Current Events > They should make a game with a branching story where the branches are not obviou

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Instead of "HEY PLAYER DO YOU WANT TO ____ OR ____" or even worse "press X to ____, press square to ____", it's more like, if you shoot The End at the docks, this actually significantly affects the story.

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So Undertale?

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s0nicfan posted...

So Undertale?

Maybe? Did Undertale have a branching story where the branches were not obviou?

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Star Ocean with recruitable characters
Dragon's Dogma where you can end up missing entire plotlinesa and dungeons, as well as characters for the ending

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Alpha Protocol, sort of. There are obvious choices too of course.

Visual Novels

I felt like the first Witcher was good about this; maybe I just have a shoddy memory, but I feel like most of the time when you made a decision, you didn't really see the full result until later on when it was too late to save scum. The later games were not so good about it though.

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DevsChum posted...

Maybe? Did Undertale have a branching story where the branches were not obviou?

The game has three branching story paths that effect things like character dialogue and boss battles, two of which would be almost impossible to stumble onto without the community telling you about them, and which path you get is a direct result of how you play the game.

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Hexenherz posted...

I felt like the first Witcher was good about this; maybe I just have a shoddy memory, but I feel like most of the time when you made a decision, you didn't really see the full result until later on when it was too late to save scum. The later games were not so good about it though.

I think you're right, although it's been a while since I played it too. The presentation of the choices was obvious, but not necessarily the consequences.

I remember a choice regarding the boy (Alvin?) that didn't play out until later.

I'd like multiple branches upon branches. most games just have like 2 branches of the story. how about you pick a branch....and then later you can do a branch of that branch. there could be like 10 different ultimate paths you can take

s0nicfan posted...

The game has three branching story paths that effect things like character dialogue and boss battles, two of which would be almost impossible to stumble onto without the community telling you about them, and which path you get is a direct result of how you play the game.

Sounds like pretty much what I've described, yeah.

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MarthGoomba posted...

Visual Novels

Eh, enough literally have the branches visualised these days.

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They already did.

It's called real life.

Complete_Idi0t posted...

They already did.

It's called real life.

The problem with that one is it takes place in the sucky real world.

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Heavy Rain?

DevsChum posted...

The problem with that one is it takes place in the sucky real world.

Well, you know how open world games are. The bigger they are the more mundane things tend to be on average, and "Earth" puts all other open worlds to shame in terms of size.

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s0nicfan posted...

Well, you know how open world games are. The bigger they are the more mundane things tend to be on average, and "Earth" puts all other open worlds to shame in terms of size.

Well actually it doesn't. Minecraft, for example, is about twice as big as Earth. And then there's No Man's Sky.

But yeah, it's definitely up there.

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