sweet, to hear

Yay job guys!

Great news, great job boys!

yes, great job guys

Woo! Great job!

Pants? Who needs pants?

boo! joke! job guys! I knew you could pull it off! now, if only it included patches for the glitches and bugs....

Never doubted it for a minute but it's to hear it the officail word Great Job once again.

Lol, I'm excited

Wonderful news. Thanks, I really an looking forward to inviting my friends. You all did a great job.

Will the same problems that happened in the Couch co-op happen in the online version of it? I'm a bit worried about that... Granted its unknown as not many people have played online with it. But still, I am excited to hear that its finished.

well done, indeed. but...who needs pants to play???

Cheers to the Hard work of the Msoft guys in the US (Seattle I think) and our fantastic friends at Lionhead.
Thanks for everything!

Wooo, I'm proud.

Great work guys!

On a side note: It's funny how you mentioned, "not even we at Lionhead have received our own personal retail copies"... apparently the Microsoft Employees on Gamerscoreblog have already been playing it. xD

http://gamerscoreblog.com/team/default.aspx

I've always had faith in you guys! Woohoo!

Gamestop is apparently having a midnight release on Monday night! That means I won't have to wake up early and I'll get the game about 10 hours earlier!

Hmm? what? live patch?
You mean you had to turn the servers on right?
Yeah that makes more sense...
I can't wait to sit down in my mother's pants to play FABLE II...

"your own (well, hopefully) partner" Hilarious!

Awsome! I knew nothing was going to go wrong!

Thank you Sam and everyone at lionhead for your everlasting care and devotion!  Tomorrow is going to be the longest day of the year!  I can't wait to sit down and play Fable II, after all of the work you have put into it, I know it will be more than spectacular in every single way ^_^

Well done LH. I have one question about online co-op.. do you need a gold membership to use that, or will a silver membership work?

Yay Fable 2 will rock can't wait to play online with the friends I have and well congrats on achieveing something wonderful plus can't wait for the next blog!

you need gold to play any Xbox 360 game on Xbox live unless they hold there own separate servers like Phantasy star universe and Final fantasy MMo


And to simplify:Yes you need gold to play Fable II online.

Great one guys. !!!YOU ROCK!!!

To be honest, I didn't want to be interrupted for a few days..

Two words: You rock.

Hehe, job team... 'S.'

i dont like the sond of "a first day free download on Xbox LIVE" it sonds like we spend $ to do this i dont like that... only one day if you do have to pay i say @#%# that

Heeeeeeeeeeeellll yeah!

 My xbox just died looks like im gona hav 2 w8 another few weeks

Outstanding work guys (&Gals) roll on the 24th.

WOO! cant wait for tomorrow

god u guys in america are so lucky!! alsoo.. my friend seems to think that the multiplayer will allow more than one friend in your game.. true? or false?

p.s. im sooooo frikin excited!!!!!!!

woah gj guys can't wait to buy my copy 2moro =D

btw will we be able to use our characters to go into someone elses world? or will we have to use some kind of premade henchmen with our skills already on it?

Sweet, first I am getting the LCE at gamestop tonight at 10 PM and now this, This is awesome

to hear! Wasn't planning on co op right away anyways, unless its just to check it out with a friend to see how it works.....can't wait, got my shipping notice over weekend, it is on its way!!

That's awesome! Way to go guys!

NIICE way to go Lion Head

Can't wait to get my copy!

Will this include fixes for bugs that have been identified (other than co-op), or will those be coming later?

Gamestop is having a midnight release, SO GO PICK IT UP TONIGHT! :]

And all of those haters were calling you all . I knew everything would turn out fine. Yay for release-day-guaranteed shipping from Amazon!!! I can't wait!!!

Like everyone else here i agree that its a job its out and i look forward to playin come friday. Now all they need to do is sort out all these glitches i keep reading about (and sharpish hopefully)

I WANT FABLE 2!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


oh, yea job.

so im curious to know whether or not ill have to pay when i get it thursday. i bought the 2 day shipping and if its more than 400 gamerpoints, i can live without it.

