Fable 2 falls short. I will start with the crap that everyone can agree on. The loading times get annoying as hell... I mean for menus. Why should the game lag scrolling through my items in my Inv? seriously The entire engine sucks. I have had my sword out in water many times. I get stuck on nothing ALL the time.
2. When you get to a town or whatever you have to wait another 10-15 seconds before everything loads and really becomes "active"
3. Why does my character get stuck on walls and crap. LAME
4. The world is NOT open ended at all. you dont even travel between towns. The areas that are pathed "open" areas are just guided paths with a few small guided paths that will lead to a chest or key. totally lame.
None of the decisions actually matter. Every time I make one I dont struggle to decide what to do. The only exception is the one where you lose XP.
The Casting system is awful. Here is your fighting system... cast time warp to slow everyhting down. Cast shock or inferno level 5. everything dies except one monster that somehow didnt get hit right in the middle (poor hit detection) then you can hack and slash or shoot that one guy until he is dead. Then if you are smart you will have an augment in your weap to leech life and you never need potions.
THERE IS NO PENALTY FOR DIEING?!?!?! You fall over and stand right back up... lose a minimal amount of XP and continue battling. O sure you may get a scar on your face... but when can you ever really see your face up close anyway...
With all of that other crap I dont even need to touch on the fact that its short.
For such an "expansive" game where is the armor and clothing? There is hardly anything to pick from and armor is omitted completely.... WHY? Moving on to enemies... why are there so few types? Its sickening. Maybe they figured out that because the fighting system they made sucks unlike fable 1 and creative enemies are not needed since they can all be killed by what i stated above. What ever happened to positional gameplay? why not some heavily armored enemies? Or enemies that are immune to certain spells... or spells entirely...