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Times where NOPEING THE **** OUT is actually an option
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the context here is that serah basically chooses a fake dream world vs. actually saving the world and eventually they just lose themselves in the fantasy and the idea of leaving that fake world frightens her to the core
There are several secret endings in Nier Automata where you essentially "nope out" of the situation and the ending just states you walked away to go do something else.
Stick of Truth has a great non-standard game over where you decide you don't want to deal with the bomb.
This happens a lot with factions and covenants in Souls/Bloodborne games.
Some guy talks to you for like twenty seconds and then asks if you want to swear your life to his cause.
Uh, can I get back to you later? Can you tell me more? No?
I'll just be on my way then.
Some guy talks to you for like twenty seconds and then asks if you want to swear your life to his cause.
Uh, can I get back to you later? Can you tell me more? No?
I'll just be on my way then.
There was also a nope option earlier in the game with some elves. Either you go with them peacefully to meet the Elf King, or you fight an unwinnable battle and then meet the King.
In the beginning of Shadow Complex, main character is hiking with his girlfriend and they end up stumbling upon a strange hi-tech facility where the captured girlfriend is dragged in by the guards. Instead of venturing deeper in the complex to rescue her as intended you can just return to your car and drive off while main character nonchalantly says there's "plenty of fish in the sea" and credits roll.
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There was one segment in The Last of Us 2 where you're going through an infected area to retrieve an item and as soon as you pick it up a stalker darts by to signal the start of an encounter. The stalkers are my least favorite part of that game, so instead of actually trying to go through the encounter like normal, I sprinted past all the enemies and made it to the exit. I was only playing on normal, but the game didn't really know how to handle that. It worked though, and I made it out of there without having to deal with any of that.
Suikoden 2 has a secret ending during the segment where you run away. If you repeatedly refuse to return, the army leaders tell you that they're disgusted with you and you get the end credits over a shot of a cabin in the woods.
Pillars 2 also opens with you
Pillars 2 also opens with you
being able to refuse to come back to life and instead return to the cycle
Not so much noping out, but both Hyperdimension Neptunia mk2 and Tales of Xillia 2 have an alternate end path where you fight against the decision the game gives you, which ends up with you fighting and killing all of your party members and main characters in the previous game as they try to stop you. The endings for those obviously say that nothing really was resolved at all.
Cave Story has a character offering to give you a ride off the island just before the final parts of the game. You get an ending of the bad guy taking over the world and you hiding away if you pick that.
I don't think it counts for this thread but in a somewhat similar vein, Armored Core 4 Answer has the ending path C where instead of either helping the govt maintain the current order or the rebels to overthrow it you just go full on genocidal, first killing hundreds of millions of civilians to make a point and then having to fight every named character in the game in a single mission. This is the canon ending. AC5 takes place in the world that rose from the ashes of your apocalypse.
I don't think it counts for this thread but in a somewhat similar vein, Armored Core 4 Answer has the ending path C where instead of either helping the govt maintain the current order or the rebels to overthrow it you just go full on genocidal, first killing hundreds of millions of civilians to make a point and then having to fight every named character in the game in a single mission. This is the canon ending. AC5 takes place in the world that rose from the ashes of your apocalypse.
Wait, what? I've been obsessed with Suikoden II ever since it came out and I don't remember ever seeing or hearing about this. I really need to do a replay.
Hahaha man, I loved this game as a kid. Still have my gamecube and a copy of this hanging around, should hook it up and replay again soon. Also liked Custom Robo Arena on DS, but I don't remember it having a moment quite like this.
Not entirely related to the thread either, but I rather like the idea of bad/incomplete endings being canon endings, they tend to set up more interesting scenarios for sequels. It would actually be great if there were more "what if they NOPED"-sequels for games, that would tell about consequences of predecessor's protagonist either failing or giving up.
And as an example of that, Dragon Quest Builders follows the "bad ending" of Dragon Quest 1, the infamous "will you join me?" question from the final boss that wipes your save if you say yes. I guess the original could be considered a form of noping out, instead of fighting the boss you give up on your quest.
Other examples of "join me" endings where you just end the game right there are Contra Hard Corps (on the path to the best ending you can agree to join Bahamut's troops and end up building a dictatorship with him) and Infinity Blade (if you beat the final boss's first phase you get asked to join him, if you agree your run ends there, I don't remember if that had any special consequences for your subsequent runs).
Let's you agree with the final boss' views and fuse with him, the villain assuming full control of the new entity's personality. Then you get to kill your party in an "unlosable" battle before getting the game over
NieR Automata does for a bunch of instances...but two lines of dialogue doesnt satisfy much by way of epilogue.
Xenoblade games are wonderful in that they don't really penalize losses at all. A boss fight is too hard? You'll respawn a few feet from it and you can leave and level up or whatever. Xenoblade (X most of all) is basically about nopeing the fuck out of most over-sized and over-levelled encounters by running like hell ( and again, in X, moonjumping away or using your mech to fly the fuck away). But....eh. There are better examples.
And effectively most Breath of Fire [bad] endings can qualify.
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Breath of Fire IV's ending is the best and most intense. It lets you play AS the final boss in a one-sided fight where you win against your party.
Xenoblade games are wonderful in that they don't really penalize losses at all. A boss fight is too hard? You'll respawn a few feet from it and you can leave and level up or whatever. Xenoblade (X most of all) is basically about nopeing the fuck out of most over-sized and over-levelled encounters by running like hell ( and again, in X, moonjumping away or using your mech to fly the fuck away). But....eh. There are better examples.
And effectively most Breath of Fire [bad] endings can qualify.
Breath of Fire IV's ending is the best and most intense. It lets you play AS the final boss in a one-sided fight where you win against your party.
I love this. While the solution to this is humorous, it still makes perfect sense considering the in-game logic. For those who don't know what's it about
Order hint book
The picture is from the first Monkey Island game and you've been dumped into the sea to die with a weight attached to your feet. Now there's all these sharp objects around you, from swords, to scissors and a saw to cut the rope with, but you can't quite reach them. The solution is simply to pick up the weight, put it into your pocket and then get out of the water. This is also the only part in the game where you can die. Guybrush says earlier in the game that he can hold his breath for 10 minutes. This is true, it takes 10 minutes to drown in this scene.
Oh man, Gilbert getting to do another Monkey Island (preferably with Tim Schafer) would be my Half-Life/ShenMue 3 moment.
This is amazing lol. More horror games need stuff like this. Makes the character seem much more human
xiii-2 is actually much better than xiii but that's not saying much if you just hate the world and characters of xiii lol
That's actually pretty creepy.
I heard this a lot. It looks like it's a much better game structure but I am not a fan of the main characters. I actually like Lightning and don't like her sister haha
100% this for me. It was the one part that scared the shit out of me when I first played. Even though I knew it was about to go down it always got me. There were two smiliar spots for me in Part 2 as well where I pretty much booked it during my first playthrough. Great stuff though!
At the start of Pillars of Eternity 2 you can pretty much tell a god to go pound sand and get a game over. Thought it was nice because so many WRPGs let you tell off powerful people, but many of them just have them giving you angry looks instead of you know crushing you like the bug you are at that moment.
In Halo games, on higher difficulties, often running like hell past enemies to the next section is your best option for survival.
Super Paper Mario is just awesome! So many hilarious moments.
