What Happened to Ted Faro? The disturbing story in Horizon Forbidden West

[@NcxX-c8f]

I was kinda bummed that we didn’t get to see Ted’s mutated form at first, but I appreciate that they left it at “TRUST us, you DON’T wanna know”

[@zartig09]

This is my favourite mission, so far. Everything from the story to gameplay was exhilarating. I was a tad disappointed we didn’t see Faro. But I also like the fact we get to imagine how he looked, and I have some messed up versions in my mind.

[@trinityc.3277]

Sometimes leaving something to the imagination is best because we usually imagine much worse things. I also imagine him looking similar to the rat king in The Last of Us Part 2

[@sethhardy866]

Well he gave off sounds that are like of a dying alien dog. He probably melded machines into him while having sovo (I cant remember his full name) recreate some sort of mortality rate.

[@kratosofwar6165]

Look up the fandom wiki on faro someone updated it as fleshy with little brain activity lol

[@Luke-ky5ed]

The fact that the ceo was able to recognize him says something about what he looked like.

[@mr.gaster1310]

I wondered why Ted’s bunker looked like an Egyptian palace, but then I got it. Pharaoh and Faro are pronounced the same and the quest is called Faro’s tomb

[@Luke-nk8kr]

His robots are also Egyptian like hourus For the big thing with tentacles on mountains scarab as the corrupt or and kapesh as the deathbringer

[@kiramoon875]

Yeah I figured it out too after playing the quest

[@Local_idiot-u8h]

Thebes was also the egyptian capital for 500 years during the time of the pharaohs

[@Devilmaycry2019]

You know it makes sense why yes faro named the Horus the Horus because in Egyptian religion Horus is the god of war and the sky

[@MasterKingSirPlease]

Omg thank you so much i never realized this thats incredible (not being sarcastic)

[@yoursonisold8743]

This is just perfect poetic justice. Faro's final words were about how he didn't want to be alone and wanted to meet Lis's children... and then he became a mutated flesh monster trapped in his own reactor for 1000 years! All alone. And the moment the children of the future finally found him? They burned him alive for the hideous monster he had always been.

[@C0wb0yBebop]

Couldn’t have said it better ! 👏

[@masteroftheassassins]

Honestly, it’s a fitting end. Because it shows us just how much of a monster and how hideous he was on the inside.

[@PSPlayGaming]

If he is gone! We never actually saw it but I think it is!

[@SergioBocanegra]

He turned himself into a Feral Ghoul

[@johnm4102]

@@PSPlayGaming i doubt the mutation can survive molten lava

[@CaptainPilipinas]

even his non-eggheaded of a level perspective from upon hearing those last 'sensible' words of his before he goes quiet is of a bit pitiful.

[@CaptainPilipinas]

@@johnm4102 Hopefully it does Not.

[@DavidSantos-ix1hu]

He tried to gain immortality through a mutation and become a god but ended up becoming a stupid beast, a fitting end for a egotistical man with a god complex.

[@PSPlayGaming]

It was so satisfying knowing what happened after all he did and how he died. I was getting annoyed going through his tomb on what he built and how he treated the few that was with him

[@Bustermachine]

@@PSPlayGaming I mean, it should have set off a ton of red flags for everyone with him when they realized he wanted them to spend the rest of their lives in a gigantic recreation of an Egyptian themed Fry's electronics.

[@Lemuel928]

A Evil Pharaoh,resurrected from the Underworld.

[@rubenalvarez6830]

Poetic is the fall of Faro!!

[@aeriamamaduck]

I almost wish Aloy had taken a peek at him and that mass of...Ted could see "Elisabet" again and choke on the fact that she was still out there, in a way, being a hero. Something he resented her for after her sacrifice, judging by how pissy he sounded in that "memorial" datapoint in HZD where he says, "Now you get to play the hero AND the martyr." Kind of curious about how much of Ted was in that thing's mind. Was it instinct that made it react with fear after Ceo ordered the place nuked, or did Ted know the end had finally come? Either way, I'm glad he suffered. Also glad that he took that little prick Ceo with him, which was the ONLY good thing Ted ever did after signing off on Zero Dawn.

[@Incog2k6]

Faro's fate becomes even more hilarious once you realize that his doctor most definitely tricked him about going into the reactor. Basically, a final FU before committing suicide, hahaha. Rest in peace, Dr. Somptow, you absolute hero.

[@456death654]

Wow never thought about that hahaha

[@dingodyno9016]

Rofl i didnt think about that either lolz

[@enriquepowers]

I think the doctor have him the solution but not the right way to do it. He’s a walking tumor with every cell in body practically being a cancer cell and one of the treatments for that is radiation therapy, which the reactor is full of. Of course with no professional guidance, he’s sealed his fate. He deserved everything that came upon him.

[@bladerunner3314]

Ted would've loved this - 1000 yeass later there still are people believing his BS. THAT - in my opinion - was the reason he delted Apollo. Not to keep people frm "the desiease", but to keep them from knowing, it was him that destroyed humanity. His ego couldn't stomach that he'd be even more hated than Stalin, Mao and Hitler.

[@ketz21]

And in doing so, it ironically made it one of the only things people can learn about the world's history

[@CaptainPilipinas]

@@ketz21 Not for long. the FZ's share of APOLLO. we'll get it spreaded out. eventually.

[@CaptainPilipinas]

'too bad' he didn't had the convenient versions of lifespan longevity methods that far zenith easily were using commonly amongst themselves. piece of Scrap was Trying to outrun his Inevitable *Sins* by trying to live in that more weakened era of Earth and Humanity.

[@WheelUpTime]

Probably need to add Putin to that list

[@CaptainPilipinas]

@@WheelUpTime All kings throughout History in that category, added to the list Indeed.

[@bengheinrich7500]

It's ironic that he tried to live forever but eventually became just as twisted and evil as he was on the outside as he was on the inside. This is my favorite part of the game and this questline resonates with me. While everyone was committing suicide he was trying to live forever so he can become a god that is absolutely sick. The fact he showed no empathy for their suicide just shows he has no conscience. Also ironic that he tried to keep the people ignorant of his atrocities with the Faro Plague by deleting Apollo but ended up as a mere monster and nothing more than an animal and the people in the new world were smarter and better than him. I am actually glad they didn't show Ted Faro and instead left it to our imaginations. I imagine he looks similar to the Mind Flayer from Season 3 of Stranger Things.

[@tomxaider2058]

It was a grave mistake for the Zero Dawn team for not terminating Ted after Gaia was completed. He was too much of a liability to be left alive

[@richardbarton5910]

Yeah i agree if thay killed ted faro than he would of never destroyed apollo but than again he would of never got this well deserved punishment.

