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00:00The relationship with fans and developers of video games is a special one.
00:05And sometimes those fans can have a direct impact on a game's creation.
00:10In fact, with all of the following examples, it was the direct involvement of fans that uncovered...
00:15...alternate endings or even completed endings via mods.
00:20It's not to say all of the following games needed saving in the conventional sense, but it's thanks to...
00:25...fans that we live in a world where the following endings were preserved in one way.
00:30I'm Josh from WhatCulture.com and these are 8 video game endings that were saved...
00:35...by fans.
00:36Number 8.
00:37Price dies.
00:38Probably.
00:39Call of Duty...
00:40Modern Welfare 3.
00:412011.
00:42Given the immense popularity of the Call of Duty franchise...
00:45...it's honestly shocking that some hidden, discarded content would be uncovered well or...
00:50...over a decade after a game's release.
00:52But that's what recently happened with 2011's Modern Welfare 3.
00:55As modders YoYoOneLove and VladLokhtinov post...
01:00...credits scene revealing Captain Price's original intended face.
01:05The official release ends with Price killing Makarov and then defiantly lighting a cigar...
01:10...while watching Makarov's hanging corpse swinging around in the wind.
01:14But the post...
01:15...credits scene returns to show what happened next.
01:17As Price looks at Makarov, a shadowy figure...
01:20...appears in the background and surveys the scene for a few moments before walking off.
01:25Price then slumps over and the cigar he's smoking drops to the floor...
01:28...before we cut to a picture of...
01:30...Price's fallen Operation Kingfish Squad.
01:33While it's not quite definitive, this end...
01:35...certainly suggests that Price dies or is in the very least an extremely great...
01:40extreme condition.
01:41Yet because it ultimately wasn't an official part of the game, it's really just an intro...
01:45...interesting what-if glimpse at Activision's original plans.
01:48All the same for this ending to...
01:50...to be found and preserved so long after the game's release is hugely surprising.
01:547.
01:55An actual ending.
01:56Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic 2 The Sith Lords.
01:59Star Wars...
02:00Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic 2, despite being an excellent game...
02:03...suffered through a rushed development...
02:05...causing the final release to feature a massively streamlined story and...
02:10...abruptly curtailed ending.
02:12Much to the disappointment of fans.
02:14Shortly after...
02:15...Cortar 2's release though, the game's passionate modding community...
02:18...began the Sith Lords restoration.
02:20Retrieving as much unused content hidden in the game code as possible...
02:25...and reinserting it into the game proper.
02:27This included a massively expanded...
02:30...ending where modders did a frankly miraculous job of reconstituting scenes...
02:35...which is the exile's party members teaming up to battle Darth Trea and being killed.
02:40Though still fundamentally incomplete...
02:42...it feels so much more fleshed out compared to the almost non-en...
02:45...ending that fans originally got.
02:47Between this and the mod's other impressive achievements...
02:49...such as fixing all...
02:50...for the 500 bugs...
02:51...it was eventually acknowledged and basically canonised in 2015...
02:55...by Aspire Media Inc.
02:57...the company in charge of managing the game today.
03:006.
03:01Confronting the Prophet of Truth Halo 2 Halo 2's abrupt...
03:05...cliffhanger ending famously pissed millions of fans off...
03:08...leaving them to wait for Halo 3...
03:10...to see how Master Chief and the Arbiter...
03:12...would take down the Prophet of Truth.
03:14This was...
03:15...a result of the game's rushed development...
03:17...causing massive amounts of content to be cut from the final release...
03:20...including a much longer ending which actually completed Chief and the Arbiter's quest.
03:25This more conclusive ending got far enough...
03:27...for much of the voice dialogue to be recorded...
03:29...and the entire...
03:30...sequence to be storyboarded...
03:32...and in 2022...
03:33...youtuber C3...
03:35...ambitiously recreated the 30 minute ending...
03:38...using all the available material...
03:40...thankfully this included the original Halo 2 storyboards graciously provided...
03:45...by Lee R. Wilson...
03:46...an artist who worked on the game.
03:48Sabretooth tirelessly added...
03:50...animation, sound effects, music and additional dialogue to the storyboards...
03:54...in turn giving fans...
03:55...a shockingly persuasive account...
03:57...of how Halo 2 was originally intended to...
04:00...to end.
04:015.
04:02The final boss...
04:03...It Takes Two.
04:04As beloved as It Takes Two...
04:05...is...
04:06...many players felt that it ended...
04:07...on a bit of a shoulder shrug gameplay wise.
04:10As the final sequence doesn't feature a boss battle...
04:12...and the game basically just...
04:13...ends.
04:14But...
04:15...this wasn't always the plan...
04:16...as a few months after its release...
