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Videogame rant. Fable 2
17 years ago
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Now fair warning to all, I will have spoilers, but thats pretty obvious.
Anyway, Fable 2.
This is a game I was fairly excited about, had heard good things and everything looked hunky dory.
The game opens up with the standard fill-in-your-own-tragic-back-story with one very murdered sister, and getting shot and falling from a ginormous tower in a drop that should splat you like an egg, but you surviving etc etc, vowing revenge etc etc.
Now, so far its pretty standard and what I´m willing to take with no problem.
Then we start with the goddamn npc´s. Just about everyone is voiced by the same 3-5 voice actors. Now normally this wouldn't be a problem, but the voices, the accents and all that are annoying as FUCK. The guards all speak like it is the purpose of their lives to look like idiots and make an H sound at the end of every fuck mothering word. Now, I admit I don't know what its like when you decide to just bloody murder absolutely everything you see and just in general be a dick, since I decided to be a goody two shoes and not murder everyone who said something to me. This resulted in everybody following me.
fucking. every. fucking. body.
not even the supposedly helpful dismiss emote didn't do shit.
now, add that to roughly 10 hours of repetitive combat, boring quests involving to go to spot x, and either kill bad guys or dig up treasure and then buying peoples houses so you can be a dick. practically anything you eat or drink will leave you bloated, or less "pure" since its made of meat or its beer or some such nonsense.
As for the story, it is basically, find three allies, one who can crush you, one who's smarter then everyone, and one who is the biggest dickhead in the entire world, so you can kill mister mcbadguy that killed your sister and almost killed you.
Then after gathering the three stooges, you must summon some weapon to defeat the badguy, only to have him show up, kidnap the stooges, shoot your dog, and then shoot you again. oh, and also telling you that he murdered any family you might have had in the game.
Now comes, what was for me, the biggest disapointment in the game.
There was no epic showdown, no "clashing of wills" or "crossing of swords" you just bloody show up there, and play a god damn music box that drains him of his power ( or something, it didn't make a lick of sense to me) , the same music box you buy in the beginning of the game. He then starts some rant, and it ends with dickhole shooting him.
and aside from choosing to get a massive amount of gold, resurrecting your family/your dog or resurrecting everyone who died because of mcbadguy ( which strangely enough doesn't include your family) you don't get squat from winning other then the vague sense that you were just the butt of someones joke.
Now, I bought this game, which with the economy going to shit and the general high prices of games in my country was a massive waist, and now just 2 hours ago I traded it in for a copy of Dead Space, which is much more satisfying.
In conclusion, don't buy Failble 2, spend your money on something worthwhile, like socks.
Anyway, Fable 2.
This is a game I was fairly excited about, had heard good things and everything looked hunky dory.
The game opens up with the standard fill-in-your-own-tragic-back-story with one very murdered sister, and getting shot and falling from a ginormous tower in a drop that should splat you like an egg, but you surviving etc etc, vowing revenge etc etc.
Now, so far its pretty standard and what I´m willing to take with no problem.
Then we start with the goddamn npc´s. Just about everyone is voiced by the same 3-5 voice actors. Now normally this wouldn't be a problem, but the voices, the accents and all that are annoying as FUCK. The guards all speak like it is the purpose of their lives to look like idiots and make an H sound at the end of every fuck mothering word. Now, I admit I don't know what its like when you decide to just bloody murder absolutely everything you see and just in general be a dick, since I decided to be a goody two shoes and not murder everyone who said something to me. This resulted in everybody following me.
fucking. every. fucking. body.
not even the supposedly helpful dismiss emote didn't do shit.
now, add that to roughly 10 hours of repetitive combat, boring quests involving to go to spot x, and either kill bad guys or dig up treasure and then buying peoples houses so you can be a dick. practically anything you eat or drink will leave you bloated, or less "pure" since its made of meat or its beer or some such nonsense.
As for the story, it is basically, find three allies, one who can crush you, one who's smarter then everyone, and one who is the biggest dickhead in the entire world, so you can kill mister mcbadguy that killed your sister and almost killed you.
Then after gathering the three stooges, you must summon some weapon to defeat the badguy, only to have him show up, kidnap the stooges, shoot your dog, and then shoot you again. oh, and also telling you that he murdered any family you might have had in the game.
Now comes, what was for me, the biggest disapointment in the game.
There was no epic showdown, no "clashing of wills" or "crossing of swords" you just bloody show up there, and play a god damn music box that drains him of his power ( or something, it didn't make a lick of sense to me) , the same music box you buy in the beginning of the game. He then starts some rant, and it ends with dickhole shooting him.
and aside from choosing to get a massive amount of gold, resurrecting your family/your dog or resurrecting everyone who died because of mcbadguy ( which strangely enough doesn't include your family) you don't get squat from winning other then the vague sense that you were just the butt of someones joke.
Now, I bought this game, which with the economy going to shit and the general high prices of games in my country was a massive waist, and now just 2 hours ago I traded it in for a copy of Dead Space, which is much more satisfying.
In conclusion, don't buy Failble 2, spend your money on something worthwhile, like socks.
