I mean you're given the whole schematics how to make the chip. Yet, no one can inject you with nanobots that stop the other nanobots from eating your brain and instead repair it with the aid of the chip. Why can't the nanobots repair my brain the way they just messed it up. Why can't the chip become the other half of my missing brain?
Does really Johny Silverhand dies in the ending when the chip is removed in the space station or he is still there?
Well...V was killed by Dex, so we are on a borrowed time from the get go. On the other hand, relic was able to restore damage done by the bullet, and rewrite neural system so it wouldn't be to much of a stretch if there was a tech capable of keeping V alive. Either after Alt killed him, or before. All is in writers hands now.
Sry for my english, hopefully you'll get what i mean.
Sry for my english, hopefully you'll get what i mean.
The chip is not damaged, it did exactly what it was supposed to do. It's explained in the story, that this special prototype, which was Saburo's secret project, is meant to be plugged into a neurally inactive, e.g. brain wiped body. Meaning you want to plug it into a body that had Soulkiller used on it.
However, V was never brain wiped, but flatlined from the gun shot to the head. But that was enough to trigger the chip's functions, which had the nice side effect of initially saving your life.
Unfortunately this is not where it stops....
However, V was never brain wiped, but flatlined from the gun shot to the head. But that was enough to trigger the chip's functions, which had the nice side effect of initially saving your life.
Unfortunately this is not where it stops....
The Witcher is set in an unforgiving and inarguably vastly more cruel world because it brings in the element of fantasy and uncaring gods. Geralt gets a 'happy' ending by the end of Witcher 3, of varying degrees, and the Blood and Wine expansion has him finally retire to a life of normality because - quite frankly given everything he lost, and all his hardships, he deserved it, despite that his life was literally filled with the worst possibilities that could happen.
He dies at the end of the last book that took precedence before the first Witcher game, and is brought back only by chance.
I don't see that as 'sugar coating' or bad writing, but not everything has to be doom and gloom -- I find that people who desire doom and gloom and unrepentant endings are individuals that don't lead very happy lives and want to drag others down with them into that lonely pit. The vast majority of people who play games and watch movies do it in order to escape reality—not to experience what they already get in life. It's an escape and a hobby, playing a game or watching a movie that is designed to be a Tragedy is often frequented with the associated labels and those who watch it go into it by their own volition, and quite frankly.. 2020 has not been a good year, for any one, really. Going 'Against the Grain' doesn't necessarily make a person unique, but makes them undesirable and hard to be around because it's an unwanted and undesired quality.
Cyberpunk was advertised as a game where you choices would ultimately matter - where you could explore the portents of Cyberspace, the consequences of moral dilemma and experience the worst or the best a setting like Cyberpunk could offer.
You explore the troubling, philosophical question - of what makes a person.. a person; when you get hit by Soulkiller in Mikoshi, you don't even notice that you're an Engram until AFTER Johnny tells you. So that leads you to question... what makes a person, a person? Are you really dead.. because you're operating just like you were before Alt hit you with Soulkiller. Is a person a soul or simply the Gray Matter in ones head? That is the message the majority of endings to the game convey, the philosophical question of what makes a man - or a woman - who they are.
As far as I can see, all of the endings have a hook for continuity with V - a sequel or expansion - because you have 6 months left to live, and personally.. even though I got hit by Soulkiller it is intentionally written that you go on as you normally would and only find out later through Johnny telling you. So there you're like, "wait, I'm an Engram? But it isn't any different".. and quite literally. You're still operating in the faculties of you, V, through the neural pathways laced within that gelatinous matter sealed behind a membrane with cerebral implants that allow data shards to be ported directly into your skull.
You're still V, Engram or not -- because those who take the Soulkiller aspect as a literal 'killer of souls' are largely missing the point. Are you a soul? Because I sure as hell am still V after getting hit by Soulkiller, I didn't notice a difference.
I'm telling you now, the Secret Ending was designed to be a hint as to the expansion's plot through Mr Blue Eyes, who bares striking similarity to the agent known as 'A', who is working for the NUSA. Read into the NUSA to know and understand why they're the people that can save V, not Arasaka.
