Cry more, please.

Fable 2 auto-saves immediately after you drink the gender changing potion, of which there is only one in the entire game that you can ever get with a particular hero (without trading another player for one, apparently), and there is no real warning that it is going to save, aside from the "Yay you completed a quest!" window. Oh, and you only have the one save for a given character, so when it saves, you're SOL. I drank the potion thinking along the lines of "Hmm, I just manually saved it, so I'll try the potion and see what he looks like as a she, but then I'll just reload it because I don't want this, my first hero, to be a woman forever." And then the game auto-saves right after I take the damn potion, and now I'm stuck with a giant, nastily buff, incredibly fugly looking female character.

What a horribly shitty thing to do, Lionhead. Very poor form.

For what it's worth, that was pretty much the very last official thing I had left to do with that particular hero, since I'd already completed the main story as well as all of the other sub-quests that open up after you finish the main story. I did still want to move the wife and kids into Castle Fairfax (which only unlocks after you finish the main story and is what I had just bought for 1,000,000 gold and in the basement of which I found the gender potion) and then try to have some more children. But that's kind of out of the question now. -_-

At any rate, I was all set to start a new game and play as an evil character, but this one aggravating thing, at the very tail end of my first playthrough, which I'd finally more or less finished after setting it aside due to nasty bugs, has pretty much killed all enthusiasm I had for this game, at least for the time being.

On the other hand, I may wake up finding this to be hilarious in the morning, and keep playing just to see what peoples' reactions are to me suddenly being a woman now (especially the wife and kids). But for right now I'm still rather pissed.

(Update, a few minutes after making the above post)

The kids seemed completely oblivious and just called me "Mom" as if it were the most normal thing. I tried to use one of the romance expressions on the wife (her favorite one, in fact) and she seemed disgusted and responded with, "Oh please, go find someone else." >_>; I'm still going to move them into Castle Fairfax, but oh well... no more kids for me with this hero, at least not without going out and finding a second wifehusband. Okay, that's just wrong. >_>;;

(/Update)