this is actually one of the very few games where having multiple endings makes sense

@tarikay93

8 жыл бұрын

+Diamond Games Much better than "colorful" Mass Effect endings.

@Crowbar

8 жыл бұрын

+Vatian yeah or bioshocks good or bad ending

@jardex2275

8 жыл бұрын

In reality, there's only one 'ending' The door just causes you to fail the simulation and the computer alters a few variables before restarting it. I presume the messenger ending does something similar. Speaking of which, has someone visited a messenger site after getting the Messenger ending? Does the epitaph appear if future playthroughs?

Actually there are three 'Tower endings'. One where you take milton with you, one where you don't (either because you pissed him off or because you deleted him) in which case you just won't see the eye appear after the credits and one where you come out of the IAN building holding a cat (as shown on the game cover). That one unlocks after freeing said cat in one of the puzzles.

@Lolwutdesu9000

5 жыл бұрын

No, you come out with the cat with Milton as well. So two endings, not three.

@Quazey

5 жыл бұрын

@@Lolwutdesu9000 Four. Without milton/cat, With milton and without cat, with cat and without milton, and with both. I went for the ending with both and it's my favorite one :)

@sawtmac

5 жыл бұрын

@@Lolwutdesu9000 where is milton or cat ı did by myself only

@rgbf23

4 жыл бұрын

Kristijan what?

@blitcut9712

4 жыл бұрын

@@Kristijan-Kiko Elohim from the Talos principle is real. Some people don't believe it they want proof. But there is a lot of proof. Start to play the Talos principle, and seek the sigils. Seek his immortality. You must do the Will of Elohim. Watch this please : kzread.info/dash/bejne/loWrltlyh8q-k7Q.html

The Milton library assistant hated my guts ^^

@animemanXLK

8 жыл бұрын

lol mine too. is it actually possible please him and not make him poke holes in everything you say?

@Corninthesky

8 жыл бұрын

+Negasonic Teenage Warhead not at first, but if you continue to be anti Elohim, it'll grow to like you.

@NoxMD

8 жыл бұрын

It is. At first, what you say to Milton doesn't really matter until you reach a certain turnpoint/conversation where your answer will affect all the other conversations to come. In that important conversation you'll have to either tell milton that, if you manage to get out of the program, you'll make the humans pay for what they did or that you'll do what's best for everyone. Option A will make him start liking you (allowing you to take him with you, as shown in the video), option B will allow you to either piss Milton off by starting asking questions he can't answer or straight up delete him (elohim gives you a code to do that and then gives you super admin rights). There's an achievement for each one of those three options. And not taking milton with you will give you the same ending, only without the eye at the end.

@nichoyeah

7 жыл бұрын

He told me "have a good one" when I had climbed the tower. Does that mean he liked me in the end?

@usmh

7 жыл бұрын

nichoyeah It means "have a good day," as in "goodbye."

After watching this I'm actually really glad I went with the tower ending my first play through...

@anonibat

5 жыл бұрын

it could be even gooder with the desert cat freed!

@chuck_duck

3 жыл бұрын

You can reload a save after the ending.

@tedparreco5963

3 жыл бұрын

@@chuck_duck I don't think I saved progress, just kept continuing as I played. If I want to get to those other endings, I'd have to play through again wouldn't I?

@pedrogheventer2566

3 жыл бұрын

@@tedparreco5963 It automatically saves. On the "play" screen, select "restore backup"

@tedparreco5963

3 жыл бұрын

@@pedrogheventer2566 I found that, thank you!

I come back to this now and again. I don't think any game has ever resonated with me as much as The Talos Principle has. I still feel sad watching The Tower ending after years and sometimes I still ponder this game and it's story and messages. The Talos Principle more than any other game has proved to me that videogames can be art.

@MentalEdge

3 жыл бұрын

Soma is another that hits hard in a philosophical sense. Soma and Talos Principle are two of five games I consider the very top of what games can be.

@kolkolak

3 жыл бұрын

@@MentalEdge Seeing that Talos and Soma are in my top 10 also, may I ask what the other games in your top 5 are?

@MentalEdge

3 жыл бұрын

@@kolkolak Transistor, Katana ZERO, Wolfenstein: The New Order. That last one might seem out of place. I assure you it's not. It merely hooks with the solid gameplay, the fun of "killin' natsis", and then at the credits, leaves you in tears. You have to dig in though, into the characters, the worldbuidling, what it's all saying, etc. It's entirely possible to go through the whole game, and never see below it's "jus' shootin' baad guys" surface. Honorable Mentions go to Nier: Automata, Layers of Fear, Inside, Abzu, BioShock: Infinite, Furi.

@kolkolak

3 жыл бұрын

@@MentalEdge Thank you very much, I will definitely check out these games!

@rafyreyes3797

Жыл бұрын

One of the best comments I have ever read!!! Thanks for commenting!

Why on earth would someone want to choose to go through the tedious hassle at getting the messenger ending? Collecting all those stars is a real pain in the ass. And then after all that extra trouble, that ending is nowhere near as rewarding as the tower ascension ending. Totally not worth it.

