[SPOILERS] Does Anyone Else Think Ending C Was Kind of a Let Down?

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I've played the Story Mode several times across different platforms, I've always usually picked C but on my final game save on the PC I chose B.

Don't get me wrong, dealing with the bad people such as Devin, Agent Haines and Stretch and all that did feel satisying because you were killing all of the corrupt, bad people who only care about power and money, but does anyone else agree that it was kind of an anti-climax? Trevor and Micheal were having lots of arguments before the ending came, and then all of a sudden if you pick C they no longer really fight, and they are all friends again. It's like a boring and predictable happy ending with no thrill to it, except from the satisfaction of killing off the bad people.

I feel as if option B felt so much better from my experience, yes, I felt guilty for killing Michael, for his family of course, but the ending was much more emotional, thrilling, and dark in my opinion. It felt like something actually happened, the build up of the story paid off to a more thrilling ending and it was shocking (in my opinion), how he died, and what he did if you chose to "save him". The soundtrack that played was great too, as Franklin walked forwards into the distance in the night, and how before that he said a quote that Michael had previously said to him in the story.

Overall, all of the endings are ok in my opinion, I would never choose option A though because Trevor is my favourite character, but I like how they gave the player the choice, so if they hated a certain character for some reason it's a chance to get rid of them and never see them again.

I still wish there were more options/better options than those though, or maybe even a major twist on one of them somehow, for example, maybe choosing B gets Franklin killed, maybe Michael ends up killing him and you lose Franklin and then Trevor and Michael battle it out or something.

[grsyh1990]

I always thought both ending A & B are out of character for all three protagonists

1) Franklin doesn't have a motivation to kill either Trevor or Michael.
2) Franklin doesn't kill his father figure(even though this relationship kinda strained during story event) just because Devin Weston wanted so. Devin Weston scammed him already, also before choosing option we clearly tell Devin Weston off. After choosing ending B suddenly Franklin turn into a different person, his action doesn't fit his previous behaviour.
3) Trevor can mess with Lost, Ballas, Police, Merryweather and Army but he is running away from Franklin who holds a pistol? ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥, Trevor we see during story(or his rampages) took that pistol and put it to franklin's ass.
4) After promising to his family to stay alive no matter what, Michael we see in story doesn't headbutt Franklin to fall his dead.
5) Both two ending are lazily written, just a simple car chase easier then third mission of the game and at the end one of the protagonist die in a stupid way.

I don't know, I don't think I ever choose ending a or b, after spending so many hours with these guys; I rather see people who mess with us dead.

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Originally posted by grsyh1990:

I always thought both ending A & B are out of character for all three protagonists

1) Franklin doesn't have a motivation to kill either Trevor or Michael.
2) Franklin doesn't kill his father figure(even though this relationship kinda strained during story event) just because Devin Weston wanted so. Devin Weston scammed him already, also before choosing option we clearly tell Devin Weston off. After choosing ending B suddenly Franklin turn into a different person, his action doesn't fit his previous behaviour.
3) Trevor can mess with Lost, Ballas, Police, Merryweather and Army but he is running away from Franklin who holds a pistol? ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥, Trevor we see during story(or his rampages) took that pistol and put it to franklin's ass.
4) After promising to his family to stay alive no matter what, Michael we see in story doesn't headbutt Franklin to fall his dead.
5) Both two ending are lazily written, just a simple car chase easier then third mission of the game and at the end one of the protagonist die in a stupid way.

I don't know, I don't think I ever choose ending a or b, after spending so many hours with these guys; I rather see people who mess with us dead.

I guess so, good points.

I just wished there were different endings, or some major twist instead of a simple death(s).

I hate option A because I love Trevor, and he didn't deserve it anyway, plus that was what the feds were telling Franklin and I hate the feds on GTA so I wouldn't listen to them.

I have Devin Weston for the scam but from Franklin's point of view if you were faced with 2 options, one saying kill Michael, and one saying Deathwish, considering Franklin's type of attitude which is laidback and kind of selfish after he starts getting more money, I don't think it's that much of a change in option B for his character. You decide after the big score, some people change over money, they get lazy and they don't care about people anymore, maybe that's a reason for Franklin to kill him, he thinks he's going to die because it's a "Deathwish" so he takes the selfish and easy way out and kills the worst person out of the two, not Trevor, but Michael. The worst person is Michael maybe because he is too scared of Trevor because he's crazy and he's done nothing wrong, but Franklin knows about the Brad stuff and how Michael got them into this mess with the FIB. Franklin always did act a little selfish, for example, on the 'Lamar Down' mission where he doesn't even want to save him straight away, because he says he's always been looking after Lamar and he's fed up with him. It kind of shows Franklin not caring for the people around him anymore, even his friends, probably because of money/power.

[globefish23]

Originally posted by Neon Socks:

Trevor and Micheal were having lots of arguments before the ending came, and then all of a sudden if you pick C they no longer really fight, and they are all friends again.

