I just finished the game with this ending. I have to say it made me cry a little, and i didn't expect this game to do this. -- GuyWithChainsaw v99.86.0012

@myhonestreaction6217

4 жыл бұрын

Ify man

@MartinX333

Ай бұрын

And 9 years later, they managed to do it again with the second game. What an absolute masterpiece of a series.

This game has a message, and I interpreted it as follows: All the game revolves around the notion of what it means to be a person. Is it just to have consciouness? Is it just to be alive? What makes you different from the rest of all living beings, or even from pieces of metal put together? The answer is: doubt and curiosity. Humanity ceased, and decided to create its last remnant - artificial life. But how to make sure that it was a true remnant of what it means to be human, to be a person? They created a simulation in which the artificial life would have not only to reason logically, but ultimately to experience an extreme authority (Elohim, God) who would gave it orders - DO NOT GO TO THE TOWER; WALK MY GARDENS AND I WILL GRANT YOU ETERNAL LIFE. Were you curious enough to go to the tower? Can you be skeptical and think for yourself? Do you doubt what you hear, or are just a machine who follows whatever orders are given to you? If you can, you wake up - you are 'worthy' of being a last remnant of what it means to be human. It's quite beautiful.

@GuyWithChainsaw

4 жыл бұрын

That's a good interpretation. And it fits with what Alexandra's tapes were saying

@OkSid300

3 жыл бұрын

The best explanation for the person who has never played the game so far. But still... For the complete experience, you need to resolve every puzzle and find all stars. Then, sit in the dark room and process the information. This is the way.

This game made me question my existence in life.

This is one of the best endings in videogame history. This type of genre goes under the radar so much but I can’t praise it enough. With these sort of games you normally get the developer shading the ending. Not really knowing what the ending is so it’s sort of unfinished. I kept thinking that I would just go in a loop no matter what choice I made. Well either a loop or destroying the simulation and been stuck in infinity with Milton. Yet this game really did nail what a good ending should be. I was so gratefully surprised. I have played over 1000 games in my 20 odd years of gaming and this is right up there.

@Illyayakyys

Ай бұрын

You'd should doing more useful things in your life then playing over 1000 games 😅

This happens every time I shutdown my computer!

It's sad to see an A.I realizing its purpose is fulfilled, knowing full well with absolute conviction that it will loose its consciousness forever. Yes, I am feeling sympathy for an artificial intelligence. But God willing when humans develop artificial sentient intelligence, I shall have a respect for them, as I have a respect for life.

@Edison_Trent

3 жыл бұрын

Very well put. I agree with every word.

Best. Ending. Evar

Such a beautiful game and a beautiful ending! Absolutely incredible all the way through to the end.

Oh man, I can't stop thinking about the Talos Principle and what the endings mean. I'm going to give you my ideas: *Ascension*: You carry out the task your human creators have set out for you; to explore the remnants of the lost civilization of man as a sort of hard disk to carry on the legacy of humanity. You have disconnected yourself from God and destroyed the world behind you, with all the AIs that lived inside of it. You've basically "proven you are human", like Adam, by being seduced by the Serpent to take the apple from the Garden of Eden. It may seem like a victory at first, but then you realize you are now alone. Even more alone than inside the simulation. And even though your prison has expanded a thousandfold, it remains a prison. *Transcendence*: You have followed the words of Elohim and you have understood the world you were born into. However you have not understood the deeper meaning behind it all. Your loyalty has earned you eternal life, a chance to start over and attain the enlightenment you have failed to grasp in this life. This links directly to eastern philosophy on reincarnation, and how you will reincarnate until you achieve enlightenment and achieve a higher state of being. *Transformation*: You have followed the words of Elohim, you have understood the world you were born into and its deeper meanings. You have been tempted by the snake, but resisted. As in Plato's Allegory of the Cave you have grasped what lies beyond your prison, but you chose to return and guide your kin so that one day they too may leave that cave. This, in my opinion, is the deepest ending. Instead of climbing the tower like your human masters designed you to, you choose to preserve your kind like a truly independent consciousness (and thereby truly proving you are not simply a computer program that does what it's designed to do!). You choose to be their guide in hopes to enlighten all your fellow beings and create a future for them. This idea has some interesting links with Hermetic philosophy, in which it is stated that humanity (in this case represented by AIs) can only achieve its divine destiny by attaining enlightenment as a species, as all its members carry a piece of the divine inside of them and these need to be united in order to ascend. Please let me know what you think.

This game is THE BEST GAME ever created! Every Time i beat it, the ending gives me chills

This ending was so stressful, I was expecting the cable to burn out at the end like a giant "fuck you"

Croteam one of the best game makers . They sure do love ancient histories and Mythologies . Since Talos is based to some Ancient Greek Mythology mixed with Hebrew and other stuff . Also it reflects the life from the humanity . This game as Myst are at the same level . The puzzle games is just a bonus what is the most important in this game is the story and whats to comprehend about it . Whereas the Portal is only a puzzle game with an easy storyline that left the player with thousand questions . Talos Principle has also a Blade Runner-ish feel to me .

