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nightsurge on 23 December 2008
Barozi said:
Funny how many people take this thread serious

Exactly why I posted.  Some of us know he is being incredibly sarcastic, but others won't, and this will incite fanboyish warfare.... thus, why I suggested this thread was trolling.  No nead to ban the Squill man, he meant no harm, but perhaps a locking of this thread?



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Zomb1337 on 23 December 2008

FABLE 2 sold over 2 million copies already, how is that a failure? Squillam, go die in your hole.



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(Predicted on 5/31/11) END of 2011 Sales - Xbox 360 = 62M;  PS3 = 59M;  Wii = 97M

Slimebeast on 23 December 2008
Squilliam said:

Wheres Starcrafts post-mortem on the situation? Since it hasn't been written its pretty obvious that hes extremely disapointed with the game, and to be frank, theres a lot of things to be disapointed about.

Probably the reason why Starcraft didn't make a thread about Fable 2 is because we have to yet again sort through a whole new list of broken promises. Probably the biggest one, and likely the main reason why Starcraft hasn't posted about Fable 2 was the idea of having a sheep companion instead of a dog. Starcraft spoke at length to me in PMs about how he wanted to be more than a "Chicken Chaser". I think it cut him deep, so deep that even a fellow Austrian like Rolstoppable couldn't console him.

With sales this average, why bother to talk about them at all? There are other games that sold worse, and other games which sold better, but one things certain the game didn't live up to expectations. Mario Kart sold 10 million copies this year, and it was an extremely hardcore game. Fable 2 sold barely 1/5th what Mario Kart sold and its extremely disapointing to see such a similar game perform so badly on the Xbox 360. Its probably far too casual, the Xbox 360 has too many casual middling releases so its hard for one to distinguish itself.

The biggest problem I had personally was the emasculating casualness of the game. Its simply impossible to lose!

First of all, Fable II is an awesum game, but we all know Peter Molyneux's out of this world promises so of course it was not gonna live up to them.

I agree, Starcraft has been silent because he is so ashamed lol.
(everyone are still babbling about LBP sales but no one is even mentioning Fable II)

He was predicting sales lifetime of no more than 4 million copies though, which still is reachable (most likely Fable II will sell 3.5 mill, but that is pretty close).

As I said, Fable II is great, but Peter Molyneux lied about it being open-world/sandbox while it actually felt very linear. That was the biggest let down IMO, plus that the game is too easy of course. 



Smashchu2 on 23 December 2008

Ummm, the game sold 2million. Why is it a bomb?



DMeisterJ on 23 December 2008

Squilliam +1



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nightsurge on 23 December 2008
DMeisterJ said:
Squilliam +1

Of course you would.... =/



Torillian on 23 December 2008
nightsurge said:
Barozi said:
Funny how many people take this thread serious

Exactly why I posted. Some of us know he is being incredibly sarcastic, but others won't, and this will incite fanboyish warfare.... thus, why I suggested this thread was trolling. No nead to ban the Squill man, he meant no harm, but perhaps a locking of this thread?

 

It's all about how you think about it.  Personally I choose to think about the thread as kind of a weeding process.  Now I know all of the poeple that don't actually read threads (sheep instead of a dog, come on that is an easy catch as a joke) and therefore I can remember to ignore what they say in the future.



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pbroy on 23 December 2008

Fable 2 should have sold more. If it was on PS3, it might have. The mainstream 360 fan is more into First Person Shooters or Sports games. PS3 fans are more niche and appreciate these type of games more. People wonder why RPGs aren't doing so hot on the 360, there you go. The 360 is holding Fable down!!!! Unshackle the beast!!!

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Reasonable on 23 December 2008

This is the strangest defence of LBP I've seen. Well done.



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Fumanchu on 23 December 2008

Same old news - another day, another New Zealander activist for 'sheep companionship' in video games...I think your classification board would impose a mandatory censorship prohibiting you from any real-world simulation...