Well i just finished all the ending.
I think that this game is all about the journey and not much about V's achievement. In the end we all die one way or another be it in 6 months or 50 years, death is inevitable. Even if you could save V in his body in any ending, he would still die at one point like every other living person... unless you decide to end in 0s and 1s.
That said i think that each ending represents what counts the most for each player's V. Keeping your soul ? Enjoy your loved ones ? Protect your loved ones ? Be the ultimate famous person in NC history ? Become kind of immortal ?
In my case, Arasaka coming back to earth was my first ending led by my natural choices so i consider it my "canon" ending based on my choices live. Even tho i'm kind of confused about the end credits messages of this ending and how V remove the necklace.
Btw, do you understand the true meaning of the bullet necklace ? Because i feel like there is something about V's soul tied to this object.
I think that the saddest ending is the one ending in the prison of souls where V looks deep in your eyes while firmly holding the necklace when she gets wiped.
I think that this game is all about the journey and not much about V's achievement. In the end we all die one way or another be it in 6 months or 50 years, death is inevitable. Even if you could save V in his body in any ending, he would still die at one point like every other living person... unless you decide to end in 0s and 1s.
That said i think that each ending represents what counts the most for each player's V. Keeping your soul ? Enjoy your loved ones ? Protect your loved ones ? Be the ultimate famous person in NC history ? Become kind of immortal ?
In my case, Arasaka coming back to earth was my first ending led by my natural choices so i consider it my "canon" ending based on my choices live. Even tho i'm kind of confused about the end credits messages of this ending and how V remove the necklace.
Btw, do you understand the true meaning of the bullet necklace ? Because i feel like there is something about V's soul tied to this object.
I think that the saddest ending is the one ending in the prison of souls where V looks deep in your eyes while firmly holding the necklace when she gets wiped.
Great post, thank you.
Too add to your witcher paragraph. Even the Witcher had unicorns and a rainbow+fairytales level lol.
(Merged one thread here, so a couple comments about spoiler warnings may seem out of place.)
You just reminded me, why the fuck is half the game about the badlands? Out of all the possible narratives to be explored in the world of Cyberpunk, the badlands were the one they found the most interesting? Why is the supposed "good ending" forcing me to go live with those hippies?
This is literally a spoiler thread? What are you doing here?
Edit.. ahh just read the mod's post.
that sumerices it perfectly that is waht all grim and dark fictinal unverses are about to thrive agaisnt all odds. no matter if it is Warhammer 40k, cyberpunk or something else if everything is darkness the light shines even brighter. how hard is it to be a good person when everyone is nice? how hard is it to survive in an utopia? it isnt we want struggle but what is even more important the struggle have to get a conclusion it doesnt need to be a positive one it onyl needs to be satisfying. for an example i think the most enjoyable ending is probably to die gloriusly trying to defeat arasaka evnthough you die you die in glory you became a legend the person who quite defeated arasake alone. it also is satisfying to see if your charakter would loose everyone he loves to survive or like silverhand his original ending: he died and the world didnt change but he did a little bit tower still fell and arasaka was stopped for the moment. it wasnt a win but it did matter.
I swear to god. I was typing into a completly diffent thread with 1 comment and 2 views and without a spoiler tag
Bro hahahah. Read it now as well
Regarding the necklace I can only speak for the Nomad ending, but in my understanding V is discarding his old life.
V came to NC to become a legend, very akin to young men getting lured in by the gold rush some centuries ago.
Seeking fame and wealth V made a lot of wrong decisions and in the end was shot by Dex.
From then on survival in NC was the ultimate goal.
Now, leaving NC for good, realizing there is more to a good life than fame and fortune (namely a place to belong to with the avocados/love interest)V discards the necklace, ready to begin a new chapter.
Then V dies in 6 months, because reasons.
But as a street kid you were born in NC and even left just come back since Atlanta isn't better. Abd V even says NC is like any other city, just bigger. He seems rather content what he had.
