19th September 2004, 6:16 PM
Well, I've put nearly 8 hours into Fable now and I've got to say despite its hype-induced shortcomings I absolutely love it! You may be restricted to small "passages", but the developers took great care to make each one looks as good as they could make, while that doesn't make up for not having huge areas it certainly helps. And also despite a noticeably short supply of non-linearity, it's a very fun game. The only way I'll stop playing it now is either I beat it or I shrivle up into a dry husk due to a lack of food, water, and sleep. Another big dissapoinment is that getting married doesn't really do much for you, except give you a huge dowry [Kaching!] and get you a high rating on the "Heh heh, they're having sex!" scale, since you wife[s] won't have any kids. Going on quests and beating guys up with your Berserk Rage is a ton of fun, though.
Sometimes you get the scorpion.