I genuinely felt bad to do this ending and he pulled that “it’s ok V” and “Valerie”. I loved seeing the relationship grow between V and him. Definitely one of the best story in gaming
@@bleenyx I, personally, think it's the opposite - for me, this and Temperance(where V gives theirs body, instead of Johnny taking it) are one of the best stories, that always manage to make tears go to my eyes. Are they sad? 100%, but I disagree that they're bad, imo
@@sebulller Pre Arasaka raid Johnny? nah. Time to reflect and grow the fuck up while chipped in someone's head Johnny? Yes. I'd kill to have his construct to talk to. Always have an absolute real one to confide in about anything regardless of how impulsive and rough he can be. He'll never lie to you, that's a hard trait to find in people
Hopped into Phantom Liberty and went straight to the Who Wants to Live Forever ending. I had completed Tapeworm, but did not do Chippin' In. Was at about 70% friendship. We had mostly a somber conversation, with Johnny acknowledging what we had while lamenting what we could have been, tossing in a little guilt trip here and there. Did leave with this final dialogue though: Johnny: Think we can find it in our heart to forgive each other? >>YES NO Johnny: Think I can too. Thought that felt really powerful and bittersweet.
@@icydec3346I used my old save from 2021 to start the DLC and I wasn’t really the kindest to him back then. Never said I’d take a bullet for him, never smoked for him, never fully agreed with his terrorist vendetta against Arasaka, etc. I did get every good dialogue with him at his grave back then though, but the only reason for that was because he wasn’t being a dick at that time and actually opens up to you in one of his most heartfelt scenes. So when I started Phantom Liberty with that save, after two years, I was super happy to see him again as a player. Tried my best to stay nice to him despite him being an asshole towards me because of my old choices I guess and then I got to that final conversation and he just shat on me the whole flight. And despite me feeling awful about killing him, none of the dialogue options allowed me to bring that up which only put salt in the wound. Man, that whole conversation really hurt haha
@@ieruzaI also got that one. At least it gave me peace knowing Johnny forgave V in the end despite not seeing eye to eye on things. But man, I’d take the base game endings over any of the Phantom Liberty ones any day, minus the Arasaka one.
to get this ending, you have to do the johnny questline and reach the point where he asks you whether he atleast managed to save the relationship between him and V. You tell him no, you fucked that up too. After that give him a second chance at friendship and you are straight. Immediate 100% relationship with johnny.
I only have 85% and I reached the oil fields grave and basically picked the convos that johnny liked. He was still mad on the plane ride. Is that the mission you're talking about? Maybe you need to finish all his sidequests and not just some.
@@nathanacreman632 you can't juat take all the options he likes, sometimes you gotta give him bitter truths, else he'll see you as a "fan" or think you have pity on him. He will still like you but not be best bros. There are plenty guides out there about the "right" dialogues
Got robbed of this ending because of one goddamn dialogue choice even though I did everything to get 85% relationship with Johnny. One decision by the devs making that 85% mean fuck all- thanks for the upload. My V deserved that last talk.
This and Constantine. He plays a serious, sarcastic ass with a heart of gold really well. People laud him for John Wick and the Matrix films, but I like his more bitter-edged roles with a tint of sarcasm more.
The writing for this ending was truly great. Shows that in Vs desire to live he basically lost everything. In a sense this is possibly the worst ending yet its the ending every player would ideally want. Another great thing about this ending is it shows no matter what ending you pick V ends up hurting/ruining someones life one way or another. I.e if you leave eith Panam, Takemura ends up getting framed and is on the run. If you side with joining Arasaka, Rivers life gets ruined as does Panams. And if you puck to go out with a bang with Johnny the same happens. Basically there is no good ending. Only a choice to make anothers life better or not. That is peak CD Projekt red writing and its done very well when you look in depth.
At a family gathering while I watched this. I had to literally will myself to not cry around my relatives, because I don’t want to tell them that I was crying over an imaginary version of Keanu reeves
That was the most cyberpunk aspect of the whole game. There's a bunch of different endings, but none of them really qualifies as the 'good' one. No matter what way you go, there's loss, regret, and pain, even if it's mixed with something good and new. Damn this game got it right.
this ending fucked me up big time. first time through, i hated johnny to my core. my second time, i actually listened to his story instead of thinking of him as a crazy rockerboy gone mad, and when i got this ending, i didn't want him to go. I truly wanted to keep johnny forever, and I feel that because Johnny got put into our head, he gets his happy ending one way or another
getting this ending had me crying and feeling empty for like 3 days, it made me reflect on my life, my decisions and the friends I lost touch with, it's so painful and gut wrenching
This feels way better than the angry Johnny one, especially how in the regular endings, he's so much more friendly. Also in the angry version it doesn't make sense how he's upset yet he's knows he's gonna be absorbed into Alt anyway.
He's angry because to get the tower you have to be a sellout. You go against everything he believes in and in the end you're basically inflicting the devil ending on someone else. Johnny hates the idea of the powerful being able to overwrite peoples minds above all else, and NUSA caused that in So Mi and you give her over to them again. In this ending he's still upset about it but V's influence has changed him enough that he started to value his friends over his ideals, where in the past he'd use up his friends in pursuit of his ideals.
