Comments on: I Smelled What the Rock Was Cooking

by: Dan M

Wed, 26 Oct 2005 22:02:44 +0000

Before everyone thinks I have some sort of Lindsay Lohan infatuation (aside from that 6-second Mean Girls clip…bouncy bouncy), I say this…Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story. Learn it. Live it. Love it.

by: Chris L

Wed, 26 Oct 2005 21:39:13 +0000

I’m sure Dan saw the Lindsey Lohan’s remake of “Herby Goes Bananas” for the same kinds of reasons.

by: A J

Wed, 26 Oct 2005 20:28:15 +0000

The experience of toiling thru a game like this, as a ‘good guy,’ is always doubly rewarded (for me at least) when you get to hit “Start–>New Character” with the knowledge that all the whiny NPCs you had to lead by the nose and coddle are awaiting their just desserts.

I fully anticipate playing fable thru with my conceince locked away where it can’t hurt me.

Oh yeah, and I wanna “Smeeelllalalllalala, what the Rock is cooking” as well. I assume the experience (as you said) is easier to appreciate if you’re feelign it in THX on a giant screen. I know it worked great for Milla Jovovich’s sweet sweet bod (http://www.millaj.com/) . Why not Pinky Demon?

by: Chris L

Wed, 26 Oct 2005 19:49:23 +0000

I did, at one point, take my saintly character from my first play through on a killing rampage just to see what would happen. I singlehandedly depopulated the Guild, Bowerstone, and Oakvale of every living being and came away with my halo intact. It may be that the accumulated good deeds I had done earlier in the game balanced out my sudden rampage, or it may be that, like Marion Barry, the people love me no matter how much crack I smoke or hookers I sleep with.

by: Tim F

Wed, 26 Oct 2005 17:32:36 +0000

It’s a testament to the game in a lot of ways. I too felt a pang of remorse when chopping innocent women in the back with my axe just to collect a few experience and evil points. Unfortunately, the game has a flaw and despite being evil, if you kill a monster or bandit, even out of self defense, you are awarded angel points. This forces you in some ways to resort to killing villagers to balance the scales.

Killing villagers is also a quick and easy way to become really evil really quickly. I obtained all of the evil expressions and looks very early on, but when I was good I didn’t receive my halo until near the end.

It’s also wierd trying to court and marry when you’re evil and repulsing most people. They won’t want anything to do with you for most of the game and then all of a sudden they like you.

I might not have wanted to play the game evil if I hadn’t just beaten Knights of the Old Republic as a good guy. By the end of that game, I was really fed up with being nice and helping people despite their bitchy attitudes. I was ready to kick some chickens and kill my wives.

by: Jeff S

Wed, 26 Oct 2005 17:13:20 +0000

I can actually identify with your experience here. The first time I hit a good guy in Fable and he started crying and I knew I couldn’t play the rest of the game on the path of evil. I guess I’m just hell bent on saving the world.