[@Bustermachine]

​@@tomxaider2058 To be honest, everyone underestimated the risk Faro posed leading up to Zero Day. Elisabet obviously believed she had him thoroughly cowed and locked out of the loop. She was wrong. GAIA also wasn't finished by Zero Day, necessitating the Alpha's to consign themselves to living within GAIA Prime to finish their work. By which point Ted Faro was 'safely' buried deep behind the front line of the swarm. Not only that, Zero Dawn and Enduring Freedom hinged on creating the illusion that this was all a Hail Mary to save the remnant of original humanity. Which meant keeping Faro around as a managerial figurehead was essential to keeping a lot of supporting staff not in the loop relatively calm. To be fair to Elisabet, she was humble enough to know she could never plan for every angle. One of the many ways she differed from Ted. Which was why she made GAIA the way she did.

[@Bustermachine]

I think the interesting thing about Ted is that there's nuance to his fate, from start to finish. Not to excuse any of his actions, but he was a product of his society as well. Good dystopian fiction tends to tap into the anxieties of the time it is created. And at present, there's a lot of anxiety over the sort of new billionaire self proclaimed techno-saviors like Elon Musk and Bill Gates. Faro is kind of an embodiment of that anxiety, a man who probably started off pretty normal, but wealth and power, and the constant ego stroking and insulation from consequences that this bought him, took his personal failings and bloated them into psychosis. Prior to the Glitch he was high on being hailed as a savior for his company helping to stabilize the biosphere. He believed he could do no wrong and would shape the world in his own image . . . You see it especially in his response to Sobek's sacrifice. I think that's the point where his ego really cracks and he starts to terminally spiral. Sobek, selflessly sacrificed herself, and all Faro could think of is how she'll be remembered favorably for it. He was convinced it was Sobek overshadowing him and was unable to even grasp the idea that someone could be truly selfless. That Sobek was a real savior while he was always just a false prophet. It's even more sad when you realize that his whole obsession with his Guru was just another case of toxic growth. Ted wasn't trying to self actualized and become a better person, he was trying to absolve himself of his own actions and how he was still the 'savior' destined to repair a broken world.

[@HowlingWolf518]

@@Bustermachine Entirely possible, but nobody just grows a Messiah complex out of thin air - Ted probably always had it in him, and success and empty praise just brought it to the surface. If it were Sobek Automated Solutions, there wouldn't have been a need for Zero Dawn to begin with.

[@narfd.8837]

The way Faro mutated, the structure of how he grew and literally bound himself to the reactor, was not just like a tumor. In many aspects it looks like a fungus left unchecked, just growing and spreading, looking to reach even more energy to feed off of. So just think of it like a very large fungus spreading it's many arms towards all directions of the giant jar it is contained in, but said fungus is made of flesh, with what was originally a human body somewhere in there. This thing would probably not even be a threat to anyone anymore if you just keep your distance as all it's sensory organs should be well overgrown by tumors. What a pitiful existence, but oh so fitting for "the man that saved the world". Ted Faro died, probably unable to see, to move, to hear and all that was left was the ability to shout, be it as a reflex reacting to the first fresh sensory inputs in most likely hundreds of years or be it a cry to finally end it's suffering, we may never know.

[@inquisitorpig5760]

I think we should all be glad that what was left of Faro died instead of being buried in Thebes forever(or maybe just until the reactor failed, given that a datapoint indicated its structural integrity was low, and it was definitely not operating at full capacity any longer), so the even slim possibility of an immortal supermutant is 100% gone.

[@GGwarlocks]

In my mind he looked like The Rat King in "The Last of Us" 2. So mutated, so creepy.

[@FrankOcean--]

@@GGwarlocks yep, that's what I thought ad well when I first heard his screams

[@phillipsolis7326]

@@GGwarlocks for me I was picturing kinda like The Master from fallout 1

[@ShadowIsatis]

@@GGwarlocks Flood infected form for me. Kind of like what happened to Captain Keyes when Master Chief went to recover his implant.

[@Smellbringer]

The way Ted said "My advice, my guidance." Had a threatening tone to it, like the final throes of madness before his mutations drove him fully insane.

[@vinceho5757]

I honestly think he went mad from the lonelines as well. After he said, "and finally, I won't be alone".

[@CaptainPilipinas]

he can keep his 'guidance' there. *I Don't Need his.* if I was one of the primitive populace there I mean. I Doubt he would even remember Anything Sensible there in his brain to 'teach' to those already sabotaged future Human primitives' needs in the long run. especially by what he has become? Unfortunately....Feh.

[@CaptainPilipinas]

by the way....looks like a UNSC-spartan's armor?

[@undertow619]

God/superiority complex?

[@j_official4138]

he was starting to lose his mind when his machines turned on him it was slowly going downhill

[@elijahbutcher9522]

In my genuine opinion, the ENTIRE Thebes questline is by far the creepiest, and most disturbing part of both games. I can barely sit through this quest without being feeling fucking disturbed and creeped out.

[@AzguardMike]

same! Ceo being a sickofant of Ted was creepy, even making Aloy dress up to roleplay. Then the reveal that Ted was an immortal monster feeding on the reactor to power up was worse. And they burned him and burried him in Thebes, presumebly he will survive burried deep underground.

[@elijahbutcher9522]

@@AzguardMike Dude, everytime Ceo opened his mouth I help but be creeped out, dude was as sick in the head as Faro was. Then there were all of the audiologs in Thebes all of which was just further turning the dial on the disturbing and creepiness factor. And as you said the revelation of what Ted became, God even just looking at the holographic image of his new form was fucked up, add to the sounds we heard, God have mercy. I know Ted Faro was fucked up and I have no sympathy for him or Ceo, but damn what happened to Ted with those mutations was beyond fucked up. As they say there are fates worse than death, and happened to Ted in my opinion certainly fits that bill.

[@roxas3071]

I hear you dude.

[@joseph9n6]

Snowflakea

[@marywilcox3102]

@@roxas3071 Yeah, it was pretty disturbing. I was in pins and needles my entire playthrough of this part of the game.

[@captain_commenter8796]

I like to imagine Ted’s screeches and roars as follows: “At last! The children have come to save me! You look exactly like me! I know I don’t look the best, but I am here to lead you-“ *Ceo runs away * “Oh, it appears you are getting your friends, I’ll wait.” *the guard comes in * “Greetings! I am Ted Fa-“ “Hey, what’s the torch for-” “HEY, NO” “NOOOOOOOOOOOO” I am aware that by this point in time Faro was basically brain dead and probably forgot the reason he was still alive, but it’s still a funny thought

[@PSPlayGaming]

😂🤣

[@RetroApo]

It's more like: Who's there? What are you doing in here? Come back! What!? No! Stop it! No!!

