Preparation boils down purely to having enough cash, so getting a “good ending” depends on whether or not you’re prepared to spend a day on the lute minigame to earn some gold. The cherry on top is the rushed last act of the game, in which you take the throne from your tyrannical older brother, and then have one in-game year to prepare Albion for the apocalypse. The story may be good, but the combat makes it hard to be motivated to see it through. Weapons have barely any variety, and spells are simply split between those that do damage and those that stun, so different elements don’t matter unlike in most RPGs. And even then, there isn’t a whole lot of point changing over. For some reason, the menu from Fable II was replaced by a physical room you had to enter if you wanted to change a weapon or spell.

Some other decisions in the game are just baffling.

The only items you regularly collected were weapons and clothing, so that removed a whole lot of variety with the side quests.

There was also, for some reason, very little loot.

Fable 3 release dates