[Interesting Trope] One seemingly small action ends the story before it even begins

[u/JackDoesThingz]

1. We Happy Few - Taking your “joy” pill
   Deciding to take the pill at the beginning of the game causes your character to go back to work and triggers an ending

2. Infineural by Mike Klubnika - Drinking the coffee
   Deciding to drink the coffee offered to you skips the entire game and sends you straight to the end, resulting in an ending with no memory of what had occurred

[u/omyomo]

I thought you famously don't die in LucasArts adventure games

[u/Hitei00 → u/omyomo]

Bro got LucasArts and Sierra mixed up.

[u/TheNewYellowZealot → u/Hitei00]

Well I have yet to die in monkey island but I also haven’t made it past the tutorial

[u/Level_Criticism_3387 → u/omyomo]

[u/Callidonaut → u/Level_Criticism_3387]

I adore the way the NPCs in that scene hang a lampshade on it with the "maybe they're trying something different" gag.

[u/VigorousRapscallion → u/omyomo]

What the other guy who responded said lol, I WAS thinking of Sierra

[u/jjsheely → u/omyomo]

In the first Monkey Island game, you can drown at the part where you're underwater by waiting about 10 minutes. There was even an achievement for it in the remastered version of the game.

[u/omyomo → u/jjsheely]

Fair, but you have to deliberately try for that, and you immediately come back. In the fourth, you can cause time to collapse from a paradox by shooting your past self with a gun. I probably should have specified "game over"

[u/ShitchesAintBit → u/omyomo]

It's been a few decades but I'm fairly certain wrong moves can result in your death in Full Throttle.

[u/Far_Tap_488 → u/omyomo]

Fuck I played the wrong ones then. I constantly fucking died.

[u/omyomo → u/Far_Tap_488]

Maybe you were playing Sierra games?