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Tell us YOUR own best storygame, which you think is your best. I have only one game right now and its not that good.

I only have one game.

I think it's alright.

My newer ones should be better if/when I ever publish them.

I consider Homo Perfectus 7 to be my best story.

Why Homo Perfectus 7 and not the other ones.

Although Homo Perfectus 7 is the most simplest one regarding gameplay, because there are no items, there is no Health or anything of the sort, the story is what I find to be what makes it my best work. I feel that:

A. The concept of someone fighting his own evil has always been very interesting to me. I felt I did this much better with Baryon than with Freakshow, because with Freakshow, it was purely biological, he was fighting against an evil he did not want, whereas with Baryon, it was psychological, what he was willingly doing was turning him into something he didn't want to be, which he then had to fight. I just feel this is much more relatable than with cases like Freakshow or Hulk or Wolfman, where the only time the guy is evil is when he is not himself but something else. When Baryon looks at what he was becoming, he doesn't have the luxury of saying to himself "but it was just by uncontrollable nature", because it wasn't, it was him in body, mind and spirit.

B. Another concept that is a favorite of mine is when someone has a rather controversial opinion. Anyone who has read Homo Perfectus 8 may have experienced a character who felt Satan was the perfect role model for all of humanity, and he had arguments for why he felt like that. The fact that a hero fights against the law in an attempt to fight injustice is another reason why I favor Homo Perfectus 7.

C. The main reason however is the ending. Now, the ending may not be that special to anyone who hasn't read Homo Perfectus 4-6 before reading 7, because it really is the conclusion of the journey Baryon has been going through since he was first "birthed" from his vat. In the ending, this god-like being, powerful enough to crash the moon into the surface of the planet, who has matured more than any character in any story I have ever made, after betraying the team, freeing a dangerous madman, trying to turn the human population into mutants and then spending years exacting vengeful and sadistic punishment to all those he decides deserve it, not only does this character face the unjust fate of his mother, or really, his normal life which was taken from him before he was born in the name of science, and is really the reason for his bitter attitude towards injustice, but also steps down to the mentor he rebelled against and says "I was wrong". Not only is this my favorite ending of my stories, I would dare say this is my favorite ending to any story I have ever read in the history of ever, but that is my opinion of course.

I am also very fond of villains who form a sort of reflection of the hero, where they are similar in almost every way, showing how close the hero is to being no better than the villain. That is very true for Homo Perfectus 7.

I'm really proud of my Tower of Riddles game. That said I only have 2 so far and the other one is just me messing around with the advanced editor :p

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The Blackwood Chronicles: Framed and Star Wars a Padawan's Journey Part 7: Menace.

Framed I think is the best of my stories overall because I think I really cracked down on grammatical errors and I think taking two months of work on it really helped with the overall story. Part 7 for my Star Wars series because I feel it had the best action scenes in my series to date.(Although I want the next chapter to blow it out of the water and I think it will.)

:( I don't have a favorite story. Invasion, well, I didn't work on it at all, it was all Haledakota and I don't really like it. The only reason I haven't unpublished and deleted the thing is because I'm not that cruel. But I think these two new games I'm making (Super-You!! and The V.I.C.I.O.U.S Files) are going to turn out great.

Well with all this talk about game ratings, I might as well answer this one.

Best story with the most game like qualities is either Ground Zero or Eternal.

In its current form right now, I feel Eternal is better because it represents something I wanted to do for a long time with a CYOA and that's take a protagonist from the cradle to the grave. When I finally finish it completely, it'll just surpass GZ that much more. Of course GZ was definitely something I liked writing.

Obviously Necromancer and Death Song I liked writing a lot too, but there is a certain linearity to them, so I can't call them the best story game since there are less choices than the other two.

But those four were (are) the labor of love for me anyway.

The rest of the stories vary in strength as far as storyline and choice are concerned

Paradise Violated, Geek, Innkeeper and Imagination probably have the next strongest story lines. PV might win in the "game" aspect due to more choices and it being a bit longer, but I think these four still balance story and choice.

Alpha Wolf, Tales From the Basement, Repression and TRASH all have virtually no major storyline plot or a very thin one. For those, the protagonists get in more random situations. These four favor more choices over the story for the most part. AW is still probably the strongest out of them due to it being longer and going into more character depth.

LoveSICK, A Very Special Story and Exploitation Theater are basically me writing offensive stuff for the hell of it. Lol. Oddly as short as it is, Love SICK is probably has the most storyline of the three.

Finally there's Legend which is the story I least liked writing though it didn't start out that way. Basically Legend is the "failed" version of Eternal. Still, I liked what I wrote with the rogue path so it wasn't a total bust.

My best work in progress game is The Light

http://chooseyourstory.com/story/the-light