Re: WTF I beat it already....
Yeah. It requires a little thinking and searching to spot the references. "Wtf was the point?" the point is it's there for the people like me who find that sort of thing interesting. It's not required reading, because if it was, that would have left the people who didn't read it terribly confused.
As for dissenting opinions, you may have hundreds of hours in Halo 3, but I wasn't able to play it nearly that long...Plus that's a multiplayer-built game, so yes, you're more likely to have hundreds of hours.
Actually, you want to talk about bad stories, I wasn't a fan of Halo 3's
Even though I liked the bit with the monitor at the end, I spent most of my time thinking many of the major characters were acting surprisingly, um...Stupid. But that's my opinion, and it shouldn't affect your enjoyment of Halo 3 overall. Much the same for mine and others' enjoyment of Fable 2.
At any rate, I'll repeat what I've always said: The Fable games are simply not for everyone. The giant epic stories usually occur in JRPGs, with a few notable exceptions. The Western RPGs are more about doing whatever you want (sort of like role-playing with friends, but without the, you know, friends) I remember the good old days of beating Fallout 1 in, what, fifteen to thirty minutes? There's a speed run for ten minutes on that thing. But I've repeated all this before.