OMG thank you for this recording!! I finally found what I was looking for! The only other video with half a million views has memes edited in ruining it all. Finally I can hear this convo that I didn't have in my game. In my game he asked "Think we can find the strength in our hearts to forgive each other?", the neutral convo. I think it might be because I started a new game from scratch and skipped to the Phantom Liberty DLC because I had already played the base game on another platform. So my affinity with Johnny must have been not high enough despite the dialog choices I could make in the DLC, sadly. Or maybe it's because I didn't complete any main story quests or sidequests in this playthrough, only did the DLC. That's too bad that I didn't get this very emotional scene in my game, but at least there's always UA-cam! So thank you so much for this!
My affinity was pretty fucink high. I had done everthing right I thought, told him he saved my life at the oil field, all that shit. Dunno why I got the neutral ending. Maybe because I forgot to finish the last quest with kerry on the boat, I dunno. I skipped because i heard female V tries to kiss him without you doing anything or something.
@@chloewebb5526Well, you were told wrong on both cases 1. You need to unlock the secret ending to have this dialogue 2. Kerry's quest doesn't end in a kiss if you don't choose to
To me, for this scene alone, this ending is the one. All the stuff that came after with Vik and Misty was great; it represented both an ending and a new beginning for V, but it all paled in comparison to this sequence right here. Unforgettable in some of the best, and worst, of ways.
that sad thing is.....that this ending was probably worse for V than just dying....... V misses 2 years being in a coma, all the people that knew V had basically moved on with their lives and V is now unable to use cybernetics and thus weaker than most other people......... There is nothing worse for a person who was seeking Glory and notarity than to become just another face in the crowd......
I just finished Phantom Liberty for the first time. Had 85% relationship with Johnny and hadn’t butted heads with him since very early in Act 2 but I didn’t get this dialogue in the AV. He argued and criticized me the entire way and it was a real bummer bc we had come so far together and our last conversation is an argument.
@@BeastyBite for one, ur not killing yourself, at this point in time, you think your saving urself and have no reason to doubt that. Secondly, Johnny isn’t alive, so he can’t be killed, and he’s literally killing you the entire game. If Johnny was has any level of empathy or compassion for you, he would act like he does in this version
i swear this hit harder than a trolley, didn't make me fully cry, but it made me feel empty, this, the temperance ending and arthur's death are the deepest i've felt for a videogame character
There are multiple gut wrenching response from Johnny depending on your dialogue choice. My favorite was talking about death, and his response was, “But honestly? The thought of you gone so I could live always scared me more.” In my mind, it made me feel like despite being my choice to do this, him saying that made it feel more like it was his final sacrifice to save me.
What's annoying is that they could've bolted this on to all the other endings but they decided to make it the equivalent of clocking out of the plot; What stops V from doing any of the other endings just to get payback at Arasaka, remove Johnny and then take the life saving procedure at Langley to retire peacefully with all his/her achievements.
I think it only works that way as it is though. The reality they see is that going to Arasaka means that chooms are probably going to die, Johnny and V both know that. Having Johnny's friendship in that moment means he's finally putting others first, before his ego. It's kinda beautiful and some hella growth for him, doing something for the first person he's ever been true friends with. That said... It would've been interesting to see them blend the endings together somehow, or let bring the tech to Alt and having something weird happen instead of using it for the quiet ending
@@chloewebb5526 Well they could've at least made it a Golden Ending by attaching it to Don't Fear the Reaper. If anything, after going through Phantom Liberty and the Peralez storyline, Mr. Blue Eyes would be the last person V would ever want to deal with.
@@dulio12385because it’s impossible to do the other endings and the tower. In all other ensigns when v goes into micoshi v is soul killed and copied onto the engram. And from what I can understand the surgery V goes through in the tower destroys the engram during removal and V has pretty much all chrome removed. So if v went through with don’t fear the reaper and then tried to do the surgery when the engram is destroyed Vs soul would die and the only thing left would be a vegetative body of V
Its not much of a real choice if you get EVERYTHING then isnt it? In the words of Dexter DeShawn, you either retire for the quiet life, or go out in a blaze of glory. The way this ending plays out against the others (especially Dont Fear The Reaper) just goes to show that CDProjektRed knew exactly what they were doing with the game's narrative and themes.
What is strong about this scene is that it has the same feeling like Konpeki Plaza heist - here you also are saying your last goodbyes to a friend and on top of that, Jackie's Death Theme plays here. We don't see Johnny die but we know what will happen when operation will take place.
This made me hate this ending. It makes it so much more sad. It makes you promise him that you won't let anyone change you, but after you wake up, your whole life is gone. it moved on without you. You aren't allowed to be who you were.
Okay. Before the heist, hitting the major leagues is V's main motivation. After the heist? What is all the main story quests about? Survival not glory. Every single one Well V survived after that well V can do whatever they want, especially after all the money they have from gigs. "You aren't allowed to be who you were." V was just trying to survive they didnt lose anything significant
Never knew killing my schizophrenic friend I’ve had for who knows how long would be such an emotional roller coaster. Im so glad I gave this game a chance last year because it quickly became my favorite game of all time.
With rpgs I like seeing all the options but after playing the game so many times over and coming to love Johnny Silverhand, I just don't think I could stomach watching the bad relationship ending.This ending hurts in a beautiful way.
@@tut-wv4pein black dog it’s pretty much confirmed Johnny is alive with alt in real life my theory is there are multiple alts and johnnys making them effectively immortal
@colinfitzpatrick2266 oh thays absolutely true, but that doesn't change the fact, it's the best ending for V, she/he is alive, that was the goal of the entire game.
