This will be fairly tepid for something as grandiosely and notoriously named as “:mad:The BBQ Pit:mad:”.
LOL @ Peter Molyneux. 10 hours of gameplay in Fable and Knights of the Old Republic did it better with more gameplay.
Even funnier, he’s laughing all the way to the bank with the money of the folks who bought Fable simply beause of Molyneux’s name and got screwed by pie-in-the-sky anticipation.
Too bad nobody learned Molyneux is a one trick pony after the disaster of Black & White. Ah well, at least only XBox owners were the only fools who parted with their money.
Harumph. X-Box is for people who can’t deal with Civ III. My beloved son, the Hair Apparent, known to some of you as Weird with Words, is utterly depraved by this black box from Hell! Well, OK, Halo was kinda cool. Halo 2 was all right, sucked up about thirty hours from my ever-diminishing threescore and ten.
He should get out more. Volunteer at the library. Go empty bedpans at the leper colony. Get out of the house, its not healthy, sitting there all day hogging the…I mean…well, it’s not healthy. Should be out looking for loose pussy rather than worrying about whether the rocket launcher is more rad than the Brute Plasma Rifle.
Kids these days! Two miles, through the snow, uphill both ways, not even one gig on our hard drives!
Well, Molyneux has a tendancy to freak out about amazing new features and insist a game will change the world, but then apologize when he eventually realizes the game has to come out eventually. I forgave it with Black & White, but his absolute arrogance with Fable really turned me off. It’s like he thinks he’s god’s gift to gamers, but always ends up coming back with his tail between his legs.
Don’t get me wrong, Fable’s a good game (perhaps not one worth full price), but it’s not the orgasm-on-disc he promised. Maybe I’d do better just to not pay any attention to him and being pleasantly surprised.
I’ve never responded to a thread with “lol” in it, I feel dirty. (in a bad way.)
In any case, Fable could’ve used, at the very least another fifty or so quests. It also could’ve done with a much larger map and more areas, as well as puzzles that weren’t about finding silver keys or such bullshit.
The way I look at it, if someone had merged Morrowind with Fable you’d have a game with a great world and story and also fun combat.
But as it is, I’m never buying another Pete Mol’ game unless I read a good review at PC Gamer first. I’m selling my copy of Fable ASAP.
Anyway, if you want to compare Fable to a superior RPG, you can do a lot better than the tepid Knights of the Old Republic. Come back after you’ve played some real CRPGs, and then we’ll talk.
I disagree. I’ve got nothing against console-style “RPGs,” except that they aren’t in any sense RPGs. They’re adventure games with character building. Still lots of fun, though.
Morrowind, or Daggerfall or even Arena before that are the RPGs I judge others by.
That being said, the lack of depth in Fable was disappointing, but I have to admit, it took me about as long to finish as Half Life 2, and I thought HL2 was quite entertaining.
Fable’s problem, it didn’t live up to the promises. Games rarely do.
i disagree. i’ve got nothing against traditional RPGs, which probably started it all; but i view it like this:
**traditional RPG ** - an open ended SIM-like play where you take on the role of whatever you want, with an encompassing storyline where you choose your own adventure.
**console RPG ** - a storybook adventure where you take on the role of the main character, with a linear storyline which you follow through to the end.
are they not both role-playing?
Getting in to the actual words “Role-playing” makes things difficult. It’ll be hard to argue you’re not playing a role in any game. If you want to get really literal, the only real “role-playing games” are create-a-character statfests, from MMOs to Gauntlet.
