Fable II Gets A Game Of The Year Edition

I still don't have it, so I will definitely pick it up when I comes out.

New cover art is looking great!

I wish they would just bring it to PC already. I want to play it 2560x1600

string_theory

The Xbox Greatest Hits version of Fable was packed with all kinds of extra stuff. No surprise that part 2 here is getting the same treatment.

I like the color changes on the box art. It's a little easier on the eyes.

Sooo.. will my game saves work with the GOTY edition if I get a little bonkers and buy it despite already having the original release?

Bgrngod

@darkos87:

Wow. someone didn't do their homework, Fable 2 was GOTY from X-Play, IGN, and Joystiq.
So it looks like fable 2 WAS!

dynoknight

@Oldboy26:
It was considered GOTY, by X-Play, Joystiq, and IGN.
It's not like a game has to get GOTY from Spike or something in order to be permitted to make a GOTY re-release.

dynoknight

Ughh so many game of the year titles

great for me since i dont have that much money to spend

and on top of that most games got delayed to 2010 i geuss ill pick this one up

Also i like the box art

@(Human) Gyaruson: but then the New academy of videogames might end up doing the same thing as the academy of motion pictures, by which i mean "snub" movies out of nomination for game of the year because of time released, source, or whatever it is that keeps movies out of the running.

so a game like Halo 3 (a huge seller, popular and made by a large company) would beat out a true hidden gem that came out the same year with great gameplay and story, but without the marketing and publicity. i can't really think of an example, so maybe that invalidates my argument, but i wouldn;t trust a centralized critic telling me what game i should be gushing over

@Koda89: hahaha, i didnt say it was worth it. i was just saying it was a pain in the ass to buy it through the konami site. I love metal gear online but i moved on after playing it for a while. Getting your id sucked, buying stuff online sucks. but the game was great. It was pretty funny when i started because i was shooting every damn box. found out nobody even used it.

Game of the year? what a misleading title, you feel they are so desperate to sell their garbage game.

AnthonM2

@WhiteMage: I've wondered about that. What constitutes a game as a GOTY? Cause Fable 2 was far from it for me. Last year, Fallout 3 took that spot for me. GOW2 and Fable 2 didn't even make that list, IMO.

EricLecarde

@johnLD: But that DLC isn't worth rereleasing the entire game for. Plus it is already part of the Greatest Hits set.

@ca$h (for clunkers (has ended)): Me.

Bokkun

@RawnevetSbboD: What you should be asking is how many people can ask the SAME GODDAMN QUESTION.

Bokkun

@nonpareil: Yeah, the low scores from critics confirm that...OH. WAIT.

Bokkun

@thebigcheese: I disagree, because littlebigplanet deserves it aside for winning many many awards worldwide.

@SuprShin: the most deserving one to get a game of the year edition if i may add.

@Koda89: you're forgetting metal gear solid 4 is packed with metal gear online which does have dlc. having that dlc on disc would be a major convinience since you dont need to go to konami site.

Well, if Elite 360s come with Halo 3 and Fable 2 now, I doubt they'll be there when the Price drop happens. I'd hope they would, but hey, who wants to lose money ?

@ionicc: lol

Lineofdeath2

@Siegeman: At least you didn't. I actually did finally buy a copy about a month ago. SIGH.

Sugoi

@SuprShin: he said LBP.

Lineofdeath2

@Misanthropic Gamer: A lot.

SuprShin

@Koda89: LBP is having a GotY edition.

SuprShin

Is game of the year edition status based on Sales, Ratings, or Bundling DLC?

Ratings seems to be the only logical one, but it seems to be something else this gen.

@Rod_Z:
Agree 100%.

(Human) Gyaruson

@fearing:
I know. And that's what's wrong with the whole "Game of the Year" mantra. I could start a blog and say that Imagine: Babiez was game of the year, and they could put it on their boxart. Until we get some kind of universal rating system that encompasses various media outlets (like the Academy) no game can truly be considered game of the year.