@@Azhureus I think Cyberpunk does a great job with it's endings in the way that they all are bittersweet in someway and never end in a fairytale manor. No matter what, someone ends up dying or hurt, who depends on you and your choice. I personally think that The Reaper is the best ending, since Johnny lives on in Cyberspace and everyone lives including Rouge. The ending also vaguely alludes that the casino might also even have something of interest to V, be that a cure or something else we'll never know sadly. I know he still has a death sentence but I still like to think that he might have a chance moving forward.
Started playing 20 days ago as a full tank, and now im re-playing it as a stealthy netrunner. Still impressed how much a gameplay can differ. The story is so good i couldn't live it there and had to play it again; characters are so well written and designed that i could never forget on of em. Love this game, even if i spotted some bugs and glitches along the way, it is what it is: game' s too big, can' t fix any bug existing, it' impossible. But still, this became my all-time favorite game. Looking forward to future updates and the sequel, since it was announced that they started creating it. Can' t wait
I am on my third playthrough, almost finished. My first one was a regular character at launch, nothing special and nothing I was focused on. I did the suicide ending. My second one was a netrunner tank, patch 1.5. Didn't really do much with that one either but it was fun. For this one I can't remember but I think I did the storm Arasaka with Rogue ending. My third one (my current) is a 2.1 sandevistan build. Really OP and fun, but I do miss netrunning. I also got extremely wealthy because of the Phantom Liberty glitch 😂 Haven't gotten to the ending but I want to do the secret ending for this. Already have 85% with Johnny (the max I believe) And my next run will be a corpo stealth netrunner with optic camo and a thermal monowire. I want the next run to be either the Songbird minor ending or NUSA major ending.
@@piccuz4290 definitely tank sandy is one of the best man! I reckon netrunner is really OP too, but it's very complex these days. Still, I'm planning to give it a try next playthrough with a stealth netrunner build.
I wish there was an ending where Johhny and V could have kept sharing the body only way to do that is to just not end the game. But Johnny saying goodnight to V like this was a total gut punch prefer the other ending killing Song and going out guns blazing xD
@@takumu781 Can‘t tell if I am not in that exact position I get your point tho. „You only start missing something when it’s gone“ and I think that would be me then after the 2years not just talking about the friends but also the times with Implants, Johnny etc.
@@ECLIPSE89745 sure it could be sad, but thats assuming one cared for johnny and all other characters in the first place. My main point is that its the only ending where you get to live and can decide which direction to take V's life. And to me atleast its the best ending
@@takumu781 100% agreed, but I‘d consider it since we are already in that odd position of having the NUSA helping us and having that weird relic in our brain and I‘d without other character like Judy / Panam that helped us early on we wouldn’t be that selfish as hole and ignored afterwards. Are we haha
Man, this ending broke me. I never felt so emotionally drained after finishing a game. I'm still not sure about which one is the saddest, but for now I think that this one is a serious contender
I couldn’t bring myself do this ending I rather have Johnny in cyberspace and live on there while v has the best time of rest of her life with a Judy and Panam and the nomads and possibly find a way to save v this ending is amazing but just heartbreaking
This is the only game I ever played (and I played a bunch over 30+ years) where a sad ending has me cry each freakin' time ! In original version or in french, this ending with Valerie or Vincent is always heart breaking and tear jerking ...
If they don't make a new character for cyberpunk 2079 They could make it where V struggle with life but managed to fix themselves one by one, like getting their upgrade slot or cybervare slot one by one. Could be good starting a game and using a single pistol while being a glass cannon then slowly going back to their prime. Not everyday the same guy/girl comes back from the dead and become a legend twice
I honestly would think it's cool to have V as the protagonist of the next game Back when Bioware was a good company they managed to bring Shepard back from the dead, CDPR definitely could do a good narrative with the same vibe
I'm glad someone uploads these scenes I'll never see while playing so I can watch them. Nothing against people who enjoy these playthroughs, but if I'm putting a hundred hours into a game, I'm getting the good ending and riding off into the sunset with Panam and Judy while Johnny transcends mortality with Alt.
You always start a game thinking it will be a fun thing to do for a while, and you almost always end it with this pit left. Not just because you finished a major part of your day to day life but because at some point you were in that world. You became the protagonist of that story and lived that life for yourself. Thats why something like this can be all the more painful. I remember the first time i watches cowboy bebop, and at the end of every episode they would say "see you space cowboy". It never ment that much untill the end of the show when he died, and you saw that for the final time. You knew that that was it and that youll never have that experiance again. Its as sad as it is amazing and always will be...
Slowly realizing I got the shit friendship on my almost 200 hour playthrough after completing this ending, and wanting to run through the rest of the endings. Dang it. Welp. Guess I'll have to play it again. Reason why my save file is so long, is because I wanted to do EVERYTHING you can in one play through.
Playing this for the 1st time gutted me it felt like i was killing a beloved friend, and when V said "Johnny, I" i literally screamed at my tv "tell this man u love him! No one ever has!" I fucking lost it
Literally just did this ending 20 mins ago and on that save I didn’t have a good relationship with Johnny, but I do on my other save which I’ve been playing, so it hit extra hard talking to him
Yeah the emotions and dialogue were S+ plus tier as always. But them basically having V tell everyone via text they’re on a “temporary leave” for 2 goddamn years, was F tier execution. 🤦♀️
I don’t necessarily think the sequel has to be congruent with or follow the storyline of the original as long as it retains the theme and vibe of Cyberpunk. I think its just a matter of how on earth they’re going to create another story as beautifully complex as this let alone one that tops it. I’ve never played a game with writing this good. Made it feel like I was playing through and fully immersed in multiple seasons of a TV show.
