very vain question i know, but i was just wondering cuz mostly veryone who i know that has this game prefers to play as aguy, is that why?
is the girl ugly if you play as her?
and would it be possible to just wear combat boots, really cool gloves(or somthing like that?) and a sword and still look sexy?
"and would it be possible to just wear combat boots, really cool gloves(or somthing like that?) and a sword and still look sexy?"
Technically, yes -- BUT (yeah, there is a pretty big 'but' here) not if you want her to actually be strong.
You see, in Fable II, your character governs three traits -- skill, strength, and will.
Strength makes your character grow stronger. Physically, your body becomes more like a bodybuilder. Not just 'ripped' -- you really look like a gorilla on steroids once you get strong.
Will makes your character know magic powers. Once it is at a high enough level, your character's entire body will be covered in 'tattoos' that glow blue once you are skilled in the Will trait.
Skill increases your accuracy, firing speed, etc with bows and guns. Physically, it makes you taller.
So you see, your girl might start out beautiful; but if you want her to kick ass she eventually will be covered in glowing tattoos, her body will be more solid than Batista's (google if you don't know him), and she will be taller than most men in the game.
Naturally, that look fits a guy better than it fits a woman.
You may choose to simply *not* increase your strength and will attributes, but if you do, your character will look great, however, she will be piss-poor at fighting.
Also, you have to understand that your character ages throughout the game. You start out as a child and go all the way to adulthood and beyond, so you can't look 'fresh' forever.
Initially, I was really upset at that aspect of the game, but it makes it a lot more realistic. I sort of appreciate it now.
thanx, and no i wouldnt my girl looking like Batista, id prefer her to look like Katie Lea (if you dont know her look her up.):'
as far as strength goes knwoing me id try to tough it out with just will and skills, i really dont mind tattoos.
so is the aging any slower in this one?
Katie Lea is too much to ask for. Beth Phoenix would be as good as you would get.
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ok i gotta admit i kinda have a crush on her. something bout a girl that can throw a punch really gets my attention.
Well, I have one female character who looks like the side of a house because I built up her strength (not doing that again) The latest female character I have is a maximum skill user and I've got her at maximum level on one spell and she looks good. Plus, she eats nothing but vegetables (especially celery) so she's nice and slim too. I prefer skill to the rest of the attributes.
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You know, if you don't like having a max strength character, you can always 'discard' the strength levels. Same goes for the other levels. You character goes back to the size they were to begin with.
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I am playing through as a girl, and I maxed out all of her physique and strength levels and then once I saw what it made her look like, I reverted back because she looked uglier than Chyna. She is actually very pretty besides her will scars all over her body, but she since she is vain about her appearance and won't invest in strength or physique, she is weak.
It actually is quite annoying the amount of time I have to put into keeping her looking pretty. If I'm fighting a lot and run out of potions, the food pops up automatically to replenish her health. So after a particularly difficult battle, she will be fat, and then I have to run around getting celery or thinning potion to get her thin again.
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If you get the Knothole island expansion, there is a shop that sells a variety of apperance altering potions. It's good for people who want to be good at ranged combat without being freakishly tall, or want to shift weight quickly after one to many pies.
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Yep, I do have them. Its just hard to keep up on it; I buy them all up as soon as the lady gets more in stock and then every once in a while go and drink as many as possible. It does help but is just hard to keep up on.
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Good ideas!! Thanks!
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After endgaming my male, I decided to give the female character a try.
I invest in strength more than anything else, so that's the route I decided to take with the female. I was hoping she wouldn't hulk out like the male and end up looking like one of the guards on steroids, instead looking more along the lines of Beth Phoenix.
Long story short, I was dead wrong.
By the time I returned from the Spire, she was 3 stars into physique. At that point, it looked like she took gorilla steroids and grew a square jaw.
Needless to say, that character was reset. She is now poised in skill with strength and will in secondary.
I only have one point in physique and that is where it will remain. She is slightly muscular, has the blue veins and is very tall (due to accuracy). Thankfully, the Lionhead guys have made it possible to negate attribute points.
"Just because you ARE a character, doesn't mean you HAVE character."
-Winston Wolf
The only way you can effectively have a good looking woman in this game w/o being piss poor weak is if you have Knothole Island.
And as for avoiding eating pies, sell the all off (dur), have a sh!t lot of celery and have the ghoul and lucky charm augments in your ranged and melee weapons. Not only will you get health from your enemies when you hit them, you also take less damage and deal more damage yourself. I did that and I never bother to use potions food or nothing.
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personally i'd rather my character be tough and able to fight than look pretty.
shareMy woman is sort of good looking. I left strength completely out of it though. I suppose it's lucky I prefer skill out of all the other skills. She's top in skill, has 2 maxed out spells and no the only strength she has is the special sword moves
I love skill though. When you get a good gun, you kick ass.
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I was taking my female towards the evil route, so she's got a couple horns and veiny skin...but she's shaped pretty good and dresses nice. She's got an eyepatch, but that's because I thought it looked neat..
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This post is pretty funny. Good tip on the celery though, the only food my girl has eaten is an apple pie but she immediately had -15 attractiveness. If you play as a woman do you still have to marry the cleric's daughter or does it change?
shareI don't think there's a cleric's daughter in Fable 2.
Anyway, I done two (or 1 1/2, will explain that in a bit) female files in Fable 2.
One I had like an assassin and I did the whole 'have strength and rely on Knothole Island to not look like a shaved bear', and she still looked a bit bulky (was still hella cool looking w/ the assassin gear and highwayman hat). Problem was because I drank all those appearance potions, I had flies buzzing around me all the time and green eyes.
So female file #2 I wanted to make her look like Joanna Dark (circa Perfect Dark Zero) and I made her mainly skilled in Skill (was absolutely deadly w/ a pistol) and she was looking dead sexy IMO. But I was about 2/3 through the file when it got corrupted and wouldn't play anymore. I tried to restart it again, but now Fable 2 won't let me make new files on my 360. It'll let me play the old files just fine though.
"Greetings! This is not God, but his close friend, Officer Boscorelli. Please pull over."- Bosco
Yeah, I got it wrong - it was Alex that I married and he was a right pain. I took him into battle to see if he would be killed and save me the corruption of divorce but it didn't work!
Unlucky about the file being corrupted. When I read this post a couple of days ago my girl looked like Lara Croft, and really cool in the assasins jacket with knights trousers and boots then the solar glasses so I didn't understand why people were commenting on their characters...then I went back to see my husband, and for some reason i'm twice the size of him. I remember walking up to Hammer Hannah the first time and being very amused, but when I returned from the Spire I was almost the same size as her, and even worse, I was bald.
I'm thinking of getting rid of my levels of strength to have a normal looking girl and then focusing on magic but there aren't that many magic points around compared to strength and also, how effective is just using skill and will rather than strength? I hate looking like a brick shhh house.