(Human) Gyaruson

@Gambit09: The thing is, neither Konami nor Sony need to do this. Unlike Fable II, LBP, Fallout 3, L4D, and Gears 2, all of these games having GotY rereleases, MGS4 doesn't have additional DLC that would be worth wasting time rereleasing on the same disc as the game.

Man, I was just going to go out and buy a copy of Fable 2. Seems like it's going for $20-30, mostly in the $30 range. If the GOTY edition ends up costing around $40-$45, I'll gladly go out and by that instead.

Siegeman

bullshit, i actually liked the game up until the end, most anticlimatic boss ever made me want to throw the game out, so i just sold it instead

additup25

...then shouldn't MGS4 be game of the century? oh oh, I hear angrytypingz.

@Misanthropic Gamer: G4 actually...

@ionicc: Valve and Blizzard also make careers on making the same games over and over, so I'm not entirely surprised that PC gamers lap them up.

If gamers want that, that's fine, just don't try to inject the same generic shit into everything that comes along that's trying to do something different.

Well when it's $5 I'll pick it up again.

Give it to me on the PC and I'll think about calling it Game of the Year.

@Misanthropic Gamer: GOTY = The budget edition for those who prefer both the game and all its DLC a little bit later. Applies for all of them and tends to be good value for money.

@Ultramoose: Trust me - you're not missing much. Game SUCKED.

nonpareil

@Ice-nine froze my baby: Valve and some 11 million WoW fans would like to have a word with you.

ionicc

@flukielukie: Well it must be profitable if companies big and small are still doing it.

ionicc

@WillOne is putting Pots in the Dishlex: I clicked on this story hoping to see that in the fine print...like I do any story involving Fable II.

ionicc

@Misanthropic Gamer:

Microsawft.

@Violent St. Cannon ([k]): Sweet! Then it can have the Deathmatch stuff on the disc..... that was already on the disc in the first release but we had to pay extra for anyway, aw crap.

Who the hell thought Fable 2 was GOTY?

@(Human) Gyaruson: It's not quite the same thing. It's more along the lines of the Oscars award a movie of the year, but so do the MTV Movie Awards, and so do the Nickelodeon Kids Choice Awards, and so do several other outlets. All of the games you mentioned recieved a game of the year award from some gaming award outlet, same as a lot of movies, it's just with movies, the Oscars kind of overshadow most other awards.

We don't have anything quite so big with games. Heaven help us the Spike TV game awards are the only ones that are even televised as far as I know.

@DaFron: Really because I could have sworn spike made Fallout 3 their GOTY. Either way I don't have Fable yet I have all the other titles for 360 above (I don't have a PS3).

MrFatalistic

@midobustingloose: Indeed there should, now every game that considers itself AAA will have GOTY editions if this keeps going on.

Fable II bundle of DLC so we can maintain a high MSRP doesn't quite roll off the tounge as easily as Fable II GotY. That's why they call it GotY edition.

I'm glad this is coming out. I was almost ready to buy the current Fable II release. Now I'll wait until this hit's $30 - $40. Thanks!

omyard

who the fuck cares!~ PUT IT OUT ON PC ALREADY

Ultramoose

@zgreenwell: HAZE: Game of the Year Edition.

Could be interpreted two ways:
1. If someone dubs it their game of the year, it can have a GOTY Edition.
2. They can say, "well, if we had won Game of the Year this is what we would have released.

To be fair, Fable 2 did top a lot of peoples' lists for GOTY.

@ADM86: They may be the biggest market, but Fable 2 is a single player game mostly and releasing that will just make it very likely to be pirated quite alot which is a shame since this game should definately be on the PC

and... and... and... it'll be released for the PC, right... right?!

@sunpop: So basically you want to turn Fable 2 into another generic RPG?

This is why PC gaming is on life support.

@Oldboy26: Apparently not. Someone really needs to tell these people that it isn't clever to call your game GOTY when it wasn't. In fact, just about every game this year with a GOTY edition wasn't GOTY. I'm getting pretty sick of it.

thebigcheese

doesn't a game have to actually be good to get considered for GOTY and get a GOTY release?

