Fable Gripes *SPOILERS*

[Rasix]

If you do all of the side quests, a single run through of KotoR can take over 40 hours.  I think my first run through was 44.

If I hadn't wiped my hard drive several times between last playing the game I could check but... I remember distinctly beating in in around 25 hours each time (second time was a bit faster if I remember, even if getting more done).  Second time though was with pretty much all side quests being toasted (You have more if you're evil).

Perhaps I'm simply mistaken and it took 40+ hours each time, but the game didn't seem especially long or difficult.

[Sky]

I've been quite content with games like KotOR that run about 40-60 hours

I hope that's with multiple replays :)

Just over 60 hours my first play-through as a goody sentinal and just over 40 hours the second time as an evil...errr...magejeditypeguy...

I don't think fable is too bad, but this is a gripe thread :) Playing the excellent Gothic II immediately previous to Fable accounts for a lot of my complaints, because it was of decent length, had high-res graphics with full scene processing, tons of unique npcs with spoken dialoge and tons of quests and world interactivity....

And I will allow that Gothic II has some quirky interface elements, but I feel Fable is every bit, if not more, quirky in its interface, at least anything not directly mapped to a button. Fable's combat is a bit better, and the avatar changes its look more, but in every other category I feel Gothic II is a superior game. From a mostly unknown european developer, though, not a 'gaming god' *cough*

[NewGuy]

... Playing the excellent Gothic II immediately previous to Fable accounts for a lot of my complaints...

You are getting me interested here, but not about Fable. How about a mini-review of Gothic II? Might be worth it's own thread.

[Sky]

The reason I never do reviews is my mind is not organized enough for such a thing. I just ramble around derailing threads and sneaking in commentary like that. Like the grimwell.com thread about AC2 which is not about AC2 much at all :)

I'm warming to Fable, though, now that I'm getting used to the lower res graphics. It was really jarring going from the high-res G2 to Fable, but I appreciate the graphics a lot more now, they are nice, just low-res.