Thursday, December 22, 2011

Fable 3 Review

   Okay I was super super excited about this game! I loved Fable and Fable 2!  And who didn't enjoy having an adorable puppy follow you around?
   Fable 3 was interesting, but I don't see myself playing it through again.  Even for the achievements, and I love getting achievements lol.  The game is extremly glitchy and you can't save multiply times.  So if you happen to be running through town or on a quest and you hear people talking, stop and listen.  Do not move until they are done.  This happened to my husband, we were playing under his game on a side quest you had to do to build up your rep.  We were listening to these people talk while walking through their 'board game' and the game glitched.  He had to restart his game from the very beginning.
   The interactions aren't as fun as they were in Fable 3, and the menu isn't as easy to access.  But hey, you have a treasure room that fills with gold the richer you get, and a little table that presents sit on from other games or from the citizens of Fable.
   A good thing about Fable 3, people no longer run in fear if you push the wrong button and happen to pull our your gun or shoot magic.  Which since I do that a lot, is quite relieving.  And say your playing with someone else on their game? You can move freely, both of you can.  For example, many times my husband and I lost each other in town on this game.  We wound up on other sides of town trying to figure out which way to go.  The only off thing about this is you no longer have that button to push that teleports you to your companion.  But I can live with that since I can runaway from the other character.  You can't leave or enter town without each other or talk to quest people without the other person present though.

Wednesday, December 21, 2011

Skyrim Review

   Alright I know this game has been out for awhile, but its my newest one.  For those of you who have yet to play this game, read at your own risk.
   This game starts out much like its predecessor, Oblivion.  Your a criminal but you're not in jail, nope, you're just about to get executed.  Then a dragon saves you're pretty little head from falling off, and I must say that the dragons in this game look awesome!! I was afraid that they would look cheesy but they look really good! Shame we have to kill them.  But my husband assures me that not all the dragons are bad.  He's further along on the main quest then I am, I've spent most of my time doing side quests.
   Eventually you get a house carl who goes adventuring with you and can help you carry you're things so you dont get over encumbered. The nice thing about being over encumbered in this game, you can still move.  However, you can't fast travel so keep that in mind when you decide to pick up everything in sight.
   You can craft your own weapons, cook, and make potions.  I dont really see the point in cooking, you can make food to either eat or sell but it doesn't help you level up or anything like that.  Still its fun.
     The Thieves Guild and Darkbrother Hood are still there, yay!! Gotta love these guilds.  However, just killing one person will not land you in the Darkbrother Hood, you have to listen to rumors to get a certain quest and then take a nap.  Then, Wa-La! You're kidnapped, thats what it seemed like to me anyway lol.  There is no Fighters Guild or Mages Guild.  There is the Champions and the Mages College though, basically the same thing.  Be weary when you join the Champions though.  My husband was not pleased when I told him and quite doing the quests for them for awhile lol.  I'm content with it though :D Stops you from getting any illnesses.
     So far I have yet to run into any major problems with the game.  I've had one glitched quest that says its done, but I never completed it and if I talk to the guy who gave me the quest he tells me to finish it.  No biggie though, there are plenty of other things to do in Skyrim.  Also, the game will start to freeze after awhile.  I think its just Skyrim's way of saying 'you've played to long, turn me off.'  You can easily get around this though, just save and go to your dashboard then once there go back into skyrim and its no longer freezing.  I've also come across a rather funny glitch that fixed itself.  A blacksmith was working at his bench, hammering a weapon.  Yet stuck to his hammer was a broom.  I thought it was hilarious and was going to record it with my camera, but it fixed itself by the time I found my camera :(