Rihards Unplugged

Spent quite a sizable chunk of my weekend playing Fable and CoD2, mostly Fable though. Don’t know why I really started playing it again, as there are quite a few things that annoy me to no end, but somehow I just keep going back to it. Always just saying, one more quest, to myself and then playing about five or six through.

Mind you, most of the quests aren’t that exciting and offer very little in variations, or ground breaking things. Quite the contrary, a lot of them are either go from point A to point B, and/or rescue someone from somewhere. But there have been some really cool quests, like gathering books for the local school (it’s actually a lot better than it sounds like), or the chicken kicking competition quest.

One of the really cool things about Fable though as I have already mentioned in previous posts is the character customization. Lots of choices for various things, each armor piece looks differently on your character, and you can combine various armors. Then there’s of course hair styles, beard and mustache styles, and of course tattoos. So you can basically play with a completely differently looking character each time. Especially considering that the scars that your character gets from fighting are unique each time as well.

Overall a top notch game that could have done with some better storyline, storytelling and some more varied quests.

It would seem that I have been playing a lot of RPGs on the weekends lately, and this weekend is no exception. Last weekend I finished Jade Empire, and I have decided to play Fable this weekend, and maybe even finish it. Though I doubt that that will happen, since I haven’t had that much time to play it today.

From what I have played so far I really like it. Some really cool character customization options as well, and the story seems to be quite good so far as well. Granted it’s yet another xbox port to PC, so the controls and gameplay is quite simplistic, it’s still quite a lot of fun. A proper review, as always will come once I have finished the game.