Fable II Review

I loved Oblivion, and I love Fable II - I thought I would get that point out the way straight away. I remember pre-ordering Oblivion - and once past the opening credits and first scene, being incredibly irritated by long, long, long load times (sometimes as much as 10-15 minutes when going from from exterior to interior or vice-versa). This was fixed in an update, so it became the game we know (and the game I love lol). Fable II has it's own quirks (no on-screen map or even compass, for instance - which in part is mitigated by the breadcrumb-trail) - but at the end of the day, reviews are down to one person's opinion. You may disagree with the review, which is why there are these comment facilities. But when disagreeing, it would be useful to be constructive as to *why* you're disagreeing with the body of the review. Just shouting "FANBOI!!" and posting a troll is no way to encourage someone. Just my two'pennorth.

I played a bit of Fable, and I found it to be too awkward and annoying. I seemed to have trouble controlling the character - he wouldn't face the way I wanted to when talking to people. It could be a great game, but I couldn't get into it.

I found Oblivion the same, funnily enough, but for different reasons. I managed to get through the first dungeon and then got completely bewildered as to what I was supposed to do or where to go, and by that stage the combat was driving me nuts. I messed about for a bit then switched it off and went back to playing my DS or something.

I suppose the point I'm making here is that I don't think you can say Fable shouldn't be rated higher than Oblivion, as if Oblivion was some perfect ideal of gaming. Obviously you played it and loved it, but if it was that good, everyone else would love it as well - which isn't the case. Best you can do is agree to disagree, just like I am - I mean, I think they're both crappy games, but that's because I had no fun playing either. I'll happily accept that other people played them both and had fun, and I don't feel the need to push my opinion as fact.

I was hugely disappointed with this game it just felt like a dumbed down RPG why don't we get games like Gothic 3 on the 360?

I actually preffered the first Fable probably because back then it was very fresh whereas the sequel hasn't improved enough for me and has lost some of its charm.