6fbe06 No.16934104
Can you name a video game that has a hidden ending you can trigger really early on in the game?
Like Far Cry 4's hidden ending if you sit still for 15 minutes at the dinner table at the beginning of the game.
That's not the only example of an "early ending" in a game, right?
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a69823 No.16934107
in Chrono Trigger you can get the dev room ending if you beat Lavos at the Ocean Palace, even in the first playthrough before NG+. It's doubtful you'll do it without severe grind though; he's twice as powerful as normal
in NG+ you can go fight him before you even do your first time travel
Cave Story's abandonment ending
the Disaster Report series has occasional abandonment endings
in Golden Sun if you don't agree to take responsibility for saving the world and leave the room you will get a nonstandard game over
in the Metal Max series you can usually decide to stop adventuring any time, take over your dad's shop, marry a nearby girl and settle down, etc. It will then happily talk about all the adventures you're not having
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a12da8 No.16934111
>>16934104
Staying in bed in the beginning of wario land 2 gives you a whole new adventure.
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a69823 No.16934124
>>16934111
>love Wario Land 2
>had no fucking idea
well shit, off to play it again
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683f0a No.16934131
I wouldn't call it an ending, but Snake Rattle and Roll had a warp in the first level that took you to close to the game's ending. Specifically, level 8 in a game that had 10 levels + a final boss. Just had to gun towards the end of the first level to catch a rocket launching.
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52d672 No.16934135
Fallout 1 allows you to end the game midway through by failing to find the water chip. You just go back to the vault and everything's fucked in a month.
>>16934124
>He didn't know
Damn, I'm slightly derisive of you for being ignorant but more jealous that you get to play it for the first time.
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660956 No.16934136
>>16934111
Damn, I just came in here to post this as well. Yeah, it's not quite an ending, but it unlocks another branch and it's necessary for 100% completion.
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a045bf No.16934137
There's a secret ending in the Dying Light DLC that as far as I can remember is disconnected from the events of the story. It's been a while since I've last played it so I'm not sure if you can go for it as soon as you start the game but maybe you could.
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a12ae8 No.16934152
Ff9 has a secret ending I think, it's been over a decade since I've played it so I cant recall. I think you had to do a bunch of minigames
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a12ae8 No.16934153
>>16934152
I misunderstood the op. Just filter me
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c7dc1e No.16934154
>>16934104
I honestly don't know what to think about these endings, especially the Far Cry 4/5 ones, as they seem like the only good endings. After seeing them, I don't really want to play the game anymore, as no matter what I do, I know I'll just make things worse.
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7c8039 No.16934155
Invidious embed. Click thumbnail to play.
Super Paper Mario has a possible ending in the first ten minutes. Skip to 7 minutes into the video.
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6fbe06 No.16934157
>>16934155
Nice! Even if it's more of a "game over" than an "ending", that's exactly the sort of thing I was hoping to hear about in this thread.
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7c8039 No.16934159
Persona PSP has a secret second campaign that can only be triggered by investigating the school at the start of the game.
> The Snow Queen Quest is unlocked by performing a number of actions after returning to St. Hermelin High School after the Mikage Hospital, but before leaving through the hole in the wall (which puts the protagonist on the main, or SEBEC, quest)
To go to the Snow Queen Quest:
Talk to the female student (女子生徒) in Class 2-4
Talk to Tsutomu (黒瓜) in the Library on the 3F
Head to the Drama Club (演劇部) at the St. Hermelin Gym on the 1F and talk to the people inside. (Walk through the emergency exit on the 1F, pass through the trash burner in the 1F Passageway, and walk along. You'll enter another map. You'll find an indoor gym, walk around the outside of the gym and you'll find some club rooms at the other end. The Drama Club is at the first door, but also visit the other rooms cause you'll get some extra equipments)
Head back up to the 3F and talk to the people in the Student Council Room (生徒会)
Go downstairs to the 1F and talk to Principal Ooishi (大石校長) in the Principal's Office (校長室)
Now go back to St. Hermelin Gym, go inside the Gym (体育館) and go through the door next to the stage. You'll enter the Gym Storage (倉庫). Take the item, Snow Queen Mask (雪の女王の仮面), from inside the box.
Head back to the 1F Passageway and watch the scene.
Instead of a new ending this basically triggers an whole new game that's nearly as long as the main quest. Because the game encourages you to immediately leave the school, most players end up not even knowing the SQQ exists.
There is also a secret party member that can only be unlocked through certain actions including refusing other party members, who ends up being extremely relevant to the main quest's plot.
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f82ce8 No.16934161
>>16934159
This sounds like some mew under the truck bullshit.
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7c8039 No.16934162
Invidious embed. Click thumbnail to play.
>>16934157
And lastly here is a Good End that can be achieved in the first few minutes of the game Zero Time Dilemma, skip to 3 minutes into the video.
