Does Guns of Icarus game have an ending?

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I was playing Guns of Icarus and followed a route all the way to the "Into The Breach" level. But that level seems to be a never-ending survival one.

Is there any way to actually finish the game? Is there any ending of some sort?

Asked by Denilson Sá

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Perhaps unfortunately, there is not an ending to the story. I have played the game, and Into the Breach is meant to be the final apocalyptic mission. It's your suicide mission into the pirates, and does not end until you die; you just try to accumulate a high score.

If you're looking for references, this review calls Into the Breach "survival mode" which is just what I have described above. This survival mission is also the end goal of the game. Everything else is just a build up to upgrade your ship in preparation.

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Can you lose an ending before you start playing Mass Effect 3?

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Considering all the number of branches possible when starting ME3, are there any endings that are unattainable based on your imported saved game? That is, is it possible to eliminate one or more of the new endings based on your previous actions?

Asked by Steve the Maker

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Without getting too heavy on spoilers:

Yes.

The ending is affected by some choices in Mass Effect 2. There is no choice that allows for all endings, so there isn't a 'better' option here.

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Spoiler: Question about Assassin's Creed Revelations story

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I've just finished my first play-through revelations yesterday, and something is bothering me since.

It's about the apple which Altair hides in the library with him. Where did it come from? It can't be the same one from the previous games, because this one is still there when Ezio opens the library (I think). And if there are many apples, then why didn't the templars found them?

Is there something that I've missed? (It's not impossible, as I was already quite tired and sleepy by the end).

Asked by ivant

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This whole answer is chock full of spoilers about the AC universe and story. Hopefully you already knew this from the huge spoiler tag in the question. :)

There are multiple Pieces of Eden in the Assassin's Creed universe. The Templars are searching for them in the first game, which is why they're curious about Desmond's memories of Altair - at the end of the first game he holds the Piece of Eden and it displays a globe with locations marked. These are the locations of other Pieces of Eden.

In some of the "secret" memories that you can use to unlock "The Truth" in the series, you're told that Pieces of Eden have influenced or allowed great leaders from history to rise to power. The Templars plan to use many Pieces of Eden, in concert with a vast amplification network, to extend their control over the entire world at once.

The Piece of Eden that Ezio locates in Assassin's Creed 2 is different from the one Altair had - this one the Templars have already recovered from wherever it had been previously hidden or kept. Ezio takes it from the Templars twice, and finally hides it for Desmond and the Assassin team to recover later in AC: Brotherhood. (This is the piece Desmond takes right before stabbing Lucy)

At the end of Revelations, Ezio recovers Altair's Piece of Eden, which Altair had possessed from the end of the events of the first game until his death. The memories that Ezio recovers from the library keys tell the story of how this device effected the assassin brotherhood in the years following the original game.

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Does the storyline end exactly at level 50 or it goes on?

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I'm about level 40 with my character, and still in Act 2. I'm wondering if the storyline (Act 3 and Epilogue) finish pretty much exactly at the time you get the 50th level, or does the storyline continues for a couple of hours of gameplay after you reached the level cap?

Asked by Fredy31

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I've dinged 50 during the final class storyline mission on both of my level 50's, but based on conversations with others, that seems to be a lucky coincidence.

The class storyline continues through Corellia, the final planet, which is tuned for levels 48-50, and generally ends with a series of visits to class specific locales (think space stations, ships, obscure planet only for your class, that sort of thing), tuned for a max level or near max level character.

That said, you could easily hit 50 well before doing it if you have a lot of 'extracurricular (PvP, FP's, bonus series, space missions, etc.)' XP coming in, or get there much sooner with a high level buddy tagging along to kill things for you, so YMMV.

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Does Skyrim implement different endings?

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Not much to add here — I would like to know if Skyrim implements multiple endings.

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There is no "ending" in Elder Scrolls games. There's the main quest line, but the game doesn't end: it just wraps up like any other quest chain.

That is, if you decide to finish the main quest line and

Defeat Alduin

the NPCs related to that quest will react¹ to the outcome.

If you don't, or even if you do, you'll just keep playing until you get bored. NPCs will continue to react differently depending on what you've done throughout the game, not just in the main quest line.

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^{Note 1}: Depending on your actions, there's a specific cutscene that may or may not trigger:

After Season Unending, the Blades will demand that you kill Paarthurnax. If you don't oblige, Paarthurnax will tell you of his plans to reform dragons and teach them the Way of the Voice once Alduin is defeated.