[@JorgeMP53]

Of course. His brain activity was 31, so minimal that it could barely send electromagnetic pulses to command the mouth, lungs and diaphragm to shout. He neither recognized anyone nor recognized himself. He was just existing. PD: the more I come back to all of this part of the story and the more I think about it, the greater my repulsion for Faro grows. Oh, and a small and interesting detail: the way Faro is pronounced is the same as 'Pharaoh'... pretty much an accurate title for someone with such complex.

[@SuperiorArachnid]

@@JorgeMP53 something that irks me slightly is how sometimes characters will flip-flop on pronunciations of character and tribe names. Aloy pronounces it "Far Oh" in HZD but here she says it like "Pharaoh". Another example would be how Erend says "Oser ahm" in HZD but in HFW he says "Oser am". I've also heard some characters say "Bah nook" while others say "Buh nook".

[@JorgeMP53]

@@SuperiorArachnid Interesting. I haven't checked on those since I play the game in Spanish, but nice details there pal.

[@nerdragon2649]

Since the reveal in the first game, about his sins regarding Zero Dawn and Apollo, Faro always stuck with me as one of the most sinister and twisted characters in gaming history. But now... he went beyond all boundaries I would expect. Now its official. As far as I'm concerned, Ted Faro is the single most vile and sick personality I ever saw in a videogame. Seeing all this left me legitimately frightened, horrified, imagining what kind of eldritch horror this man has become, both in body and mind.

[@PSPlayGaming]

If I picked up my mic whilst recording this you’d hear my reactions to hating him more and more as I got further in 😅

[@jacobrobinson787]

The guy was a dickhead from the get-go. He used his money to gain power and more power, until he created something out of his control. Instead of trying everything to fix the problem - he turtled. Denied everything and did everything in his power to hamper everyone else trying to fix things. It's not that he couldn't see the bigger picture - he was horrified by it, and blocked it out. Becoming an emotionless, paranoid and pathetic excuse of a man that slowly became what people saw him as: a monster. He's definitely up there in terms of antagonists.

[@dingodyno9016]

Guerilla said they did it really because then they would have had to put a M rating on the game and didnt want to bring Horizon to the horror genre since this isnt Resident Evil though i would have loved a Resident Evil fight with Ted. A Doctor Birkin fight would have been cool.

[@kimmirandaart9909]

Oof yeah, unfortunately there are plenty of billionaires and wealthy tech bros who think this way. Given the power and tech they have, I have no doubt they’d want for the same things :/

[@Mukation]

@@kimmirandaart9909 And i mean, he didn't intend to be responsible for making the entire human race go extinct, so that knowledge probably broke him. Like, he was already a meglomaniac and this knowledge of what he actually did just broke him. A guy like him _can't_ accept being the bad guy. But he also couldn't accept it. He still saw himself as the saviour all while being the villain. Given that we know he intended to live out the apocalypse and reemerge once humanity was reborn we know why he destroyed Apollo. So that the humans out there would have no idea of what he did and he could rule the new earth as a God. An extremly well written villain

[@eden20111]

At first I thought Ceo was a genetic clone of Faro due to his unhealthy obsession with him and his ego maniac traits.. lol. It’s interesting because a lot of fans theorized Ted Faro would be back somehow and face Aloy, and Aloy being completely repulsed by him. In a way this was somewhat similar. Ceo wearing Teds uniform and making Aloy wear Elisabets. The image of them standing next to each other as they descended was so eerie and haunting. Like a ghost of 2 colleagues meeting again under bad circumstances. Now just imagine if Ceo really was a clone of Teds.. both of them reborn descending the staircase wearing their old uniforms. So disturbing.

[@iamsamtheman5154]

100% honest i thought Ceo was a clone just because he looked similar, but you are right it is kinda disturbing.

[@beanbutter9527]

I thought he looked more similar to travis

[@motorola9956]

@@beanbutter9527 Glad I'm not the only one who think so.

[@KalleVonEi]

👀 👁👁

[@LoreMaster2023]

Same I thought Ceo was a clone too

[@noorulhasan4904]

It's a befitting end imo He destroyed the world with his faro robot and lived as a literal monster for a thousand years to supposedly "greet Liz's children" and got cremated by the very same children he wanted to see

[@jimstoesz3878]

Bohai's reaction to Alva lying about what happened to the Ceo will never not be funny to me. "He died as a hero? That scumbag? Bullshit!" Like I can't even with this guy.

[@coltonwilliams4153]

My first thought was, “Oh thank the gods! He’s not a moron!” 😂

[@TheRumblewagon]

Why does he sound like Giancarlo Esposito?

[@jackbharucha1475]

That Bunker could have housed so many people. Instead he put up a statue of himself.

[@Bustermachine]

The space wasn't the issue. It was supplies, life support, and how long the machinery to sustain both without external replenishment could last. Weirdly, if it was simply the hard eco collapse, the human survivors could probably have survived underground until the biosphere could be rebuilt, using machines, and their advanced manufacturing tech to harvest materials and sustain themselves. The problem was the Faro Swarm that would suss out and destroy any source of EM emissions that wasn't perfectly shielded or, in the case of CYAN, placed into dormancy. GAIA basically hid inside of her bunkers until she cracked the swarms encryption key and then spammed the signal to put them all into shutdown.

[@jackbharucha1475]

@@Bustermachine Yes but more people could have lived out their natural lifespan, however much that was worth in an underground bunker.

[@johnm4102]

Im not surprised at all since Faro always had an ego the size of his statue

[@z00mbi3s]

@@Bustermachine Space is an issue as more space means more oxygen, remember that Horizon bunkers needed to be prepared for fact that only air possible would be the reserves of a bunker. It is explained in first game that food, oxygen, water reserves of a bunker for 1000 people would be depleating with time and were calculated per person per year as people would slowly die and population would not grow inside. Having a whole damn room just for statue and thinking how much air has to be pumped into that room daily so people can breath is enormous, so literaly in that one room several people could breath for a bit longer time of bunker life.

[@XautnisLeonhart]

I grew up fascinated by the ancient Egyptians; I know that tombs were made to honor a pharaoh by telling his life stories and burying him with treasures and whatnot. Is that was teddy thought he was? Some misunderstood pharaoh that deserved to be praised as a savior? That this was all just some long term reward for saving the future of humanity? And to have those machines, the very SYMBOLS of his failure, be at his front door like loyal sphinxes or guard dogs? I hate the man more than I did in zero dawn

[@SAMTYLER1974]

I was initially expecting a full reveal followed by a battle with a mutated Faro but was ultimately relieved they kept the mystery unseen. We were given enough information to create our own monstrosity so a full reveal could have seriously undermined expectations and our own twisted visions. Good call Guerilla!

