Did Lionhead Drop the Ball on Fable 2 Co-Op?
The official Fable 2 forums are ablaze with angry co-op gamers, as it appears most of us have been misled as to exactly what the cooperative mode entails. The main gripe people are having is that your Fable 2 character does not transfer over to any form of co-op. This applies to both the online and the offline mode. What you do get is to become a henchmen, something we already knew, but we didn't know how literal the term was.
When Lionhead used the term "henchman" in our interview, they actually meant a henchman character - not a henchmen role. This mean that character you've worked so hard to customize, including weapons, armor, scars, and other markings all are NOT visible in your friend's game when joining. On top of this, any items you gain while in a friend's game will not transfer back to your character. The only thing that transfers is gold, experience and renown.
Unfortunately that's not the end of the issue list. Players are complaining about a wonky camera system, tethering players together in both local and co-op play. There's also a glitch when joining someone's game while they are in childhood that could affect and corrupt your own save. So be careful they are past the introduction stage.
At this point we can only hope for a proper co-op patch to allow your character in other player's games, or your friends character in your game. This seems to happen far to often when a developer gets this close to getting co-op play done right; to only have it missing a key piece of the equation.
Note to developers - Stripping features out of the co-op experience that you have in single player is never a good thing.
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Yes, The answer is yes Lionhead DID drop the ball. We know it, they know it. Let's move on and agree EA dropped the ball too
That bums me out that you lost your post. I was looking forward to it.
that's my mini-review.
FABLE II - XBOX 360
9.8/10 (A MUST BUY)
I think that most gamers agree that Fable II is a great game in and of itself, but in the interest of keeping the topic going: do you think that Lionhead dropped the ball on the CO-OP ASPECT of the game?
I haven't played the game, but I understand people want to show off their characters when they play with others, but that's not a huge deal with me.
My thing is that they give you a switch to control whether your buddy fights or not. It's a cool idea, but if you're playing someone you should know they enough to trust them NOT to kill your family.
Are you sure there's a switch to control whether the henchman fights? I've had only limited exposure to the co-op, but I seriously don't remember that option.
In response to your question, my biggest complaint is the camera. It's a huge, huge pain in the ass. Having to hit the right bumper to constantly center your camera on your character is archaic. There's a reason why we have two analog sticks!
Couldn't care less about the henchman. Other than the weapons and armor, it's purely aesthetic. The henchman carries over all spells and skills of your primary character.
I have always been a big MP and Co-op player but almost exclusively on FPS's for the last decade, so whenever a new MP shooter comes out my friend's list if full of people playing it.
However, not too many people on my list are big RPGrs and it's too bad since I'd really like to see how different the worlds are that other people create. Especially the evil ones. since I'm playing as a womanizing business mogul, so I have to be "goodie two shoes". So I just figured "Co-optimus" would be the place to come and already being familiar with bAp's work over the last few years, I new it was worthy of the time.
I guess time will tell if my joining because of F2's co-op is helpful to it's case or not. .
I'm enjoying messing around with the interactions so the SP is delivering for me, and even if there are far better co-op experiences to come, I wouldn't call this "dropping the ball", it's just making gamers want more complete and varied Co-op games and I think we all want developers to get that message.
And, in the spirit if this site, it might be a good idea to curb this nrgative over-reaction that is exploding on all the websites, it seems like many people are coming to the conclusion that Lionhead shouldn't have even tried the co-op, and for a gamer who wants more and more varied co-op, I wouldn't want developers to think it isn't worth the try.
So, I guess I wouldn't mind being anyone's henchmen bitch style deficient lame sidekick, just don't call me "Boy Wonder" .
"Last seen 22 hours ago playing Fable II
Going home for an evening of lovemaking."
Ouch!
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