Re: My Fable II score
(I change my scre to 9.2)
+ Fun combat
+ Towns feel alive
+ Dog is absolutely amazing feature
+ Morality
+ Gargoyles
+ Family
+ Orbs
+ Weapons
+ Jobs
+ Sales
+ Expressing
+ Theirs always something to do (not including the story)
+ Property owning
+ Some of the world
- Story was pathetic
- length of the game
- Not enough morality based quests
- Loading
- Co op online
- No way near enough cloths
- Bugs
- Some of the world
i'II go a bit more in depth.
Positives
Fun Combat: The combat in the game was really well done, how I could go from sword to magic to gun was done well, the difficulty was bad, too easy. But in my adventures I sold all my food and potions to make it a bit more harder.
Towns feel alive: Bowerstone is an amazing town, Fable II hands down has the best simulation of city folk, people in this game are amazing.
Dog: The dog was an amazing feature to have, not once was I annoyed with it, it found me heaps and heaps of stuff.
Morality: In my opinion wasn't 10/10 but good none of the less, I would actually prefer no horns and halo but still cool to have.
Gargoyles: Wow, these things where a great feature, even tho this was more of a side feature to help build the game a bit more it was really well done, I actually loved to go around and smack these things.
Family: Just like the city folk, family was very well done, wife and a kid was great, after the main game I even had to go out on a mission to save my lil kid from hobbes.
Orbs: Where just a plain cool feature to have, I could talk to people even tho they where not in my game.
Weapons: Where cool and plentiful, 2 handed or single they where cool either way, same with guns.
Jobs: Great feature to have, I didn't expect it to be as good as it was, and there was a good variety. Alot of reviewers where ****ed cos they where too easy and not in depth enough. I disagree, I like the simpleness of button timing hits after a few hrs play, it was a nice balance.
Sales: Wow, what a cool thing to have, also town economy owns.
Expressing: Cool feature to have to communicate to the towns folk. I know you need this to to interact with the towns folk but maybe it was a feature they spent too much time on? maybe less expressions and stuff like that and more quests LH?
Theirs always something to do (not including the story): It may not be another quest to do but there will always be something to do.
Property owning: Nice that you can own the property and adjust the prices.
Some of the world: Some of the world is amazing.
Negatives
Story was pathetic: Was there even a story? LOL not once did i give a **** about the heros and to top it off i had to go and rescue 1! and who the hell is thereasa? Spire? WTF Lionhead so bad its not even funny.
Length of the game: Most games these days are small so I won't bag F2 that much. I was't expecting a giant game even before it was released so I was fine.
Not enough morality based quests: Umm yea i really felt they didn't have enough of these, I had the impression they had heas of them, but nope they didnt.
Loading: Wow!!!!!!! Jesus! this game never stops! I know they have a great simulation and stuff so it has to load alot but wow, is it really wroth it LH. Co op online loading ruins it, and I even have to go thru a big loading screen to play a god damn pub game.
Co op online: Just leave it LH, ditch the bad features to make the good 1's better.
No way near enough cloths: All this talk about no armour and heaps of cloths to customize ur dude sounded really cool to me, BUT not if there is only like 6 different sets!!!!!! extreamly let down in this area. Dyes where cool tho.
Bugs etc: yea there some quite a few but it didnt **** me off, as long as I know what the game is trying to do and it doesnt annoy me I don't mind.
Some of the world: Some of the world is amazingly fun to explore and the rest of it is so BAD!!!!! I mean half of the world was fable 1!!! jesus christ the world designers really need to wake up. On both fable 1 and 2 they only had about 5 or 6 world designers or something, it's not working lionhead! get more next time or it'll suck again and again.
Tho in the end when I weigh both down aganst each other, the positives beat the negatives in the end to make it a great game. I still feel tho there is alot that this game could improve on. Some of the negatives to me are very minor and some are huge!!!! but then again that also applies to the positives. Fable II is a fun game to have and for many it should just be a rental but for some its a great game to buy, it really depends on the gamer. No doubt DLC is on the way so it should be cool what they can add.
9.2: Score really depends on the gamer, I can see people giving this game 5/10 and 9/10, I've always liked the Fable series and I score em quite high thats just me. Somtimes when I play this game I'm thinkn hmm maybe a 8.5 would suit it and other times I feel that it's a 9.5. For the hardcore this game may interest you for about 5 hrs but for a casual this game is the best game to have.
Also I played around 40 hrs on my first playthru.