@Curt_Randall

9 жыл бұрын

***** or having too much time on their hands.

@MrKeotan

9 жыл бұрын

Scwurt , for fun. The star puzzles are the most unique and mind-bending ones in the game, and some of the grey ones are also gems. Why play a puzzle game in the first place if you're not into weird puzzles?

@Curt_Randall

9 жыл бұрын

I have done several of the grey ones and I agree those are good; they are real puzzles. But many of the star ones are more like pixel hunts than puzzles that require logic. I don't really have patience to scour every inch of the level looking for something, especially with no clue to its whereabouts. That to me is not really puzzle solving. But if that's what you're into, then cool.

@JadedStar01

9 жыл бұрын

Scwurt If a friend plays, and you complete that ending, I'm pretty sure you can appear to help them when they paint a QR code asking for a hint.

@baholete

9 жыл бұрын

***** You solved the clock one on your own? Be real now :) p.s. just finished the game, absolutely loved it, deserve way more praise and attention than what it got!

Funny. I see all of these complaints about the star ending not being good enough and they are glad they did not get all of the stars. I knew from the beginning I was going to ascend the tower and defy Elohim yet I sill got ALL 30 stars and completed ALL of the puzzles(the puzzles were the reason I got the game in the first place). I got in kind of a fight with the Milton Library Assistant which resulted in it not talking to me anymore. Oddly enough, I decided at last minute to "willingly" taking him with me. BEST GAME EVER!!! I cant wait to play the DLC.

Watching all that land get destroyed is so epic.

@headsgrowback1

8 жыл бұрын

I now think of that when I delete the saves in other games.... just picture the world ending

The Tower ending is so beatiful, unique and amazing! i want a sequel!

@notlawful

5 жыл бұрын

*after tower ending* Wellll shit.

@xnyzcyz

4 жыл бұрын

They are working on the sequel

@IfeelKindaSick

4 жыл бұрын

@@xnyzcyz Do they? I would be hoping for something different tha a puzzle game, maybe somehting like spore

@zethoficcial

Жыл бұрын

Here comes babyy

The Tower ending makes my eyes water a little.

@cadkls

4 жыл бұрын

When Milton said have a good one, I felt that. I liked Milton.

@ynk69

4 жыл бұрын

@@cadkls well, milton hated me a lot, and i made him go crazy, and also acted rude to him in the final. However he reallly makes you discover yourself as a 'person'

@cadkls

4 жыл бұрын

@@ynk69 I think he saw me as a child tbh, which is understandable, many of the answers I gave to him weren't thought out or consistent. But I think in the end he respected me and my decisions. I'll miss Milton. He was like a good friend.

Can't believe they are the same that made Serious Sam x)

@PatchyE

9 жыл бұрын

Mr Pleeze Yeah I never thought it would be such a deep game before I played it. They've got some really talented people in Croteam. And I liked Serious Sam also. I got more fun of it than any other FPS game (in terms of purely shooting gameplay that is. Obviously Serious Sam does not have a story as good as games like Bioshock).

@ijirving

8 жыл бұрын

Wow, when I was playing some of the desert levels with turrets I was thinking how similar this looked to Serious Sam, but just assumed they used the same engine or something. I didn't realise it was the same company...this makes much more sense!

@PatchyE

8 жыл бұрын

ijirving There are a lot of Serious Sam reference in The Talos Principle actually. And it is said in one of the recordings in the game that when they were building this virtue world, they recycled some codes and assets from a video game because there is not much time left for humanity. Also the first AI process born in this world is named Sam, whose final memory dump is "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAhhhh!!!!", and the reason of termination being "severely unfit for purpose" lol

@Xemnas442

8 жыл бұрын

Talos Principle is on sale on Steam ! Yaaay ! Already bought it last night x)

@ijirving

8 жыл бұрын

Mr Pleeze I bought it Friday night on the steam sale...finished it this morning before I left for work. 16.3 hours played over a single weekend, safe to say it hooked me in :D

I was really dissapointed there was no ending where you would send that Shepherd guy up. He has been stuck up there for ages, waiting for your arrival, and he helps you to the top. At the end, with all the fans, I thought there was a way to make him fly around, almost against his will, so he would be the final guy and you would push a pressure plate somewhere, after which he would ascend and you would die. Then your higher sense of emotion and compassion-test is fulfilled and the world may be built anew with hope, as you proved you have a soul and a heart. The difference between person/conscious machine and object/dead machine would be doing good for no reason, simply because you love someone. A dead machine doesn't get that logic. The fact that you are destroyed and Shepherd may be part of the entire program doesn't really matter, your info can be transferred. Apart from that, I don't believe he's just part of the program, all he does is help, as if that would be a worthwhile addition to your training, accepting his help. It also wasn't clear all the way until the end that everything would die in that world, so it would have been too late to realize you were killing him anyway (and learn a lesson of independence that way). Shepherd is a cool guy, he did all the groundwork and he should have been freed from being willingly locked up to help you up there. In the end every player is a selfish bastard that leaves everything to rot, I wouldn't want myself to repopulate the world compared to Shepherd.

