Let's be honest. we want to see all the endings.

Ashnod wrote:

Let's be honest. we want to see all the endings.

Epic truth.

As a politics nerd who likes third parties, I vote for instant runoff voting!  Each of us ranks the endings in our order of preference.  The ending that gets the fewest first-place votes is eliminated, and those "ballots" are immediately redistributed to those voters' second choices.  Repeat until only two choices are left, and whichever has more votes is the winner.  IRV is how to make the most people the most happy in the shortest time. 

It's also very labor-intensive for voters, though   And any means of deciding who we're going after in advance will rob the game of some of its spontaneity.  I say no voting until the first meaningful option.

Ashnod wrote:

Let's be honest. we want to see all the endings.

It's a possibility, because honestly this translation isn't all that hard or time-consuming... at least, at the very unprofessional level I've been doing it. Still, I don't want to commit to it or anything. For now, it's probably still wise to vote for the ending you want to see the most.

BioKraze wrote:

("badge" stuff)

Don't worry, that's not a spoiler at all. (And remember, we're okay now on giving gameplay spoilers, just not plot ones.)

The "badge" you're talking about is Akio's character profile in our "student handbook," which I mentioned at the end of the the playthrough. It's pretty dull stuff. The most interesting thing about it is the associated answering machine message, which I already posted. Still, if you want a screenshot, here it is.

(Name, birthday, blood type, star sign. Go read Giovanna's Akio shrine for commentary.)
Ohtori Academy's acting chairman. Actually, he's Himemiya Anthy's older brother, and also 'The Ends of the World,' the one who directs Utena and the others' dueling game from the shadows. His special talent is doing acrobatics atop his speeding red sports car.

satyreyes wrote:

I say no voting until the first meaningful option.

Unfortunately, the game doesn't really work like that, because it mostly just tracks points instead of branching.

Honestly, I'm still not clear on how we can maintain voting on choices if we're going to choose an ending to pursue... for the most part, choices would become "do the ideal thing? yes/no." If we're going to do a character ending (which seems like a good idea, because they'll all complete the main plot at the same time), the main choices are only "who do we pursue?" and "who do we let hit 0%?" Still, I guess there is some room in there as to how we want to go about accumulating our points, so we'll give it a shot.

Anyway, since voting is proceeding, we might have to pass on using any fancy voting systems that actually make sense. I'll just do a runoff once we see who the main contenders are.

Just as a reminder, the endings are

Utena
Touga
Saionji
Juri
Miki
Normal (which is like a character ending minus)
Perfect (which will probably focus a little more on Chigusa stuff)
Mikage (which won't resolve the main plot)
Akio (which we did already)
"Chigusa," or "Game Over" (which really won't resolve the main plot)
Anthy (which won't resolve the main plot, and would be a real pain for me. Actually, never mind, no Anthy. It would take me like twelve hours of game playing to unlock. )

(edit: I forgot from the shadows in Akio's character profile.)

Last edited by Dallbun (01-24-2010 07:22:17 PM)

Giovanna wrote:

And Miki...well...does anyone really care about Miki?

I do... He's adorable. And his sister's the bomb.

Giovanna wrote:

Dallbun wrote:

Ohtori Academy's acting chairman. Actually, he's Himemiya Anthy's older brother, and also 'The Ends of the World,' the one who directs Utena and the others' dueling game. His special talent is doing acrobatics atop his speeding red sports car.

I have a huge shrine devoted to explaining a character summed up better in those three sentences. How embarrassing.

I still say Touga or Saionji. They are the most amusing answers, Utena and Juri's all seemed kinda...well like you're trying to be Utena. And Miki...well...does anyone really care about Miki?

Given how several of the first votes were Miki ones, I'd say yes. And Juri and Utena got the highest number of points alongside Saionji...

I actually really want to see a Perfect ending, but given how the whole point of the game is to be able to fantasize about your favorite RGU character, my individual character choices have to take priority.

But lol...I feel like we're on a reverse harem fansite squealing over which boy-toy/androgynous-girl-toy we most want to turn into our love-slave next...not that it's a bad thing.

(Whoa...I never thought I'd use that above smiley in my life. Dating-sims, what have you done to me...*Curls up into the corner and sobs*)

...eh, who am I kidding? I'm not crying at all. But seriously, I never did think I'd ever use the "schlick" smiley...

Last edited by Nights1stStar (01-23-2010 07:42:40 PM)

Miki Miki Miki I'd probably vote for any fan service ending but blue makes a better hair color then green. Are people who didn't vote last round allowed to vote? If not feel free to invalidate my vote.
I also found more screen shots of the game on this site.
http://www.bladeandepsilon.com/usaturngameg.htm

Hm.. considering what's getting the most love so far, I think I'll vote for a Miki ending (just can't get behind Touga right now).  All this mention of his crazy sister has got me interested (and how is it that I only a few months ago put together that her english dub actor was the same as Wakaba?!  Wakaba is supposed to be crazy, but not nearly that crazy)

So sign me up this round for Miki

Touga.

I vote...for me.

I vote Touga! (To be honest, there's a Miki 100% walkthrough on the site about this game.)

...and now to ignore the chairman and SC Prez and make them chase me... (because god knows, they are the love 'em and leave 'em type...)

There's still the mystery of the actual plot and how it's supposed to resolve. The problem with voting on every choice is that the end result is going to be a bad end again.