Fable 3's Big Choice
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But doesn't this army come from the populace of which you are saving? And even then, you still have the other half of the population to have.ultrachicken said:
Can't you just rile them all up, give them a pointy stick and tell them to "Go make Daddy proud" while pointing in the general direction of the big shadowy blob?
I didn't say that the game's end decision was logical. The game presents the need for money by having your mentor say, "If we have to fight the darkness, then we'll need an army, and armies take money."Cap said:
Also, why is everyone referring to the darkness as a giant blob? The darkness looks like a pink spider with four faces, not a blob.
I didn't say you did, just mocking the game based on the evidence I have been given. I haven't played the game itself actually, I just wanted to further the notion that it's silly. Because it is.ultrachicken said:
As for the blob thing, because that's what it looked like in the ZP, and I haven't seen any images to the contrary because I have no intention of purchasing it, so when it was called blobby by a previous poster, I continued with the theme.
What?! You mean the money doesn't go towards a big fuck off steampunk mecha and an army of people with AK-47s? Well looks like i'm not replaying Fable 3 to get the best endingsravankb said:
I haven't gotten to the point where I actually have finished the game entirely, I'm still at the "Make money and save the peasants" stage.
I think the whole, Black and White, Good and Evil side of this game is meant to lay it out for younger players, I'm not saying its a kids game, its not, but pre-teens and teens play a game and they dont want to have to sit for an hour weighing the pro-s and con-s of a decision, they want to get in there and kill more Knobbs. Making the Good Vs Evil thing any more complicated kinda takes you out of the experience a little, its like you have to stop and contemplate your actions a lot more "Do I want to save these people or burn their village down, will there be massive consequences or will no one notice."
Those kinds of things are fine for the older players, late teens to twenties and older, we just go "Eh, I'll just burn the village, take the heat and play through again later." Not too many kids have the stamina to play through a game a bunch of times to try different out comes.
Games like KOTOR have a great balance, you can do something nasty and then do something good and get a perfect balance of the Good and Bad, Fable is meant to be more simple, its not a massive huge level after level game, I played through till the half way point in one afternoon, I would have finished it in a day if I didn't get distracted by other things lol.
Anyway, I think its just a bit of harmless fun and a good way to spend a lazy Sunday afternoon.
I think the whole, Black and White, Good and Evil side of this game is meant to lay it out for younger players, I'm not saying its a kids game, its not, but pre-teens and teens play a game and they dont want to have to sit for an hour weighing the pro-s and con-s of a decision, they want to get in there and kill more Knobbs. Making the Good Vs Evil thing any more complicated kinda takes you out of the experience a little, its like you have to stop and contemplate your actions a lot more "Do I want to save these people or burn their village down, will there be massive consequences or will no one notice."
Those kinds of things are fine for the older players, late teens to twenties and older, we just go "Eh, I'll just burn the village, take the heat and play through again later." Not too many kids have the stamina to play through a game a bunch of times to try different out comes.
Games like KOTOR have a great balance, you can do something nasty and then do something good and get a perfect balance of the Good and Bad, Fable is meant to be more simple, its not a massive huge level after level game, I played through till the half way point in one afternoon, I would have finished it in a day if I didn't get distracted by other things lol.
Anyway, I think its just a bit of harmless fun and a good way to spend a lazy Sunday afternoon.
A'fucking'men, the old king was your character in Fable 2 and for what he did to me (denied my vengence/Lucian's explination and stole my youth but I got it back for being good) I would have him locked in an impenatrable, escape proof cell and watch as he grows old. I'd bring popcorn and wait a while for it to happen, would be worth it in the end.MiracleOfSound said:
Just wait to you get to the point where they jump from 150 days left to "it's today".Blatherscythe said:
The whole thing is one of those good ideas that simply cannot work in the Fable universe... because you just don't care about the people in it.
There was this somewhat retarded moral choice in Fallout 3 where you were giving the choice of helping the racist (or ghoulist) humans in an apartment complex or helping these murderous ghouls trying to break in. A decision made a bit more difficult by the presence of a nice (albeit clueless) old adventurer who is nothing but nice to you... even if he is a bit patronizing toward ghouls. I wanted a particular item from the Ghouls which would make my exploration easier, but the only way to get it required an amusing old man to die. And fuck me if I wasn't conflicted. I even made sure to shoot the horse myself.
There's nothing like that in Fable III. It's just a series of financial decisions that you can circumvent by leaving the console on while you spend the afternoon cleaning your apartment.
Not to derail too far, but... really? Reaver's back and he's still fucking around? Learning that has placed my interest in the game at almost zero, because I badly wanted to put a bullet between his eyes in Fable 2. I don't care to find out how they can make me hate the treacherous fuckstain even more.Blatherscythe said:
He can try to sacrifice me, I'm fine with it. People can be dicks. He starts toeing the line shooting Barnum. I wasn't phased in the least when he shot Lucien, because it might have been stupid letting a villain monologue as much as I criticize other characters for doing it. My hugest "Please allow me to cap this mother" issue was learning he was responsible for destroying Oakvale for real real. Also lole, skill-based characters.
More on topic: As for this big choice, it sounded like an interesting twist until reading...well, the first post, pretty much. That bit about everyone chipping in a gold to save themselves is pretty hilarious. I thought the choices at the end of Fable 2 were bad. And surely a couple of more generous townsfolk could have covered for the beggars as well?
I'd say this is obviously false given that a single rudimentary food product costs hundreds of gold.crimson5pheonix said:
Hell, I'd have covered the destitute myself. I think the people can sacrifice a single good meal in exchange for not being murdered by some cosmic horror.