night and it was pretty neat.  As usual, the reward was rubbish - $12,000 doesn't make much different when you're carrying millions around.

The co-op works pretty well in this game though, I played it a bit this weekend.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: duckman2000 on April 05, 2009, 09:22:48 PM
I'd say the game is somewhat frontloaded, which I suppose has something to do with the sameness of environments and enemies. You get this "big" world to explore, except the actual explorable areas are strikingly similar from the last. Bower Lake being one of the prettiest areas in the game might be responsible, too. Not a bad game, but I don't think they really remedied many of the important shortcomings of the first game.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: Great Rumbler on April 05, 2009, 09:28:58 PM
I'd say the game is somewhat frontloaded, which I suppose has something to do with the sameness of environments and enemies. You get this "big" world to explore, except the actual explorable areas are strikingly similar from the last. Bower Lake being one of the prettiest areas in the game might be responsible, too. Not a bad game, but I don't think they really remedied many of the important shortcomings of the first game.

I agree with that. Fable II is a fun game to play for a while, but it never really overcomes the problems that plagued the first game.

-Worlds are MORE open, but still not THAT open.
-Interaction is more diverse, but still simplistic and very easy to master either way.
-Companion are still fairly useless.
-Marriage can produce offspring, but there's not much you can do with them.
-It's STILL not really allowing you to live the entire life of your hero. It's all in steps that stop short of old age and death.

Aside from its focus on a few key areas, it still not really that much different from any other action-RPG out there.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: duckman2000 on April 05, 2009, 09:53:38 PM
I'll admit that I liked the dog. Not in a "that's a real dog for sure" sort of way, but it was a good companion. Of course, it was quite stupid when
spoiler (click to show/hide)
the dog died from a single gunshot, after having shrugged off full on troll beatings.
[close]
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: Great Rumbler on April 05, 2009, 10:02:30 PM
Yeah, the dog was probably the best addition to the formula. He's helpful and never gets in your way.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: Don Flamenco on April 06, 2009, 12:43:59 AM
beat it tonight.  boring game, fun at first though.  on a technical level, it's pretty nasty.  so many weird little problems with it.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: duckman2000 on April 06, 2009, 12:06:18 PM
Lulz. Fable II is getting Zelda DLC.

http://www.lionhead.com/Fable2/SeetheFuture.aspx
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: BobFromPikeCreek on April 06, 2009, 12:11:40 PM
New DLC sounds crappy, but at least it makes the Pub Game items available for everyone so that the completionist achievement is easier.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: demi on April 06, 2009, 04:30:07 PM
New DLC sounds crappy, but at least it makes the Pub Game items available for everyone so that the completionist achievement is easier.

Yeah, you just have to, you know, buy more DLC

The point is that you should be able to get 1000 WITHOUT spending any more
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: AdmiralViscen on April 06, 2009, 05:09:13 PM
Pretty sure the items are part of the free version of the DLC, you pay to get the new areas and missions.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: chronovore on April 06, 2009, 05:47:11 PM
Finished it last night

spoiler (click to show/hide)
What a weird end game. The Perfect World bit was amazing, but then it all culminates with me not fighting the boss, but playing a damned music box at him? Good grief. And then there was some idiotic bit with Hammer where she talks about how great friends we are, which made no sense since I had spent very little time with her. I guess that's fat chicks for you. So yeah, weird ending.
[close]

:rofl

Actually, I liked Hammer quite a bit, and felt a little touched by her growth as a character. I was surprised there wasn't a path available to get busy with her, since you can boink just about anyone else in the game.

I didn't really mind the  ending at all; it felt more heroic and "story-like" to be able to finish without having re-re-replay the boss battle a bazillion times. A friend of mind says he always makes the penultimate boss the really hard fight, and makes the final one challenging but not joystick-smashingly difficult.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: duckman2000 on April 06, 2009, 05:58:05 PM
The problem is that there are no truly challenging fights leading up to it. Even that shard thing, I don't know, it was just a matter of killing off enemies with area spells and shoot the shard. It would have been cool if the game had pitted you against someone that was at least in some ways your equal. It felt a bit flat.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: Don Flamenco on April 06, 2009, 06:29:05 PM
Yeah, that end game was insanely distinguished mentally-challenged.  I was like "hell yeah, gonna fight through that huge asylum again...wait it's over"
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: BobFromPikeCreek on April 06, 2009, 06:42:01 PM
New DLC sounds crappy, but at least it makes the Pub Game items available for everyone so that the completionist achievement is easier.