This one isn't so secret just because it's literally a 50-50 chance to guess the side that's facing up.
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7c8039 No.16934164
>>16934161
it was so well hidden that the translators for the PSX version just cut it out, either because they figured nobody would find it, or they didn't find out about it themselves until the release date was too close
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f82ce8 No.16934166
>>16934164
was it ever translated?
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7c8039 No.16934167
>>16934164
Also going that route is the only way to meet Tamaki, who is the female protagonist of SMT If…
She gives you a rapier because her demon summoner intuition tells her you'll need it. She ends up playing a bigger role in Persona 2. You also meet her love interest who is a self-insert of one of the Atlus developers.
Yeah, Persona 1 is pretty weird.
>>16934166
Yes, if you play the PSP version.
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dd955e No.16934174
>>16934135
In F1 you can also shoot the overseer at the end of the game, you'll get a unique (and slightly overdone) animation. There was also an exploit allowing you to enter the vault if you shoot and miss.
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aee3ff No.16934177
Outer Wilds; you can complete the entire game in 18 minutes if you know how, and that is the entire point.
But you can also get a hidden game over in an otherwise un-losable game by creating an infinite black hole loop with your scout in the high energy lab.
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9cd4bf No.16934185
>>16934167
>Also going that route is the only way to meet Tamaki
Not necessarily. You can meet her, receive her sword and proceed with the SEBEC quest without activating Snow Queen.
Another fun fact is that, although Tamaki was originally the SMTif fem protag, Persona writer Satomi adapted her into an avatar of his real-life celebrity crush Yuki Uchida, who also practiced fencing in high school.
Satomi was an absolute mad lad.
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f887ed No.16934195
>>16934177
There's another that triggers when you run out of fuel and get too far away from the galaxy.
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7f4a12 No.16934207
In Phantasy Star III, you can sell your shoes and buy a escapipe on your way to the castle. After you get locked up for threatening to start a war after your bride is kidnapped during your wedding, you're supposed to meet Lena who breaks you out of jail. But, if you use the escapipe to warp out, the game breaks and you can't proceed. If you talk to the King, he'll tell you that you fucked up and need to reset the console.
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7de081 No.16934208
>>16934161
>he didn't get mew from the truck
Laughing sluts.jpeg
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c41b83 No.16934209
Second Sight has a secret ending/game over. The tutorial at the start of the game has you go through some obstacle and shooting range in some military facility. There's a room that you can enter containing a rifle with live rounds, if you walk around with it someone just takes it away from you and tells you not to fuck around with live ammo, but if you do shoot people up infinite soldiers spawn in until you die, where your character is in an interrogation room being asked what the hell he was doing and your character breaking down in tears saying he has no idea.
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9d11db No.16934213
DMC5 and INSIDE are most recent ones
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18604b No.16934263
I wouldn't call it "really early" but there's the Demon King route in Rance that happens before the main story really kicks off.
At one point, you need to fetch lemons to prevent the demon king showing up. There's timer on display so it's easy to think it's one of those world-ending quests that'll wait for you to finish it, but if you take too long the demon king does show up and immediately takes over a portion of the map.
The demon king's army is basically unbeatable. If the demon king appears in an actual battle (it's not guaranteed) it can instantly kill everyone in your party on the first turn. Right from the get-go you're told to load a save or start a new game because you can't win.
There is a way to beat the demon king's army semi-legitimately though. There are a set of items you can get that will let your units auto-capture territories at the end of each turn. You can have more of those items than the demon king has turns to capture your own territories. What you can do is basically just avoid fighting until fighting is necessary, then save and reload until you end up in a fight that looks winnable.
If you do manage to eventual push the demon king into their final territory and beat them, they call you a cheater and blow up the world. The end.
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18604b No.16934267
>>16934263
>There's timer on display
There's no timer on display. I fucked up my text.
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5b97a1 No.16934374
>>16934152
>>16934153
Why would I filter such a wholesome cute retarded boy?
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95bcfa No.16934377
>>16934104
Suikoden V. At one point you can agree to marry your cousin and serve as your uncle's pawn instead of going on to become the rebel leader and you get an early bad end.
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95bcfa No.16934378
>>16934159
How would anybody every find out about that shit on their own? This screams like it was created to sell guidebooks.
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88c7b0 No.16934400
In LISA: The Painfull, you can kill Buzzo in the encounter where he take Buddy as hostage, you can choose to fight him which is supposed to be an unwinnable battle, yet you can defeat him by exploting status inducing skills, when defeated he just triggers the end of the world, DINGALIN stated that he had some sort of world ending device, i guess you cant make enemies with infinite hitpoints on RPG maker.
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443d9e No.16934405
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Tales of Destiny has a secret ending. In the beginning of the game, there's a boss fight intended for you to lose. If you win, you get a secret ending and go back to the title screen.
