Poll: How do you deal with multiple endings?

[twistedmic]

When there is a game that has multiple endings, based off of a few major choices throughout the game (Dark Messiah: Elements for example), how do you go about getting each ending?
Do you play through the game for each separate ending? Or do you make an alternate save before each choice and play from the extra save point?
Personally, if the endings are determined by a few big decisions, I rarely feel like playing the game again just to see them all. I just save at key places and play the game from there, making different choices than the last time through.

 

[Zaik]

If it's two or three, I'll play through again.

If it's like 10+, I might do a few, but I won't see them all.

 

[Icehearted]

If I enjoy the game, like Alpha Protocol, Mass Effect, Chrono Trigger, I will replay them.

If I do not really like the game but am curious, such as with Dragon Age Origins, I'll save in an area where I know the game will branch (it's usually fairly obvious) and resume from there.

In rare cases, like Wing Commander 3, the alternate ending might not be foreseeable, in which case I tend to be pretty pleased and replay just to see more.

And finally, if I hate the game, I won't bother. Believe it or not I've done this with fighting games, which are often the most diverse as endings go (Marvel VS Capcom only had one though, so I guess it goes both ways).

 

[Tdc2182]

I really just go about the game as I see fit. I rarely ever will play a game more than twice, so I usually just stick with one ending. Most of the time I just play how I feel; The good guy who's a dick to assholes.

This also brings me to another point which drives me insane. People who will purposely look all the requirements in Mass Effect 2 so they get their desired ending.

If you played like that, you completely missed the point and I legitimately don't like you as a human being.

 

[Worgen]

really it depends what kind of game it is, if its a really long rpg Ill probably save before hand but if its a fps like singularity then Ill play tho it multiple times

 

[NeutralDrow]

Multiple endings are almost a defining feature of visual novels, which I play frequently...so it depends on the game.

For games with early-branching storylines, like Tsukihime or Fate/Stay Night, I simply replay the entire game. Indeed, it's actually encouraged in that first one, since the earliest choices you make determine whether you can access the Far Side paths.

For games with mid-branching stories, or ones without many choices of dire consequence in the beginning, like Symphonic Rain or Heart de Roommate, I load from a save around where the story branches off...and sometimes replay the entire thing for the last playthrough.

For late-branching games, it depends on the choice structure. If the general storyline doesn't change much in the first part of the game, like in Kana: Little Sister or Family Project, I'll tend to start at the beginning, but fast-forward through scenes that aren't either new or drastically important or fun in my mind. Otherwise, I'll follow the mid-branch tactic.

And if a game is generally a maze of choices leading many different directions, like Little My Maid or The Sagara Family, I just start at the beginning each time.

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For stuff that's not visual novels, I typically play the game over entirely. If I'm interested enough to want to see more endings, I'm having enough fun to like playing the game again.

 

[The Madman]

Depends on how much I like the game and how curious I am, generally though if I know a game has multiple endings I prefer to simply leave them till the next time I replay the game if I ever do.

Sometimes if it's one of those games with a 'Yes/No' style decision at one point and I'm curious I might save before said choice to later replay. But for the most part I prefer to simply leave these things unknown so that if ever I replay the game I have something to look forward to.

 

[Wuggy]

What I usually do witha multi-ended game is I play it through twice, three times tops. If this doesn't cover all of the endings, I'll look them up online mostly because I tend to get bored with the gameplay after a third playthrough (if the game is not Portal, which isn't multi-ended though).

 

[DaphneRose]

I do what you do. But if the game simply Isn't worth wrangling 3+ times, I'll admit it, I cheat. I just youtube it.

 

[varulfic]

For all my love of RPGs, I really do suck at roleplaying. I usually end up playing the same chaotic good character no matter what my intentions are, and therefor tend to get the same endings. Occationally I'll go for another ending if it's not to much of a hassle - most endings only depend on what you do immediately before the epilogue after all.

 

[Sleepy Sol]

In the case of multiple endings, I live with whatever ending I get and find the rest on youtube. I'm generally too lazy to play a game twice all the way through. I do sometimes make multiple saves if it's only one or two decisions that affects the outcome.

 

[Cid Silverwing]

I can dig it. I always opt for the best endings.

 

[Megahedron]

For all my love of RPGs, I really do suck at roleplaying. I usually end up playing the same chaotic good character no matter what my intentions are, and therefor tend to get the same endings. Occationally I'll go for another ending if it's not to much of a hassle - most endings only depend on what you do immediately before the epilogue after all.

I'm in the same boat, my favorite games are almost all RPGs and I love the choices, but I always pick the same thing. Have you ever done the thing where you try to replay the game as a different character and end up realizing how wrong it is and changing? For me, in New Vegas I started a second game working for Mr. House but about halfway through got annoyed and switched back to my original style. Meaning: Independent New Vegas!

 

[Scorekeeper]

Multiple save files ftw.

 

[varulfic]

For all my love of RPGs, I really do suck at roleplaying. I usually end up playing the same chaotic good character no matter what my intentions are, and therefor tend to get the same endings. Occationally I'll go for another ending if it's not to much of a hassle - most endings only depend on what you do immediately before the epilogue after all.

I'm in the same boat, my favorite games are almost all RPGs and I love the choices, but I always pick the same thing. Have you ever done the thing where you try to replay the game as a different character and end up realizing how wrong it is and changing? For me, in New Vegas I started a second game working for Mr. House but about halfway through got annoyed and switched back to my original style. Meaning: Independent New Vegas!

Indeed, especially in Bioware games. How can I betray and kill those characters that I in a previous life called my friends? Guess I'm just a big ol' softy.

 

[ArtemusClydeFrog]

I actually got all the different endings for Heavy Rain, but I'll admit it got really tedious in the end - even though I had looked up the easiest/fastest way to get all endings.

Usually I play the game all the way through again though, but it depends on whether it's actually a different experience or not. In Fallout3 I first played as a good character (male, focusing on guns) and on my second playthrough as an evil character (female, focusing on sneak) making the exact opposite choices (i.e. Megaton's fate).
This was great, not so much because of the different ending, but rather the fact that it felt like an entirely new game!

But if the multiple endings thing is just a matter of some last minute choice, I'd be just as likely to replay a game that doesn't have multiple endings, and I might just play the game from where it branches.

 

[Scarim Coral]

Depend how long it would take to view the other endings. Example like if there are like key moments in the game that cause the different endings I would make anothter files from that moment. However if it was more complicated than that (like in Fire Emblem there are different ending to which characters would hook up with another but it take time to make the two to be attracted to each other) than I wouldn't bother with it.