The Great One
That's basically the gist of it. Although the hero can be either a man or woman.
"If everybody is thinking alike, somebody isn't thinking"- George S. Patton
Unstoppable Sex Goddess
Zero Punctuation review 
The Leading Man
There's this website. It's called Wikipedia. They say it has over 2 million English articles. Maybe it can help?
Against all tyrants.
Geomancer
Zero Punctuation reviewYou're basing your perception entirely on one review?
You got some dirt on you. Here's some more!
^The source isn't that important; having read Mistborn, he's right: pared down, that is the plot for both the Mistborn trilogy and Fable III. Of course, the Hero in Fable III succeeds in combatting the evil where the previous ruler fails, so it's not entirely the same.
It's been fun.
Zaklog the Great
To clarify my position, I'm not criticizing Fable 3 in any way. I'm not saying the game is good or bad for this. I'm definitely not saying he ripped anyone off. The outline I stated is far too broad to be subject to any reasonable copyright. I just found this connection interesting and was wondering if anyone else had noticed the same thing.
Isn't that the entire purpose of this website/community?
edited 19th Jan '11 9:29:24 PM by ZaklogtheGreat
Zaklog the Great
And no, Marioguy, I'm not basing my entire judgement on a single review. The biggest part of my opinion of this game (as to whether or not I'll buy it) is simply that I'm a cheapskate bastard. I'm not a pirate, though (. . . depending on your views on abandonware). So if I ever play this game, it will be because I've waited long enough that it's become cheaply available on a system I already own.
There are very few exceptions to this for me: Civilization (although I heard Civ 5 is a horrid mess), Half-Life, Portal, can't think of any others.
Admittedly, I only know anything of the story of Fable 3 from a Zero Punctuation review. But if I understand this correctly, a man overthrows an evil dictator only to discover that the evil dictator was, in fact, working to protect them all from something much, much worse than himself. The heroes now have to cope with this threat instead and (I'm guessing) are nowhere nearly as well equipped to do so as the (previous) villain was.
Has Peter Molyneux been reading Brandon Sanderson's Mistborn books?