Fable 2, a sadly very buggy little game...

[Barrow_Bug]

Let the Nerd Rage BEGIN!

http://kotaku.com/5068806/fable-ii-abbo ... f-priority

I should know. I've had crashes and all kinds of wacky shit happen...
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[Barrow_Bug]

Soooo, of all the Codexers that have and/or are playing Fable 2 right now, NONE of you have had any problems?

 

[Rohit_N]

I returned the game today, but I remember one glitch.

Spoilers:

I did the quest where you seduce a ghost's former boyfriend and chose to give him a letter saying that the ghost never loved him. Even after he committed suicide and became a ghost himself, I still found his human form wandering around Bowerstone with the game displaying, "This villager wants to marry you!"

 

[Dire Roach]

That's not a bug, he just pretended to kill himself so his ghost left his body. That way everyone is happy: you can still marry him and the ghosts get to be together! It's part of the game's philosophy to reward players no matter what they choose to do.

 

[Rohit_N]

Actually you see a scene with the two ghosts where the boyfriend learns the truth, decides he never wants to see his girlfriend again even in death, then runs away, ending the quest. (Though it's kinda weird to see a ghost "run" away) The player gets negative karma.

My brother did the opposite, instead marrying the girl (he played as a male, and so the quest giver was male instead) . When he confronted the ghost afterwards, he decided it was good of him to make her happy. Player gets positive karma.

It's a pretty black/white quest.

 

[HanoverF]

It's very buggy/glitchy/unoptimized. It has the worst inventory ever. Long loading screens out the wazoo. Crashes more times than any console game I've ever played and lots of slowdowns despite there never being that many things on screen. There's lots of quests where you can screw yourself, or get screwed through no fault of your own, one quest some guy was leading me somewhere, and he got stuck on a door frame. He told me to look out a window at something so I did and then the game locked up because he wasn't where he was supposed to be.

 

[Rosh]

Haha...shitty QA standards and the laziness of devs relying on patchable console games has finally bit someone in the ass hard.

Sad to see it was Peter, since I remember meeting him in the Bullfrog days. Oh, how the mighty have fallen.

 

[Fat Dragon]

I've been reading about quite a few bugs and glitches for this game, a few of them being game breaking. I was lucky not to have encountered any of them on my playthrough. I'll definitely be waiting for that patch before playing again though, had no idea there were so many.

 

[Rosh]

And now that I further look into the problem, the bugs look to be from quite amateurish mistakes. Who the hell is stupid enough to set a state flag at the end of interruptable NPC speech?

Oh, yeah, Lionhead. They can afford all that hype and not a single competent QA tester.

 

[HanoverF]

I can't believe this game is getting any positive reviews. I have a bunch of glitched stores only selling a book, I didn't know they were glitched I figured it was some lame thing where they'd only sell items when I progressed enough, but then I checked glitch lists. The funniest post is some kid who can't load half the maps, but he doesn't want to complain to Lionhead because he totally luvs Fable 2 and doesn't want them to think he is a pest.

 

[Barrow_Bug]

I've read numerous posts on the Lionhead forums about players not being able to PLAY the game, period. It crashes every time without fail. Thank Fuck that hasn't happened to me. Yet.

 

[TheWesDude]

i enjoyed fable 1, it was a nice action game.

of course i dont have a console so i will have to wait for fable 2 to hit pc

 

[bozia2012]

i enjoyed fable 1, it was a nice action game.

of course i dont have a console so i will have to wait for fable 2 to hit pc

GOTY EE

 

[Deleted member 7219]

Soooo, of all the Codexers that have and/or are playing Fable 2 right now, NONE of you have had any problems?

Only had one problem, while playing last night, my Xbox gamertag got signed out. I pressed the Xbox button in the middle of the controller and went through the menus to try to reconnect. Suddenly, the game told me the active profile had been logged out, and kicked me out. I lost about an hour's worth of progress.

Besides that, there are just a few minor annoyances. Sometimes the dog gets stuck behind things (bad pathfinding), and the skill/quest/job/family reminders keep flashing up on the d-pad menu. Also, whoever thought it was a good idea to make the map screen so tiny should be fired. And the inventory is annoying too.

I've read numerous posts on the Lionhead forums about players not being able to PLAY the game, period. It crashes every time without fail. Thank Fuck that hasn't happened to me. Yet.

Usually people with those sort of problems are people with hacked Xboxes.

 

[mondblut]

Soooo, of all the Codexers that have and/or are playing Fable 2

There are any???

:declineofthecodex:

 

[Deleted member 7219]

Soooo, of all the Codexers that have and/or are playing Fable 2

There are any???

:declineofthecodex:

Oh sorry I keep forgetting that only Planescape Torment, Fallout and Arcanum are allowed to be played here.

Moron.

 

[rpgcodexusername]

Oh sorry I keep forgetting that only Planescape Torment, Fallout and Arcanum are allowed to be played here.

and non-graphical roguelikes,VtM:B, and 8-bit RPG's

 

[Oarfish]

Only had a couple of problems, mainly related to the damn dog getting stuck in the wall. One lock-up, but no quest breaking stuff has happened to me.

Really quite enjoying it, nice (if too easy) combat with decent voice acting and setting. The dog actually works well as a mini map too.

 

[racofer]

Who the fuck would spend money on such garbage anyway?

 

[Deleted member 7219]

Who the fuck would spend money on such garbage anyway?

Butthurt detected.

 

[Silellak]

Who the fuck would spend money on such garbage anyway?

People who can appreciate a game for being fun for what it is and not expecting every game to be a Fallout.

 

[racofer]

Decline of the codex.

 

[racofer]

Who the fuck would spend money on such garbage anyway?

People who can appreciate a game for being fun for what it is and not expecting every game to be a Fallout.

Play World of Goo instead.

 

[King Crispy]

Hey jacofer, I was wondering. Are there any RPGs that you actually do like?

And please remember, "NWN2 with a fixed camera" is not a valid answer.

 

[Silellak]

Who the fuck would spend money on such garbage anyway?

People who can appreciate a game for being fun for what it is and not expecting every game to be a Fallout.

Play World of Goo instead.

Why would I? I'm quite enjoying Fable 2.