Fable 3: The Hell? [Spoilers]

[Doc Theta Sigma]

Right. I've just done the rebellion in Fable 3, I'm now King and I need to raise 6 million gold in the kingdom's treasury to make sure that everyone in Albion lives. You get presented with choices. The bad or evil choice giving you a lot of gold, the good choices taking a lot of gold out of the treasury. But the promises you made are associated with being good and thus losing gold. So you either have a choice between keeping a few promises or keeping everyone in Albion alive.

What the hell? I know you wanted to make a moral system Molyneux but why let us be good in the first place if you force us to be evil in the end just to save the kingdom? I've been told its easy if you transfer gold from your personal amount into the treasury. But there's a problem. I have sod all gold and I'm only getting about 10k every 15 minutes. So do you think this is a good system or just an exercise in futility? Discuss.

 

[the_pleasure_is_mine]

I thought it was very interesting and I could see what he was getting at.

The only problem is of course pigeon-holing... where is my third, neutral option?

Why can't I just tell everyone to shut up because I have way more important things to deal with?

I liked it to an extent... but it fell a bit short for me.

 

[Daystar Clarion]

I just bought every house and shop I could and left the game alone for a few hours, then buying the really expensive mansions and letting the game stand for a few more hours. It's actually very easy to get the money, you just need to be patient. Also, I think the whole point of the choices is that being a heavenly ruler is also very expensive. You had to choose between people's opinion of you or their safety.

 

[Joe Deadman]

I just held off on actually attending the court meetings until I had plenty of gold saved up to take care of everything.

It was a bit of a grind though so it was certainly annoying.

 

[Doc Theta Sigma]

I'm more pissed off with the fact that I have to raise six million gold and there's no easy way to do it. It's an example of Molyneux making you jump through hoops to even have a chance of enjoying his game. Which I'm really not at the moment.

 

[Austichar]

Yeah, there should have been more neutral endings. Like holding off on the rebuilding of Old Town. I mean why couldnt the people wait until after the attack to have you fix their problems? You'd think they'd understand, especially the Aurorans.

 

[Daystar Clarion]

I'm more pissed off with the fact that I have to raise six million gold and there's no easy way to do it. It's an example of Molyneux making you jump through hoops to even have a chance of enjoying his game. Which I'm really not at the moment.

It wouldn't really have been an issue if you could do other things while waiting for the money to pile up but there wasn't. As much as I enjoyed it, it was a very linear experience.

 

[GodsAndFishes]

I liked it, it finally shows that sometimes being evil is the most moral choice in the long run and actually pushed Fable III into one of my top 10 games.

 

[Creator002]

Even though I broke every promise (and saved Logan), getting the 6 million was a little hard. I only raised 5.4 million in total.

 

[Suzanne Allison]

I chose to spend all of my gold honoring my promises, and consequently got the "almost everybody died" ending. Now that I'm working on my second playthrough, I'm still trying to make mostly "good" choices, but being more strategic about earning gold through real estate and certain quests.

 

[ThreeWords]

I like the idea; being nice isn't easy, and that's the point. you can compromise and be only so nice to so many people, or be short term horrible for the greater good, or just work hard to earn a TON of gold.

 

[SilverKyo]

remove patches, glitch gold, break game, be happy. i ended the game with 45 million gold.

 

[higgs20]

I thought the whole game was a mess of broken promises and flawed gameplay mechanics mixed with the occasional bit of humour, and I'm pretty sure I only found most of that funny because I'm British and this shit is hard wired into my brain.

 

[etherlance]

Just buy all the shops in "Brightwall", set the profits to max, try getting an online business partner and within a day you wil have all the gold you will ever need, leaving you open to freely choose what to do in those situations.

 

[lucky_sharm]

Those "deep, intricate moral choices" of fable that let you pick between eating babbies while burning down orphenages and being jesus have always been a joke anyway.
There is nothing interesting, it's always the binary "good or baad" choice that gets shoved down your throat ad nauseum.
Those are the most shallow, generic rpgs I have ever seen.

What are you talking about, exactly? Your post is rather unclear. In Fable 3, trying to rule as a good guy and keeping promises makes keeping your citizens alive a lot harder especially when trying to make money without overtaxing people in real estate which your citizens will hate you for doing. To ensure the safety of your people, you have to be an even bigger tyrannical asshole than Logan was. So basically you have to make the choice between being a beloved ruler who gets all of his people killed and a tyrannical ruler who is hated but saves his people in the end. A lot less shallow than the old black and white good choice and evil choice.

 

[Jewrean]

I'm more pissed off with the fact that I have to raise six million gold and there's no easy way to do it. It's an example of Molyneux making you jump through hoops to even have a chance of enjoying his game. Which I'm really not at the moment.

There's a fairly easy way to cheat the gold. The problem is it bugs your whole game out. No joke I was at about '150 days until black shit rapes you' then all of a sudden my game bugs out because of the glitch and its already up to the invasion, skipping a decent chunk of the game. WTFROFLCOPTER.

 

[spectrenihlus]

I thought it was interesting. Would you damn your soul in other to save 100 others. Although I do wish that after the battle with

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Crawler you can start by fixing everything you did in order to save everyone.