[@quincystarfox5416]

The image we see on the scan screen gives enough of an image it shows a mass of flesh stuck to the generator

[@Ratraccoon]

His brain activity was minimal. Considering his blood pressure and heart rate were at world record levels as high as medically possible without having a stroke. I think he didn't even have the mental capacity to even recognize Aloy looking and sounding familiar. He would have been too weak and deformed to fight.

[@Boxxcutter]

Same.. 100% expected a Rat-King fight ala TLOU2

[@neodintchly]

Monster Hunter Khezu or something

[@city_slicker__5165]

@@quincystarfox5416 ohhh!😲

[@mitchelljenkins4815]

Pay close attention to @16:43. There Alloy actually sees a hologram of what he became. Its right there. And OMG... He actually attached himself to the power reacter and survived in that state for 1000 years by feeding off of the energy of the reactor. Some pretty narly twisted scifi horror stuff right there.

[@acenull0]

Love that Bohai didn't believe fora second that the Ceo sacrificed himself for anything 😂😂😂 Aloy knew him fora couple of hours at most and she could tell he was a tool

[@sunnyworldproductions4818]

It would have been good if Aloy had entered that room. So, Ted Faro (or what little was left of him) would have seen his "old friend" for the last time.

[@snyperwulffgaming9575]

I don't think it would have mattered. From what the hologram showed and the feral moans and screams. I don't think there was much of "Ted" left in that... thing.

[@eden20111]

@@snyperwulffgaming9575 he had minimal brain activity comparable to an animal. But even a wild animal would have some cognitive recognition.

[@HowlingWolf518]

@@eden20111 I dunno, most animals have brain activity. Sounds like he was almost a vegetable at the end.

[@coltonwilliams4153]

Yeah, but considering how obsessed he was with Elizabet, if anything could’ve sparked some sentience, if not sapience, it would‘ve been Aloy.

[@LoreMaster2023]

I loved this entire mission I actually was thinking "Ted's not alive is he?" But I was thinking if he was alive there would be a lot different so I was like no he must be dead but then it was revealed that he was just severely mutated having lost all rational thought and that blew my mind What I love about these games is every twist and secret is difficult to figure out but when it is revealed you get the feeling of "of course that would happen" like Ted Faro being alive after trying to make himself immortal so he could rule the new earth basically but it of course blows up in his face after that twist I was like of course Ted would do that it's his entire character summed up basically Horizan Zero Dawn and Forbidden West is just awesome

[@Luigithesnowman]

Honestly this is the first time I've ever been this shook I needed a 10 min break cuz this was the single most horrifying thing I've witnessed. Whats worse is all we have to work with in terms of Ted's mutation is nothing more than a red outline and a few disgusting noises really gives people a chance to imagine. And I hate it

[@elijahbutcher9522]

Yeah that shit was really fucking creepy, and I'm thankful and really glad the devs chose to leave it at that.

[@SergioBocanegra]

I imagined Ted as a Feral Ghoul because it fits the concept of living centuries past the End of the World

[@riolukid1080]

Tbh I was expecting a jump scare to happen so I skipped the scene out of fear… so I came here to watch it later to find out nothing happen besides at least I know why people suddenly attacking me lol

[@JJ18355]

@@SergioBocanegra How about something akin to the Master from Fallout 1 only a lot more spread out and mindless to boot!

[@jacobrobinson787]

@@SergioBocanegra were you not paying attention? A feral Ghoul doesn't end up the size of a frigging building.

[@FallenOne669]

This was where the facial animation truly shines in the game. When Aloy is hearing Ted's final note and sees what he has done to himself, you can see the disgust and repulsion in her face.

[@Maddie_Madds]

Imagine Aloy did go through the door. After 1000 years of waiting to see "Liz's children", and it's Sobeck that appears. Ted would be like "Liz? How? WTF are you doing here?!" 😅😆😂

[@PSPlayGaming]

I think it would just be a horrible shriek from whatever he has become so no one would understand him. Only he would know what he is trying to say and then get more frustrated trying to talk more. Just to make it better 😅

[@EternalDreadLord]

The shear hypocrisy of Ted Faro. He had no problem deleting APOLLO, killing the Alphas and most of the people in Thebes, and yet he had the gall to claim he would never had killed young Kanya. And then he thought he could live long enough to guide the Zero Dawn progeny in his way, completely ignorant of his past. I'd say his unfortunately hideous form was karma catching up to him. Also, I'm glad Guerrilla decided against showing him up close, otherwise I'd have nightmares.

[@dingodyno9016]

Guerilla said they did it really because then they would have had to put a M rating on the game and didnt want to bring Horizon to the horror genre since this isnt Resident Evil though i would have loved a Resident Evil fight with Ted. A Doctor Birkin fight would have been cool.

[@TheNewFlutist]

The irony is that Faro didn't kill himself all these centuries but continued to live in this form which probably gave him great suffering. Still a coward not willing to face death.

[@Bustermachine]

Faro's Fate is kind of a microcosm of Horizon's warnings that we have to take responsibility for our technology. The Faro Plague was not a malicious force, but an out control tool of human huberous simply executing its faulty instructions. Faro's fate, is like that of the narrator of I Have No Mouth But I Must Scream, but where the narrator suffers their fate at the hands of a malicious machine god, Faro did it to himself. And to contrast, GAIA worked because she was a creation of desperation, but also immense humility for the power that was being harnessed.

[@UberrimaFide5]

*Hubris

[@earendilthemariner5546]

@@UberrimaFide5 i was about to type that too lmao

[@MicaylaRuby]

Yes! It also reminded me of I have no mouth but I must scream, it also reminded me of the rat king boss from the last of us part 2. Part of me wishes we could've seen him, but there's a certain satisfaction in "not showing the shark" as well. Just seeing the fin out of the water is enough sometimes

[@bayurhegiana6969]

Ted Faro = Elon Musk???

[@j_official4138]

im pretty sure they are already close to making machines that feed on biomass shits scary

[@stespin]

What I found particularly interesting is the underlying message. The Zeniths and Ted Faro, rich, arrogant, egotistical megalomaniacs with an evident god complex, living completely different lives on different planets, both went for the "I wanna be immortal" route. Ted Faro indirectly destroyed the world just because he got there first, the Zeniths would have probably got there eventually by creating Nemesis on Earth. I think it's fitting though, different people, different lives, same distorted desires, same mistakes dictated by their own egos over and over again.

[@PSPlayGaming]

That's good point about Nemesis on Earth never even thought about that but yes I agree. If it wasn't Ted someone else would have done something eventually

[@adammahoney8474]

Fitting. He tried to play god and become immortal, even while the rest of the world died because of him. But instead, he ended up becoming the monster that we knew him to be, inside and out.

