Game's that you could 'lose'
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Nobody has said Pikmin yet? It's a particularly nasty one too- any wasted moment can not only cost you your life, but also your entire save game. And, unless you know exactly what you're doing, it's entirely possible to make the game unwinnable early on and not know it.
Jade Empire, hands down.
That game has one of the best story ever written, so, go play it.
Before fighting with the last boss, he gives you his reason for doing things his way and his vision of the world... and you can agree that it's the right way and let yourself be killed. You get a statue and will be hailed as the hero who helped main evil guy rose to power.
That game has one of the best story ever written, so, go play it.
While I remember some of the ones already mentioned, I'll go with Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow.
Basically the character Soma Cruz (the human reincarnation of Dracula) gets tricked into thinking his girlfriend got killed, goes absolutely batty-nuggets, and willingly lets himself become the new dark lord because he "no longer cares". I honestly thought it was a more interesting ending than the canon one, myself.
Basically the character Soma Cruz (the human reincarnation of Dracula) gets tricked into thinking his girlfriend got killed, goes absolutely batty-nuggets, and willingly lets himself become the new dark lord because he "no longer cares". I honestly thought it was a more interesting ending than the canon one, myself.
Both endings left me feeling a little shaken. Either commit genocide (the true ending btw, it's in the novel) or let said race's fellow monsters keep slaughtering humanity. The Grays may want peace, sure, but everything else sure as hell doesn't! In the book, though, the Grays were just another race of Dark Ones and so were the other mutants. In the game, the Grays are Dark Ones and the mutants are just deserving cannon fodder.Anti-American Eagle said:
Yeah, but you don't really lose per say. All your enemies are dead and...Longstreet said:
...your daughter sits on the throne with you as the power behind it
I played a "retard run" for Fallout: New Vegas, in which I deliberately picked all the stupidest dialogue options. The ones I never would have even considered selecting on a typical play through.
* I got Boon to murder his comrade, and then told him I did it for the hell of it.
* When interrogating the centurion, I punched him to death, even when he offered the necessary information (I refused it).
* I managed to get the NCR monorail blown up.
* Pissed Caesar off by constantly waking him up (on a replay, I fucked with his auto doc and got him to die)
* Messed up on guard duty repeatedly, culminating in a suicide bomber blowing up that plasma vending establishment.
And many more! Try it, if only to see what kind of mischief and bullshit you can cause!
* I got Boon to murder his comrade, and then told him I did it for the hell of it.
* When interrogating the centurion, I punched him to death, even when he offered the necessary information (I refused it).
* I managed to get the NCR monorail blown up.
* Pissed Caesar off by constantly waking him up (on a replay, I fucked with his auto doc and got him to die)
* Messed up on guard duty repeatedly, culminating in a suicide bomber blowing up that plasma vending establishment.
And many more! Try it, if only to see what kind of mischief and bullshit you can cause!
Splinter Cell: Double Agent
You can nuke New York by fucking up disarming the bomb or just letting it tick down to zero.
You can nuke New York by fucking up disarming the bomb or just letting it tick down to zero.
In Shadow Complex you can stop chasing your girlfriend into the secret military base and run out of the cave and back to your car to drive away, with the hero saying "Plenty more fish in the sea" or something like that.
While I've not finished it myself, everything I can find on Final Fantasy XIII-2 seems to suggest that
Feel free to correct me on that, anyone who was able to actually get through the whole thing.
there is no good ending, and whatever you do will always result in that guy doing some shit and the world ending or something.
No mention of Witcher 2's hardcore mode yet? If you die once, the game deletes all your save files and you have to start from the absolute beginning.
I think I once started the game and did one sub-crash mission before my base was invaded a few days later. Fastest game failure I've ever had.LordJedi86 said:
OT: Shenmue - In both games, there is an unseen time limit for you to complete it. The actual amount of in-game time it takes to reach these bad endings is astronomical, so chances are even the slowest of gamers won't see these endings.
But, if you take too damn long to finish it, Lan Di will actually find Ryo and confront him.
Which doesn't go very well for Ryo. After all, Lan Di seems to be one powerful arsehole that beat his father to death with just a few attacks. Ryo, who is too possessed by the need for revenge, foolishly attacks Lan Di head on - Who hits him with the very same attack that killed his father. Ouch.
Disgaea 2 was the first game that comes to mind for me.
The game's ending on a scale of Good-Bad-Worst is basically decided by how many times you accidentally (or on purpose) kill your own team-mates, and how many 'felonies' you have. Have enough of both by the time the game ends, and...
Actually that game has a few endings like that, but that's the one that I care to mention.
The game's ending on a scale of Good-Bad-Worst is basically decided by how many times you accidentally (or on purpose) kill your own team-mates, and how many 'felonies' you have. Have enough of both by the time the game ends, and...
The male lead kills the female lead, then gets possessed by an evil, unstoppable spirit and proceeds to tear apart and eat his brother and sister.
Actually that game has a few endings like that, but that's the one that I care to mention.