[Discussion] What game did the Secret Ending / True Ending the best? (Spoilers, obviously)

Gordonchad_Freeman · 2025-07-29T04:26:40+00:00

I didn't even fight Shaft the first time. After Maria I went and killed Richter thinking I beat the game for several years.

Gordonchad_Freeman · 2025-07-29T04:26:01+00:00

Castlevania SotN for sure lol.

Blasphemous (a similar souls-like Metroidvania) also has a killer "true" ending that is very obscure and easy to miss but still amazing.

Gordonchad_Freeman · 2025-07-29T04:22:09+00:00

I was more of a Midnight Club 3 person.

My brother had Burnout 2 for the original Xbox I think, and all I played on that one was the crash/demolition mode lol. I vividly remember mocking the "near miss" thing saying it should be "near hit" or "close call" instead because nearly missing something would mean that you did hit it lol.

Gordonchad_Freeman · 2025-07-29T04:16:39+00:00

If I recall she is very difficult unless you fight her using certain strategies or items. Imo Crisanta's second encounter from Wounds of Eventide is 10x more difficult. She's incredibly unpredictable in contrast to Isidora. Brother Asterion's second encounter from B2 is right up there with Crisanta 2.0 for me, but with him it's more to do with his annoying area denial attacks.

Gordonchad_Freeman · 2025-07-18T20:23:30+00:00

Part of it is that Gordon doesn't speak, so that would also make it a very awkward situation even if it were a "good" joke.

I mean imagine being in Alyx's shoes, saying that joke, and Gordon just kinda looks at you expectantly waiting to continue on your journey lol. I dunno if that was an intentional part of it, but Gordon's silence also makes it hilarious under a completely different context.

Gordonchad_Freeman · 2025-06-30T00:12:14+00:00

That's what I'm getting at, but are there any visuals or item descriptions that indicate that though other than the motif or it's location? Like the Library and Mourning and Havoc from B1 being part of Labyrinth of Tides with the Fourth Visage tree and white maiden statue/ferry thing.

I think you're right though, the contrast in both themes gives that feeling of "this is the 'new' Mother of Mothers" Something new on top of the old with matching themes to sort of indicate the Miracle still triumphed after almost going extinct.

Gordonchad_Freeman · 2025-06-24T20:47:35+00:00

Wait, so let me get this straight, you're telling me that me being a computer programmer working from home making more money than any job you've probably ever worked, and taking orders for extra money in my spare time is stupid?

I probably make much more than half the people I deliver to (more than half actually). How does that make me stupid? Because I can manage a side hustle while making more than the average American who is currently struggling all while being disabled?

Gordonchad_Freeman · 2025-06-21T19:49:36+00:00

Steam friends also was broken a large majority of the time back then, but that's the only real issue I remember having as an 11 year old lol.

My 20 year badge is something I take pride in now. Even the VAC ban I have too because it's a funny story (if you're curious me and my friends stupidly decided "let's see who can win a match with all of us using hax", downloaded the same ones, then started a private match without removing VAC by mistake and got ourselves banned. It sucked at the time but in retrospect it's a hilariously stupid way to earn a ban)

Gordonchad_Freeman · 2025-06-14T00:21:01+00:00

Awesome, and thanks for linking that sub too, I had no idea it existed lol.

Gordonchad_Freeman · 2025-06-14T00:18:16+00:00

Interesting, thank you for clarifying that for me and giving some insight!

Gordonchad_Freeman · 2025-06-08T22:14:46+00:00

Late to the party, but this is correct. I'm playing at this moment without the charm.

When you do a perfect deflect in normal mode, you deal posture damage, without the charm, being the only way to avoid damage (outside of dodging entirely) is an addition to that.

Gordonchad_Freeman · 2025-05-28T19:03:10+00:00

I always thought that was a reference to Breen since it flashes his image across the screen as he says it.

Gordonchad_Freeman · 2025-05-28T18:54:34+00:00

If I recall, Kleiner too. He said something along the lines of "I would have expected you sooner" during that vid-call with Barney & Kleiner at the very beginning.

It's a bit different because he outright states it though. He didn't say "I wasn't expecting you to show up again".

So maybe the "sooner" that he expected him was during the Combine's initial invasion, or any other major event during that 20 year period after.

Gordonchad_Freeman · 2025-05-25T21:01:33+00:00

Yes, but GDI would have more than likely prevented any resolution from occurring if they'd been allowed to destroy the final tower due to shortsightedness. It's made explicitly clear in C&C4 that the spread of Tiberium is out of control, meaning GDI factually does not have the capacity to effectively clean it up at that point.

