Why choose the spark ending?

[x Princess Leliana x]

The other three endings are all shades of grey. They have pros and cons. None of them are objectively the best and none are objectively the worst.

Strelok:

+No one can harm the zone or use it for ill.
- Its permanently locked off, everyone in it will die.

Ward:

+The zone is shut down, the mainland is safe, skif gets his home etc.
-The government has control of the zone and definitely not good intentions

Project Y

+The zone is free to grow, humanity is put to the test to see if we deserve to evolve.
-Kinda the apocalypse.

Then there's the spark ending. There is nothing good about this ending, at no point in the entire game did I ever want to side with scar, he is ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ from the start and has nothing redeeming about him.

All it is is negatives. Everyone is brainwashed, no one is in reality, everyone is dying, the zone is dying, everyone is basically a zombie.

You can't even really say "but they're happy" no they're not, they're mindless zombies, its the same argument as saying the monolithians are happy. I don't get this ending, it seems so out of place compared to the other endings, where they are all grey this one is just black.

Also ♥♥♥♥ scar, wish I could've shot him from the get go.

[Zaris]

Scars ending is most likely for dream seekers like in Stalker SoC for people who seeked the wish granter in the hope to get their wishes fullfilled not knowing that in reality scientists were behind it and it was a trap.

Scar knows the truth and tries to create a paradise even it is only an illusion and someone explained it quite short and well: He got brainwashed a bit too often that's why in his destroyed mind this is a good idea and if the player roleplays also as a lunatic he would follow them (Skif is also a brainwashed STALKER if i understood that right).

[Maybe John Helldiver]

The spark ending has a MASSIVE plot whole and that is the C-Conciousness. Either it is an illusion or its just dumb. C-Counciousness is the one piece of that ending that makes 0 sense.

[x Princess Leliana x]

Originally posted by Zaris:

Scars ending is most likely for dream seekers like in Stalker SoC for people who seeked the wish granter in the hope to get their wishes fullfilled not knowing that in reality scientists were behind it and it was a trap.

Scar knows the truth and tries to create a paradise even it is only an illusion and someone explained it quite short and well: He got brainwashed a bit too often that's why in his destroyed mind this is a good idea and if the player roleplays also as a lunatic he would follow them (Skif is also a brainwashed STALKER if i understood that right).

When does skif get brainwashed though? That doesnt happen at any point other than maybe when he goes in the vision pod before scar gets you out of it, at no point is he in a place long enough to be brainwashed.

Originally posted by John Outlast:

The spark ending has a MASSIVE plot whole and that is the C-Conciousness. Either it is an illusion or its just dumb. C-Counciousness is the one piece of that ending that makes 0 sense.

c consciousness is gone and all that is left is the remnants in the noosphere. A copy, not the real thing.

Originally posted by Zaris:

Scars ending is most likely for dream seekers like in Stalker SoC for people who seeked the wish granter in the hope to get their wishes fullfilled not knowing that in reality scientists were behind it and it was a trap.

Scar knows the truth and tries to create a paradise even it is only an illusion and someone explained it quite short and well: He got brainwashed a bit too often that's why in his destroyed mind this is a good idea and if the player roleplays also as a lunatic he would follow them (Skif is also a brainwashed STALKER if i understood that right).

but that isnt good in any way. Because youre not under the illusion that it might actually be happy. It specifically shows you that its an illusion and is fake, it shows the dogs eating the people, the mountains of bodies. If it did not show that i would get it, but it does.

[Maybe John Helldiver]

Originally posted by x Princess Leliana x:

Originally posted by Zaris:

Scars ending is most likely for dream seekers like in Stalker SoC for people who seeked the wish granter in the hope to get their wishes fullfilled not knowing that in reality scientists were behind it and it was a trap.

Scar knows the truth and tries to create a paradise even it is only an illusion and someone explained it quite short and well: He got brainwashed a bit too often that's why in his destroyed mind this is a good idea and if the player roleplays also as a lunatic he would follow them (Skif is also a brainwashed STALKER if i understood that right).

When does skif get brainwashed though? That doesnt happen at any point other than maybe when he goes in the vision pod before scar gets you out of it, at no point is he in a place long enough to be brainwashed.

Originally posted by John Outlast:

The spark ending has a MASSIVE plot whole and that is the C-Conciousness. Either it is an illusion or its just dumb. C-Counciousness is the one piece of that ending that makes 0 sense.

c consciousness is gone and all that is left is the remnants in the noosphere. A copy, not the real thing.

