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Nov 10 / Ozymandias

Quick Thoughts on Fable 2 and Fallout 3

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Fable 2:

A wonderful fantasy world to lose yourself in for hours on end. If you liked the original Fable, you’ll love the sequel. Visually the game is stunning, and I found myself really enjoying doing sidequests off of the critical path much more than I normally do. The simplified combat works just fine – though I found that an initial Raise Undead blast (to summon shock troops to distract enemies) followed up by a powered-up Inferno could kill almost anything. My only real disappointment was the ending… it was fine, but that’s about it. Felt significantly weaker than the rest of the game preceeding, but that said, certainly wasn’t “bad” per-se. Did make me think over my final decisions… but I wish the impact upon the world was a bit more earthshaking. Final tip: start buying real estate early on and renting it out. You’ll soon build up a siginificant ongoing revenue stream (even when the game is off!) that helps a lot down the road.

Fallout 3:

Have just started, so will keep this short. Never played Fallout 3, but played Oblivion a great deal. The overly-large, rambling world that I faulted in Oblivion has been tightened up… the world feels much more dense and real. Visually stunning… really captures what a post-holocaust world could look like, and I often myself just staring at the sun rising above the ruins. (Of course, I’m easily distracted by shiny objects, too… so take it for what it’s worth.) Biggest complaint so far is character animation, especially in the third-person view… just doesn’t look right, especially when compared to titles like Gears of War 2. Stick to the first-person view IMO.

 

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  • Roland

    I don’t care much for either of those games, as I’m not into the whole RPG thing, unless it’s the kind that blows up ;)

    What do you think of Gears 2 though? I’ve played quite a bit of it, then did it all again in co-op and absolutely love it so far.

    Especially with the NXE (I’m in the preview program) letting you copy the disc onto the hard drive it’s a blast to play. I honestly never thought I’d love playing games this much more with not having a plane getting ready for take-off in the room :)

  • http://swampthingtom.blogspot.com/ SwampThingTom

    I agree completely.  Fable 2 was a lot of fun but the ending was disappointing.  For me it was not so much because of how little impact it had on the world, but because it came down to just one final decision that was chosen in conversation rather than played.  No matter what choices and actions were made before then, you could choose any ending.  Kind of silly, in my opinion.

    Fallout 3 is amazing.  It’s quickly on its way to becoming my favorite 360 game.  The graphics are stunning and the gameplay is spot-on.  I’m particularly glad they went with the Fallout SPECIAL system for character development instead of the broken system used in Oblivion.

  • Ozymandias

    Love Gears 2 – but haven’t played as much as I’d like. Done a bit co-op, but need to get back to it soon!

  • Rafoca

    I loved Fable 2. HIstory and graphics are so amazing! Not to mention the funny dialogues. Lol

    The real big problem is "co-op". It really is weak, considering we were promised a "revolutionary co-op" and the fact co-op was a major thing on Fable 2, as PM always said. A lot of people complained in the official forums (really. a lot!!).

    Overall, the game is great!

  • 360 tag: MrNastyTime UK aka JJS UK

    I agree with your points concerning Fable 2 and Fallout 3. Fables’ 2 ending was odd.. no ‘big battle’ as expected and I felt the tower part could of been so much more. Thinking back on Fable 2 I felt most of the gameplay elements could of been so much better eg jobs blacksmith. For example why can’t you make a master weapon if a master blacksmith?! Plus  Fable doesnt seem to want you be be a sole weapon figther or magic-user, its ALOT easier to play with combo styles. I did feel the game had less humour in it and seemed abit task menu plus no world map was a huge mistake, I had very little idea where Bowerstone market was in relation to say Oakdale..

    Fallout 3 six hours in is really pleasing. The depth, humour and scope of the game is amazing. My only negative was the third-person-view def does not work at all for combat.

    Overall having played both plus GOW2 I’d def choose Fallout 3 as my game of the year, for the scope, beautiful and humour. Fallout 3 is truely an amazing game.

    BTW the other gem is ‘Left 4 Dead’