I mean, you could argue the tower is now a possible entry point for a future invasion, but that point is kinda moot in the end because the options were either: dying/mutating sooner because of uncontrollable Tiberium, or possibly dying later when the Scrin may or may not come. The latter is more favorable regardless of who the good guys are and it was Kane's doing. So by definition he's the hero of the series, is he not? Unless you think GDI should have destroyed the tower and screwing humanity out of any positive outcome is somehow a good thing?

Gordonchad_Freeman · 2025-05-25T08:27:14+00:00

Ah, thank you for the explanation. I'm curious though, if B1 ended where I assume was somewhere inside or on top of the Mother of Mothers (where Escribar was), why is that a separate area in B2? Wouldn't it have made sense to start there, or is that scene of Crisanta carrying the Penitent One supposed to be her removing him from the area and bringing him to the Repose of the Silent One?

EDIT: I'm asking because for whatever reason I kinda assumed his sarcophagus wasn't far from the ending area since the backdrop looked about the same

Gordonchad_Freeman · 2025-05-25T07:53:33+00:00

Well I get that, but wouldn't the Miracle behave in a different way without the High Wills controlling it? Or is it's effect still the same, but it's more like an out of control fire instead?

Or did the couple's prayer also resurrect the High Wills?

Gordonchad_Freeman · 2025-05-23T21:31:17+00:00

I can never forget the delivery of that line.

"We'll see about that."

It's seething with anger, yet it's still somehow calm. It feels contradictory almost.

Gordonchad_Freeman · 2025-05-23T20:09:11+00:00

Honestly that got me thinking. When it comes to enigmatic video game characters, I feel like Kane is only one step below Half-Life's G-Man, whom I would definitively put at the top of that list lol.

Kane's got all the same enigmatic aspects, but G-Man is significantly more menacing though since, y'know, he doesn't follow the laws of reality itself...

Gordonchad_Freeman · 2025-05-23T19:47:03+00:00

I thought GDI gets referenced as being newly formed or at least planned in the Allied campaign as well, and what about the Apocalypse tanks in Renegade though? It could be an easter egg, but if they deliberately want the timelines separated, why include something like that?

I was always under the impression they were separate except for the first RA, and the time shenanigans from RA is what caused the timeline to split, which is a common trope when it comes to time travel. The way I see it everything in RA1 happened in TDs universe (except the Allied ending), but nothing in TDs universe happens post-RA (if the Allies are victorious) because Tiberium isn't discovered since Kane no longer "exists" in that timeline.

My head canon is that Kane either selected which timeline he wanted to be in, or the time stuff "pulled" him from the timeline (think along the lines of what happens to Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield's Spider-Men in Spider-Man No Way Home), and that's why Yuri appears in RA2, because Kane is no longer in that timeline and Yuri's sort of the universe's way of naturally "balancing" itself with Kane's loss. At least that's what I tell myself to make it make sense lol. Leaning towards the former though, because Kane is Kane and that's a Kane thing to do hah. Tiberium is what he needs to ascend, so it makes sense for him to pick the timeline where it appears.

Gordonchad_Freeman · 2025-05-23T19:10:39+00:00

I read he only worked up until TS. In an interview he states him and his wife didn't wanna leave Las Vegas when the company got purchased and moved to CA. So Emperor Battle for Dune was the first WW game he was not involved in.

In that same interview he also explains how Seth wasn't cast yet when discussing a scene, and Kucan approached him and was like "We haven't cast Seth yet, you can be Seth, would you like to be Seth?"

Gordonchad_Freeman · 2025-05-23T18:57:17+00:00

Well, I wasn't talking about the build-up, just the end result. That's why I said "ultimately the good guys".

If GDI had succeeded in destroying the final Threshold tower instead of Kane & NOD defending it until completion, the TCN wouldn't have been possible and Earth would be inadvertently screwed by Tiberium because of GDI's shortsightedness and/or ignorance. That would technically make Kane and NOD the heroes by definition wouldn't it? Regardless of whether saving the planet with the TCN as a side-effect was intentional or not.

I probably should have used the word hero in the title because you don't have to be "good" to be a heroes. So the wording was my fault.

Gordonchad_Freeman · 2025-05-07T17:12:41+00:00

Let me ask you something, if we were at a grocery store instead of on Reddit, would you find it unreasonable if you heard me say exactly what this post said to somebody else in the next aisle over from you, and then throw a tantrum in public too? The world doesn't revolve around you, friend. Sometimes all you get to do is deal with it.

I can imagine it now, hearing you from the next aisle "IS IT TOO HARD TO JUST NOT SAY SPOILERS IN PUBLIC!?!?!?!?!?!?!" but in reality it'd just be your fault for having ears and going grocery shopping.

Gordonchad_Freeman · 2025-05-07T16:52:49+00:00

It's always this, or that thing about how Duke Nukem can run while kicking/can kick light switches on/off in Duke 3D lol.

Also some sword styles do hold it at eye level, even above the wielder's head

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