My thoughts are that they will have endings where certain people don't die count as possible canon, and those endings will converge to be the start of the next game. I believe that all of the mainline endings will count, and any where songbird survives will count.
The hard part is making new characters and a storyline that isn’t a copy of edgerunners/2077 while still carrying the immense emotional weight, they don’t have to change much else as long as they have a couple of cool references to past moments
I didn't want to kill of johnny honestly it just feels like something is missing when he's not there after it after everything johnny and v had been through and done it just didn't seem right even tho it is v body in all
![Johnny Silverhand visits his Grave - Correct Dialogue for Secret Ending | Cyberpunk 2077 [4K]](/img/n.gif)
“Today was a good day.”
To think a completely normal thing to say could evoke so much emotion…
I'm not crying. It's allergies. (sniffs)
The music surely helped with that. The music used as we watched Jackie die, and now saying goodbye to Johnny.,
@@fine_ol_chapwhat is it called?
@@randomgamer7203 Seems it's called "Jackie's death" music, since it for some reason doesn't have it's own name.
@@fine_ol_chap thx
when you befriend the sleep paralysis demon and realize you miss the nightmares
damn...
Something something disturbing the comfortable and comforting the disturbed
@millo7295 Reddit speech pattern
this line hits
Not accurate sleep paralysis is just horrifying
I genuinely felt bad to do this ending and he pulled that “it’s ok V” and “Valerie”. I loved seeing the relationship grow between V and him. Definitely one of the best story in gaming
aaaand has the worst possible ending
naah I think the worst one is when you let Johnny attack the tower and you replace Rogue but ngl this new ending made me cry even more @@bleenyx
@@bleenyx true that.
@@bleenyx I, personally, think it's the opposite - for me, this and Temperance(where V gives theirs body, instead of Johnny taking it) are one of the best stories, that always manage to make tears go to my eyes. Are they sad? 100%, but I disagree that they're bad, imo
ooh... so it's valerie if female and Vincent if male.
Johnny may not be the best person
But damn he has the been the best friend anyone can ever hope for
This ending hits hard af
is he now? please do go on and tell me why.
@@sebulller he's not the best friend, but the relationship growth was very good.
Lol half his advises are insanr and the rest are homicidal.
@@sebulllerhe's loyal. Unlike everyone else in NC. And despite his tough exterior he does care about V.
@@sebulller Pre Arasaka raid Johnny? nah. Time to reflect and grow the fuck up while chipped in someone's head Johnny? Yes. I'd kill to have his construct to talk to. Always have an absolute real one to confide in about anything regardless of how impulsive and rough he can be. He'll never lie to you, that's a hard trait to find in people
I’m so glad to finally see this whole convo. I’m amazed how many got the angry Johnny where they like hate each other
I fortunately managed to get Johnny to like me in my own ending. I played the game for 2 days straight to get this new ending.
I started from a fresh save, so I didn't have all the Johnny quests done. I assume most people did the same with 2.0
Hopped into Phantom Liberty and went straight to the Who Wants to Live Forever ending. I had completed Tapeworm, but did not do Chippin' In. Was at about 70% friendship. We had mostly a somber conversation, with Johnny acknowledging what we had while lamenting what we could have been, tossing in a little guilt trip here and there. Did leave with this final dialogue though:
Johnny: Think we can find it in our heart to forgive each other?
>>YES
NO
Johnny: Think I can too.
Thought that felt really powerful and bittersweet.
@@icydec3346I used my old save from 2021 to start the DLC and I wasn’t really the kindest to him back then. Never said I’d take a bullet for him, never smoked for him, never fully agreed with his terrorist vendetta against Arasaka, etc. I did get every good dialogue with him at his grave back then though, but the only reason for that was because he wasn’t being a dick at that time and actually opens up to you in one of his most heartfelt scenes.
So when I started Phantom Liberty with that save, after two years, I was super happy to see him again as a player. Tried my best to stay nice to him despite him being an asshole towards me because of my old choices I guess and then I got to that final conversation and he just shat on me the whole flight. And despite me feeling awful about killing him, none of the dialogue options allowed me to bring that up which only put salt in the wound. Man, that whole conversation really hurt haha
@@ieruzaI also got that one. At least it gave me peace knowing Johnny forgave V in the end despite not seeing eye to eye on things.
But man, I’d take the base game endings over any of the Phantom Liberty ones any day, minus the Arasaka one.
What makes this even worse is it play the same music when Jackie died
I noticed, too...😢
@@CeeHoff it was basically saying this is exactly like Jackie’s death a close friend is now going to die possibly because of you
Bro... Johnny saying V's actually name at the end... fucking hits me hard... tearing me up...
to get this ending, you have to do the johnny questline and reach the point where he asks you whether he atleast managed to save the relationship between him and V. You tell him no, you fucked that up too. After that give him a second chance at friendship and you are straight. Immediate 100% relationship with johnny.
this is also how you unlock the secret ending btw
I only have 85% and I reached the oil fields grave and basically picked the convos that johnny liked. He was still mad on the plane ride. Is that the mission you're talking about? Maybe you need to finish all his sidequests and not just some.
@@nathanacreman632 you can't juat take all the options he likes, sometimes you gotta give him bitter truths, else he'll see you as a "fan" or think you have pity on him. He will still like you but not be best bros. There are plenty guides out there about the "right" dialogues
What's the name of the mission I have to do
@@AfroCyclechippin in
I got this on my first run. It always tears up. "Goodnight Valorie."
