Several hours into this one (on my way to Bowerstone and have done basically every side quest available) and so far I’m really digging on it.
It’s buggy as hell, just like Fable 2 (though I don’t remember the breadcrumb trail being as broken in 2) but still quite enjoyable.
I’m not huge on the no UI “menus” and such, I find it takes more time to go into my sanctuary to switch weapons or whatnot and that’s annoying. And dying my hair barely changes a damn thing (also noticed they just put up a dye pack as pay-for DLC that include black dye. Yea, fuck you, too, Lionhead) but on the other hand I enjoy going into my treasure room and seeing everything on display, especially the gigantic pile of gold that increases constantly as i own literally every house and business available to buy.
On that same note, I’m both happy and sad they took out the feature in Fable 2 that let you earn cash from businesses even while your console was off. It was nifty, but it broke the economy.
I also like how the weapons now upgrade based on your kills with them (so a weapon will tell you that if you kill 300 hollow men it will have an 80% damage boost against hollow men, etc) and each weapon has 3 of these traits. That’s a neat feature, but so far most of the weapons I’ve found (which are rare) all require mostly negative things for their stat boosts, like killing soldiers/villagers or lowering your morality. That’s a bit of a bitch as i’m trying to play through as a good guy.
I like the game. My wife is so frustrated with it that I don’t know if she’ll ever pick it up again. She likes all of the exploration and landlording and such, but she isn’t really into the fighting. The problem is that the first “boss” that you fight is that mercenary dude who tosses fire at you and calls in henchmen. He’s pretty difficult to beat with the crappy weapons that you have at your disposal during that point in the game. In fact, I think he’s probably the most challenging boss in the game, and I’ve completed the story line.
I played the game being" evil," and I’m kinda dissatisfied. They need to add a way to change social policies that you set as king.
I did a couple of nice things (like build the school instead of the sweatshop), but I removed the extra restrictions on booze, and now almost every single person is totally drunk all the time. It’s just unpleasant to have drunk people wandering around puking on you and insulting you all the time. I’ve taken to enslaving every rude or drunk person I can find. TO THE MINES!
Also, what’s the deal with player partnerships? How do I become partners with someone? What the heck does it mean?
I’ve been playing it for about a week now, and it is easily the buggiest game I’ve ever played on the xbox 360, which is really annoying. Dog barks and alerts for things that are not there, trying to marry my 3rd wife and move her into the castle results in me standing at the alter by myself being pronounced ‘man and wife’, while all of my other weddings have been the correct ‘wife and wife’, and then the whole game freezes on the post-nuptial save (I’ve tried 4 times now, same thing). There are many more bugs I’ve encountered too.
And despite the new and improved progression and upgradable weapons, and the improved voice acting, I think it is just too similar to II. The move from I to II was much more palpable and significant, imho.
I married a chick and when I tried to visit later after I’d beaten the main story she’d been glitched into the void. According to the map my family still lives there but she and my kid are gone. I can move the nuptial home around but it never causes her to reappear. What’s worse, the sign in front of whatever home I move the glitched family to also glitches and it’s impossible for me to get a divorce. So I’ve got to pick a home to be permanently glitched.
I’m back to bitch some more. I just wasted a gold key on The Prism, earning me some clothes that I’ve had since buying them an hour or two into the damn game. What the fuck was that?
