Poll: Which Deus Ex: Human Revolution Ending did you choose? *SPOILERS*

[Borghal]

I thought the self-destruct thing would be pretty stupid, leaving the world ripe for conspiration theories and anarchy. Also, why the heck would Jensen want to kill himself? He seems like a rational person, if anything, he could try and get out of there before blowing it up (there were two choppers on helipads upon approach to Panacea). It makes me sad that so many people think this might be canon. I didn't picture Jensen as the emo type...

So I chose Darrow's ending. However, to hell with his views and hopes - I just wished to give the world the full truth of what has been going on. I thought (and relied on it) that a single message, no matter how strong, would not be able to stop progress. At most it would turn into Taggart's ending - massive regulations. Technological advance can never be brought back, that is just not possible (at least not in a world with hundreds of thousands of applications of said technology).


TLDR?

In short I missed an ending where Jensen could tell the world the truth and yet still openly allow for advancement of augmentations with some regulation. I imagine Darrow's version will accomplish just that, though. I haven't found Sarif, but even if I did, I wouldn't have chosen his ending, because of the lies.

 

[Daniel Janhagen]

You can't save Malik without killing the guards.

Oh yes, you can. In fact, that's the first video I found of that particular scene (after a google search to find out whether or not it was even possible to save her).

 

[Anayna]

It came down to this, who did I think deserved it?
which character has shown me time and time again that I meant something to them
My answer was David Sarif
while some may say that he is a liar and conspirator, I say, David was such a nice guy
he hardly raised his voice, he left many choices up to me, and never forced me to kill anyone.
he was sincere, cared for his employees, and never double crossed anyone

I have to ask: did you find that one email that explained how Sarif told Jensen's doctors to butcher him?
After the indecent in the beginning the only thing wrong with Jensen was a left arm that he would never be able to use again, and some severely crushed organs. Yes, it was life threatening and without the augments he would have died, but his right arm and legs would have recovered just fine. Sarif gave the order to chop off and replace all of Adam's limbs. Not to mention all the other military grade augments he forced into his employes' body without his consent.
Make no mistake: Sarif had a plan for Jensen all along and uses him for his own goal. Jensen is Sarif's only means to find who attacked them, and he created the new and improved Jensen for that purpose. I too found Sarif to be quite charismatic, even likeable, but I can't help seeing him as a monster for what he did.

Oh, and to return to the actual topic: I just couldn't decide between blowing the place up, and spinning the public in Sarif's favor (yes, despite the previous paragraphs).

 

[pspman45]

It came down to this, who did I think deserved it?
which character has shown me time and time again that I meant something to them
My answer was David Sarif
while some may say that he is a liar and conspirator, I say, David was such a nice guy
he hardly raised his voice, he left many choices up to me, and never forced me to kill anyone.
he was sincere, cared for his employees, and never double crossed anyone

I have to ask: did you find that one email that explained how Sarif told Jensen's doctors to butcher him?
After the indecent in the beginning the only thing wrong with Jensen was a left arm that he would never be able to use again, and some severely crushed organs. Yes, it was life threatening and without the augments he would have died, but his right arm and legs would have recovered just fine. Sarif gave the order to chop off and replace all of Adam's limbs. Not to mention all the other military grade augments he forced into his employes' body without his consent.
Make no mistake: Sarif had a plan for Jensen all along and uses him for his own goal. Jensen is Sarif's only means to find who attacked them, and he created the new and improved Jensen for that purpose. I too found Sarif to be quite charismatic, even likeable, but I can't help seeing him as a monster for what he did.

Oh, and to return to the actual topic: I just couldn't decide between blowing the place up, and spinning the public in Sarif's favor (yes, despite the previous paragraphs).

but I got robot arms!!!
Robot arms are AWESOME
I get to punch through walls and shit!

 

[Atmos Duality]

You can't save Malik without killing the guards.

Oh yes, you can. In fact, that's the first video I found of that particular scene (after a google search to find out whether or not it was even possible to save her).

Give me the proof then.

