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So, I've finished Fable II, and on the whole, I'm impressed. It's not a rollicking awesome adventure with weapons and force push in the same way that say, KOTOR was, but it's also good. I think it's a good game, fun and addicting as hell, but everything good about it is balanced by something wrong with the good.
For example, there is sex in the game. As Tony pointed out, to be fair, Fable I also had sex in the game, and in neither game does it really have anything to do with the story. In both, you can marry anyone you want, assuming you are nice and attractive enough. In 2, if you eat or drink too much unhealthy stuff, your character gets fat. The problem there is that being fat has no bearing on your character in any way that I can tell, even visually, although when experimenting with drinks from the bar, my character had on a puffy pirate shirt which may have undermined the experiment. Speaking of drinks, you can get drunk in the game, although the only effect there is that the audio garbles a bit and you eventually throw up.
But if you do too many horrible things, you turn red and grow horns. It's dumb. Also, if you are really good, you get a halo. If you max out a spell to level 5, you get weird blue cracks in your face. Crazy shit like that.
But here's some nitpicks. You can have sex with anyone you want in the game assuming that they are interested, but explain to me how this makes any fucking sense: If you have sex with an unchaste person, you get an STD. According to the stats of my character, at the end of the game I had racked up three of them. Until then I had no idea that I had, there had been no effect on my character, health or appearance-wise. Also, you can have unprotected sex or protected sex (yes, there are condoms in the game, ignoring the fact that condoms were not invented until 1855, and this game takes place in the still early days of the firearm, probably mid 17th century. If you have unprotected sex with a person you are not married to, you may get an STD, but no pregnancy. The first time you have unprotected sex with a person you are married to, they announce after that they are pregnant, you wake up the next day, and there in the room with you is an infant in a crib. If you leave town and come back even 30 seconds later, the child is now about 6 to 8 years old. And after that, they do not age. Considering that the trees apparently grow in real time, at least the kids could not be some damn weird children of the corn bullshit.
Also, polygamy is totally allowed. If you marry two people, some weird guy wants 2000 gold, but by then, I had a real estate empire approaching 400,000 gold. So, 2000 gold wasn't much, considering that every five minutes real time, I would received about twice that. Yeah, rent payments make no sense. You get them every 5 minutes real time, even when you're not playing the game, or faster if you speed travel somewhere, where you get one for every 24 hours game time. Which makes sense, until you realize that 24 hours game time is actually about 12 minutes, or so, I haven't timed it too intensely.
I don't know, it's a great game, but Peter Molenuex, or however you spell his name that sounds like "Moll-in-oo" needs to keep his gob shut. Too much anticipation is sometimes a bad thing, because the game didn't live up to some of my expectations, but exceeded others.
For example, there is sex in the game. As Tony pointed out, to be fair, Fable I also had sex in the game, and in neither game does it really have anything to do with the story. In both, you can marry anyone you want, assuming you are nice and attractive enough. In 2, if you eat or drink too much unhealthy stuff, your character gets fat. The problem there is that being fat has no bearing on your character in any way that I can tell, even visually, although when experimenting with drinks from the bar, my character had on a puffy pirate shirt which may have undermined the experiment. Speaking of drinks, you can get drunk in the game, although the only effect there is that the audio garbles a bit and you eventually throw up.
But if you do too many horrible things, you turn red and grow horns. It's dumb. Also, if you are really good, you get a halo. If you max out a spell to level 5, you get weird blue cracks in your face. Crazy shit like that.
But here's some nitpicks. You can have sex with anyone you want in the game assuming that they are interested, but explain to me how this makes any fucking sense: If you have sex with an unchaste person, you get an STD. According to the stats of my character, at the end of the game I had racked up three of them. Until then I had no idea that I had, there had been no effect on my character, health or appearance-wise. Also, you can have unprotected sex or protected sex (yes, there are condoms in the game, ignoring the fact that condoms were not invented until 1855, and this game takes place in the still early days of the firearm, probably mid 17th century. If you have unprotected sex with a person you are not married to, you may get an STD, but no pregnancy. The first time you have unprotected sex with a person you are married to, they announce after that they are pregnant, you wake up the next day, and there in the room with you is an infant in a crib. If you leave town and come back even 30 seconds later, the child is now about 6 to 8 years old. And after that, they do not age. Considering that the trees apparently grow in real time, at least the kids could not be some damn weird children of the corn bullshit.
Also, polygamy is totally allowed. If you marry two people, some weird guy wants 2000 gold, but by then, I had a real estate empire approaching 400,000 gold. So, 2000 gold wasn't much, considering that every five minutes real time, I would received about twice that. Yeah, rent payments make no sense. You get them every 5 minutes real time, even when you're not playing the game, or faster if you speed travel somewhere, where you get one for every 24 hours game time. Which makes sense, until you realize that 24 hours game time is actually about 12 minutes, or so, I haven't timed it too intensely.
I don't know, it's a great game, but Peter Molenuex, or however you spell his name that sounds like "Moll-in-oo" needs to keep his gob shut. Too much anticipation is sometimes a bad thing, because the game didn't live up to some of my expectations, but exceeded others.