i am having the same problem when trying to load Westcliff, it starts to load then when it should be done loading the screen goes black and that is it.  I let it stay blank for about how long it took to get signed up to the website and write this message.  I can load the cave with the Balvarines but i can't load anything else in westcliff.  Any ideas people.  I'm really pissed off sincei just got my XBOX 360 back for the second time this year.  I'm starting to see how crappy this can be.  I never had so many issues with a system.  Even my first NES worke better. 

...............And the replacement disc and new savegame has gone into melt down too. Think I'm done with this. I'll wait for the PC version.

Having a problem similar to this, I beat the game, got some really nice legendary wepons, TONS of gold, finished nearly every side quest. And then I log in to play fable 2 today and my game crashes as the load screen every time I try to load up my hero. I have tried literally everything in the book. I can understand a company having a bad egg for a game, but not even attempting to address it is unacceptable.

All hope is lost to recover from this, the patch that was released last night did NOT fix this problem. I load to a black screen and the xbox freezes up still. Was going to buy knothole island if that was fixed, now i dont want to give them any more of my money.

Looks like i wont be buying any more of lionhead games.

I just experienced the Fable 2 Glitch loading glitch.

I have just recently begun playing Fable2 with a friend online but I'm sure this is just a coincidence as it seems the further I got in the game the more my Xbox struggled with the items, property and increasing amout of people on the screen at once and a crash/glitch was inevitable. Average progamming or average console, probably a bit of both.

I can load up my character fine, start playing the game fine and it seems (so far) to allow me to teleport travel to all the area's in the game.

I'm pretty far in the game, and own pretty much everything and I noticed right from the start with the slowness of everything to appear even without any items, the game seems to be pushing the xbox to its limit, a Square Enix starndard of game this is not, but it was great fun, so I put up with it and put in the hours.

Now if I try to enter certain areas by foot, Brightwood is one of them, the game does the loading screen and once the expected time taken to load has expired the screen just goes completly black and thats it, I cant do anything but restart again.

I've tried saving the game onto my Hard Drive incase it was a disk problem, no luck. I've seen all the posts on here already about this issue and no support seems to be available for it, seems any areas where there could be a help link are already taken up by adverts from Lionhead asking you to part with your money for the newest patch, something thankfully I didnt do and I dont think the game is worth starting again either way. My Xbox struggled to keep the game going at the best of times and if this is the stress a standard RPG put on the poor little thing I might just jump ship to PS3 and get a bit more power for my money.

Hurry Up FF13!!