I chose Sarifs ending first, then I watched the self-destruction.

Sarifs ending was my choice because I didn’t want to slow down the development of technology. I did not want to go with Taggard, because of his connections to Illuminati.

Good technology will always be used to bad things, limiting development because of this doesn’t make sense.

Some regulations could be good, but meh its just game :D

@ peterix:

Yeah, why wasn’t there “Fuck it all!” option where you just walk away, disgusted with the whole thing, and let the authorities who arrive to evacuate/rescue people view all the tapes and sort it all out.

@ xWittaker:

Good point. I think the best ending would be to out the Illuminati, allow for tighter regulation but at the same time force Sarif to unveil the patient 0 vaccine that would remove people’s dependency on the neuropazine (sp?). This way everyone wins.

As for the bio-chip thing – that sort of thing is not entirely uncommon. I mean, look at the current computer hardware market. Most of the machines you will buy will either have Intel or AMD chips, no?

So I could easily see how a company could corner the bio-chip market – especially in its early stages when the human-machine interfaces are still mostly experimental and patented. Fast forward a decade or two, and the entry to the market may be much easier allowing for greater competition. But at the time the game takes place it almost seems like the few big corps are holding all the crucial patents, and have nearly complete monopoly on the aug-market.

I chose the Sarif ending, but wasn’t completely satisfied with any of the choices. What I would have preferred is an ending where you just distribute the patient zero vaccine-thing (whatever it was), notify everyone of the backdoor to the biochip, and then just sit back and let humanity sort it out.

You’d have an initial negative reaction to the backdoor scandal, but that would prompt tighter regulation. The patient zero vaccine however would make augmentation safer and easier than ever, which I think would counteract the negative effect of the scandal.

As it was, the options they gave you seemed unnecessarily deceptive and heavy-handed.

One thing that always bugged me about the game was how there was pretty much one company that controlled the vast majority of bio-chips (Tai-Yong). You have one company with that much power and you’re bound to have trouble. Proper regulation, skepticism, and safety would have basically shut down the plot before it even got under way.

I kind of thought it would have been interesting if they had explored the neuropozyne dependency issue more. Turn it into a “how much of your freedom are you willing to give up for a bit of power” kind of thing.

None of them. If there was a fifth ending that involved me leaving the damn place to its own doom and downing a few beers in a pub, I’d pick that ;)

Hell, why not send all the messages at the same time, evacuate the people, blow the place up and then have a few beers? And I’d use that camera while talking to Darrow. Send every damn word he said and let the world see what happened and who’s responsible.
And not die in a self-destructing base in the middle of nowhere. That’s stupid.