I like Dishonored, where your ending was determined by your entire gameplay and choices throughout entire game, not by 2 sidequest chains and dialog option right before ending sequence.
Because it's a cutscene with no buildup or player involvement, it was not earned. Similar to the 30 secs Jackie montage, "me and Jackie are best friends because I watched this 30 secs cutscene". That's not how it works.
It's objectively bad, because it negates what the story tried to achieve and because it makes basically all losses and sacrifices meaningless.
Probably i don't know a thing about narration laws, immersion and other stuff, unlike you.
Yeah, and a hint of that was in the game, where Rogue tells V that aftet the Heist disaster V is considered cursed and no one want to work with him. That's why V does gigs alone - no one want to share the fate of Jackie, T-Bug or Dex))
Ah, this is different aspect i agree with. Why can't V storm Mikoshi with nomads, and then stay in NC, or vice versa, storm alone and then join nomands, is beyond me. Still, you just like NC, don't like nomads and was furious when plot forced your V to join them, admit it))
I played all endings (Arasaka first), all of them are equally bad to me for different reasons
No arguement here, all of them are bad indeed. And i doubt they'll be fixed in any way, because the vast majority of players (according to a Steam and Gog statistics) will not finish the game at all, so will not complain about endings. Only 34% of players talked to Hanako in Embers, a mere 3 percents completed all markers (gigs, NCPD signals). So we better forget the hope for the more players reach the endings and join our protest - they won't, and number of players online are in a freefall and keeps diminishing.
That was also exactly what I meant by that. The story has you running a certain direction. And then the ending should capitalize. But what we got is.. "if you look at it from view A its this, but if you look from view B its that" and so on.
The game was forcing hard the whole concept of Happy lalaland country side, both with Nomads and with badlands ending. It didn’t escape ofc the plot cancer but it was the least grimdank.
You can't even ask your romance for a date (ride in a car with her/him, choose a place and activity, talk, etc), but you can ask out Johnny's old girlfriend!
I knooow, that was really dissapointing.
Claire doesn't need V and isn't into V at all, she just needs hitman to kill an innocent man)
But in return you'll get a car!) Not like you have plently of them, mostly received free for some jobs and gigs completion). As far as i know, you can received two bikes (Jackie's and Scorpion's), default car (actually decent enough for a tight traffic), Delamain cab (big ugly slow coffin), black sport car, and Johnny's Porsche. More than enough for me, see no reason to spend my eddies on cars, where i must constantly upgrade my legendary Widowmaker.
I bought CT-3X because I think its the coolest bike, then I got the Avenger because of it the coolest streetcar and finally I got Coyote because its the go-to Nomad cruiser.
You either die as a hero, or live long enough to become a meme generator.
