Story adaptability

Not really.
Colony wars was not only an incredible game by itself, but the different story branches were rad as fuck.

>>381546939
Also this game as, to date, one of the best 3D radar ever conceived.
A fucking PS1 game.

Man I really loved that game back then.

>>381546423

Oh shit I remember this game.
There was some death star tier base thing and I actually destroyed it once. There was some friendly fire warning or whatnot and I had to wait for a while until I could keep shooting, so it took forever. But it did eventually explode.

>>381546423
Many SaGa games did that, Romancing SaGa 2 was the first that had such design choice, so many quests had different story branches and outcomes depending on how you fulfilled certain objectives, some quests even changed depending on how you fullfill certain objectives or even how you died, similarly to CW, there was no game over if you died, unless you did in the first or last generation of characters, the game and the world would keep on going, albeit with different scenarios, many other RPGs of the time did that, although the concept of game over was kind of less elastic.
Curiously enough, Star Ixiom, a neat Namco "rail" shooter that fused all of the classic Namco arcade shooters in one setting, had something similar in its campaign mode, so that depending on how fast and efficiently you achieved certain objectives, the weirder shit you'd had to deal with, conversely, the more bases, labs and planets you'd lose the less alien civilizations you'd came in contact with, it still had a game over in case you'd suffer a complete defeat though, extremely underrated game.

>>381546423
Cageshit is like that, for example in Heavy Rain, characters important for plot can die and this will not end up in instant game over, instead the story will slowly approach one of the bad endings.
Most VNs do that too, on bad (and good) choices you'll trigger flags, later the story may branch based on those flags.

Now, as for actual games, some RPGs tend to do that - if you fail a quest then the outcome may be different than just plain game over - some npcs may become hostile, some parts of map unlocked / locked, some quests no longer accessible etc. For example Fallout IIRC had numerous sidequests that can lock you out of some content should you fail them.