04:18...players who gained access to the debug menu...
04:20...discovered a scrapped alternate ending.
04:22This 20 minute sequence differs substantially...
04:25...from the ending of the game proper...
04:27...with Doctor Hakem fusing Cordy and May...
04:29...into a hard...
04:30...heart shaped avatar...
04:31...as players must collaborate...
04:32...to help their daughter Rose...
04:33...navigate a hellish...
04:35...condition...
04:36...of their family home.
04:37The level also includes a final boss...
04:39...a shadowy...
04:40...colossus-like entity which seems to form...
04:42...from Cordy and May's vitriol...
04:44...and which must...
04:45...be defeated...
04:46...to save Rose...
04:47...and beat the game.
04:48The pair then confront the doctor...
04:49...and realize that they've been...
04:50...neglecting Rose amid their many arguments...
04:52...after which the spell is broken...
04:54...and the rest of the...
04:55...and the ending plays out...
04:56...as it does...
04:57...in the final game.
04:58So for anyone who felt...
04:59...that it takes two...
05:00...was lacking a little oomph...
05:02...this boss fight...
05:03...and a suddenly darker tone...
05:05...and apparently make it...
05:06...well worth watching...
05:07...if not playing for yourself.
05:08Number 4.
05:09The Jacqueline Nap...
05:10...that let teaser...
05:11...shadow of the tomb raider.
05:12Now if Eidos Montreal...
05:13...had had their way...
05:14...this alternate...
05:15...ending to Shadow of the Tomb Raider...
05:17...would never have seen...
05:18...the light of dare.
05:19According to the...
05:20...developers themselves...
05:21...they accidentally included...
05:22...the wrong ending cutscene...
05:23...in the launch version...
05:24...of the game.
05:25...and immediately...
05:26...patched it out...
05:27...on release day.
05:28This secret ending...
05:29...came to light...
05:30...on launch week...
05:31...when one enterprising...
05:32...player played...
05:33...through the game...
05:34...without patching it first...
05:35...and ended up seeing...
05:36...a tweaked ending...
05:37...compared to everyone else.
05:39Like the official ending...
05:40...which shows Lara Croft...
05:41...planning her next adventure...
05:42...in Croft Manor...
05:43...but the key difference...
05:44...is that it lingers...
05:45...for a few moments...
05:46...on a letter...
05:47...from Jacqueline Natler...
05:48...who...
05:49...long-time Tomb Raider...
05:50...fans will remember...
05:51...as the villain...
05:52...of the very first game...
05:53...in the series.
05:54This obviously...
05:55...indicated...
05:55...the next game...
05:56...would bring a rebooted...
05:57...version of the villain...
05:58...into the fold...
05:59...though for whatever reason...
06:00...Naidos Montreal...
06:01...decided to scrap this tease...
06:02...and while the omnipresence...
06:04...of day one...
06:05...patches left the developers...
06:06...thinking that nobody...
06:07...would ever uncover...
06:08...the original ending...
06:09...hilariously...
06:10...so it took...
06:11...was someone...
06:12...not patching the game...
06:13...to ensure that...
06:14...it saw the light of day...
06:15...no.3...
06:16...Yennefer's Betrayal...
06:17...the Witcher 3...
06:18...Wild Hunt...
06:19...despite the Witcher 3...
06:20...being almost an entire...
06:22...decade old now...
06:23...modders are still...
06:24...discovering new...
06:25...things within the game...
06:26...cord...
06:27...as recently...
06:28...as this year...
06:29...and the latest find...
06:30...is a doozy...
06:31...it all started when...
06:32...developer CD Projekt Red...
06:33...released Red Kit...
06:34...back in May...
06:35...a set of mod tools...
06:36...allowing players...
06:37...to create their own...
06:38...weapons, quests...
06:39...and so on...
06:40...RPG...
06:41...by this past June...
06:42...youtuber...
06:43...XLitalis...
06:44...and modder...
06:45...Glasfish...
06:45...had used these tools...
06:46...to uncover an extended...
06:47...and until now unseen...
06:48...part of the Witcher 3...
06:50...ending...
06:51...where Yennitha...
06:52...betrays the lodge...
06:53...of sorceresses...
06:54...to Emperor...
06:55...and Mia...
06:55...the ending of the final...
06:56...retail release...
06:57...doesn't have much to say...
06:58...about the lodge of sorceresses...
06:59...but this...
07:00...content would have...
07:01...added numerous scenes...
07:02...to the climax...
07:03... culminating in Yennefer...
07:04...turning on the...
07:05...for sorceresses...
07:06...and ensuring their...
07:07...eventual execution...
07:08...in order to keep...
07:09...Ciri safe...
07:10...though the sequence...
