I know people have discussed this one a lot of times.. But I wanted to approach it from an angle. For me I feel that the placement of this ending option at the end when a player has had a good run doesn't make sense. It could have been unlocked after a stream of many many bad decisions gone wrong, not just one. But at the same time I understand why it exists as so, I mean why do people do what they do.
After experiencing this happen to someone I know, I now know that there can never be satisfying reason. So, to my question, have you ever done a depressing run? Like really made all the bad choices back to back leading to this ending. Tbh, I don't think I have it in me to do such a run. What about you?
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I did not realizing what was going to happen so I rolled with it. Felt weird afterwards.
It was my ending on my first playthrough as it seemed to fit. The man I fell in love with couldn’t be romanced despite seeming so, I got the bug where you can’t call Jackie through the game, Misty and Vic felt rather hostile at the end gripeing at me to just go deal with my issue and Misty saying I brought this all on myself, helped Song >!only to to have a rug pull and no cure for me!< but didn’t matter in the end I wasn’t going to let NUSA have her as I’ve lived that gilded cage life and it’s no life at all yet it cost >!the life of someone I respected deeply and my chance at living!<, so my only options left were Araska, potential kamakazi suicide mission with friends, or potential kamakazi suicide mission as not myself. So yeah I chose the path of least resistance.
Yeah
I’ve never done a run specifically for this ending but have chose it a couple times, I think it fits even on good runs where you helped everyone and have their options. It shows V not wanting to put others in danger just to survive, it reminds me of the don’t fear the reaper ending but with V being more disillusioned with the idea of being a legend in NC while still wanting their death to be on their own terms.
Yes… it too logical not to choose this path for me
I did all options open to me at that time to live through the different endings, PL included, including not living through where the pills get thrown.
Yes. My first ending was the Arasaka ending and that was so bad and depressing. Chose this one next. The saddest of them all, and very unlike V. I’m surprised Johnny let them go through with it.
Never tbh. Doesn’t make much sense for V to just off himself when he’s dying soon anyways, might as well just die guns blazing rather than quietly, alone in a chair with only a construct of a guy who’s long gone
I did it on my first playthrough.
It resonated with me, or at least, with what sort of path I would take had I been in V’s place. After losing their job, their best friend and their lives.. my V was driven out of sheer despair rather than any determination to get out of this alive. She simply wanted to fulfill Jackie’s dream of being a part of the “big leagues” and help others along the way if she could — and she did. But ultimately, when all was said and done and it was time for her to focus on *herself*.. well my V simply could not see herself being the one to sacrifice yet another friend (Johnny) for her own survival, nor risk her other friends’s lives by asking their help. She was tired of losing those she cared for and of the endless fighting.. and for once in her life, she simply wanted the chance to choose her path, to be the master of her destiny.
A quiet and painless path, where she could be free.
(The cutscene and credits were so heartbreaking though, it almost made me regret my choice because I hadn’t any idea everyone would feel so devastated after she died).
I chose it first because I wanted to do every ending and a bullet to the head was the shortest one.