wasteland 3 cult of the holy detonation ending

In this case, it's much more of a zero sum game. At least my friends in Far Cry 4 lived even though their government inevitably sucked worse than before I got there. It's kind of twisted, but I rather like it. because Joseph benefits from Divine Intervention even if his followers don't. but you end up killing all your conspiring friends on the drive out of Hope County when the trigger song on the radio activates your berserker mode that Jacob Seed programmed into you during his mission arc. If you choose to listen to him and accept his offer of forgiveness and mercy instead, then the seal isn't broken and the world lives another day. The cult has no nukes when you can finally take him from Project Eden, it breaks the proverbial (and perhaps literal, in this case) seventh seal and the world descends into nuclear holocaust (which is hinted as impending in multiple conversations about things being tense all over, like the 'world's about to fall into the flames' and all that).

He actually does have God's favor, and he's right: God won't let you take him. No, the subversion here is that Joseph Seed really is a holy man. Your allies aren't the subverting factor.

but their obsession is selfish and their bunkers are more for their own individual uses rather than as some collectivist survival thing like the Project. Instead, it just subtly hints at your allies flaws: they dehumanize the cultists as much as the cultists dehumanize them (PEGGIES), they conduct brutal tortures too with no qualms, and they are also obsessed with doomsday stuff and have built bunkers throughout the region. Maybe they'd have you go through all that only to discover that your allies are actually no better, if not worse, than the Project. I was expecting Far Cry 5 to do something similar, what with you working with local militia groups to squash the power of a para-military doomsday cult and all. You should have just eaten the crab Rangoon. It turns out that Pagan Min, for all his cruelty and malice, was actually right and the lesser evil. Either the dude turns it back into the repressive, religious-based state that existed under its previous king (which had almost no rights for women, promoted child brides, and practiced heavy-handed authoritarian tyranny) or the gal turns it into a dystopian, drug-peddling narco-state with child soldiers, extra-judicial murders, and authoritarian tyranny. Some of my friends hated the endings to Far Cry 4 because both were utterly bleak. which works for some people and not for others. I'm not turning around at the outskirt of the town and avoiding the whole game.'Īs to the two real endings, they're both kind of subversions of the player's expectations. It's kind of in-fitting with Far Cry 4 that the best ending is to simply walk away and not descend everything into madness, though it suffers from the Spec Ops: The Line problem of 'I didn't buy this game not to play it. I actually rather like the endings, though they're odd ducks. Writing a plot based around 'because drugs' is right up there with 'because Cthulu' and 'it was all a dream' on the levels of shitty, sophomo(ron)ric writing.Įither way, either choice felt like a massive fuck-you to the player. On the other hand, what goes down isn't actually happening because you're high on drugs. It just happens for reasons only the people writing the game will ever actually understand. It isn't even like it would be consistent with any particular theme going on up to that point in the game (to the extent there is a theme going on in the game).

On the one hand, if what goes down is actually happening, it's stupid because (a) there was never any indication in the game to suggest the cult had the capability to do something like that (b) offers no explanation of how they would have done something like that even had they managed to keep it a secret and (c) pretty much makes all the gameplay and story up to that point utterly meaningless. I picked the 'Resist' ending, which is probably even more stupid than the 'Walk Away' ending. But those choices don't mean anything because the game couldn't be arsed to develop any actual themes or have any kind of message to connect them to so its just 'A or B' in isolation without context and consequences that are completely divorced from whatever it is you are actually picking. It's a meaningless choice for the sake of having a choice. Everything about the story in the game is stupid.

Wasteland 3 cult of the holy detonation ending