07:11...is only partially constructed...
07:12...in the game's files...
07:13...it was nevertheless...
07:14...fully...
07:15...acted...
07:16...suggesting...
07:17...it was most likely...
07:18...a late cut...
07:19...in the development process...
07:20...and...
07:21...thanks to these...
07:22...enterprising modders...
07:23...it's no longer...
07:24...a hush-hush secret...
07:25...Batman...
07:26...doesn't kill the Joker...
07:27...Batman...
07:28...the video game...
07:29...okay...
07:30...time for a seriously...
07:31...deep cut now...
07:32...with Batman the video game...
07:33...which was released...
07:34...on the NES in 19...
07:35...1989...
07:36...and loosely based...
07:37...on Tim Burton's...
07:38...Batman film...
07:39...that came out...
07:40...we say loosely...
07:42...because the game's...
07:43...official ending...
07:44...takes a savage...
07:45...mediation from the movie...
07:46...in the film...
07:47...Batman inadvertently...
07:48...kills the Joker...
07:49...by tethering...
07:50...to a gargoyle...
07:51...which then falls off...
07:52...the cathedral's roof...
07:53...eventually dragging...
07:54...the clown prince of...
07:55...a crime...
07:56...to his demise...
07:57...but in the game's...
07:58...original ending...
07:59...Batman straight up...
08:00...as the Joker...
08:01...angrily throwing him...
08:02...over the side...
08:03...of the cathedral...
08:04...to his death...
08:05...in revenge...
08:05...for his parents murder...
08:06...yet...
08:07...many years later...
08:08...a rom of the...
08:09...prototyped version...
08:10...of the game...
08:10...was dumped online...
08:11...by an unknown source...
08:12...likely either...
08:13...a collector...
08:14...or someone who...
08:15...worked on it...
08:16...revealing that...
08:17...the original ending...
08:18...had Batman...
08:19...more fittingly...
08:20...beat the Joker...
08:20...into submission...
08:21...and spare his life...
08:22...even with...
08:23...Nintendo being...
08:24...famously litigious...
08:25...reguarding privacy...
08:26...it's neat...
08:27...that this alternate ending...
08:28...was salvaged...
08:29...from the trash heap...
08:30...number one...
08:31...the avoidable sacrifice...
08:32...Fallout 3...
08:33...okay...
08:34...time for...
08:35...something...
08:36...a little bit...
08:37...different now...
08:38...Fallout 3's...
08:39...original ending...
08:40...pissed off...
08:40...of fans...
08:41...as it made players...
08:42...pick a character...
08:43...to enter...
08:44...in a radiated...
08:45...control room...
08:45...and activate...
08:46...a water purification...
08:47...system...
08:48...effectively laying down...
08:49...their life...
08:50...good...
08:51...short of doing nothing...
08:52...and just letting the...
08:53...facility explode...
08:54...you've got...
08:55...two choices at the end...
08:55...and sacrifice yourself...
08:56...on the Brotherhood of Steel...
08:57...sare alliance...
08:58...this dramatic choice...
08:59...always...
09:00...felt extremely...
09:01...forced because...
09:02...your companions...
09:03...all have excuses...
09:04...for not doing...
09:05...sales...
09:06...and worst of all...
09:07...is Mutant Fox...
09:08...who...
09:09...despite literally...
09:10...being able to withstand...
09:11...the radiation...
09:12...without harm...
09:13...claims that he...
09:14...doesn't want to interfere...
09:15...with your destiny...
09:16...whatever the hell that means...
09:17...even though...
09:18...for him...
09:19...it's literally walking...
09:20...into a room...
09:21...flicking a button...
09:22...but for you...
09:23...it's doing the same thing...
09:24...and...
09:25...dying...
09:25...fans loudly...
09:26...called the clumsy...
09:27...lack of logic...
09:28...out immediately...
09:29...following...
09:30...for Fallout 3's release...
09:31...and kicked up enough of a fuss...
09:32...that Bethesda effectively...
09:34...fixed the ending...
09:35...with the Broken Steel DLC...
09:37...released about six months later...
09:39...this revised ending...
09:40...a loud fox...
09:41...or any other...
09:42...radiation immune...
09:43...companion to enter...
09:44...the control room instead...
09:45...in turn...
09:46...allowing basic...
09:47...common sense...
09:48...to prevail...
09:49...while there's much debate...
09:50...about fans basically...
09:51...negging developers...
09:52...into reshaping...
09:53...their creative vision...
09:54...post-launch...
09:55...in the case...
09:55...of Fallout 3...
09:56...they were probably right...
09:57...to demand an ending...
09:58...that wasn't...
09:59...howlingly...
10:00...or any other...
10:01...or any other...
10:02...or any other...
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