I played co-op with a friend. Co-op is wicked shallow; you play a generic character while the main hero does his shit. You can't even import your own characters into the game to be player 2, which seems like a no-brainer.

Fable 2 in a nutshell:
“Hey guys, what's goin' on?”
Get shot.

“Hey guys, what's goin' on again?”
Town guards called on you.

“Hey family, what's goin' on?”
Your child's been kidnapped.

“Hey hobs, what's goin' on?”
Child saved.

“Hey badguy, what's-”

“OBEY”

“Hey dog, what's goin' on?”
Dog has joined the party.

“Hey badguy, what's-”
“OBEY”
“That's not cool badguy.”
Game over.

As Yahtzee said on Zero Punctuation, you can just tape down the magic button and let it play itself overnight.

Very happy I didn't buy Fable 2. Was worth a good laugh when a friend brought it over, but it really didn't seem terribly good.

I'm going to get Prototype on Tuesday, depending how the reviews go.

battosai810 said:

I'm going to get Prototype on Tuesday, depending how the reviews go.

Was watching a fellow play this last night. Looked like GTA + Wolverine + Hellish mutants.

That sounds pretty cool Batto

I recently bought Call of Duty 4… and wow. I've never felt that kind of atmosphere with a WAR game! I've played numerous games like Medal of Honor: Front line, Medal of Honor, Medal of Honor: Rising sun, Call of Duty 2: Big red one, and the History Channel presents the Civil war. All of which refused to tug any heartstrings or push any emotion besides “kill that nazi/jap there”. I didn't care about my AI people at all. To me they were expendable and had as much personality as a cardboard box.

At the very beginning of the History Channel game (its better to buy as a joke gift than something for yourself), I'm given instructions by my commanding officer: there's Yankee/Dixie bastards up the hill with a Gatling gun (I'm forced to watch it, the camera is locked on them), and me and my squad of 2 other jerk offs have to take that position. Literally as soon as he's finished, a cannonball (WTF?) comes and kills him and my 2 jerkoff squadmates. One pleaded “Don't forget about me…!”.

Um. Sorry, I don't know you cardboard box man.

Partially the reason why I went through so many games as of late is storyline involved. All those WWII (and civil war) games had no real storyline besides what was established already. They don't go out on a limb and have you fight nazis on a giant zeppelin or escape from an exploding Nazi HQ while riding in farmer trucks complete with pigs in the bed and chicken feathers flying everywhere. No, its usually “go here, kill things”. The games like Fable 2, Oblivion, and Red Faction end up shitting all over itself storywise and leaves me aggrivated as hell.

With COD4, it is much more varied and it has a good sense of “I know what the hell I'm doing” Unlike other shooters who haphazardly bumble about. Halo 1 was good on the “I know what I'm doing” thing, but then it shits over itself in Halo 2 and 3. Seriously, I didn't know why I was going where I was, but the game foced me along. I don't like that.

While CoD4 does have an out of the blue ending that resolves very little of the game, it was still very exciting and cunning. Not once was I ever thinking about quitting for the night, rather I kept saying “one more mission” until the very end. and I wanted more.

The endings in Fable 2 and Red Faction, while they work for what goes along with the game, the games themselves don't go out on a limb quite like COD4. They establish a path and don't stray. Its this lack of variety (while having spot on, “why am I here” coherency and controls) that doomed these other games in my eye and got me hooked on COD4.

Thanks, I needed to rant. Hope its all coherent.

Wow, that does sound horrid… good thing I didn't venture away from my MoH before then…

All the survivors at the beginning of Dead Rising are scripted to die. You can't progress until they do.

A good buddy of mine also loved Fable 1 and hated Fable 2. I played it and was unimpressed. I probably detailed this in a previous post in this thread.

For $40 you can get it with Lost Planet and Devil May Cry 4. I have that little bundle, and it's a fantastic price.

The actual free mode is shit. You need to keep finding food, as your health is constantly draining. The REAL free mode is what I accidentally did:

In the beginning, when you're stuck in the lobby, you're supposed to go up the stairs by 7pm. It's like noon, so you just need to bide your time. There's a sign in the middle of the lobby you can get on top of, and once you're there just wait. Zombies can't reach you. Once 7pm passes, you can go up the stairs and congratulations, you're free to roam about the mall. While parts of it remain locked (as they only unlock through completion of certain missions) you can still navigate through most of the mall. Then on the last day, you can catch your helicopter and be off.
I did this twice before actually tackling the story mode which, while very good, is hard to complete on time without a strategy guide. I think IGN had an excellent one that helped me through it just fine.

As for death of NPCs? I was really sad when my favorite NPC died. He was named Kendall or something – a fat black guy in a tuxedo with a shotgun. We managed to get almost the entire way back to the safe room when he got completely swarmed. I wanted to save him, but it was him or me and I was going for the “beat the game without dying” achievement. It turns out that (SPOILER ALERT!) he'll get antsy and try to kill a survivor unless you go back to calm him down, so in the end it just saved me some time.

Well, if you just hide in the bathroom and wait you're not actually doing anything.

If you want a version with no time limit, you can get the Wii version. It's shit; don't play it. In a game about a photographer using hundreds of weapons to kill thousands of zombies, there's no camera, a dozen weapons, and a couple dozen zombies. Dead Rising was one of the first games to really take advantage of the new advanced hardware it was running on, and porting it was a terrible idea.