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2019-02-06, 05:21 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Any game where you play as the bad guy and lose?
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I have an extended signature now. God knows why.
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2019-02-06, 05:22 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Mar 2010
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Re: Any game where you play as the bad guy and lose?
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2019-02-06, 06:04 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Feb 2008
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- Canada
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Re: Any game where you play as the bad guy and lose?
I'll say that counts. You do become some weird demon monster and get shut down in an unbeatable fight that you actually play out.
It would be kinda neat if his pen-ultimate attack just never stopped. But that would've really cheapened the impact of that route.Spoiler: I'm a writer!Spoiler: Check out my fanfiction[URL="https://www.fanfiction.net/u/7493788/Forum-Explorer"here[/URL]
]Fate Stay Nano: Fate Stay Night x Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha
I Fell in Love with a Storm: MLP
Procrastination: MLP
Spoiler: Original FictionThe Lost Dragon: A story about a priest who finds a baby dragon in his church and decides to protect them.
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2019-02-06, 06:30 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Apr 2011
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Re: Any game where you play as the bad guy and lose?
I'm not sure.
I think it would have made a similar point, the "you just couldn't let go" part that made you do all this grinding for not really any reward just because you could, rejecting the ideas in the other route that people grow and change from within themselves not from looking for outside validation in stuff (O hai Alphys) because here you are still fiddling with the stuff. Trapping you in an endless loop mechanically because you're clearly not ready to let the game be finished after the proper story, so why should it let you be finished now would be another way of expressing what it does (and because we know what the game's like and this is exactly what it'd do, just binning it to desktop would reload to the exact same state, so the only thing you can ever get out of the game now is a single endless fight).
I do think the way it does it is better, because of the way it reinforces that you haven't really learned if you go back the other way.
But it would still have been a mechanically effective way of conveying what that route does*.
Interesting video plug: Adam Millard, game design thinky person, has done a recent Undertale video which talks a lot about the themes and such.
* Also that the devil has all the best tunes because damn but Megalovania and Battle against a True Hero are great.Last edited by GloatingSwine; 2019-02-06 at 06:32 PM.
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2019-02-06, 07:12 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Aug 2018
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- Between SEA and PDX.
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Re: Any game where you play as the bad guy and lose?
Valkyrie Profile: Covenant of the Plume. You play as a guy who kinda accidentally sells his best friend's soul to Hel (as in, the Norse God of her namesake) and gains some super awesome powers by doing so. Then you're told you can sell other people's souls once they trust you. You get a few more NPCs along the way and the more you sacrifice, the stronger you permanently become.
The final boss (if you're playing the game by sacrificing your friends) has you face off against a Valkyrie and all of the friends you murdered.
The game is incredibly hard and has lots of interesting and challenging mechanics. On Hard, it was one of the most difficult tactics games I've ever played, and every loss felt like it was my fault. I was pretty dedicated to keeping everyone alive, but it took a while to get there.
5th Edition Homebrewery
Prestige Options, changing primary attributes to open a world of new multiclassing.
Adrenaline Surge, fitting Short Rests into combat to fix bosses/Short Rest Classes.
Pain, using Exhaustion to make tactical martial combatants.
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2019-02-07, 12:55 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Feb 2014
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- Denmark
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Re: Any game where you play as the bad guy and lose?
Um ...
Spoiler: Endings
They're both pretty dark, no? The game is about psychotic paranoia, and it's never revealed whether you're literally insane for the entirety of the game, murdering your way through an entire games worth of innocents (but heavily hinted that you are).
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2019-02-07, 03:13 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Mar 2006
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- Germany
Re: Any game where you play as the bad guy and lose?
Spoiler: Mark of the Ninja
As I understood it, the ink of the tattoo drives you crazy over time. You are hallucinating right from the start, the hallucinations just get worse.
There is of course the question if there are any truly innocents in this game. Random Hessian security guards are probably less guilty of anything than the people you can kill toward the end.
Both endings are indeed rather bleak, there is no good way out of this.
Either you stop yourself from becoming a complete monster but let Azai get away, or you stop him and then go most likely on an uncontrolled murder spree.