Review Molyfaux has a bit of a cry over Fable 2 reviews

According to Gamasutra, it's all about the humping & houses but the dog is the real payoff.

 

Are either of you guys actually hoping to play this game? I was once recommended the original Fable (on the ESF boards), I took one look and even then it didn't look like an improvement on Morrowind.

 

THIS IS THE DEFINITION OF AN AAR-PEE-GEE:

 

Oh this is hilarious.

 

What a fucking creep.

 

Perhaps someday in the distant future when robots rule the earth and man is doomed to live in squalid bunkers while feasting on baby meat. The first one has actually been on my "maybe" list for sometime, but there are usually more interesting options available at the $19.99 price point. When it drops to $10 it'll probably be a much more appealing impulse buy.

 

I call bullshit. I can't imagine it is possible to really become poor in a game like this were money grow on trees and the economy is broken.

 

Tamagotchi with RPG elements?

 

rpgotchi?

 

What I read about Fable 2 lately makes me think the game is going to be pretty enjoyable. I was really sceptical but I changed my mind a bit.
Sure it's suited for intelectual level of averange consol kiddie but I don't treat this game as RPG, rather as an easy adventure platfomer. Nice pretty audio and visuals, some slashing and a fairy-tale-like world. If everything there is better than in previous Fable, it should be ok for an evening after tiring day.

Rpgotchi is kinda good term.

 

It sounds like an STD. With that in mind, I'll wait for the price to drop to $20.

 

It's a HTD- Hype Transmitted Disease.

 

This is just so wrong.

Learn how to take advantage of your various moves = your effectiveness in combat gets worse = harder game = BRILLIANT!

 

My copy arrived this morning. Been playing it for a few hours, now I'm in the cave in the middle of the lake. It's really, really fun.

 

My question is: are the fences still the most powerful opponent? I could never beat those things in Fable I! I began to think I was playing a rail shooter, but with a sword. I guess it is the sword that makes it a fantasy rpg?

 

Is it just me, or is this a shamelessly weird admission of collusion between major developers and gaming "journalism"? Doesn't anyone appreciate honesty or objectivity? I guess there's no money in telling the truth.

Pretty eff'd up man.

 

I have a soft spot for the man, and likely always will.

Molyneux never made games that are considered a true RPG. It's not his thing. But he does appear to be developing a consistent vision in his games. A vision that becomes more and more refined and true to what is inside his head.

Even though Black & White was full of false promises, it was still worth every dollar I spent on it. It was not made by someone who makes shit and intentionally hypes it up, but someone who simply failed to reach their dream goals at the time (while, yes, hyping it up).

I appreciated its earnest promises, though. Most games fail to provoke any feeling in me at all.

 

Fuck, the evolution of RPGs has brought us back to the eighties or something. I remember RPGs that were that primitive.

 

As much as I want to, I simply can't put Molyneux in the same category as Todd and Bethesda. Molyneux has never said that he's making the ultra-hard-core RPG, or that turn-based-gaming is old-tech - from the very start he's been forthright in saying that he is making a casual game, even a game for 'non-gamers'. And frankly he seems to have done a good job of it - I could see someone who would never touch a true RPG picking up Fable II and having a blast. It's less about the degeneration of hardcore PC rpgs and more about the stuff that consoles have always been tolerable at: simple casual and brainless short-term fun that doesn't pretend to be anything different.

I guess my main reason for tolerance here is that I don't see Fable II as putting RPG-gaming backwards like Oblivion did. It's a different fanbase, and a different potential fanbase - again, Molyneux has been upfront from the start that this wasn't giong to be a hardcore game. If anything I can see that kind of casual work serving the same purpose that some of the 80s pseudo-rpgs did, introducing young kids and non-gamers to the genre, who will eventually seek meatier fare.

 

Well the upshot to that logic is that by 2020 they should be ready to make something on par with fallout.

 

Welcome to the market. When you get down to it, EVERYONE is making casual games. Combat in Fable 2 is pretty simple, but I'm warming to it. I keep wanting to speak with NPC's, which is the wrong way to go about it. I can actually say though I've never made a personal attack on someone due to their making a video game. It's wasted karma if you ask me.

 

That depends on whether they're moving forward or backward in time.

 

You don't respect a man for doing what he wants in this world? I could understand not respecting him if he tried to please everybody (Bethesda), or was murdering babies to make a political point (Al Quaeda), or arse licking EA and their £40 enforced DRM rentals (Spore & Boshock) - but don't diss a man for following the beat of his own drum.

Oh, and you spelt Heaven wrong, unless you meant the gay night club in Charing Cross, london - which also isn't spelt that way.

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Fueling the "You haven't played it enough!" fanboy defence of the retarded readers