Anyone else completed the game?

Olivier · #1 10-28-2010, 08:40 PM

Alright, i just completed The Ball and i must say i didnt understand the ending.

Spoiler!

Merin Redplate · #2 10-28-2010, 09:55 PM

Cannot unsee!

Olivier · #3 10-28-2010, 09:58 PM

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Originally Posted by Novfanaion

Cannot unsee!

You clicked on 4 spoilers man, what were you expecting

mamoo · #4 10-28-2010, 10:48 PM

Spoiler!

Merin Redplate · #5 10-28-2010, 10:53 PM

ahhh
cannot unsee!

Olivier · #6 10-28-2010, 11:01 PM

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Originally Posted by mamoo

Spoiler!

mamoo · #7 10-29-2010, 12:52 PM

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Originally Posted by Novfanaion

ahhh
cannot unsee!

Stop clicking the ****ing

Spoiler!

Quote:

Originally Posted by Olivier

Spoiler!

Hourences · #8 10-29-2010, 01:47 PM

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Originally Posted by Olivier

Alright, i just completed The Ball and i must say i didnt understand the ending.

Spoiler!

The Ball is the power source of a spaceship, although that actually isn't really what the true point is. The point is that aliens came to earth thousands of years ago and kick-started civilization.
They brought farmers and hunter/gatherers into their world deep inside the volcano, and educated them. They taught them civilization and culture, technology, time and space, and so on. But the people couldn't handle the knowledge. Some became corrupt or hungry for power. Others abused the power and knowledge they were given. Some became superstitious and saw the aliens as Gods instead, and science became magic for them, magic they could not understand, magic they thus feared and began to oppose. They essentially created the concept of religion. A civil war broke out between the two sides, and the ones that opposed the alien science won. They stole the most important item from the Aliens, their power source, brought it all the way back to almost the outside world, and then locked the entire world down layer by layer, burying everyone alive inside the volcano. The Ball and the weapon were so close to the outside world because it was not about protecting them from the world outside, rather to keep what is inside the volcano in. All the puzzles were not meant to keep outsiders out, but to keep the ones inside in.
The superstitious group that stole the Ball settled outside the volcano, and brought forth civilization as we know it. Their betrayal and superstition shaped the world as we still know it today the day, with all its problems and wars.

This ties into Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, and Pandora's Box. Humanity lived in paradise and harmony, but some could not manage. Their betrayal ended paradise and brought forth a troubled world.

It is not really a cliche ending. I think it is a very interesting concept. Stories and concepts become cliche exactly because they are so powerful. We could have come up with a story about an intelligent species living deep under the earth's surface, or such, but I think given the vastness of space aliens are more credible.

Merin Redplate · #9 10-29-2010, 02:37 PM

Fear not, I hope to beat it tonight, now that I have time.

Olivier · #10 10-29-2010, 04:48 PM

Oh Hourences, i found something for you. Check your inbox in 20-30 mins

EDIT: And thank you for the reply =)

Peter.Steele · #11 10-29-2010, 08:00 PM

Spoiler!

Olivier · #12 10-29-2010, 08:09 PM

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Originally Posted by Peter.Steele

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Not really, gave me a good laugh tho

RO.Player · #13 10-29-2010, 08:58 PM

I like the ending. kind of saw it coming though. it was fairly obvious if you got a decent amount of the secrets beforehand imo, but if you rush through then the story doesn't make much sense

reminded me of arkham asylum

Olivier · #14 10-29-2010, 09:23 PM

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Originally Posted by RO.Player

I like the ending. kind of saw it coming though. it was fairly obvious if you got a decent amount of the secrets beforehand imo, but if you rush through then the story doesn't make much sense

reminded me of arkham asylum

Is there any way to read the description of the secrets again (without doing the whole game).

Makino · #15 10-29-2010, 09:40 PM

I didn't like the ending, but the game is very good, specially gameplay-wise.

Spoiler!

Hourences · #16 10-30-2010, 07:01 AM

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Originally Posted by Olivier

Is there any way to read the description of the secrets again (without doing the whole game).

Not a proper way but you can...

Spoiler!

Olivier · #17 10-30-2010, 10:28 AM

=o

Thank you

C_Gibby · #18 10-30-2010, 07:58 PM

When people use spoiler tags, it's to try and make the reader look AWAY!

The spoiler tag is a big shiny button, so as a result of that and human instinct, it always does the exact opposite.

Olivier · #19 10-30-2010, 08:00 PM

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Originally Posted by C_Gibby

When people use spoiler tags, it's to try and make the reader look AWAY!

The spoiler tag is a big shiny button, so as a result of that and human instinct, it always does the exact opposite.

Thats why you needt o put as much spoilers inside other spoilers gibby

C_Gibby · #20 10-30-2010, 08:04 PM

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Originally Posted by Olivier

Thats why you needt o put as much spoilers inside other spoilers gibby

But the temptation! It's too much! D:

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