Yeah, you just have to, you know, buy more DLC

The point is that you should be able to get 1000 WITHOUT spending any more

The pub game items are in the free version of the DLC. You don't have to buy anything to get them. You DO have to download a big file though. I agree that it's still fucking stupid. Just slightly less so now.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: demi on April 06, 2009, 08:22:26 PM
Oh I didnt know the free version had the items too.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: pilonv1 on April 09, 2009, 11:03:00 AM
strangely enough i've gotten back into this lately. There's something charming about a small girl calling me Nobhead

The Knothole DLC isn't anything great but it's some nice new quests with more puzzle solving. I like the whole different looks due to weather for the same area, it does lessen the impact of running around the same space over and over.

I've been trying to get all the properties and tie up some loose sub-quests. I still dont like the combat but everything else in the game is fine with me.

Some of these achievements are shit too.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: Bildi on April 10, 2009, 01:09:39 AM
After 20-30 hours I'm really getting into this more.  I was roaring towards the end but I stopped before the last mission and slowed down and it's been a lot more fun.  And I've accepted I'm going to get those distinguished mentally-challenged will lines no matter what so have been going spell-crazy.

Bought Knothole last night, haven't really played it but the sunglasses I got are pretty neat so I'm happy.  I'm kind of looking forward to the next DLC too, I want to get the DLC before I finish everything else in the game.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: duckman2000 on April 10, 2009, 01:11:26 AM
The game becomes a whole nudge shittier when taking the ending into consideration, so the longer you can avoid that, the better.

Knothole was a stupid buy. Worst looking snow ever.  :'(
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: Bildi on April 10, 2009, 01:13:51 AM
Cool, I'll keep avoiding the ending.  Thanks.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: pilonv1 on April 10, 2009, 01:21:08 AM
I did it the other way - got the shitty ending over with and then just stuffed around. Either way the less time you spend on the ending the better.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: Bildi on April 13, 2009, 11:50:25 PM
I finished the game the other night, the ending was OK, but I was more interested in the extra couple of quests.  Unfortunately I then accidentally reset the game while it was saving and corrupted the save file :(

So I started again and it's taken about 7-8 hours to get back to Bloodstone.  At least this time I saved those dumbass monks so there was more property to buy in Oakvale.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: pilonv1 on April 14, 2009, 12:13:53 AM
I destroyed oakvale, there was less stuff for me to buy.

I got the castle last night. Apparently I'm missing some proprerty somewhere because I didn't get all the properties achievement. Oh well, time to finish Knothole.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: Bildi on April 14, 2009, 01:38:13 AM
The $2.5million worth of property achievement?  I hit that once I bought the castle - I think I also owned the mansion in the cemetary and Garth’s castle in Brightwood in addition to the normal towns.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: pilonv1 on April 14, 2009, 05:31:33 AM
no i got that one. isn't there an achievement for owning every property? not just the 2.5million? or am i wrong
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: AdmiralViscen on April 14, 2009, 11:48:27 AM
Nope, just the 2.5M
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: pilonv1 on April 14, 2009, 12:00:41 PM
oh fuck that then.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: Bildi on April 16, 2009, 07:39:07 PM
There should be, that'd be a kickass achievement.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: chronovore on April 17, 2009, 09:37:45 AM
There should be, that'd be a kickass achievement.

It'd just be one more "find all the flags/gargoyles/pigeons" Achievement, except that it would have a money prerequisite. Disputable fun factor.

Actually, that brings up something that's been bothering me lately: playing JUST to get an Achievement has led to me doing less exploration and emergent gameplay tomfoolery JUST for fun.

There's nothing preventing you from owning all the property, and you would be able to claim more of a 100% completion that peeps with The Completionist... but without an Achievement associated with it, there's less drive -- right?
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: Bildi on April 18, 2009, 04:09:08 AM
I'm not much into fetch-quest or grinding achievements, they can be pretty dull.  But this is the sort of thing you'd pretty much do when playing normally.

