What I Never Understood About Fable III...

By Link the Writer · Mar 24, 2011 · 666 · 6
  1. *SPOILERS!!! SPOILERS!!! SPOILERS!!!*

    Okay, in Fable III, you basically create a revolution to oust your evil tyrannical brother of a king named Logan.

    #1- This is the big one. Logan later reveals that the reason he was being such a dick to the people of Albion for the past four years before the game started was because he was trying to save the country from a unexplained shadow force hell bent on eradicating their way of life for some inexplicable reason other than they "hate the light".

    Uh, Logie? D'ya think that was important when you first heard of it!? What, you'd think the people would pull a Mass Effect by saying: "Ah yes, *finger quotes* crawlers *fnger quotes*. A sentinent race of shadow beings hell bent on eradicating all life as we know it. We've already dismissed that claim."?

    If my country were being invaded, I'd damn well hope Obama would tell us! That's...that's just what rulers do in a situation like this! "Hey, just fyi, we're about to be invaded so we'd better prepare and FAST!!"

    #2- It's not exactly a revolution if you're just ousting the leader, is it? That's called a coup, right? A revolution when you're tearing down the entire government structure and constructing a new one. Because it seems that the problem wasn't the monarchy, it was the monarch in power.

    #3- Speaking of Crawlers: Just...what the frell are they? They do nothing but hiss that they hate the light, love darkness and the children embrace everyone.

    Aaah, so confusing. Still a great game, though. :D

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  1. Bay K.
    Ok, I don't know ANYTHING about Fable III (some video game, I suppose?) except what you've put out here. (So, I may not be in the right position to be answering this, but ...)

    -- King Logan might think it good policy not to panic the people with news of the Crawlers.
    You've heard of Rosewell, Area 51, UFOs and such, what if we were truly visited (or attacked) by aliens? The government sure didn't tell us.
    And there are other matters of national security that we'll NEVER know about --classified!

    -- Since the Crawlers love the darkness and hate the light (looking at it symbolically), then perhaps Logan was brutal to his people to feign being a 'dark' lord to the Crawlers.
    Perceiving Logan this way may deter the Crawlers from destroying the people, as they are already ruled by 'darkness'.

    -- Revolutions very much have to do with rulers.
    The ruler(s) makes policies, laws and is the government. Eliminating Logan is a revolution because his policies, laws, agenda, governing program, state system will be gotten rid of with him.
    He may be replaced by another absolute monarch, but this new one might adopt a different governing stance, ushering in a new way of life for the state and nation.

    -- Ok, I don't know who the hell the crawlers are. But if the children embrace everyone, then it can't be all that bad --can it? :)

    Hope my ramblings were somewhat helpful. Or, were your questions / thoughts rhetorical?
    (Oh God, I'd look the fool :) ).




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    Bay K., Mar 24, 2011
  2. Banzai
    I had a few issues with Fable III myself.

    I don't get, principly, why you (once king) can't just go to the people and say "Yeah, things are gonna be crap for the next year while we build up the treasury to repel the invasion, but then everything will be great." All the supposedly "evil" choices that you have to make, I don't get why you wouldn't just reverse them all (or most of them) once the crisis is over...

    And then, the game contains two supposed wars. Except, the first is just one rather short mission, and the second is a rather unimpressive boss fight. They really should have leant the wars a sense of scale, possibly by having multiple missions in multiple areas as part of a war campaign.

    But hey, I'm sure Fable IV will be so awesome our eyeballs will melt and leak out of our face- right Mr Molyneux? :p
    Banzai, Mar 24, 2011
  3. Banzai
    I had a few issues with Fable III myself.

    I don't get, principly, why you (once king) can't just go to the people and say "Yeah, things are gonna be crap for the next year while we build up the treasury to repel the invasion, but then everything will be great." All the supposedly "evil" choices that you have to make, I don't get why you wouldn't just reverse them all (or most of them) once the crisis is over...

    And then, the game contains two supposed wars. Except, the first is just one rather short mission, and the second is a rather unimpressive boss fight. They really should have leant the wars a sense of scale, possibly by having multiple missions in multiple areas as part of a war campaign.

    But hey, I'm sure Fable IV will be so awesome our eyeballs will melt and leak out of our face- right Mr Molyneux? :p
    Banzai, Mar 24, 2011
  4. Ashleigh
    ^Haha. I don't understand why, if Logan was so evil, the treasury was do damn empty when you come and take over!

    Being evil gets you stacks of money easily. Not exactly the best moral/politcal message! Evil = cash, Good = death. =/
    Ashleigh, Mar 24, 2011
  5. Link the Writer
    It is possible to be a good ruler and save people. You just have to work to earn it. (You have to save up about 80 million gold to save everyone and make all the good rulings.)

    It's possbile, but it will take a very long time.
    Link the Writer, Mar 25, 2011
  6. Link the Writer
    It is possible to be a good ruler and save people. You just have to work to earn it. (You have to save up about 80 million gold to save everyone and make all the good rulings.)

    It's possbile, but it will take a very long time.
    Link the Writer, Mar 25, 2011
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