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Message: [QUOTE="Strategist, post: 62478, member: 767"] Secret or golden endings definitively count, although I avoided mentioning them in my article because it is hard to discuss without heavy spoilers. As far as cool choices in endings, I think Fallout: New Vegas is worth mentioning as you can have multiple ending paths. Supporting Mr. House, supporting the Legion, or using Yes Man to create anarchy in the Mojave Desert. Also, the Witcher 3 has three distinct endings connected to dialogue choices with Ciri. What I don't like about this, is that the game doesn't really give you any warning that this could happen so it doesn't feel like a true choose your own adventure scenario. Triangle Strategy is another strategy game with many story choices and it has 3 endings + a secret golden path. I'd recommend that game to any fans of SRPGs. I have a huge backlog of Romancing Saga games to play. Can't really continue my Squaresoft series without becoming familiar with those games. Maybe I should find someone to talk about that series. If you want to do a collaboration, let me know. Dang dude, you wrote a mini article in the comments. Love it. You brought up some great examples. I have only played Mass Effect 1 but that game is pretty linear aside from Paragon/Renegade dialogue choices and romantic options. I didn't go into romantic partner choices, but if I did Bioware games would definitively be high up on the list. And the lore building in the side quests is excellent. I guess you can choose to skip the side quests, but those don't feel like true CYOA scenarios. I know that Mass Effect 2 is different, there's some type of choice of who to bring to the last game and not all of your companions may survive, but I haven't played 2. I need to rectify that eventually. I hear good things about the Walking dead Telltale adventure game. That's not a genre I play that often but I do enjoy it on occasion (Ace Attorney). Yeah, not too familiar with the Japanese Dating Sims/Visual Novels, but the ones I've played the choices are basically which girl you are going to end up with at the end. I know there are some newer ones that really go crazy on the story choices but I haven't tried them. I haven't played RE3, I didn't even know there were story choices in that game. Now that you mention that, I didn't go into "the illusion of choice" in video games. That could be a topic for a companion article. Some games trick the player into thinking they can choose something but the choices converge to the same point. There's an art to it where it doesn't feel like the player is getting cheated. Suikoden 2 did come to mind, but since I haven't finished the game, I couldn't really speak to all the choices or options in the game. Also, Valkyrie Profile offers a lot of choice in how to tackle the game, but the pathway to unlocking the best ending is so obnoxious, it hardly feels like a true CYOA scenario. Obsidian is an offshoot of Black Isle, the studio that collaborated with Bioware on many Baldur's Gate games, so they have that CYOA DNA in them. I've played Fallout: New Vegas and there's a lot of story options and factions to choose from in that game. Same with Pillars of Eternity. I do own Tyranny but I haven't finished it. Got to get to it some day. [/QUOTE]

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