But it isn't hard to find all the property, and you don't have to grind to get enough money but invest it early on into property which then earns you enough for more property.  I'd get a good sense of achievement from owning the whole land and what that involves (investing your funds and traversing all territories), so it strikes me as a good candidate for an Achievement.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: pilonv1 on April 18, 2009, 04:49:46 AM
played my first co-op today, does one of you have to be a henchman or can you have two heros?
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: demi on April 18, 2009, 04:51:08 AM
The co-op guy has to be a henchman. There's only one hero when Fable is about YOUR story

At least that's what Molyneux said. Still, you get to keep all your powers anyway
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: pilonv1 on April 18, 2009, 05:06:09 AM
well it was my game and the other dude was the henchman. makes an easy game even easier
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: chronovore on April 18, 2009, 11:50:09 PM
I wasn't fond of the co-op camera; I thought there was a way to turn it off if you aren't playing local co-op but I couldn't find it (and I was very happy to have an option for local co-op, don't get me wrong).
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: pilonv1 on April 19, 2009, 12:19:45 AM
OH GOD YES

That fucking camera. Worst ever.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: duckman2000 on April 19, 2009, 01:58:55 AM
The more I think about this game, the more I feel like it was basically shit. I can't think of a single thing it does well, and if you then add that to its many blatant flaws, it honestly can't be anything but shit. Shit with a good artistic sense and neat music, but that's about it.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: WrikaWrek on April 19, 2009, 02:01:01 AM
Agreed.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: demi on April 22, 2009, 08:04:05 PM
http://www.xbox360achievements.org/news/news-2559-Fable-II-Updated-to-1350.html
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: pilonv1 on April 22, 2009, 09:07:34 PM
Quote
The Nutcracker  10
Score 25 groin shots, or see another Hero do so.

The Paramour  10
Make love 25 times, or see another Hero do so.

:drool

Quote
The Gladiator  30
Score a total high score of 20,000 points or more in the Colosseum, or see another Hero do so.

More crucible? :-\
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: chronovore on April 22, 2009, 09:50:38 PM
I thought the nutcracker was already in there, but I guess I'm thinking of Saints Row 2.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: Bildi on April 22, 2009, 10:06:37 PM
If it's been tracking my stats, I might get the first two already.  Groin shots + sex FTW.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: Bildi on April 22, 2009, 10:13:06 PM
I quite like all these achievements actually.  The demon door one is especially cool and overdue.  They should have added an achievement for getting a perfect run through the Crucible too.

Quote
The Nutcracker  10
Score 25 groin shots, or see another Hero do so.

The Paramour  10
Make love 25 times, or see another Hero do so.

The Concierge  30
Open all the Demon Doors in Albion, or see another Hero do so.

The Visionary  50
Take a look into the future, or see another Hero do so.

The Con Artist  25
Find all 10 of Murgo's statuettes, or see another Hero do so.

The Howler  10
Scare five people while dressed as a balverine, or see another Hero do so.

The Ghastly Jester  10
Make five people laugh while dressed as a hobbe, or see another Hero do so.

The Repugnant  10
Disgust five people while dressed as a hollow man, or see another Hero do so.

The Gladiator  30
Score a total high score of 20,000 points or more in the Colosseum, or see another Hero do so.

The Multiplicator  20
Achieve a multiplier of 10 or more in the Colosseum, or see another Hero do so.

The Combatant  20
Defeat the necromancer in the Colosseum, or see another Hero do so.

The Fowl Player  10
Dress as a chicken and kick five chickens during the Colosseum battles, or see another Hero do so.

The Colourist  15
Collect the dyes hidden in Murgo's magical items, or see another Hero do so.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: AdmiralViscen on April 23, 2009, 12:10:50 AM
That's fuckin awesome, can you get them right now?
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: demi on April 23, 2009, 01:21:29 AM
No, and I imagine you cant unless you get the DLC
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: pilonv1 on May 03, 2009, 09:20:00 PM
Quote
MAY 4, 2009 – Enter Lionhead Studios’ world of whimsy to catch a glimpse of the new adventures that await the heroes of “Fable II” in the much anticipated second Game Add-on, “See the Future,”  which will be available from May 13 on Xbox LIVE®.
 
In this latest behind-the-scenes diary episode, the team chats about the continued storyline, wacky characters and design choices for “See the Future,” including the creation of 250 fun Achievement points and a trip down memory lane to the original “Fable.”
 
As an added bonus, all Xbox LIVE Silver account members are invited to join in on the adventurous LIVE co-op festivities during the complimentary Multiplayer Unlocked Weekend! Created specifically for “Fable II” fans, this Multiplayer Unlocked Weekend will be accessible in all LIVE-enabled regions where “Fable II” is available, starting May 9 at 5:01 a.m. (Australian Eastern Standard Time), and concluding on May 12 at 4:59 a.m. (Australian Eastern Standard Time).
 
The “Fable II” Game Add-on, “See the Future,” will be available for download exclusively on Xbox LIVE Marketplace from May 13 for 560 Microsoft Points for the premium content package. “Fable II” is available exclusively on Xbox 360® and is rated “M” for Mature.

