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> Fextralife says the devs didn't have an immediate answer for how many main endings the game will feature, though it'll certainly be way fewer than 17,000. But
by add-sub-mul-div 3y ago
> Fextralife says the devs didn't have an immediate answer for how many main endings the game will feature, though it'll certainly be way fewer than 17,000. But if there are that many variations to reflect the course of numerous small decisions made over the course of the game, you can still color me impressed.
You can roll a die five times and get 8000 different endings. It sounds like they're trying to use numbers to make something sound more impressive than it is because they know people won't do the math.
- falcor84 3y agoTo nitpick, unless I'm missing something, a 6-sided die rolled 5 times should only give you 7776 (6^5) different sequences.
- bgirard 3y ago> unless I'm missing something Rounding up I presume
- spott 3y agoDepends on how they do it. If each ending just the linear combination of 5 different choices? Or are they actually creating something new for each combination? Essentially, how independent are those 5 choices? An ending that is 5 different cutscenes smashed together isn’t impressive. But if those 5 choices interact than things get more impressive.
- bluefirebrand 3y agoBut you know which one it will be right? There's no way they wrote, designed and recorded 17000 endings with even minutes differences. This will be a standard "your choices matter" ending that has like 6 cutscenes and each cutscene has maybe 3 or 4 variants spliced into it depending on your romance options, alignment, and completed quests. I almost guarantee it's nothing we haven't seen before in games. I'll happily eat my words if I'm wrong.
- m463 3y agobut it says something different in the article: > 17,000. That's how many permutations of Baldur's Gate 3's ending you might come across, the result of hundreds of choices across dozens of hours of gameplay.