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Does Karate Champ ever end?

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I'm in a nostalgic mood today, when I found an old arcade machine of Karate Champ:

After beating everyone to the 8th level and losing, I was thinking: Does this game ever end? Or this is a game like River Raid that never ends?

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Based on the fact that people are still setting high scores on this game (exceeding a million points!), I don't believe it ever ends. You'll just keep facing the master over and over again until you fail.

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Does Seven Minutes have a secret ending?

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I noticed that if you run against a block then jump, you can jump arbitrarily high. I've tried to use this to get out of the first room from the top, instead of from the right, but didn't manage.

Is it possible to do so? Does it actually give a different ending to the game?

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If you are looking for an alternate ending, have you tried not leaving the first room at all?

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I blew up Vault 19 — so why does the ending act like I didn't?

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I just finished New Vegas, siding with the NCR. This was my fourth run-through. This time around, I blew up Vault 19. (It seems that being "Very Good" karmically involved a lot of blowing up established environments -- Vault 19, the Brotherhood, I could go on ... )

So I get to the end-game, and I'm told that the Vault 19 Powder Gangers continued to torment the wasteland for years, preying on citizens of the NCR.

What? I blew them up. Like, exploded the Vault. Kablooey! Is this a glitch, or does the game just not have a separate ending slide for, "the Courier destroyed all the evil ex-cons and the NCR lived happily ever after?"

Answer

According to the Fallout New Vegas Wiki you have to talk to Philip Lem about the future of the Powder gangers, otherwise you get the incorrect ending. There are four different endings for the Vault 19 Powder gangers.

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How can I prevent the untimely demise of John's wife?

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So far the only "happy" end I found was the one where John and Molly are cured and sit in the park. Unfortunately, that involves

having to go to work on every occasion, which results in

John's wife comitting suicide.

The only path that did not let John find his wife dead

cheating on her so she leaves for her mother with Molly

is not very satisfying. Is there happier ending for all of them?

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There's a few videos on this page that go over the various endings. Although it's possible there's a perfect ending where everything is fine, I highly doubt it.

The entire game is a meditation on making tough choices - you can put aside your own happiness and needs in order to save the planet, or you can spend a few more hours with your family, thereby sacrificing everyone's future.

The game wants to put you in a terrible situation and make you think about how you'd choose. Feeling the effects of those choices is central to the experience. Having an ending where everything works out fine for everyone is kind of counter to the message the game is trying to send, so I find it highly unlikely that one exists.

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How many different endings are there for Cave Story?

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I don't know a lot about the game but I've heard you can go for the "best ending". So, how many endings are there and what things do you do differently to get them?

No spoilers please.

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There are 3 different endings.

Getting the worst ending involves opting to end the game early by talking to a certain NPC. You won't get to do the final dungeon sequences or fight the final boss. You can always say "No" or just not talk to the NPC, so it's not something you can really accidentally do or get shoehorned into.

The normal ending is gotten by following a standard playthrough, turning down the option to end the game early, and going through the final dungeon and boss. It's fairly straight forward, and what you'll most likely get on your first playthrough.

The best ending is achieved by following specific requirements at certain points in the game. It's very difficult to explain without any spoilers, but it involves skipping certain events and items to get better items at a later point, and making sure you follow through on an optional sequence of events. This opens up an extra dungeon after the final boss that would have to be cleared. Few people achieve this ending without knowing that it exists and the required steps, as they are fairly unintuitive at some points.
A guide to getting the best ending can be found in this question, if you wish to see how to get it.

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Will killing a Little Sister change the game's ending?

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I accidentally harvested a Little Sister, but it had been so long since my last save that I didn't want to reload, and just kept playing. Now I've found out that apparently the game's ending changes depending on whether you harvest or rescue the Little Sisters. Will one accidental kill ruin my chances at the "good" ending?

I tried to Google this, and the various answers out there are about 50/50 "Even a single kill will change the ending" or "You have to kill at least two or three before anything changes." Because of that, I'd appreciate some kind of source for the answer if possible.

ETA: I got the good ending despite killing one little sister on the PC version of the game.

Answer

You should be OK, as long as you avoid harvesting any more little sisters.

From the IGN Game Guide (my emphasis added):

There are two possible endings for BioShock that depend on how you treated little sisters throughout the game. If you choose to "harvest" more than one little sister, you will get the bad BioShock ending. If, however, you "harvest" no more than one little sister but "rescue" the others, you will get the good BioShock ending.

