» Wed Sep 01, 2010 4:01 pm
Hmmm. Dragon Age had one of these. Actually killed my party and got my main character to half hp! I still managed to get the achievement for beating the game on the hardest difficuly without changing it and not having the pc fall in combat though. Yay for blood mage + arcane warrior ... so broken :\.
Anyway, I can see them doing this by forking the MQ at the end. There's a way to seal Alduin off from entering the world (the good, safe option), but that is for girls. You are a MAN, so you let him through that portal, tear out some chest hair, stuff it down his throat, and kick his ass back through it. This should be really really hard, and if you fail it gives an epilogue telling you how badly you screwed up instead of letting you load your last save. If you win, you get a really, really awesome dragon shout, weapon, armor, eternal manliness. and a constant buff that halves the duration of stun, knockdown, etc on the pc.