EPTYes, I absolutely enjoyed the original Fable game. Unfortunately, the series afterwards got spoiled by Peter Molyneux's silly idea that more choice based gameplay, more dumbing down of the game's mechanics to the point where it becomes "Mash X, The Game", and even more annoying crap mentioned below is the way things should go.
WARNING; GAME SPOILERS MENTIONED BELOW.
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So I spend the entire game healing my dog whenever it gets hurt, which is really often, because I don't want it to die.
And then the final boss of the game instagibs your dog with a single pistol shot, shoots you and induces a coma where you do some annoyingly repetitive crap in your childhood flashback for 15 minutes.
And then once I complete the game after an uneventful, boring interactive cutscene that is apparently a "final boss battle", I am given the ultimate insult as an ending, I can either:
A) Ressurect my loved ones (including my dog, and my sister who I will never see.) The only other way to ressurect your canine friend is apparently through DLC....
B) Ressurect the masses who have fallen to Lord Lucien's reign of terror.
C) Recieve infinite money (Fortunately, this was the unnecessary option, because playing another more enjoyable game than Fable II gave you money from shops you owned. Basically, buying every single shop in Bowerstone and then playing a much more enjoyable Xbox 360 game ironically gave you 'infinite money' anyway.)
And then the final boss of the game instagibs your dog with a single pistol shot, shoots you and induces a coma where you do some annoyingly repetitive crap in your childhood flashback for 15 minutes.
And then once I complete the game after an uneventful, boring interactive cutscene that is apparently a "final boss battle", I am given the ultimate insult as an ending, I can either:
A) Ressurect my loved ones (including my dog, and my sister who I will never see.) The only other way to ressurect your canine friend is apparently through DLC....
B) Ressurect the masses who have fallen to Lord Lucien's reign of terror.
C) Recieve infinite money (Fortunately, this was the unnecessary option, because playing another more enjoyable game than Fable II gave you money from shops you owned. Basically, buying every single shop in Bowerstone and then playing a much more enjoyable Xbox 360 game ironically gave you 'infinite money' anyway.)
Terrible butchering of video game series aside, Albion was awesome back in the original Fable. Not in the sequels though.
B is for... Banana
When the word "Banana" is mentioned, what game springs to mind the most?
Donkey Kong 64 of course. Released at a time when Rare actually released good games and not disappointing titles. DK64 was one of them that they developed. And there was so many bananas in this game. You collected bananas of different colours, and you had to collect a certain amount of Golden Bananas to progress through the game.
Hell.... even unlocking one of the mentioned Golden Bananas greeted you with this jingle.
OHHHH BANANA!!!
C is for... Captain Syrup
Captain Syrup, the absolutely despiseable antagonist of the Wario Land series, although in reality, she is more of a rival to Wario. In the first game, you defeat a powerful genie, release him from her grasp and then convince him to give you a castle.
Then in the second game, the bitch sends three spear men into your castle and steals a few bags of money, and you spend the entire game pursuing her and the three bags of cash she stole from you. Really? And the irony is you've probably made more of it back than you previously had when you collected all the randomly scattered coins in the level.
She was sadly absent in Wario Land 3, which remains one of my favourite games and even from Wario Land 4 (a title which I was outright disappointed by considering how much I liked WL, WL2 and WL3.) In fact, she doesn't return until Wario Land: The Shake Dimension (or Shake It according to you Americans.)
D is for... Darunia
What do you get if you combine Darunia, leader of the Goron tribe with Saria's Song?
This.
This pretty much says it all, and why Darunia deserved a spot in this A to Z. Having to witness the horror of Darunia's terrible dancing is perhaps one of the more memorable moments of Ocarina of Time.
(Altarnative D option)
D is also for.... Diddy Kong Racing
Diddy Kong Racing was a phenomenal game which I dare say surpassed Mario Kart and all of the other crappy kart spinoff games we've seen lately. Everything was great about DKR. The level design, the hub world, the characters (well three of them of course), the challenge of the game, the boss battles etc.
It was also frustratingly hard, and some of the boss battles were a true test of your track knowledge, timing and execution.
Let's not forget how epic the music was:
Darkmoon Caverns.
Star City.
Frosty Village
i played the fuck out of that game when i was like 7 it was a case of knowing the short cut on every boss level