However, there are two bad endings, depending upon how bad you have been. Various YouTube videos show them all.

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What is that ASCII Art From the Portal Credits

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The end credits to Portal include a bunch of ASCII art, but one of them is really hard to make out. The one below looks like some sort log-cake or something. I’ve tried resizing it up and down, but it did not make it any clearer.

My best guess (if I really squint and stretch my imagination) is that it is supposed to be one of GLaDOS’s spheres.

Can anyone shed some light on what it is supposed to be?

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According to the ASCII art it's "GLADOS"

Check this page. Look at the second post, click Show and scroll down to GLADOS you'll see the same ASCII art there in reference to that name.

EDIT: In case that page goes away here it is

"GLADOS1" "[12.000]       #+ @      # #              M#@   "
"GLADOS2" "[12.000] .    .X  X.%##@;# #   +@#######X. @#%  "
"GLADOS3" "[12.000]   ,==.   ,######M+  -#####%M####M-    #"
"GLADOS4" "[12.000]  :H##M%:=##+ .M##M,;#####/+#######% ,M#"
"GLADOS5" "[12.000] .M########=  =@#@.=#####M=M#######=  X#"
"GLADOS6" "[12.000] :@@MMM##M.  -##M.,#######M#######. =  M"
"GLADOS7" "[12.000]             @##..###:.    .H####. @@ X,"
"GLADOS8" "[12.000]   ############: ###,/####;  /##= @#. M "
"GLADOS9" "[12.000]           ,M## ;##,@#M;/M#M  @# X#% X# "
"GLADOS10" "[12.000].%=   ######M## ##.M#:   ./#M ,M #M ,#$ "
"GLADOS11" "[12.000]##/         $## #+;#: #### ;#/ M M- @# :"
"GLADOS12" "[12.000]#+ #M@MM###M-;M #:$#-##$H# .#X @ + $#. #"
"GLADOS13" "[12.000]      ######/.: #%=# M#:MM./#.-#  @#: H#"
"GLADOS14" "[12.000]+,.=   @###: /@ %#,@  ##@X #,-#@.##% .@#"
"GLADOS15" "[12.000]#####+;/##/ @##  @#,+       /#M    . X, "
"GLADOS16" "[12.000]   ;###M#@ M###H .#M-     ,##M  ;@@; ###"
"GLADOS17" "[12.000]   .M#M##H ;####X ,@#######M/ -M###$  -H"
"GLADOS18" "[12.000]    .M###%  X####H  .@@MM@;  ;@#M@      "
"GLADOS19" "[12.000]      H#M    /@####/      ,++.  / ==-,  "
"GLADOS20" "[12.000]               ,=/:, .+X@MMH@#H  #####$="

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End of the main storyline

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So I finished the main story. I got back to Tamriel, expected some kind of a ... reward. You know, for saving the world etc. But nobody I've spoken to seems to care at all about that. Am I doing something wrong or is the main storyline actually ... not that 'main'?

In Oblivion, after finishing the game, I got a title, equipment, everybody talked to me like to a hero, there was this big Martin Dragon in the Talos Plaza in IC, but nothing grandiose seems to be here this time :/

I don't mean this question as a request for opinions, I know that is not allowed at stackexchange, I just want to know if that's really it?

Answer

A guard in Whiterun said "Hail Dragonkin, hero of Skyrim" to me, which I thought was awful nice. And someone else thanked me for ending a great evil or something.

But yeah, overall it feels like people could be a little nicer, given that I prevented the world from ending...

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In Skyrim, can you play past the game's final quest?

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Bethesda games, sadly, have been going downhill with respect to playing past the ending quest:

• In Oblivion, you could play past the game's ending and even got a special piece of armor from it.
• In Fallout 3, you couldn't play past the ending without buying the Broken Steel DLC.
• In Fallout: New Vegas, you couldn't play past the ending. Period.

How does Skyrim handle the ending mission in this respect?

Answer

Quoting developer Todd Howard:

"When you finish the main quest you’ll be able to continue playing.”

And in reponse to if Skyrim's ending will be like Fallout 3, where you had to buy DLC:

"No, that was a mistake."

Source:
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Are there multiple endings to Dark Souls?

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Are there multiple endings to Dark Souls? If yes, how many, and how is it determined which ending will be played? Please try to not tell what the ending are, I'm still at the beginning of the game, and I don't want to be spoiled too much.

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There are two, and they are determined by a choice you have to make following the final boss fight.

