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If you’re looking for a game with hundreds of endings that’s not an RPG then you’re in luck because Supermassive’s The Quarry offers just that: 186 endings. That’s according to game director Will Bynes, who revealed during an exclusive interview with IGN that all of the endings will be unique. The game’s script has apparently surpassed 1,000 pages as a result.



Bynes has revealed that The Quarry is being written like a movie screenplay except in movies, actors usually get around 100 pages of script. With this one being over 1,000 pages long, Supermassive and 2K are shooting 50 pages per day. And yes, The Quarry is scheduled for release this year, barring any unforeseen circumstances.

"Writing a branching narrative is a really interesting exercise. We write a full, 100-page screenplay as if it were a movie. We develop our character styles, and once we’ve got that, we can start looking at how we break that out into a full 10-hour experience. Actors are used to, on a feature film, a 100-page script. So when we send the actors the scripts they get very alarmed because they’re huge. The script for this is over 1,000 pages. We have to shoot about 50 pages a day, which is unheard of. It’s just a mad amount of footage. But obviously a lot of what they’re learning is the same thing again and again and again, but a different branch."

Opinion: If they have a trophy for achieving all endings…​

Zarmena writes… I have no problem with a game having 186 endings, out of which I’m only really going to bother with one. But there better not be a darn trophy tied to achieving all endings. That’s where I draw the line. On a serious note, I’m not a big trophy hunter but Until Dawn was a fun Platinum run. I’m looking forward to The Quarry but I’m not sure how I feel about the idea of nearly 200 endings. I’m sure there’s a monster out there willing to sit through all of them, but is this really necessary?

Supermassive's The Quarry Has 186 Endings, For Some Reason

Supermassive's The Quarry game apparently has 186 endings, according to its director. This was revealed in a new interview.

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[xion4360]

its kind of the point of the game? the more endings the better because that means there are more meaningful choices throughout the game.

and no there wont be a trophy for seeing them all.

 

[SlimeGooGoo]

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[lh032]

cant wait for this game, im hungry for another until dawn kind of game.

 

[Hugare]

My most antecipated game of the year

Until Dawn is top 5 PS4 games for me. This looks Supermassive going back to form.

Will be a blast, for sure

 

[Zeroing]

Time for Sony to buy the studio!

 

[balls of snow]

cant wait for this game, im hungry for another until dawn kind of game.

Seriously play House of Ash. It surpasses Until Dawn for me. Just go in blind its amazing. DONT play Little Hope though.

 

[ParaSeoul]

If its short,this is positive.

 

[lh032]

Seriously play House of Ash. It surpasses Until Dawn for me. Just go in blind its amazing. DONT play Little Hope though.

i played all of the dark pictures and completed, with mostly good endings, but i have to say the overall quality is not on par with until dawn, that is why I am excited for this one.

 

[remember_spinal]

This looks good but i cant imagine paying 70 for this type of game.

I waited for life is Strange to drop to 30 bucks and that felt fair to me.

 

[yurinka]

Nice to see finally someone got crazy and put a shit ton of endings

 

[Rayderism]

Hot Damn! Now that is some real replay value. 186 different endings? I KNOW I'm really going to enjoy this one. I didn't even hesitate when I pre-ordered the deluxe edition.

Could you imagine a movie made this way? Make choices during the show (however they would facilitate that), the highest vote determines the outcome of the movie. Imagine the profits it would generate as people would see the movie over and over again to see different endings. Now that's a revolutionary idea.

 

[CamHostage]

"For some reason", as in... not enough endings?

 

[TheDarkPhantom]

Translation: there are *6* endings which can have 180 different, slight variations based on your choices. Anyway, loved Until Dawn and if this can match it's quality we're in for something special.

 

[Craig of War]

Looks like a nice Game for Gamepass & PS Plus Premium

 

[Hendrick's]

Didn't they also claim Until Dawn would have over 200 endings but it turned out to be like 6? Yeah, I never believe this crap.

 

[Bernd Lauert]

Until Dawn is my #3 favorite game on PS4 after God of War and Uncharted 2. Hyped.

 

[Negotiator101]

i played all of the dark pictures and completed, with mostly good endings, but i have to say the overall quality is not on par with until dawn, that is why I am excited for this one.

Quality and Until Dawn do not go together, it's a C movie (straight to TV) but it was enjoyable enough.

 

[Duchess]

Loved Until Dawn, but wasn't fond of the Dark Pictures series. Hopefully, this will be more like UD.

 

[Werewolf Jones]

I have faith in this. Will be getting it day one.

 

[March Climber]

Could you imagine a movie made this way? Make choices during the show (however they would facilitate that), the highest vote determines the outcome of the movie. Imagine the profits it would generate as people would see the movie over and over again to see different endings. Now that's a revolutionary idea.

Something close to what you're suggesting is Netflix's Bandersnatch. I still never discovered all of the endings to that film.

Something that made it to theaters with multiple endings is the movie 'Clue'. A movie that was too good and too ambitious for what it was based on.

 

[Garibaldi]

Could you imagine a movie made this way? Make choices during the show (however they would facilitate that), the highest vote determines the outcome of the movie. Imagine the profits it would generate as people would see the movie over and over again to see different endings. Now that's a revolutionary idea.

