Fable II: Bartending

My personal favorite job in Fable II is Bartending. It’s very easy to do because, unlike Woodcutting or Blacksmithing, the bar always fills in one direction (Left-to-right/clockwise) and it always turns green at the same point. Basically, bartending is just filling pints of beer all the way full, but not overflowing. If you don’t fill it enough, you earn less gold and you break the chain. Every three pints filled adds one point to your multiplier, and you can get a multiplier of up to 15. A5-star bartender earns a base of 75 gold per pint, so at a 15x multiplier, every pint is worth 1125 gold. A pint takes about 3 seconds to fill and send down the counter, so once you’ve gotten a chain of 45 pints of beer, you start raking in 22,500 gold per-minute. That’s alot. After about five minutes of bartending with a 15x multiplier, you’ll have earned enough gold to buy any building in the town of Bowerstone (The castle excluded, of course).

Fable II

The other day, my older brother brought home a game he’d borrowed from a friend. I didn’t place much interest in it at first, but after my brother played for a while we discovered a co-op mode. I was given a crash course in the controls of the game and soon found myself blasting enemies with powerful spells (that look quite awesome I might add). My brother turned in early that night, but I stayed up literally through the night, creating my own file and playing through the storyline. Though the battle system is amazing in its own right, there is much more to Fable II that makes it one of the coolest Role-Playing games I have played. Not only can you customize your character’s skill set to be a sword-bearing warrior, a sharp-eyed marksman, a powerful spell-caster, or any combination of the three, you can do a number of jobs, from chopping wood to assassinating given targets, you can own a house, tavern, shop, and virtually every building in the game. You can execute a number of expressions that will affect people’s opinion of you, choose to eat pies and cheeses and become fat or fruits and veggies to stay thin, walk the holy path of Good or take the lower road of Evil. You can buy a wide array of weaponry, clothing, furniture, potions, jewels, and gifts. You can start a family (or a few families, if you wish) who love and adore you and give you gifts, or you can just use them for personal gain.