Biggest WTF endings in games

[saintdane05]

snipping to the end of time~!

Did you doublepost in a single post?
Anyway, yeah, you have to screw up baddly, but it still surprises me that Bioware had the balls to kill off Sheppard as well. And then say, "Try again, mornon!"

 

[lacktheknack]

I haven't played it, but apparently Phantasmagoria had a pretty fucked up ending.

It had a pretty standard horror-movie ending, really. Now, if you did anything in the last chapter WRONG, then you had some pretty WTFy things happen to you.

Really? Isn't that the one with the murder mystery type thing that ends

Spoiler

with you finding out who the killer is only to have him kill you and set you up as the killer?

No no, that's the horror-mystery standard ending.

Phantasmagoria has a possession-horror standard ending, where despite all your best efforts, the person you're trying to save dies horribly, and you, the last character standing, escape by the skin of your teeth.

 

[lacktheknack]

Can I just say "The entire second half of Indigo Prophecy" and call it a day? Seriously, that game takes a DRASTIC left turn on us...and unfortunately not for the better.

Actually, the story had me all the way to the last quarter. I somehow rolled with the angel statues suddenly attacking, the psychic expository dump, and all the rest, even the "0+5 Sanity" moment... it was the fight on top of the orphanage where I finally leaned back and said "this is now officially gloriously dumb".

 

[Wickatricka]

Not very interesting but I thought the end to Arkham city seemed rushed and kinda shitty honestly.

 

[VonKlaw]

snipping to the end of time~!

Did you doublepost in a single post?
Anyway, yeah, you have to screw up baddly, but it still surprises me that Bioware had the balls to kill off Sheppard as well. And then say, "Try again, mornon!"

Yes, I double posted in a single post (fixed it now). No, I have no idea how the hell I did that.

And yeah, I suppose it was pretty ballsy of them to allow the option to do it, even if it does require you to pretty much do it deliberately.

OT: I'd say the ending to Oblivion's main quest was pretty WTF, though not in the way the OP probably meant.

"Oh so that dude just turned into a golden dragon thing? Cool, I'd totally been waiting for that to happen all game. Not."

 

[Canadamus Prime]

I haven't played it, but apparently Phantasmagoria had a pretty fucked up ending.

It had a pretty standard horror-movie ending, really. Now, if you did anything in the last chapter WRONG, then you had some pretty WTFy things happen to you.

Really? Isn't that the one with the murder mystery type thing that ends

Spoiler

with you finding out who the killer is only to have him kill you and set you up as the killer?

No no, that's the horror-mystery standard ending.

Phantasmagoria has a possession-horror standard ending, where despite all your best efforts, the person you're trying to save dies horribly, and you, the last character standing, escape by the skin of your teeth.

Ok, so what game am I thinking of then?

 

[lacktheknack]

I haven't played it, but apparently Phantasmagoria had a pretty fucked up ending.

It had a pretty standard horror-movie ending, really. Now, if you did anything in the last chapter WRONG, then you had some pretty WTFy things happen to you.

Really? Isn't that the one with the murder mystery type thing that ends

Spoiler

with you finding out who the killer is only to have him kill you and set you up as the killer?

No no, that's the horror-mystery standard ending.

Phantasmagoria has a possession-horror standard ending, where despite all your best efforts, the person you're trying to save dies horribly, and you, the last character standing, escape by the skin of your teeth.

Ok, so what game am I thinking of then?

I ain't sure. Maybe Ripper, but I didn't finish it.

 

[Kotaro]

I'm surprised that no one's mentioned the true ending of No More Heroes yet.

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Admittedly, most of the questions one would ask about this ending are answered in the sequel, except for who made that painting (or why), who that little girl is, why her name is the same as that of the final boss, how Silvia knows her, or really anything involving the post-credits scene. In fact, the contents of that scene are never even mentioned.

EDIT: I got the embedded video working! Huzzah.

 

[Canadamus Prime]

I haven't played it, but apparently Phantasmagoria had a pretty fucked up ending.

It had a pretty standard horror-movie ending, really. Now, if you did anything in the last chapter WRONG, then you had some pretty WTFy things happen to you.

Really? Isn't that the one with the murder mystery type thing that ends

Spoiler

with you finding out who the killer is only to have him kill you and set you up as the killer?

No no, that's the horror-mystery standard ending.

Phantasmagoria has a possession-horror standard ending, where despite all your best efforts, the person you're trying to save dies horribly, and you, the last character standing, escape by the skin of your teeth.