[@Winter-The-Masquerade]

One thing that I like about this level is how it starts out as bright and beautiful on the surface in the post-apocalyptic San Fransisco but once you enter Thebes it gets darker and darker as you go lower into the base until find the room where Ted is which is the darkest room in the place. And then it starts to get brighter... because of the Magma, the Magma is why it's getting Brighter OH GOD IT'S HOT!!!

[@johnarcega4301]

This is one of my favorite part of the game. While we delve deeper in the place - I felt uneasy and nervous. The tension and mystery on what happened to Ted. What he did to the others.

[@MadBeastTitan]

Yes! I eventually told myself "...if this man is still alive in this bunker..."

[@rjbalbuena7789]

I find it absolutely hilarious that the devs decided to give us the 'joke armor' during one of the most disturbing reveals in the franchise. On another note Ted's demise is an all too frightening metaphor for how every narcissist dies. Alone, afraid, and festering in self pity and the sins they've let pile into an unforgivable mess. And they still think they're the hero. Only Ted's is unimaginably worse. And he deserved every second being in perpetual pain like that. I mean even if we did get to see the monster, the true horror is the idea of suffering the way he did.

[@shemfalah]

I really liked the creepiness of this quest, it was so refreshing. I wish I could have killed Ceo with my own hands instead of the statue head but it's a fitting death either way. While I would've like a reveal, my mind conjured something terrible and I think that's what's great about it.

[@PSPlayGaming]

Yes Ceo was so creepy. I wanted him dead the second I saw him 😂

[@renzocalcagno536]

The creepiness and madness of Faro's tomb is strongly felt on every room and file Aloy explores.

[@alexsilverstar629]

I just finished that quest today. It was mentally fucked up. But it fit. He was already insane on the inside. Now, he lost everything else that made him human. A weird mass of flesh, deprived of any higher brain functions, deprived of emotions, empathy, everything. That shows where his egoism, his narcissism and his insanity took him. He's now truly what he always was on the inside. A monster.

[@rolandjaycutter3504]

With how things were going, I thought we were going to get a Really unique boss fight. But, somethings are better left unseen.

[@obitou5595]

I went from "No way he lived this long. There's just no way he didnt-" to "Oh my goodness gracious he STILL ALIVE??!!"

[@yodaime91]

This was creepy, but I really wanted Ted to be killed by one of the machines from the swarm, finding him in the bunker and turning him into fuel with the Biomatter Conversion... That would have been fitting!!!

[@ZaiDrizzleDrop]

I honestly think him transforming into a giant tumor for 1,000 years in hell was a fitting end

[@haidilao2589]

Can’t wait for the fanart that comes with the “mutated Faro” concept!

[@XautnisLeonhart]

I'm betting he looked like a Cross of resident evil zombie and last of us 2 rat king!

[@hailmendoza6106]

I thinking of a mixture between a raw meatball and the dog creature from the thing

[@XautnisLeonhart]

I just finished this moment and HO-LY SHI-ET!!!!!! I recently finished zero dawn and got most of what happened with dear old teddy faro: he's the one who destroyed the world not once, but TWICE! First was when he caused the glitch to appear and willfully ignore it until Elisabet found out about it (all while trying to blame it all on anyone else), which of course led to the plague named after him (huh, I just suddenly realized how fitting it is to have his name tied to what started everything) and then he of course hides away in his own private bunker, and second when he destroys Apollo AND kills the Alphas, all to soothe his precious ego and to make him feel good about causing the deaths of trillions. And now, I'm just so dumbfounded and disgusted by what else he did! The first time I heard about his bunker, I didn't think anything of it, but now I've seen it? 🤮🤬 of course the bastard would turn his bunker into an Egyptian themed tomb, with a giant statue of himself no less! What, so did that make him a pharaoh?! And with his own HAREM too!! Just when I thought I can't despise the bastard more, I get dumped with all that shocking information, but I was just straight up horrified and enraged that he not only didn't have the common courtesy to blow his brains out, but he wanted to live forever!!! "To meet lis' children"!!! Its as if he believed making his place in ancient Egyptian style would reward him for what he did, ESPECIALLY what he did now! Hmph! It's almost fitting that he was alone for the rest of his unnatural life; his precious harem and doctor were all dead, hearing only old recordings and the sound of his own voice (I bet he just LOVED hearing that!), and his giant statue and pet corrupters just outside for company. He ended up turning into the monster he already was. At first, he was just a stupid idiot, then a coward, and finally a murderous monster. I'm mildly disappointed I didn't get to see what he looked like (probably looked like a mix of zombie and The Last Of Us 2 rat king). I'm also disgusted by precious Ceo, thinking he was descended from Faro himself 😤 the arrogance and ego on him. Probably would've made teddy proud. And I was so pissed that he was singing him praises about how he'd "save the world" and that Elisabet was his "assistant." Just where the hell did he get such bullshit information that painted the bastard as Jesus Christ? Who here wants to bet that they were recordings of himself convincing people (who didn't believe him of course!) that HE was responsible for Zero Dawn or whatever? There's no way in hell that these Quen found evidence of his supposed "selfless heroism"!! *long exhale* sorry for the rant, folks. I just....... REALLY needed to get it out of my system. I haven't finished forbidden west, but holy HELL, the series is just blowing my mind!!!

[@Gungelion]

Have to give the creative team credit, they did an excellent job of making a disgusting hateable monster. Heck, the fact that he was killed so unceremoniously is almost like saying he wasn't worthy of being killed by aloy.

[@Niobesnuppa]

I like your passion. Just goes to show how engaging the writing in this game is, really.

[@Owl_Space]

I still say the best fate for Ted would be to be locked in a room. As he faces the door and tries to figure out how he's gonna get out, from behind him here hears: "Ted Faro. I am Sylens. I have . . . many questions."

[@PSPlayGaming]

I love Sylens best character in the game series for me

[@93MANIAC]

I agree that would have been a really good idea for how an alterative ending for the game

[@maxcarrasco260]

I liked how they made the Ceo character. His condecending tone is perfect! I HATED that guy so much during this mission. Bravo Guerilla! BRAVO!

[@PSPlayGaming]

I hated him the second we saw him in the tent. I just knew he was annoying lol

[@ianvanderburgt5244]

*SPOILERS WARNING* Seriously it was like 1am when he finally fell and got crushed and I literally cheered 🍻 kinda wanted to take him out myself kinda like you can with Regala but still so satisfying

[@maxcarrasco260]

@@ianvanderburgt5244 kinda fitting how Ceo's giant head gets crushed by a Faro giant head 😆

[@federicoalfero9287]

Honestly, I felt he was so rushed and flat as a character I didn't care any about the guy. I wish they used him more before his demise to make us really hate his guts. Same for the Zeniths, actually. Zero Dawn suffers from a lack of good villains. Faro is by far the most compelling and we don't actually interact with him. Sylens is another one, but he's more of a anti-villain.

