• antaymonkey@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I’m sure that, while 17k may be mathematically and technically true, they’re going to be virtually indistinguishable. I’m pretty hyped for the game but I also don’t care for the obviously clickbait claim.

    • LetMeEatCake@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      I agree and I suspect companions are carrying a lot of the weight for this calculation.

      Hypothetically, if there’s 10 companions with 10 individual endings each you’d get 100 endings right there. Add in 10 main endings and you get 1000, add in 4 major side quests and 4 variations each and you’re at 16,000 ending variations.

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        1 year ago

        Since it’s variations of the combined ending, each permutation would count as unique. Meaning that 10 companions with 10 endings each would total 10.000.000.000 variations,

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      1 year ago

      It’s nice to know the ending will touch upon your actions thoroughly, but I suspect it will be a lot like the The Witcher 3 technically having 40-something “endings” (but really it’s just 3 major outcomes with some variations on the details).