Fable 2 OXM US review

[haruvister]

To be fair to OXM, they gave 'only' 6.5 to Dead Space, a game on the receiving end of its fair share of hyperbole.

Not that I care, I haven't bought a game since GTAIV - and Fable II IS next!

 

[hypothetical fact]

I just read the review (thanks for posting it, by the way) and at the end where it shows you the games score I was a little disappointing to hear there aren't other dogs in the game. Because I thought it would be kind of cool to have my dog breed and have puppies for my family.

If Lionhead did that than everyone would demand that these dogs also help when they reach maturity. This would create the problem of using swarms of attack dogs rather than your own weapons.

 

[D_987]

I just read the review (thanks for posting it, by the way) and at the end where it shows you the games score I was a little disappointing to hear there aren't other dogs in the game. Because I thought it would be kind of cool to have my dog breed and have puppies for my family.

If Lionhead did that than everyone would demand that these dogs also help when they reach maturity. This would create the problem of using swarms of attack dogs rather than your own weapons.

Good point

 

[D_987]

Offical Xbox Magazine

Pretty much. I'm actually suprised the game is being abandonded by its own magazine. Thats generally not a good sign.

Abandoned by its own magazine....what are you talking about?

 

[Blind Punk Riot]

I'm just super pissed that it gets released in the UK an entire week later.

Thats the ability for everyone to complete the game before I even get to open the crisp plastic coating and shout "FABLE 2 I CHOOSE YOU" and put the cd into the xbox.


My main issue is all the Americans I have added as friends. I'm going to have to decline the pants off game invites and play some English folk untill I feel my character isn't embarresing anymore.

Anyone here got a worse release date?
I'm looking at you New Zealand...

 

[Lt. Sera]

Abandoned by its own magazine....what are you talking about?

Yeah, a 9,5 is hardly abandoning it.

 

[D_987]

I'm just super pissed that it gets released in the UK an entire week later.

Thats the ability for everyone to complete the game before I even get to open the crisp plastic coating and shout "FABLE 2 I CHOOSE YOU" and put the cd into the xbox.


My main issue is all the Americans I have added as friends. I'm going to have to decline the pants off game invites and play some English folk untill I feel my character isn't embarresing anymore.

Anyone here got a worse release date?
I'm looking at you New Zealand...

Im slightly annoyed too, but we can't change anything, and im not going to play much co - op, I feel Fable is a signle player game.

 

[Hey Joe]

I'm going to go ahead and take all OXM reviews for a grain of salt. Seriously people, it's OXM.

Anyhow, I think Fable 2 will be an improvement on the original, which is good because the first Fable showed promise without blowing us away, but I think the second one may be mere milimetres away from pushing the awesome button. We'll see.

I'm still skeptical about the dog.

 

[D_987]

Offical Xbox Magazine

Pretty much. I'm actually suprised the game is being abandonded by its own magazine. Thats generally not a good sign.

Abandoned by its own magazine....what are you talking about?

Considering how the magazine reviewing it is an Xbox 360 biased one, you would assume that it would give it a perfect score while saying how the Ps3 is crap (thats how it apparently works here, though oddly not in the reverse). The fact that they didn't give it a 10 out of 10 indicates that it may not be as good as thought.

Or maybe...you know..its a fair review...geez, its always you who has to go into the fanboy stuff isn't it?

 

[fedpayne]

Thats the ability for everyone to complete the game before I even get to open the crisp plastic coating and shout "FABLE 2 I CHOOSE YOU" and put the cd into the xbox.

I literally *love* that you do that.

That is weird that there are no other dogs. I will get a job. Then this game.

Maybe the fact that it has 9.5 rather than 10 is that because it *was* so good, they didn't want to do it the injustice of giving it an official magazine score, they gave it a fair score because it warranted it.

 

[D_987]

quote=Blind Punk Riot post=9.74309.830559]


Maybe the fact that it has 9.5 rather than 10 is that because it *was* so good, they didn't want to do it the injustice of giving it an official magazine score, they gave it a fair score because it warranted it.[/quote]

Exactly, people like Indigo annoy me, we all know that some games do get better reviews than they should, but claiming its not a great games because it didn't get a 10 is pathetic...9.5 seems a fair and excellant score.

 

[Fraught]

Wait for a few more reviews. The review just seemed to gush about the things we already knew.

I figured it'd be a -good- game, Fable was a -good- game. I want more depth though. Anyone else feel like this review lacked depth?

Do you know what OXM stands for?

Old Xbox's Munchers?

I think 9.5 is good, because yeah. I didn't read the review, just looked at the score, so I can't say anything about the depth of it.

But yeah, since it's Xbox's official magazine, it should've gotten a 10. Damn them.

 

[fedpayne]

Do you know what OXM stands for?

Oooh, I've got one. The Old Xenophobe's Magazine.

 

[TsunamiWombat]

OXM

Overlord Xenu's Men

OMG THE SCIENTOLOGISTS WERE RIGHT WE GOTTA GET RID OF OUR IMPLANTS FAST!

 

[Burld]

Despite that 'very significant' 0.5 missing, I'm still definitely very excited for this. Even if some moron decided that despite it being a British-through-and-through game, it should come out three days early in the US. If anyone's wondering, the Edge review, which is about the only paper-based games publication I have any respect for, was very, very glowing.

 

[D_987]

Despite that 'very significant' 0.5 missing, I'm still definitely very excited for this. Even if some moron decided that despite it being a British-through-and-through game, it should come out three days early in the US. If anyone's wondering, the Edge review, which is about the only paper-based games publication I have any respect for, was very, very glowing.

Yeah, I am very excited about this game.

 

[D_987]

Abandoned by its own magazine....what are you talking about?

Yeah, a 9,5 is hardly abandoning it.

I think he was jokingly referring to the tradition of official magazines giving exclusive games a highly suspicious maximum score.

*cough* Tomb Raider series *cough*

edit: didn't realise this point had already been addressed, sorry.

Its ok, I now see his point, but all the same, it looks to be a fantastic game. (6 more days =) )

 

[waffletaco]

I can't wait for this game. I hope I'm not too starry-eyed from the hype. (I assume the combat is sorta iffy like it was in the last game [though time stop was just fun] I'll have to settle on breaking rock band 2 when the bundle comes out.

It'd be cool if you could duel a la castle crashers for someone's wife.

 

[D_987]

I didn't like MGS4, and it (being fanboyism) generally does (come with blatant ignorance), your stating your opinion of his views, I've stated mine.

 

[DeusFps]

Half these magazine reviewers probably hadn't even touched a game before they went for the job interview.