Silly question, but is the ending always the same?

[TamTroll]

there are a few ways to make decisions in the game near the ending, be it the E4 demo or the subsequent reaction to it, i myself gave the baby helicopter blades and a railgun hoping it would attack the starfather only for it to not. The crowd laughed, then the lasers were pointed, and Ish did his shpeil to me about hitting the button, which i never did and just wound up with him begging on the floor in an empty room.

So i'm just wondering, would anything have changed if i had done something different? if i had made the guards attack the demo hero, if i did something to the hero to make her unable to attack, if i had hit the escape button when Ish first asked? that sort of thing?

IDK about you but what i got out of all that was the game going open source followed by everyone tearing the place apart for apparently no reason whatsoever. Honestly, i feel bad for Coda. Feels like she was heading in the right direction in trying to get things organized and done. Her only mistake was not controlling who had access to creator privilege. least that's my opinion.

Edit: and before anyone asks yes I’m aware there's a segment where you make the game yourself, i didn't just stop there :P

[rujuro]

Hmm, if you gave the baby starfather as an enemy, it should have attacked him. Of course the guards that spawn to defend him will make it deal with them pretty quickly.

The outcomes (aside from the precise details of what the baby does) are the same. We decided we couldn't support a really significantly branching narrative that would still say what the game needed to say. Our fear was that some people would just get an ending that was not as good if we tried to go down that road. If you cut Ish off you get a different acheivement than if you let him finish and you don't hear his whole speech, otherwise it is the same.

[TamTroll]

I kinda figured the baby didn't attack starfather since he was in godmode or something, but yeah. thanks for the info!