You guys are simply awesome. Dev team deserves a round of applause.
*claps*

Thx Sam and the entire Lionhead team

Whooohooo... can't wait till friday

Could've wait for the patch, but thank you guys at Lionhead for working your butt off on it.

sweet nice job guys. i cant wait to get my copy of Fable II =D

hell yeah!

I WANT IT NOWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!! I cant wait, man scool gone to take long to get over, for u sam & guys... cant wait

Not to crap on everyone's sunshine, but this "feature" patch is a little underwhelming.   Why can't we simply use the aesthetics of OUR heroes in our friend's games?  

Glad to see it's here.

now could you fix the lack of downloadable content cards in the limited edition boxes.  got my LE game today. 48hr live card, and no card for the DLC that the LE says it comes with. thanks lionhead for fixing the coop but now my LE is worthless. i payed 10 bucks for the making of the game dvd which all the episodes can be found on your site. no cool collectables. just a crapy dvd, and a paper game jacket. now thats class!  im going to attempt to return mine tomarow and if i do i won't be purchasing the game till i can get it used for cheap on ebay or at game stop. even if i have to wait a year. sorry but you lost a fan today.

I actually appear to have the reverse problem... thought the LE were supposed to have hobbe figurines and temp gold membership? I got my download content and that's it

Patch causing 360 to FREEZE.  major bummer.

FYI: The guys here in the U.S patched it wrong. Please patch again so we can see our char in their world. Thanks in advanced.

is the online coop free roam???

Great! Now fix the bugs in the single player... like freezing all the time, frame rate, lag, missing family, and loosing saves.

Yes, now it would be great if you could fix the other numerous amounts of bugs

Please Lionhead !

Fix the damn bug in Bloodstone and send us an update for the bug ! We can't go farther in the game if you don't fix it. I love all your game you created but if i cannot go farther in this game, i'll change my oppinion of your industrie.

What will you become ?
The or the video game compagnie ?

Tanx

De4tHbr1ngn3r

I'm hearing he online co-op patch is complete.  When do we get the auto-download for the patch?  We have yet to have online co-op as an option..

I have very nearly obtained all acheavements, gargoyles, keys, etc and have just come across my first serious problem.

The quest "The Rescue" is buggy. your supposed to save your child from the hobbe cave but he/she doesnt follow you up ladder. since then I cant fast travel at all. gives message "your child will be killed by the hobbes if you leave - cancel or reload? (reload is previous save but I saved since the bug) Have also shot the wife / mother and the quest has vanished but still the message.

If I go back to the hobbe cave all the hobbes are still there with the key to the purple cage which is now empty (my child was taken into care following the untimely death of its mother hee hee)

I am hoping for an imminent patch which will reset the message / restriction. I really want to finish the game but cant be arsed to run everywhere. Very peeved, Rob

Hearing Fable II with a co-op option made me very excited.
But in research of the game so far i cant see that they have fixed many things.
Most important for me was to be able to show eachothers Heroes to your friend in multiplayer. But NO? And some places in the game is buggy some reports say.
But to me the co-op part had so potential and they shock us with things that should be obvious, but isnt there.
I will not buy this game if there is no second patch coming quickly as shait.

1. Your invited friends Hero should and obviously look the same as he made him look. With abilities and looks. OF COURSE!

2. If the host is gonna buy/sell or click any other menu ingame. Why not split the screen simply?

3. Having bugs that freezes the game and can make the main quest and missions uncompleteable is nothing new but should not be many during release.

I have not yet tried the game yet as i have little money but enough to buy one game now. I was going for this but as i said, to me the importance of "correctly" and deep co-op gameplay is priority.

