Good choice...I'm trying to be reasonable here because if I can go all out on plots then you should be allowed to use literature which is where the real story experimentation goes on. I'll mostly try to avoid downer endings because there's way too many possibilities there.

How about a story about keeping someone alive? It can't be where the person is crucial to keeping the world alive, or anything else where it's just an extention of saving the world, or some great higher system that can be equated with "world" (like civilized life).

Good choice...I'm trying to be reasonable here because if I can go all out on plots then you should be allowed to use literature which is where the real story experimentation goes on. I'll mostly try to avoid downer endings because there's way too many possibilities there.

How about a story about keeping someone alive? It can't be where the person is crucial to keeping the world alive, or anything else where it's just an extention of saving the world, or some great higher system that can be equated with "world" (like civilized life).

How about a story about keeping someone alive? It can't be where the person is crucial to keeping the world alive, or anything else where it's just an extention of saving the world, or some great higher system that can be equated with "world" (like civilized life).

The original Crystal Chronicles? You go out to get crystal power or whatever to keep the poison mists away to keep your small town alive.

Though I never finished it, maybe the plot thickens.

Rune Factory Frontier: the entire plot revolves around keeping the whale island spirit alive and well.

Shadow of the Colossus. Not an RPG though....

But you do that because if you don't he'll come smashing into the town, which could be seen as your whole world in that game.

That's fine, since American McGee's Alice isn't either. Now that I think of it, I don't know why I typed that out since just before typing it I was thinking about SotC. Maybe I'm just weird.

Let me think now...how about...a game where you're stopping someone or something who's screwing with your life. The important thing, again, is that whatever is messing with your life doesn't have some kind of worldly implication that creates a moral obligation, so that it's mostly or entirely personal.

That's fine, since American McGee's Alice isn't either. Now that I think of it, I don't know why I typed that out since just before typing it I was thinking about SotC. Maybe I'm just weird.

Let me think now...how about...a game where you're stopping someone or something who's screwing with your life. The important thing, again, is that whatever is messing with your life doesn't have some kind of worldly implication that creates a moral obligation, so that it's mostly or entirely personal.

F-Zero.

No, really. Captain Falcon comes from the school of hard knocks.

That's fine, since American McGee's Alice isn't either. Now that I think of it, I don't know why I typed that out since just before typing it I was thinking about SotC. Maybe I'm just weird.

Let me think now...how about...a game where you're stopping someone or something who's screwing with your life. The important thing, again, is that whatever is messing with your life doesn't have some kind of worldly implication that creates a moral obligation, so that it's mostly or entirely personal.

Meh, doesn't really count: there are a whopping nine villagers there when you arrive, and they could all pick up and leave at any time (it's not like anyone was actually born there, and it'd only crush this one small valley).