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Joshua Nightshade · 02-22-2008, 07:25 PM

I actually liked Fable. I only played the PC version which I understood was much different than the xbox one, which was basically like a long demo or something. There were aspects of it I didn't quite understand the point of. I don't think I ever really managed to figure out what the point of having a house was, and turning everything into shops really didn't make a whole lot of sense either. For what they trumped up that whole "you can be gay" thing, it really just amounted to a fuckton of work, concerted, "I will not give in and be straight!" work to "stay gay." I didn't meet another guy who was interested until nearly the end of it, and THE GAME STILL REFERRED TO HIM AS MY WIFE. It was like wtf. And then there was a side quest at a brothel where you essentially had to sleep with one of the prostitutes and then I went from gay to bisexual.

Anyway that was merely an exercise in hypotheticals for me, I wanted to see really what reference point it had given that the game showed up in every gay magazine being trumpeted at how equal rights were finally extending to video games.

I also agree that there was little customization, though the PC version was really long. Aging made a bit more sense there. The moral choices thing wasn't really much of one, because you could either really pick the worst possible choice ever or the good one, so the extremes weren't very realistic. And I hated the interface, it was totally Windows 98.

But I liked it a lot. I thought the graphics were gorgeous, the plot was pretty interesting and involving, and it was long enough that I was pretty pleased. Even once the game "ended" it wasn't quite over yet and there were still several hours of end-end game before the final boss. I wish there had been more spells and abilities, or at least a bit more specialization, because by the end of it I basically had every ability you could buy and it was kindof lame. I also had so much money that the game actually stopped counting it because I'd passed the internal limit.

All in all though it had its rough patches but I really did enjoy it a lot. Again I never played the xbox version though which I understand was severely disappointing.

Black and White 2 though....

02-22-2008, 07:25 PM	#3 (permalink)
Joshua Nightshade Account Closed Unedited Join Date: Jun 2007 Posts: 33,567 My Mood:	I actually liked Fable. I only played the PC version which I understood was much different than the xbox one, which was basically like a long demo or something. There were aspects of it I didn't quite understand the point of. I don't think I ever really managed to figure out what the point of having a house was, and turning everything into shops really didn't make a whole lot of sense either. For what they trumped up that whole "you can be gay" thing, it really just amounted to a fuckton of work, concerted, "I will not give in and be straight!" work to "stay gay." I didn't meet another guy who was interested until nearly the end of it, and THE GAME STILL REFERRED TO HIM AS MY WIFE. It was like wtf. And then there was a side quest at a brothel where you essentially had to sleep with one of the prostitutes and then I went from gay to bisexual. Anyway that was merely an exercise in hypotheticals for me, I wanted to see really what reference point it had given that the game showed up in every gay magazine being trumpeted at how equal rights were finally extending to video games. I also agree that there was little customization, though the PC version was really long. Aging made a bit more sense there. The moral choices thing wasn't really much of one, because you could either really pick the worst possible choice ever or the good one, so the extremes weren't very realistic. And I hated the interface, it was totally Windows 98. But I liked it a lot. I thought the graphics were gorgeous, the plot was pretty interesting and involving, and it was long enough that I was pretty pleased. Even once the game "ended" it wasn't quite over yet and there were still several hours of end-end game before the final boss. I wish there had been more spells and abilities, or at least a bit more specialization, because by the end of it I basically had every ability you could buy and it was kindof lame. I also had so much money that the game actually stopped counting it because I'd passed the internal limit. All in all though it had its rough patches but I really did enjoy it a lot. Again I never played the xbox version though which I understand was severely disappointing. Black and White 2 though....