Not at all.

You should hang out with Michael and Trevor after the final mission a couple of times.
They are still ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ at each other.
To me, it looks like of those open-ended Hollywood buddy movie endings, where the two protagonists are in a hate/love relationship, and drive off into the sunset, while the camera pans out, and we can still hear them arguing.

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Originally posted by globefish23:

Originally posted by Neon Socks:

Trevor and Micheal were having lots of arguments before the ending came, and then all of a sudden if you pick C they no longer really fight, and they are all friends again.

Not at all.

You should hang out with Michael and Trevor after the final mission a couple of times.
They are still ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ at each other.
To me, it looks like of those open-ended Hollywood buddy movie endings, where the two protagonists are in a hate/love relationship, and drive off into the sunset, while the camera pans out, and we can still hear them arguing.

I meant in the cutscenes.

I just think it's a bit of an anti-climax, it's just a happy ending and I like the dark feel of a key character being killed, I think it felt more rewarding than option C in my opinion.

I still felt guilty though, only for his family, especially when Jimmy rang and started crying and then Trevor emailed Franklin to which Franklin replied "I have nothing to do with it" or something. It does feel like a sad ending because now Franklin can't hang out with Trevor anymore, he can only hang out with Lamar, and Micheal is dead so he can't hang out with Jimmy and neither can Trevor :/

I kind of feel like all of the endings sucked now, from a story perspective I think option B was the most dark and thrilling ending so it was worth me personally picking it, and in a way I think it's kind of good that you feel a sense of guilt because you are more connected to the story and the characters. As I said before, I wish the endings just weren't as simple as choosing to kill someone or killing all of the bad guys, an unexpected twist would of been game changing.

[grsyh1990]

Franklin warned & saved Lamar too many times but Lamar always choose being a dumbass. Especially after got set up by stretch two times he still takes Stretch as a role model and doesn't believe they got set up by Stretch.

At the end, Franklin reached that limit: Screw Lamar. Franklin cares for people but everyone has a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ limit.

Also Franklin was willing to help Michael with FBI stuff, after morgue mission he clearly told this. Franklin was not really greedy for me, he just wanted to impress Tanisha but he clearly failed.

Even he is greedy, Devin Weston is a scammer, working for him doesn't even profitable for him whereas working with Michael make him rich.

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Originally posted by grsyh1990:

Even he is greedy, Devin Weston is a scammer, working for him doesn't even profitable for him whereas working with Michael make him rich.

But Franklin knew it was the last heist, and that it was "The Big One", the last heist with the three characters together and that Franklin would no longer be making money with Michael around anymore, and from what I said earlier, it seems easier to just kill Michael than it does to kill tons of cops, merryweather and a bunch of bad guys, and then he has to think of the heat he may gain afterwards, more people trying to kill him just because he didn't kill one of his mentors.

With an option with the name "Deathwish", just after stealing 200 million $ worth of gold bars from the UD (the biggest bank in Los Santos), doesn't seem like a good idea considering all of the heat Franklin has already gained from these big heists already, making Franklin feel like he may die, so again, he's saving himself, and being selfish.

Also, Devin has a lot of money, and as you see when you pick option C he has lots of bodyguards, Franklin may think he's going to die because he cannot kill of all these people, they have money and power and can easily just send out a bunch of people to kill you, when you could of just saved yourself and killed the person who put you in all of this FIB stuff in the first place (Michael).

[morph113]

Killing Michael would be completely out of character for Franklin in my opinion. He did have a bond with Michael in the end, much more than with Trevor, who Franklin pretty much just tolerated. If anything, killing Trevor would have been the only non canon choice that would have made sense for me. Just to get rid of him. Either you kill him or he will kill you in the end.

However I found that option C as the canon choice is still the best. Trevor isn't out to kill Michael anymore. I wouldn't say he has completely forvigen Michael but they have more or less made up and are on good terms again, although Trevor keeps chastising him a bit every now and then. Keeping the trio alive and fight off the common enemies just felt best in my opinion.

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Originally posted by morph113:

Killing Michael would be completely out of character for Franklin in my opinion. He did have a bond with Michael in the end, much more than with Trevor, who Franklin pretty much just tolerated. If anything, killing Trevor would have been the only non canon choice that would have made sense for me. Just to get rid of him. Either you kill him or he will kill you in the end.

However I found that option C as the canon choice is still the best. Trevor isn't out to kill Michael anymore. I wouldn't say he has completely forvigen Michael but they have more or less made up and are on good terms again, although Trevor keeps chastising him a bit every now and then. Keeping the trio alive and fight off the common enemies just felt best in my opinion.

Fair enough.

I wish Franklin wasn't the main character though, I think if he wasn't the main character and the story was adjusted a bit, then the options at the end may of been a bit more interesting.

I guess it just depends on the players interpretation of the story, or maybe they just really hate a certain character for some reason and don't care, or they want the more dark and emotional ending like I did.