Posts Tagged ‘Fable II’

Pop a Cap on it, ‘yo

Monday, July 27th, 2009

I don’t own Halo 3, but if I did I’d have 1750 GamerPoints to chase. I thought Fallout 3’s 1450 worth of Achievements were bad, but no, Halo takes the hardcore biscuit. Remember when retail games capped at 1000? Arcade games at 200? It seems this was only to be the case in the 360’s infancy, back when gamers payed little notice to the fruitless digits tagging alongside their GamerTag.

Now developers deliver additional Achievements, usually in the form of Downloadable Content (DLC). Whatever the case, it’s to keep gamers coming back, to give us a bit of replay value for what we pay (though, more often than not, we also have to pay for the DLC). However, there’s also a degree of agitation, for me at least, that comes with each increase in cap.

You see, gaming can be an expensive hobby, and I don’t always feel comfortable spending significant amounts of money on it. Especially right now, I’m watching every spare penny, with any pocket money being invested into my business. For that reason I’ve found it useful trading/selling games I’ve completed and am no longer needing. In fact, I believe the pre-owned market is what makes high street retailer, GameStation, the most money, and is - on the flip side - the biggest cause of concern for developers.

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Gaming Question And Answer

Monday, January 26th, 2009

I actually stole this from my friend, Mr Havros. I’m sure he won’t mind what with him being a generous chap and all. Anyway, sometimes people come across my site by searching for a specific answer via Google. I’m sure they rarely get the answer they’re looking for from my site, and being the helpful little lady I am, well I figured I’d respond in a much more targeted manner here.

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Who Needs Reality When You’ve Got Fable?

Monday, October 27th, 2008

Wow. I think I could leave this post at that one word and it would do just as good, if not better, a job of summing up my experience with Fable II. Granted I’ve only put 5 or so hours into it, most of which have been spent arsing about, and for a game as open ended as Fable, 5 hours really isn’t that long. If you’ve yet to buy it, don’t even waste you’re time reading what I’ve got to say about it. Go and get it. Now!

High up the list of what developers aim to achieve with their games is an environment in which the player feels truly immersed in. Rarely do you play a game, however, where you actually feel part of the world. I swear, Fable II will suck you in almost instantaneously. Before you know it, you’ll have comfortably settled into Albion and won’t even have noticed an hour has passed where all you’ve done is danced for the locals, flirted with the wealthier men, and earned a few Gold to upgrade weapons and kit yourself out in fetching garments.

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