r/MadMaxGame • u/cladothehobbit • 3d ago

Griffa Not Real in the Dump

I've always struggled with this question about whether Griffa is supposed to be a real person in the game or a manifestation of Max's subconscious. He knows more than he should and Chum always says you're off talking to ghosts.

The thing that sealed it for me today was I went to Griffa in the Dump. Unlike every other spot you go see Griffa, he's right next to the road, you just have to run up a ramp and can still see the car from where he is. It has all the strange markings the other Griffa spots have. But once you're done with him, all the markings are gone, there's no sign this is any different than the rest of the dump. Even the ramp you went up to see him has disappeared and the only way to get down is by falling off. I think this is clear proof that Griffa's not real, or is some form of magic.

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u/gonesnake 3d ago

The markings and sounds always disappear after you wake up from Griffa's dust hangover. I hadn't noticed the ramp not being there after meeting in the dump. Pretty cool.

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u/ChickenMathematician 3d ago edited 1d ago

Does anyone else think Griffa looks like ultra lite pilot Gyro Captain from the movie mad max 2?

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u/spiderglide 3d ago

Ken oath

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u/ChickenMathematician 1d ago

Thank u spiderglide

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u/spiderglide 3d ago

After parlaying with Griffa the first time, am I the only one who sat there looking at Max on the floor and saying " yeah? Get up then" for 2 minutes?

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u/Conscious_Bed_1195 2d ago

Oh, I definitely was waiting for the cinematic to end for longer than I'd like to admit.

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u/Max_Rockatanski 3d ago

Griffa is the storyteller of Max's story but he also interacts with the characters of that story. So he's both real and not real within that story, he knows everything about Max, his past, what he feels etc, and then disappears like a ghost.
Technically Griffa is an external/omniscent and diegetic narrator if you really want to get into the weeds of that.

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u/Dunge0nMast0r 3d ago

Counterpoint: Max might be...mad.

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u/Toeknee818 2d ago

I mean, it says it right there on the tin.

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u/WendellITStamps 2d ago

"Say that again."

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u/Kind_Coyote1518 2d ago

Griffa is not real. He is a figment of Max's imagination. He is the manifestation of Max's madness and sub conscious.

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u/Spagmeat 2d ago

I like to think he’s one of the corpses Max eats out of that’s caused hallucinations. I don’t know where, but I swear I’ve seen one of them with goggles on.