Uncle Dokuro Posted October 12, 2014 Share Posted October 12, 2014 I was surprised I did a search and we did not have a thread for this already. multiplayer beta will go live in a few weeks you can sign-up here . I signed up and it would be nice if I could play with friends and not randoms. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
illdog Posted October 12, 2014 Share Posted October 12, 2014 Good lookin out man, signed up too. Please be good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle Dokuro Posted October 12, 2014 Author Share Posted October 12, 2014 I'm hoping it will be good too! Glad someone else signed up. I was going to post a picture of some random dog doing "puppy eyes" to get more people to sign up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
illdog Posted April 26, 2015 Share Posted April 26, 2015 I had a couple of quick go's on the beta this weekend, it started Friday and I think it finishes tonight. It was a big download for my shitty connection, took the best part of 24 hours to download so that was a day instantly taken out of the play time. It's fucking slow to load, took a good 6 or 7 minutes to get playing. I started with the default character, some broad that throws apples. You start in a town square that acts as a pre-game lobby. You can run around the fountain centre piece but even though there are little cbbled paths that lead to big wooden doors you cant even get near them, you just hit an invisible wall. Anyways, in this little lobby you can change your character, read about the specific character powers and other minor gameplay mechanics. Once you select the 'Quick Play' option from the menu the game matchmakes while you wait, then it takes 3 or 4 minutes and a couple of random screen before it dumps you in a forest glade in front of a blue portal that you cant yet access. Then the game drops another three players in with you, the portal vanishes and your off, pretty much left to figure out what the fuck is going on and how to utilise your characters powers. You have to rescue villagers that are tied to a post somewhere in the forest, marked by a white arrow. You have a time limit to get to them, at the end of time limit they die. You fight creatures on the way and you have to kill all the creatures to move on to the next area. The next area has exatly the same objective, just two villagers to rescue and you have access to an 'ability' which is a special move. Once you have resued all the villagers and by this time you will ahve unlock three abilities assigned to the X, Y and B buttons you take on The Villain. I dont really know what this entails other than fighting alot of enemies because Ive played twice and the whole group has died here twice. The default character felt extremely underpowered to me so I'm guessing, as a magic user, she becomes more of a badass as she gets stronger. I couldnt work out how to use her ablitly properly, I did it once and it was awesome, fire raining down to pound the ground around you but I couldnt work out how to do it again when I was under pressure. Otherwise she throws red or green apples. Awesome. Second time i played I picked a guy called Malice, an undead suit of armour with a glow in his midrift. He was a bit more powerful with his mace but the enemies are tough. I could block with his shield and later I could have minions following me about plus I could use an ability that swarmed around me, buffeting the enemies with magic. The handling was excellent, the character movement was fluid but there just wasnt enough variation to make the time I spent with the beta too interesting. I am looking forward to the game and Ive got an understanding of the basic action and I'm looking forward to seeing how they will build on what I've experienced but the lack of overall excitement isnt worth the loading times so I'm done for now. Defininately will be playing this when it comes out though, it is free after all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sly Reflex Posted April 26, 2015 Share Posted April 26, 2015 Impressions in the news thread. What is the world coming to? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
illdog Posted April 26, 2015 Share Posted April 26, 2015 Its a very early beta, didnt think it was worth starting a thread, this isnt the game as it will be. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DANGERMAN Posted March 7, 2016 Share Posted March 7, 2016 that's a shame for Lionhead, they've been around years and Fable 2 was fantastic Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
illdog Posted March 7, 2016 Share Posted March 7, 2016 Typical, everything I touch turns to shit. I mean they put some serious work in to that beta, it must have had 20 updates. Admittedly it wasnt brilliant but I definitely wanted to sink my teeth in to the finished product afer putting in a few hours to said beta. My fault entirely. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
radiofloyd Posted March 7, 2016 Share Posted March 7, 2016 that's a shame for Lionhead, they've been around years and Fable 2 was fantastic Yeah, I was a bit young for the Bullfrog days but the original Black and White and Fable 2 were two of my favourite games. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craymen Edge Posted March 7, 2016 Share Posted March 7, 2016 that's a shame for Lionhead, they've been around years and Fable 2 was fantastic It was. It's also last game of theirs I played (8 years ago). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DisturbedSwan Posted March 7, 2016 Share Posted March 7, 2016 I thought the writing was on the wall that Legends would get cancelled, but really didn't expect Microsoft to close the fucking studio down such sad news, only 8 miles down the road from me their studio Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyKurosaki Posted March 14, 2016 Share Posted March 14, 2016 Well. That totally sucks. Another studio closed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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