If i had the chance to develop any part of this game.
I would just simply make gamemods in the game that you choose before starting Co-op. Example: Choosing "Hardcore" or "Extreme" difficulty. You make it so that your mana and ammo are possible to deplete, wepaons and armor can be destroyed if its not taken care of (Repaired) or enchanted. And you need potions recharge or you can go back somewhere to recharge. But... if your buddy goes down you can drag him to a safer location or to cover. (Like a feat in the game Army of 2) Beat off the enemies and heal. If he has mana left. And if one player becomes very damaged but does not fall down and can still barly fight standing up. The other one can back him up and they fight as one if the one player is unable to heal from lack of mana, If one dies the other must revive with potion or spell. Or.... put him on shoulders and run him off to a "temple", "church" etc... And they have to stock up on potions, repair armor/wepaons, get new spells abilities and so on and try again. All these things should be in some stats list as Fable I had.
And in these options within the game you can add new abilities easy as well.

Example 1: If you become low on health you have 15% chance go "Ultra Berserk" or something and do insane damage and have different moves. Maybe a few random moves as well while shouting loud as he is totally Berserk.

Example 2: "War Cry" or "Fear Shout" etc... If loads of enemies player might get a (10%) chance to to do a "War Cry" depending on how the player is doing, how many combos he does, how it varies and are unhit.
Can even implent "Co-op War Cry" as well. If both players do extremely well they might togheter press the random button set up that is presented and they may perfrom a team war cry. Stunning and scaring enemies.

Enemy "War Cry" : If both players do badly versus many enemies. One or many enemies may perform a "War Cry" and stun or scare both players. (Laugh and point, scream and shout)

- A little Martial Arts?-

If armor and or weapon is destroyed of course he can go in melee combat.
But can he grapple\grab or disarm and opponent. Like mounting, tackeling, punshing weapons away, wresteling etc...?

My fantasy is that with this kind of gamemod (Hardcore, Extreme.. etc) made you can get epic situations. When its games within games well balanced within the fighting system.

Imagine, one player is down on his back low on health. (He can crawl slowly) Blocking, shooting, using spells and potions if he dont have healing means. And the other player has to help out.
(If both players are down and unable to get up they will bleed out and fail.)
(Can be automatic if players have ZERO chance of healing)
(Can crawl to healing location if close)

Also, if one player is down and the other is fighting and have no mana left he can throw potions with a "pause screen" (That is allready in the game but it works bad and for only one player at a time) But this will be so that one player first chooses the simple ability to throw item the screen pauses and he chooses what to throw. Press ok. And we're back. Item is being throwned. But if enemy is in the way or enemy hits thrower the item is dropped. (OF COURSE)

Im just gonna continue here.

-More Co-op Moves-

Example 1: If one player stands in "Catch/Throw Player" stance and the other runs towards him at right angle the one in stance gotta time when the other grabs hold and you can swing one player around with a flying roundkick or a Throw sword blow. And the player that runs towards gotta time too if he is going to grab hold of his buddy to sving attack or to be tossed forward.  
Should also be able to throw enemies at eachother or into objects.
And when enemies are throwned at one player. He can perfrom an attack combined with his friends throw. He must simply time the impact of the throwed enemy and stabs enemy, or jump mid air, grab enemy and smash him into the ground or doing some heavy blow mid air.

And you can also swing enemies around if they miss an forward attacking blow and use "Grab enemy" or something you can sving him around and the other player can time his impact on the off balanced enemy.

More Co-op moves.

-Magic-

This one is easy though.
Both players can perform magic togheter as one spell/move. (Dont know if that is allready in the game)

This is just me ranting on with ideas. Im not part of any developing team or company. I just want to be able to play an awesome game and im tierd of seeing games failing to my expectations again and again with often just small details that effects the whole game.    (And i had high ones for this one)
Lacking deeper gameplay, options and atmosphere. As far as i can see this game has great potential but things needs to be added fast.
I do have alot of experience with gaming in general. So i know what i want.

So unless a couple of things in Co-op is not fixed ASAP.
This is a "No Buy" from me. And this one first patch does not do it for me still it seems.

!!!Warning!!!  
-As i have not tried the game or done 100% research about it all, this may be WAY off.

-Peace people-