Illustrates the title, not the trope: Unwinnable By Design

Yeah, the distinction there is that an Endless Game simply doesn't have any "win" condition. An unwinnable joke game has a clear win condition that can never be reached.

Would Cheetaman count? The game has a supposed win condition that's not a joke, but you can't get to it because the game really realy sucks.

Then again, by a current perspective, that game IS a joke. Hmmm.

You can score points in tetris hell.

Difficult as fuck, but it can be done.

Would that be a Game-Breaking Bug?

That's what I'd say. If the end is unreachable via glitch it's Game-Breaking Bug, but if the developer's designed it that way it would be Unwinnable Joke Game or whatever.

So, if we're asking about finding a new pic for Unwinnable by Design, I know that Irregular Webcomic had a strip that dealt with this trope. Maybe we could have a pic (or even a series of panels) or something that pointed this trope out? I'm thinking a character finds them-self screwed and wishes he choose a different option way back when or something?

Just for reference, here's the original image that was replaced by the previous image pickin'. It's an actual example, but completely text-reliant.

edited 13th Sep '11 7:09:02 AM by Laukku

Yes. It's basically a quote with window dressing.

bump

Clock is set.

I propose non-pictureable, partly due to the bad trope name.

Clock's up; locking for inactivity/lack of consensus. No further action is to be taken based on this thread.