Ok, so what game am I thinking of then?

I ain't sure. Maybe Ripper, but I didn't finish it.

Nope, I just dug up the video from which I heard of it. It was Darkseed II.

 

[lacktheknack]

I haven't played it, but apparently Phantasmagoria had a pretty fucked up ending.

It had a pretty standard horror-movie ending, really. Now, if you did anything in the last chapter WRONG, then you had some pretty WTFy things happen to you.

Really? Isn't that the one with the murder mystery type thing that ends

Spoiler

with you finding out who the killer is only to have him kill you and set you up as the killer?

No no, that's the horror-mystery standard ending.

Phantasmagoria has a possession-horror standard ending, where despite all your best efforts, the person you're trying to save dies horribly, and you, the last character standing, escape by the skin of your teeth.

Ok, so what game am I thinking of then?

I ain't sure. Maybe Ripper, but I didn't finish it.

Nope, I just dug up the video from which I heard of it. It was Darkseed II.

Oh lawd Dark Seed 2 so awful why you mention it why

It had cool world design... and that's all it had going for it. The ending wasn't even really WTF, because it was as sensical and shoddy as everything before it.

 

[conmag9]

Neverwinter Nights 2's original campaign. That was pretty was unexpected. Not in a good way or even a terribly creative way either.

 

[Canadamus Prime]

I haven't played it, but apparently Phantasmagoria had a pretty fucked up ending.

It had a pretty standard horror-movie ending, really. Now, if you did anything in the last chapter WRONG, then you had some pretty WTFy things happen to you.

Really? Isn't that the one with the murder mystery type thing that ends

Spoiler

with you finding out who the killer is only to have him kill you and set you up as the killer?

No no, that's the horror-mystery standard ending.

Phantasmagoria has a possession-horror standard ending, where despite all your best efforts, the person you're trying to save dies horribly, and you, the last character standing, escape by the skin of your teeth.

Ok, so what game am I thinking of then?

I ain't sure. Maybe Ripper, but I didn't finish it.

Nope, I just dug up the video from which I heard of it. It was Darkseed II.

Oh lawd Dark Seed 2 so awful why you mention it why

It had cool world design... and that's all it had going for it. The ending wasn't even really WTF, because it was as sensical and shoddy as everything before it.

I don't know. I only ever heard of the game and it's ending in a video of worst game endings on youtube.

 

[lacktheknack]

I haven't played it, but apparently Phantasmagoria had a pretty fucked up ending.

It had a pretty standard horror-movie ending, really. Now, if you did anything in the last chapter WRONG, then you had some pretty WTFy things happen to you.

Really? Isn't that the one with the murder mystery type thing that ends

Spoiler

with you finding out who the killer is only to have him kill you and set you up as the killer?

No no, that's the horror-mystery standard ending.

Phantasmagoria has a possession-horror standard ending, where despite all your best efforts, the person you're trying to save dies horribly, and you, the last character standing, escape by the skin of your teeth.

Ok, so what game am I thinking of then?

I ain't sure. Maybe Ripper, but I didn't finish it.

Nope, I just dug up the video from which I heard of it. It was Darkseed II.

Oh lawd Dark Seed 2 so awful why you mention it why

It had cool world design... and that's all it had going for it. The ending wasn't even really WTF, because it was as sensical and shoddy as everything before it.

I don't know. I only ever heard of the game and it's ending in a video of worst game endings on youtube.

Basically, the game is a... murder mystery... in which a terrible protagonist runs around insulting absolutely everyone and solving illogical puzzles while getting a bunch of people in a parallel universe horribly killed.

The game is bad. The game is REALLY bad. The game has a couple of unsolvable states, characters too inept to stop themselves from dying, nonsensical plot development, the world's stupidest "final boss", and most egregiously of all,

there's a plot-critical massive clue

hidden in the MAIN CHARACTER'S BEDROOM CLOSET

that he can't access

because he thought it was locked

for years

even though it's not.

AUGH.

Also, at one point, your mother says "Here, this will explain everything." And then her head explodes.

 

[J.McMillen]

Half Life: Opposing Force

I really want to see him come back.

 

[Joccaren]

What the hell is wrong with the Mass Effect 3 endings? They make perfect sense.

Now, Mass Effect 2's endings, on the other hand? Not that they don't make sense, but that they were this daring. Especially if you were shitty to all your friends.
Please ignore the ugly Sheppard.

