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XBox luvin': Fable

Posted: 2004-09-14 04:14pm
by The Cleric
As this game shall be GOD and it comes out tomorrow, I thought it appropriate to start a thread about it. I'll try and review it as I play it (I'm not going to sleep tomorrow night), but so far the game looks like it'll be the RPG that the 'Box has been waiting for. If it lives up, we can finally make all of those PC and PS2 gamers jealous :twisted:.

Re: XBox luvin': Fable

Posted: 2004-09-14 04:18pm
by Darth Garden Gnome
StormTrooperTR889 wrote: If it lives up, we can finally make all of those PC gamers jealous :twisted:.
:lol: :lol: :lol:

Whatever you say.

Re: XBox luvin': Fable

Posted: 2004-09-14 04:45pm
by The Cleric
Darth Garden Gnome wrote:
StormTrooperTR889 wrote: If it lives up, we can finally make all of those PC gamers jealous :twisted:.
:lol: :lol: :lol:

Whatever you say.
Name me a PC game where you can decapitate and enemy, and if you're fast enough, can punt the severed head across the landscape.

Re: XBox luvin': Fable

Posted: 2004-09-14 04:47pm
by Darth Garden Gnome
StormTrooperTR889 wrote:Name me a PC game where you can decapitate and enemy, and if you're fast enough, can punt the severed head across the landscape.
Postal 2 (and probably the first one, too).

Re: XBox luvin': Fable

Posted: 2004-09-14 04:49pm
by LadyTevar
StormTrooperTR889 wrote:
Darth Garden Gnome wrote:
StormTrooperTR889 wrote: If it lives up, we can finally make all of those PC gamers jealous :twisted:.
:lol: :lol: :lol:

Whatever you say.
Name me a PC game where you can decapitate and enemy, and if you're fast enough, can punt the severed head across the landscape.
*dies laughing*

Anyway, make sure to tell us how the 'consequences of actions' idea works.

Re: XBox luvin': Fable

Posted: 2004-09-14 04:52pm
by The Cleric
Darth Garden Gnome wrote:
StormTrooperTR889 wrote:Name me a PC game where you can decapitate and enemy, and if you're fast enough, can punt the severed head across the landscape.
Postal 2 (and probably the first one, too).
Really? Does it also keep track of the number of times you've had sex, or allow you to marry members of the same sex if you so choose?
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Lady Tevar wrote:Anyway, make sure to tell us how the 'consequences of actions' idea works.
Will do. Although I plan on playing as a pragmatic player, like I would act if I was in that situation, I might test out some of the depths of depravity and the heights of goodliness from time to time :wink:.

Re: XBox luvin': Fable

Posted: 2004-09-14 05:15pm
by Darth Garden Gnome
StormTrooperTR889 wrote:Really? Does it also keep track of the number of times you've had sex, or allow you to marry members of the same sex if you so choose?
Nope. And offhand I can't think of a PC game that does. Of course, that doesn't mean that this feature will make me jealous.

Posted: 2004-09-14 05:26pm
by Executor32
Bah. In Postal 2, you can piss on people and make them puke. Oh, and you can also use their severed heads to play catch with your dog. :twisted:

EDIT: Almost forgot, you can pick up a cat, stick its ass over the barrel of the M16 or shotgun, and use it as a silencer. Also, after around 10 shots or so, the cat flies off with the next shot and gibs all over when it hits something

Posted: 2004-09-14 05:33pm
by White Haven
The game sounds cool. Too bad it's on a Satanware console. It's bad enough I have to whore out to Microsoft for my PC's OS, I'm not paying them more money for something that is simply a cut-down computer with a custom operating system.

Posted: 2004-09-14 05:38pm
by The Cleric
White Haven wrote:The game sounds cool. Too bad it's on a Satanware console. It's bad enough I have to whore out to Microsoft for my PC's OS, I'm not paying them more money for something that is simply a cut-down computer with a custom operating system.
...and more stability. That's the main thing; I never have to wonder about sysreqs with my consoles.

Re: XBox luvin': Fable

Posted: 2004-09-14 05:44pm
by Shogoki
StormTrooperTR889 wrote:
Darth Garden Gnome wrote:
StormTrooperTR889 wrote: If it lives up, we can finally make all of those PC gamers jealous :twisted:.
:lol: :lol: :lol:

Whatever you say.
Name me a PC game where you can decapitate and enemy, and if you're fast enough, can punt the severed hea across the landscape.
I can't for the life of me remember the name of the game, but there was a PC game, around 1996 or 1997, medieval style, there weren't premade moves, you controlled the movement of your weapone with the mouse (or keys with basic movement, like left, right, up, down, diagonal swings, etc.).
This game didn't have the conventional HP system, well, it was there, but you could go around it, a good placed blow would chop any limb off your opponent's body, or yours, if you lost a leg, appart from the hp loss, your character would hop around in the other leg (by the way, you could just lose the foot, from the knee down, or the entire leg, depending on the blow, same with the arms), if you lost your shield arm, you would have to defend youself with the sword, the fight ended when you lost all your hp, both legs, weapon arm, or head.
Sending limbs flying also depended on the weapon, the troll had a huge club, it would chop your head off and send it flying like a baseball if it scored a good hit.
I loved this game, but it never catched up much.

