I watched this movie about ten times and contantly chose a different path. It was a lot of fun but the game creators boast 990 options.
I think it's an exageration. Has any one else found this to be true? Are there other movies like this?
I found this two, and they said this had 4 endings, aside from the one's that say "Your quest has ended" I've only found 2.
shareWouldn't be hard. Exponential math can surprise you, esecially if any of the paths reverse back. (This is the naure of a network.)
Say the you have only 4 "levels" of scenes, each offering only 2 choices, with only the 4 possible endings. Even with entirely linear plotlines (no crossover at all), this leaves 16 possible paths.
Yet of just one of the 4th-level scenes (decended form the choice A in the first scene) gains an additional choice, which leads you back to one of the level 2 scenes (Choice 2 from the first scene, so we avoid any infinite loops), that already increases it 50%, to 24. If on top of this one of the 4th-scene choices descended from that level 2nd-level choice (that is, choice 2 from the first scene) leads to another 3rd-level scene choice (again, avoiding infinite loop possibilities), that's another 8, for 32.
Make the network bigger (more choices each scene, deeper levels of scenes) and add choices that appear or disappear depending in other variables (e.g., if you've killed whomever, picked up the key, been there before, etc.) and more recursion, and the number of options quickly gets huge, even with the same four endings.
There are four endings 2 are easy to get the other two the 'really bad' ending and then the 'really good' endng are a bit tricky to get and I doubt too many people are going to sit through this to try every path.
Spoilers....
The Four endings...
1) Good Ending - Regdar, Mialee and Lidda survive, cleric dies and the 'angel' loses her arm
2) Bad Ending - Everyone dies and the angel gets the scourge
3) Really Good Ending - Everyone lives, the cleric realizes the error of his ways and set about to redeem himself
4) Everyone dies and the scourge is activated unleashing a rather average looking dragon
The Special Collector's Edition has two MORE endings to it, but I don't know how many more scenes.
It also has a second disk that is the path for the good ending in straight movie form.
I mapped out the movie as if it were a "pick-your-path"
book. (I used to do this extensively to playtest those
books for path errors.)
The options do not loop backwards any but several
branches do converge into other tracks lending alot of
diffrent ways to get from the beginning to one of the
four endings.
The "Let Barathion Go" path alone has no less than 22
banches leading to the 4 endings. While the "Apprehend
Barathion" path has at least 2 instances where it can
branch into points of the "Let Go" track.
Note that the DVD is set up such that using the skip
forward function to speed progress will instead more often
cause certain pathes not to open up. Seems the movie keeps
track of your choices in an odd way so you have to play
through more thoroughly if you want to see all the endings.
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There are 4 endings (6 in the Collector's Edition).
Some endings are only accessible if certain criteria is met.
For the really good ending (Tell the Truth) you have to make sure that you pick only decisions that help Baration along the way (and not Rayne) as well as finding out the truth about Ariadne (while in the Green Key Chamber choose either "Cast Spell" or "Confront" , depending on which path you took to get there). Dying along the way also lowers you chance to get this ending.
For the really bad ending (releasing the Scourge) simply make every choice in favour of Rayne and against Barathion, and choose "Steal the Key" at the end.
As for 990 paths, this is actually accurate (mathamatically speaking of course). A path that differs by only one choice is still a different path, though I doubt anyone watching it would really feel that way.
The collector's edition version has some easter eggs that I know of, if anyone is interested...
I'm interested, although I'm not sure if anyone is even reading this board anymore. Happen to know how to get to the new endings in the special edition DVD?
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