Fable Reviews

[Dyne]

Originally Posted by The Strangler

And you say this because...

Watch 1up.com and Gamespot.com in the near future for examples.

[GiMpY-wAnNaBe]

Quite a let down, i hope GTA: San Andreas doesn't do the same thing, because its impossible not to relate the two hypes.

[DarkMaster]

haha, 9.3, yeah, what a sh*tty score.

Like I said before, Wind Waker all over again. Can't wait to have a good laugh over at the IGN boards.

[GiMpY-wAnNaBe]

Its not that its a bad game Darkmaster, its just that a lot of the features that got people really excited aren't in it anymore. Too much Hype was created over it, and in consequence when the hype was not all completely true, people get pissed. But even without all the features that were taken out its still an excellent game.



so anyways, is it on storeshelves yet?

[DarkMaster]

Originally Posted by GiMpY-wAnNaBe

Its not that its a bad game Darkmaster, its just that a lot of the features that got people really excited aren't in it anymore. Too much Hype was created over it, and in consequence when the hype was not all completely true, people get pissed. But even without all the features that were taken out its still an excellent game.



so anyways, is it on storeshelves yet?

I thought my post pretty well implied all that, what with the and all. I know it's not a bad game, and it was hyped up to the ass, and all that. My point was, I thought a 9.3 was a great score, but just like Wind Waker, which got a 9.6 instead of everyone's expected 9.9-10.0, people begin to go berserk and say a lot of stupid sh*t, i.e. ign boards.

Originally Posted by Canyarion

Nono, The Wind Waker had ANTI-hype.... and it turned out to be not that bad.

Don't give me that, you can't tell me a ZELDA game had anti-hype. Lots of people were bullsh*tting about the graphics, but everyone was looking forward to it. First Zelda on GCN, you can't tell me it wasn't hyped up to all hell.

[thatmariolover]

Originally Posted by DarkMaster

Don't give me that, you can't tell me a ZELDA game had anti-hype. Lots of people were bullsh*tting about the graphics, but everyone was looking forward to it. First Zelda on GCN, you can't tell me it wasn't hyped up to all hell.

Depends on who you look at. Some people hyped it up (namely objective and mature game players that understood the market) and others didn't (the standard game players that bitched about the graphics.

I'm not denying that it was hyped. I'm just saying that it kind of depended who you were looking at.

[Canyarion]

Originally Posted by DarkMaster

haha, 9.3, yeah, what a sh*tty score.

Like I said before, Wind Waker all over again. Can't wait to have a good laugh over at the IGN boards.

Nono, The Wind Waker had ANTI-hype.... and it turned out to be not that bad.

[Professor S]

Originally Posted by Dyne

Watch 1up.com and Gamespot.com in the near future for examples.

Thats hardly an explanation, more of a prognostication. As for Gamespot, they think its their job to score everything lower than IGN so thats not exactly a difficult guess. I've never heard of 1up.com, but I'll check them out now.

I'm waiting more for Gamespy's verdict as I trust them more than pretty much everyone else, but thats just my personal bias.

Anyway you slice it I'm going to be playing this game a LOT come Sept. 14th.

[Rumpelstilzchen]

Originally Posted by The Strangler

I've never heard of 1up.com

Neither have I, but have you seen those kids wearing 1up shirts? The ones with the green shrooms reminiscent of the days Nintendo was moreso competition than a dying grandfather.

No Nintendo site will give Fable a good review, for this you should believe Dyne. And what I've seen of Dyne's previous posts, surely he's the best at knowing the fan-at ways of the Nintenders (those who tend the dying Nin)

[thatmariolover]

Originally Posted by Rumpelstilzchen

No Nintendo site will give Fable a good review, for this you should believe Dyne.

What are you talking about? What Nintendo site is going to be reviewing Fable in the first place? If you're just talking about the fact that Nintendo oriented journalists are going to talk bad about it, then I honestly think that's like saying some people don't like vegetables. I mean seriously. Lots of journalists/gamers are pumped for Fable whether they own a GameCube or an Xbox. I'm a much bigger GC fan than I am Xbox, but I'm still stoked for Fable (and any other good release on the Xbox). Most of the sites you refer to are probably run by a 13 year old kid with his daddy paying the bandwidth. In which case, the people reading them are usually the same type of people. So ignore them.

I mean come on. Your whole arguement is based on the assumption that every Nintendo fan is completely biased and unwilling to see that there are other systems with good games. And that's a pretty weak arguement.

There are a lot of very open-minded Nintendo fans that are only invisible to those who are too close-minded to see them.

[The Germanator]

Isn't 1up.com somehow affiliated with EGM? They always mention it in the magazine...

[Bond]

1UP is owned by Ziff Davis, who also owns EGM.

[Stonecutter]

The fact that a game that started off this ambitious was even released, let alone not turned into a monumental cluster****, is something far more than anyone could have reasonably expected.

The fact that it's still earning 9's is one of the greatest upsets in video game history.


and still, nobody's going to play it, because it's forever doomed to xbox, the greatest system that nobody loved.

poor, poor lionhead/BBB

[Dyne]

Originally Posted by Rumpelstilzchen

No Nintendo site will give Fable a good review, for this you should believe Dyne. And what I've seen of Dyne's previous posts, surely he's the best at knowing the fan-at ways of the Nintenders (those who tend the dying Nin)

That was the only post I was directing my hate at. I didn't mean to hurt any of your feelings.

[Professor S]

Hurt feelings? No. Confused me? Yes.

why the hell are you guys making assumptions about me?

Next time don't use plurals when hating one person.