Cyberpunk makes me sad

[bxddxyz]

well now im sad and dont like cyberpunk anymore. I wanted an ending where everyone lived happily ever after but noooooooo, i got a "cry for hours" ending and now i have crippling depression. Probably gonna go check myself in somewhere for a while. :(

[Tokenn]

The first ending I got was the Devil ending. The others all seemed somewhat better than that one...

[Vyrtualis]

The cyberpunk genre is melancholic and bittersweet, with characters often meeting gruesome and untimely ends. It's part of the "low life" aspects of the genre.

[MjKorz]

The Arasaka ending is the good one. Both V and Jackie become engrams which essentially makes them immortal. Johnny is not killed since the operation fails: he still speaks to V and is now essentially part of V's personality since the Arasaka scientists failed to untangle the two personalities. Resurrected Soburo cancels Yorinobu's attempt to start a fifth corporate war, potentially saving countless lives in the process.

All other vanilla endings destroy Mikoshi, meaning Jackie always dies for good. And the Phantom Liberty ending kills Johnny.

The only downside to the Arasaka ending is that you get to be corporate property forever, but if your goal is survival (just like Songbird's), then it's an agreeable price to pay for immortality.

[Revalopod]

Escrito originalmente por MjKorz:

The only downside to the Arasaka ending is that you get to be corporate property forever, but if your goal is survival (just like Songbird's), then it's an agreeable price to pay for immortality.

Yeah, and that downside goes against all the themes and whole point of the game lol. I think it sucks as an ending for our character.
That being said, it is definitely the option I would pick in real life.

[MjKorz]

Escrito originalmente por Revalopod:

Yeah, and that downside goes against all the themes and whole point of the game lol. I think it sucks as an ending for our character.
That being said, it is definitely the option I would pick in real life.

It makes perfect sense for a corporate origins character: you return back to the fold, except now you have both Soburo's and Hanako's personal gratitude.

[Revalopod]

Escrito originalmente por MjKorz:

Escrito originalmente por Revalopod:

Yeah, and that downside goes against all the themes and whole point of the game lol. I think it sucks as an ending for our character.
That being said, it is definitely the option I would pick in real life.

It makes perfect sense for a corporate origins character: you return back to the fold, except now you have both Soburo's and Hanako's personal gratitude.

Why would you return after getting thrown out like trash? Corpo V witnesses firsthand how cruel and inhumane they treat people, like expendable resources. If anything, corpo V should have a more personal vendetta against Arasaka than the other lifepaths.

[Baby2Chill]

Escrito originalmente por Revalopod:

I thought the Aldecaldo ending was surprisingly happy, or at least hopeful. Especially for the nomad lifepath.

Same especially when Judy said she was happy, so long as you don't think too hard about whether or not you're actually still V and have hope that Panam helps find some kinda cure or something to give V more time.

[The Yeen Queen]

Escrito originalmente por MjKorz:

The only downside to the Arasaka ending is that you get to be corporate property forever, but if your goal is survival (just like Songbird's), then it's an agreeable price to pay for immortality.

No. V dies. Johnny remains a computer code copy of Johnny. And a computer code copy of V is made. A computer program that thinks it's you does not make you immortal.

The closest thing to a happy ending is the Phantom Liberty ending. V lives. Freed from the threat of death that the Relic dangled over them. They're cured. It comes at a cost, but they live. They get to have the peaceful life. The copy of the dead Rocker Boy is removed, but Johnny was dead. The living get to keep living

[EricHVela]

I understand desiring happy endings, but not everything will have that.

Night City doesn't lose. People simply stop playing its game.

...unless V succeeds in (Don't Fear) the Reaper. That's the only ending where V has (at the moment) gotten a W over Night City (for now) with no cost (yet).

(I find it interesting that failing (Don't Fear) the Reaper results in the suicide ending given how the song is about suicide. Should failing at suicide just be horribly maimed at worst?)

[Liquid Inc]

Escrito originalmente por The Yeen Queen:

No. V dies. Johnny remains a computer code copy of Johnny. And a computer code copy of V is made. A computer program that thinks it's you does not make you immortal.

The closest thing to a happy ending is the Phantom Liberty ending. V lives. Freed from the threat of death that the Relic dangled over them. They're cured. It comes at a cost, but they live. They get to have the peaceful life. The copy of the dead Rocker Boy is removed, but Johnny was dead. The living get to keep living

Im with you on that one. An actually "happy" ending is living, and Clair is clearly capable of living in modern day Night City without chrome, so it's obviously not as big a problem as it seems.
It also doesn't say if V's system will repair itself over time; In 5 years time, V may heal sufficiently to allow a piece of Cyberware or two, so there always that....

One thing i do question is that Moore Tech are never considered as a potential, despite V probably having 3m+ eddies by the end of the game and a reputation to be reckoned with, along with knowing people like Lizzy, who use Moore Tech's tech...
Seems like a specialist in body replacements would know something useful?

[bxddxyz]

LOL sorry I was just being a baby. I love the game so much and I still haven’t stopped playing it. I just wish there was a way Johnny, V, and Panam(ofc) could’ve just avoided all the wish wash and lived happily. I know of every ending and I don’t like any of them. I wish there was an option were you could betray Dex so that Evelyn could’ve gotten the
Biochip safely and then Vs legacy starts there.

[Revalopod]

Escrito originalmente por bxddxyz:

LOL sorry I was just being a baby. I love the game so much and I still haven’t stopped playing it. I just wish there was a way Johnny, V, and Panam(ofc) could’ve just avoided all the wish wash and lived happily. I know of every ending and I don’t like any of them. I wish there was an option were you could betray Dex so that Evelyn could’ve gotten the
Biochip safely and then Vs legacy starts there.

Would be nice and more complex if the game let you kill major NPCs, but that would probably create too many story permutations to account for.