More quests more locations MORE CHOICES but still the same boring people walking around that are interchangeable and kill the immersion of it all.

Now release it for pc so it can me modded into an unrecognizable monster that the only thing in common is the name. So it can have mana instead of cast charging lets you ditch the annoying dog and adds in real armor.

We can rebuild fable 2 we have the technology but we don't have a copy on the PC you rat bastards who only exist because of PC gaming!

@Violent St. Cannon ([k]):
I think TLaD and BoGT are supposed to also be released together on a standalone disk.

sqlrob

Wow, I didn't know there were more than 1 game of the years........................

heromoua

@RawnevetSbboD: That depends on how many publications want to name their own Game of the Year.

Shorter answer, a lot.

How many games released in a single year can have GOTY editions?

Welcome to 2008.....Game of the Year Edition!

Is this version going to, you know, work?!

Fable 2 was so buggy for me, and it culminated at the end of that sequence where you beat the guy who's been lording it over you in prison.

After that the teleport gates out refused to work and because I'd foolishly saved my game it was impossible for me to continue as reloading just brought me back to the same completely empty room.

Never played it again after that, what a waste of time getting to that point.

I can't believe such a high profile product was released essentially broken. (google it, this didn't happen to just me...)

purplegeneral

@Violent St. Cannon ([k]): ha ha funny

ithyphallus, lazy beareaucrat

its amusing on how many people bitch about this game getting the GotY treatment

all a GotY game is (in my eyes) was a popular game that was published with some DLC put out at a later point, repackaged for some extra sales

as a gamer you get a good deal on a great game (yeah, it was great...Im sorry if the ending pissed you off if you didnt want to lose your dog and still be righteous, but thats how good the game was if it was that hard of a choice)

so quit your bitchin, bite your tounge, save it for a rainy day, son...to quote a Smash Mouth song

@ADM86: smallest market? pcs are the biggest

ithyphallus, lazy beareaucrat

@(Human) Gyaruson: There are a lot of different sources that choose game of the year. G4 chose Fable II as game of the year, I don't know if anyone else did. The Oscar and the Golden Globe don't have to go to the same movie.

DaFron

@darkos87: G4 chose it as game of the year. I'm not trying to argue, just pointing it out.

DaFron

@(Human) Gyaruson: It's confusing, but we know deep in our heart which IPs deserve the title of "Game of the Year". And Fable 2 is not one of them...

Rod_Z

I don't think that 'Editor's Choice' from OXM and a BAFTA for best Action/Adventure classes as GOTY.

They did win GOTY from X-Play though. But that's hardly prestigious. Or something that would even be recognised in Europe.

I might get this.

the thing is... Fable 2 was NEVER game of the year. EVER. LBP, Fallout 3, Gears of War 2, GTA 4, MGS 4 etc came out on that year.

@tangerine: Nope, the actual printed sleeves still have square corners. I'm in Aus too, but I buy a lot of games from game.co.uk. This just seems to be something MS does for cover art shots.

So Gears of War 2, Fallout 3, Left 4 Dead, Little Big Planet and now Fable 2 are all game of the year? Man, maybe the Oscars should adopt that methodology.

"And the Oscar goes to....Slumdog Millionaire! *Appaluse* But wait, it looks like it also goes to The Wrestler! *Some Applause* and Frost/Nixon! *Minor Applause* and Milk! *No Applause*"

(Human) Gyaruson

Nice, been meaning to get it again since I traded it in many months ago :)

DiGiC

@tangerine: No - The edges are just the same as any DVD and the sticker edges deffinetly aren't curved.

ClockOut

So it doesn't come with the Master Chief armor?

It won't sell.

starscar.exe

How many games can be game of the year?
this Every Game (that has DLC) that was great thing is getting silly... is there a sticker or box art for game of the month?

Who else likes the greenish-blue better than the red box art of the original?

Was LBP the overall GOTY for most magazines/websites last year? So surely it should be getting the only true GOTY edition.

