Bad Video Game Endings.

[Darth IB]

Hellgate: London, no contest.
I've never been so annoyed at a game before or since.

 

[moose_man]

Well, not a video GAME ending, but I hated the new PoP movie's ending. Cop out.

 

[SliverBlade]

Even though I loved the game, Psychonauts ending disappointed me.
Congratulations! You're now an official Psychonaut! Oops, sorry, the game is over now.

 

[darth gditch]

Modern Warfare 2. And KOTOR 2. But that's understandable.

 

[TraderJimmy]

Fable 2, FFX, Far Cry 2 and many many more. There are so many bad endings out there. Also I know it sasy this an endings thread but saying the game name will suffice and if you want to go into details you really should use spoiler tags.

You sly dog, claiming FFX has a bad ending. Good one, now the jokes over and you have to accept that X had an at least decent ending.

Actually it didn't. Final Fantasy X has *NO* ending in the US. There are a lot of questions left unresolved at the end of Final Fantasy X. Final Fantasy X-2 works on answering some of these questions, but again doesn't answer them all, for that you'd need Final Fantasy X: Final Mission, which was intentionally never released in the US.

Sometime ask yourself questions like how if Tidus was a construct of the Faiyth, did Auron apparently travel through time to meet him? What's more what was the purpose of even setting up the entire Summoner/Sin thing, did the Faiyth actually leave, how could they given that if you look at their temples and such it appears they are technological constructs, as is the "soul battery" that people go into when they die. This apparently being a lot of why technology/Machina is banned, to prevent people from understanding what's actually running the show, but even so the exact motivations of a lot of those that seem to be pulling the strings are never entirely explained.

Final Fantasy X pretty much sets some things up for what was a trilogy, and it does resolve a single storyline about Sin/Jecht, but doesn't deal with any of the over-arcing plotlines.

It's been a while, but that's how I remember it. I'll also say that I feel that despite the massive anticipation, Final Fantasy X-2 got the bad rap it did, because right as it was coming out we found out that it was not going to end the story, and the resolution was going to be Japan only. That pretty much killed any interest I had in it, and I know a lot of other people felt the same way. Especially if you read some of the Japanese periodicals that were being translated, it seemed that there was a motivation to keep it "Japanese Only" that was pretty racist. As was a bit of what I was reading about the desician to never release "Final Fantasy X: International" to the US market.

Simply my thoughts/experiences/opinions.

Eh, in the European version we are left to assume Tidus died, which I am happy with and consider canon. Made me feel sad, weirdly I'd grown attached to the whiny lil brat. As for FFX-2 staying Japanese...well, isn't that from the shame? That's what I'd assume. Either that or "they won't understand it, it's too culturally different", which I can understand.

Auron didn't travel through time to meet Tidus. The entire world Tidus lives in is a construct of the fayth, it lived outside 'real time'.

The Summoner/Sin thing was to generate drama and make you feel sorry for Yuna. It certainly distinguished the game for me, and that reveal really shocked me - imagine what it must have been for survivors of FFVII! (I played FFVII after FFX, so shoot me). OH NOES, IT'S AERIS ALL OVER AGAIN! I thought that was quite effective, personally.

I don't know where you're getting all that about the fayth being machina from, or 'soul batteries'. Never got a technological vibe from the fayth myself while playing it.

Technology and Machina are banned because Machina led to a mini-apocalypse, and the birth of Sin (it's unspecified how, but then this is a setting with MAGIC and thinly disguised NUKES COMBINED, so...fill in the blanks).

Doesn't sound like you really paid much attention to the game to me. I'm sure there are holes in the plot, but I never found one I could waggle my finger through - and none of those seem very convincing to me.

 

[Twitchy Racoon]

Halo 2

worst-cliffhanger-EVAR

 

[gmer412]

Are we really on the 4th page of a bad endings thread and nobody has mentioned the reboot Prince of Persia?