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What was the point in reaching the Vault in Borderlands?

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Warning: this contains spoilers, I don't consider necessary to add markdown to cover them because the tags should be sufficient for you to not read if you don't want to be spoiled in the ending of the game.

I finished the main campaign in Borderlands (DLCs pending yet, but I don't think my answer is there), I reached the Vault, was expecting riches that'd blow my mind, and all I got was one big monster.

Perhaps I missed it in some dialog, but what was the point in opening it for that? Was the plan of the woman that guides you throughout the game for you to kill that monster?

She even says that the vault cannot be opened again for 200 years, will the monster re-spawn then and has to be killed again?

Was the monster protecting something? If it was, why not entering the vault after killing it?

I really liked the game but was disappointed by the ending (or most likely didn't get it).

Answer

It is true that the Borderlands ending is one of the most disappointing endings that a game ever had. Quoting Paul Helquist, senior designer:

I think what's great about where we did leave the player is that we have pretty much infinite options of where we want to go next[...]
[...]The ending of the game, for better or worse, didn't paint us into any corners.

So what I presume is that they will dig deeper into the story around the Vault in Borderlands 2 (released somewhere between 04-2012 and 03-2013).

To give you a little bit satisfaction from the ending, consider this explanation I found on the web a while ago, that made the ending slightly more acceptable:

The world is named Pandora, implying that something can be opening from it, this being the Vault. The legend of pandora's box detailed that the greatest evils of mankind were locked away in it, and someone was foolish enough to open it. Once the evil was released only one slither of goodness was left within, and that was hope. So think of the Destroyer as evil in a physical form, sealed away in Pandora's box so to speak, and the character you are playing is the one final hope for the planet.

I do hope that the ending in Borderlands 2 will be a better one than its prequel's.

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Does Yoshi B-type have an ending?

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Does the NES version of Yoshi (a.k.a. Yoshi's Egg, Mario & Yoshi) have an ending when playing the B-type game, or does the game just keep getting faster?

If there is not an ending, how many different fruits are there on the interstitials?

Answer

1. Mushroom
2. Fire Flower
3. Piranha Plant
4. Shell
5. Star
6. Apple
7. Apple
8. Strawberry
9. Strawberry
10. Melon
11. Melon
12. Plum?
13. Plum?
14. Grapes
15. Grapes
16. Pineapple

I've seen pineapple repeat three times times, so I'm going to assume that's the last fruit, and there is no end.

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The ending for Super Mario World (Wii Virtual-Console)

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I recently just beat the game on the Wii Virtual Console and the ending was just Mario, the Princess, and Luigi standing there. Does nothing else happen?

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After the credits roll and Mario/Luigi, Peach, and Yoshi make it all the way back to "Yoshi's House" and the eggs hatch, it shifts to the tableau of Mario, Luigi, and Peach (that you mention).

For the SNES and virtual console version of this game, that's all there is to it -- there's no new game plus option, and no way to save the game after beating bowser. The Gameboy advance version of Super Mario World (It was rereleased as Super Mario Advance 2: Super Mario World ) however, featured additional content after the game ended while collecting all the dragon coins. But, as this was specific to the gameboy advance port of the game, yes, that final tableau is really the end.

Edit: Actually, I'm not positive about the GBA port. It depends on whether or not Bowser's castle level has dragon coins, I suppose.

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Are my ending options restricted depending on secondary objectives completed?

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In the last level proper of DE:HR, you are given two secondary objectives which eventually match up with two of the possible choices at the end of the game.

If you do not complete these objectives, are you unable to make the corresponding choice at the ending?

If so, how are you restricted? Do the corresponding switches simply remain non-interactive?

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You are correct. You will not be able to access the ending corresponding to any of the two secondary objectives left incomplete - at the time when you make your choice Eliza simply won't mention them and the buttons will be unavailable.

The other two endings are always available regardless of what happens.

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What was the ultimate resolution of “The President Is Missing”?

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"The President Is Missing" was a computer game back in the paleolithic era, roughly 1986, IIRC. It had a conspiracy theme, and was accompanied by a cassette tape of evidence. It was great fun, but I never unlocked any sort of definitive answer as to what the whole game was about.

Does anyone else here remember this game, and if so, do you have any thoughts on what was going on?

TIA.

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According to the Wikipedia article, the game never actually ended. You are supposed to write a report and send it to the game's creators.

So like a real government employee, you can write a report that can be ignored and buried. ;)

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