To experience a hidden scene in Far Cry 4, all you have to do is wait.
In Far Cry 4 you actually just want to fulfill your mother’s last wish. But you unintentionally get caught between the fronts of a civil war and support a divided rebel group in the fight against a dictator.
If you’re patient, you can save yourself the entire fight and leave Kyrat again in a short time thanks to a secret ending. The creative director of Fallout 4 now explains what lies behind the idea for this alternative scenario Newsletter of journalist Stephen Totilo.
What happens in the secret ending?
In case you need a refresher on your memory, we’ll summarize the alternative ending for you: Right at the beginning of the game, Pagan Min takes you to his palace to eat with the main character Gale. After a short while the dictator apologizes and asks you to wait for him.
Normally, of course, you don’t wait, but use the opportunity to escape. However, if you just sit at the table for 15 minutes, Pagan Min will come back. He then takes you to the mountain where you are supposed to scatter your mother’s ashes, and then the credits go straight to the end. You have successfully completed Far Cry 4 played through
. By the way, such an alternative ending is also hidden in the sequel:
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Far Cry 5 – Video: The alternative ending is not as good as in Far Cry 4
Let’s do it
Now the creative director of Far Cry 4, Alex Hutchinson, reveals in an interview with a journalist how the idea came about:
During development, he joked with some of his colleagues that the game’s story didn’t have much meaning because, in the end, it was all about to shoot at things
. But what if players actually listened to Pagan MinHutchinson asked the group:
You act like he’s not a character in a video game, and like you didn’t buy the game just to shoot things. What would happen? […] Well, he would just help you.
It was quickly decided to implement the idea. Also because it didn’t require a lot of additional work. Besides that They had already experimented with story decisions in Far Cry 4 anyway
Instead of a decision in a dialogue, the secret ending should be triggered by the character waiting, even if this is a very unlikely behavior:
No one in the history of video games has waited in a room when asked to wait in a room.
Nevertheless, the end was found very quickly, which was probably also because a challenge gave a hint.
By the way, there is a second hidden ending in Far Cry 4, which you can only reach much later.
In addition, in Far Cry 5 it is again possible to skip more or less the entire game. And in the latest part of the series there is also a secret ending hidden at the very beginning of the game. Have you found these alternative scenes yet? Feel free to write it to us in the comments!
