Bad Endings Options

[Jens of Zanicuud]

Some times ago I was working on a project (now dismissed - or rather, waiting for my current project completion) which was designed to end badly, with the death of every character in the party (this was however related to the plot).

I've seen quite a few RPG with a default (i.e. not optional) bad ending (FFXIII-2 / KH Birth by Sleep - if we can call their ending bad), so I wonder if it's a taboo to make your game ends in a tragic way, or simply players prefer an happy ending to every game they play, since they are playing not to think to their problems...

What's your point about it?
Would you play/create a game with a tragic ending (not optional - main ending)?

If so, why?

That's a feature I've never found in a RPG Maker game (excluding maybe survival horror...)
If you know some link 'bout that, I'd be pleased to give it a look.

Maybe my project will resurrect, who knows?

Jens

[Clord]

Corpse Party is a good example. In the final chapter, all the endings has something "bad" in them by design. Even in the best case scenario, survivors are tortured by the fact that nobody remembers those who died in the closed spaces. In one of the endings where sequel was based on basically led to fact that they repeat the same mistake which happens at the near beginning of the story and only one remembers the previous time.

Problem is that I didn't find the intended ending as the best one.

This post has been edited by Clord: Oct 1 2012, 06:05 AM