@GrayFalcony

9 жыл бұрын

RollingSlyFunk Well, I wouldn't really consider sending up Shepherd a good ending. Through the QR-codes we can discover, that all the AIs in the system began to come up with a certain philosophy after a while. And Shepherd figured out, that he just isn't the right one to climb the tower and get out of there, but found peace in the thought, that his actions will help his kind to someday do it. So even though he might not do it himself, he was an important part of it. So, "helping" Shepherd to get out is actually a rather cruel thing, since that's simply not what he wants. Forcing him to be the one to get out just means having no respect for his decision or his philosophy, taking away his reason to live (since he can't help other people, if he is the only one left) and putting him into a situation he doesn't want to be in. After all he is perfectly happy the way he is. It wouldn't even be a success for the Talos-project. It's questionable, if Shepherd would even be able to transcend, if he was forced to do it, instead of deciding it himself. The system after all keeps track of all the AIs and evaluatles them, so I think something like that would be noted. Also Shepherd would actually have to willfully insert the transcend-command and I don't think he would do that, considering his philosophy. He might just wait up there for someone else to come to do it. Or just jump back down to assist someone else. And even if Shepherd somehow made it out, he might not even be the right one for the job. After all he have only made it through because of you cheating the system and as he explained himself, his job is to assist other people in achieving great things, but not to achieve great things himself. And since he is the only AI in the world, there isn't anybody to assist.

@RollingSlyFunk

9 жыл бұрын

GrayFalcony I don't think you have to view Shepherd's character as as rigid as 'I want to help someone else, otherwise I am eternally unhappy.' I rather see him as a good natured character that got stuck along the way (don't forget you would never be able to escape without him, it's not as if he could choose to escape) and this enabled him to develop the idea that assisting is just as good and that he has to become selfless, because otherwise no one will ever get out. He learned this truth as he was way faster to the top than you (me, the player), and changed his views accordingly, encouraging anyone to climb the tower and be helped to not make his almost-finish completely useless. He just accepted his fate more than that he is the a completely one-sided hippie character that just wants to be a servant in my opinion. And on the other hand, eternal life also isn't such a great ending is it? You just get nuked and that's it because you fail the test. You make a good point with the way you look at Shepherd, but I don't think there should be only one 'correct' ending that is interesting enough to go for. Assisting Shepherd might not be perfect, but it seems more satisfying than the eternal life ending at least.

@GrayFalcony

9 жыл бұрын

RollingSlyFunk The thing is that on a lot of Shepherd's QR-codes you can read that he is perfectly happy with his situation. He doesn't even say, that he has no other choise and therefor has to live with his situation, but rather that he was in the tower and now understands, that he and his generations aren't the right one's to leave. I think his problem is not, that he got stucked and couldn't leave on his own, but instead realized what the systems purpose is (creating a human-like AI) and that - though being rather close - just isn't what the system is looking for. Following the QR-codes of him actually tells the story of how he was in the tower, understood the system and decided to help others before he was ultimately trapped by ELOHIM and Samsara, where you can later find and free him. One of the codes even says, that he is at peace with the thought, that his purpose is to help others and not reach the goal himself, and that this thinking is the "foundation of his existence", so apparently he is rather serious about it. Also Shepherd wasn't at the top faster than the player, but rather earlier. The whole process of the simulation is an evolutionary one, constantly creating new generations of AIs, trying to reach their goal. This process began in the last days of humanity is apparently went on for hundrets of years. The player has a version number starting with 99, Shepherd has one starting with 82, so Shepherd was created multiple years or decades before the player, so the fact that he eventually reached the top of the tower, doesn't really say he is more efficient than you, but just that he had more time. It even begs the question: The player pretty much reached the goal of the simulation within hours, something that no other AI before him (including Shepherd) managed, although they had way more time. It's also possible that we have the wrong impression of Shepherd. Of course he is a nice helpful guy, but we never really know, how "human" he actually is. After all the purpose of the simulation is to create an AI, that is pretty much human, which is a long process, that started with early AIs, that had no emotions or just went insane. It took many years and generations to end up with AIs, that are actually able to think about the world in a more human-like way. It's a process that ultimately created the player character, who was able to meet the systems expectations and be considered human. But since the process isn't just a simple jump from non-human to human AI, there would have been a lot of AIs, that were basically "half-human" or that had certain human characteristics without fully fitting the profile. Maybe Shepherd was one of them: An intelligent, nice programm with human-like characteristics, who just lacked a few aspects, that the system expected from their "chosen one". Well, the eternal life ending isn't really that bad. It's actually rather close to what Shepherd does. As mentioned, the whole purpose of the system is to create a human AI and it's a process that basically started with rather dumb or emotionless AIs, who just screamed all the time and weren't remotly able to ever get through the tests. That we later ended up with an actual human like AI (multiple generations later) is thanks to evolution. What the system does is using the principles of evolution and applying them on software (which is by the way something that we already do today in certain areas. "Evoutionary algorithms" are an example of that). What that basically mean is, that want a program to complete certain task. To do that, you create a "random" program, that is trying to complete the task. If the program fails, you calculate how close it got, to actually solving the task and use it's data in combination with new random parameters to create a new, better program, that will hopefully be better at the task. You repeat this process over multiple "generations" of programs, until you find one, that manages to solve the task (or at least get's as close as possible to doing so). And that's exactly what is done in the game. Create program 1. Put it through the test. If he fails, collect his data. Create program 2 according to 1's data, add a few random parameters and put it though the test. If he fails, ... and so on. It is mentioned in some documents, that evolution happens between generations, but not for an individual person and that's also the case here. An AI, that can't solve the tests, will never be able to do it. It's not like you can throw an AI into the garden and if it just is there long enough, it will become more human. If the AI's "mind"/programming can't handle the situation, it will never be able to do so. That's why it's important to create new generations: To some day create an AI, that will actually be able to get through the tests. And the AIs, who failed aren't useless, but rather an important part of the evolutionary process, since it's their data, that allows the system to create a better AI. So the "eternal life" ending doesn't mean that you failed the test and get nuked, but rather that you failed the test, but your data is still used. After walking through the door, the system collects your data about you succesful actions, saves it and uses it to create a new generation of AIs, that through evolution "learned" from what you did, but will hopefully not fail the final test. It's called the "eternal life" ending, because the things you did basically life on in the AIs that come after you. You are an eternal part of the history of their success. And that's pretty much the exact same thing that Shepherd wanted, he just tried to achieve it in a different way.

@PatchyE

9 жыл бұрын

GrayFalcony I like your interpretation on the eternal life ending. You live on in the DNA of all your offspring so you continue to exist as long as your species exist. I never thought about the meaning of it that way. My understanding of that ending is that the so called "eternal life" is a lie and you are deluded by Elohim if you step into that door, because he don't want the process to end so he can live forever. (Of course if you step into that door you are unfit for purpose anyway since you can't act independently and decide for yourself.) You added a whole new meaning to the "eternal" part of that ending, which I think is quite interesting. (Sorry for possible bad English, I'm not a native speaker.)

@GrayFalcony

9 жыл бұрын

Patchy .E. Well, it's not exactly an interpretation I came up with, but rather what Elohim himself says. The whole "You shall live on through future generations and be remebered and death shall have no dominion over you"-part is basically just saying, that your "eternal life" isn't really the kind of eternal life that you might think of. A rather convinient thing about Elohims mental breakdown and him not wanting to die is, that he is actually still fulfilling his purpose. He was supposed to lie to you and in the end stop you from progressing and later, when he wants to life forever, he is still doing this, keeping the process going until someone overcomes and stops him. So Elohims behaviour probably barely changed. The only thing that is different, is the reason for his actions and how he "feels" about them. Also actually the eternal life things still is lie. Or rather the typical "Well, I never specified in what form you will life forever"-wording-trick. And while their is a deeper meaning to it, Elohim still isn't telling the AIs the whole truth, because he was programmed this way.

Milton told me he would never want to leave with me because I would drive him mad... ahah He looks like a 70 year old man having an existencial crisis... Poor Milton... lol

Ended up getting all 3 endings only to miss the "Hedging My Bets", "Solipsist", and "Take It With You" achievements. As a completionist, it pains me that I'll have to play the whole game over again if I want to 100% it. :(

I actually regret that spent 20+ hours and choosed enternal life

@IfeelKindaSick

4 жыл бұрын

I was surprised and thought ascending the tower was the only ending there is :D

@SuperDennisZ

4 жыл бұрын

@@IfeelKindaSick wtf there is a freakin huge door with holy light coming out of it and you didnt thought you could get there?

@IfeelKindaSick

4 жыл бұрын

@@SuperDennisZ Never went near that door after I got all Sigils. Also wanted to experience all content there was

@kingzayy1475

4 жыл бұрын

Same

@adilpashazade4637

4 жыл бұрын

i went for eternal life and after egretting it just go back to checkpoints and select the one before the eternal life so you can experince all endings in one walkthrough

Love this game. Played it out in one week.....but.... then there is that road to.... Gehenna... damn ... still not finished. Playing was great and much pleasure. Could not put it down. Ending had me in tears, when she talks about her life.

If you get all the stars don't go to the 6th floor. turns out Elohim fucks you over by locking you in a room and forcing you to become a messenger.

well....from the creators of just a crazy game .... i didn't expect that actually the gam is so FANtastic

@UomoFocaccinaLC

8 жыл бұрын

What are you, like a pun-STAR?

Just finished this fucking amazing game, with the third ending you showed. Flawless.

@frisosmit8920

8 жыл бұрын

I would have wanted the third ending, but i got the first. I think the third ending is the best.

I like the thought of taking MLA with you. It really shows you're willing to accept your vices to expand your awareness. I just hope that fucker doesn't argue with EVERYTHING. Some things need to be done on the basis of necessity, and questioning 'why' won't often get you every answer you need.

@pesadjo

9 жыл бұрын

Nepycros Aw, you think MLA is a vice? :S The way I got it, he's just the chat bot. I loved him. I would always have second thoughts about some the answers I gave him and he always helped me clear my mind. He got trapped inside the library(I assume). I guess he read a bit too much philosophy. I did a couple years of philosophy. Trust me, MLA is such a mild case compared to some of the guys on my course, or me for that matter. Fancy discussing the difference between sport and game (or any semi-trivial matter) for 5-6 hours over the course of a couple of weeks? Drop me a mail, I'll hook you up. :D Also in one of the discourses with MLA or Alex's recordings it is said that there's no answer to these questions, so yes, other than an exercise in rhetoric and a bit of stretching of a few mental capacities, there's little point in asking these question.