I dont understand how Cherami Leigh hasn't won more awards for V
Alone for the “I promise” part especially 😭
Because nobody deserves anything. She got a paycheck. That's all she's entitled to. She's not a hero. Just another loser actor.
"F**k, V" - it's the most spoken phrase by Johnny in my walkthrough
I love how Johnny does everything to make you feel good about this decision. What an incredible story.
It can go very differently too
@@mementomori771 Oh I know, that was my first playthrough XD
This ending made me cry the fucking hardest I had on awhile.
"Good night Valerie" fucking kills me everytime goddamnit
If you remember, V only lets those closest to him call em by their full name.
Silverhand knows that.
So by him doing so, he WANTS TO/IS close to you.
Got robbed of this ending because of one goddamn dialogue choice even though I did everything to get 85% relationship with Johnny. One decision by the devs making that 85% mean fuck all- thanks for the upload. My V deserved that last talk.
wich dialogue choice is it?
@@jumrote9331It has the same requirements as the Don't Fear the Reaper ending.
Exact reason I’m doing a second play through.
pretty sure had 85% too but i got this
@@Sawkax You gotta pick the correct dialogue choices at Johnnys grave is all, nothing else matters.
0:34 that was a good save
Seriously lol shouts out to that FIA spook.
Smoooooooooooooooth
@@toolatetothestory operatooooor
Never Fade Away. Damn this ending hits me in the feels
When he said V’s real name I about cried, people don’t give Keanu Reeves enough credit for this role
This and Constantine. He plays a serious, sarcastic ass with a heart of gold really well. People laud him for John Wick and the Matrix films, but I like his more bitter-edged roles with a tint of sarcasm more.
@@JLM-y5g he killed it at Constantine one of my favorite movies for sure
Well he was a shoe in, he was basically Johnny Silverhand in the movie Johnny Mnemonic.
This makes me so sad
To see Johnny go..
The only person that's been by our side all the way from the beginning..
misty? vik?
@@elalexsantos3150they were there but not stuck in your head n only you can talk and interact with close
… of Act 2
Jackie: "What de hell, choomba?!"
and they played (spoilers) jackie’s death music…
The writing for this ending was truly great. Shows that in Vs desire to live he basically lost everything. In a sense this is possibly the worst ending yet its the ending every player would ideally want.
Another great thing about this ending is it shows no matter what ending you pick V ends up hurting/ruining someones life one way or another. I.e if you leave eith Panam, Takemura ends up getting framed and is on the run. If you side with joining Arasaka, Rivers life gets ruined as does Panams. And if you puck to go out with a bang with Johnny the same happens. Basically there is no good ending. Only a choice to make anothers life better or not.
That is peak CD Projekt red writing and its done very well when you look in depth.
What happens with River and Panam in the Arasaka ending? When I did it, I got the same voicemails that I did in the Temperance ending
Fucking teared up during the ending, Johnny is my most favorite fictional character in gaming to actually converse with.
Wow, I didn't think I'd tear up over Johnny, but "sometimes you gotta let go" and "today was a good day" made me teary eyes
The way V says, "I promise.. I don't know what it is but..I promise" is so moving. She trusts Johnny completely
Gosh darn it, those darned onion-cutting ninjas sneaking up on me again ... *grabs tissue*
Me in a couple of days brother
"Not askin you to never give up. Sometimes you gotta let go...Just don't let anyone change who you are, kay?"
This part genuinly made me tear up, Johhny and V are amazing
To the very thing that’s killing her, she still says “I don’t want you to die.” 😢
At a family gathering while I watched this. I had to literally will myself to not cry around my relatives, because I don’t want to tell them that I was crying over an imaginary version of Keanu reeves
I literally cant bring myself to do a run just to have a bad relationship with johnny... i just... i just cant..
I wish there was a way where V and Johnny could still be together without killing them and him taking full control 😢
Upload johnny to a random robot and have him as a sidekick choom
@@kevo300sounds funny but sadly that's impossible. But i actually like the that motive of gray endings in game/anime
Happy Ending? Here? Wrong city, wrong people.
That was the most cyberpunk aspect of the whole game. There's a bunch of different endings, but none of them really qualifies as the 'good' one. No matter what way you go, there's loss, regret, and pain, even if it's mixed with something good and new. Damn this game got it right.
Unfortunately that’s contradicts a large part of the game. There’s no such thing as a happy ending in NC. Wrong city, wrong people
Johnny can only see what Vi sees. And yet he still goes to this window and looking at Night City like it's wide open
this ending fucked me up big time. first time through, i hated johnny to my core. my second time, i actually listened to his story instead of thinking of him as a crazy rockerboy gone mad, and when i got this ending, i didn't want him to go. I truly wanted to keep johnny forever, and I feel that because Johnny got put into our head, he gets his happy ending one way or another
getting this ending had me crying and feeling empty for like 3 days, it made me reflect on my life, my decisions and the friends I lost touch with, it's so painful and gut wrenching
This ending is the most sad a video game has ever made me. I just wish there was an ending to successfully remove the relic and get Johnny a new body.
no happy endings in night city
This feels way better than the angry Johnny one, especially how in the regular endings, he's so much more friendly. Also in the angry version it doesn't make sense how he's upset yet he's knows he's gonna be absorbed into Alt anyway.
