Current Events > To have unhappy stories, or to have no story at all?

(+) Yeah! (+)

Ponderings of a master

Depends on the content or subject matter.

If you're making a Mario game and you're going for a depressing story, you're better off not having one.

Better to have loved and lost.

Or

https://youtube.com/watch?v=RYc8I0CPcmA&list=OLAK5uy_mg-ASS2o58-fx-jTH1Dr-RMmQyoS9A3dA

I'm often in category A. Better to have loved and lost.
---

The unhappiest stories are the ones where the game refuses to let me take a clearly open path, but merely turns the guy around while he shrugs his shoulders with a "I can't go that way because reasons!" dialogue popup.