So I choose to go home to spend my remaining days with her, and what do I get? She breaks up with me in the credits and tells me she’s moving away. It was just bizarre because I had been talking to Judy this entire time, and called her from the space station where she said she was eager for me to get home. I picked going back to earth, which resulted in an ending so jarring I thought it was bugged, but now I realize maybe it’s not. You end up in a space station with Arasaka running tests on you, and are given the choice between going back to earth where you only have six months to live (the Johnny surgery didn’t save your life after all) or you can go to soul prison. The Arasaka daughter allows the soul prisoned version of her father to take over his son’s body, and the company is stronger than ever, and declares war on Militech. Johnny essentially calls you a coward and you leave on horrible terms. And while I wanted to see Panam again, this seemed like a game that would kill her off for shock value, and it felt like an unnecessary risk to try and have my entire Nomad family save my life. The idea that Johnny and Rogue would go in and storm Arasaka Tower for a third time when the last two attempts had gone disastrously seemed like a stupid plan.

I picked the Arasaka ending, which may make me a corpo sellout, but I had good reason at the time. Ready, alright, actual spoilers ahead now.

This is about all I can say without going into spoilers, and I do want to discuss these more in depth now for people who have already picked them, talking about why they’re good or bad. As most players have figured out, life path means nothing except a short intro mission and some different dialogue options, another more or less broken promise from CDPR. None of these endings require you to have picked a specific life path. I would really advise picking this ending unless you want to leave the game on a sour note. The Nomad ending is easily the best one and feels like the one the game will consider “canon.” It wraps up all the storylines nicely and feels like the most natural ending for the game. The Johnny ending is definitely better but was still not my favorite.

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