Honestly, I believe the Sarif ending is the ending that's cannon. This ending sure feels like the happy ending, but remember, there's 2 more stories that happen after this. In Deus Ex 1 and 2, there's still nanotechnology, and that wouldn't happen if Jensen exposed the truth and made the world fear science and technolgy.
This is the best ending. Everyone is told the truth. Sarif wants to lie so that he can persue power unrestricted. Bill Taggart wants to lie so that a few people can command everyone and decide what is right. destroying the station kills everyone in there and still does not tell people what happened. This ending tells what really happened and though it may get people to turn away from augmentation, whoever has been hurt should know why. telling the truth is the same as letting the people decide.
@TheMasamune444 You have to think, would telling the people ANYTHING be in their best interest though? Do you honestly believe that any of those men are worthy for leading the planet onward? If you destroy the facility, you destroy all the men in power with it, Sarif, Taggart, Darrow, and Hugh, pretty much leaving humanity all on it's own, to find it's way again without any outside intervention or manipulation.
@bud389 Darrows message was only the truth. He waned to tell about the illuminati and all the other things that were happening. Sarif and Taggert's message were lies. Darrow only wanted to tell everyone what happened. His message was the truth, so it should be told. To self destruct the facility killing everyone there is making a decision for humanity to be ignorant. After what Hugh Darrow did he was not a power and if you tell about Sarif and Taggart they wouldn't be either.
@TheMasamune444 What's the old saying, the truth is more dangerous than a thousand lies? You wouldn't be making a decision for humanity to "be ignorant", only such a blunt and narrow view is true ignorance. The people will still know that something went wrong, but they're left to decide whether to keep augmentations and ascend into higher existence or to reject them and perservere. "Ordinary men and women will have to decide what course mankind should take" and that's exactly how it should be.
@bud389 if they are not told then they are ignorant of what truely happened, so yes they will be ignorant. By telling the people what happened, you are not forcing them to believe augmentation is wrong but simply letting them know the dangers of it. I am not a person who likes being kept in darkness on issues. I am an ordinary person that can help decide the course of mankind. Truth is a dangerous thing, but it is a lesser of two evils compared to ignorance.
@TheMasamune444 The "truth" ending will culminate in the ultimate restriction and banning of technology whole-sale and would be fare more ignorant, if you want to keep going with this ignorance thing. They would be ignoring the improvements that it can offer to war victims, people suffering from debilitating diseases/viruses/disorders, it WILL pave the way for human expansion beyond earth, it will do all of this, unless you choose the truth ending. Because ignorance is bliss.
It's really sad to see how they removed his arms at the end :-/ But that's the way to go isn't it...hell no Sarif FTW!
AnimusPipboy 4 months ago
Honestly, I believe the Sarif ending is the ending that's cannon. This ending sure feels like the happy ending, but remember, there's 2 more stories that happen after this. In Deus Ex 1 and 2, there's still nanotechnology, and that wouldn't happen if Jensen exposed the truth and made the world fear science and technolgy.
UltimaEdge 4 months ago
@UltimaEdge Erm, no, at the end of the credits they mention the "wreckage", thus pointing to the self-destruct ending being the true ending.
bud389 4 months ago
This is the best ending. Everyone is told the truth. Sarif wants to lie so that he can persue power unrestricted. Bill Taggart wants to lie so that a few people can command everyone and decide what is right. destroying the station kills everyone in there and still does not tell people what happened. This ending tells what really happened and though it may get people to turn away from augmentation, whoever has been hurt should know why. telling the truth is the same as letting the people decide.
TheMasamune444 4 months ago
@TheMasamune444 You have to think, would telling the people ANYTHING be in their best interest though? Do you honestly believe that any of those men are worthy for leading the planet onward? If you destroy the facility, you destroy all the men in power with it, Sarif, Taggart, Darrow, and Hugh, pretty much leaving humanity all on it's own, to find it's way again without any outside intervention or manipulation.
bud389 4 months ago
@bud389 Darrows message was only the truth. He waned to tell about the illuminati and all the other things that were happening. Sarif and Taggert's message were lies. Darrow only wanted to tell everyone what happened. His message was the truth, so it should be told. To self destruct the facility killing everyone there is making a decision for humanity to be ignorant. After what Hugh Darrow did he was not a power and if you tell about Sarif and Taggart they wouldn't be either.
TheMasamune444 4 months ago
@TheMasamune444 What's the old saying, the truth is more dangerous than a thousand lies? You wouldn't be making a decision for humanity to "be ignorant", only such a blunt and narrow view is true ignorance. The people will still know that something went wrong, but they're left to decide whether to keep augmentations and ascend into higher existence or to reject them and perservere. "Ordinary men and women will have to decide what course mankind should take" and that's exactly how it should be.
bud389 4 months ago
@bud389 if they are not told then they are ignorant of what truely happened, so yes they will be ignorant. By telling the people what happened, you are not forcing them to believe augmentation is wrong but simply letting them know the dangers of it. I am not a person who likes being kept in darkness on issues. I am an ordinary person that can help decide the course of mankind. Truth is a dangerous thing, but it is a lesser of two evils compared to ignorance.
TheMasamune444 4 months ago
@TheMasamune444 The "truth" ending will culminate in the ultimate restriction and banning of technology whole-sale and would be fare more ignorant, if you want to keep going with this ignorance thing. They would be ignoring the improvements that it can offer to war victims, people suffering from debilitating diseases/viruses/disorders, it WILL pave the way for human expansion beyond earth, it will do all of this, unless you choose the truth ending. Because ignorance is bliss.
bud389 4 months ago
worst ending.
ImCmdrShepard1 4 months ago
nice
nic0dem8D 5 months ago