Fred Chook on 24/6/2003 at 09:59
Santo cielo, questo thread è pieno di idioti... how many of you were actually paying attention? Ai...
Dark Age. Because the DX world, as it is, really sucks. Almost everyone is dying of disease and starvation and war and crime, thanks to the evil government. And the evil government, or at least the means of its power, is all centralised in one place. And you can blow it up. It won't kill all technology. It won't turn cars into horsies. It might not work - people might not sort themselves up, the same old class of bad guy may end up in power again. But if the choice is giving everything to a nutty old guy who's been trying to take over the world all his life, or to a computer programmed to merge with someone's brain then take over the world (and who I'd trust even less than the nutty old guy), well, antimatter me up.
driver on 24/6/2003 at 10:26
I chose the Dark Age. Becasue I wanted to free humanity from machines...? NO! I'd been playing Dues Ex for a week solid and I wanted a f**king big explosion!:ebil:
Stainboy on 24/6/2003 at 19:58
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Originally posted by Fred Chook [what Fred said about DX world sucking etc.]. Listen to Fred - he makes sense. Dark Age ending rules, and makes sense from JC's perspective. Perhaps not yours, but IMHO, it's the one JC would choose. And ditto Phydeaux - you've not played DX properly until you've completed it thrice with a different ending each time. :cheeky:
Yo ho ho...
Stainboy.
SJamieson on 25/6/2003 at 11:49
If it hadn't gone to the cut screen, I would have killed Page then run to the reactor, started the overload then run to Helios an merged, then we all get to die together.
In order to achieve this I already did all of the sub tasks required to reach any of the endings and just had to choose which I wanted, in the end I went with Helios.
Rolander on 29/6/2003 at 01:56
I still pick Helios.
Frankly, I don't want rule the world. I want to live a quiet, peaceful life in a country setting, have a little cottage, a herd of sheep to take care off and free from the curse of modern society (even if it means giving up playing Deus Ex forever).
I hate rule the world, but one thing I hate even more is some powermad tyrant holding the world in his ruthless steel fist. So I rather take up the role myself, stop all those would-be-dictators, impose proper law and order, just so that the rest of the people can live a nice safe peaceful life.
BTW, I will be banning things like recreational drugs, smoking, excessive boozing, Coca Cola, sleazy MTVs, vulgarity, sex shops, prosititution, gambling, software piracy ... whatever I deem disgusting, you get the idea.
Nine outta ten people in today's society will think it a dead boring place ... me, I will be too busy to be bored.
Javert4186 on 29/6/2003 at 23:58
They are such interesting choices...it is such an interesing game... god help my productivity when the next one comes out.
Alright, down to brass tacks. DEFINITELY not the illuminati one, power corrups, as it dis to all characters except possibly JC.
Much as I would like to be the benign dictator, it is unlikely that my human ambition would not pollute helios.
SOOO I am going to have to go with the dark ages. People are psychologically happier in a world they can control and master. "Government on a scale undestandable to its citizens" says it all to me.
Aranolorion on 18/7/2003 at 21:16
them all. twice.
I prefer the illuminati ending, as it maintains a "normal" reality, and gives you the chance to change things for the better, if even only potentially.
Lytha on 19/7/2003 at 07:18
The Illuminati ending means that you just continue as it was before, only the faces at the top have changed. Everett replaced Page (and Everett has been the one who developed some part of the grey death virus in the first place, and Everett is the one who has his own Echelon-System in the basement, and Everett was the teacher of Page, and Everett is a git anyway), and JC Denton replaced Simons in the role as the emperor's augmented grunt.
In the Helios ending, you're merging with "I have now full access to your systems"-scary Icarus as well as with "I need you to escape, at least one of you must survive"-helpful Daede. Not a pleasant thought. And the new entity keeps spying on people, controlling people, and so on. It would be a dictatorship - and would you really want either JC Denton or Daedalus or Icarus as the dictator for yourself? I certainly wouldn't.
Dark Age, as Fred already said, does not mean that people are now going to live back in caves or that the whole technology is lost. They wouldn't even lose the internet, I guess, unless it was really the main router or something. And if it was, then that's anyway not the way the internet is supposed to be. The Dark Age ending means that gits like Everett or Page or Gates have a harder time to get into control for a second time - and maybe people will be more aware then and maybe history won't repeat itself.
Aranolorion on 19/7/2003 at 13:12
history always repeats itself. id argue that the illuminati ending gives you the greatest potential to get at the power that "gits" like Everett have, and use this power benevolently. the potential to create economic equilibrium, restore the social fabric, and remove the possibility of war is a tempting one, no?
MHK on 20/7/2003 at 00:47
Practically every single time I play through the game I complete every single one of the objectives except for the specific actions that trigger the ending. Then I save the game. That lets me play through all 3 endings in the same game, because personally each one has something I like. It's all been mentioned already though.
There's actually a fourth ending possibility (not the DANCEPARTY). You die and Page takes over the world. Usually happens when I'm messing around with high explosives or performing Matrix stunts.:cheeky:
