PETA chooses Fable 2 as its GOTY

True, but I'm sure PETA gave Fable 2 credit because its the game that is most likely to let you marry your dog.

That's what I thought too.

From what I remember hearing the game advocated the slavery of animals (your dog) the killing of said dog, and the possible reincarnation of the dog so he can be your slave again.

The game also endorses the eating of baby chickens

Baby or fetal chickens are a delicacy, one eats them whole bone and all. They say the head is the best part.

i wonder how they would feel about my character...the chicken kicker!

Shmil,

They do see having a pet as the same thing as slavery. I just think their desperate to get people to take them seriously.

Shmil,

They do see having a pet as the same thing as slavery. I just think their desperate to get people to take them seriously.

Don't forget the achievement for shooting a rabbits.

Don't forget shooting a fluffy bunny.

Dammit too slow.

Yeah, but yours didn't have any careless typos. "a rabbits"? I need coffee

well, you do become more evil for shooting the rabbit as opposed to funnier for chicken kicking...

as for the PETA and pets thing, I'd never heard they couldn't have them. the only member I ever new had so many stray dogs and cats that her place stunk worse than the pound...

The British royal family shoot rabbits all the time, and they're not evil..

*eyes narrow*

I agree. I get more confused every time PETA says something else.

How could they play the game when it freezes every 5 minutes? budda-bum-*pish*!

RAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!

**dumps fake blood on thebig33tuna**

I've given up on trying to understand Joystiq's obsession with PETA. I'm giving them the benefit of the doubt and assuming it's a purposeful attempt to keep them in the foreground so as to not let anyone forget such an idiotic organization.

"Featuring a strong pro-vegetarian theme, eating a plant-based diet helps you rack up "purity" points, whereas eating meat makes your character fat and evil."

You're right. PETA just loves that meat = evil.

*Puts on his troll-feeding gloves*

First of all, you make no argument against PETA's "Most Animal-Friendly Video Game" award, so your post has nothing to do with disagree with PETA's assessment.

"All the little things like Marrying having children, buying property, etc....its was almost completely devoid of any meaning to the actual gameplay"
See, I feel like the people that don't like this game generally share this sentiment. But I feel like that's approaching the game backwards. Marrying, having kids, owning property, etc is the actual gameplay and the questing provides a means to affect your interaction with the townsfolk and adventuring is a means to providing you with money and stuff to decorate your houses and give to your family. I enjoy the game because it is a ROLE-PLAYING game. That term just goes over the head of the general video-game and MMOing crowd. All the gameplay concepts circle about this concept of this character you are pretending to play. The fun is in telling your own story about this dude you control completely. That's why the character has no dialog, that's why you can tatoo and dye your character, that's why clothes aren't "armor"- so you can play the role you imagine.
If you want to hack and slash, or you want to be spoon-fed a story, or you want complex puzzles to solve, you've gone to the wrong place.

My last sentence came out wrong, it was meant to say that there are other games that do those things better, not that Fable sucks at them.

I dunno, maybe it did come out that way?

You didn't say anything that I didn't say in my post, only you like those things and I think it makes it a confused mess of a game.

By the way the title of the post was "PETA chooses Fable 2 as its GOTY", so I don't think its fair to nit-pick my chosen opening statement.

There are also many games that do the things you said you liked about FABLE way better than fable does.

Come on, keep it short. I can't be arsed to read an essay in a comments section!

Touche', I didn't read the title of the post.

^^ What he said.

I'm an animal lover, but fuck PETA.

+1, purely because I would love to see the Holocaust Denier Society's top 10 games and their justifications

"Company of Heroes gets top marks in our book, because you can play as Nazis and on the whole they don't seem like awful chaps"

"has a challenge level for an 8 year old and is completely over in about 8 hours. Rental material only."

I could very well say the same about LittleBigPlanet. Of course I wouldn't dare, that would be sarcasm.

You went right past the fact that PETA doesn't judge the game based on any merits other than how it treats animals. Oddly, they then choose a game involving killing a dog and rabbits as well as kicking chickens.

Well yea you definitely could, but LBP is certainly longer than 8 hours and with the extremely powerful editor and tons of user made content most people would play it far longer than that. I was just disapointed when I think of RPGs they should be faaaaar longer and more challenging than this.

Shmil chose Far Cry 2 for his GOTY

why is it your game of the year?

Do you make mirrors or are a member of the Association of Skyscraper Window Washers? Society of Pretentiously Running Around and Jumping Over Stuff? Sorry, I mean ... Parkour.

You have to be a member of some organization loosely affiliated with an element of a game that you probably never played to get a Joystiq opinion entry of your own.

Dogmeat wasn't nearly as compelling a sidekick as the Fable 2 dog (mine's named Burrito, btw.) I guess it didn't help that Dogmeat lived up to his name in my game after he jumped in the Potomac and drowned the second time I sent him for ammo...

What about Far Cry 2? They focused on the beauty of nature and animals more than the destruction of them, no gore or blood involved when they die.