 

[EzraPound]

I couldn't be brought to care and was suffering from general ennui due to the onset of tedium in the game's second half, so I blew it up.

Also, Darrow, Sarif, and Taggert are all tools--probably would've leaned towards Taggert's radical centrism, though (in principal, technology should exist, but should be regulated) if he wasn't such a lisping pansy.

 

[Daniel Janhagen]

You can't save Malik without killing the guards.

Oh yes, you can. In fact, that's the first video I found of that particular scene (after a google search to find out whether or not it was even possible to save her).

Give me the proof then.

There's a ton of videos of it on youtube. This may be the shortest and most to the point: http://youtu.be/9zSn28-mrgI

I can't seem to find the exact video (the one I found the first time) again, but it had an english dude talking over it, I remember.

 

[Atmos Duality]

I can't seem to find the exact video (the one I found the first time) again, but it had an english dude talking over it, I remember.

Ah. Cool. At least someone can back up what they claim for once.

 

[Veldt Falsetto]

I went with Sarif's ending. It was a tough choice for me, particularly because I didn't really want to lie to people, but I personally want a future where technological advancement is free and available.

See I was in the same position, but with Taggart's ending and telling the truth. I didn't feel that Sarif's ending would've done the world any good, while Sarif himself isn't the type to do things to hurt people, others are and I personally feel (I play rpgs as me not as a character) that

Spoiler: big spoiler about Jensen's childhood

Jensen being experimented on as a child and many other children also being experimented on and killed

is wrong and therefore the entire thing need regulation. Taggart's ending gives regulation which means that augmentation and the continuation of the technological evolution that Sarif wants will still progress, just not as rapidly or as dangerously which is what is needed in the world.

That and Taggart was mostly straight with me, Sarif sits there and blatantly lies to your face even though he's meant to trust you and Darrow just messes you around. Taggart is the only person in the game (aside from Malik the cool person that she is) that actually tells you like it is and even though he does hide things from you, he does at least tell you in the end.

The only real thing I regret about my ending is the amount of innocent people at Neuralife (I think it's called) that will lose their jobs over something that never happened, this could really hurt a lot of people, both workers at Neuralife and also customers of their health service, which is harsh.

 

[ghostsprite9]

Wanting to do prosthetics as a profession, I picked David's.

Also I thought everyone else was a bit of a dick...

 

[mcpeepants232003]

self destruct, I felt that was the best ending

 

[dbenoy]

My ending experience:

AI Lady: Press button A if you want to just tell the truth, and broadcast everything as you know it and let people see Hugh Darrow's message.

Me: That sounds pretty good. I worked real hard to uncover these secrets. *press*

AI Lady: This might make people suspicious of technology, and vilify it.

Me: Well, people are already suspicious of technology, and I trust people to blame the obvious guilty parties, Darrow and the Illuminati, and not the technology. It's true they may blame technology, but I have faith in humanity. *Yes*

Adam Jensen voice over ending: Technology is shit, I hate it and look at the horrible things it's done. People were saying it's evil and should be repressed and destroyed, and they're totally right. It's fucking bad. THE END!

Me: WTF!?

#1: During the conversation with Darrow, Jensen even made the accusation that Darrow will be regarded as a mass murdering nut, and his message will be ignored, but now in the ending voiceover, he just seems to be making the implicit assumption that airing Darrow's message is an act against technology that will ultimately succeed.

#2: When the AI lady talks about airing this message she says that the Illuminati will be implicated for putting the corruptible chips in people's brains, but somehow this translates to 'The technology itself is evil' ?

#3: If the game wanted to show me that my decision cripples technological innovation, then they should have showed me that, but instead they read a page from Adam's diary ostensibly explaining why he made the decision, and making no mention of whether or not his plan to hobble innovation actually succeeded.

I've never felt more ripped off by an ending, ever.

 

[targren]

But putting that aside, the finale choice is laid out as two extremes, one middle of the road, and one "take a third option" choices.

I have to disagree. If you remove it from the 2-dimensional continuum, it's ALL of the choices can be considered "extremes."

