Anyone wants to discuss the game ending ?

[Dijlee]

Title^^

[Digby]

I kind of expected the ending to be depressing. But my god.
That was just horrifying to behold.

I mean Max seemed to be making such progress during his chats with Griffa but once you hit road warrior and max out all skills? Nothing ever again from Griffa. He vanishes forever.

Chumbucket did not deserve that and Max just went right back into his constant movement pattern.
I really did not want to accelerate. I sat there a minute hoping it was a choice. But no. No choices.

Also Hope and Glory should have had their names swapped. I mean in that case you would have won Glory and rescued Hope. Which seems to fit better if you ask me.

[Dijlee]

Originally posted by Jet:

I kind of expected the ending to be depressing. But my god.
That was just horrifying to behold.

I mean Max seemed to be making such progress during his chats with Griffa but once you hit road warrior and max out all skills? Nothing ever again from Griffa. He vanishes forever.

Chumbucket did not deserve that and Max just went right back into his constant movement pattern.
I really did not want to accelerate. I sat there a minute hoping it was a choice. But no. No choices.

Also Hope and Glory should have had their names swapped. I mean in that case you would have won Glory and rescued Hope. Which seems to fit better if you ask me.

haha totally the same, i was trying to ride back when chum was on the hood of the car

but besides this, in a sadistic way, i prefer this way more than the happy ending where they all drive in the sunset togheter. Max is developing trough the whole game, Hes slowly getting his feelings back. Than boom and its all gone. I think this fits really good with how max is. He KNOWS he cant count on poeple, or they betray him or they eventually hurt him. He just needs to stay distant from everyone and i think this fits the original mad max really good and a fitting ending off this game

[Digby]

Yeah its a Mad Max ending for sure. More Road Warrior and less Thunderdome.

But still. Would have been nice to see Chumbucket survive, take the Opus back to its birthplace or something to await a new saint. Or the Opus is destroyed and Chum believed Max was too, making his way back to Deep Friahs place or something he provides a voice over for an epilogue.

While Max drives into the sunset in the interceptor.

[Dijlee]

Originally posted by Jet:

Yeah its a Mad Max ending for sure. More Road Warrior and less Thunderdome.

But still. Would have been nice to see Chumbucket survive, take the Opus back to its birthplace or something to await a new saint. Or the Opus is destroyed and Chum believed Max was too, making his way back to Deep Friahs place or something he provides a voice over for an epilogue.

While Max drives into the sunset in the interceptor.

yeah i get where youre going , it was even sadder to see that pussing the war machine off the cliff didnt even do anything, because he would jump out either way with your interceptor. Still i think it adds to the dramatic effect and that max just cant have any friends

besides that there are still some answers,
Do the plains of silence even exist ? or is that just an illusion from max for an excuse to keep going on with surviving ?

and who is Griffa ?

[GamingTaylor]

The ending was good.

I thought it was very surprising that the child died, most video games refrain from having any children at all, and one's that do refrain from using any violence against them as they are scared of the dreaded Adult rating. I also thought it was quite amusing near the end when the girl says "I want to paint a picture with their blood" XD

IMO, I was glad Chum died, he desearved it for getting Hope and Glory killed. I wish there was an option to replace Chum with that high crazy chick from the races. Didn't really understand why you had to kill her...

[GamingTaylor]

Originally posted by Seal:

Originally posted by Jet:

Yeah its a Mad Max ending for sure. More Road Warrior and less Thunderdome.

But still. Would have been nice to see Chumbucket survive, take the Opus back to its birthplace or something to await a new saint. Or the Opus is destroyed and Chum believed Max was too, making his way back to Deep Friahs place or something he provides a voice over for an epilogue.

While Max drives into the sunset in the interceptor.

yeah i get where youre going , it was even sadder to see that pussing the war machine off the cliff didnt even do anything, because he would jump out either way with your interceptor. Still i think it adds to the dramatic effect and that max just cant have any friends

besides that there are still some answers,
Do the plains of silence even exist ? or is that just an illusion from max for an excuse to keep going on with surviving ?

and who is Griffa ?

Griffa tells you at one point that you are actually in the plains of silence so "crossing the plains of silence" is a pointless goal and max can't escape from them.

[Digby]

Griffa was the guy you went to upgrade skills. Remember the guy who kept blowing dust in your face?

If you mean in a more general who is he sense. Then he's clearly a hallucination created by Max's shattered mind who acts as Max's personal therapist in an attempt to fix the damage he's sustained over the years. You could argue its a part of his survival instinct which is repeatedly stated to be quite absurd in its strength.

At the very least we know he's not real. His showing up in odd places at the start of the game and intimate knowledge of Max both hint at his being generated by Max's mind. But the real clincher is his appearances in the wider wasteland which are in sites that when you approach are covered in graffiti reminiscent of Australian aboriginal drawings and where you have odd weather around Griffa himself. Which all vanish after he's gone.

Plus Chumbucket mentions a few times that Max goes "off inside his head"


As for the plains of silence. They don't exist.
Max is clearly stuck in a cycle where he is constantly on the move. He keeps driving until he needs to resupply then he scavs around an area and probably picks a fight with the local warlord. Just until he can get enough to get past the next big empty expanse and then off he goes. Then the cycle repeats itself all over again.
It's possible that events not too far removed from those of the game have played out multiple times in Max's life.

[Effusion]

I wish max had driven off in his interceptor and chumbucket had survived to drive the magnum opus on the post game.

Originally posted by Seal:

and who is Griffa ?

Part of max's subconscious probably.

[traz]

Originally posted by Desolater IV:

that high crazy chick from the races. Didn't really understand why you had to kill her...

Same here, although...

My favorite part of the game was when that thunderdome came down and you hear 'Two men enter, one man leaves'.

[nikoliy]

"Who is Griffa?"

Part of max's subconscious probably.

I like that, also I remeber Chum saying something like "Are you going on another long head trip" or something close to that when Max was getting out of the car.

IMO: Plains of Silence is death

[nikoliy]

Originally posted by traz:

Originally posted by Desolater IV:

that high crazy chick from the races. Didn't really understand why you had to kill her...

Same here, although...

My favorite part of the game was when that thunderdome came down and you hear 'Two men enter, one man leaves'.

Just thought you might like this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iGDE1aAFSY

[Dijlee]

Overall i find it a great game and it really lives up with the world of max, as an avid mad max lover i couldnt ask more as far as a mad max game goes!

[traz]

Originally posted by nikolay:

Originally posted by traz:

Same here, although...

My favorite part of the game was when that thunderdome came down and you hear 'Two men enter, one man leaves'.

Just thought you might like this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iGDE1aAFSY

Thanks! Nicely cut vid. Now to read the lyrics. As he was singing, the only word I understood was 'thunderdome'. ;)

Just thought about this. Max and the chainsaw sequence is very much a Han running from stormtroopers in the Death Star moment.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=raF9wfPxir8

[Effusion]

Originally posted by Desolater IV:

IMO, I was glad Chum died, he desearved it for getting Hope and Glory killed.

That was Max's fault for sharing that he planned to take the magnum opus and ditch Chum. The car was everything to Chum so he just took it and went home.

Max gets what he thinks he wants, to be alone, and it makes him miserable because it's actually the exact opposite of what he truely wants. In trying to hide from the pain of loss he only brings it upon himself. Very greek tragedy esque.

[Gurbangly (R.I.P Rick May)]

The only thing I hated was Chum's death. I know that how he actually died fits Max, but come on! When Max and Scrotus were fighting at the end, they could have had it were Max and Scrotus were fighting hand to hand combat, then the finishing blow would be Chum sacrificing himself.