If there were, I doubt they would admit the truth and affect sales of the game.
But yes, the co-op sounds like complete shit and I'm giving serious thought to cancelling the preorder, since I was going to be playing through the game with my gf and it just doesn't sound fun anymore.
The graphics are in the game, why they didn't just allow the character's look and items to be imported over is beyond me. This whole henchman system seems like it was more work to implement.
Unless something changed during development, there was a video that showed Peter using a healing spell on the dog. Have you checked your spells to see if there is one of those?
edit: Granted that video was the actual first introduction of the dog to the public/gaming writers.
There's so many mixed messages about co-op. Has anyone tried the following:
1. Sign in as a user, I'll call this Gamer1.
2. Start Fable 2, create a character, customize that character a little. Play past the opening
when you're a child until you become an adult.
. I say this because I've heard rumour of a bug where if you join someone else's game and that player is still in the beginning stage of the game you lose all your levels. Anyone else heard this?
3. Exit the game.
4. Sign in as a different user, I'll call this Gamer2.
5. Start Fable 2, create a character, customize it a little. Play past the beginning as per #2
6. With your second controller, sign in as Gamer1 and join Gamer2's game to play local co-op.
Playing past the beginning is optional - I'm just suggesting it to avoid the bug I've heard about. Also, I could understand why you couldn't join someone's game that was past the beginning if you yourself hadn't gotten past the beginning already as well.
What happens at step 6? You can't choose your character you've already created and are only given a list of pre-generated henchmen instead?
ok i thought this was due out at midnight today?
i just called best buy where i preordered and they said they would not have it till wed during the day???
anyone know the scoop on actually walk in and get it date?
ok i thought this was due out at midnight today?
i just called best buy where i preordered and they said they would not have it till wed during the day???
anyone know the scoop on actually walk in and get it date?
Alot of the times stores like bestbuy don't sale the game on release day, they tend to do it on Wednesdays being that's what they usually put in their sunday ads.
ok i thought this was due out at midnight today?
i just called best buy where i preordered and they said they would not have it till wed during the day???
anyone know the scoop on actually walk in and get it date?
ok i thought this was due out at midnight today?
i just called best buy where i preordered and they said they would not have it till wed during the day???
anyone know the scoop on actually walk in and get it date?
Looks good to me. I'm going into the game a bit blind - I haven't read any of the reviews, only watched a couple videos and have read just a few impressions. I'm been absorbed by the US election lately and am behind on my gaming news, and I'm oddly excited to dive into the game with relatively little exposure to it.
Your dog doesn't have hit points or a health bar, so his "wounded state" is more of an AI thing, and less of an indication of him being near death or anything. The dog elixir is an infinite-use item that resets him to the happy and healthy animation and AI state. You never run out of dog elixir. There are no healing spells in the game, but potions are so cheap and readily available that you're never really going to get in any serious trouble in combat as long as you use them early. Resurrection potions (also readily available) also allow you to die without scarring.
I've read the OP that states that F2 is set 500 years after the events of F1. I've never played F1, nor do I really want to (WAY too many games to play atm). I should be able to play F2 and not be utterly lost, right?
That's cool, I just happened upon it when I went there to see if the review video was up. I really don't know if I should watch it or not since the written review had the name of the nemesis on the first page---I had no clue who was the "bad guy" until then. Hopefully that wasn't a big spoiler, but either way I'm trying to stay cautious since it's so close to release.
I decided not to watch, fuck it, it's too close to worry about videos anymore.
Okay, here's how it works. Fable II supports local AND online co-op, with online being made available via day 1 patch.
Locally, both players share the same screen. You can't leave the screen's edge without your partner. The henchman can teleport to the main player by pressing back.
The second player uses a henchman character (good female, neutral male, evil female, etc) but they can keep a portion of gold and experience earned if they sign in to a profile, which is then added to their own character.
I just found out my local mom and pop games shop, who offers a GameFly-esque rental membership, is having a midnight release for Fable II tonight. Joy.
You can still do it if you didn't patch your Pub Games. If you did, I believe you can press some buttons to reset it to pre-patch state, but you have to look that up yourself. When the dashboard prompts you to patch pub games, just say no. Works like a charm.
The cheat is easily found on youtube, just look for pub games videos.
Okay, here's how it works. Fable II supports local AND online co-op, with online being made available via day 1 patch.
Locally, both players share the same screen. You can't leave the screen's edge without your partner. The henchman can teleport to the main player by pressing back.
The second player uses a henchman character (good female, neutral male, evil female, etc) but they can keep a portion of gold and experience earned if they sign in to a profile, which is then added to their own character.
And that is complete bullshit and not what we were originally told and shown. Huge disappointment there, though I'm still looking forward to buying the game tomorrow.
Okay, here's how it works. Fable II supports local AND online co-op, with online being made available via day 1 patch.
Locally, both players share the same screen. You can't leave the screen's edge without your partner. The henchman can teleport to the main player by pressing back.
The second player uses a henchman character (good female, neutral male, evil female, etc) but they can keep a portion of gold and experience earned if they sign in to a profile, which is then added to their own character.
So is the online CO OP effected by the lame Local co op restrictions? I know its not out yet but im hopefull that i can take My character into someone else world over live and not use a preset character?
And that is complete bullshit and not what we were originally told and shown. Huge disappointment there, though I'm still looking forward to buying the game tomorrow.
I don't completely disagree with you, but this henchmen co-op thing has been known for months now. This is really a single-player experience, but one that they added a co-op mode so that you can check it out with a friend. It's nice that, at the very least, you can earn gold and xp for your own character while playing with a friend.
Okay, here's how it works. Fable II supports local AND online co-op, with online being made available via day 1 patch.
Locally, both players share the same screen. You can't leave the screen's edge without your partner. The henchman can teleport to the main player by pressing back.
The second player uses a henchman character (good female, neutral male, evil female, etc) but they can keep a portion of gold and experience earned if they sign in to a profile, which is then added to their own character.
It's been known for months that your character would *act* as a henchman in someone else's game, not that he wouldn't even be your own character. That's the entire purpose of co-op in an RPG. They have shown videos in the past showing both of the originally created main characters in the game at the same time. Could you imagine Diablo with this sort of henchman bullshit? It completely defeats the point of multiplayer.
I only have to assume something went badly wrong with co-op down the stretch, which would explain both that and the delay.
So is the online CO OP effected by the lame Local co op restrictions? I know its not out yet but im hopefull that i can take My character into someone else world over live and not use a preset character?
I hope not. Im probably going to be doing online co-op more than local with a game like Fable 2. The orb community with people being able to talk to one another at any time was cool, but if the game is built off customizing your character, i'd want to use my custom character with other people online.
Henchmen should only be offline and for people who just want to help out in co-op for abit.
Yeah, the henchmen character in co-op is pretty much limited to helping in combat and pitching in on the expressions. They don't have an inventory (when you create the character you pick what kind of melee and ranged weapon you want) and they can't do any shopping. They're also stuck using the same Will powers (spells) as the main player.
Maybe the online co-op WILL be different. After reading the lionhead community forums, someone noticed you could trade with an orb online but not with a henchman. If they can do that, then why wouldnt the orb itself turn into your actual hero when invited into someone elses world?
Either way I hope stores in Houston will actually have the game tomorrow. Every salespaper i've seen says in stores October 21st. I just hope they dont pull some "we havent recieved our shipment yet" crap.
