10 Video Game Side Missions That Let EVERYONE Down
3. Getting A Job - Fable 2
What's everyone's favourite thing to do? Why, it's working, of course!
Peter Molyneux knows this, and that's exactly why he made sure that he sapped most of the fun out of Fable 2 by making earning gold as tedious as possible. How did he achieve this feat? Well, he added a selection of monotonous minigames to Fable 2 which tasked you with completing mundane tasks such as making pies or banging a hammer repeatedly onto a piece of metal as a blacksmith.
To get anywhere in Fable 2 by buying property and the like, you need to do these side minigames for hours on end. It's tedious, it's boring and it ultimately makes everything pretty much grind to a halt in a really cool fantasy game.
I can only assume he was going for some kind of simulation of real-life with it, but every time I think back to those hours I wasted pressing A to strike down on my bits of metal, it just makes me angry. Can't I just go and loot some treasure chests? Please, Peter, no more pies. I beg you!