Fable 2 Missing Online Co-Op At Launch

[TRios_Zen]

Spankey said:

TRios_Zen said:

vlad321 said:

JaggedSac said:
The online co-op is lacking. But the amazing single player experience more than makes up for it.

Agreed, but then what about other games which had excellent single-player but bad multiplayer? For instance, Metroid Prime 2 got slammed by everyone for its multiplayer. They weren't even promising anything great in terms of multiplayer either, meanwhile the co-op was one of the centerpieces during E3. In any case, another developer fucking up by not delaying a game when it's obvious they should have and I'm getting tired of developers pulling shit like that.

What date did the patch have to be released by?  I agree that multiplayer could have been better, but I'm not sure I understand why exactly you are saying this was rushed.

 

 

The way i understand it is that by the time the game had to go to print they didn't have the online enabled proberly yet, so they wanted to get the patch out on release day or as close to that as possible so as not to annoy too many people.

Having played a short stint in multiplayer mode, I agree with Mielke's comments from the 1up review; basically it's cool that you can earn gold and experince while playing with a buddy, but sucks that you can't go across as your own character. 

I don't know that they are ever going to be able to allow you to come across as your own character though, so I'm not sure that this is a) a good reason to say the patch (or game) was rushed or b) really impacts the quality of a game that has, for all other aspects, been rated as exemplary.