Yves MakhoulGames It Took Me More Than a Year to Finish
June 21st 2008 01:22
Today, we introduce yet another new series: Games It Took Me More Than a Year to Finish.
This installment is all about Fable.
I've had the game since it was released in 2004. In fact, it contributed to the death of my first XBox, though I contend that Half-Life 2 was the true harbinger of its demise.
A little bit here, a little bit there...over FOUR years...and then last weekend, on Father's Day (the wife let me have a whole day to play without interference or complaint and even provided snacks when necessary) I popped Fable in for a marathon with one goal in mind...finish the bastard once and for all.
Okay, so I ignored several side missions. Some kid stayed sick because I couldn't be bothered to track down half-a-dozen fungi, I only got married once, and I never did get that sword from the stone (and thus the vicarious thrill of repeating Arthur's great deed was rendered moot).
But dammit, I got to the end--almost.
Fifteen or twenty minutes into the final battle with Jack, my beautiful one-year old son walked over to the XBox 360, pressed the button with the green circumfrence and darkness filled the screen.
My head dropped. I stared at the controller for a minute and decided that I had indeed finished Fable at last.
Now onto finishing the last forty minutes of Knights of the Old Republic II
That's all I got.
This installment is all about Fable.
I've had the game since it was released in 2004. In fact, it contributed to the death of my first XBox, though I contend that Half-Life 2 was the true harbinger of its demise.
A little bit here, a little bit there...over FOUR years...and then last weekend, on Father's Day (the wife let me have a whole day to play without interference or complaint and even provided snacks when necessary) I popped Fable in for a marathon with one goal in mind...finish the bastard once and for all.
Okay, so I ignored several side missions. Some kid stayed sick because I couldn't be bothered to track down half-a-dozen fungi, I only got married once, and I never did get that sword from the stone (and thus the vicarious thrill of repeating Arthur's great deed was rendered moot).
But dammit, I got to the end--almost.
Fifteen or twenty minutes into the final battle with Jack, my beautiful one-year old son walked over to the XBox 360, pressed the button with the green circumfrence and darkness filled the screen.
My head dropped. I stared at the controller for a minute and decided that I had indeed finished Fable at last.
Now onto finishing the last forty minutes of Knights of the Old Republic II
That's all I got.
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