[Spoilers] What happens to them?

[Joel]

What happens to Simon-3 and Simon-2 after the ARK Launch? Yes, Catherine's cortex chip busts. So what does Simon-3 do? I'd love to see this explored somehow. Perhaps Simon-3 returns to Simon-2 and they try to make it to the surface world. I just feel like there was a lack of closure, which I'm sure was intentional.

[LoucMachine]

DLC content ... I hope ;)

[Hornet]

Which Simon is Simon 2? The one I killed?

[Kommissar K]

One could wonder, and I've kinda posed this as a musing to myself, perhaps Catherine initiated Simon-3s deletion after the satellite launched, hence the fade to black and credits at the end.

This then leads up to the player being "aware" of what happens to Simon-4. Now sure, Simon-4 isn't aware of the events Simon-3 observed at the end, but the player maintains continuity as "Simon."

[Tarik]

Doesn't matter. All Simons are fake either way.

[cromy]

Simon-2 depend on which choices you made.
Simon-3 who knows...? (guess died)
Simon-4 keep up his life in the new world.

..and yes the lack of closure is surely intentional. Which is amazing for my point of view.

[cromy]

Originally posted by Tarik:

Doesn't matter. All Simons are fake either way.

How can you call them fake?
When you copy and paste a file the definition of ORIGINAL doesn't have any sense at all. (imo)

[_MaZ_TeR_]

I hope they release a DLC. They made one for the first game called Justine so why not?

[yusupov]

omg grow the eff up. do u need everything not only spelled out to u but to play out the letters??? he is the last dude on earth the dlc would be you trying to find a way to kill urself. u are sick people

[MrMuffinz]

We don't actually KNOW what happens to Simon-3.
All we know is, for now, he's alone with the WAU in the Abyss.

I'd hope the expansion takes place after a long time of Simon just sitting and thinking (maybe powered down so it's ages later), and you go back up and visit the facility now either cleared, or completely devoid of even robotic life (whichever WAU choice is canon). Maybe try to fix catherine and then the end consists of a cliffhanger of him heading up to the surface to see if maybe life is finally possible again.

Then maybe a second game takes place after all the ash and fire has settled, and simon heads to the ruins of Toronto to find out exactly what became of his real self. And the WAU has extended it's reach to the land by now. With monstrosities of humans everywhere.

Depends on how Toronto was affected I guess.

[Question-Mark]

I like to think that Catherine AI commited suicide like those other characters and Simon-3 is still sitting there raging.

[Hornet]

Originally posted by MrMuffinz:

Then maybe a second game takes place after all the ash and fire has settled, and simon heads to the ruins of Toronto to find out exactly what became of his real self. And the WAU has extended it's reach to the land by now. With monstrosities of humans everywhere.

Human Simon in Toronto died a few months after the scan.

[yusupov]

Originally posted by Rankie:

I like to think that Catherine AI commited suicide like those other characters and Simon-3 is still sitting there raging.

lol

see this guy gets it everyone else cant handle a bleak ending, its not even open ended yet u dont have "closure" bc he didnt find happiness or die on screen?? jesus

[GraveyardRockstar]

Originally posted by yusupov:

omg grow the eff up. do u need everything not only spelled out to u but to play out the letters??? he is the last dude on earth the dlc would be you trying to find a way to kill urself. u are sick people

Why are u so angry lol...this is a beautiful game and the whole reason the ending was what it was is so that players would talk about it and try and come up with their own theories...not sure why people theorizing about the game makes them "sick." I also don't think it's about "needing everything spelled out..." It's a heavy game with a heavy ending that's whole purpose is to make you question humanity, which leads to real-life discussions. I hope you're a lot more open-minded now than you were when you commented on this half a decade ago. :p

[Blender McBiscuits]

There's nothing for Simon-X to do. He's at the bottom of the sea in a destroyed base, and a couple of miles of water are all that stopped him being pulverised by a meteor. The one that destroyed the Earth and killed everything. Underwater Simon doesn't have much of a future. He could explore for a bit, but he's not going to find anything that cheers him up. It's just switchoff for him. Just a matter of how much time he can fill before he pulls the plug.

Meanwhile all the digital people are happy in the sky, living lovely lives. So that's OK. Assuming a digital copy of a mind is as good as a real one, and you've been playing the whole game as one of those, so presumably you, or Simon, would think it's good enough.

[Sputnik]

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