20th September 2004, 11:03 AM
Huh, gifts from your spouse eh? Yeah, that's kinda... warped...
Oh well, anyway, how limited are the environments? Is it REALLY a direct single path from point a to point b, or what? One thing I've always liked about the Zelda series is being able to just sorta go anywhere after a certain point, within your abilities. No corridors on the world map there, just walk wherever and just suddenly sprint off in that direction, and boom, massive lake of hyrule, or go that way, boom, big arse lost woods full of fake swords. I've loved knowing I really don't have to go exactly where the game wants me to, and that means, mini-games a plenty! Now, FFX is the opposite. From the very start to the very end, you can't do anything that the game didn't expressly tell you to do. You LITERALLY are walking a straight line path through most of the game, you LITERALLY can't go left or right most of the time.
So, between those two, where does Fable lie?
Oh well, anyway, how limited are the environments? Is it REALLY a direct single path from point a to point b, or what? One thing I've always liked about the Zelda series is being able to just sorta go anywhere after a certain point, within your abilities. No corridors on the world map there, just walk wherever and just suddenly sprint off in that direction, and boom, massive lake of hyrule, or go that way, boom, big arse lost woods full of fake swords. I've loved knowing I really don't have to go exactly where the game wants me to, and that means, mini-games a plenty! Now, FFX is the opposite. From the very start to the very end, you can't do anything that the game didn't expressly tell you to do. You LITERALLY are walking a straight line path through most of the game, you LITERALLY can't go left or right most of the time.
So, between those two, where does Fable lie?
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)