[@pax6833]

On one hand, I get that they need the mission to proceed as it does for story purposes. On the other hand. HUUUGE mistake on Aloy's part to open the door for him at all.

[@bernardotorres5274]

I was honestly not expecting something this messed up on Forbbiden West, this is resident evil type of messed up.

[@sethhardy866]

Those sounds of a dying dog or a that weasel machine (the burrower) when it dies. I honestly think faro probably wanted to die. Because after he was alone he probably didnt know how to stop the mutations. As the guy that tried to help mentioned it as be a game of "Wack-a-Mole"

[@ForgorenWolf]

Sounded like a pig to me

[@rubenalvarez6830]

Imagine if this Faro, meet the Oblivion God's, the decendants of the space ship.

[@darkblacke7488]

I'm curious about how he stayed alive if he was in that room for so long. All living things need fuel for their bodily processes, but I assume his cells were replicating so much that they would provide themselves with...fuel. So he was metabolising his own mutations to probably stay alive.

[@XautnisLeonhart]

Most likely, but those sounds? He'd long lost his mind and humanity. I bet he looked like a crossover of a zombie from resident evil and the rat king from last of us 2

[@AzguardMike]

it said he was living off the reactor to stay alive and mutate more. If he died, or was removed without turning off a device first, the reactor would go critical and then Thebes would fall.

[@edguy9767]

Imagine if TED some way, somehow, had still just a bit of sanity left. i know it says he’s practically got the brain of an animal now but just Imagine Aloy walking in and Ted realizing deep inside him that Elizabeth was still alive and in her prime….and all you hear is the screaming of a freak of nature finally loosing his sanity as Aloy tells him he failed and that everyone remembers what he did and tried to do.

[@trebaker0619]

I low key thought we were gonna have a boss fight with mutated Ted during the cutscene. 😅😅 aloy kept looking back through that door and I was like "Oh....no....hell no" 🤣🤣

[@ShinoShaw]

Here is the reason why I love the way they did it. We have many games where we actually see how bad the human flesh can be disfigured. If you played Fallout, Soma, Resident Evil…..watched The Thing, Slither, Phantasm, Hellraiser and many more. You already got the visual of how Ted Faro would possibly look like.

[@AgentCali21]

19:21 They always say never meet your hero face to face

[@vitin3817]

LMAO

[@snowflakefawn8892]

I'd like to think the first roars were actually desperate and terrified screams when he heard a voice, the first voice after 900 years: Elizabet's.

[@PR1ME98]

This mission was unnerving AF

[@elijahbutcher9522]

So fucking true,

[@dntm123]

Getting to the end of this mission and seeing that hologram, I was expecting an encounter with some hideous mutation on par with the Rat King from The Last of Us Part 2. I'm almost glad we didn't though because it's more disturbing to not see what Faro became and to leave it up to the imagination.

[@elihem]

I was really holding my breath when I understood what Faro became. I honestly knew that he was alive but I wasn’t expecting this AT ALL. (More that he was cryogenized) I was thinking "okay time to Horizon to become a body horror game I guess" I’m just kinda relieved that we didn’t have to fight him even if I’m curious about what he looked like exactly.

[@craaab____721]

This is the most atmospheric and tense mission I’ve ever played and horizon’s not even a horror game. I thought that if Elisabet Sobeck could clone herself multiple times, then surely Ted could. Instead the worst fate you could possibly imagine has been brought down on this man for 1000 years. Although he somewhat deserved this, no human being should ever have to experience such isolation and pain of slowly disfiguring to the point where your own form scares yourself, so long, screaming in either pain, or crying for the end of your suffering, not knowing if anyone will ever find you…

[@joshbrenes7782]

I did want to see him, kinda expected to have a boss battle against Thing Faro. Or at least take a look at him. Still loving the game!

[@derrik5329]

I"m most disappointed that it was a no name guard of Ceo that got to do the honor of putting flame to flesh. Like at least let us pull the plug on him or something. It just felt so anticlimactic after all that buildup to not only not be able to see him but for him to die that easy to one torch.

[@stviz87]

I was getting Resident Evil vibes, and was expecting an abomination to come charging at us, and then have Aloy kill mutants that are released in the world 🤣 Thank goodness it didn't

[@AlexYadaYada]

It wouldn’t be that much of a boss fight. Faro is probably just an immovable slug of flesh and bone.

[@runthejulies]

I felt almost sick with anxiety/horror during this section, it was so creepy!! Great storytelling, loved it

[@KDB349]

I really felt for Kanya in those audio logs. When going through Ted's Bunker you really got that feeling helplessness and isolation. Not to mention the music is incredibly eerie. When i saw the statues of him throughout the tomb i thought to myself "This man thinks himself to be a god. He literally worships himself." What's more when you hear about how Ted disposed of those who got too close to truth, those who were in particular close to Kanya in the Bunker, you realize the situation is a lot more sinister still because you find out Ted is literally watching everyone. Stalking them. Terrifying. No one was safe from this man.

[@PSPlayGaming]

We all knew how bad he was in the first game, at least we though we did until we entered this bunker.

[@glitch164]

Somehow, someway, we KNEW Ted was still alive. An egomaniac twisted into trying to be something beyond a normal man would never just die that easy would he?

[@Reeses7501]

Jesus, he turned into a literal wall of flesh. For anyone who played dead space, you can imagine how fucking horrific he could've looked.

[@azazel166]

It can be far worse, like the Thing from the horror movie.

[@earendilthemariner5546]

Yeah soo...he lived for over a thousand years. Born in 2013, died in 3041

[@serinahighcomasi2248]

Perhaps “lived” is being a bit too charitable to describe the state of his existence after..well, all those mutations and growths.

[@coltonwilliams4153]

@@serinahighcomasi2248 You’re right. ‘Suffered’ is probably a better term.

[@lornepribbeno3760]

The man killed the earth twice, all for his pleasure and ego. Chained to a machine that keeps him alive in a literal hell of his own creation? Guy got off easy.

[@Eftkud]

When starting the mission: haha imagine if she finds faro alive down here. When finishing the mission: The door is making sounds, is something malfunctioning?...wait... wtf... WTH IS THAT... IT JUST SCREAMED IS HE ALIVE WTF

[@MiguelHernandez-ey1np]

Dear Lord he became a damn necromorph, at least in my mind he must looked something like that.

[@Yellow13Firestorm]

This is almost like a Fallout Bunker gone wrong. like one of the many dilapidated shelters out there in the wastes.

[@coltonwilliams4153]

Pretty sure that, like, 90% of those things functioned exactly as they were supposed to. It was the ones where the horrific experiments that were designed to go down didn’t happen that went off script. I’m not talking about the handful that were actually supposed to be what they were advertised as, of course.