Spoiler

Beginning: O NO BAD GUY RELEASED. Middle: Got to go put bad guy back. Ending: Oh no love interest died! Well, better to release the bad guy again than to have her dead! Guess I have to go do EVERYTHING AGAIN.

Also Fallout 3. Really Bethesda? You make us pay for a decent ending? Really?

 

[HarmanSmith]

Red Dead Redemption

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You expect us to play as the whiny ***** who can't ride a horse for shit that I wanted to shoot in the face as soon as I met him? No. You patch that and give us an option to play as John, a.k.a. the guy we actually give a shit about.

Keep together, ya dumb animals!

 

[Tarakos]

For me, BioShock 2. Granted, I only played through once, but I'm pretty sure I got the canon ending. It leaves too many questions. Was Rapture really destroyed? What will your daughter do on the surface? And what in the hell did I look like?! Guess we have to wait for BioShock 3 for at least some of those answers.

Oh, and Halo 3. "We're finishing the fight." "Oh wait, NO WE'RE NOT!" Blah Blah Blah. "Can't wait for the fourth one." /sarcasm

Oh, and the 2008 PoP reboot. Haha. That was so lame. Are they going to make a sequel? Does anyone care? We'll never know.

 

[Giest4life]

Fable 2. Goddamn I spent about 13 fucking hours on that thing, and man when I did get to the end I was greeted with some shitty, half-assed writing. Fable was actually not a bad game, it kept me entertained (and also having lesbian sex is fun) but I got really pissed off at the ending. It sucks.

 

[ResiEvalJohn]

I just got done playing Onimusha on the PS2, worst ending ever!
I felt like I was watching something on the history channel! And then you see the credits and I'm like wtf!?

You say it like it's a bad thing. d:

lol, don't get me wrong, I loved the game, but the ending felt so lazy! There was no closure with the characters talking or anything. The game literally ends right after you kill the last boss with a voice over narration like - "So, He defeated the demons of the *Yojumbojum* clan (I don't remember the Japanese name :-/) and the other characters did some traveling and stuff. THE END."
I was like - Are you serious? (O-O)

 

[xXAsherahXx]

I just got done playing Onimusha on the PS2, worst ending ever!
I felt like I was watching something on the history channel! And then you see the credits and I'm like wtf!?

You say it like it's a bad thing. d:

lol, don't get me wrong, I loved the game, but the ending felt so lazy! There was no closure with the characters talking or anything. The game literally ends right after you kill the last boss with a voice over narration like - "So, He defeated the demons of the *Yojumbojum* clan (I don't remember the Japanese name :-/) and the other characters did some traveling and stuff. THE END."
I was like - Are you serious? (O-O)

Haha

 

[natster43]

Mortal Kombat Armageddon.
That is all I can think of right now.

 

[Noremacv]

The dark side ending in Kotor 2. It made no goddamn sense.

Because it wasn't a canon ending. Exile was, canonically, light-sided.

My opinion dictates that I must vote for Fallout 3's end. Terrible, terrible, and more terrible... All the rest of it was great, but the ending was garbage.

*grumble* am i the only one that liked the story in SW: FU?

No, I liked it as well.

 

[squirrelman42]

KOTOR 2's ending sucked

 

[Mr. Socky]

This is an easy one guys, Fable 2 definitely had the most anti-climactic ending of any video game.

What do you mean? The final boss killed my so much!!!


OT: Batman: Arkham Asylum had another one of the most anticlimactic final bosses EVER.

 

[bob-2000]

Bioshock was going so great, but the last third just wasn't as good as the first two thirds.

BioShock spoilers:

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yea, especially that goddamned escort mission. When I was playing on survival like 50 little sisters ended up dying

 

[Clueless Hero]

The Saboteur.

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Classic "No-Effort" boss fight. After killing your best friend, Father, and hundreds of Parisians, all you do is shoot him after he snivels like a baby for a few minutes.