thread: 2006-03-06 : Unpopular Idea #2: Punish the Loser
On 2006-03-06, Tom wrote:
"Also fiction where the characters suffer defeat when it matters despite winning every fight up til then."
In point of fact, a great deal of game-inspiring fiction works on that line:
The bad guys win every battle and then some farmboy in a star fighter drops a proton torpedo down your exhaust pipe and *boom* the war is lost.