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bcd777 No.16934415
>>16934400
I was under the impression that if you beat him he just fucking kills Buddy, which makes the entire game pointless.
Also, Prey (2017) has a Cave Story style "fuck this shit I'm out" ending where you just leave without actually solving the problem.
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e30f3f No.16934451
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f88e49 No.16934488
>>16934104
Contra Hard Corps for Sega Genesis had one
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636335 No.16934534
>>16934137
>Didn't know about a secret ending
>Look it up
It seems you can do it when the DLC starts. But it is literally just one of the endings of the DLC you would get by playing the game anyhow so you just beat the DLC faster.
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fd00b0 No.16934843
In Disgaea 2, if you lose to Axel in your first encounter with him, he becomes the main character and your game ends. I think it's in like the first couple chapters of the game.
Nier:Automata had a fuck ton of joke endings that ended the game early. The game had an ability system where you collected computer chips to upgrade your damage or unlock new moves, etc. But you could also remove chips that had important functions like putting the HUD on the screen. If you removed the chip with the operating system for 2B/9S,they just crash and your game ends on the spot..You can do this any time.
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6fbe06 No.16934886
>>16934843
Ah, I completely forgot about just taking out the OS chip in Nier…
There are a lot more games with alternate endings / early endings than I expected! Really happy with everything I've seen so far in this thread!
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6439dd No.16935617
>>16934263
Kichikuou Rance has two better examples.
You start that game as the leader of a bandit gang, and this part of the game is basically a tutorial. Normally, this part of the game ends when you end up in a normally unwinnable battle - eventually the Helman authorities wise up to your banditry and then you'll be facing a general with an actual army instead of some crappy city guards. You're supposed to lose, and then Rance barely escapes with his life, ends up in Leazas, and then the real game begins.
However… you can win that battle (even legitimately, if with a lot of grinding and luck). If you do, you'll get a special ending where the enemy general (a woman, of course) is the latest addition to Rance's harem and where Rance's bunch of bandits grow out into the biggest and most notorious bandit gang in the world.
The other secret end is only attainable in the later half of the game. In order to get it, you have to romance the demoness Satella (who will IIRC join you automatically as the main story progresses) and make sure that Sill is not in your party (either wait too long with saving her, or get her turned into a cow by Lia).
At that point, the dormant Demon King, cute little Miki, should be in your care. Once Satella is sufficiently in love with Rance, she will tell Rance that she wants him to become an immortal demon as well so they can always be together. Rance refuses this, because he doesn't want to become a slave to the Demon King. But then Satella tells him that there's a way for him to become the Demon King himself.
If Sill is still in your party, then she'll interrupt this because she suspects that Satella is up to something. But if she isn't, then you'll get a choice between accepting and rejecting Satella's proposal. If you accept, then Rance and Satella will kill the dormant Demon King, Rance will drink its blood, and he'll promptly become the new Demon King.
That one is more of a bad ending more than anything else, though. Rance promptly turns upon all his human friends and allies, and he's stated to be the most brutal Demon King ever. But you do get a brief scene with Kayblis groveling like a pussy before Rance.
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0af00e No.16935674
>>16934166 (Dubs)
It's available on the PSP, but there was data of it on the original PS1 disc of it and was accessible only through cheat devices.
>>16934377 (Dubs)
There's also supposed to be endings for losing certain Duels (like the one against Roy).
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13faa1 No.16937206
>>16934104
Enter the Matrix (ps2). Just pick the blue pill.
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af0a8e No.16937223
>>16935674
>Has to point out dubs because he has a mental problem
And here I thought I was away from cuckchan…
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0af00e No.16937325
>>16937223
>Has to ree over it like a retard because reasons.
>Being this much of a sad sack.
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f17b89 No.16937405
>>16934104
In The Elder Scrolls 2: Daggerfall all your quests are timed, it's not like in skyrim or oblivion where they're suspended indefinitely.
Your main quest has a time limit. If you don't deliver the letter you're given at the start in like 60 days you get branded as a traitor to the empire.
This essentially locks you out of the main quest. Meaning none of the multiple endings happen.
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236a86 No.16937440
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shadow complex hidden ending. your gf gets kidnapped by an evil organization and instead of rescuing her, he just fuck off in his jeep lel
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cea156 No.16937445
The Witness. You can complete the game once you started, if you have an advanced perception ofc. Or if you are able to use searcher.
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e95c4b No.16937498
>>16937405
That game is so archaic though, finding the person to give the letter to will likely take 60 days IRL time unless you have a strategy guide.
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a69823 No.16937507
>>16937405
the only timed start to a story quest is meeting Lady Brisanna, and you have plenty of time if you just go to the fucking map when you receive the letter
the rest of the timed quests are guild jobs
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