I didn't give any spoilers regarding the ending, how it happens, details on what happens, or anything like that. Then again, it would be hard for me to, considering the almost non-existence of a decent ending in the first place.
As for combat, ranged did hardly any damage, and to do decent with magic you had to take a considerable ammount of damage yourself while building up the spells. It damn near forces you to be melee, and the melee combat was fairly generic.
Nitpicking or not, it's still broken, just like alot of other things in the game. I'm not saying the game was 100% horrible, but it sure as hell wasn't the game of the year.
Fable 2, a game with so many broken promises, a companion that does next to nothing, voice acting that feels like glass is being grated into your ears, broken story and timeline, an extremely exploitable real estate system, an all-to-short storyline, horrid combat system that almost forces you to be melee even if you prefer ranged or magic, a lack of truly challenging points that most rpg epics need...
There's nothing in my mind that makes Fable 2 even in the top 10 this year. This leads me to believe that game reviewers only played for the first half and never got to finish it, and if that's the case, I guess I can understand that. I loved Fable 2 for the first half too, but it was a very steep slope after that, right to a cliff and a long drop down at the "ending".
I just love how broken this game is...you leave for 15 years, come back, and noone has aged a day, to include your dog who should be dead at this point? Or how about how you're supposed to be the one that kills Lucien, but if you sit and hear him out at the end, he gets popped in the head by one of your companions? There was no end battle. It was so anti-climactic that I haven't touched the game since.
Fable 2 had the potential to be the Game of the Year, but falls very short.
Still doesn't beat the guy that proposed to his girl through Tony Hawk Pro Skater a few years back. Built a church level, with a long pipe going around it. Called it the "Will You Marry Me" grind.
Joystiq's Top 10 Games of 2008
Jan 2nd 2009 12:16PM (Joystiq)As for combat, ranged did hardly any damage, and to do decent with magic you had to take a considerable ammount of damage yourself while building up the spells. It damn near forces you to be melee, and the melee combat was fairly generic.
Nitpicking or not, it's still broken, just like alot of other things in the game. I'm not saying the game was 100% horrible, but it sure as hell wasn't the game of the year.
Joystiq's Top 10 Games of 2008
Jan 2nd 2009 9:23AM (Joystiq)There's nothing in my mind that makes Fable 2 even in the top 10 this year. This leads me to believe that game reviewers only played for the first half and never got to finish it, and if that's the case, I guess I can understand that. I loved Fable 2 for the first half too, but it was a very steep slope after that, right to a cliff and a long drop down at the "ending".
I just love how broken this game is...you leave for 15 years, come back, and noone has aged a day, to include your dog who should be dead at this point? Or how about how you're supposed to be the one that kills Lucien, but if you sit and hear him out at the end, he gets popped in the head by one of your companions? There was no end battle. It was so anti-climactic that I haven't touched the game since.
Fable 2 had the potential to be the Game of the Year, but falls very short.
Romantic gamer proposes with homebrewed Bejeweled
Mar 6th 2008 10:25PM (Joystiq)Oh, she did say yes.