Board Thread:The Reference Desk/@comment-25566332-20121215234206/@comment-188432-20121221220307

First of all, I gotta ask one question: what's leading you to the impression that they're valid?

Secondly, the reason that T:VS is currently worded as it is is because we're stressing that only a particular type of video game is invalid. Those with more linear tales, like most every video game from the 20th century and most Flash games, are in fact valid, because they have only one outcome.

What's troubling to us are only modern videogames, and mainly those starring the Eleventh Doctor.

In other words, the rule isn't "all games are invalid", it's "all stories with multiple endings, or indeed mushy middles, are invalid".

The ability to "opt out" of certain parts of a story is what makes some video games problematic for us.