Eh?
Mass Effect 2s endings were fine. I see nothing at all wrong with that.
Mass Effect 3? Yeah, you could make sense of them, but in-lore for the universe they were senseless, and they were completely out of nowhere and BS - more of a meta WTF than a comprehension WTF.

 

[Canadamus Prime]

I haven't played it, but apparently Phantasmagoria had a pretty fucked up ending.

It had a pretty standard horror-movie ending, really. Now, if you did anything in the last chapter WRONG, then you had some pretty WTFy things happen to you.

Really? Isn't that the one with the murder mystery type thing that ends

Spoiler

with you finding out who the killer is only to have him kill you and set you up as the killer?

No no, that's the horror-mystery standard ending.

Phantasmagoria has a possession-horror standard ending, where despite all your best efforts, the person you're trying to save dies horribly, and you, the last character standing, escape by the skin of your teeth.

Ok, so what game am I thinking of then?

I ain't sure. Maybe Ripper, but I didn't finish it.

Nope, I just dug up the video from which I heard of it. It was Darkseed II.

Oh lawd Dark Seed 2 so awful why you mention it why

It had cool world design... and that's all it had going for it. The ending wasn't even really WTF, because it was as sensical and shoddy as everything before it.

I don't know. I only ever heard of the game and it's ending in a video of worst game endings on youtube.

Basically, the game is a... murder mystery... in which a terrible protagonist runs around insulting absolutely everyone and solving illogical puzzles while getting a bunch of people in a parallel universe horribly killed.

The game is bad. The game is REALLY bad. The game has a couple of unsolvable states, characters too inept to stop themselves from dying, nonsensical plot development, the world's stupidest "final boss", and most egregiously of all,

there's a plot-critical massive clue

hidden in the MAIN CHARACTER'S BEDROOM CLOSET

that he can't access

because he thought it was locked

for years

even though it's not.

AUGH.

Also, at one point, your mother says "Here, this will explain everything." And then her head explodes.

Wait, so was her head exploding supposed to explain everything or did it explode to prevent her from explaining everything?
Anyway, I knew it was a murder mystery thing and apparently featured art by H.R. Geiger, but I had no idea it was that shit.

 

[lacktheknack]

Wait, so was her head exploding supposed to explain everything or did it explode to prevent her from explaining everything?

I don't know, it was never explained.

Anyway, I knew it was a murder mystery thing and apparently featured art by H.R. Geiger, but I had no idea it was that shit.

To be fair, H.R. Giger's influence and contribution was all of the good the game had.

http://lparchive.org/Darkseed-2/Update%2025/ds2-348-0.jpg

http://img11.imageshack.us/img11/6454/06132013darkseed2.png

http://www.gamer.ru/system/attached_images/images/000/547/664/original/darkseed_2_9685bxol.jpg?1341175862

It's just tragic that we got... the thing... that we got instead, especially since the first game came dangerously close to actually being a good game.

 

[Forobryt]

There can only be one! Drakengard...<.<

What is this? I don't even.

Lol its even worse if you listen out at around the 2.25 minutemark, you can hear the laugh of the teletubbie baby.

OT: I think the only game ive played that turned into a serious WTF moment was Indigo Prophecy. Starts off pretty sane then suddenly mayans, aliens, wall running and player controlled sex scenes.

 

[The_Lost_King]

Can I just say "The entire second half of Indigo Prophecy" and call it a day? Seriously, that game takes a DRASTIC left turn on us...and unfortunately not for the better.

Hey, that left turn was fucking glorius. I mean come on. What is better than Mayans doing a matrix fight? Nothing that's what.

 

[Canadamus Prime]

Wait, so was her head exploding supposed to explain everything or did it explode to prevent her from explaining everything?

I don't know, it was never explained.

lol

iAnyway, I knew it was a murder mystery thing and apparently featured art by H.R. Geiger, but I had no idea it was that shit.

To be fair, H.R. Giger's influence and contribution was all of the good the game had.

http://lparchive.org/Darkseed-2/Update%2025/ds2-348-0.jpg

http://img11.imageshack.us/img11/6454/06132013darkseed2.png

http://www.gamer.ru/system/attached_images/images/000/547/664/original/darkseed_2_9685bxol.jpg?1341175862

It's just tragic that we got... the thing... that we got instead, especially since the first game came dangerously close to actually being a good game.

Yeah, sometimes good artwork just isn't enough to save a game.