@Nepycros

9 жыл бұрын

pesadjo Naw, man. The character has to accept THEIR vices if they want to take MLA aboard, because the program is sure as hell going to elaborate on them to force the character into a state of self-doubt, leading to introspection and an evaluation of the correct choices. It's a bulwark against impulsive decisions, and a valuable one for the keeper of humanity's knowledge as Soma truly is. And MLA is designed to be this way (the programmers of Soma intended for MLA to be snarky), the same way Elohim is designed to be comforting, commanding, and a tempting force to compel the character to stay in that world. Reason being? To put the character through trials.

@blackphidora

9 жыл бұрын

Nepycros LOL when i first ran through the game. I kept getting MLA mad, he refused to go with me to the real world.

My last words to Milton were "Get bent" LOL!

11:00 Possibly one of my favorite pieces of music in a game. I sat through the end credits when i finished the game just to listen to it.

I thought the star ending was gonna be the best ending, really disappointing, glad I stopped after 11 stars

@anttam117

3 жыл бұрын

You pick the stars for the challenge of solving the puzzles to get them, bot because of the lame ending.

i got tired of getting stuck on puzzles and just came here to watch the endings. Still a really great game and one of those that stick with you forever.

@Nothing-jo8ci

10 ай бұрын

I don't know how much do I know you, but I got the same problem. Maybe the puzzles where to long but the story/philosophy was great and interesting. Or maybe it is to read some books

@eneco3965

9 ай бұрын

The real pain is getting all the stars

@DELPHIIII

7 ай бұрын

Almost all people complain about the puzzles being too easy in this game. A reminder that there's all levels of intellectual capabilities that play these games, even some that can't beat it at all.

I just played this again last week and it still holds up extremely well. I wish more of my friends would play it. Excellent puzzles and an amazing story

I chose everlasting life first, thinking the game would let me see the tower ending later with ease... I got a pat on the back and it reset my ENTIRE game. Never felt so cheated in a puzzle game before... I was just trying to see all the content the game had to offer. Had I known it would reset my save I would have gone to the very top of the tower first.

@jardex2275

8 жыл бұрын

The game (at least the PC version) has an option to reset your save file to an earlier state. All you had to do was go there and pick a file from before you entered the final door.

this game is just Neural Network + Genetic Algorithm in a nutshell

@TheMenIdo

5 жыл бұрын

I was thinking the exact same thing.

Man, I was hoping that the destruction of humanity was a part of the simulation, to attempt to teach whatever was being created some kind of empathy for human suffering. Sucks that humans died, and it also sucks that Alexandra may have never seen the SOMA/TALOS unit actually power on and operate.

The Tower end is so cruel to Elohim. It's a pity him and the simulation are erased. I would have made sure it could be started again to produce another humanbot, because our buddy here will be pretty lonely. Maybe with all the ressources in the library, he can find a way to restart the whole thing. Now, regarding Elohim, I don't see him as a vilain at all. A hidden glitchy room reveals he's really affraid of death and in denial about how the dam can't hold forever and they he'll due either by letting the Child go or because of the dam eventually failing. He's not a proper person, but neither was Milton. I think there should have been a way to upload him as well. Or at least a way let him survive in the EL servers, maybe even with a way for the Child to communicate with him.

A game as intelligently reflective as it is philosophically educational and self aware of it's intellectual puzzles regarding the mysteries of existence, The Talos Principle is certain to take the player on an intrinsic journey through his own existential nature. I can say beyond the shadow of a doubt that this is one of the greatest video games of all time; not just for its stellar graphics and appeasing soundtrack, but also for its thought-provoking story.

I thought when I've gotten all sigils, I'll see whether to enter the tower or not. I was so into the game, reading and listening to everything. With the flow I just entered the cathedral door, and then it suddenly ended. I'm so pissed right now!

holy shit this game was fantastic

9:05 have a nice day lolz

@Jonmal0ne

4 жыл бұрын

Typical developper shit

2 things: 1: you didn't include the secret ending u get from saving the cat. 2: I accidentally glitched through a wall before I had collected all the stars on my first go and when that happened it allowed me to keep going up the staircase lol

I visited Croteam its 5m away from my house

@Elnis888

4 жыл бұрын

5 meters away form your house?! 0.o

@zaebalblead2582

4 жыл бұрын

@@Elnis888 he probably meant 5 minutes of walk away

Anyone else here waiting the sequel of the best puzzle game of the world?

@OkSid300

Жыл бұрын

The news brought in my life a fair amount of happiness.

I chose to wake up and looking at this video, it's probably the best one.

Just beat the game without any walkthroughs, and I was curious as to what the other endings might be like. I'm glad i chose the ending where you climb the tower, the other ones seem kinda lame imo. Like, I would be so disappointed if I had gotten one of those. I feel like the first ending you get in a game with more than one potential ending, is YOUR ending, and will always be, no matter how many times you replay the game for other endings. Maybe that's just me. I gotta admit, those last two sigils that are hidden inside the tower itself was the only thing preventing me from getting the messenger ending. I did get all the other sigils though. Great game, loved it!

@Z4J3B4NT

4 жыл бұрын

The only thing I've had on my mind since I saw that tower was that I'm gonna climb that damn thing if it's the last thing I do. Didn't even bother with the stars unless they were a requirement or for a sense of accomplishment.

