[Spoiler] Help understanding the endings.

[Steew]

As far as I've played there are 3 endings.

The "..." ending, where Sarah for some reason decides to kill herself, when Pierce can't do it.
I don't get why she wanted to die when it seemed that he had given himself up after he dropped the gun(which we have through the entire ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ game but never use). And you end up getting a painting of hers, where she had painted herself dying. Is the painting supposed to be painted beforehand and sent to Pierce's office? Like it was supposed to happen?

The Counter-Ritual ending, where Pierce shoots Fritz.. something. The Captain. And the librarian(I wanna say... Alex? Honestly these names and characters are so forgettable) rushes to help you, while NONE of the cultists surrounding you, tries to stop you. Why did no one try to stop you?! And we end up going insane(?), and are sent to Fuller's new(?) institution, since he's supposedly immortal thanks to the Leviathan's oil?

The Ritual ending. This one is simple enough. You summon Cthulhu and we finally get to see him!! For 2 seconds. ♥♥♥♥ off.
And the world goes insane. Easy enough to understand.

The "..." and Counter-Ritual endings... I'm having trouble understanding them.

[Wenzel]

It is all about Pierce's decision since he is the "medium" for the summoning ritual.

The cultists are in principle mindless tools, only interested in summoning Cthulhu. Since he is the medium, they can't harm him. Everything else is none of their business. They all are just waiting for Pierce to step into the ritual circle and to start the ritual, that's all.

[goka9696]

Originally posted by Steew:

As far as I've played there are 3 endings.

The "..." ending, where Sarah for some reason decides to kill herself, when Pierce can't do it.
I don't get why she wanted to die when it seemed that he had given himself up after he dropped the gun(which we have through the entire ♥♥♥♥ing game but never use). And you end up getting a painting of hers, where she had painted herself dying. Is the painting supposed to be painted beforehand and sent to Pierce's office? Like it was supposed to happen?

The Counter-Ritual ending, where Pierce shoots Fritz.. something. The Captain. And the librarian(I wanna say... Alex? Honestly these names and characters are so forgettable) rushes to help you, while NONE of the cultists surrounding you, tries to stop you. Why did no one try to stop you?! And we end up going insane(?), and are sent to Fuller's new(?) institution, since he's supposedly immortal thanks to the Leviathan's oil?

The Ritual ending. This one is simple enough. You summon Cthulhu and we finally get to see him!! For 2 seconds. ♥♥♥♥ off.
And the world goes insane. Easy enough to understand.

The "..." and Counter-Ritual endings... I'm having trouble understanding them.

In the Counter-Ritual ending, none of the events probably happened at all. Pierce just went insane and got sent to an asylum. Everything that happened was just his mind playing tricks on him.

No idea about the Sarah ending, since I only got the 2 main ones so far.

[Nucreum]

Originally posted by goka9696:

In the Counter-Ritual ending, none of the events probably happened at all. Pierce just went insane and got sent to an asylum. Everything that happened was just his mind playing tricks on him.

No idea about the Sarah ending, since I only got the 2 main ones so far.

Everything happened, it's just the counter-ritual... well, countered the cult and revoked Cthulhu (or Leviathan?) inside Pierce body.
Fuller just took him in his asylum as a test subject, like he did with everyone else. (Fuller can get back to life thanks to his research on Leviathan "oil", as he explains it at the end of the game.)

[Aceofbase]

Algernon , yeah typical, forgettable name :)