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PopeDragunov
October 25th, 2008, 06:28 PM
How is it?
Freshmeat.Popsicle
October 25th, 2008, 10:02 PM
I should buy it... but if I did, it'd throw off my Fallout 3 marathon.

:( But I wanna play Fable 2 naaaaaaaaaow. :(
Milkman Dan
October 25th, 2008, 10:34 PM
It's pretty fun. I figured out a way to make a ton of cash in the game. Fable 2 allows you to make income even when you're not playing. So I figured it uses the system clock, and it does! It compares it to the last save time and date. So what you do is get a lot of property to rent out, disconnect from live, save, change the date a year ahead, load game, and connect Live. Whenver you connect to Live it automatically syncs the date up, and prevents you from changing it. I can do this trick right now and earn 700k in one load.
MeanPatrick
October 25th, 2008, 10:49 PM
Is it as meaningless as the first one?
CaptCommy
October 26th, 2008, 05:39 AM
Is it as meaningless as the first one?

It's actually supposed to be a hell of a lot better. Most reviews seem to say it accomplishes everything it (and Fable 1) were supposed to.

Or at least, a heck of a lot better. I've seen 9's from all my favourite sources so far.
Milkman Dan
October 26th, 2008, 10:56 AM
Main story is really fucking short, by the way.
CaptCommy
October 26th, 2008, 03:31 PM
Main story is really fucking short, by the way.

I like this review best.

http://arstechnica.com/reviews/games/fable-2-review.ars

Yes, the main story is short, but the journey is the fun part.
MeanPatrick
October 27th, 2008, 07:12 AM
The story for most of Peter Molyneux' games aren't very dense, which is good because then I'm only half asleep when I finish.
Vatek
October 27th, 2008, 02:53 PM
I'm too busy being a friggin' property mogul to play the main story, lol. I bought pretty much the entire gypsy camp and now I'm addicted...I must own everything.

IMO it's far better than Oblivion at the whole "open-world RPG" thing.

The co-op mode sucks. The henchman can't really do anything but fight, so for all those stretches where you're running around in town the 2nd player pretty much has to follow you around doing nothing. I also couldn't figure out the point of sharing gold/exp when the henchman is completely unable to use either of them.
Milkman Dan
October 27th, 2008, 07:21 PM
I'm too busy being a friggin' property mogul to play the main story, lol. I bought pretty much the entire gypsy camp and now I'm addicted...I must own everything.

IMO it's far better than Oblivion at the whole "open-world RPG" thing.

The co-op mode sucks. The henchman can't really do anything but fight, so for all those stretches where you're running around in town the 2nd player pretty much has to follow you around doing nothing. I also couldn't figure out the point of sharing gold/exp when the henchman is completely unable to use either of them.
I pretty much bought everything EVER in that game. I'm now the Mayor, because I own Fairfax Castle.
Loké
October 27th, 2008, 10:42 PM
I also couldn't figure out the point of sharing gold/exp when the henchman is completely unable to use either of them.
Logic to that is if they're using an account of their own from Fable 2, they get the stuff earnt henchbutting for their own character, which they're technically playing in the coop.