As many of you are aware, I haven't been active here on Destructoid for quite a while. This was partly because of my lack of interest in a lot of games which had been coming out over the last couple of months particularly during the summer, but perhaps more due to my exhaustion with the industry in general. I literally burned out on gaming news. I was doing nearly as much work as a professional games journalist and getting none of the credit, not just here but on many other sites. Now I'm back.
I've just finished Fable II, well I say 'just', I actually finished it two days ago and have been wandering around looking for new stuff to do. I can't find anything. It wasn't as if I had blasted through the game. I've finished just about every side quest I have any interest in finishing and all in all, I've clocked up just over 24 hours of play. Twenty freakin hours? I get more than twenty hours out of Tetris! OK, I'm probably going to replay it just to see what it's like to be a completely evil/corrupt character and to get one or two achievements I've missed out on, but really and truly, for one of the most anticipated games of the year, this is completely unacceptable. Now I here that there's DLC in the works, well it had better be a completely new campaign and quite frankly, considering the money I spent on this game (€60), it had better shit golden eggs!
Now I'm not saying I didn't enjoy the game for what it was, it was a great game, really good. The main quest was well written and interesting, the characters were believable, the art style lovable and so on and so forth, and if the game had been even ten hours longer or had a few more random dungeons, I'd give it an A. Right now it gets a soft C for second hand.
So I pose the question to you, citizens of Destructoid. What now? What can I do with my copy of Fable II now that I've exhausted it's (rather lacking) resources?
And put it away for a few months, try to forget as much as possible and play it through completely different.
I'd say hold onto it. I finished it recently, and I'm probably going to fool around with different "classes" and out comes. I'm interested in seeing how the evil game plays out since I ended up pretty good and pure.
And I don't know about you, but I feel like I can do a bunch of exploring that the quests didn't necessarily have you do.
Plus . . . for better or worse, I get a sinking feeling that there'll be DLC expanded main story.
About paying $60, I think Fable II was worth the price, in that intangible, not measured in hours sort of way. Maybe that's just me though.
WTF is wrong with everyone these days? Gamers are turning into a bunch of pretentious snobs.
Do you ever pay to go to the movies ($20) to see something and then buy it when it comes out on DVD ($20) or Blu Ray ($30)?
What is that on average, FOUR hours of entertainment? I'd say comparatively for the money, Fable 2 offers a ton more fun.
I am so sick of this kind of shit.
Once you step back from it for a while, I think your fondness of it will grow. Fable II was fantastic!