24Oct08 Not Aesop’s fable

It’s been a while since I’ve started a console game. I haven’t seen any that I’ve been interested in and quite frankly they’re expensive. A couple of weeks ago my husband started talking about Fable II and how he thought I would really enjoy it. He decided to trade in some of his old games and brought it home Wednesday. Since Wednesdays are ANTM nights I didn’t start playing it until yesterday.

He was right. I do like it except for one thing: even though the graphics are gorgeous and effects are nicely done some of the stuff on the screen is just too small to see. One of the features of the game is the ability to show expressions. These expressions are used by pressing up, down, left or right on the d-pad. However, these icons, while quite detailed, don’t clearly show what expression you’ll perform by pressing that button. Since your expressions affect what NPCs in the game think of you it’s important to know what each one does. You have to access a different screen to see the name of each of these expressions, which I found out later. Before then the following conversation took place:

Me: Honey, what does that icon mean?
Him: I’m not sure. This game was made for a bigger TV.
Me: …oh I see.

I joke that he bought the game as a ploy to get a bigger TV. We have been looking at getting a wide screen TV but they aren’t exactly cheap either. I should start looking around for Black Friday ads to get an idea of what the prices are going to look like around Thanksgiving and Christmastime. It’s hard to believe that October is almost over and the holidays are upon us.