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Scorpion451 (Edited uphill both ways)
2015-04-21 19:09:11

I seem to remember there was a fairly long thread a while back where someone was looking for a "you have to fail in the proper manner" trope.

A bunch of things were tossed around including a proposed YKTTW, but I'm not sure what came of that; anyone else know?

DAN004 Since: Aug, 2010
2015-04-21 19:53:59

"Captured"?

MAX POWER KILL JEEEEEEEEWWWWW
Chariset Since: Jan, 2001
2015-04-21 20:31:06

Going to do my usual thing of repeating what I think you mean.

So at a certain point of the game you get captured (or discovered, or stopped, or whatever) while on a mission to steal the...um... Enchanted Tropey Statue. The entire mission, you're trying to avoid being discovered (and if you are discovered, it's game over), but once you find the Enchanted Tropey Statue, you get discovered immediately and the game goes on, since the game plot requires you to get captured. And you're looking for tropes that explain why getting captured at 4:45 is a game over but getting captured at 4:46 is required?

I think this one is Event Flag, but it could easily be Cutscene Incompetence, especially if you could win or escape the cutscene situation if it came up in real gameplay

Edited by Chariset
DAN004 Since: Aug, 2010
2015-04-21 21:49:12

Sounds to me that it's Gameplay and Story Integration approached from the other direction.

And yes, Event Flag

MAX POWER KILL JEEEEEEEEWWWWW
grapesandmilk Since: Aug, 2012
2015-04-21 23:36:26

Chariset: Thanks, that was really funny.

DAN004: What do you mean by the other direction?

Edited by grapesandmilk
eroock Since: Sep, 2012
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