When the game lets you make an extremely dumb decision that kills you/gets you a game over/makes it impossible to win

[u/Zeekay89]

Basically what it says. The extremely dumb decision that can only end in your death, game over, or make winning impossible is a valid option you can choose.

Mass Effect 2. Morinth is an Ardat-Yakshi, an Asari with a genetic condition that causes the Asari mind meld to burn out her partner’s nervous system and give her a euphoric feeling. If you choose her over her mother, Samara, she says that Shepard is special and can survive where everyone else has died. She’s lying and you die like everyone else if you sleep with her.

Nier: Automata. There are a lot of unique game overs in the game that usually involve dying during certain events. A few involve making truly idiotic decisions. Engaging your self destruct inside the pressurized space station blows it up. You can remove a component that is essentially your brain and instantly die. You can eat a fish that is said to be extremely delicious but destroys the insides of androids.

Lords of Aswick. One possible scenario in this choose your own adventure game is that you take in one of the king’s bastards as your squire. The king just had a legitimate heir and started killing his bastards to secure his heir’s claim. Later on, you have the option to declare in open court that your squire is the king’s bastard. The next scene is your execution with bastard having just been executed before you.

[u/stankynuts45]

Yeah, that was the one I was thinking. It’s so funny. You’re trying your best to establish authority as a cop with some rowdy locals, and your last resort power play is to:

1) Pathetically beg your partner to borrow his gun, because you lost yours while drunk, and insist that he just needs to trust you

2) Immediately put the barrel in your mouth to everyone’s horror

From there, you have the option to back down, but everyone loses a lot of respect for you for whatever that display just was. The other clickable option is “pull the trigger.”

[u/Super_Sat4n → u/stankynuts45]

Didn't think he would actually do it

[u/mightylordredbeard → u/stankynuts45]

Man, I tried so hard to get into this game, but it just never clicked for me. I found it incredibly boring in the beginning and I just couldn’t get past the early parts to get to the parts where everyone said it finally picks up. Maybe I’ll try again one day.