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bew11 said:
mine is the ending to borderlands. THERE IS NO VAULT!!! You spend all this time trying to find a vault thats suppost to have alien weapons, but insted this bigass octupus monster thing comes out of this portal thing and tries to bite your face off! where are the weapons!?
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Going way back, the ending to Doom 2 was pretty anticlimactic, it wasn't even really a boss, you just have to shoot 3 rockets into a whole in the wall that spits out enemies.

It's no Cyberdemon, is all I'm saying.
 

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Furburt said:
COD4.

I mean, seriously, one shot and Zakhaev goes down? Really? No big battle, nothing?

I dunno if MW2 resolved it or not but it was pretty jarring when it first came out.
Well I mean you do shoot him in the face no human can survive that.
 

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Furburt said:
COD4.

I mean, seriously, one shot and Zakhaev goes down? Really? No big battle, nothing?

I dunno if MW2 resolved it or not but it was pretty jarring when it first came out.
At least they didn't give him some arbitrary health limit. In a game that prides itself on being very realistic, shooting the last boss in the head and him still running around firing back would have been downright ridiculous.

The only way to remedy the situation would have been to have him in some sort of vehicle, like a helicopter. That way it could plausibly take more than one shot to kill him, and he still wouldn't seem super-human at all and break immersion (sp).
 

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Not sure if someone mentioned it yet, but the very final boss of FFX was really disappointing. Granted, you had about 3 or 4 harder fights before that, but a floating scarab with giant stone pillars was a bit of a let down. Also, FFXII was also a letdown in its entirety. I kept playing, waiting for the storyline to start, and then beat the game to discover that that was it. Game over, nothing else.
 

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bew11 said:
mine is the ending to borderlands. THERE IS NO VAULT!!! You spend all this time trying to find a vault thats suppost to have alien weapons, but insted this bigass octupus monster thing comes out of this portal thing and tries to bite your face off! where are the weapons!?
I've said this before, but here we go.

Anyone who didn't immediately know that the "box" we were trying to open on PANDORA was going to contain some unspeakable evil and not treasure needs to stop playing so many video games and go read a goddamn book or something.

- J
 

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tiredinnuendo said:
bew11 said:
mine is the ending to borderlands. THERE IS NO VAULT!!! You spend all this time trying to find a vault thats suppost to have alien weapons, but insted this bigass octupus monster thing comes out of this portal thing and tries to bite your face off! where are the weapons!?
I've said this before, but here we go.

Anyone who didn't immediately know that the "box" we were trying to open on PANDORA was going to contain some unspeakable evil and not treasure needs to stop playing so many video games and go read a goddamn book or something.

- J
well i figured there would be an actual vault that you could go into after the the final boss.
 

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Failurebot said:
Going way back, the ending to Doom 2 was pretty anticlimactic, it wasn't even really a boss, you just have to shoot 3 rockets into a whole in the wall that spits out enemies.

It's no Cyberdemon, is all I'm saying.
Yeah, except it shoots one hit kill cubes that spawn enemies. Infinitely. Pretty much you have to do it very fast, or you end up dead. Plus the only way to get shot into the hole is to shoot at the exactly right time while going up on an elevator platform.

Plus the Cyberdemon isn't the last boss of doom. The Spiderdemon is.
 

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It's gotta be the ending to MGS4. Probably one of the only times i've sighed at an ending
 

The Hairminator

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Doing the 'No Russian' mission in MW2 and realizing Makarov isn't even the real enemy.
What were they smoking?
 

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gRiM_rEaPeRsco said:
no one said the borderlands ending yet?
I was thinking this. It just feels rushed, and there was something missing to that ending, whether it be an improvement on the twist or just better directing.
 

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End of MW2 (**SPOILERS**):

The end of the first game was great. Your lying injured on the ground, your allies are getting killed, and you pull out a small weapon in a last ditch attempt to kill him and it works and the energy buildup was just so great and intense and it was so unexpected. Then another ally lands in an helicopter and takes you away. Then I play MW2. Your lying injured on the ground, your ally is getting killed, and you pull out a small weapon in a last ditch attempt to kill him and it works and then another ally lands in an helicopter and takes you away. What the fuck IW
 

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Furburt said:
COD4.

I mean, seriously, one shot and Zakhaev goes down? Really? No big battle, nothing?

I dunno if MW2 resolved it or not but it was pretty jarring when it first came out.
I do hope you realize that Zakhaev is not a super human, would you rather he catch the bullet in mid air then shoot lazers at you?
 

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ZeroDotZero said:
gRiM_rEaPeRsco said:
no one said the borderlands ending yet?
I was thinking this. It just feels rushed, and there was something missing to that ending, whether it be an improvement on the twist or just better directing.
i was really hoping the we would get in the vault, the start even describes what happens when you find the vault, but i think your right, very rushed.
 

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AshPox said:
Whats your biggest in game anticlimax?

mine is in fable 2 when you open the fifty key chest (the hardest chest to open in the game) and it only has $50,000 in it, when by that time you already have over 10 million dollars and you make about $50,000 every half hour.

sorry if this thread has been done before
I'd have to agree with you on that one, or maybe at the end of Borderlands when the Vault has zero fucking treasure in it.

Oh, you should prob slap a spoiler alert in the title of the thread, because I'd imagine most of the conversation in here will involve spoilers.
 

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I think the original ending of Fallout 3 where you just die, was a big anti-climax.

Before Broken Steel of course.
 

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Furburt said:
COD4.

I mean, seriously, one shot and Zakhaev goes down? Really? No big battle, nothing?

I dunno if MW2 resolved it or not but it was pretty jarring when it first came out.

More of a dramatic more then action, but I'd probably say that the car chase was the 'final boss' fight. You fought the chopper, but you didn't really have to fight it. You could have just sat there because shooting that thing was hard as fuck.