Originally posted by Zaris:

Scars ending is most likely for dream seekers like in Stalker SoC for people who seeked the wish granter in the hope to get their wishes fullfilled not knowing that in reality scientists were behind it and it was a trap.

Scar knows the truth and tries to create a paradise even it is only an illusion and someone explained it quite short and well: He got brainwashed a bit too often that's why in his destroyed mind this is a good idea and if the player roleplays also as a lunatic he would follow them (Skif is also a brainwashed STALKER if i understood that right).

but that isnt good in any way. Because youre not under the illusion that it might actually be happy. It specifically shows you that its an illusion and is fake, it shows the dogs eating the people, the mountains of bodies. If it did not show that i would get it, but it does.

Than why does the remnants want Scar to hop in the pod? It doesnt make sense. That ending is so half-baked.

[x Princess Leliana x]

Originally posted by John Outlast:

Originally posted by x Princess Leliana x:

When does skif get brainwashed though? That doesnt happen at any point other than maybe when he goes in the vision pod before scar gets you out of it, at no point is he in a place long enough to be brainwashed.


c consciousness is gone and all that is left is the remnants in the noosphere. A copy, not the real thing.


but that isnt good in any way. Because youre not under the illusion that it might actually be happy. It specifically shows you that its an illusion and is fake, it shows the dogs eating the people, the mountains of bodies. If it did not show that i would get it, but it does.

Than why does the remnants want Scar to hop in the pod? It doesnt make sense. That ending is so half-baked.

I really do truly hate that ending. I guess the other members are brainwashed by him into thinking its something else? Like, he tells you when he enters he will make "the shining" happen, he never says that its gonna be brainwashing.

[BOT Cecil]

Some people just want to have their blue pill and go on their merry way

[x Princess Leliana x]

Originally posted by BOT Cecil:

Some people just want to have their blue pill and go on their merry way

but it specifically tells you how ♥♥♥♥ it is after!

[BOT Cecil]

Originally posted by x Princess Leliana x:

Originally posted by BOT Cecil:

Some people just want to have their blue pill and go on their merry way

but it specifically tells you how ♥♥♥♥ it is after!

I agree, but from Skif's POV he is happy and content

[peneptah]

It seems to me that your interpretation may be wrong from the very beginning. That if this is not a choice between the red and blue pill, that if all stalkers are given eternal life in the noosphere, we spoke with C-Conciousness, Dalin spoke with his father. Everything that dies in the zone is reborn, in any case it was said about mutants in the noosphere. The physical body does not necessarily have to die immediately. The scar acts as a catalyst that cleanses the noosphere of negativity.

I was interested in religious and not very teachings of the world, and this is very similar to the "white earth" from Buddhism. The scar can scare away with his theatrical manner of communication, but what matters is his question.

But the ending is quite vague, with poppies and disturbing music at the end we are hinted at illusory, but from this moment on the physical no longer matters, what difference does it make what happens to the body if consciousness is no longer here? What are the criteria for the real?

In my opinion, the most underrated ending, if you think about how much meaning was put into it "the zone is as you see it"

[Seath]

"Reality is whatever you think is real" (c) Richter

Some people just don't want the truth, they want be happy. Does it really matter, if things around you aren't "real", if you feel them as real, and it makes you happy enough?

I am not saying it is a good ending. But pretty much on par with the others.
Digital mental asylum, as an alternative to pretty damn physical concentration camp Strelok offers.

[Jocosity]

Honestly, the fact that so many people react to this ending this way makes me feel like we've failed as a society to ensure that future generations are shown Evangelion. Or maybe the problem is just that a lot of people never understood Evangelion to begin with.

[Wurm65]

I chose it because I am going to replay the game over and over to get all of them. 1 down... Ward up next. And I had a sense of dread the entire time skif was walking through the poppy field, it abated a bit when he got to the camp-fire, but I realized that other than maybe Scar, I was the only "alive" person there. And when it flipped over I was satisfied with the ending.

[Hashi23]

Scar's ending is about the Shining Zone, but the plot twist is that only those who are dead can experience it, not the living.

[Mister_Bucket]

Honestly I believe the Project Y ending is the true ending as intended by the developers. I do not base that on anything lore related, rather it's the ending that is optimized the best and ran the smoothest XD