8 Powerful Video Game Endings You Had To Die To See

6. Johnny's Ending - Cyberpunk 2077

Cyberpunk's launch state should forever be dragged for an exemplary example of how not to launch a video game, but it's still CDPR at the helm, and the game's story, characters and thematics are still incredible.

Namely, the relationship between Keanu Reeves' Johnny Silverhand, and yourself playing V.

Cyberpunk spins a number of plot threads and thematics surrounding the intense "fakery" of Night City; the idea of "becoming a legend" in this metropolis supposedly being something a street kid or rockstar would aspire to, only for the reality of how fast-moving life here is, to mean your efforts didn't mean a thing.

Cut to the close of the game and amongst a smattering of varying overall endings, you can choose to sacrifice your dying body, to let Johnny live once again.

It means even his own partner Rogue can't fully get on board with a completely different body speaking like Keanu Reeves, but depending on how much you think Silverhand's rocker-terrorist antics deserved better than an unmarked grave in the desert, you can have at it.