He's angry because to get the tower you have to be a sellout. You go against everything he believes in and in the end you're basically inflicting the devil ending on someone else. Johnny hates the idea of the powerful being able to overwrite peoples minds above all else, and NUSA caused that in So Mi and you give her over to them again.
In this ending he's still upset about it but V's influence has changed him enough that he started to value his friends over his ideals, where in the past he'd use up his friends in pursuit of his ideals.
That last line hits like a freight train
I thought I had the best ninja build in NC but someone is cutting onions too bloody well.
OMG thank you for this recording!! I finally found what I was looking for! The only other video with half a million views has memes edited in ruining it all. Finally I can hear this convo that I didn't have in my game. In my game he asked "Think we can find the strength in our hearts to forgive each other?", the neutral convo. I think it might be because I started a new game from scratch and skipped to the Phantom Liberty DLC because I had already played the base game on another platform. So my affinity with Johnny must have been not high enough despite the dialog choices I could make in the DLC, sadly. Or maybe it's because I didn't complete any main story quests or sidequests in this playthrough, only did the DLC. That's too bad that I didn't get this very emotional scene in my game, but at least there's always UA-cam! So thank you so much for this!
My affinity was pretty fucink high. I had done everthing right I thought, told him he saved my life at the oil field, all that shit. Dunno why I got the neutral ending. Maybe because I forgot to finish the last quest with kerry on the boat, I dunno. I skipped because i heard female V tries to kiss him without you doing anything or something.
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@@chloewebb5526Well, you were told wrong on both cases
1. You need to unlock the secret ending to have this dialogue
2. Kerry's quest doesn't end in a kiss if you don't choose to
To me, for this scene alone, this ending is the one. All the stuff that came after with Vik and Misty was great; it represented both an ending and a new beginning for V, but it all paled in comparison to this sequence right here. Unforgettable in some of the best, and worst, of ways.
that sad thing is.....that this ending was probably worse for V than just dying.......
V misses 2 years being in a coma, all the people that knew V had basically moved on with their lives and V is now unable to use cybernetics and thus weaker than most other people.........
There is nothing worse for a person who was seeking Glory and notarity than to become just another face in the crowd......
I just finished Phantom Liberty for the first time. Had 85% relationship with Johnny and hadn’t butted heads with him since very early in Act 2 but I didn’t get this dialogue in the AV. He argued and criticized me the entire way and it was a real bummer bc we had come so far together and our last conversation is an argument.
Same-o, was really surprised considering all the other dialogues with him were extremely warm and friendly
The way they track your relationship is dumb
same man
you‘re killing him and basically yourself. what do you expect???
@@BeastyBite for one, ur not killing yourself, at this point in time, you think your saving urself and have no reason to doubt that. Secondly, Johnny isn’t alive, so he can’t be killed, and he’s literally killing you the entire game. If Johnny was has any level of empathy or compassion for you, he would act like he does in this version
i swear this hit harder than a trolley, didn't make me fully cry, but it made me feel empty, this, the temperance ending and arthur's death are the deepest i've felt for a videogame character
Nah this the saddest ending
"Only those who know me really well can use my real name."
i actually cried when i saw this :(
same bro.... the feelings totally caught me off guard.
Those last lines mean so much. Ahh fuck im tear'n up again. RIP JS
There are multiple gut wrenching response from Johnny depending on your dialogue choice. My favorite was talking about death, and his response was, “But honestly? The thought of you gone so I could live always scared me more.”
In my mind, it made me feel like despite being my choice to do this, him saying that made it feel more like it was his final sacrifice to save me.
What's annoying is that they could've bolted this on to all the other endings but they decided to make it the equivalent of clocking out of the plot; What stops V from doing any of the other endings just to get payback at Arasaka, remove Johnny and then take the life saving procedure at Langley to retire peacefully with all his/her achievements.
I think it only works that way as it is though. The reality they see is that going to Arasaka means that chooms are probably going to die, Johnny and V both know that. Having Johnny's friendship in that moment means he's finally putting others first, before his ego. It's kinda beautiful and some hella growth for him, doing something for the first person he's ever been true friends with.
That said... It would've been interesting to see them blend the endings together somehow, or let bring the tech to Alt and having something weird happen instead of using it for the quiet ending
@@chloewebb5526 Well they could've at least made it a Golden Ending by attaching it to Don't Fear the Reaper. If anything, after going through Phantom Liberty and the Peralez storyline, Mr. Blue Eyes would be the last person V would ever want to deal with.
@@dulio12385because it’s impossible to do the other endings and the tower. In all other ensigns when v goes into micoshi v is soul killed and copied onto the engram. And from what I can understand the surgery V goes through in the tower destroys the engram during removal and V has pretty much all chrome removed. So if v went through with don’t fear the reaper and then tried to do the surgery when the engram is destroyed Vs soul would die and the only thing left would be a vegetative body of V
@@dulio12385 V in all other endings that are non-Arasaka is an engram just like Johnny
It's entirely different compared to this ending where it's V
Its not much of a real choice if you get EVERYTHING then isnt it? In the words of Dexter DeShawn, you either retire for the quiet life, or go out in a blaze of glory. The way this ending plays out against the others (especially Dont Fear The Reaper) just goes to show that CDProjektRed knew exactly what they were doing with the game's narrative and themes.
What is strong about this scene is that it has the same feeling like Konpeki Plaza heist - here you also are saying your last goodbyes to a friend and on top of that, Jackie's Death Theme plays here. We don't see Johnny die but we know what will happen when operation will take place.
