Fable 2

When Fable came out for the original xbox Peter Molynuex had a great big stiffy for all of the craziness that he preached you could do.

Watch trees grow, step on a flower and see it die, chop down a forest and watch as the world changes. Every choice you make has a consequence. ...bullshit. The game boiled down to a bunch of black and white choices that were on the scale of teaching the concept of good and evil to a 1st grader.

Fable 2 is not much different in this respect. Whereas the choices at times seem much more difficult it is still obvious which is good and which is bad. The one thing I have noticed so far however is that you are not immediately aware of whether or not you are on a quest that is good or bad.

For example. I took a quest with a jilted lover ghost who was so pissed at his run away bride that he killed himself. After listening to him whine for 5 minutes about his loss and how much of a bitch she is he wanted me to get her to fall in love with me and then break her heart by rejecting her. Immediately I figured that the classic choice would be to tell her about her lover and let her know what he said and what happened to him. Perhaps I could have the two reconcile. Not so fast.

Long story short, I seduce her at a bar in the city whilst dancing like a ninny and am presented with two choices and two choices only:

1. Break her heart with the hateful note I had been given by the jilted lover
2. Marry her dumb ass and show her that love is still out there.

I couldn't pull the dick move after she confessed how sorry she was for her previous fiances death and how I helped her find what she never thought she would find ever again so I married her and moved into a cheap house on the east side of town. Now I have an all the time dirty wife that I cannot convince to take a bath since my house has no bathroom who enjoys being seduced in bars by dancing men....great.

Needless to say I immediately looked into my options for divorce, hoping to rid myself of her constant moaning about how awesome I am. Seems the typical route for people to take is a rifle to the wifes face.....come on now people im not that cruel. Can't I give her some cash and send her on her way?