Wtf is that ending??? (spoiler)

[epanism]

So Albert isn't real? The man in the security cam in the ending isn't balding, so it's the saboteur that is real all along? Is he imagining Albert going against him?? Are we playing this imaginary Albert from the start?

Ugh I should sleep this off.

[epanism]

I slept it off, and the story of this game is either an example of bad writing, or the dev''s attempt to make the obsessive gamers go insane trying to figure out which part of this game is real ("Hey guys, let's make a game that drives people insane, and we'll call it something-Insanity")

But either way it amuses me so much, I can't stop laughing during the playthrough.

So after I think about it:
The saboteur is really Albert Tokaj, a pschiatrist and pharmacologist. But phisically he's the not-balding one. He's going crazy with boredom (and maybe being cooped up underground for so long) and developed the split personality. He's taunting this Albert we're playing which is actually himself - the tame, goody version of him.

He's going around in killing rampage. But in the end (I agree with above comment, those monsters are just people trying to stop him) he killed half of earth's remaining population (yay).

(Wow, everytime we got game over, the citizen of Glory is saved!)

For the prop city - maybe it's build to make people in Glory feels a bit normal? Some building are habitable and real anyway. But maybe the radiation got to people there since it's closer to the surface?, so the colonel abandoned the project? (Also in cannibal's house, there are bodies of people in Glory's white-red uniform - captured guards from Glory?). OOR, maybe like everything else, it was just Albert's imaginary gone haywired and he killed people who are tested to live in the fake city.

Karolina most likely died in the destruction of Glory and just Albert's imagination afterward. I mean, come one, fully armed Albert (me) died several time trying to go through the city. How could she, unarmed from what I saw, survived? The writer would be pushing too much suspension disbelief for this one.

The end is really- too many plot holes too.
- The guard of Fist said they saw junkies outside before - Where did he come from? The prop city? It seems really unlikely.

-Where do the Fist guards get the security feed from Glory? I think in colonel's room, it is said that the attempt to contact Fist failed?

-If the ending is real, I think our balding Albert won the fight inside their mind, thus we heard Albert's voice even though phisically it's the nonbalding Albert.

-Maybe Albert died outside from radiation and the end that we saw is his dying mind. (lololol)

-If it's not, then most likely Albert would be deemed too dangerous by Fist and get killed (quarantine my ***).

hmph.

It's really interesting, making us continue to play game even after we finish it. this feels like trying to put the puzzle pieces together. interesting.

I guess we'll have to wait for the sequel, I hope the dev would tell us more about what really happened.

[epanism]

Originally posted by EFHTS//Dante ♫:

Which would only beg more questions to be answered, if Fist was under the scale model, then surely, the group above ground (It could be fist, I dont remember) would be another type of shelter? Perhaps where the surface dwellers live?

I think the guards dragged him from Fist gates in the above ground... If I'm not mistaken, near the end we still couldn't walk under the sunlight? (I couldn't check, it's still updating damn my slow internet)

And which group above ground? I think the only thing above ground is flailing nuked dead people, ghost, big human thingy and machine... I think there's noone alive and it's all Albert's mind.

Originally posted by Mindjacker:

Well the if the new game was going to be set right after the first one. I think we would have had some of the big question marks answered. However the new game is 60 years in the future so the focus won't be on Dr AT at all, but their will be a mention of him so the Devs have let slip.

Pretty sure we'll be going around collecting notes about this legendary crazy man that destroyed a whole shelter by himself :p

edit: I'm sure I read the mod in this forum said somewhere Albert is most likely dead but we'll get bits of what happened to him?

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I enjoyed the ending. It really was an interesting storyline and the gameplay, for a low budget game, was fun.

[Ecliptic]

Good chat!

[a1_death]

I really enjoyed this game, as well. Thanks for all the theories posted.

[dw0rd]

Best explaination I've encountered. I also enjoyed the aftergame thought process, but missed some points you made. I'm going to have to see "Fight Club."