Two things occur to me...

[angharad_gam]

1. I am really bad at avoiding spoilers

2. I have a great talent for choosing the most tragic and least likely to have a happy ending of all the romantic choices in these frigging games. In my own defense, there are not many options that _do_ have happy endings as such, but I still seem to stumble into the worst of them.

In other news, this is the cold that never ends...

Comments

[reverancepavane]

Not to be pessimistic but failure events when creating a branching decision tree are the most common because they are terminal events. Double so in the real world, because they sheer whole limbs that would normally ranch off the central script you want to implement. So you tend to run about 75-80% unfavourable outcomes in a story line.

I was writing a computer game many years ago when I realised that the AI I was secretly building was far more interesting.

Then again some people have no idea how to write romance. If it's not tragic then how can you know it was really a thing.

[angharad_gam]

That makes sense I guess, especially as the choices cascade through the three games (so far) - if they all led somewhere interesting the complications would be horrendous!

Tragedy can seem like the most appropriate ending sometimes. There are some characters for whom 'retire quietly to the country to live happily ever after' is just not going to work. And relationships that arise in the desperate heat of trying to save the world, but have nowhere to go after that.