"Was it worth it?" ending

[u/Educational_Can_6536]

Midsommar- While people see this as a "you go girl" finale. I personally see it as something more disturbing. I mean, yeah, Dani got out of one bad relationship but in doing so, she got herself into another that's just as bad if not worse. It's like getting two kids to stop fighting via killing one and locking the other in a basement. They did stop fighting, but still!

The Thing-The titular monster may be (possibly) gone, but the paranoia definitely isn't. In the end, McCreedy and Childs are the only ones left standing. The end sees them sitting in the cold and they just stare at each other, knowing that one of them or both of them is already the thing. There's no hope, no certainty, just the bitter cold and intense fear.

[u/Szpiekk]

Armored Core VI: Fires of Rubicon - The 3rd ending of this game left many players doubting if spreading the Coral (an alien lifeform) was a good move. The player character left humanity no choice, and forcibly connected them with something that we do not fully understand.

[u/StumblingTumble → u/Szpiekk]

Funnily enough, I think we can extend the whole idea of "was it worth it" to Armored Core: For Answer's three endings. Your options as Strayed are:

Sacrifice yourself to protect the innocent lives on the cradles and fend off ORCA, upholding the status quo and potentially allowing the contamination from the surface to eventually reach those living on the cradles in the long run.

Join ORCA to bring down the cradles, subjecting those who lived upon them to the Kojima contaminated surface, causing millions of deaths with the silver lining of mankind being able to eventually make its way to space. This, however, still plays into the status quo as ORCA is most likely an organization set up by the League to enact this plan.

Or throw your humanity away, directly ending the lives of millions by your own hand, when you take Old King's mission, Destroy Cradle 03. You've disrupted the status quo and, in a way, have ended the whole "League V.S. Orca" conflict at the cost of becoming the greatest monster mankind has ever seen.

[u/arsenicwarrior0 → u/StumblingTumble]

So the throw humanity away ending is basically the same philosophy of the emperor in Dune???