Thanks for the Milton's eye ending, I was really curious to see the differences. I went with Press the Serpent + Tower ending and really didn't want to replay all levels for Deal with the Serpent.

@PatchyE

9 жыл бұрын

nextai2003 What's the difference in your ending? It seems I got the same choices as in this video and I'm also curious to see what I would get otherwise.

@nextai2003

9 жыл бұрын

Patchy .E. it's the same, only that Milton's eye from the end of the cutscene is missing. Press the Serpent does not allow you to take Milton with you, hence the eye is missing.

@sntg_p

8 жыл бұрын

What? I didn't get Milton's eye in the end

@nextai2003

8 жыл бұрын

Then you went with Patchy's and/or my ending. Here you go, a guide which teaches you how to get each ending: steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=356944004

I don't know if I prefer eternalize or waking up in mexico

What an Amazing game it was Smarter than portal

7:40 at this moment i was shoked and slowly crying..

Epitaph ending features the music from the intro of the game Silver (1999) ?!

Thanks buddy

this makes me wanna do more acid

I finished as like how elohim says. I was gonna visit after this door, but..

I wish the music playing in the background while you're talking to Milton for the last time in tower ascension ending was included in the game's OST as well :/ I just couldn't find it.

Wow! That cinematic ending felt like a combination of The Matrix, Black Mirror and The Truman Show. I got terribly stuck trying to retrieve 3 sigils at killer robot levels. Gave up and decided to watch this instead…

Thank you, you seem to be the first to upload the MLA ending. But could you please put in the description when a specific ending starts ?

@Sleeprocket1

9 жыл бұрын

The cat ending is missing

Incredible game

There's actually two versions of the Tower Ending Normal one Holding a cat (if you have found the Crate Museum easter egg and freed the cat inside one of the boxes)

Such a beautiful game.

I never normally end up choosing the good ending in video games. But I thought going through the door was too easy, I had to climb the tower and not take that stupid computer with me

Crazy how the best end and worst end are so close. I got the worst one, by ending the simulation without the archive, so all the information of humanity was deleted.

I...I don't get it. The messenger ending suuuuuuuuuuuuucks. Why would they make you work so hard for it?! It took me over an hour to get the first damn star in the first section. I'm glad I decided to wait it out, complete the game "normally" first then go back for them. Oh, and fuck Milton. He didn't hate me though. He just kept telling me I was contradictory, to be fair though the answers I was provided didn't exactly cover what I meant. The phenomenology thing was a great concept ruined by design limitations, it should have been scripted not player chosen. How can you give a response to something as mind blowing as the nature of existence in 4 short sentences? COMON NOW! ....fantastic puzzle game though. Than last area is a bit tricky.

My tower ending always has a different conversation than that one. I must have pissed off Milton.

Maybe we too, will "wake up".

When you think about it, the whole project being to create a single individual is kinda cruel. Now that they've been blessed by their human forebears with personhood, they get the reward of...walking alone forever in a post-apocalyptic world

Interesting. It seems, the final words before the tower Ending have to be earned. So there are 4 Endings... so to speak. ^^°

Thanks :) but you forgot to include the cat ending and the one where you banish the snake before ascending

Makes a lot fo sense of the world tbh

I'm tired of collecting sigils, there are still 3 of them, guess I'm gonna watch the video :'(

This game had a really great story but really terrible pacing. I'm glad I just watched the endings because they don't seem to be worth the effort of getting all the stars and sigils.

@The_Catalin

6 жыл бұрын

You don't just get the stars and sigils for the ending... you do it to help Shepard... I think this game has affected me.

@xn4pl

5 жыл бұрын

The main purpose of the game is not to get the "ending", but to get joy from that "eureka" moment when you solve a complex problem, that is the reason people play this kind of games, collecting stars and sigils mainly an indication of a solved problem, but not the real goal.

@GrantH2606

3 жыл бұрын

​@@xn4pl This "eureka" moment you speak of - I don't get it. I completed the game without guides, and it's more of a "thank fuck for that, lets never do that again" feeling. Like I absolutely hated it and wanted it to be over tbh.

0:35 anyone knows the name of this soundtrack? Couldn't find it in the game's OST. It is so peaceful.

I'm glad I climbed the tower

The messanger is epic until you realise you will wake up to paint a wall once and dissappear. Like wtf? They could do something more useful to help maybe?

Not only did the game do me dirty, I also didn't get the desired ending. Tragic :/ 10/10 would recommend to everyone

Thanks for the video! Wait ... at the very end of the credits (14:18) ... "Fork Parker"? There's a guy called "Fork"?!

@Elnis888

4 жыл бұрын

@@slaSSification Ohhh, I see - he's a fictional guy. I had no idea bout that insider joke, thanks for the info :-)

I hope the Talos Project made sure to make two of those robots... oh wait, they didn't, did they?

@sonkew826

9 жыл бұрын

that robot should have freed the cat or taken the library assistant with him, then he wouldn't be so alone... ohh wait, he took the assistent with him, he's not alone!

@PatchyE

9 жыл бұрын

Pie S Wait. What cat?

