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Anybody else get Fable 2? Have been playing it a couple of hours. Game is pretty good, but I am not seeing where it deserves the perfect 10 rating that every game site is giving it. Don't me wrong its a great game and all, but what does this game have that Oblivion doesn't? I mean it didn't get perfect ratings and I can't see myself playing Fable 2 as long as I did Oblivion.

Despite the Open World it seems kinda linear to me. I suppose I am still early in the game, but thus far it doesn't feel much different then Fable 1 other then the dog following me around. Still this is one of the better games I have played for awhile. If I had never played or heard of Oblivion I would see the reasoning behind the perfect scores. However unlike Oblivion you can't do ANYTHING in this game.

For example I got to a point where the Guard wants me to complete a task to continue. If it was Oblivion you could just kill the guard (or die trying) and find a way to get past his feeble barrior. However in Fable 2 you can't do nothing but shoot arrows through him (not harming him at all). For a game that has screamed of such a open world where anything can happen I find this kinda lame.

I picked it up yesterday, only got about 2 hours into it so far so it is too early to make any definitive judgements. One thing I will say so far in regards to the Oblivion comparison, at least I don't have the load times in this one. I always hated entering a house or doing a fast travel in Oblivion as it would sometime take several minutes for it to load.

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Are you serios? Morrowind got me hooked the first 15 minutes. Oblivion takes Morrowind to another level. It is everything Morrowind was and a big bag of chips.

As far as Fable 2 goes, it definately is an improvement over the first Fable. It, however, does not deserver a perfect 10 score. Combat is fun, but the spell selection system really sucks. I wish they would let you hotkey spells to the Dpad, or even put up a wheel when you pull the right trigger, rather than the scroll up and down, left and right that it is now. Because of that you actually use fewer spells because you either need to pause the game to switch in the middle of combat, or take a little bit of a pounding while you search for the spell you wnat.

Emote system is pretty funny. Though I think that after spending 10 minutes in town everybody is in love with you because of the emoting you directed to 1 person effects everybody that sees takes the fun out of that part of the game. I do love the jobs and chain multipliers. And the rent collecting being automatic was a vast improvement than you having to go to each house/business to collect it.

I actually have not hooked up the co-op play yet. I plan on giving that a go this week. All in all a solid game and worth the purchase price.

I picked it up and my jobless *** had it squared away in about 3 days with a reasonable about of the side quests. There still loads more to do but the main story you can fly through rather quickly. If anything all I can say is that I was massively disappointed with bosses in this game. Last game bosses although just as easy as this games bosses at least felt epic and there where a few unique ones. This game bosses where laughable none of them felt epic and almost all of them where genericed later on in the game.

The special boss for the quest involving the two idiot who like playing with the undead that takes place in bloodstone. That one gave me a mild oh sh*t this is gonna be good. Then I onshotted it with a level five fire ball to the face. Very disappointing.

I played through as a mage and after a certain point I could one shot anything but a troll that wouldn't let you one shot it. So long as you kept everything away from you charging up to level 5 will spells made it so I just unleash a shock wave and I watch the carnage. Charge up again Dead. The challenge was still there even with max will on all spells I still get knock on my *** by enemies I come across while roaming. Stopping to cast those level 5 spells can result in have about 10-20 monster in your face wailing on you. You'll end up dead.

So yeah, it isn't a perfect 10. Hell the bosses alone knock it down to an 8. The one thing I hope they work on by the next game is their bosses. Everything esle is very well done. Right down to certain enemies and ppl reconizing your status. Nothing creeped me out more then just getting married and having a banshee trying to psyche me out with things i just accomplished 5 seconds ago. Very well programed, that was one of my most impressed moments in that game.

Edited, Oct 28th 2008 6:13pm by Laxedrane

Edited, Oct 28th 2008 6:17pm by Laxedrane

Oblivion kind of made me sad because I liked playing the story so much and then when it ended I was bummed. I did end up getting Shivering Isles but it wasn't as good as the original Oblivion.

Lost Odyssey was a good RPG except the boss battles were way to hard IMO. I had to mindless grind exp for the dragon boss and when I got to the 2 wurms I finally said F-it and mailed it back to gamefly. Its really ashame because other then that I really loved the game due to its interesting story and characters. I remember reading a few other reviews of people who just got sick of the difficulty and gave up though. Seems like it was really hard to simply go out and grind to level up after a certain point. I know it took me like 2 hours of grinding to get 1 more level for the dragon boss, that is why I said ***** it after a few trys on the giant wurms. Would it have killed them to implement a easy mode??

Eternal Sonata bored me. IT started out really good but I just lost interest about midway.

I have played farther into Fable 2 and my opinion still remains about the same. I think they put way too much effort into things that really don't amount to nothing. I think this is about the first RPG game I have played that doesn't let you upgrade your armor. I am a good ways into the game, or at least I think I am and the only clothes I have found are stuff that really does nothing for defense.

Far as the marriage goes I haven't had any problems with it. I have married 3 people and all are between fine and very happy. One of them has a kid and they seem to be ok. I do pop in every so often to dance for them or something dumb like that.

I don't remember the two wurms but I do remember the first boss as being ridiculously hard. Most of the other ones were on par with typical rpgs though.

Lost Odyssey was weak in the beginning; the story doesn't truly begin to come together til the 3rd disc.

Boss fights (all fights really) got amazingly easier once you got sarah, fast cast 2, and concentrate, so she could one turn zephra; if cooke was in the party it was almost impossible to die.

Just picked this up today. So far, not a bad game imo. I find the camera a bit annoying, otherwise, s'ok.