Thu, Jul 17, 2008 | 07:34 BST

Fable II main story 12 hours long

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Joystiq reckons it heard several Lionhead staffers say that the main quest in Fable II will be around 12 hours long.

They do stress, however, that that’s just the main story, not the sum total of every side quest and all the other stuff we’re looking forward to doing. Like working out ways to kill our friends’ wives, and things of that nature.

By Mike Bowden

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17 comments

#1

Psychotext
16/07/08, 8:39 pm

Kill your friends wives? I have much better ideas! :D

#2

Gekidami
16/07/08, 8:42 pm

An RPG? 12 hours long? Fail? … Scratch that last question mark…

#3

patlike
16/07/08, 8:43 pm

I constantly think about killing my friends’ wives. Completely normal to think about killing your friends’ wives. Right, morriss?

#4

morriss
16/07/08, 8:43 pm

I know where you live

#5

Psychotext
16/07/08, 8:44 pm

Gekidami: You can finish Mass Effect in under 10 hours if you wanted to. Doesn’t really mean you would. Fallout 1 and 2 could both be done in a stupidly short amount of time too.

#6

Gekidami
16/07/08, 8:50 pm

True… But then i also consider Mass Effect to have failed as an RPG, it was a very nice shooter… Never played Fallout 1 & 2, though i would have exspected them to be longer from their rep. ..

#7

Psychotext
16/07/08, 8:58 pm

That’s the thing, they were. Didn’t stop you blasting through the main story in no time if you wanted to. If you knew what you were doing you could finish Fallout 1 in under half an hour. :D

#8

Blerk
16/07/08, 9:23 pm

12 hours sounds quite short whichever way you spin it. There’d better be plenty of side-quests or a decent amount difference in a ‘do it differently’ replay.

#9

morriss
16/07/08, 9:37 pm

Well Fable 1′s main strength was that you could play it in two completely different ways and the world would act accordingly. Hopefully Fable 2 will have more shades of grey.

#10

Blerk
16/07/08, 9:40 pm

I’ve not played Fable. Is it still all right? I could get it from game for 50pee and play it on the 360.

#11

morriss
16/07/08, 9:56 pm

marmite game.

Don’t think “PC RPG” when you play and you’ll be fine. It’s limited and linear in places, but is very charming and atmospheric.

#12

Blerk
16/07/08, 9:58 pm

I wouldn’t think “PC RPG” when I was playing anyway, lest I fall asleep.

#13

morriss
16/07/08, 10:01 pm

I only mention it becaue most of the people who give it stick are RPG fans in the traditional, PC sense.

There’s a big world to explore but you’re stuck on paths, if that makes sense? You can’t wander past a field, jump over the fence and look around.

Although they’ve remedied that for Fable 2 apparently.

Anyway, for 50p you’ve got nothing to lose.

#14

Blerk
16/07/08, 10:03 pm

Well, I could buy a chocolate flapjack instead.

#15

epic_wanderer
16/07/08, 10:14 pm

I haven’t played it since it came out but I seem to remember Fable having pretty decent combat; especially the archery.

#16

Newbie101
17/07/08, 10:04 am

12 hours long? An RPG 12 hours long!

C’mon its Molyneux are we really surprised?

#17

Psychotext
17/07/08, 10:22 am

epic_wanderer: Saw some combat vids for Fable 2 yesterday. Looked much better than expected given my concerns about this “one button” stuff.

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