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[–] omega_x3@lemmy.world 16 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Look saving the dog is the only choice, you can go get another wife and kids and a million gold is so easy to get by that point in the game. My biggest problem with 2 was that I was so evil by the time I realized that I needed to get to a level of good to get an expression to open the last door and I just didn't want to do it anymore.

3 is easy bad ending or huge money grind for good ending, that is the whole game.

[–] VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world 10 points 3 days ago (1 children)

The money grind in 3 is easy, too. You just need to buy a house, rent it out, use that to buy another house, etc.

[–] Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world 21 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

To get the good ending you need to become a landlord.

Plot twist: this is actually the evil ending.

[–] VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago

You can also get really good at Lute Hero, but it takes longer.

[–] Omegamanthethird@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

Wasn't that only if you didn't balance it enough and let the greed/evil rating go all the way up?

[–] Omegamanthethird@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago (3 children)

I liked 3 a lot. But it's way too easy. IIRC you also can't die. You just revive with a scar. But I never "lost" until I got to that assassin for the DLC.

Also, yeah, the ending was price gouge all of your rental properties or let everyone die. Like, great, what a choice.

Gameplay was fun though. Missions were fun. Everything was good except those two things.

[–] Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

All of the Fable games were easy. The first one had a shield spell early in the magic tree that made hits drain mana instead of health, mana potions were cheaper than health potions, you could carry a ton of them, and using them was instantaneous even in battle. It was straight-up impossible to die unless you did so deliberately.

The shield spell also made it so getting hit didn't reset your combo (which acted as an experience multiplier), so you could grind against infinitely respawning enemies like town guards or undead in the graveyard for a while until your combo was in the hundreds, then chug a few experience potions and max out all of your stats instantly.

The only downside was that the spell made an annoying loud humming noise the entire time it was active.


I can't remember ever having trouble in the second, but I don't remember it being so broken either. It was just tuned a little too low since they wanted casual players to be able to enjoy it. The games could have used some difficulty options.

[–] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

The third game also had that horrid "menuless" interface.

And in a series where magic was so OP it made other combat options useless in comparison, it had by far the most OP magic.

A maxed-out melee or ranged character would take twice as long to kill a single enemy as a low-level mage would take to kill a group of 10 enemies.

[–] yermaw@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The king telling you how hard the decisions are, and how you just dont understand how heavy the crown is and then forcing you to make the tough choices yourself seems great on paper until you realise you can solve the entire world's economic problems by putting a 15 minute shift in at the pie shop.

[–] Omegamanthethird@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

I thought that the point was that the King was only interested in saving everyone, so he didn't even consider that he could avoid being a tyrant. Like, if I remember right, you can overcharge for rent to get the money without going overboard. He just said fuck it and took everything.

[–] cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yes, I know about 3's good ending and how all that works, I don't want to spoil it for anyone who wants to play it but hasn't before, but I appreciate how they handled it, as I understand it. And that twist is revealed somewhere in the middle, so you can grind out the good ending or you can take the easy way out. Fable 2 had you go all the way to the end, gave you one wish and 3 options to choose from, then pulls the rug out from under you. Unless you're evil and you just take the money. Regarding the dog:

spoilerThere's no option to save the dog. Not sure where you're getting that. I don't remember a dog. I know you could get a pet and they could die and you could get another one. But there's no wish to bring a pet back. The evil wish is money, and lots of it, but it's the end of the game so it's purely symbolic. The other two endings are "bring back everyone who was killed by the bad guys" or "bring back your family." The game pushes the value of family from the very beginning, but apparently choosing your family is a second bad ending and your family basically hate you for putting them before some strangers. Which doesn't track with the rest of the game.

[–] omega_x3@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Ok I had to look it up since it had been so long since I beat 2. Take the gold is evil ending but like I said money is easy to get by the end game. The good ending is to leave your family dead and save everyone sacrificed to build the tower, the reward is a statue and knowing a bunch of NPCs that you can't meet in the game are alive. Love brings back your family and dog, I was thinking that the dog and family were separate. Anyway family feels guilty about the trade but who cares the wife can be replaced, the dog is needed to get rest of the silver keys and other things that you couldn't access until the end game so dog is the most useful reward, plus being best boy.

So it's love, gold, and a tower? Yeah I still pick gold.

It's been a while since I played but I thought you could have different pets and replace them as they go (since pets tend to be canon fodder in a lot of games).