Review Fable bees knees per Gaming Age

[Saint_Proverbius]

Tags: Fable: The Lost Chapters

<a href="http://www.gaming-age.com/">Gaming Age</a> offers <a href="http://www.gaming-age.com/cgi-bin/reviews/review.pl?sys=pc&game=fable_tlc">a review</A> of <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/games/fable/">Fable: the Lost Chapters</a>. The score is a <b>B+</b> and they seem to have mixed opinions about the "accessibility" thing.
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<blockquote> My major criticism of this otherwise fine game is that there’s just not enough of a challenge for avid gamers. This is perhaps a good thing because it adds to the accessibility of the game, and that’s something that is hard to come by in the world of RPGs. Furthermore, the apparent depth of the game fades after extended periods of play. Perhaps a more complex character attributes system would have amended this, but at the cost of alienating the accessibility market.</blockquote>
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More accessible CRPGs are hard to come by these days? If anything, it's the complex ones that are hard to find these days.
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[Chefe]

lolz

I guess this guy finds Diablo clones pretty tough. Haha. What complex RPG(s) is he talking about? I wish he went into detail, I'd like to see a few of them.

But yea, Fable is accessible and not that deep. It's not about being deep. Just go read the IGN dev diaries, those guys are anything but "deep".

 

[Naked_Lunch]

THINKING, GOOD GOD ARE WE STILL IN THE 80S OR SOMETHING?

 

[jiujitsu]

I don't understand the whole "bees knees" thing people say.

What does it mean exactly?

 

[Naked_Lunch]

It means that it's the cat's pajamas.

 

[Vault Dweller]

No, it's more like the duck's quack

 

[Sol Invictus]

That is totally the cat's meow.

 

[StraitLacedDeviant]

Its more the dogs bollocks.

 

[Sol Invictus]

I imagine that blond ditzy stripper chick from Carnivale when I think of the line "the cat's meow". That line pisses me off.

 

[StraitLacedDeviant]

Jesus rex, you realy are dissappearing up your own asshole with a sig like that.

 

[Sol Invictus]

It is a badass sig.

 

[StraitLacedDeviant]

Just look at that sentence, do you want to be the type of person that has a "badass sig" is that what you want with your life?

 

[jiujitsu]

So, what does bees knees mean?

 

[Nicolai]

Signature banners are for losers. B)

 

[Naked_Lunch]

So, what does bees knees mean?

It means it's totally :che:

 

[LlamaGod]

I always figured thats where bees kept pollen or something, which they use to make honey?

So its like the 1950's version of "sweet", I guess. Which means its dumb.

 

[jiujitsu]

Bees collect the pollen on their body... The little hairs grab it.

 

[LlamaGod]

HEY MR. BIOLOGIST, NOBODY ASKED YOU

 

[jiujitsu]

Anyway, what does bees knees mean in the context of the title?

 

[Sarkile]

It means that Fable is groovy. Or at least that Gaming Age thinks so.

 

[jiujitsu]

Too late I already found it myself.

http://www.takeourword.com/Issue097.html

From Ed MacDaniel:

What the heck does bees knees mean, and what is its origin? I've seen people suggest that the correct for is b's and e's. Which is right?

Oh, dear, isn't this interesting! Folk etymology right before our very eyes. No, it never was and never should be b's and e's. First of all, what are these b's and e's, anyhow? It is bees knees. If you've ever seen a bee, then you know how tiny its knees must be(e). That's what the term first referred to - anything small or insignificant. It first appears in writing at the end of the 18th century in a letter: "It cannot be as big as a bee’s knee" (1797). And, as we mentioned earlier in this column, it is not all that uncommon for slang expressions like that to have a complete reverse of meaning, such that by the early 20th century, bee's knees meant "excellent".

So there!

 

[Spazmo]

You had to wait an entire day before looking it up yourself? Were you buying tampons or something?

 

[Sol Invictus]

That explanation is totally the dog's vomit.

 

[jiujitsu]

You had to wait an entire day before looking it up yourself? Were you buying tampons or something?

Yes.

 

[Naked_Lunch]

Bees collect the pollen on their body... The little hairs grab it.

Actually, they do collect it on their legs.

So HA!