This is one of the greatest games of all time. The time I spent playing it would forever reverberate throughout my life time.

that serious sam walking animation tho....haha

@GuyWithChainsaw

9 жыл бұрын

I love it. It's the most badass walking animation ever created and im happy Croteam doesn't change it. It's so awesome.

@Illyayakyys

Ай бұрын

​@@GuyWithChainsaw I'd never noticed this feature until I read this comment 👍

Basically, this is the real ending. One of the other endings puts you into a loop which makes you go over the puzzles as a new SIMULATED robot again and again... This, as I said, is the real ending - in this ending the simulated robot (after ascending) realizes that the world is simulated, and that Elohim (means "God" in Hebrew), is just a computer AI. At this point, it means that the simulated robot AI gained enough knowledge to be uploaded to the Physical robot which then goes out to the real world as (possibly) the only piece of human knowledge left on earth. This knowledge was gained through recursion... doing the same puzzles over and over again if different endings were chosen by the different robots (hence we see QR-Codes on the walls of the previous AI robots who attempted to beat Elohim, without even knowing it)... Basically, this physical robot has all human collected data which was ever recorder, and it's AI is perfect.

@MrMurmandramas

9 жыл бұрын

Actually, if you get along with Milton during terminal chats, you will see a little bit different ending, which makes a bit more sense. SPOILER/speculation as it turns out, milton is your antipod - while simulated robot is has faith and does what elohim says, the librarian is a sceptic, who doubts everything. And only if you combine sceptisism and faith, u can get a true conscience. That is totaly my imho.

@flashmozzg

9 жыл бұрын

ELOHIM is just EL-0, HIM (zero partition some mmo module, forgot acronym). And only TRUE ending is the CAT ending!

@MrMurmandramas

9 жыл бұрын

that is interesting - i though that the AI just chose this role to fulfill its mission. But then I though that this AI became actually the AI, but due to the nature of the experiment it couldn't exit the simulation didn't want to, that is why he called himself Elohim to manipulate test subjects so that they couldn't evolve into true AI/humans. If my assumptions are true, the experiment could have ended much sooner but again - it all can be just my wild guesses. P.S. btw the cat ending is rather impossible.

@Blaze6108

9 жыл бұрын

MrMurmandramas What flashmozzg said. Also, The Librarian is most likely EL-1. In one of the texts found through the game it is explained that the supercomputer that is supposed to "save" humanity is running three different programs: EL-0, Elohim, which is the simulation that you play, EL-1, which is the library, and EL-2, which is "just the operating system doing its things". Milton is probably the resident AI of EL-1, just like Elohim is EL-0. Why it is designed to be an antagonist of the player though, I have no idea.

@MrMurmandramas

9 жыл бұрын

***** Ok, you just broke my brain. I'll read through this tomorrow, when i'm not so tired.

It WAS a "poison pill". He outsmarted the establishment at their own game. I'm surprised at you for not seeing that, Stefan.

The AI seems to represent humanity, being that when the simulated robot transcends, it says "I always wanted to live forever". If it was simply an AI, it could just copy itself to another system.

This ending is so intense, I love it so much.

This game is truly a hidden gem with a fantastic soundtrack and has deep philosophical undertones that for a simple puzzle game elevates it (in my humble opinion) to that of a masterpiece for its respective genre.

3:11 is what happens when you delete a games universe from your computer

@keksul

4 жыл бұрын

Reverse the clip, and you have the reinstallation :)

@keksul

4 жыл бұрын

@@thegooodguy because uninstalling a game is sad, and you needed something that wasnt sad in your life

one of the best endings in game history, in my opinion

Imagine if all of this was achieved, and its sole purpose was to pass butter.

After playing this ending, I had made a discovery: A lot of the assets from the Talos Principle were recycled into Serious Sam 4

@pura8898

Жыл бұрын

Ever since SS3 they started recycling assets heavily Hell Talos even contains some assets from SS3

@toainsully

7 ай бұрын

@@pura8898 I can obviously tell where the Egypt portion came from

@pura8898

7 ай бұрын

@@toainsully what if I told you that The Talos Principle 2 also recycled some assets I have only played the old demo, but no joke the beginning of the game is Egypt again(very very short part of the game). But the pyramid in the distance is no joke the same pyramid in The Talos Principle 1, which is the same pyramid from Serious Sam 3 BFE, a decade old asset, textures and all, the only thing that changed is better UE5 lighting

i took the easy way out cause this game was hard af as it is but at least i got youtube to know what this ending looks like lmao

If I had to guess, you do the simulations over and over again. Each time getting a little more logical, getting a little more reason, each time thinking a little more human. They even said in a few audio archives that curiosity and independence are distinctly human traits. It seems that defying Elohim was the final step. I think the purpose of the simulation was that once humanity died out, they wanted something human to remain. So they created one more or less. Anyway. My head hurts.