Perhaps there should be a GOTY clearing house that actually decides this thing.

midobustingloose

I've bought most of the games that got a game of the year edition so far (like fable 2, oblivion and gears 2), I'm not going to get the Gears 2 goty but I'm considering fable and oblivion but since I already own them I'd definitely want to wait till there only £10 or lower. Damn that'll be a while probably.

Sucks when they do this stuff.

xxXX_Insanities_Birth_XXxx

@ADM86: PC ain't the smallest market by a long shot.
Despite the appearance you may get it's the largest of them all by a long shot. PS2 maybe gets close to rivalling it's size.

@Ghetto Cornetto: Well
Genre*gaming websites/magazines = a crap load.

What about the pc version....god damn I know we are the smallest market, but theres still good money to be made from us...so move your ass and start treating us nice.

ADM86

Ha! Just typical. Let's just screw over the people who actually bought around when it came out!

OpinionMan

Game of the Year: the new participation trophy

Is that curved corners box a standard in Europe? Over here in Aus, ours is still pointy.

How many games of the year can you have??

@Jaysunli: Totally vain to call your own game "Game of the Year".

@Violent St. Cannon ([k]): COD4's GOTY doesn't actually come with anything though. I bought it like the chump I am. Apparently only the first run of copies came with a code to download a map pack. What a load of shit.

@DrunkAus: The best part is how I saw the L4D GOTY edition at a gamestop right next to the regular edition, but for 10 dollars more. And I'm sure people still fall for it.

(for those of you who don't know, it just includes the Survival Pack, which is free to begin with)

Hm..

maybe.

TaylorEatWorld

I don't think there's any reason for me to play this game anymore.

@Gaunt: Metal Gear Online has a lot of stuff you have to pay for...

Can I haz fr ps3? I mean, Nintendo got Sonic...'sall I'm sayin'...oh, and KOTOR, too.

Might actually buy this.

@Desi_Otaku: because thats the evil of business. You buy something you really want, but there is always a cooler edition that they release later ala xbox elite and PS3 slim. Can you trade up for the new version? Of course not, how else would they double their profits?

choco27

@Gaunt: Yep, COD4's GOTY came out last April. But I agree with GTA4. Maybe there'll be one with TLAD and *** Tony.

Not trying to get flagged or anything. :P

Wait. W@W might be one too. *rolls eyes*

@Gaunt: I wouldn't be surprised if all the DLC doesn't fit on the disc, and that's why that hasn't happened yet.

Give it a reasonable release date/price stateside and you have a deal!

Trowble (XBL/PSN)

@Archaotic: Didn't CoD4 get a GOTY version?

I wouldn't say it's meaningless, all the repackaging includes DLC that would otherwise cost money to download. MGS4 has no paid DLC so that really would be meaningless.

GTA4 however seems like an obvious choice, but they've made the interesting decision to offer the DLC as a standalone game.

Gaunt

After bitching about Gears of War, I looked into it and I think GOTYs are determined by the collective Game Critics Awards. So we could feasibly see Dead Space, MGS4, and Rock Band get a repackaging. But they can't really repackage Braid. [www.gamecriticsawards.com]

EDIT: and GTA IV, though I thought they'd have already done that.

orijimi

What's it take to be considered Game of The Year now after multiple games come out and say it?

@Desi_Otaku:

I'm calling RE5 next.

I'm wondering if I should just hold off buying games for the rest of the year and wait for the inevitable GOTY editions for them coming out next year.

@Archaotic: Only one of those that really deserves a GotY edition is Fallout 3, the extra DLC is a great addition.

Jogfrog

@Archaotic: Fallout's would be worth it

@Archaotic: Funny thing about L4D, it should have been renamed Left 4 Dead 'Finished' Edition.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.......... I recently bought this game. Why god why???

Desi_Otaku

@Archaotic: Meaningless?

Means you don't have to buy all the DLC individually.

Fable 2
Gears of War 2
LittleBigPlanet
Fallout 3
Left 4 Dead

...alright, all we need now is an MGS4 Game of the Year Edition and I think we've finally covered every super-hyped game of last year with a meaningless repackage. Did I miss anything?