This made me hate this ending. It makes it so much more sad. It makes you promise him that you won't let anyone change you, but after you wake up, your whole life is gone. it moved on without you. You aren't allowed to be who you were.
Okay.
Before the heist, hitting the major leagues is V's main motivation.
After the heist? What is all the main story quests about?
Survival not glory. Every single one
Well V survived after that well V can do whatever they want, especially after all the money they have from gigs.
"You aren't allowed to be who you were."
V was just trying to survive they didnt lose anything significant
@@takumu781 his main motivation still was glory.
survival was the necessity to reach that goal.
@@jlmoodhd7415 nope that changed when the relic was found
For some reason I had 85% but he still got mad at me
Same
“G’night, Valerie. Today was a good day.”
“Mmmnh… Party on, dude…”
Never knew killing my schizophrenic friend I’ve had for who knows how long would be such an emotional roller coaster. Im so glad I gave this game a chance last year because it quickly became my favorite game of all time.
Still think it's so stupid that this was locked out by literally one dialogue option in a random mission
That's literally a main mission but OK
@arshiaaghaei
No it's not. Chipping in, which is where you need to choose the right dialogue to get this scene, is a side job
With rpgs I like seeing all the options but after playing the game so many times over and coming to love Johnny Silverhand, I just don't think I could stomach watching the bad relationship ending.This ending hurts in a beautiful way.
I can't kill Keanu. Nope. I am more happy seeing him go with Alt beyond the blackwall. So I still go with Blaze of Glory.
He won't be "with her". She will just absorb the data, alt stated it herself. She ate every single engram in mikoshi
@@tut-wv4peI don't think she meant it like that. More like, they became a single entity, but they are subroutines, like del
@@tut-wv4pein black dog it’s pretty much confirmed Johnny is alive with alt in real life my theory is there are multiple alts and johnnys making them effectively immortal
Best ending really. Depressed, but alive ! I got this good ending and it had me crying like lil baby !
It's the worst ending
@@anilsilvercock nah, not even close
I think it's a matter of perspective. Everyone is gonna say something different.
@colinfitzpatrick2266 oh thays absolutely true, but that doesn't change the fact, it's the best ending for V, she/he is alive, that was the goal of the entire game.
@@Azhureus I think Cyberpunk does a great job with it's endings in the way that they all are bittersweet in someway and never end in a fairytale manor. No matter what, someone ends up dying or hurt, who depends on you and your choice.
I personally think that The Reaper is the best ending, since Johnny lives on in Cyberspace and everyone lives including Rouge. The ending also vaguely alludes that the casino might also even have something of interest to V, be that a cure or something else we'll never know sadly. I know he still has a death sentence but I still like to think that he might have a chance moving forward.
Started playing 20 days ago as a full tank, and now im re-playing it as a stealthy netrunner. Still impressed how much a gameplay can differ. The story is so good i couldn't live it there and had to play it again; characters are so well written and designed that i could never forget on of em. Love this game, even if i spotted some bugs and glitches along the way, it is what it is: game' s too big, can' t fix any bug existing, it' impossible. But still, this became my all-time favorite game. Looking forward to future updates and the sequel, since it was announced that they started creating it. Can' t wait
I am on my third playthrough, almost finished.
My first one was a regular character at launch, nothing special and nothing I was focused on. I did the suicide ending.
My second one was a netrunner tank, patch 1.5. Didn't really do much with that one either but it was fun. For this one I can't remember but I think I did the storm Arasaka with Rogue ending.
My third one (my current) is a 2.1 sandevistan build. Really OP and fun, but I do miss netrunning. I also got extremely wealthy because of the Phantom Liberty glitch 😂
Haven't gotten to the ending but I want to do the secret ending for this. Already have 85% with Johnny (the max I believe)
And my next run will be a corpo stealth netrunner with optic camo and a thermal monowire. I want the next run to be either the Songbird minor ending or NUSA major ending.
@@christianmcbrearty hell yeahh, my first PG was male V, tank sandevistan with David' s jacket. Had a blast with it
@@piccuz4290 definitely tank sandy is one of the best man! I reckon netrunner is really OP too, but it's very complex these days. Still, I'm planning to give it a try next playthrough with a stealth netrunner build.
Well...that's definitely NOT how our conversation went
Bro almost a year later this still gets me to tears
“There are only good choices and shitty ones”- Johnny Silverhand
How did you get this convo to appear for Johnny? My relationship with johnny is at 85% and he got butt hurt about getting wiped.
I generally just picked dialogue options where I was chooms with Johnny or aligned with his ideals a lot of the time.
He was an ass for me too, but it still made me cry in the end lol
I’m at 85 and we’re best buds.
When visiting his grave say "You ficked that up too" and then tell him he's getting one final chance.
That's it.
@@Paragon231 Aye, this is how you also unlock the secret ending with V soloing the final mission.
I can't do this to Johnny, man.
me too
I did this ending for the trophy last night and it broke my heart. Between Johnny saying goodbye and my outcome with Judy........
bro.. that was so.. good..
3:14 building name is "Fourth wall", nice touch CDPR😂
I wish there was an ending where Johhny and V could have kept sharing the body only way to do that is to just not end the game.
But Johnny saying goodnight to V like this was a total gut punch
prefer the other ending killing Song and going out guns blazing xD
Cyberpunk was an epic game for sure.
Man if they replaced this background song with "New dawn fades" this ending would've destroyed people instantly but much more servere.
