What was your personal biggest problem with Fable 2?

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I_LIKE_CAKE

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Here are my complaints listed in no particular order:

-Difficulty-I never got knocked out. Not once.
-Open world my ass-I was led to believe that there would be an Oblivion-esque go anywhere environment. Instead what we had was basically a couple of the areas from the first game, expanded slightly. LAME
-Overall length-I maxed out all of my stats and spells well before the final boss(if you can call him that). I won't even go into how stupid that was. As for the DLC, that's all well and good, but I didn't pay full price for a half-finished, miserably short game only to then be required to pay for content that should have been in the actual game. No, thank you, I will save my money and give it to developers that actually value their customers.

Really, I had many complaints about Fable 2. Perhaps what bothered me most is that all Lionhead had to do to make me love Fable 2, was to make a bigger and better looking Fable 1. Instead they took out most of what made the original fun, stuck in a bunch of stupid mini games, and then when I and many others voiced our disapproval, had the gall to tell us that we were "not playing the game right."

Tip for Peter and Lionhead: The customer is always right. If we say your game sucked, the correct response is to apologize and ask how to make the next one better.

EDIT: I forgot to add the the trolls were just plain annoying to fight. Not hard, just irritating.
 

ae86gamer

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the fact that when i ever i come back from saving the world my wife divorces me and then i end up killing her which results in me being divorced/widowed like 5 times...and wtf is up with the std's...
 

darthzew

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What Yahtzee said, basically. It's great fun, but it's all a little shallow after a while.
 

Spectre39

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What made Fable 2 a "Salt in the wound" experience for me was timing. I paid $60+ on a game when my income was gone. The value of $60 varies from person to person, and to me it felt like I had been ripped off for buying an incomplete game.

First off, co-op was a big disappointment. Co-op was one of the main reasons I bought the game, based on how they had hyped it up. It was a very souring moment once I discovered the "fine print" about the concept.

Second red flag was when bugs were running rampant in the game. Two parts of the game were game breakers if you played them wrong, as well as many minor irritating bugs. The games was about as polished as a chunk of gravel in the sense of game stability.

Every part of the game felt like it was added in at the last second. Fighting mechanics, economy, items, jobs, and relationships were very basic and one dimensional. The menus were a pain in the ass to navigate and manage your inventory. The majority of the areas in the game felt claustrophobic, boxed in, and sickeningly linear.

My biggest complaint with the game was the writing and the story. I found an article that explains it a lot better than I can: http://www.shamusyoung.com/twentysidedtale/?p=2105 Seriously, read this if you have the time. The author (who I later discovered was Shamus, the same guy who does "Stolen Pixels") reveals every nook and cranny of bad plot design and failtard writing this game is swimming in.

In all, I want my money back. Poor gameplay, poor story, no replayability. After playing this jarring disappointment in game design I've vowed to never buy another game that lionhead or Peter Molyneux touches. I loathe them more than any other gaming company, even EA. I honestly hope they go out of business and never make games again.
 

Acid Armageddon

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My character weighs like 300 pounds, i havent eaten anything, I sleep alot and can't lose any weight. The only way is to eat celery, i think, and thats TEDIOUS!
 

O G R Emouth

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my only gripe is the lack of length. i loved that game and found it very hard to pry myself away...if only it were...hmm...20 hours longer
 

Noone From Nowhere

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Of the things which Shamus didn't go over in detail in either Stolen Pixels or Twenty Sided ,the fact that one must install the game on one's harddrive to keep it from crashing every few minutes bothers me a great deal. The special edition's additions were hardly noteworthy, at that.
Needing to use X-Box live and the downloadable Pub Games to acquire all of the content is also a bad move on LionHead's part. While they can not be blamed for the content of the players on X-Box Live, they can be blamed for forcing one to deal with them.
Maybe there should be a separate achievement for convincing people to be cooperative over X-Box Live, especially if one happens to be a woman or a 'minority' (which all depends upon what area one lives in, anyway).
 

Onyx Oblivion

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I didn't really have any issues...I didn't have high expectations, so I enjoyed it more for what it was. But if I had to choose, the lack of more variety in the spells.
 

Evilbunny

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It was mostly the story, it just was so lacking. I really didn't feel connected to any of the characters with the possible exception of my dog. I got married but I didn't really feel like having a family was rewarding at all. It was just another chore to do. I don't know, I certainly don't think it's a terrible game, just meh. Not horrible, but nothing really special either.
 

antipunt

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that every npc looks like a carbon copy of the other; also the good/evil system is incredibly simple and sometimes contradictory to real life

Fallout 3 spoiled me in general
 

trooper112

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i hated how short the game was, if they had made the game longer then it may have been better, also when i tried to play on it recently my save files were corrupted so i am quite annoyed with it at the moment
 

soren7550

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My biggest issue had to be that I had to download the Knothole Island DLC four times before the game would let me access it.
 

MMA Savant

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Vrex360 said:
dr iggy houdini said:
i dont see why people have so many problems with it was probably my favourite game of 2008 bar maybe saints row2 (another underrated game)
I LOVE saint's row 2
Whats hilarious is Saints Row one was horrible and was just another GTA knockoff but SR2, even though it is one of the stupidest games ever was awesome, it was by far my favorite of 08, I even think it was better than GTA 4, I mean it was good but it wasn't... I dunno just not like the others. Anyway Fable 2 I thought was going to be amazing and I have to say I was a little disappointed, it was still good but wasn't as good as I had hoped, I hope they do better with 3,4,& 5