[spoilers] Questions about the ending

[evildrganymede]

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First up, I really enjoyed the game and the story, though I could have quite happily gone through the whole game without anywhere near as many puzzles - just revealing the story as I went along. Not really sure why developers think they need to put in puzzles in games like this - maybe they think it'll hold more peoples' attention? I usually just find them a distraction to the story really. That said in this case at least they weren't too bad or arduous.

But that aside, I have questions. First - what happened to Isaac? The logs at the monorail imply that Sarah sent off the monorail but then Isaac called it back a minute later and then it left again about 1h40m later. So presumably he used that time to somehow get Sarah's body up to the convenient cryosleep chamber (and there strangely happens to be one right nextdoor to the MPT control section!) and then he goes back? But then he should have been somewhere in the main Moonhub wouldn't he? Or he could have gone to Ark 3 and frozen himself somehow, I suppose, but that wouldn't have been able to get off the ground without its helium.

And where did the Arks go? I thought they may have gone to Mars since there's a map of Mars in Macarthur's room/office. I didn't get a chance to check the encrypted messages and it seems that once you finish the game you can't go back to do that (I tried resetting to the start of Tombaugh and of course that lost the endgame save, and I didn't have enough of the messages decoded for them to make any sense. Not really sure why these games only have a single autosave and no way to make manual saves that don't get overwritten...). So what did the encrypted messages say?

And what exactly happened at Huygens? Was that sabotaged by Macarthur too? All we know is that there was some kind of "icy nightmare" there but that's all.

Anyway - good stuff, as I said I really enjoyed it and it was a good story and characters too and it was very well done!

[Man of God]

The game is absolutely full of plot holes which the wiki does some attempt at trying to 'guess' but the short answer is that if you listened to all recordings and holograms you actually get what happens to Isaac as one of the first ever holograms you witness. Basically he sends a final message to his sister/wife (I don't remember or care at this stage) "Claire" begging for forgiveness. She never gets the message, unless the final MTC activation sent the build up of messages that were left behind after the blackout (which one could only speculate and it is not likely), and even then it would have been more than 5 years late.

As for the arks, no one knows. Not even the most crazy fans found a proper answer for that. It leaves the game open for a sequel. Who knows if the what-ever-its-called "Outwards" project passed and people fled to another planet or what-ever. Who knows, who cares. With limited food and resources and fuel it was never going to make it, and ultimately with enough notes read and voice clips and holograms witnessed, it's obvious the leader (forgot his name) is a nutjob who practically doomed the entire crew along with that selfish idiot Isaac.

So yeah, there's your story. Pretty p!ss poor and full of holes I'm afraid.

[evildrganymede]

I don't think it was "p!ss poor" and full of holes at all, but each to their own I guess.

(EDIT: oh, I see you didn't like the game so you're just bitter about that and venting. Never mind then).

[sandervanzanten6]

Hi evildrganymede, glad to hear you enjoyed the game! I'll encourage anyone to discuss your questions in this thread, but just in case you haven't seen it, there are some other threads on the boards where you'll find similar discussions:

• Some questions - SPOILERS!
  
• Story question *Spolier*
  
• I need to know please! SPOILER

[evildrganymede]

Thanks, but those are really just asking the same questions i asked and the answers are mostly conjectural. :P

[Archos Dreas]

Tbh idk, i think he died since after he left sarah in cryo, he went back to record that last msg to his other daughter and left ALEX in the terminal. Would love to see if his body was around or if he set himself in crio with his other daughter in the ark, or find out where the 3ark was