This hits hard especially if you know what’s coming next for V and his loved / friends …
trading that away for living is worth it and I refuse to believe you wouldn't take that deal either.
You can always find new friends its a none issue.
@@takumu781 Can‘t tell if I am not in that exact position I get your point tho. „You only start missing something when it’s gone“ and I think that would be me then after the 2years not just talking about the friends but also the times with Implants, Johnny etc.
@@ECLIPSE89745 sure it could be sad, but thats assuming one cared for johnny and all other characters in the first place.
My main point is that its the only ending where you get to live and can decide which direction to take V's life. And to me atleast its the best ending
@@takumu781 100% agreed, but I‘d consider it since we are already in that odd position of having the NUSA helping us and having that weird relic in our brain and I‘d without other character like Judy / Panam that helped us early on we wouldn’t be that selfish as hole and ignored afterwards. Are we haha
You know he's a man of principle...he said he'll take a bullet for you in the mission Tapeworm..
Man, this ending broke me. I never felt so emotionally drained after finishing a game. I'm still not sure about which one is the saddest, but for now I think that this one is a serious contender
I couldn’t bring myself do this ending I rather have Johnny in cyberspace and live on there while v has the best time of rest of her life with a Judy and Panam and the nomads and possibly find a way to save v this ending is amazing but just heartbreaking
This is the only game I ever played (and I played a bunch over 30+ years) where a sad ending has me cry each freakin' time !
In original version or in french, this ending with Valerie or Vincent is always heart breaking and tear jerking ...
If they don't make a new character for cyberpunk 2079
They could make it where V struggle with life but managed to fix themselves one by one, like getting their upgrade slot or cybervare slot one by one.
Could be good starting a game and using a single pistol while being a glass cannon then slowly going back to their prime.
Not everyday the same guy/girl comes back from the dead and become a legend twice
I honestly would think it's cool to have V as the protagonist of the next game
Back when Bioware was a good company they managed to bring Shepard back from the dead, CDPR definitely could do a good narrative with the same vibe
I'm glad someone uploads these scenes I'll never see while playing so I can watch them.
Nothing against people who enjoy these playthroughs, but if I'm putting a hundred hours into a game, I'm getting the good ending and riding off into the sunset with Panam and Judy while Johnny transcends mortality with Alt.
You can reload saves to see all the endings lol
This was the part of the DLC that finally got me to cry
You always start a game thinking it will be a fun thing to do for a while, and you almost always end it with this pit left. Not just because you finished a major part of your day to day life but because at some point you were in that world. You became the protagonist of that story and lived that life for yourself. Thats why something like this can be all the more painful.
I remember the first time i watches cowboy bebop, and at the end of every episode they would say "see you space cowboy". It never ment that much untill the end of the show when he died, and you saw that for the final time. You knew that that was it and that youll never have that experiance again. Its as sad as it is amazing and always will be...
fucking hell i cant watch this without crying
I didn't get this dialogue at the end. This feel hard. Thank you, really !
Slowly realizing I got the shit friendship on my almost 200 hour playthrough after completing this ending, and wanting to run through the rest of the endings.
Dang it.
Welp. Guess I'll have to play it again.
Reason why my save file is so long, is because I wanted to do EVERYTHING you can in one play through.
Strange to feel so much emotion over people that never existed.... V, Silverhand, Rogue...
I got it first time when I played Dlc. Cried for solid minutes there
Man when I played this ending the sound of Vs voice had me choking
i'm not crying. You're crying
when he said v’s full name i lost it 🥺
fuckin hell, Fem V VA was doing so fucking good job. Shit, i cannot.
Playing this for the 1st time gutted me it felt like i was killing a beloved friend, and when V said "Johnny, I" i literally screamed at my tv "tell this man u love him! No one ever has!" I fucking lost it
This was one of the hardest things I had to force myself to do
Literally just did this ending 20 mins ago and on that save I didn’t have a good relationship with Johnny, but I do on my other save which I’ve been playing, so it hit extra hard talking to him
Yeah the emotions and dialogue were S+ plus tier as always. But them basically having V tell everyone via text they’re on a “temporary leave” for 2 goddamn years, was F tier execution. 🤦♀️
I just don't know how CDPR can make a sequel story-wise.
I know they'll do their best, but this is a masterpiece.
I don’t necessarily think the sequel has to be congruent with or follow the storyline of the original as long as it retains the theme and vibe of Cyberpunk. I think its just a matter of how on earth they’re going to create another story as beautifully complex as this let alone one that tops it. I’ve never played a game with writing this good. Made it feel like I was playing through and fully immersed in multiple seasons of a TV show.
My thoughts are that they will have endings where certain people don't die count as possible canon, and those endings will converge to be the start of the next game.
I believe that all of the mainline endings will count, and any where songbird survives will count.
The hard part is making new characters and a storyline that isn’t a copy of edgerunners/2077 while still carrying the immense emotional weight, they don’t have to change much else as long as they have a couple of cool references to past moments
That one was sad af
didnt think hearing v's full name like that would hurt so much
I had 85% friendship and i didn't get this convo
The percentage doesn't matter. You have to choose the correct dialogue in the oil fields to unlock this
I didn't want to kill of johnny honestly it just feels like something is missing when he's not there after it after everything johnny and v had been through and done it just didn't seem right even tho it is v body in all
I cant with this ending, after me and Johnny went through fk man
this ending had no rigth to have the best goodbye scene between jhonny and v