Fable 2's Knothole Island add-on coming Jan. 13

anyone know of any sales on points to fill in my missing 100?

I would gift you them, if I could.

On the zune site you can buy 400 points for $5, or via the xbox site you can buy 500 points for $6.25 and the would round you off to 400 point increments again...

In order for a game to be truly overrated, it would have to be getting amazing professional reviews, and less than stellar actual user reviews...

from what I've seen, the user reviews are higher than the professional ones. You are still entitled to your opinion, but this game is far from overrated...

my opinion: best of 2008

Pretty much everything about this game was a disappointment, so I disagree that it needs stellar reviews to be considered overrated. To be overrated, it only needs ratings higher than its actual merits.

The ratings are, the game is, and I won't be buying another Molyneux game until the man learns that the dissonance between fart jokes and child murder destroys the tone of a game.

If CaVG's anonymous source is right, I couldn't be happier with EA and Starbreeze developing the new Syndicate.

Have you gotten passed the first few hours? They are kind of tedious and confusing, but once you get the hang of it, it's a blast. It's my favorite game of 2008. It's one of the few games this generation that I could see myself picking up and playing for years to come, like Ocarina of Time.

A decent game, certainly not GoTY. There's probably a place for it in the bottom 5 of my top 10 though.

@ ronEbear

"Maybe it was the shitty map system."

Amen to that. WTF were they thinking? "Oh, we don't want to clutter up the screen with icons, bars, maps etc. like the first one, so let's leave them off." Lionhead is absolutely clueless.

My wife and I both loved the first Fable, yet we've both spent only a few hours each with Fable 2 and we've both complained to one another about the lack of an overhead map aggravating us.

AT LEAST give people the option to turn that stuff on, for crying out loud.

Yeah, I finished it. Twice even, because I realized with my dog dead buried treasure was basically impossible to find.

I got the hang of it to the point that I was completely unstoppable. Time slow 1, raise dead 2, lightning 5, blast away with a clockwork pistol with ghoul gem while they're getting fried. Health refilled, enemies decimated, tons of XP. Works on every enemy because they all prioritize raised dead over you. Made it through the crucible with all perfect rounds my first time, got a unique weapon called the Chopper.

By the time you uncover the unique weapons, you're already a tiny god and they hardly matter. Expressions are about as shallow as they could possibly be. Marrying and having children doesn't do anything for you. The character is always cockeyed for some reason, which is just looks lazy. Co-op is terrible. The dialog is terrible. The game is glitchy, easy and short. The dog was useless for anything other than a metal detector. You could be a horned monster with a flaming sword and a gun that shoots pure hatred and people would still ask for your help hooking their gay son up with a date as though there was nothing unusual about you. The characters were not memorable enough for me to remember any of their names.

Really, the moral choices in Spider-Man: Web of Shadows determined which characters you could call in for backup and how you interacted with people. That's more weight than anything in Fable 2. When a Spider-Man action game outclasses the hyped up morality system in your RPG, there's a serious problem.

If Oblivion is a 20,000 page book you never finish, Fable 2 is a soggy pamphlet.

@Trev

it`s like you reached through the monitor, jammed your hand in my mouth and took all the words that were about to come out.(on the lack of depth with the characters and morality)

Game was my biggest disappointment too. I don't understand the purpose of making moral decisions and the like when it doesn't actually affect the game's story whether you're evil or good. Even the most evil character could choose sacrifice at the end and have a statue built in his name, while a good guy could simply choose wealth. There is no depth to the game at all.

I would be happy to join you in a fable 2 coop game after the DLC is released. GT: Diggystyle

I think you are already on my friends list though.

I am, and will take you up on that.

I got it too tuna. I will be playing it again after the new content.

ill help you out too, you already have my GT but if anyone else needs it my GT's Mandalorian63

I am not on your friends list, but you and anyone else looking for co-op achievements and/or hero doll trading, GT: Zoot Suit Jedi

Cool, I'll add you. Question: how do you get a Hero Doll?

beat the highscore on the westcliff shooting range, each game gets only 1 specific doll, so you have to trade with XBLers to get all of them. Most people just save up shitloads of gold and buy them though

There's already a few new Achievements in the list if you look. I think the game is up to 1250 now?

The Collector 25G
Acquire all the mystery items in The Box of Secrets shop, or see another Hero do so.

The Meteorologist 50G
Bring all of Knothole Island’s weather problems under control, or help another Hero to do so.

The Bibliophile 25G
Find all the books detailing the history of Knothole Island, or help another Hero to do so.

The Duke 25G

Get engaged to a homeless man with the only way out being murder.

Hey, he was a pie salesman in town and I'm pretty sure he had a home - so leave my in-game mistake out of this!

My comment didn't really work until duke replied to it. lol.

Coupled with your avatar, that just gave me a boner.

Somebody please end my life.

*grins menacingly*

So every snowy region is now similar to something from WoW?

Knothole Glade was a region from the original Fable, which has now drifted off and become an island. The snow is only there because of some kind of weather device.

So.. OMG, WoW ripped off Fable!

it was an island before too

Why so serious?

@snowblind:

Yeah, Fable totally came out before Frozen Throne.

Fable was released less than a year after Frozen Throne. Again, I don't think that's where the idea came from, and simply having a snowy region does not make it Warcraft, in any way.

Clearly it's the Ice Cap Zone.

I'm currently dealing with that problem right now. My solution is going to be start another character.

Hopefully the "resurrection shrine" that was mentioned in an earlier Knothole-related post will be for bringing your dog back.

Last time I mentioned this, I got downvoted for spoiling the ending of the game, lol.

Two face dies!

You bitch! YOU BIIIIIIIIIIIITCH!