Fallout 3 V Fable 2

by **QuickBen67** on Thu Nov 27, 2008 1:00 pm

Which one do you reckon was the better game? Which did you get the most out of?

For me there is only one winner - Fallout 3.

I was totally underwhelmed and unenthuesed by Fable 2. Once again it fell far short of Peter Molyneux insane promises and ramblings!

At least Fallout 3 was a true go where you want adventure - Fable 2 was merely and illusion of this! Most of it was so mind numbingly linear and gave up trying to do all the side quests and just battered through the main quest just so I could stop playing it!

So how's about it folks? Thoughts...musings...rants....

by **Average Bear1** on Thu Nov 27, 2008 1:04 pm

I personally prefered Fable 2.

Fallout was too much like Oblivion.

by **ClownTrousers** on Thu Nov 27, 2008 1:05 pm

Fable 2. Fallout has more choice blah blah blah but it's brown and dull. And it IS just Oblivion with guns and less quests.

by **Average Bear1** on Thu Nov 27, 2008 1:07 pm

ClownTrousers wrote:Fable 2. Fallout has more choice blah blah blah but it's brown and dull. And it IS just Oblivion with guns and less quests.

QFT.

But I would have said more quests.

I didn't particularly enjoy Fable 2 as much as i'd hoped though.

by **QuickBen67** on Thu Nov 27, 2008 1:16 pm

I felt the story of Fallout 3 really helped make the game what it was - original,gripping and ultimately very grim. A stark reminder of what mankinds future may hold.

Fable 2 was just the usual fantasy fare that could have been lifted from any other fantasy RPG that proceded it. You mention Oblivion AB, but Fable for me didn'y even begin to scratch the surface of the experience that Oblivion offered.

by **Average Bear1** on Thu Nov 27, 2008 1:19 pm

QuickBen67 wrote:I felt the story of Fallout 3 really helped make the game what it was - original,gripping and ultimately very grim. A stark reminder of what mankinds future may hold.

Fable 2 was just the usual fantasy fare that could have been lifted from any other fantasy RPG that proceded it. You mention Oblivion AB, but Fable for me didn'y even begin to scratch the surface of the experience that Oblivion offered.

I wasn't comparing Fable to Oblivion.

Fable 2 didn't live up to the hype. Fallout 3 did for some.

I didn't enjoy Fallout in the same way I didn't enjoy Oblivion.

Fable 2... It was ok I guess. The story wasn't very original.

I never played the first Fable so I can't compare the two.

by **SCiARA** on Thu Nov 27, 2008 1:23 pm

this needs a god damn pole

ow and fantasy always beats grim reality

by **QuickBen67** on Thu Nov 27, 2008 1:23 pm

I know what your saying. I suppose my major gripe with Fable 2 is that @rse Molyneux!

2 years of him droning on about how Fable 2 was going to be the greatest thing since god invented Megan Fox and much like Fable the gamer is left wanting!

Still could have been worse - I could have been looking forward to Too Human *shudder*

by **QuickBen67** on Thu Nov 27, 2008 1:27 pm

SCiARA wrote:this needs a god damn pole

ow and fantasy always beats grim reality

Speak and thou wish shall be granted.....

PS - Anyone who votes for Fable 2 will have their vote deleted! This is my poll and its a Dictatorship!

by **Vibins** on Thu Nov 27, 2008 5:35 pm

SCiARA wrote:this needs a god damn pole

Wish granted

I tried my best to find a picture of a Polish pole dancer but I got sidetracked on Google images and.... well let's just leave it there shall we?

by **ClownTrousers** on Thu Nov 27, 2008 6:18 pm

Fallout definitely has less quests than Oblivion. Every town in Oblivion had 3-4 quests plus mages guild plus fighters guild plus brotherhood. Fallout has very, very few in comparison (and I read the guide when I finished to see how many I'd missed - 2 being the answer). There were some sort of half-sidequests like bring poppers to the zombie for cash or scrap to the boilerman for cash or fix the pipes, but they're not quests by my reckoning. I was less than 30 hours and visted almost every place on the map - Oblivion, before Shimmering Isles, was >80.

"But Fable II is a lot shorter". Yes, but I expected that. I hated Fable, but II rode me sideways.

by **Tom909** on Thu Nov 27, 2008 6:32 pm

SCiARA wrote:
ow and fantasy always beats grim reality

Naa, grim reality over fantasy any day. Thats why I didn't like oblivion (too many elves, potions, magic and generic fantasy fare) but love Fallout 3.

by **conkerconquer** on Thu Nov 27, 2008 8:41 pm

Fable 2 sticks to me not because its freedom in the normal sense. Its character freedom. I can become a spell casting transvestite whore with three kids and live in a castle, amongst many other almost infinite possibilities. Sure the quests are linear but the ways in which you can interact with the world and morph your character was so great. The charm of the world, British Fantasy is awesome, was just that beyond the lush graphics and lovable characters it was just so damn funny.

Usually I dig the whole Post-apocalyptic wasteland thing(its like my favorite genre) but Fallout3 just didn't sit right with me. Though finding out that Stephen Russel was a voice actor in it was pretty cool.

by **Palerider_GB** on Fri Nov 28, 2008 12:21 am

by **Average Bear1** on Fri Nov 28, 2008 10:58 am

*notices the mirror in vibins' picture*

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