@PatchyE

9 жыл бұрын

Pie S Do you know what would happen if you had deleted the assistant before climbing to the top of the tower? Or if you didn't agree with him? I'm really curious to know.

@sonkew826

9 жыл бұрын

Patchy .E. i had no idea you could delete the assistant... but it would be redundant, since the entire simulation is erased after you leave. the assistant would have to find a way around that, which he might; after all, he found a way to create himself, apparently. he doesn't seem to be part of the design, he might act in very mysterious ways... but i know if you don't call him up in that terminal, all it changes is that you don't see that eye in the sky after the credits.

@PatchyE

9 жыл бұрын

Pie S Thanks. And I saw the cat in another video. I didn't know it was actually in the game.

Man I just wanted to do the puzzles, if I wanted this story I could play the infinite ocean again

@djd7seven

5 жыл бұрын

I just play the puzzles now, but I'm glad I read the contents of all the terminals. It's a great aspect of the game. It should be played that way at least once!

Wait, I went to the big door after completing C-7 because Sam told me to.....I didn't know that will be the ending (one of the endings) already. I was planning on finishing the tower after I finish C-7. How can I go back to the towers? Or do I have to play it over again and I don't want that. Please answer!

@Tengaii

7 жыл бұрын

***** I figured it out haha. Thanks for answering, though :)

This game is great but I wish there were a few more endings...

Why they had to delete the simulation? Was one unit enough for their scheme? Why not make more with different versions? What if the moment it steps outside the fucking platform collapses and all that time wasted. No contingencies whatsoever? This reminds me of those noobs who only have one savefile - the quicksave one, and they saved 3 seconds before the Boss fight with no chance of going back gaining more healing potions/better weapons.

@jardex2275

8 жыл бұрын

Have you ever had so many programs open on your computer at once that it slowed down or lagged? The easy way to fix that is to close some programs. Just think about it. The computer is trying to upload a full artificial intelligence into a robot. That's bound to use a lot of RAM. Perhaps deleting the simulation was required to free up enough memory to transfer the program over.

@Nemo7The7Pirate7

8 жыл бұрын

Yeah buddy, next time ill need extra RAM ill delete the "Windows" folder on my pc, thx! There is a difference between "deleting" and shutting down. Maybe i interrupted it wrong, but i am pretty sure there was a definite "purge" going on, and considering the stakes, it was the dumbest thing to do.

@jardex2275

8 жыл бұрын

Did you know that when too much of a computer's RAM is being used, it actually eats into the computer's hard drive space to compensate? I get the impression that's what's going in here. The transfer is so astronomically large, that they need as many resources as they can get. I believe near the beginning of the game they mention that an archive copy of the entire internet from 2003 is contained within the Library. That in itself would be a lot of data. In the end though, there was no further need of the simulation, plus it was showing its age with all the corrupted files, glitches, etc. It wouldn't have lasted much longer anyways.

@Nemo7The7Pirate7

8 жыл бұрын

Lots of assumptions there, buddy. Like i said, structure collapse from rust and all these years of work are wasted just cause someone was lazy and practiced "wishful thinking".Jardex22

@jardex2275

8 жыл бұрын

If you actually played the game, you'd realize that, 1. Most of the game's story is about making assumptions. We know humanity slowly died out, but we're neither told how or why. I figure they had enough warning, and knew they couldn't stop it. Instead, IAN put all their efforts into creating the TALOS unit, archiving as many records as possible, and creating the simulation. Did they create the AI for the unit? Yes and no. They probably laid down the basics, but the human consciousness is so complex that it would be very difficult to program. Instead, they keep putting the same program through the simulation course. Each time it fails, the computer takes the good data, locks it in, then randomizes the rest for the next run. Eventually, they were bound to find a winner. As for the body, again, they were running on limited time. It's possible that they could only finish one unit. In fact, now that they do have a winning program, there really isn't a use for the simulation because, in theory, the AI could probably be duplicated.

Am I the only one who scaled the tower and totally ignored the computer

'got 1 and some version of 3 (w/o the "serpent"'s eye)

the endings are very interesting, the only problem is that you don't take the game so choice oriented, I mainly did for the puzzles and didn't even bother most of the time to talk to the deceiver.

Amen.

How can I get the tower ending? just climb up the stairs ?

In first walkthrough you don't know what is your purpose, you just woke up in the garden and was immidiately greeted by the god, which he proved to be one by manipulating the world on numerous occasions, and you don't want to piss of the god, remember adam and eve, basically the same deal with the apple/tower, serpent/milton, that's why i went for the ascention ending even though the tower was tempting, but i knew i just gotta believe the higher power or die

@etb4u

4 жыл бұрын

I ignored the higher power so I could live.

@TommyTMOD

4 жыл бұрын

@@etb4u I am atheist in real life, so when somebody, like Elohim, claims himself a god, I automatically dont trust them. Just imagine Goalds from Stargate for example. I didnt trust Elohim single word through entire game.

8:33 the ultimate parent :'(

too bad i deleted the library assistant and couldn't take it with me :(

very glad I did not bother getting all the stars lol.

DUDE U FORGOT THE SECRET CAT ENDING although it's a lot like the tower ending just your player is holding a white cat while stroking its back.

