Fake endings in games, do they just annoy the hell out of you? or renew your intrest in the game?

[ShortCommings]

Im writing this post as ive just got to the bit in Bioshock where you

Spoiler: bioshock spoiler

finaly meet andrew ryan.
what got me is ive been playing this for quite a while (well maybe 2 days) and its not the freaking end! by the looks of things ive got a good few more levels to get through till i end this damn thing =/ it was at this point i turned off the game and decided to get some cake
so not all bad...

also if anyone remembers red faction 2 when u meet sopot and burn his ass in a rocket.. then surpwise! turns out your teammates apart from 1 just did it so they can be da baddies.

im not sure if my problem was.. its unexpected? or just.. cheap..ish..

 

[Lyiat]

You might want to put your stuff in Spoiler boxes, dude. You just ruined the story for anyone walking by your post.

 

[PitrDeVries]

The best fake ending was Hitman:BM. Suberbly cinematic.

For bioshock, I knew it wasn't the ending, because of the oh so obvious bathysphere level selections.

 

[Sgt. Dante]

You might want to put your stuff in Spoiler boxes, dude. You just ruined the story for anyone walking by your post.

yeah, only got bioshock for xmas, and not had a chance to finish it.... thanks.

 

[Bowstring]

Perhaps you should consider enjoying the ride, rather than holding out for the ending?

I like false endings, because they usually add more gameplay time. That's about it really.

 

[Fenring]

I'm gonna say I like them if they're done right. If it has a decent twist and surprise you, it's good. If it just adds a new villain randomly with no foreshadowing and just seems to exist to lengthen the game play, I don't like it.

 

[Fanboy]

They aren't used often enough to be considered annoying. On the contrary, if the game is good I rather enjoy them.

Also, if you wanted BioShock to end so badly why were you playing it in the first place?

 

[ShortCommings]

You might want to put your stuff in Spoiler boxes, dude. You just ruined the story for anyone walking by your post.

yeah, only got bioshock for xmas, and not had a chance to finish it.... thanks.

ok soz about that let me explain myself... first off! im new i dident even know there was a spoilery thing! and secondly i havent actuely spoiled anything really =/ you just now know the games a bit longer than you thought it was gonna be.

Perhaps you should consider enjoying the ride, instead of holding out for the ending?

I like false endings, because they usually add more gameplay time. That's about it really.

hey hey common now im not sayin i dont like them and i havent enjoyed the ride, ive bloody enjoyed the game its amazing just you kinda build yourself up for a humoungouse boss battle, use all your stockpiled crap like money and ammo and wham btw lol your not finished.. feels a tiny bit cheap.

 

[Sgt. Dante]

ok soz about that let me explain myself... first off! im new i dident even know there was a spoilery thing! and secondly i havent actuely spoiled anything really =/ you just now know the games a bit longer than you thought it was gonna be.

xD don't worry about it, welcome to the escapist. Mentioning almost anything plot related (especially in 'newer' games will generally get someone moaning about spoilers)

Bioshock is a good game tho, a little creepy for my tastes (get creeped out easily) but playing through it. it's an interesting system with the plasmids.

 

[Corven]

If you want false endings play Okami.

 

[Sgt. Dante]

oh, also look at yahtzee's video on mercinaries 2 for an explanation of the 'stockpiled weapons' thing you mentioned.

 

[ShortCommings]

ok please, to the people who suggest i dident like the game, i did.. i bloody love the gamewould still be playing it if i hadent spent the last day shooting splicers in the face! i missed a few good meals and got to the asformentioned part and was like woooo whaa..? even the best games feel like work once youve been doing it solidly for some time. and grsanted it iritated me! but so what? every game gets on your tits at some point, i can say this as ive been playing wow since i was old enough to own a debit card, a good 4ish years ago

 

[jake09050]

hey a false ending is better than no ending at all
I'm looking you Assassians Creed

 

[Knight Templar]

You might want to put your stuff in Spoiler boxes, dude. You just ruined the story for anyone walking by your post.

yeah, only got bioshock for xmas, and not had a chance to finish it.... thanks.

ok soz about that let me explain myself... first off! im new i dident even know there was a spoilery thing! and secondly i havent actuely spoiled anything really =/ you just now know the games a bit longer than you thought it was gonna be.

Just to be on the safe side put it in a spoiler box, like this one:

Spoiler: bioshock spoiler

what got me is ive been playing this for quite a while (well maybe 2 days) and its not the freaking end! by the looks of things ive got a good few more levels to get through till i end this damn thing =/ it was at this point i turned off the game and decided to get some cake
so not all bad...

If you're not sure how to do it just click the quote button and take a look at what I've put in. I guess Necro has a point about not needing loads of spoiler boxes, but using one for the first post seems a good thing.

 

[OnlyWonderBoy]

Not really fake but rather an early bad ending. In Persona 4 there is a bad, normal and true ending. The thing that gets me is that the bad ending is based on a single conversation and comes out of no where. I would have never know if I hadn't read the game had multiple endings. Plus I went from a 66 hour band ending to a 79 hour true ending. That's a lot of content to miss on a single conversation.

 

[Shurikens and Lightning]

Its not a fake ending. Dude in reality you have 20 minutes of gameplay left. Unfortunatly its not the mozart of endings. Great boss battle though.

 

[Ace of Spades]

Well, I thought that GTA IV's ending should have been when you

Spoiler

kill Dimitri, but that's just me. Did anyone here actually choose to work with him?

 

[tiredinnuendo]

Well, I thought that GTA IV's ending should have been when you

Spoiler

kill Dimitri, but that's just me. Did anyone here actually choose to work with him?

If you did the "chose to work with him" ending, you get the "better" end, in my opinion.

Not better as in more uplifting, in fact it's a terrible downer in all ways, but it's still the correct way for the game to end.

- J