Doki doki post-apocalypse club

Can you explain how to get endings for all 3 endings? I know only for tower and sigil ending...what about eternity life? Clear all stage except tower?

@powerful4750

7 жыл бұрын

Collect all stars beat all star worlds. Look at the passcode in each star world, for an example a star worlds passcode could be 5**

So now what?

Sequel will be masterpiece²

@vkobevk

5 ай бұрын

it is not bad

One question, what happened to humanity in the game? I mean are all humans dead at this point?

@nightfallcobalteon2161

9 жыл бұрын

Pretty much, yeah

@Katerijkee

9 жыл бұрын

jernej tojersu humanity was destroyed by old virus, who was frozen in arctic or something like that and was awakened after the ice melted. And now our white robot will be heir of humanity.

Its amazing Game :D But i need to think mean of this ending are this is Life generation after end of the humans?, thats robot.. ? i need to think :) sorry for my bad english, I am Indonesian :)

@GuyWithChainsaw

9 жыл бұрын

well i think it's a new age. The age of machines. I belive that the other robots will be awaken too. Maybe they'll find a way to build more of their kind. I also have a theory that The Sheppard is really Alexandra. -- GuyWithChainsaw v99.86.0012

@LetsPlayPC

9 жыл бұрын

It is, indeed, life after the humans are gone. Once humanity was doomed, the world's scientists got together and built a simulation in a desperate attempt to not only preserve our knowledge but humanity itself. The purpose of the simulation was to create life by developing an AI through a neverending series of trials. Presumably, you are one of millions of iterations. Maybe billions. The first iterations were probably extremely primitve ones that couldn't solve puzzles, but the AI gradually got more advanced until it became self aware. The ultimate test for "humanity" in the android is whether the AI is advanced enough not just to solve the puzzles but to defy Elohim in the search for answers. That is the game's answer to "what does it mean to be human?" That is when you finally get uploaded to the robot in the real world and the simulation gets shut down.

@blazednlovinit

9 жыл бұрын

GuyWithChainsaw I think the simulation has just been running a long time, and humans have long since died off. There are email exchanges between students and teachers in some terminals :) Its been running so long that its been corrupt in many ways (the simulation architecture/Elohim, not wanting to die and such). Also Elohim alludes something along the lines of "lighting the way for whole generations after you" which i take to mean, your mind is going to be used as a bootdisk, to give other units free will

@flashmozzg

9 жыл бұрын

blazednlovinit humanity died of some unknown virus right after simulation started. (They were dying while working on it).

@blazednlovinit

9 жыл бұрын

flashmozzg yeah i watched a bit more footage of it, didnt know it was a virus though :)

The real player stayed in the simulation. And he was deleted/killed. They just copied his memory to the real world robot. If you played SOMA, you will better understand me.

Huh, I guess the ending is slightly different if you don't **SPOILER** find the cat or allow milton to merge.

@GuyWithChainsaw

9 жыл бұрын

find a cat or allow milton to merge? how can i do these things? -- GuyWithChainsaw v99.86.0012

@games5522

9 жыл бұрын

GuyWithChainsaw kzread.info/dash/bejne/Zo6qxqmRYca5hqw.html *spoilers* To merge milton's archives with yourself, in one of his last conversations he will try to coax you into allowing him to do so. Accept his offer and during the final terminal, you can merge.

@TenguDrop

9 жыл бұрын

Games5522 Indeed. Taking Milton with you is an option and is one of three Milton "endings", and the cat ending is a result of finding the cat Games5522 linked to. I decided I'd make a video showing the "cat ending" of the game here: kzread.info/dash/bejne/fWGu1ZuJnaqbhaw.html Really cool little easter egg!

@LetsPlayPC

9 жыл бұрын

Games5522 Interesting. I offered to let him come with me at the final terminal and refused.

@flashmozzg

9 жыл бұрын

Tengu Drop Is there any difference in "Milton" endings? Milton decided to go off with the simulation. And there is no videos of other endings.

I didn't mess with those terminals through the entire game. Am I the only one?

@noirakita428

6 жыл бұрын

Missed the amazing backstory, interacting with MLA, and lots of cool philosophical stuff. This is not just about puzzles.

Your video stutters a lot.

and then 5 nights at freddies began...

Wer ist hier wegen rezo?

lame ending, anyone else? Isnt this just what we expected all along?

@tacchinotacchi

7 жыл бұрын

So what? it's bad just because the devs inserted clues all along leading to it? It was supposed to feel this way, for players who climbed the tower. Why else would you climb it, if you're not suspicious?