Big First Choice: Difference between revisions

Not every game is quite as extreme as this example, but the [['''Big First Choice]]''' (or second, or third) is a common way of extending the life of a game by making the player's choices at key points have a dramatic effect on the way the game plays out - perhaps even the way the game ''plays,'' period. Multiple playthroughs are absolutely necessary to wring [[One Hundred Percent Completion]] out of games that feature such choices: sometimes the different paths will converge again at the end, but it's just as likely that each individual choice [[Multiple Endings|will lead to a different ending.]]

* At about the end of the first third of ''[[Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis]]'', the game splits into one of three possible paths depending the player's choice: the combat-centric "action" path, the self-explanatory "puzzle" path, or the "team" path where Indy travels together with Sophia. These paths all converge at the last act in Atlantis, and beating all of them is required for [[Hundred-Percent100% Completion|the maximum Indy Quotient points]].

* At the start of ''[[Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater]]'', the player will be asked to choose their favourite game in the series. Picking ''[[Metal Gear Solid]]'' makes Snake's stamina decrease more slowly; picking ''[[Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty]]'' starts the player wearing the Raikov mask in the very first cutscene; and picking ''[[Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater]]'' unlocks a "Peep Theatre" cutscene.