Ok, when you put it like that it does sound pretty bad.
Since I try to never lose and alt+F4 whenever I do lose, I didn't even know this scene existed. Now I wonder how many more awful defeat scenes I'm not aware about.
There aren't that much more. There's Savin's minotaur captain scene which is equally not all that hot but despite not being that good (they're making brienne moo and the like) had a few percentage points more of class.
Everything else is whatever.
The new mushroom dungeon just turns you into a mindless broken rape victim in the most unsexy manner imaginable.
Every fight in Dracia leads to you get horribly abused by Alissa regardless of who defeats you. One of the scenes is pretty alright and then nope, abused by Alissa.
There's a handful of loss/band ends where you just die. (The ring of fate's harpies, the assassin, whisper, almost all the bosses in the Temple of Challenge)
Hmm. Upon reflection the bad ends for like the last 2 years have kind of sucked.
Yeah, it's actually ironic - the worse the game is, the more positive it's community tends to be, probably because it's a minority that understand their position and does their best to be welcoming towards those are also interested. Meanwhile, some great, popular games have awful communities because they attract many assholes and it becomes a toxic cesspit.
That's a mix of a few things really. When the games bad the community is smaller and if the community is that small outsiders are less likely to stick around.
As negativity can be mentally exhausting to constantly read, the small (bad) game communities become a bastion of hope for like-minded individuals. Which is why you had people palling around for Babylon's fall semi amicably (all the way until EoS at least).
Gets a bit awkward sometimes though when people recommend bad/dying games. 3rd Birthday is like my guilty pleasure. But if somebody came to me and said, "Hey, I like Parasite Eve; would I like Third Birthday for the story?", the answer should absolutely be, "No. Absolutely not. Stay away."