Sarif gives you Machiavellianism: "Some people may be hurt, but it's worth it."
Darrow gives you Luddism: The whole speech is one big anti-technology screed. The post above me sums it up nicely.
Taggart gives you Authoritarianism: The freedom of the individual is second to the needs of order of society.

The none of the above is the only one that doesn't have an extreme, and would have been my preferred answer, except in doing so, Jensen becomes a mass murderer just as he accused Darrow of being. On a lesser scale but (especially considering I took special care to not kill a single one of the people under the effect of the signal) a mass murderer nonetheless.


Really, the choices bothered me. It seemed like a real let-down to end the game without a "good" ending.

Yeah, I know, life doesn't always have good endings, but I apply the same reasoning that I used when I stopped reading ASoIaF: I consume entertainment to ESCAPE the depressing aspects of real life.

 

[Lazyjim]

Me?
Having murdered my way through the entire game, shooting everything that moved, and desecrating all that people of this virtual realm held dear.

I just wanted to watch the world burn.





Stupid stock footage cheated me out of what should have been an epic ending cutscene.

 

[Adam Jensen_v1legacy]

I chose Sarif's ending. Taggart raised a few good points about regulating augmentations, but U.N. is shitty at regulating anything unless it benefits the richest members of the U.N. and the other solution is to let secret organization regulate it. So that's a no go. Every ending has some good points that should be considered, but Sarif's is the best one because it has the least bad points to consider, and I'm a technology geek.

 

[Dirzzit]

The good one.


wait a second.....

 

[ManuTheMan]

Very nice thread. I just finished it and I, like some other guys here, consider the best solution David Sarif.

Motive:

1. I consider nothing should stop or even limit science/reaserch and technological advancement, so Darrow is out for me.
2. Tagart was the worst possible choice, being an Illuminatus (hidden agendas, population control, self proclaimed rulers, considering themselves superior, mostly just because they're born wealthy and inherit power)
3. and self destruct wouldn't solve anything because the people of the world are naturally ignorant and very easy to manipulate (like sheep), so they would just follow the direction given to them by higher authority, like Eliza Cassan (even says so herself) - and the most powerful group remaining would be again the Illuminati (Sarif would be dead - so no massive technological advancement, Darrow dead - the truth wouldn't be found out, Taggart dead - no difference, as a spokesperson is almost every time just a charismatic puppet (see your average politician).

Anyway, excellent game, but would have been greater if it was even more complex... much more complex. Also the character should have been more free, not just to follow steps - had access to too few real decisions that changed the course of the game. Maybe even taking a super story-line like this in the direction of a RPG like Morrowind or Oblivion. That would be a huge SF world...

 

[SextusMaximus]

I never caught up with Taggart/Sarif, so I chose Darrow's.

Same, I would've chose David's, but I wasn't given the option... Bit disappointing really. How wuld I go about getting it?

 

[DustyDrB]

I can't seem to find the exact video (the one I found the first time) again, but it had an english dude talking over it, I remember.

Ah. Cool. At least someone can back up what they claim for once.

This [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0SjM0eFik8] is the one I was looking at when going through that section. I don't know why I didn't look for others, as this person had more ways to knock out enemies than I did (I had no gas grenades). But that one is on Give Me Deus Ex as a Pacifist. I used the stun gun on 8 of the guys and tranquilized one guy sniper and one guy with a combat rifle (they were both on higher platforms).

I didn't even know the stun gun works on the Box Guard robot until after I finally completed the section without killing anyone. I died soooo many times just from making sure the bodies were outside of robot's blast radius. When someone told me the stun gun works on it...I just. I breathed a very heavy sigh. So it goes...

 

[Atmos Duality]

I didn't even know the stun gun works on the Box Guard robot until after I finally completed the section without killing anyone. I died soooo many times just from making sure the bodies were outside of robot's blast radius. When someone told me the stun gun works on it...I just. I breathed a very heavy sigh. So it goes...

IMO, the Stun Gun is the best weapon in the whole game.
/unsubstantiated claim

But seriously. It's so damn useful I can't even begin to describe it.