Comments on: Fable II CE culled even further

By: Tiger Walts

Tiger Walts — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 08:23:23 +0000

Nowadays I’d say neither but 3rd person games do require a lot more animation work since the player’s character is visible at all times and has to bee seen interacting with the environment.

By: wickedman

wickedman — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 18:57:43 +0000

hello, i have a question,it is easy to make a fps or a 3 person game? thanks guys

By: Psychotext

Psychotext — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 14:05:31 +0000

lol

By: Hunam

Hunam — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 13:19:29 +0000

Maybe Microsoft have reviewed Fable 2 and feel that its not worth all the money in advertising they were going to give it and thus cut all the extras?

By: meatsack

meatsack — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 12:38:32 +0000

@ecu

Purple….

By: Esha

Esha — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 11:42:11 +0000

@ecu

There’s a big difference between the two, though.

Sackboy Figurine: One online retailer offers something as a part of its pre-order that it shouldn’t have without verifying it with Sony first, Sony slaps their wrists for doing so. Every other pre-order offer with every other store is unaffected.

Fable Stuff: This is a Lionhead/Microsoft cock-up, where they have failed to provide the full, advertised Collector’s Edition. They’ve even admitted to it, and it affects all retailers (as opposed to just one).

The Sackboy loss was no big deal, because it was from an online store I’d never even heard of until that story, and my pre-order is elsewhere. Had I heard that a small, online retailer was offering something nifty via pre-order that no other online retailer had access to, I would’ve been suspicious anyway.

However, the Fable II loss actually affects anyone who wanted the full Collector’s Edition experience. I actually feel kind of bad for those guys, because they were probably looking forward to that extra stuff.

Myself, I find it funny that Molyneux’s company is being so incompetent right after the guy admitting that he’s not really all that satisfied with the game. I wonder how he’s going to cover his rear this time? I’d say that it’s a little too late to preemptively apologise his metaphorical fat out of the fre, this time.

By: Psychotext

Psychotext — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 10:06:40 +0000

I was just reading that apparently the soundtrack and dev diaries were never part of the CE anyway. The dev diaries are freely downloadable and the soundtrack was to be purchased separately.

Not sure what this email is about.

By: Robo_1

Robo_1 — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 08:48:47 +0000

Basically, yeah.

The Fabe 2 SE has been gimped beyond belief though, to the point where it’s barely worth keeping the order tbh.

By: ecu

ecu — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 21:53:50 +0000

This coming after the LBP preorder lost the sackboy figurine this week.

If they can’t keep their pre-order promises, then they really shouldn’t announce so much.

By: huntersblades

huntersblades — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 21:50:02 +0000

The stories true, just got the email myself. I’ll keep my order as I only placed it for the in-game content anyway.