In hindsight, it seems people defending the endings always use the same argument - the cyberpunk trope, so nothing new there...WTF... Almost 250 pages???? I'm sorry, I can't keep up with the thread to keep doing the summaries... Which is a good thing, though... Means more and more people are pissed with CDPR
OK everyone calm your boots. There are a few happy endings here. Or at least a few potentially happy endings. In more than one ending V does not die. The charecter either ends up in cyberspace or in Mekoshi. Both of these endings have potential to see V return in Future DLC's. Plus it opens the possibility of a whole new charecter creation.
Because people don't wanna read 250 pages so they jump to last and say their thing even though it might've been debunked or discussed 20 times over which is fine atleast the thread is bumped for dev visibility
Yes, nomads are free to roam in badlands, raid and smuggle to survive. They are free to fill the niche in glogal system, no better than mercs or corps, each playing its part.
As for the good ending, there is hope in nomad's one - V will probably find cure. This is hope, flickering as it is
I imagined the Corpo ending to be completely different from what we got, you can guess what a rude awakening the space station ending was, cause I expected something that would be like this:
You sell out to Arasaka and help Hanako to regain control of the corp. The chip is removed and the neural damage is healed up thanks to cutting edge Arasaka tech. They tell you that they shredded the chip (which should ofc be a lie, they would be fools to shred a valueable prototype with unique data).
You are offered a corner office and Adam Smasher's job, well knowing that you cannot go back to the merc life after selling out to Arasaka. You are now in Takemura's shoes, a honorable man, but duty-bound to an awful corporation. In the background the "rebirth" of Saburo Arasaka is mentioned on tv (it would be even better if you could be there when they feed Yorinobu to Saburo).
Credits roll, while you look at the city from your office window, your friends call and tell you how disappointed they are and that this is not what Jackie would have wanted. You saved your own life, but you betrayed yourself and those around you.
You sell out to Arasaka and help Hanako to regain control of the corp. The chip is removed and the neural damage is healed up thanks to cutting edge Arasaka tech. They tell you that they shredded the chip (which should ofc be a lie, they would be fools to shred a valueable prototype with unique data).
You are offered a corner office and Adam Smasher's job, well knowing that you cannot go back to the merc life after selling out to Arasaka. You are now in Takemura's shoes, a honorable man, but duty-bound to an awful corporation. In the background the "rebirth" of Saburo Arasaka is mentioned on tv (it would be even better if you could be there when they feed Yorinobu to Saburo).
Credits roll, while you look at the city from your office window, your friends call and tell you how disappointed they are and that this is not what Jackie would have wanted. You saved your own life, but you betrayed yourself and those around you.
No argument here, and V does get some hope in nomad enging at least - to find cure
But every other character you interacted with hates or leaves you, sweet.
Yes, people arguements about that is that soulkiller literally killed you and all that.
I don't fully agree with it yet cuz you're basically ctrl+c ctrl+v into yourself but Alt says everything will change (what will???) so people beg the question "Is it V looking for a cure or a really good copycat?" and people want V not some copycat, rogue AI or something of the likes.
Personally I don't mind either because my goal was to live with Panam and the clan and let them live so my goal is achieved.
Wouldn't say happy, more like gray endings, not good not bad. I just hope they keep the voice actors the same.
Is the fact that you can't play past the ending also just right? I'm not talking about reloading the save and playing as if you didn't end game, I'm talking about actually playing without going back in time, like any open world game allows you to. Or is that too much to ask?
Maybe the game should have ended after Dex shoots you, to really get that point through? Maybe the game could have also ignored all player input and just played on-rails, just to show how life can't be fair. Also, what about Johnny, does karma only work on V, or is Johnny actually a character more deserving of a happy ending than V?
I personally don't even consider choosing the Arasak path a betrayal. Non of the other options are guranteed solutions and all involve using the soulkiller. I was already pissed at the scolding i got from Misty and Jhonny on that path. I felt like they were telling me off for wanting to live and get back my original life.
What hope is there?
1. You are already an engram copy at this point. The V that we started the game as was killed by AI Alt when entering Mikoshi.
2. Do you think that a couple of hicks that live in the badlands have access to knowledge that not even Arasaka or a super powerful AI have?
Dead indeed, ike you, me and everyone. And the concept of justified violence has a long and venerable history. Yes, in this grim world options are usually limited to submit ot repel, violence is the thing we cannot be free of
When Misty says "You changed". I went like:
"Bitch, if you had this annoying little cunt in your head for 2 weeks, you would change too"
There is no other way to defend this mess. Maybe looking at the endings from a 289° angle at 3:54 in the morning you can see how happy they actually are.
I'd like the answer to why they're like this. Mass Effect fired their writer and had no endind, Destiny fired their writer and had no story, Borderlands 3 changed lead writer and story sucks and makes no sense.
Did CDPR fire the writer mid project? It's not that these endings suck, it's like none of the writing was completed.
Did CDPR fire the writer mid project? It's not that these endings suck, it's like none of the writing was completed.
The only hope is going to N.U.S.A. as someone stated, Arizona is not N.U.S.A. however..
Maybe cyberpunk 2078 will be basically metro exodus