Just finished the main quest of Fable 2.

Oh god. Ohhh god. And I know the third one even worse.

Considering what they could have done with the 40K universe, a third person shooter playing as an Ultramarine fighting Orcs is pretty much lazy.



Ugh, I comleted Fable 2 once.

Never again.

I loved Fable, but 2 put me off the series and I wouldn't touch 3 with a ten foot bargepole.

That said, there were a few things about Fable 2 I liked, but nowhere near enough to make up for that story. Starting by surviving a fall that should have killed you for no reason than being descended from a hero is pathetic. And yet it somehow manages to go downhill from there.

I'm looking forward to Fable Anniversary though

We've already bought it. We have all of the Fables

Fable 2 is alright but the third one was terrible. They went too "progressive" with it and by trying to eliminate menus, they made every single action in the game annoying and tedious.

The story was also terrible and advanced randomly, leaving you trying to figure out what to do in order to get a decent ending. Couple all of that with the obvious black and white moral options (slave labor children or take a financial hit) and what you've got is a generic button mashing excuse for an RPG with terrible controls and a clunky replacement to a menu system that makes the game difficult to enjoy even as a way to kill time.

I hated it because there's no winning in it. My friend was playing it today and it randomly advanced him 142 days while he was working on getting the million gold.

I played it in 1 day, just powered through and got ~70% of the achievement points. Didn't touch it again.

How can you do that? XD

I HAVE to get most of the quests done before putting it down.

I did get most of the quests done. It wasn't that interesting after you beat the campaign.

I'm an achievement whore as well. I wanted all expressions, demon doors, powers, etc unlocked lol

I couldn't even force myself for the achievements.

I envy your dedication.

Fable 2 is awesome!

Best in the series!

I keep playing Simpsons (first game), Probotector (Contra) and Dr Mario almost each night. I only play the first two and a half stages in Simpsons and the first two stages in Probotector before moving on to Dr Mario. The reason for that is because those are the easiest levels and I don´t want to be challenged. I, like girls, just wanna have fun!

Soon going to be playing Dungeon Keeper.

Picked it up for free at GOG.com, didn't really see a reason not to get it

Ooh! Classic title! I shall demand updates and screenshots!

I am back to playing Oblivion again. Goddess, I forgot how much I love the music! So far I am having lots of fun rediscovering Cyrodiil with the Unique Landscapes mods.

Well, updates you can have. But since it's a game that runs in Dosbox, I don't know if screenshots are doable. I'll have to look into it.

Just finished the second tutorial level, buried some foolish heroes under a horde of well-trained demonspawn.

Get a desktop screenshot program

Firehawk for the NES. Unlicensed but pretty good, and the opening music is awesome Just too bad I suck at it...

Welcome back!

If I get my hands on a portable SNES I´ll be playing Super Mario World and Link to the past... !

Borderlands, hung up my Siren for a while and dug out my Sniper. Great fun, though frustrating at times.

I have found that playing Oblivion and then quit to play some NES and then come back to Oblivion is just the thing for me. I come back with a fresh mind after some SMB 1 and 2 plus Ice Climber and I am ready to have fun in Cyrodiil again

And I'm back to playing Oblivion again

Revisiting Fallout 3 from the beginning. Aside from a few annoying things (no weapon mods, no multiple ammo types, and no iron sights) it is still pretty enjoyable. It has also been long enough that I don't remember everything about it so it is almost like restarting.

I´m planning to go back to Fallout 3 too soon but on my existing character. Of course

And I would never-ever get rid of the spread-disabling mods

Spread is realistic. I like it, New Vegas' weapons handle even better though.

Yes, but a decent condition weapon does not have such extreme spread as in Fallout 3, and even perfect condition weapons do that here. If I stood two meters from a wall the bullets scattered incredibly, I´d estimate 30 centimeters in between, and that is just wrong. You´d have to have Parkinsons for that to happen at that range!

I also cannot stand the auto-aim. I refuse to play with that atrocity enabled That is definitely not realistic!

I can agree.

After playing FO3 again last night I'll admit that the amount of spread is overkill, especially for the assault rifle, which is modeled after a rifle that is actually quite accurate in real life.

The damage is also way off, for instance the 10mm round is quite powerful and yet it takes 3-4 shots to kill humans with it.

FO:NV has spoiled me and I'd forgotten just how unrealistic the weapon handling is in FO3.

My favorite guns in FO3 tend to be the single shot rifles - Lincoln's Repeater, the Lever Action Rifle, the Hunting Rifle, Laser Rifle, etc... because of the spread with assault rifles and shotguns.

I bought the new Thief game. It's awesome.

Haven´t played them but I´d imagine they´re pretty good

The older games were very good. I liked that you were a thief and couldn't stand against soldiers/guards so you had to play smart. I'm waiting to rent it first but the new one definitely looks great.

When I heard they were making one I was excited. Then I found out what tey'd done to the Thief Universe and decided to give it a miss.

Glad you're enjoying it though, least you should get your money's worth.

From the screens I saw, it looks more like it is in 19th Century London, than in a medievalish fantasy setting.

Exactly what I thought. I only played Thief: Deadly Shadows, generally considered the worst of them, but it still had the feel of being something unique, right down to the way NPCs talked.

Now it seems they've torn it all out in favour of genericism.

I'm not even certain that's a word, but you get what I mean.


Currently playing Borderlands. I've gotta say, I missed sniping

For those interested in the new Thief:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJS1yCSKlhs

You hate everything these days!

Nuh-uh!

I'm enjoying Borderlands immensely, love that game

Mount and Blade:Warband.

Oh look 2 hours just went buy....I'll play for a nother 10 minutes.

Oh look another hour is gone.

Shinobi by Tengen. Easy gameplay but since there´s no recovery time after being hit it´s also very easy to die which is the only reason I can´t go beyond the first boss even though he´s pretty easy.

Excitebike. Fun game and a definite classic

I rented the new Thief game. It is alright but a bit too black and white for my tastes. They make it clear that the game's villian is super evil and all of his men are corrupt degenerates. The cliches are annoying to say the least (bad guy randomly kills his men for failures 1980's bond villian style) but overall the game was a fun way to waste a few hours.

You can still go out and rent games?

Consoles do have benefits. We still have both Redbox kiosks that rent games/movies and a few stores that haven't been shut down yet by online rentals/streaming video.

Civilisation 4: Beyond the Sword

I just beat the new thief game. I loved it. It was really good.

What specifically was good?


Myself I dedicated this evening to the classic Mario Bros. No, not Super Mario Bros. I´m talking about the arcade game. Actually a pretty fun game and the best part is I never need to patch it, varify it or run it through Steam

I can't tell you too specifically


Overall it was a good game, the questline was good, and it was always pretty exciting. You actually had to do some thinking to play it.

Thief was better than I expected and movement around the city was great because of the climbing system. I was disappointed by the generic nature at times though. The story seemed good but I didn't get to finish it.

Wrecking Crew, Mario Bros, Urban Champion and Tetris. How retro can one be?

Urban Champion must be the earliest one-on-one fighting game. A bit clunky controls and not too exciting, but it´s aways fun when you manage to get your opponent into the manhole