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[–] Kailn@lemmy.myserv.one 2 points 3 days ago

Reminds me of Death Note,
Except it's not a game.

[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 34 points 2 months ago
[–] FartMaster69@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Halo, chief could’ve spent the rest of his life in a ship drifting through space with his hot computer gf

[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

but then it would go rampant and whatever the Mandalorian's yt recording of Marathon says

[–] jherazob@fedia.io 18 points 2 months ago

Seen the word "Bleakquel" used for it, but since it's handier to point people at, we have TVTropes with Happy Ending Override. It's so damn common because a happy ending means they cannot continue the story, so it must be ruined.

[–] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 18 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] Zoomboingding@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago

Tears of the Kingdom too

[–] halvar@lemy.lol 14 points 2 months ago

Many such cases

[–] Bonsoir@lemmy.ca 11 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Factorio. Your goal is to harness the power of Science! to provide for your vacation expenses; and when you start a new game, you inevitably strand yourself on a new planet with evil communist bugs, just to start all over again.

[–] cybernihongo@reddthat.com 7 points 2 months ago
[–] Akido37@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

The Longest Journey. They did my girl April dirty.

[–] doeknius_gloek@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 2 months ago
[–] cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 months ago

Mass Effect?

Spoilers for the beginning of Mass Effect 2 (because the trilogy is meant to be played back-to-back-to-back, and that's how it's sold now, as a Legendary Edition that bundles them up as one product).

spoilerRegardless of how the first one ends, the very beginning of the first one has your ship destroyed, your crew scattered, and you get killed — sucked out into the vacuum of space. This isn't really a spoiler since it's how a popular game starts and that game came out like 15 years ago, but for anyone who hasn't played the trilogy, it kind of is. Anyway, you get picked up by a group with deep pockets, and they bring you back to life. But if you got attached to your character in the first one, it kinda sucks seeing them literally get killed in the second one.

[–] three@lemmy.zip 4 points 2 months ago

How can getting jerked off be ripped away from you?

[–] WraithGear@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

Chronotrigger…

like even WHY!?

[–] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

"And they all lived happily ever after" should be replaced with "and that's how they resolved that problem".

[–] edinbruh@feddit.it 3 points 2 months ago

A plague tale

[–] Dagnet@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

Final fantasy 13, kinda. I hated the start of 13-2

[–] lessthanluigi 3 points 1 month ago

You think with the happy ending, the next game is just being chill going through day to day life, chillmaxxing