So the new DLC is available on the 13th but the free co-op time ends on the 12th? ???
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: demi on May 03, 2009, 11:59:57 PM
You can still play co-op without See The Future you know

Btw

If anyone has both DLCs, I will re-rent this game if you let me join in and piggyback the achievements using the free co-op-only DLC verison
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: pilonv1 on May 04, 2009, 02:26:40 AM
i have one. but ive got the achievements in knothole
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: pilonv1 on May 17, 2009, 02:31:43 AM
Fnished the Knothole achievements now, time for See The Future.

I've decided I hate the storyline+combat in this game but everything else is awesome
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: duckman2000 on May 17, 2009, 03:10:22 AM
Interaction with NPCs is also terrible. As is treasure hunting/exploration. And item management. And the jobs.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: pilonv1 on May 17, 2009, 03:33:58 AM
They're not great but I can put up with them more than the story or combat. It's just charming enough to hide the shallowness
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: Bildi on May 18, 2009, 12:05:55 AM
I downloaded See The Future on the weekend but haven't had a chance to look at it yet.

In spite of the flaws, I realised I love playing this game when I feel like relaxing.  I wish the game had a ton more quests to keep me occupied. 

Biggest flaw to me is that there's no reward for exploring - you find a cool place and get a fucking health potion or something equally lame.  I'm amazed Lionhead are so totally clueless on this issue.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: pilonv1 on May 18, 2009, 01:02:14 AM
I dont mind exploring, but as you said you'll usually find a dig spot or chest with a potion. There's not much reason to do it.

I wish console games would be more like their PC counterparts and put more random shit in their game. And I dont just mean random low level items, I mean random weapons/gear/whatever. Give me a reason to explore other than finding some shitty book or key. Fallout 3 sort of achieved this by placing skill books around and not holding your hand.

At least give me the perception that I could find some game altering weapon somewhere.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: Bildi on May 18, 2009, 07:55:44 PM
I find the skill books and bobble heads provide lots of incentive to go exploring, Fable just needs something like that.  Even some decent XP potions would be an improvement.  Amazing that Lionhead go to the trouble building an entire little island or temple or cave and then stick a $100 health potion in it.

Even the "big" rewards like $50,000 near the end of the game are laughable as you'll no doubt have accumulated millions of dollars.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: pilonv1 on May 18, 2009, 08:32:33 PM
you can get enough XP from the main quest + potion shopping anyway
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: Bildi on May 19, 2009, 03:37:29 AM
Oh hell yes, I'm just saying it would be an improvement over the crap they fill the chests with now.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: Bocsius on June 15, 2009, 11:45:58 PM
If there were ever a game made of nothing but filler, this game is it. Hours and hours of unrewarding meandering followed by the most anticlimatic ending of all time.

The opening theme is awesome. Could have stopped there.

Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: duckman2000 on June 16, 2009, 12:16:32 AM
Indeed.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: Bocsius on June 16, 2009, 12:32:39 AM
Dire news! We need you to handle a nefarious herd of ne'erdowells plaguing the good people of Albion. Take this note for the details, report back to me here in Westcliff when you've ridded the world of this peril.

Note: "Kill beetles in Bowerstone."

:|
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: chronovore on June 17, 2009, 01:41:11 AM
Interesting gamasutra note on how the drama was handled on a soundstage, and how "placeholder actors" were allowed to ad lib, allowing rewrites of the script prior to the big names being brought in:
http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=20822

Personally I don't really recall much about the "acting" of models in Fable II that was impressive, excepting Reaver's role at his estate. Maybe the opening with the kids? That stuff was cool.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: Bildi on June 17, 2009, 02:22:47 AM
I don't remember much about the script, pacing or motions but it certainly got the job done such that it wasn't annoying or anything.

I remember I thought the voice acting all the way through was good though. 
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: pilonv1 on June 17, 2009, 03:10:39 AM
Stephen Fry was incredible.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: chronovore on June 17, 2009, 03:46:48 AM
Stephen Fry was incredible.

Yeah, he was pretty much the best thing going in that game. Theresa was good in terms of tone of voice, but she went beyond "mysterious character" into "condescending, know-it-all, pain in the ass" over the course of the game.
Title: Re: FABLE II thread and nothing more
Post by: Bildi on June 17, 2009, 07:51:56 AM
I thought some of the lines you overheard in pubs were hilarious.  Unfortunately I can't find a website that lists them but one I recall was someone lamenting how they'd love to find a way to play pub games remotely from their own home or something.