[SPOILERS] My take on the game's ending

[Glam Stachee☆]

So let's pretend the entire game is canon to the series lore. If so, how come Chum, Hope and Glory all die in the last act, but then after you kill Scrotus and Max somehow manages to get his Interceptor running despite just exploding it seconds prior, everyone gets revived?
I know this is because Hope can still give you a Wasteland mission if you haven't done them yet and the game would be pretty unplayable without Chum, but let's look at this from a more realistic standpoint.

I think, that the entire last act of the game is just Max's dream, after he gets thrown down that hole by Scrotus and nearly dies, he hallucinates the final part of the game while getting fixed by Abdominus, and he only wakes up after you finish the game.

[skidmark]

The story itself is OVER and Chum, Hope, Glory and Scrotus are dead. Let your imagination go to 'Max crosses the Plains Of Silence in the Interceptor'. The devs allow you to finish the game, I like that, but the story is done, not the game

[Tarre Dragon]

Originally posted by skidmark:

The story itself is OVER and Chum, Hope, Glory and Scrotus are dead. Let your imagination go to 'Max crosses the Plains Of Silence in the Interceptor'. The devs allow you to finish the game, I like that, but the story is done, not the game

Thats it

[Glam Stachee☆]

Well you guys must be really fun at parties.

[diginferno]

Originally posted by ☭Glam Stachee☆:

Well you guys must be really fun at parties.

Let's take a look at it from a different angle? Killing Scrotus triggered a karmic tornado that resurrected Chumbucket and any other characters that you have unfinished business with. It also
repairs both the Interceptor and the Magnum Opus. Perhaps that's the handiwork of the Angel Combustion, no blastics can be more powerful than Her. The Magnum Opus is just the material form of the Angel, isn't it?

Realism is overrated, think about how Scrotus managed to be a deadly beast even with that chainsaw stuck in his nugget. That's a real splitting headache!

[Gallifrey - CSSC Gaming Founder]

I think the developers should have had the courage to end the game after Lord Scrotus' death. The final scene, Max blasting along the highway in the Interceptor, takes him back to the start of the game just with even more reason for bitterness.

Also it deflates the ending. In the movies Max is never a conventional hero and the game matches that. Allowing the player to continue - bad move devs.

Max does come across as a bit of a douche in the final scenes. Hope and Glory may be dead but that's no reason to send Chumbucket to his death. Lord Scrotus was always a far easier opponent than his lieutenant. It took me more than twenty tries to win that death race.

I'd done most missions before ending the story with Max a level 44 Road Warrior so the long trips sans Chumbucket weren't that much of a hazard. The lorry trip I did easily once I realised there was a second destination (or rather found it using Google).

I admire the bleakness of the ending. Not ending that way would have turned Max into the Addams Family with three permanent family members.

The mid game takes FOREVER though. I clocked 80 hours - single run through. That's nearly Skyrim proportions. Felt good to finish the game though and the game improves as it ends with a succession of tight story missions. In fact the PC game would make a great movie if the bulk of the missions were excluded. Better narratively than Fury Road in fact.

S.x.