Comments on: What did you choose?

By: Smoke220

Smoke220 — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 18:12:55 +0000

I saved all the people who built the Spire, really… I didn’t need money at that point (I played through evil, so I slaughtered entire towns, bought their houses, and rented them out), and I couldn’t justify saving family over the other people… That, and by that point I was pretty pissed off at my dog. Maybe it was just me, but he kept running off to chests I had already opened, and barking that there was treasure in places where nothing was.

I was a little disappointed in myself during the confrontation with Lucien tho… I was expecting this huge, epic, grand battle at the end (like Fable 1), and instead… I tapped the ranged attack button while he was mid-speech, and watched that single bullet kill him. And now I’ll never know what he was going to say.

I did like the change from the choice in Fable 1… More options than just “Do you wish to kill X?”. I’m curious what they’ll do for the end of Fable 3

By: Lacrox

Lacrox — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 15:56:49 +0000

I couldn’t give a rats ass about the money and frankly the villagers were mindless peons that are impressed when you fart on them. I didn’t have a wife, but I wanted my dog back and more importantly I wanted my Sister back…then of course Lionhead did a cocktease ending so all you get is a vague letter saying that your Sister is alive and that you might see her one day if you wish really hard.

By: ClockworkTiger

ClockworkTiger — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 13:36:38 +0000

If I’m forced to make a decision between the lives of untold numbers of exploited innocents on one hand, and my faithful hound and hot lesbian gypsy wife on the other, I’m picking the dog and the lesbian.

By: Preston

Preston — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 08:20:48 +0000

Like most decisions I make in life I look to the sage-like wisdom of Spock. In the Wrath of Khan he sacrificed himself to save the crew of the Enterprise. His final words were “The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few…” I took this to heart and chose to sacrifice my own happiness and bring back the people that had been killed in the Spire. I was bummed out, but was pleasantly surprised when an achievement popped up. I looked at what I did to get it and saw that it said I had chosen ‘the needs of the many’.

By: Ian Price

Ian Price — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 14:13:14 +0000

I just beat it 2 days ago myself. Go figure.

Anyway, I chose family for the following reason:

My character was a corrupt bastard who’s actions constantly wore on his own sanity. He chose whatever option would get him the most money for the least effort and, if somebody got hurt in the process, that was the cherry on top. He didn’t actively hurt innocent villagers for the sheer joy of it but he did take pleasure any assassination contracts that happened by. This pattern slowly but surly wore down his mind and as the game progressed and his appearance soon began to reflect that.

He had a gypsy wife who watched his battle with the demons. She watched it for years and tried to keep their child in the dark about it. But when he came up drunk, covered in blood, and reeking of whores… she divorced him.

His wife was his last grip on reality and now there was nothing holding him back. He sacrificed villagers to the Temple of Shadows, Killed merchants on the road for fun, wooed a second wife just so he could have he killed by cultists, and kept the safety off on his rifle much more than on. He was running towards the edge at full speed and ready to jump off the point of no return without abandon.

But it was when he was taking a job from a mad scientist that he met… her….

A zombie that came from a life as dark and disturbed as him. An undead woman that would love him unconditionally. A woman who was just twisted enough so that he could stay close enough to the edge so he could see the bottom, but also the only thing that could keep him from falling off. Lady Gray may have been magically enchanted to fall in love with him on sight, but the hero didn’t need any magic.

Of course he was going to save her.

By: Desfunk

Desfunk — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 13:25:41 +0000

I went with saving my family and the Dog. Even though i barely spent ANY time with my wife in the game. I chose to bring back my good ol pal! He had been with me the whole time, and i wasn’t gonna let him die like that!

Year, the crap that went down in the Spire was horrid. But what’s done is done. And i figured for once, i’d deal with my own happiness for a change :p

Damn Hammer for giving me such attitude!!! Can’t wait for Fable 3!!!! n_n

By: Xander

Xander — Mon, 31 May 2010 19:49:41 +0000

That is to say, I didn’t want soften the horror of the Spire. I needed it embedded in the history of every family of the world that nothing good could come from that event. Outside of the heroes, no one would know I’d used a miracle to bring back a dog and a girl, and I’d rather people in that world believed that they simply didn’t exist, which I would say perfectly happily knowing what the cost of just one miracle was.

Hammer can just bugger off.

By: Xander

Xander — Mon, 31 May 2010 19:39:13 +0000

I chose my family, but for reasons that made me irritated that I couldn’t just explain to Hammer before she stormed off.

Money was tempting, because well.. it’s money. It could’ve been a LOT of money, but since I could always earn more money I turned off of it after a lot of thought. That thought consisted of me very rarely actually buying things in Fable II.

Which means I chose a still rather selfish option of bringing back my dog and sister, but this was mostly to cause the least effect of a miracle as I could. The dog died very close to the end, so I figured bringing him back was fine, and the sister was killed so early in life and in such a tragic way that I figured she deserved another shot. She was a possible hero too, and I get the feeling if everyone in the spire was brought back, the same thing might just happen again. Fun choice though.

By: Twyst

Twyst — Mon, 31 May 2010 13:57:26 +0000

As we were fleeing i kept shooting the hero of skill. I hated that dude. He didnt get to shoot baddies during the escape due to his being on his knees, as a riddled him with bullets.

By: John

John — Sun, 30 May 2010 05:51:33 +0000

I chose the dog and my family. Why? Because in my mind the people who died in the making of the spire were lumped together with every other super-generic, emotionally devoid drone that made up the majority of that world. I think Hammer, the dog, and Barnum (that goofy dude with the weird vocabulary) were the only characters I had any real emotional connection with when playing that game.

Also, as a gay male who so rarely gets the chance to have an actual homosexual romance in a console role-playing game, it made the choice of saving my husband a bit easier. Sorry drones, even though he was just as generic as the rest of you, our ‘relationship’ anchored me into the world just enough to make him worth saving over the rest of you.

So yeah, I think the biggest flaw with the choice at the end, is that people like me have no emotional connection with the average npc, let alone nameless ones that you never really interact with. I mean, if the game limited itself to a smaller cast of more emotionally deep npcs (with actual backgrounds) then it may have made the choice harder. But as far as I could see, it was like asking me to feel guilty about demolishing some homes in a residential zone in SimCity.

In the end all I saw presented before me was a number, some characters I cared about, and another number. It felt like such a shallow decision that it kinda ruined the ending for me. Like it didn’t matter how I had built up my character from the start of the game til then. All that mattered in the end was “Do you want to be a generic hero, a good but flawed human, or a generic bastard?” It felt tacked on, and after all that adventuring, it detached me from the world in a very bland way.