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EndMaster, What's the most annoying way a story can end?

(Not a question directed to me, but I still feel like answering...xD)

In my opinion, it's one that ends with "TO BE CONTINUED."

Perfect, thanks.

I'm helping in the creation of a monstrosity aren't I...?

Trust me, It is going to make anyone who reads it cringe. Think wal*mart and Impossible Game having a child, that was written by an ape. Yet written well.

So...basically like "it's here"?

If you expect to do a game that will be so terrible it will be funny, think again. There were several of them made before, all were shit and were deleted. It's best that you stop and avoid the shame.

What Mayana said.

The only person that managed to actually make something funny out of this was will11 with his The land of bad writing. Everyone should read that one.

Link? I can't find it.

Here and This One Too.

I thought I did pretty good at that... I mean, it wasn't deleted or anything...

Randomly Walk II was hilarious xD

No, not like something produced as shit. Something that is just very tedious to win. Think darksouls. Written well, but you die to easily and it feels like the creator personally hates you.

Well going by that standard, that’s almost everything I’ve written. I’d say there’s been more than a few comments praising a story like Eternal for the plot and writing but not liking it because it has so many death endings. Make the wrong choice and you usually die and to some that makes the story feel linear.

Which I can see that point of view, but I disagree with it.

Or rather I don’t see it being any more linear than when you get 500 minor choices, but they all ultimately lead to the same ending with maybe a few cosmetic changes. If anything it always feels like the choices matter less since the endings are so similar that it was like the choices didn’t matter all that much.

I generally like to make the paths to the final endings vastly different from each other so the choices that don't lead to death (or even a premature "good" ending) matter a lot more.

A death ending is pretty final, but at least you know that the choice mattered, you just chose WRONG.

I like multiple endings. Just because there shouldn't be only one "Right" path in a story

Perhaps even worse endings would be: "U r dead,", "no bad comments please," or "I won't write anymore cuz I got bored."

Nice. Also, sponge beats paper? what dumb rule is that? Who said the sponge was wet?! I call bull on that duel.

I don’t know. I’ve been accused of being a sadist with my endings at times so I might not be the best person to ask.

One type of story that is usually hated around here is when an author doesn’t put any proper end game links and just loops a “dead end” back to a previous spot in the story and you only get an end link if you play the story all the way through.

This isn’t liked because it usually results in a story getting a rating that might be a little higher than it should be since anyone who genuinely liked the story will inevitably rate it highly, while anyone who didn’t like it will have quit playing long before it ends and thus not giving it a rating.

Of course even with this “cheat” in place, there are still determined members driven by pure hatred that WILL play such a story all the way through and rate it a 1 on general principle.

SEE: Ignacia de Loyola

Fuck that game.

Ooh. I liked Ignacia, tbh. XD

^ I am one of those determined members...
Like in the case of "it's here". Speaking of that...was it deleted? I wanted to hyperlink it for Ivory to see as an example of the stupidest game in existence, but it seems to have disappeared.

It was unpublished during the purge.

RIP

A moment of silence for this story I've never heard of.

Though your body may rot, your soul will live on. So sad to see them die so young.

Goddamn it. :c

But End...it is the story that all players wishing to join the secret cult have to complete as an initiation thing...that, and Jurrasic Park.

I must go prepare a funeral for it now :'c

LOL, if you're seeking to personally annoy End, joke's on you, he doesn't even play most games.

He might. Is he prideful? would he respond to a call out?

He's above us puny mortals xD

Hmmm. Guess I'll have to not make the story, and not indirectly call him out, and definitely not tempt him in anyway to play a game.

You forgot something xD
Let me help you...

<sarcasm>Hmmm. Guess I'll have to not make the story, and not indirectly call him out, and definitely not tempt him in anyway to play a game.</sarcasm>

Some people just don't understand how the sarcasm tags are used *sigh*

nope. no sarcasm. I am but a humble writer tending to my memes.

The most annoying way a story can end?

"No Links. You may go back or reset to start over."

Those don't annoy me since I just gleefully unpublish/delete them now.