Which ending did you choose? (WARNING SPOILERS)

[Echo419]

Just wondering which ending everyone chose and the reasons behind your choices.

I chose the illuminatti ending on my first play through. I felt personally, that augamentations should be regulated as they are indeed harmful if left uncontrolled, yet their are indeed benefits from them (ie. replacng missing legs, arms).

On my second play through, I was thinking of which choice 'Adam' (the character) would choose based on his personallity. Since he was basically lied to/manipulated and entered into arguements with all the 3 characters, I thought it was likely that he would choose to blow the base up and let the people make their own choices about augamented technology.

[bluejwestd85]

I choose to tell everybodt the truth mostly because I always try to be the nice guy but on second playthrough and I gotta see the other now. Atleast I think that was the choice to say something or not right its been sometime.

[Dreusyla Arashi]

i blew up the whole complex and said ♥♥♥♥ it to all 3 factions

[Mr. Hanky]

I thought the truth was the only really good option. People should know what really happened, and that augmentation can be used as a means of control. If that means they fear technology, then oh well. I find that preferable to people hacking off their own limbs just to replace them with unfeeling robot pieces. Regardless, the people shoud know the whole story so they can make their own decisions.

[Kauldwin]

I didn't like any of the options much. The "truth" option seemed to me to be a very skewed version of the truth, and the idea of humanity being set back like that didn't impress me too much. Blowing up the facility hardly seemed like a good thing to do, especially given the fact that there were pockets of survivors scattered around and given that I'd just spent a great deal of time going out of my way to neutralize the crazed augs without killing them. I didn't really want to murder everybody on the station. I really hated Taggert, so it was difficult to consider the Illuminati's story, although I do think they have some valid points. But at the end, especially after playing the Missing Link and seeing what was going on in Rifleman Bank Station and then the Hyron project, I couldn't really see supporting them.

In the end, I went with Sarif's option. It's not the truth, it's probably not the right choice, but at the same time, I think that is the history of humans. To overreach, to strive for something. I like the last line of that cutscene: "We can become the gods we've always been striving to be. We might as well get good at it."

[kr00m]

The truth will set you free! ;)

[Mikawo]

What each party wanted you to say/lie seemed stupid, but if we are strictly looking at Eliza's forecasts, I thought Sarif's was best. We should always use our intellect for advancement. The more benefits society reaps, the better. Anything less would be a waste of our capabilities.

On the other outcomes:

Completely eliminating augmentation makes no sense since there is a real need being served with augments. People that were once blind would be able to see. Those who've lost legs would be able to walk. And so on.

Regulating augmentation would be a reasonable choice if not for the people who are requesting it. What this really amounts to is a shadow organization taking control of the world and research being obstructed if it does not fall in line with the organization's policies (i.e. projects that threaten their power). This reduces progress considerably and helpful technologies that might otherwise become available never see the light of day.

Hiding everything that happened and letting the world decide what to do will basically solve nothing. The destruction of a high profile facility with no absolute tie to augmentation will not have any real effect on the world. Everything would be as it was with new faces to replace the old. Progress will still stagnate as opposing factions work hard to obstruct each others' goals.

[MattThaBat]

Originally posted by Mr. Hanky:

I thought the truth was the only really good option. People should know what really happened, and that augmentation can be used as a means of control. If that means they fear technology, then oh well. I find that preferable to people hacking off their own limbs just to replace them with unfeeling robot pieces. Regardless, the people shoud know the whole story so they can make their own decisions.

I chose Darrow's message as well, but I was sorely disappointed in the consequences. Eidos wants us to believe that by telling the whole truth, people will buck science altogether and plunge themselves into a neo-pre-modern age. That's BS. On top of that, I wanted to reveal the whole truth without supporting Darrow's horrendous biochip disaster. And yet, there was Jensen promoting the whole event as necessary and good because it planted the seed for change. No, NO, NOOO!!! That is not what I'm agreeing to by telling the truth, dammit!

[Fiberfar]

Although I wish I had a "Throw Megan Reed off of a cliff" option, I ended up sending Darrow's message.

[キツネJinx]

I chose Darrow's ending although the consequences were not as favourable to most people due to casting all augmentation science and technology aside (not to me though because...), yet it was the best ending because Tagart's and Sarif's endings were lucrative propaganda for their own benefit although it would somewhat benefit humanity more because it is keeping the augmentation technology, you are still lying to humanity to serve corporate interests over the people's interests (which is also against Jensen's own personality as shown in the story), and the self destruct ending is bad as well because absolutely nothing will change because you didn't explain the attempted genocide, you have a neutral stance on augmentations and there are a lot more people with a lot of corporate power outside the building that can still twist the story for their own benefit. So at least with Darrow's ending, it's the raw truth and it's enough to justify all the killing that just happened even if it makes humanity get rid of the augmentations, although it will better the economy because beer in mind that the augmentation technology made the rich richer and the poor poorer because it put a lot of hard working people out of work because they couldn't keep up with other workers who were augmented and they couldn't afford the augments so it forced them onto the streets, so by getting rid of them for future generations you are making life better for those people in the long run. And the augmentations crashed the automobile industry, half the food industry, helped the pharmaceutical industry and changed their product, and the oil and gas industry crashed because of the automobile industry crashing, so you'll be changing those to the way they are today so the economy will improve with Darrow's ending as well. And Darrow's ending won't make humanity abandon science and technology overall, it will only get rid of the augmentations and quite a bit of weapons development for military. If you disagree with me that's fine because I'm open to other opinions as well this was just my opinion and sorry for the long rant.

[キツネJinx]

People usually think with this that keeping the augments is an overall good idea because they didn't see the bad things that the augments did to people because there was a population of people that their bodies just didn't accept the augments properly so they would die during the operation or get permanent disability because of it, the population that just couldn't afford it so they were forced onto the streets because they would die if they didn't get neuropozene regularly so they had to sell everything that they had, and the people who could afford everything and keep their jobs got richer because of it, and that's how it made the rich richer and the poor poorer.

[Zephkiel]

The truth. I don't particularly care what humanity does with the information, as long as they have it to make the decision. And to hell with the Illuminati.

/dropmic, Rorschach out.

P.S. I did agree with Taggart the most, but still, screw the Illuminati.

[The Brown Hornet]

The problem is I don't find "augmentation" to Aug or not to Aug that complex an issue. I'd prefer actual conspiracies like in the original Deus Ex.

[delta]

I went with the truth option...just seemed like the proper thing to do. Then I found out there's an achievement for doing all four, so I loaded my last save and watched all the rest of them. At least it's better than Mass Effect 3 in this regard in that it actually lets you save right before the end...

[The Brown Hornet]

I chose the conspiracy ending

[Cuchi]

Sarif