Can anyone explain how co-op works?
Say for example i'm further through the game than my friend, how does co-op work for us then?
PS. really enjoying it after about 5 hours play!
Finally feeling a bit of confidence with knowing what to do (i always feel daunted by new games at first)
Tried co-op tonight, and it really isn't that good imho. The experience is different depending on whether you invite someone to your game, or if you join someone else's game. If you join another persons game you don't take your character with you. Instead you choose from 6 generic characters: Good Male, Neutral Male, Evil Male, and then the same but for Female. You also choose which saved character from your single player game that you want the loot and XP to go to. You then join the world of the person who invited you. You don't have a dog, only the invitee gets the dog. You don't have the abilities of your characters either. In effect you are a 'Henchman' for the invitee, just a generic hero who can help out.
If you have invited someone to your game, then it's a little better because you are in your own world, so you can carry on doing your quests, leveling up, unlocking abilities etc but with the help of a friend. The main problem is that the camera gets locked for both players during coop play. In single player you can use the right stick to rotate the camera, this gets disabled, and the camera can be shockingly bad at times making it very difficult to see what is going on at times, especially if the two players end up some distance apart from each other.
Overall it was quite bad compared to the single player game, maybe a decent way to run around getting some extra money and XP, but it just didn't seem to play very well for me. Maybe it can be improved with some patches to make things a bit better.
One slightly freaky thing I noticed is that if you are playing a single player game, and one of your friends is also playing a single player game, despite no invites being sent or anything, you can see each other in the game if you happen to be in the same location on your respective games. Happened to me today, was wondering around and noticed a glowing green orb with my friends gamerpic in it and his gamertag above it. He could see me in his game as well. We kinda ran past each other, both screeched to a halt and spent a couple of seconds walking backwards and forwards trying to figure out what was going on. You can target your friends orb and send them gifts and stuff from your game world which I though was cool.
How the heck did that happen?
Hope it was worth it.
If I don't I'll play a bit of the PC version of Fable 1 again. While I wait.