[@kvdjrplays7794]

@@coltonwilliams4153 actually wasn’t it the opposite? Most of the vaults were designed for twisted experiments but a few control vaults functioned like they were supposed to : a safe haven for generations to survive.

[@kvdjrplays7794]

@@coltonwilliams4153 nevermind , I misread your comment , apologies XD

[@gandalfpotter2149]

Jesus this was dark, even for someone who ended the world

[@Drakenrahll]

Im picturing something like Tetsuo from Akira... And he got to live in that state alone for thousands of years going insane and losing his mind. Truly a fate worse than death.

[@jessebowser]

Everyone in here saying "it's a shame we didn't get to see him!" 16:47. That red veiny thing that Aloy pulls up? That's him. Honestly I sort of wish Ted would have lived if only so Sylens could poke, prod and torture him like he did to HADES.

[@Kinsanth_]

That really would have been satisfying to watch, but …. I think, even sylens wouldn’t wanted to deal with that abomination

[@armoroftruth3166]

If you seen his vital hologram report you will know that he has develoved into nothing but a mere animal,Sylens wouldn't torture him because he would have found nothing from him.

[@azazel166]

I doubt Sylens would even want touch him with a 10 foot pole.

[@hannahritchie9231]

Part of me would have loved a conversation of Aloy dragging Ted’s name through the mud if she met him and bragged about how he fought so hard to make so many things erased were discovered and then died the scum he is. But after I saw at 16:44 what he looks like… I’m glad no other conversations took place, although the inhuman sounds he made when he saw ceo and the guard with the torch really made my flesh crawl.

[@HenhousetheRed]

I hoped we'd get to fight an immortal Ted who holed out in his bunker. This is more satisfying. The cutscene before Faro's reveal shows his brain activity diminished. He basically wasn't human anymore. Zero intelligence, mindless. It was probably a long and slow, agonizing decline. He wouldn't recognize Aloy as Liz's clone. He was an immortal idiot.

[@pmt1103]

Fitting...in a way, Ted became what he was inside. And in the end he was killed by his own failsafe. Admittably I do wish we could have seen him. Maybe have, whatever it was he was, poking up hands or...tendrils out of the lava as you escaped. Hints of what he became, then...sure he would be eventually buried under Thebes, for a while. Would be an insanely good DLC to fight whatever...Faro became, have some group worship him as a God and whatever and Aloy has to end it. A final war story of what Faro became, and what Sobeck became

[@MarioLopez-gy9lp]

What if the Doctor said that the reactor "would give everything he needs" so he exposes to it frequently to develop a cancer and with a High cell regeneration he would became a living tumor for eternity

[@WizzyTheDizzy]

U mean deadpool.

[@PSPlayGaming]

Now I got an image of deadpool following CEO out the door lol

[@loaf_of_beans1619]

@@WizzyTheDizzy nah. Deadpool is different because his super healing counteracts his cancer. Ted legit just became a sentient tumour. He ceased being a human likely hundreds of years prior,

[@flamestorm31]

We technically did see his mutated form in the focus.

[@beccap4356]

This whole quest was amazingly horrific. I got creepy vibes the moment you got into Thebes. Part of me kinda wishes we'd got to see what Faro looked like and maybe even get a boss fight, but I'm also glad they left it to our imagination since you could definitely picture something even more horrifying than whatever design they might have gone with.

[@Ulysse21Y]

What a feeling to be the last living human of the humanity and being responsible for the destruction?

[@CaptainPilipinas]

Original Human beings from back then. Unfortunately, yes. Disturbingly a Reminder: *All there on Earth are still clones.* even if the original ones (besides Aloy and Beta currently the newer ones still, not since the First of the ELEUTHIA cradle bunkers' small populations) are now Centuries passed mortally dead. and even if the current children of Humanity right now already have starting parents after the first real cloned Humans' time. back to Theodor, no. he wasn't the Only original Human beings before the time of ELEUTHIA-spawned people's, and Aloy and the others killed those remaining 10(?) who were also original Humans that quickly at least prolonged their still young lifespans before they could even hit 60. includes Tilda. depending from any of those 10 who were like Gerard, Tilda, Erik, Verbena, etc, and any from those 10 are not just another cloned Human being who also extended his or her lifespan.

[@reddemon6668]

Ted might still be alive. One of the recording on the Thebes bunker said that the base temperature of the reactor was around 1876 degrees Fahrenheit, through a quick search on lava temps, I found that lava temps are around the range of 1,470 F to 2, 190 F. In fact, through some quick calculations shows that mean temps for lava is in the 1,830 F area. The heat of the energy reactor that Ted Faro was comfortably feeding off of happens to be coincidentally right in the middle of the lava heat range (46 degree F difference). From my understanding, the reactor might have given him energy to resist or stabilize the mutations? Without it, the mutations might go rampant, reduced brain functions and acting upon instinct, he would try to seek new sources of energy. Idk but the whole concept just sounds extremely possible in giving way for a new enemy apart from the Nemesis system in a sequel to forbidden west. It would make sense considering he’d be resistant to fire right off the bat.

[@PSPlayGaming]

I have feeling he still is and it part reason we didn’t see it. I think possible dlc enemy instead sequel

[@shepherdbrooks7609]

Disgusting. I love it 😂

[@reddemon6668]

@@PSPlayGaming well I meant “sequel” as in any follow up made to the game itself, so yeah possible dlc too. Too many “funny” coincidences that Guerrilla games brought up. Weird enough I don’t see that many streamers dissecting this whole mission.

[@LordKnightTV]

No chance man, he is dead. One of the recording said that the reactor would be destroyed if his heart rate got to 0. Which it did and that's why everything got destroyed.

[@reddemon6668]

@@LordKnightTV find me the recording in question. None of the recordings I’ve read says that. Only that a failsafe was in place in case anyone tried to steal the reactor, aka: “. . . very unique feature {speaking of reactor} in case anyone ever tries to steal my{his} cheese.” (Heat rising) recording. Then merge that with the (reactor report) recording. Which states that the failsafe is caused by low structural integrity and that any disturbance will cause it to activate. Structure which houses the reactor core, was on the edge of being compromised. Finally we see the result of the reactor being disturbed, it overheats, and lava begins to overflow within the bunker. But we know from the fact that the reactor itself is able to withstand high heat, in fact it has to since the reactor itself is geothermal and is shown in the recording: (reactor report) that the temperature are high enough to withstand and produce real avg lava temps (look it up on google). So here’s where my logic comes in So if ted was near the thing for years, because, and as he states in the recording (Alone) he needs time to calm down, time and energy. *What type of energy? Well it’s geothermal, so heat energy.*, And if Ted was able to snuggle nice and tight next to a reactor that can produce and withstand heat temps in the lava ranges, then that make him resistant to high heat or lava temps. Is my logic faulty in any of this?

