First was Arasaka ending and being uploaded... Saddest ending evar... wow.. Specially when everyone starts leaving messages wondering where you went too...
Second Ending Went for the Boarder with Panam and Judy.
That's the only good ending, in all other endings V becomes Johnny regardless of who gets to keep the body and dies anyhow.
Panam ending - probably the happiest ending of the lot. Gotta say I enjoyed the game despite its issues.
The Panam ending reminded me of Blade Runner a little bit - Deckard and Rachel going off together - future unknown. How long does Rachel have left to live?
Looking forward to DLC - kind of lacking motivation to play now - did most of the sides before Nocturne and I watched the alternative endings on Youtube
The Panam ending if V gets to keep the body is the worse ending it's the only one where there is no chance of return/survival. The Nomad ending is also the only ending that wasn't planned from the start but was shoehorned in likely from content that was destined to be the Nomad lifepath culmination.
It's the only ending without an internal name, Araska is called "Heir", Rogue is called "Legend" the Solo ("secret") ending is called "Reborn".
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\quest\main_quests\epilogue\q202\q202.questphase.base
\quest\main_quests\epilogue\q203\q203_legend.questphase.base
\quest\main_quests\epilogue\q204\q204_reborn.questphase
In general as far as V goes the only "happy" ending is the Araska one it's the only ending in which V does not repeat Johnny's path in 2020 thus not becoming Johnny.
There is a clear parallel between the 2020 and 2077 time periods, if both V and Johnny decide to storm the Araska tower to settle a personal grievance, both V and Johnny get their friends kill, both V and Johnny get a bunch of innocents killed Johnny blew a nuke in 2020 and V let Alt massacre god knows how many people in the tower and potentially beyond it (she killed everyone on Tower's subnet at least that's about as bad as the nuke) and both of them die in the end.
The Araska ending is the only one where you don't go blowing up the tower again, you don't get any of your friends killed, you don't get any innocents killed and if you have saved Takemura you get the best promise of coming back as V with a new body if you join the Relic pilot program.