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Cyberpunk 2077 The Star ending which is the one where you leave with the Aldecados.
Then there are a couple of endings that left me with complete dread/empty but I am not going to say more if you played the game you know what I mean.
The "short" ending was a brave choice on the designers parts. Credits roll was awful... Still my favourite ending.
Okay that one I didn't try it, but I see what you mean.
I just finished my CP2077 (first) play-thru. I had no fore-knowledge of game or outcomes. When I play RPGs, I abide by a strict "choices matter - there are no mulligans", in that I won't fish reloaded saves for "better" outcomes. If I make a bad choice, I live with it.
About a week before I finished, I was having dinner with some friends who had played it already and they were probing me to see how I think the game would end. I said, matter of factly, "Oh, I think my V is doomed, like Arthur [RDR2] was doomed."
And if there was a magic happy ending in Phantom Liberty, as there seemed there might be because Sol pointedly asked V twice "Are you sure you don't want it?", my V had given it to Songbird.
When I came to the pinch at climax where Jonny presents you with your options and you have to pick what to do, I probably sat on that dialog wheel for 15 minutes. I'd vacillate between the options presented and listen and watch carefully how Jonny reacted and think things through. I had played a V who was never comfortable with the loss of his autonomy and desired, more than anything, to live his own life his own way. This V was also sort of a mensch, too, inclined to empathy and sympathy. He had pity for Jonny's situation. After much contemplation, V reached out to Panam - I would say almost desperately as it seemed the only path that really gave V any hope - and events ensued and they arrived at what I called "The Sunset Ending" (which I considered a great success).
I felt I had arrived at a very satisfactory conclusion for this V and I really have no desire (in a good way!) to play CP more - the story was over, if bittersweet.
The feeling of completeness matched reaching the Sunrise Ending in RDR2, which kinda devastated me.
Yeah the story was bittersweet I would say in a good way.
I played the game at a moment not long after I had lost a close family member, so perhaps that skewed my perception of it.
I have played the game since, but I stopped before the ending!