As an older gamer I often feel really out of step with today's game scene. Lately I've got a chance to spend some time with Fable, a game rated very highly by many people. I just don't get it. Storywise it seems very much like any other high fantasy RPG, and gameplaywise it's just run around, pound the attack button, dodge, kill monsters, get gold, buy better weapons which you use to kill bigger monsters, etc, etc, ad nauseum. I mean, yeah it's pretty, but the load times are horrendous. I even copied it onto my hard drive to make it go faster and it's STILL really slow. Imagine how much more immersive it would have been with disk streaming. The whole good vs evil thing is nice but it doesn't materially affect the game much at all. You look different. The quests are slightly different. I dunno, back to the box with you!