[@cincoosaan]

This could’ve been turned into Resident Evil if we had to fight Ted Faro’s mutation.

[@QuayNemSorr]

Been behind that door sucking on the generator for a thousand years transforming into something fitting for Resident Evil, his brain slowly turning to mush, becoming nothing but a hideous monster barely aware. Yeah, this was a fitting ending for Ted.

[@FallenOne669]

I like how Guerilla gave Ted a twisted form of immortality, especially with his Egyptian influence. The ancient Egyptians considered physical immortality as a curse.

[@PSPlayGaming]

Thank you all for watching, this is now my most-watched video on KZbin! If you enjoyed it please consider subscribing to my channel and you can watch more Horizon Videos here kzbin.info/aero/PLz0wkw6H6VmjoPm8w3WpCO7ILy3LyErWa Thank you again for your support its really appreciated. Some timestamps for video - 0:00 Ted Faro Bunker 1:39 Audio Files about living with Ted 4:01 CEO is a Ted Fanatic 7:38 Entering Faro Bunker with CEO 15:17 Aloy Learns Ted Faro's Fate 17:59 CEO Finds Ted Faro Alive 18:52 CEO death 19:10 Quen Questions Alva and Aloy0

[@PSPlayGaming]

@JJskillz It's back in HD now so you should be good now!

[@JonoK79]

I actually thought at first that Faro had turned into the Blight and he was slowly leaking out into the world. I only just finished this mission but I appreciate that he got no actual screen time :)

[@Frank-hv7xj]

I still would've liked to see how he looked tho... After the cutscene I instantly thought of going to see the burning blob but then the Magma started blocking the entrance and I was like "Dammit... they knew." 😂

[@_Petrichor]

In a way, it’s fitting that he was forced to live through the horror he had created.

[@CaptainPilipinas]

a realization recently: and it is a wonder that his Damned 'guard dog' of FAS scarab units wouldn't even get that far inside and just nanohaze him torturously. but by that effect, the Damned bunker of his would have been destroyed a long time ago if that were the case.

[@timvanheuven3858]

Bro how did the guard still obey him though- like he literally pushed one of his guard into the lava

[@PSPlayGaming]

Powerful family my guess we might see them in dlc. That's just a guess though

[@fredericoamigo]

This was in my opinion one of the most memorable missions of the game.

[@bahamutskingdom]

The absolute satisfaction of this Ceo seeing what was laft of Faro, and then his comeuppance in the end. Seriously satisfying.

[@Dammerung2010]

This definitely pulled some inspiration from the fate of Gilbert Alexander in BioShock 2, in the best ways possible!

[@PSPlayGaming]

Ah Bioshock great series. Missing games like that on consoles atm.

[@craigstynardt4990]

„The ancients chased a mysterious beast, the mighty Roi!“ (They chased the return-on-investment) // „They rode to the sky on the back of a wild citation they caught from the port of air.“ (they had company jets) // „The ceo above all was a baby dressed in a suit, he came from the works of dreams and spoke to his people through a giant screen of light.“ (Boss baby is an excellent movie)

[@karinayanez6500]

i still can not believe this part man, I’M STILL IN SHOCK

[@gentlejellyfishsky843]

I know a lot of people are saying that it was a fitting end for him, and to some degree I do kinda agree. But honestly, I feel bad for him. Like yeah, it was a destruction of his own making and everything, but realizing that he was basically brain dead by the end is honestly, really sad to me. In a way perhaps it was a mercy, he wasn’t conscious and in constant suffering. But also, to lose one’s mind, possibly the thing that makes us most human, to become nothing more than a mindless beast. No, to become less than a mindless beast, it makes me mourn. To hear and see things, but be unable to make sense of them, to be unable to think. If he had seen Aloy, would he have even recognized her? Did he feel anything, at the end? It was truly such a tragic death. And while he’s, he did deserve a gruesome death, I don’t know if I can say that he deserved that one.

[@bertbox69]

The horror and misery of his death was in direct proportion to his crimes, the killing of an entire planet,not just the humans on it.

[@PeekaPeep]

To those who might be wondering what Faro's final mutated form looks like based on what the holo image that Aloy was viewing in both shock and disgust hinted at, one need only go back to that now-infamous 'Master' boss confrontation scene in Fallout 1 (but with Faro's brain functions severely degraded to what was pretty much a lowly primitive state by comparison, lol). That should give you a general idea of what he turned into physically after nearly a millennium of unchecked cellular growth and forced isolation. Tragic to be sure, but nobody's gonna shed any tears of grief for that egomaniacal psychopath after what he did to the "Old World" as well as the post-Zero Dawn one that eventually followed. He got what he deserved in the very end: an unceremonious demise (at least for now)! 😏

[@lichtschluusseln3528]

The Ted Faro character reminds me of what Bobby Rottick and people alike is doing to the videogame industry. For HFW we would have enjoyed tripcastering, shredding, bombing and arrowing the mutant Faro then hunting down his surviving descent from his harem or his clones among the Zeniths. The Faro wannabe’s fall off was comforting somehow. Thanks, Guerrilla, for such a beautiful game and story. XD XD XD XD XD

[@sophiedelescobar]

still wondering why this door looks like an assassins creed dungeon...

[@GeoDeo]

When I got to this part, I was genuinely curious because I thought he was just going to be a corpse just like anyone else we’ve met from the old world, but then when I listened to all the data points I was hoping maybe we could have a confrontation with an immortal piece of garbage. What we actually got was much more than I anticipated, and I am disgusted and glad that that is what we got

[@oliverkollas4526]

Considering that a lot in this game is inspired by Greek mythology, I'd guess Ted Faros final form is something like the hekatóncheires, the "ones with hundred arms", wich are sons of Gaia and Uranos.

[@explicitantony9421]

Shit went resident evil real quick

[@adrianrossellruiz8904]

I really hope somehow Faro survived and became an antagonist in the third game or in a dlc expansion.

[@PSPlayGaming]

Possible dlc involving the quen my guess. But it just a guess

[@roxas3071]

welp, their go any chances of me having a decent night sleep, ever.

[@Jayjay-qe6um]

To be honest, I was expecting Ted Faro to be main villain of this game.

[@PSPlayGaming]

Why would he send the extinction signal though? The world was literally what he wanted it to be so he could live “like a god”

[@felipepetersberchielli1651]

in many ways he is the main villain of both games

[@jms12312]

I’m bummed that they ruin Horizon Zero Dawn thru this side story arc. In the original game, they confirm he died in that one building near the end of the game. I hate when developers ruin epic game stories like this.

[@CakedUpDumptruck]

The main character of the short story “I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream” is also named Ted. If you read that, you’ll probably have a good idea what Faro ended up looking like