A much newer title is Jedi Outcast, enable dismemberment and you can cut off any body part you want from your enemys, including slicing them in 2 halves.

So chopping heads is nothing new, in fact it was already done, better, and, apparently, found boring.

Re: XBox luvin': Fable

Posted: 2004-09-14 05:46pm
by The Cleric
Shogoki wrote:<snip>
You can PUNT the head around if you're quick enough with the controls.

Re: XBox luvin': Fable

Posted: 2004-09-14 05:53pm
by Shogoki
Darth Garden Gnome wrote:
StormTrooperTR889 wrote:Really? Does it also keep track of the number of times you've had sex, or allow you to marry members of the same sex if you so choose?
Nope. And offhand I can't think of a PC game that does. Of course, that doesn't mean that this feature will make me jealous.
Doesn't Singles do it? Does it matter? There are probably more games for the PC that are just about having sex, applaying most fetiches you can think of, than the total number of games on the Xbox. There's also Leisure Suit Larry for a little more "class".

Re: XBox luvin': Fable

Posted: 2004-09-14 06:01pm
by Shogoki
StormTrooperTR889 wrote:
Shogoki wrote:<snip>
You can PUNT the head around if you're quick enough with the controls.
"Sending limbs flying also depended on the weapon, the troll had a huge club, it would chop your head off and send it flying like a baseball if it scored a good hit. "

Isn't that about the same, only done nearly 10 years ago, and with complete contorl of how the weapon is swinged? You didnt have to be quick, just skillful enough to do it.

Posted: 2004-09-14 06:08pm
by Shogoki
StormTrooperTR889 wrote:
White Haven wrote:The game sounds cool. Too bad it's on a Satanware console. It's bad enough I have to whore out to Microsoft for my PC's OS, I'm not paying them more money for something that is simply a cut-down computer with a custom operating system.
...and more stability. That's the main thing; I never have to wonder about sysreqs with my consoles.
I went, picked up doom 3, installed it, and ran it without never, ever, looking at the sysreqs, and i play it at 1024X768 med detail at +40fps. And my processor is an Athlon XP 2000+, 2 or 3 years old and worth maybe $20, so there.

Posted: 2004-09-14 06:09pm
by Stravo
Ah yes...superior game play = punting severed heads across the landscape. :roll:

Posted: 2004-09-14 06:17pm
by Vendetta
It is if you intend to be :twisted:

Which is one of the accepted ways of plaing Fable.

Posted: 2004-09-14 06:38pm
by Imperial Overlord
White Haven, Microsoft loses money with every Xbox it sells. That's how my geek friends justify buying it to themselves.

Posted: 2004-09-14 07:35pm
by Chardok
Guess where I will be tomorrow? YEah, that's right. *not* at work. Bite me, I got a Fable to live.

Re: XBox luvin': Fable

Posted: 2004-09-14 07:56pm
by neoolong
Shogoki wrote:I can't for the life of me remember the name of the game, but there was a PC game, around 1996 or 1997, medieval style, there weren't premade moves, you controlled the movement of your weapone with the mouse (or keys with basic movement, like left, right, up, down, diagonal swings, etc.).
Was it Die by the Sword?

Posted: 2004-09-14 08:07pm
by Vertigo1
Executor32 wrote:Bah. In Postal 2, you can piss on people and make them puke. Oh, and you can also use their severed heads to play catch with your dog. :twisted:

EDIT: Almost forgot, you can pick up a cat, stick its ass over the barrel of the M16 or shotgun, and use it as a silencer. Also, after around 10 shots or so, the cat flies off with the next shot and gibs all over when it hits something
LOL, I remember that game! IIRC, they showed the cat bit on the back of the box. :P Maybe I should look that game up sometime. ;)

Posted: 2004-09-14 08:54pm
by Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi
It sounds like a really good game, and I'd probably buy it if I had an X-Box, I'd probably buy it, but I already have a GameCube and PS2 and wouldn't be interested in buying another console that will be eclipsed as the next-generation consoles debut in a couple of years just for one game.

Posted: 2004-09-14 08:55pm
by Ghost Rider
I'm getting it...and hopefully it'll be at least half what they said it would be.

Besides my X-Box feels lonely given Ninja Gaiden was the last thing I played on it.

Posted: 2004-09-14 10:12pm
by Captain tycho
I'll be getting it Friday, soon as my paycheck comes. Then I'll retreat into my lair for 2 whole days. :)

Posted: 2004-09-14 11:43pm
by The Cleric
All of you, stop polluting my thread!!!

And I would love to skip class and play all day as well, but I have not only Calc II (with the first test Monsay), but also ENES 181, which is about the only class I have that attendance matters in. So I'll be waiting for the weekend, and every night between.