Black Mirror: Bandersnatch (on Netflix) sort of does this. It's a fairly clever if simplistic change to the usual format. My nieces also watch some cartoon (female spy thing) when it stops and they can make a choice which way to go (hide behind the statue or attack etc) which affects the story.

 

[Slicker than your average]

Without watching the video, does this game involve doing manual labour at a quarry or takes place in a quarry? Does someone slip and falls onto rather large stones?.

 

[cireza]

The first Mario game had 187 : one for every pit in which you can fall.

 

[N1tr0sOx1d3]

All I’ve ever wanted to do is complete a game 186 times over. Thank you Supermassive for making Supermassive endings….

 

[AV]

Doesn't really mean anything at this stage, Until Dawn had 256 "endings" but they were all just variations on the same one based on who lived/died.

 

[Airbus Jr]

Without watching the video, does this game involve doing manual labour at a quarry or takes place in a quarry? Does someone slip and falls onto rather large stones?.

Still dont know so far

 

[SteadyEvo]

Time for MS to buy the studio!

You misspelled MS

 

[SF Kosmo]

Loved Until Dawn, Hated Man of Medan and haven't thought too much of them since. This sounds promising, it's interesting to see this series actually get more ambitious as I thought the limited scope was kind of the point.

 

[akaFullmetal]

I watched the 1st 30 minute preview and looks awesome like until dawn. Hyped to get this.

 

[AJUMP23]

YOU GET AN ENDING! and YOU GET AN ENDING!

 

[Faithless83]

I didn't know about this game and now I'm hyped as hell. Until Dawn was so much fun to platinum.
Give me the all endings trophy, I don't care.

 

[Boss Mog]

I always get them confused with Supergiant

 

[Ezquimacore]

You have a red shirt this time - Ending #98
You have a hat this time - Ending #74

We know how that shit works, developers. We were trained by Godd Howard.

 

[nominedomine]

Here we go again.

 

[LordCBH]

And how many of those endings will be exactly the same with the exception of some minor changes. “Oh you picked up the captain crunch box at the beginning of the game instead of the lucky charms box, so now the ending has a captain crunch box and a character with a bloody mouth.”

 

[ANDS]

I think we're confusing "endings" with decision permutations. The Witcher 3 has a handful of endings, but a ton of decisions within the main campaign. Until Dawn has a few endings depending on the status of characters (alive or dead) but, again, there are a ton of decisions funneling you to those endings.

I would say the two major endings of UD are "Everyone Alive" and "Everyone Dead" that (if I'm remembering) have very specific win conditions. Everything in between counts as the third ending. I expect the same to be true here.

 

[jshackles]

I'll be curious to see how many of these endings are meaningful. My guess is 10 at most.

Either way, I'm really hyped for this game. I loved Until Dawn (even beat the VR spin offs!) and have really enjoyed the Dark Pictures Anthology games.

 

[Hezekiah]

Overkill. Many of them are probably almost identical, and most people will complete it then move on to the next thing anyway.

 

[Y0ssarian]

That's not enough endings

 

[N30RYU]

If it was Mass Effect 3 there aren't enough colors to make 186 endings

 

[Toots]

Hot Damn! Now that is some real replay value. 186 different endings? I KNOW I'm really going to enjoy this one. I didn't even hesitate when I pre-ordered the deluxe edition.

Could you imagine a movie made this way? Make choices during the show (however they would facilitate that), the highest vote determines the outcome of the movie. Imagine the profits it would generate as people would see the movie over and over again to see different endings. Now that's a revolutionary idea.

Futuroscope, a french amusement park, did exactly this years ago (like 20 years ago). There was a movie theater equipped with a button on each armchair seats. At points during the movie the audience had to choose between two different actions (like trying to flee from something vs trying to fight it) by clicking one of the buttons, with the outcome being the one with the majority of votes. Was not so great in my memory, maybe because the majority almost always vote safe and you won’t ever see the weirder outcomes this way.

 

[DevilHunterX0]

Sony should just buy them already.

 

[Javthusiast]

They haven't done anything worthwile since UD, hope this is a return to form.

 

[DeepEnigma]

If unique, then damn that's a lot (almost too much), but if like Until Dawn... hundreds of ending variations to get to 6 unique ending videos.

 

[Clear]

Really hate these sort of pronouncements because it nearly always backfires.

Noone cares how many endings there are if they are all basically the same. And the higher up in numbers you get the less time it becomes practical in terms of resource/dev-time to differentiate them significantly. Its just not smart, at all.

 

[Arthimura]

I enjoyed Until Dawn, it is really cool. Feels like an horror movie from the 80s/90s.

However this amount of endings are slightly variations. If you have eight potential survivors, and all of them can end the game either alive or dead, you already have 256 endings considering all combinations (if my maths are not failing me ).

 

[ChorizoPicozo]

that is not a selling point to me.

 

[Calling 911 Melts Beams]

i have also gotten 186 happy endings

 

[Shiny Pepe]

Impressive.Hopefully it has some interesting characters like Emily and Mike from Until Dawn.