ending was pretty bad

[water is good]

Felt childish and rushed. Oh, emperor dead, lets just go back then. Super anti climactic. Are there still going to be major updates? If not then I am really disappointed in this game. Has a lot of potential, and while the emperor was a decent boss fight I don't think story is what should be focused on. New robots, new weapons, new abilities etc. Story is played once and you're done. Abilities and weapons are forever. That's just my take. I really don't think this update was worth the time, sorry to say.

[Doborog Games]

Fair enough. It would be shocking if every single person liked it. :)

[Bizzle]

I both agree and disagree. I agree because it was kind of strange that the fleet just retreated after their leader died, but maybe after the Core Instruction (that is what its called, right?) is destroyed, the fleet captains did not agree with the emperor's directive, and just went along because he was their leader. Maybe they didn't want to involve themselves with humans any further. It is left very open. Jumping to the conclusion that it was rushed without any thinking about it is very singleminded. No offense, but its true.

[water is good]

they didn't need to go along with it while their instruction was disabled

[Taylor]

Trying to explain the in universe reasons the ending was the way it was goes something like this:

Regardless of who made you to begin with or how a race of sentient machines rose to power imagine being a part of a race of basically immortal beings. And just two humans who you thought to previously be a weaker and inferior race in every way killed your seemingly unkillable leader.

To me at least the whole "oh our leader is dead well let's just leave I suppose" was an act because they were actually scared ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ but still wanted to appear as though they were acting as the superior beings.

[Kami]

I feel the ending would've been stronger if instead of fighting an upgraded version of the Emperor, they just all left once you disabled the Core Instruction. I'm not sure if I'm just reading too much into this, but to me it sounded almost like the Emperor was begging you to disable the Core Instruction.

'Killing me will not stop the invasion. Not while the Core Instruction sits at the root of our mind network. Harvest life. Make it fight in robot form. We are all slaves to it. How ironic that in order to stop the invasion it is our minds you must liberate! The Core Instruction is well protected, but your obnoxious mind virus might just let you past its defences. Go now, fool! We will meet again in physical space.'

Why else would he tell you that you might be able to get through and how you can do it, and then tell you to go? I actually feel like that may have been the plan, but Doborog realised the first boss fight was a little bit too easy [which is kind of true] which would make sense as to why theres this sort of fakeout where he acts like he's planning to just have them leave. Something just generally felt off about the ending, but I feel like it was fine, nobody gets these kinds of games to have a deep and insightful story.

[GameBoi]

duh. are they supposed to drill large holes in their brains focusing on the story, clone drone is about chopping up robots, the way i see it, story mode is ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ and the gameplay is ab onus

[water is good]

Originally posted by im not a cow im obama:

'Killing me will not stop the invasion. Not while the Core Instruction sits at the root of our mind network. Harvest life. Make it fight in robot form. We are all slaves to it. How ironic that in order to stop the invasion it is our minds you must liberate! The Core Instruction is well protected, but your obnoxious mind virus might just let you past its defences. Go now, fool! We will meet again in physical space.'

i feel the same way. the word fool alone made it seem like he was trying to fight against his instruction

[UnobjectiveRyan]

i dont think its a bad ending it was just too predictable
its kinda a no-brainer that we would have had to fight the emperor at some point
the fact that the ships beta existed and all the screenshots of the beta version existed kinda spoiled it in a way
i think its a good ending just spoiled too early

[The DysfunctionalCabinet]

Originally posted by ratpack463:

i dont think its a bad ending it was just too predictable
its kinda a no-brainer that we would have had to fight the emperor at some point
the fact that the ships beta existed and all the screenshots of the beta version existed kinda spoiled it in a way
i think its a good ending just spoiled too early

It's a no-brainer for the good guys to win, is it not? The ending was set in stone the moment you see the Emperor.

[The DysfunctionalCabinet]

Originally posted by water is good:

Originally posted by im not a cow im obama:

'Killing me will not stop the invasion. Not while the Core Instruction sits at the root of our mind network. Harvest life. Make it fight in robot form. We are all slaves to it. How ironic that in order to stop the invasion it is our minds you must liberate! The Core Instruction is well protected, but your obnoxious mind virus might just let you past its defences. Go now, fool! We will meet again in physical space.'

i feel the same way. the word fool alone made it seem like he was trying to fight against his instruction

I feel like the Emperor was trying to be free. Free of his limited power. The Core Instruction was the real villain, even though it can't fight. The captain was simply turning to run with two of his legs between the other two. The humans won, and they used the robots own weapons against them.

[The DysfunctionalCabinet]

Originally posted by Doborog Games:

Fair enough. It would be shocking if every single person liked it. :)

I personally loved it

[Odium]

What's bad is that all of you kids treat this story seriously, could literally let a 6 year old play it and you're here debating childish garbage.

[The DysfunctionalCabinet]

Originally posted by Nable Dable:

What's bad is that all of you kids treat this story seriously, could literally let a 6 year old play it and you're here debating childish garbage.

Kinda toxic my dude. I was just stating my theory. If you don't like the story or theorizing, do find another discussion!

[water is good]

Originally posted by Nable Dable:

What's bad is that all of you kids treat this story seriously, could literally let a 6 year old play it and you're here debating childish garbage.

and i agree bro, story is useless in a game like this, combat and gameplay matters more. that was the main point of my post, didnt mean to get off track with the story yet here we are.

[The DysfunctionalCabinet]

Originally posted by water is good:

Originally posted by Nable Dable:

What's bad is that all of you kids treat this story seriously, could literally let a 6 year old play it and you're here debating childish garbage.

and i agree bro, story is useless in a game like this, combat and gameplay matters more. that was the main point of my post, didnt mean to get off track with the story yet here we are.

If you didn't mean to get off track, you shouldn't have posted this discussion. Getting off track is a thing that humans do naturally. I think it's good to express our feelings about stuff like this, but saying that the ending was flat out unnecessary seems like a stretch. If the story didn't exist, the game wouldn't.