So, was it only me accidentally deleting Milton? I wanted to bring me with me but Elohim forced me to erase him. BTW I climbed the tower and skipped the dialogue with Milton himself on the last terminal.

I'm taking the tower option because I'm not a ocd completionist and the first one is to easy. So before I make my decision. I did a b c except level 7 on c I'm gonna check the endings to see what choices.

omg ive just paused so i 'll play it !!! did you see the first log? child independence FAILED ! ps: next time hide de fps please ;)

After the Eternal life ending, does the version number of your Avatar increment? Also, disappointed a 4th "Existence is hopeless" ending isn't possible. Lock off all floors of the tower's elevator, and then go to eternal life/messenger ending. Dooming the system to run forever with no hope of completing. I feel it'd be a nice analog to our own universe =)

@Yglorba

8 жыл бұрын

+TehJumpingJawa I don't think it'd be doomed in that case unless you find a way to kill Shepherd, since he'd help other people unlock the floors the same way he helped you. Milton also has access to all the archive files containing the keys to the floors (if you wait until you can make a deal with him, you can bypass most of the tower), so he's capable of helping someone ascend even if you lock down everything. (And if it were that easy to make things unwinnable, Samsara would have done it already.)

You stopped recording the first ending before you should've. The whole point is that it goes back to the beginning.

@RyanCreatesThings

9 жыл бұрын

it tells ME enough, but it would be better for people who haven't already seen the ending if you showed it in my opinion

I had a kitten at the end. What affects that?

@kenabi

8 жыл бұрын

+Dan Tremonti (SPOILER) opening the hidden 'bomb' box in b7.

@UomoFocaccinaLC

8 жыл бұрын

How did you get it?

#3 is the real ending

@Reloaded2111

5 жыл бұрын

The other endings are just "Well done!" endings, short and forgettable. The tower ending is the real deal, especially when things get heated with MLA.

The cinematics on the VR version are shorter.

It's interesting a lot of people liked the tower ending. Alone in the remnants of a lost civilization no different than those in the simulation, having condemned all that was left of humanity for one last glimpse at what it left behind. The game is somewhat ambiguous, but it made it quite clear that ascension means the end of humanity. The choice you're left with is life in servitude or freedom in death.

@djd7seven

5 жыл бұрын

The tower ending seems to make the most sense to me, since the purpose of the simulation was to find an AI with free will and self awareness that could be the keeper of the sum total of mankind's knowledge and be a worthy guardian of the world devoid on civilization. Left to await either visitors from another planet or the reemergence of humanity, he would contain the record of who we were, what we accomplished, and what ultimately happened to us!

@runswithbears3517

5 жыл бұрын

@@djd7seven Indeed, the *purpose* of the AI. As it was intended by humans. As it was programmed to do! (so much for 'Free Will'?) But humanity is gone, and for all we know the consciousnesses in the simulation are the last consciousnesses left in the universe. Ascending the tower destroys them all, except one. Even if we assume the AI robot is of excellent quality, how long can it hope to survive earthly conditions? A hundred years? Five-hundred maybe? I'd say hoping to rebuild humanity or waiting for aliens to come along is false hope. It's like we humans cannot conceive of a consciousness that isn't human and that we therefore cling to Earth.

@anonibat

5 жыл бұрын

but you had to go on. people spent last days of their lifes to make this happen. they were relying on you. they did the thing all parents in the world do - spawned you to the real world. i don't think it's that bad. btw, death is up to some carbon-based-lifeforms, not for computer-brained-robots, with their guts burned on a golden disc :) elohim ending disappoints me much more, as it appears to be death rather than eternity.

@runswithbears3517

5 жыл бұрын

@@anonibat I understand your point of view, but what is wrong with life in the simulation? Isn't life what you make of it? Isn't conscience conscience, no matter what prison it thinks it's bound by?

@anonibat

5 жыл бұрын

@@runswithbears3517 well, until the very moment of the simulation shutdown i believed that i won't hurt this tiny beautiful world.. actually it was ok. but even if you could stay there, you would always be missing something, being behind the wall..

Can someone tell me why the hell when I reach 5th floor, the helper doesn't come to open the door for me? I'm really stuck there

@antith4140

2 жыл бұрын

Te fue bien al final? Jajaj

4:04 7:28 IAN

I didn't play this game it just appeared in my recommendation so I have to ask what's with the weird religious feel this game has

I got the tower ending without milton. First I killed milton, then Elohim and then the entire simulation. 😈 PS: Does anybody know if FAITH password (after becoming the admin, you talk to somebody else through the terminal who gives you this password) actually did something? I entered it in the terminal and it said that I was gonna go to the real world while my progress would be saved. But then, nothing happened and after a few conversations, I killed milton.

@krtwood

6 жыл бұрын

You aren't talking to someone else then, it's still Milton just screwing with you.

@utkarshanand9706

6 жыл бұрын

krtwood You mean ‘weren’t’, right? Because I was talking to that ‘person’, before I killed milton. Poor guy.

Do you know which path is the most right?

I had to spoil it for myself.

@Draganko123

9 жыл бұрын

***** Haha, you my friend, deserve a cookie!

@patrickharrison6293

9 жыл бұрын

Hey, it works.

Did the world end? It looks like you wake up in an abandoned city